I just got....

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:14 pm

Ninja Gaiden for XBOX yesterday....

holy crap..... it is TEH SHIZNIT!
Only played a bit of the 1st level but cripes it is teh 120XX012z.
Way cooler than I expected.

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:27 pm

downloading it as we speak....thanks for the tip!

satori · Post by **satori** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:35 pm

mistasparkle,

Thats finally out??? Damn, thats an awesome game? How much was it mate?

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:52 pm

I got it discount.... uhm.... of the five finger variety....

its been all over bittorrent sites since it's been released.

satori: did you get your box chipped yet?

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:55 pm

was playing a bit last night.... fuck, it is hard....
Got to the first boss, and I just get my ass handed to me over and over again. great that its challenging tho.

satori · Post by **satori** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:29 pm

Mista,

Havent gotten the chip yet for my box as I dont have internet at home. Think Ender said you gotta connect to the net to get it done and has all that information on this site but still hafta wait till I move. 5 fingers is always a nice way to get something. My 5 fingers are usually wrapped around a funny looking glass piece with water in it that makes an unusual sound when sucked through

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:34 pm

Attention, students! This is Prinicipal Goemon speaking. Mr. Sparkle is to report to my office immediately with Ninja Gaiden. You may now return to your studies.

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:16 pm

And you better be stopping by the Tech-ed room to visit Professor Erzero on the way.

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:11 pm

have your xboxes warmed up and ready to rip for when I swing by DVD in hand...

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:27 pm

That loud humming noise you hear is my xbox warming up.

Or it might be me shaking in anticipation...I'm not sure.
I can't feel my legs anymore...

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:46 am

Anyone down for a little Gaidening and some fernation at possibly the Goemon estate for Weds. evening... say 8ish? Goemon? Sparkle? Danz? db? jo2fro2?

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:31 pm

Ok mistersparkle... ive totally seen the light.

My primary leeching method is now the magical bit-torrent. Well mainly because my ISP's news server is filtered, and i'm too cheap for a pay news server.

However Suprnova seems to have taken a huge dump. Where can the McNevin aquire a ninja gaiden torrent file?

Thanks

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:06 pm

welcome to the light! What BT client are you using?

the McNevin can find a ninja gaiden torrent at any of these sites:

http://www.phoenix-torrents.com
http://bt.xbox-sky.com:8080/
http://www.digital-update.com
http://www.xbox-torrentz.de/phpBB2/

p.s. Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow has been released.... DLing now...

..... one more thing... suprnova is hosted on a bunch of different servers, and some of them dont always work. If you keep reloading, eventually youll get to a working mirror.

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:12 pm

fernation at possibly the Goemon estate for Weds. evening... say 8ish? Goemon? Sparkle? Danz? db? jo2fro2?

I give my blessing to that invite. Coming earlier is better though.

We need to enjoy my estate while it lasts. I have to move to a much humbler dwelling at the end of April

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:47 pm

Thank you much...

I am using the official bit torrent client, is there a better one?

Im such a torrent newbie.

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:56 pm

So what time is good then?

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:27 pm

McNevin -

I recommend Shareaza for all your Bittorrent goodness.

There is a security update you can grab here.

But don't import the pr0n settings unless you don't want to dload pr0n.

I heard there was a new BT official client. Is that what you are using? How did you like it? I messed around with Azureus a bit a while ago as well but didn't like it as much as Shareaza.

Bittorrent does certainly kick ass.

Here is the torrent for the BT-Sky Ninja Gaiden release. However it is slooooooow!! There is another one on Phoenix Torrents but it doesn't work. If there is a better one out there then let me know.

