Frustration setting in....

I seem to have reached a complete standstill in any progress for FF1... I'm trying to get through the Temple of Chaos past, while leveling, but I always encounter parties of 4 dragons that always seem to overwhelm my party. After getting game over twice in a row, I tend to shut the PS1 down, because I don't think my PS1 controller can take the aftermath of a 3rd time in a row.

FF1WMC back on

Well, after doing some tinkering and cleaning, I still didn't have it working... But somehow, all of a sudden, the game started working... I really don't get my PS1 sometimes @_@

FF1WMC on hold?

Yesterday morning, Fired up the PS1. My thought was to pop Final Fantasy Origins in and see what I could do to progress in my white mage challenge. Sadly, after attempting to get it to read several times already, It would not. I'm not sure if the laser is even moving, let alone if its picking up any info on the disk. After thinking about that, I decided to check if it's even reading. So I decided to take another game of mine: Digimon World. Shortly after poping the disk in, Sure enough, it was picking up data, as it came up with "Please insert Playstation format disk". This was the outcome I expected (and hoped), as my PS1 doesn't read that game for some reason. I can play it on my buddy's PS2, but it doesn't work 100%.

So here's the deal: This challenge is temporarily on hold until I can figure out what's wrong and get it working again. This may not mean too much to you readers, unless you were waiting for the latest on my progress here, especially since I have not updated on my progress in a while.

I have other challenges though that I've been planning for when I have finished this one. Do you think I should just jump to the challenge I was planning on next?

Until I figure out what to do, You can check out my Youtube Channel

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A Life of Gaming

When I was just a child of 2, I picked up my first video game controller. It was an Atari 2600 controller. The game inside the system was Ms. Pac-Man. It use to drive my mother crazy watching me, as I would tend to chase after the ghosts when they were normal, and run away when they were blue. It was not too long after that I learned how to hook the system up myself. My parents were amazed, as it was a sunday morning, and I had the stereo on (the way my father had the entertainment system set up, I had to run the game through it.) It woke my father up, he was getting ready to kill one or both of my brothers, thinking it was them. My mother came out right behind him. As they entered the living room, they stopped dead in their tracks, staring in disbelief. without saying a word they looked toward one another, and went back to bed.

Who knew that would lead to the gamer sitting here today?

At age 7, I played my first M rated game: Doom, for the PC. I always liked to kill everything with a chainsaw, I don't know why. As I got older, I started hearing about how these violent games made kids violent, So how do they explain someone like me?

Anyways, It wasn't until I was 13 that I truly established myself as a gamer. It was 2001. I had decided that I would be a console gamer who's forté was RPGs.

Nowadays, I play a little bit of everything, but I'm more partial to RPGs, Racing, Wrestling, Puzzles, Rhythm and Platformers, with a slight dislike in Fighters and Shooters.

Yea, growing up, I have seen many changes in gaming, and some within myself. Who knows what changes may come in the future, But I can only say one thing for sure, This is truly a life of gaming.

When you wind up with writers block

With me not updating my status on the white mage challenge for this week (just leveling right now) I figured I would write something else, but sadly, I can't come up with anything that seems worth writing about :(

Zeus Kitty: in memorium

From the day he was brought home, I knew he would leave his mark. I never knew it would be on the back of my shirt while we were sitting on top of the truck (thats what I got for hanging with a cat that tends to spray).

He was a good friend, and a very happy kitty. Every time you walked in his direction, he would purr as loud as possible.

His way of life was an odd one, he would love to get love and attention all the time, but he would not often want to come in, even in the most horrific of weather. He had made many friends within the neighborhood cats, taking younger ones under his wing.

I shall never forget the first time I found him curled up next to Porch Kitty, whom oddly enough looked much alike. Although they had their issues, they lived together fairly peacefully.

It seemed rather appropriate, the weather today suited the mood. For when I called him for breakfast this morning, He did not come. And now, sadly, He will never be sitting on the porch with Porch Kitty again, sitting and waiting for me to come out to feed them, and then meowing at me when I go to feed them. Nor will he purr at the sight of me walking towards him, in hopes that I will stop to pet him.

Zeus, you will be missed. Will you forever rest in peace.