Merk vs. IndyDDR: Waiting for a Merk-acle

[Ho]

Have you tried Dragon Force yet? Is it as hard for you as it felt to me?

[Merk]

Have not had a chance to -- I really need to catch up! I've gotten out of my studying and DDR routines and I feel like my life is out of balance because of it. I gotta get back into 1 hour of Did and 1 hour of studying a day!

The plan right now is to play some Did when I get home -- yesterday wasn't a good day since I had to go grocery shopping after work and I wanted to watch Johnny Manziel play in the Browns/Redskins preseason game (I am that God damn desperate for some Footbaw). I probably won't get to Dragon Blade or Rainbo Rainbo since I am so far behind and I like to whore out songs so I can get a good score.

[Ho]

I haven't been playing much DDR either, and I also like to play the songs we do multiple times to try and improve my score. But damn...when I played Dragon Blade last week, I played it 3 times and I just wanted to quit playing.

I also try and work on projects in the basement while I'm playing DDR. I've been dinking around with 3 different machine for the past several weeks. But I got all of those done last night, so that should eliminate a distraction during my play sessions.

[Merk]

Welp, I guess I ended up falling asleep at my computer desk at home yesterday and then studied CCNA bullshit for about 2 hours so surprise surprise I didn't get to play Didder!

[Ho]

I didn't play didder last night either. But I did get DrumMania V8 running on official hardware. It plays great! I just need to build a wiring adapter to get the lights working.

[Merk]

That reminds me -- Did you actually get your Tricoro up and running by your lonesome or did Brandon help? I'm interested in making another attempt in getting a Tricoro computer up and running but I've had absolutely 0 luck in even getting the god damn thing to run.

[Ho]

The only thing I needed Brandon for was the interface with his i/o board (not minimaid). Seeing as how there are only like 3 of those in existence, that won't be an issue for you. I got the PC built and tricoro running all by myself. But I did have to go through a few different video cards to find one that would:
a) sync
b) display in HD and work with my TV
c) handle scaling so the image wouldn't fall off the edges of the screen (overscan)

In my experience with these considerations, AMD(ATI) >>>>>>>> NVIDIA.

BTW, IIDX looks gorgeous in HD.

[Merk]

If you have time do you mind sending Chad and/or myself your computer specs and all that jazz? Hell, did you maybe want to hand off your hard drive to Chad and let me ghost your hard drive? I will give all the moneys and have it returned to you next day. I am desperate for Beet.


I suppose I'd have to worry about controller input since I'd be rocking a USKOC and not a real ass arcade controller. I can only assume that using a USKOC is awful and nobody has come up with a solution that doesn't result in horribly laggy input.

[Ho]

Computer specs:
Some old ass Dell that the company was going to throw away

It wasn't that hard. I just followed the instructions on that site that shall not be named.

Don't know what to tell you about controller input. Read aforeunmentioned site. I would suppose discussion was had about what other people are using.

[Merk]

Welp I weigh 240 pounds I better get back into this shit before I fucking keel over and die!

[Ho]

I've got a fair amount of make up to do at this point now, too. Why don't you pick a new song for this week so we can feel even more behind?

[Merk]

How about .59?

Because you see, if I don't get back on the wagon I am going to die and go to Tengoku

[Ho]

Pretty optimistic, huh?

.59 is fine with me.

[Merk]

Welp, thanks to MonMotha I was able to get the screws out of the down arrow on the 2P side of my DDR machine! Supernova has been moved to the garage in pieces and is now unplayable for this challenge. Going forward we'll have to play songs on Extreme!

Damn I need to catch up on this...

[Ho]

What did he do? Does he have more muscles than you?