My friend Fury sent me a Sega Dreamcast, this week. For the moment, I have no games to try with it. This would be the 27th system added to my collection. Forgive the low quality of the picture. My sister just has her baby and my parent went to see her, which mean that they took the camera with them. Well, that would be all for now. End of line.

Once upon a time, MTV was a wonderful channel where music videos made regular appearances and the programs were creative, original and entertaining. One of there best programs, The State, is finally available on DVD for a new generation to enjoy. The State was a sketch comedy show known for it’s popular 90s rock soundtrack and it’s absurdest sense of humor. The music may be gone, but the comedy remains as fresh as it did 1993. If you are a fan of sketch comedy such as Monty Python’s Flying circus or The Kids In The Hall, than this is a must buy. If you enjoyed shows and movies such as Reno 911, Wet Hot American Summer, Stella, Role Models and others than you’re probably already a fan of The State and now that it’s available after fourteen years of waiting, you no longer have an excuse not to own a copy. Still not convinced?, here is all the proof you need.

After years of waiting, I can finally experience the happiness of owning Daria on DVD. Daria has been having a high influence on me, when I was a teenager. She helped me mould my personality by understanding sarcasm and such other things. She taught me that life does suck, but there’s always some good moments. Right now, I’m almost done the first season. I’m a little disappointed that they had to change 99% of the music content, but it doesn’t really matters since it’s still the same old Daria. I find that, after all these years, this show is still very actual. Therefore, that’s why I like it so much. I encourage those who are still hesitating to get Daria on DVD, to buy it. It includes all five seasons and the two movies, all of this at a cheap price. So, get your butt out of that chair and buy the damn DVD set! End of line.

Say hello to my brand-new PlayStation Portable. I’ve bought it Friday night, along with two games, LocoRoco and God of War. I also uploaded the first three Resident Evil games on it and a few wallpapers. Therefore, this console is going to keep me busy, in the weeks to come. The next step would be to find a carrying case for it. That would be all for tonight. End of line.

There’s been a major update, in my video games collection, lately. As I was browsing through the flea market, I stopped by a video games store to see if I could get some games at cheap prices. I’ve bought Geist for GameCube. Then I came across this:

Super *freaking* Mario RPG!
This really made my day. I was looking for Super Mario RPG since years. Of course, I saw several copies for sales in specialized stores, but they prices were always from $70 to $90. I almost fell on my ass, when I saw it at $45. They must be kidding me, I was thinking. But there was no joke; they really asked for this price. At this moment, I heard a voice in my head saying “BUY IT”. Buy it, because you’ll never see it at that price for the rest of your life. Then, this is were most of my flea market money went. I only played this game once in my life, I remember renting it at a local video club and I thought it was a 3-D Mario game. Being a kid, I somehow found this game deceiving. I didn’t understand the concept of RPGs and my lack of knowledge for the English language would have probably made that game more complicated that it was to me. Little I know that this game would turn up to be one of the most-looked SNES cartridges. I guess that’s both the elements of rarity and RPG, which makes me want this game so bad. Well, I’m glad to have finally found it. Now, I’ll have to check for Final Fantasy III and Secret of Mana. By the way, for those of you wondering, the game works very fine. Finally, this will be all for today. End of line.

I’ve bought two new Sega Genesis game, last Sunday.

Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition and Mortal Kombat
These games were the only two that looked interesting enough to buy and they cost me $10 each. I needed an excuse to get my Genesis out of my closet anyway. I still suck at these games, but I’m sure that a little trip on GameFAQS will help me improve my “fighting” skills. Hadouken!

Well not really pimped, but it’s close. For years, I envied the European and Asian version of the Super Nintendo controller for having sweet colours buttons such as yellow, red, blue and green. Why we, North Americans, have to have our controllers coming with ugly lavender and purple buttons? Did the heads of Nintendo of American really wanted the buttons to match the console design or where they too cheap to produce more colours? It’s not that I hate our beloved SNES controller, but I always wondered why we didn’t get to have colours button like the Europeans has. This idea bugged me for years. Of course, I could order a NTSC-compatible controller with colours buttons, but they were all cheap rip-off version that would work half of the time. I’m still waiting to get a refund for one of them.

My plan was to buy an original Super Famicom controller and switch the buttons to one of mine. As I was about to pay $22 for one of these devices, PeacHy, my favorite English Welsh lad, told me that he have one of his controller was busted and that he would be very to send it to me… For free! What a great guy.

I finally received the controller yesterday and here’s some pictures:

The controller, coming with a note from PeacHy.

Comparing with the North America version.

Opening the controller to remove the buttons. Eww! PeacHy, where did you kept it all these years? Well, a little cleaning with an old toothbrush and soapy water did the trick.

About to switch the buttons…

Here’s my “new” controller. I’m super happy!

Well, PeacHy’s controller won’t be lost, since I’m gonna use to back of the case to fix one of my mine to which my asshole of a cousin walked on it and broke the case. Of course it “wasn’t his fault” so his parents would never replace it. He once walked on his GameBoy Advance and broke the screen, but it wasn’t his fault either. A ghost that left the handheld on the floor was to blame. Somebody calls Ghostbusters, quick! End of line.