Terrific homage to the NES in the form of Abobo’s Big Adventure (via Kotaku). Will try and source a NES USB adaptor in order to play it properly!
Bought myself an iCade (finally). Managed to get hold of one for £40 from PC World (great deal) and it works great with the iPad.
Really interesting interview with Takashi Nishiyama, the man who designed the original Street Fighter while at Capcom. Responsible for a lot of gaming goodness, it’s a very good read.
Original Hover Effects using CSS3; some very cool effects going on here. Some a little flaky in Safari on a Mac, but nothing major.
As the title says; lots of freely available coding books. Pretty long list. Free learning is good.
Nice accessibility tips checklist over on gamebase.info, although some awesome gamers such as Broly manage to get past lack of accessibility provision in games such as Super Street Fighter IV.
Experiencing a problem where a page randomly crashes in Internet Explorer 7 with no warning.
Work-in-progress blog posting, but found this so far: http://groups.google.com/group/IEToolbar-Group-Bugs/msg/fd808abaa72524ea?pli=1.
The crash report requires more Googling it seems:
Access violation – code c0000005 (first chance) eax=00000000 ebx=00000001 ecx=00000000 edx=00000007 esi=00219ec8 edi=00000000
eip=3cf6e923 esp=01e5ddf0 ebp=01e5ddf0 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz ac pe cy
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00210213
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:\W INNT\system32\mshtml.dll -
mshtml!DllGetClassObject+bfa45:
3cf6e923 8b490c mov ecx,[ecx+0xc] ds:0023:0000000c=????????
0:005>
Attended the first Capcom Fight Club and enjoyed it. Reminded me of the arcade scene around the late 90s; lots of people gathered in the same room(s) just enjoying games. Vibe to the event was good, although it was way over-subscribed and queue-jumpers really took the piss out of anyone else who’d queued for hours (like I did). The queue was single or double-file around 6pm, but by 7pm it was easily 5-file in width throughout. Wish Capcom did pre-registration like they did when they threw their Marvel vs Capcom 3 session before Christmas in London last year.
Still, the event was enjoyable. Street Fighter x Tekken looks really good (didn’t get a chance to play unfortunately), and I’ll be getting Third Strike: Online Edition when it’s released next week. To cap a good evening off, I managed to get the producer of the Street Fighter IV series, Yoshinori Ono, to sign my joystick.