Updates, I haz dem! Upcoming videos, life and other stuffs :>

Hi gamers *cough, cough*



I can only start this entry negatively, I've caught a bad dose of the flu virus which is only going prolong my production time for my new videos which I had planned. 1 of them will include having to act (kinda) but of course I don't want to sound horrible, which right now I just got my voice back but still have trouble breathing.
My other video would still require me to talk so that's also going to be delayed :(.

You maybe wondering what the hell am I thinking of, well even though my gaming channel is mainly for reviews and my collection, I thought I'd take a break from all seriousness and do a short funny video, not sure how funny it will be but we'll see ^^.
I got the idea for this from a new friend of mine. She was telling me about raging in games, I can't say exactly what she said otherwise it'd ruin the video, ROFL.

In terms of my collection, it's moving along quite steady a few more games coming in soon, just currently in postage and payments :> so some more collection videos soon as well, I haven't forgotten.

While still on the topic of my videos, the Goldeneye Speccy video has really gotten some attention, and even the original discoverer had a say in the comments, also one of Ashens's best friend Larry commented I was truely stunned! More videos similar to that will be coming as well, I've got a lot of content listed in my mind so hopefully it will get similar popularity.


For those of you know know me well from ASSEMbler forums would of seen my moving countries experience thread. I question what the process is like and what not. It does sound like a lot of organizing and hassles. Still there is a lot I want while wanting to move to the USA, even though purely it's for collecting and job purposes I also have a lot of personal things and goals to complete over there.

Updates! I Haz Dem! -- Incoming Message!

Hi gamers!

I know recently I haven't been posting much written posts, most of them have been videos. Right now my collecting rate has gone a little dry, reason for that well there are many reasons. I have to take it easy because I don't have very much money , nor a steady income so I buy big when I can. Which is why the end of last year was such a large hoard., but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

This isn't a end of collection post at all, I just don't want anyone thinking I've given up on blogging. I really think I need to start going to every business to find work, of course it has to fit into my study schedule ><" which is fairly hard to find these days... Sigh.
I just hope I can find a job this year :( I guess many of us have this problem...

A quiet gaming evening ZZZZZZ and some updates!

Hi gamers!

I've been so tired today, putting off a few games to play mainly cause of my fatigue. No idea how it's just hit me, and it happened while playing Bayonetta. Possibly it's got to do with the relaxing soundtrack :P or getting my ass owned by Tekken 6 yesterday not really sure. What really sucks is, I planned to record some footage for my review today but I woke up and rushed out the door, by the time I got back from my haircut and had dinner I had no energy.. Where did it all go? -_-

Right now I'm into saving some money for recent releases, I've got in mind Resident Evil Revelations and Catherine. Also not really a game but Zero Suit Samus Other M figure by MAX-FACTORY pre-order. Such a sexy figure can't wait for the release, many places are stocking it so I have a big chance on getting it ^_^.
This doesn't mean I won't be getting any more games in, I have another two Angel Graffiti S and Silent Hill 4 and possibly some accessories. On the topic of current stuff I've bought I will be making a "January Collection" video soon, wow, January has already passed ><" so that should be uploaded sometime tomorrow.

MAX-FACTORY Samus Aran

Hopefully this entry made sense, I'm lacking in my chair and my eyes are half open why I'm lacking so much energy beyond me and is just not normal.
Happy gaming and collecting guys!

So I've been boxing all my consoles up..

Hi gamers!

Formatting my PC was only the start to the new year clean, I've also been putting my consoles away in their boxes ready for the room transfer. The room I've currently got my stuff in is just getting too small for everything I've been getting in. After opening many of my boxes I've found most of the original baggies in there usually every day people those those out (I was an everyday person when I bought these), however some of them don't depending if I got them used or not.

A few consoles are really hard to box back up, Gamecube and the Dreamcast got me confused since they're such compact systems. So anyhow most systems that are used the least were boxed I still have my current generation systems out and the XBOX 360 and Playstation 2, however I'm thinking about boxing the Playstation 2 but at the same time there are a few games I like playing to pass the time like Rumble Roses and Dead or Alive 2..

The room transfer will be exciting as I've been thinking about the floor plan and exactly how everything will sort out. Thinking of completely white furniture with glossy finish, so the black 42" TV will look nice sitting on top of that. Also above the couch a canvas print of some sort of game character I haven't thought of who yet, and a low sitting couch. Maybe a mini-bar too :P

4,500 fans reached! Thank you!!! ^^

Hi gamers!