03.02.Ninja_Gaiden_USA_READNFO_DVD9_XBOX-CSiSO.torrent

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:02 pm

Shareaza is good, but.... I recently read that certain trackers block shareaza because it will drop out of the tracker when it finishes, whereas most BT clients will share until they reach 1:1 ul/dl ratio. and.... I did a little reading on the Shareaza forums and most people said that if you are using shareaza just for bittorrent, then there are better bittorrent clients out there ABC being one of the better ones. So with that advice and the fact that Ive been having alot of bad-crc rar files showing up in my shareaza downloads, I decided to give some other clients a shot. I tried Azureus, and wasnt too crazy about the speed, and then I installed ABC. So far it seems to work well., the speed is good, and I havent gotten a single bum file (it thoroughly checks every chunk that it downloads and Ive actually seen it redownload corrupt chunks). There are a few other clients I'd still like to try. Good thing with true BT clients is that as long as you have the torrent file, you can pretty much switch clients and resume your downloads (something you cant do without a tool for shareaza).

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:06 pm

Goemon wrote:I give my blessing to that invite. Coming earlier is better though.

We need to enjoy my estate while it lasts. I have to move to a much humbler dwelling at the end of April

How gracious of you to give your blessing to a 3rd party invitation.

Say it aint so!! the palace is going to be no longer!?

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:04 pm

Say it aint so!! the palace is going to be no longer!?

Yep. I may even end up over on the wrong side of the tracks with you. Is it safe over there in the ghetto?

New place promises to be much smaller, but with all of the good eats still.

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:06 pm

you are more than welcome over on the wrong side of the tracks....
does that include moving as far into the ghetto as the wrong side of the station??

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:26 pm

Anything's possible. We may end up on the tracks. It's all good though.

BTW: Someone please remember to bring over an extra handheld controlling device 'cause my box's only got one-two-three.

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:44 pm

ryoukai!

I'll bring a controller along with a few other things...

Hey... I think I can see my home in there!

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:00 pm

Rokakudai Heights!!

My box will be making a temporary home of your much larger box along with its controller.

So what time?

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:46 pm

How was the little get together last night by the way?

So...

I ve now tried:

Official Bit torrent 3.4 - Very Basic, not many options.

Shareza - Bloated, and too kazza-esqe, and all those other networks make me nervous. But the thing is fast. i have 223 sources for ninja. however, I did not like the fact that i could not chose a file to resume from, and when i canceled the d/l it deleted what it had gotten. grrr.

ABC - This program is nice... i would be totally happy with this one, except its almost as slow as the official bt.

Ill have to do some more testing but this is all based off that one torrent file from above.

and im not going to even bother with azerus if you both gave it the thumb down.

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:35 pm

How was the little get together last night by the way?

Despite the presence of fernos, the get together quickly devolved into a fix-up of my box. I didn't even have to hold the flashlight this time. My apologies to the suckers who came over to work for free (well...you got some pizza for your trouble).

Loving the Ninja Gaiden though!

Pure killing sensation!

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:35 pm

McNevin... how was the speed with the official BT client?
Shareaza definitely appears faster. Appears being the key word there. Im not sure if it is actually downloading as fast as it reports. I've had shareaza downloads sitting at 99% with less than 10 megs left at a reported 200Kbps DL speed eventually taking two hours to finish.

I only used azureus for a short period of time, so I would still give azureus a shot if I were you. It's still one of the most popular clients and it allows you to do stuff like choose files... There are a couple other clients that are popular as well like Burst! and Shadow's Experimental (which I think is what ABC is based on)

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:26 pm

Well they pulled the new bit torrent from the site (3.4) because it was buggy. The speed on the official client is slow from what ive seen.

Im racing ABC and Shareza right now with the same torrent file.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:42 pm

Are you guys behind routers, and if so do you forward ports?

mistasparkle* · Post by mistasparkle* » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:34 pm

I just have an adsl modem, but its got a built in NAT. I map ports 6881-6999 (default BT range) to my local IP, and in ABC's advance settings, I set my "localIP" to my external NAT IP, and the "IP to Bind to" my local IP. Having your ports set up properly, supposedly affects speed alot (also my ABC downloads stayed yellow before I mapped those ports). I've read that DMZ also speeds up transfers, and my modem has DMZ settings, I just have no clue what it is or how to configure it.

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