I have great news my blog has actually reached 4,500 hits! Too tell you all the truth I'm stunned, really didn't expect such a figure yet. I should surely get my new YouTube channel rolling, and hopefully create more of a viewer base than before.
My collection has also had a great start to 2012, and there a few games from my childhood I've been packing away that I'd love to do a review on. I know my writing skills are not the best and I doubt they'd ever be, but speaking from a collector's point of view may help my viewers understand better, without the need of extensive use of advanced vocabulary. Of course I want everyone to be able to understand my reviews even if my viewers default language isn't English.

I'd like to thank all my friends from ASSEMbler Games, and Haunted360 for the support through out my journey of blogging. I cannot forget to thank my buddy An!NE for going on those game hunting days, not as fun without you there pal! Also to all my readers, thanks for following and I hope my future stories will keep you entertained for as long as this blog lasts.

Bidding Like a Madman | Updates

Hi gamers,

Let me get the apology out the way, sorry I haven't been submitting as much content as I usually do. It's not the fact that I want to stop blogging in fact I want to blog even more.

I've been reorganizing a lot things and wondering what I'd be doing this year. I'm leaning towards taking a trip to America and doing some more game shopping over there, jumping into stores and markets (it's pretty big over there). If I don't happen to go for what ever reason I'd have to study or find a job and you know how hard both of those things are.

I happen to format my PC today, and install a 64-bit OS as I was running on a 32-bit OS and what a difference it makes! Took me a few hours to install and reinstall my must needed applications and what not, it's such a tiring process. Also trying to find 64-bit version of the programs you had.

Been up to a lot of bidding lately on eBay, a few games have popped up that don't usually show up as bids. I've been trying to get them for a single figure price including the postage as it happens from time to time. It looks like everyone else has the idea and keeps putting stupid automatic bids in, doesn't that bother you? Any how, a few current generation games are getting into the mix, and of course retro games. I always aim to buy retro, but bidding on those is nearly impossible sometimes, especially Nintendo 64 stuff.

On the topic of Nintendo 64, the EXTREME Green controllers I mentioned a few submissions ago are on their way! I might happen to see them next week or the following week.
There are quite a few Nintendo 64 games I'll be bidding on, and it's not like I haven't already. I've spent quite a bit of cash in the past week just on gaming stuff, so I might need to slow down next week.. Of course if it's possible :P 

Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions -- I have completed it! Video review in next few months!

Hi gamers!

I just finish Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions on the XBOX, this game always takes me back to the days of playing an XBOX Kiosk/Pod/Demo Unit in K-mart and Target in primary school so I'm kinda a veteran. Anyway, this game is extremely difficult and tedious as the controls are sluggish and so are the cars and oh don't get me started on the smart ass traffic.

Many people on forums would rage about how annoying this game is, and I surely agree. The "A" mission set is piss easy for any average gamer, I instantly though "well, this game is simple" not until I started getting into the 4th mission in set "B" it was just getting ridiculous, jumping from boardwalk to boardwalk.. only talking about will get me frustrated so I'll leave it to the video review later on. Other wise there would be no point watching it ;)

I just wanted to share that with you guys, because this game is incredibly hard and not liked by many people. So this would be a good game for me to review since I've finished it. About my video reviews..
At this stage I'm still currently trying to figure out how I'd go about this, first off I will be making a *new* channel and will most likely have some collection videos with it. I just hope this kicks off and starts well also wishing I can pull this off. I better start dreaming now..

Dead or Alive Dimensions Ordered + Future Blog News

Hi gamers!

Yesterday I jumped on eBay looking for Dead or Alive Dimensions, weird thing is this game pre-owned goes for about $50 in stores and I still believe that's too much for this game it's been out for a while now, it's not even a first party game.

I manage to find a brand-new copy of the game for $33, much better than a $50 pre-owned copy. :)
With all the Christmas rush, I doubt I'd see this before Christmas but hopefully I do I mean it's possible right?

Now onto news of my blog, not much will change here don't worry but on my YouTube channel it will. I have been thinking of starting a brand-new channel that has only strictly video game collecting, as my current channel has random stuff now and then. This will mean I'll be doing V-Logs of my setup and collection talking about what ever is on my mind with my collection. It won't have any fancy editing or anything of that nature just pure raw V-logging, it's how I've seen many people showing their collection and it seems to be quite popular with collectors a-like.

In order to do all this, I'll need to make announcements here and on my current YouTube channel to keep most of my subscribers. I will not be deleting my current channel so all the old videos will remain there as long as they can, weirdly enough most of my old videos have the most hits..

Anyway, that pretty much sums everything up for the new YouTube channel, expect to see it in a few months or maybe eariler. I was hoping to start it this week but at the moment I've caught the flu and I don't really feel comfortable being in front of the camera. 

Apologies I've fallen very ill :(

Hi gamers!

*cough* I apologize for the many days I won't be able to post any collection/gaming news in the next few days, or maybe weeks. I've caught something nasty on my day into town, didn't manage to buy anything new today but I had some news to share. Regarding more 3DS news, you'll see it someday.
Why you ask I'm posting this instead of some gaming news, well I don't really have to draft anything or think about how I'll word it as it's my actual thoughts here.

Again I apologize to you and other readers that will be reading this, but don't worry I'll keep a list of news I manage to find and when I'm back on my feet I'll make some interesting posts. Promise.
See you around soon!

Not gaming related but I feel whole lot better!

Hi gamers,

This entry isn't really about gaming as such but I haven't been all too well. I'm sure many people have this time of year becoming stressful. It's pretty hard to push negative thoughts out, I came very close to completely pushing my study away and not wanting to continue all over one incident.

Gaming helped me forget about these negative thoughts though, and continuing my collection also helped me through these tough times. I got great support from my teacher and friends and so I have seemed to dust myself off and pick myself up.

This will be the only entry about this, because I doubt it's all interesting. I thought I'd mention this because I did have videos of my recent collecting, not only did this event stop me but so did my camera the lens completely stopped responding. Sadly back to the iPhone camera :( after I knock my study out the way for now I'll make two months worth of collecting into a video for all my followers.

Prepare for more gaming news as usually hopefully by tomorrow.

Very Rare Nintendo 64 LodgeNet System Spotted!

Hi Gamers!

When I was 5 years old, my parents took me to the United States of America we got a hotel room right across from Disneyland.. In the hotel room there was a TV, but I noticed on top there was a Nintendo 64 controller looked down on it, and there were some extra buttons, and a telephone like cable coming out of it. What is this?

In 2011, today I found out what that controller was all about. It was a LodgeNet.. What's that you ask? A money operated Nintendo 64 that streams from a server into the LodgeNet box when requested by the customer, when the customer was finished they'd press menu I believe and these games were timed as well. If the customer wanted to play more, they then press Menu or Order depending if they wanted a different game or to continue. I remember my dad reading the instructions and it had something along the lines of: "25c per 10 minutes.." so this would be more of a luxury for the rainy days. If that doesn't make sense, well you try remembering when you were 5 about something you've forgotten about for over 10 years ;).

More about the LodgeNet, just as I was about to go to bed, I spotted these images on my favourite forum. A user named "wills82" managed to get a hold of the LodgeNet Nintendo 64 system and a controller for $5, and to my knowledge it might not be functional.
Previous to that post, another user, "grap3fruitman" got a hold of a bunch, yes a bunch! Of LodgeNet Systems and controllers a total of 5 units, complete with a PSU, but not as many controllers one of the units is missing one.

These boxes are rare and the controllers even more harder to find, and were only found in hotels around the USA (from my memory) but the server side of the hardware pretty much thin air, you'd need to be able to walk on water to find one, that's how rare the hardware is.

The owners of these are very lucky, the value is unknown.
I did a little bit of research as in looked on eBay and see how much they're going for. I only found a Super Nintendo Controller by Lodgenet, but it's actually not licensed by Nintendo. So maybe hotels later used Super Nintendo Boxes much like Japan Hotel's which is know by "SuperFamicomBox".

Some very HD images can be found below, of the controllers, stand and the boxes. You can enlarge these images.

You'd hate for your finger to slip.

So many N64 collectors think they have every controller, think again. ;)

I knew I wasn't dreaming, I've held this controller!

Looks like the system could of had RAM upgrades for the ROMs. Maximum memory is unknown.

As you know, this is HeXiGON signing out!

Collection Transition from January - September 2011

Hello gamers!

I had a lot of time to think today while staring at my collection and listening to the Tempest 2000 soundtrack and thinking how much it's changed since from the start of the year to now. Looking back at some old images of the setup I haven't realized how much I've been buying (I guess a lot of us have this problem, with what ever it is we collect XD) 2011 seems to be the best year for me to be finding everything I've been looking for since I started compared to 2009, however this isn't really the time to start reflecting as I have many, MANY more to come since they're in shipment definitely I'll be doing a similar post or maybe a video about the transition.

A visual representation of what I mean is below, from the left is at the start of the year and on the right is now. What a difference. I'm running out of room :(

Late 2009

Click to enlarge, pretty long image.