Moonsoul 夏だよ Summertime, wah!~

I’ve been working on a remix of “Mystic Oriental Dream ~ Ancient Temple”.
Youmu’s theme from Perfect Cherry Blossom.

I started on it yesterday, and It’s actually a lot harder than I thought at first.

Though it does present a nice challenge. I always want to work more on my composing. Making different songs can be of great help to improve my skills even more.

So far it’s a work in progress and I estimate it to be around 20-25% finished or so. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish it by the end of the weekend.

So stay tuned for some half-ghost myon goodness.

//Sai

How weird are you? Do you usually do some strange things that people probably don’t do normally?

Share your weirdness with the world.
As for myself I’m very weird indeed. 8D

As for one thing I sometimes like to headbang furiously while listening to cute anime songs. Beat that!

Here’s a great example:

And why do I do it? Because it’s FUN! xD

//Sai

It’s time for the huge update that I promised earlier.
I have 8 new galleries uploaded today, so let’s get this started!

First we have some pictures of my collectors edition of Star Ocean IV. Sadly though I don’t have a Xbox 360 to play it yet. =/

Second up we have a few pictures of the sunny sky.

Third up is some pics I took on my way to Stockholm when going to Blueberry language schools. And also some pictures of Polka’s third costume from Eternal Sonata.

The fourth gallery contains a few pictures taken from a bridge over the small river that flows through Uppsala.

Fifth up is a picture of a hedgehog I happened to see around here some days ago. I haven’t seen one for several years over here, they are getting really rare.

Up to the sixth gallery of a cat which lives with some relatives we visited.

Seventh gallery is from another day I went to Stockholm. This time I visited Webhallen to pick up a nice usb stick  and Dragonball Z Burst Limit for PS3. It was a real bargain. =D

And on my way back from the store, I happened to see a bunch of Kedama. 8D

Fluffy balls everywhere! (°д°)

And lastly we have gallery number 8, which contains some pictures from when I was installing the OS from my usb stick on my Netbook. It also happened to be really beautiful outside. =P

//Sai

As I mentioned in the last post, thanks to the guide from Bob64 I was able to get my Netbook up and running with my XP Pro.

So what I have been doing now is installing some of the programs I need, copying a lot of files and solving some unexpected problems.

Namely the issue with TH06-09.5 running in 20-30 fps or just simply crashing/glitching when executed. I managed to figure out the issue behind this, which was that I have RocketDock installed.

If you don’t know what RocketDock is, it’s a program which enables you to use a nifty little dock like the one seen in Mac OS. So the workaround for this problem turned out to be to turn off the RocketDock before running TH06-09.5.

This solved any issues with low framerates and glitches, and the games are now running smoothly like they were before. The Touhou games released after TH09.5 doesn’t seem to have this issue however.

It seems to be a colliding problem with the transparacy used by the RocketDock and the coding in the old games, perhaps by the old dx library used for them.

Anyways, now when I’ve almost got all things together on the Netbook I will soon be able to post the pictures of it like I wanted. I just wanted to make sure to prioritize fixing the computer before playing games and tending to the image uploads.

To make up for it, I’ll make a bigger update to the photo gallery with a bunch of new photos that I haven’t had time to upload.

//Sai

Thanks to Bob64 who commented on my last post, I was able to get XP properly installed on my netbook.

You are truly the hero of this night! Thanks a lot! =D

Thanks to the guide that you posted in your comment, I was able to fix everything and my netbook seems to be running smoothly now.

As a token of appreciation, I can compose a custom song for you.
You can check some of my earlier work at Youtube and my Compose folder.

I am able to compose such songs of similar style to those found in the compose folder and the youtube uploads.

Just leave me a comment if you are interested. And thanks again. =)
It really saved me a lot of headache getting the thing to work.

//Sai

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!

Seriously why do we have to get the damn OS in Swedish when we buy computers over here?! I’m freaking going insane over trying to install a english XP on my Netbook from my goddamned usb stick.

If it were in english from the start I might have settled for the default home version, but I can’t have my OS in Swedish. All buttons and short-commands and crap is all over the place. It’s impossible to find the things I need.

I’m really starting to cave here. I’m leaning towards just buying a external dvd reader to put an end to all these problems with installing.  Though I really REALLY hate the thought of forking out about 65$ for a dvd drive which I will most likely use only one time, unless I reinstall the OS later too.

FFS, isn’t there someplace I can just rent one for like a day so I can get this fixed without shelling out over 65$? AUGH. Having tried installation from usb one time, I pretty much only have Network installation left to try before resorting to an external reader.

[Rage will most likely continue]

//Sai

Welcome to part 2.

The last attempt failed horribly. I’m not quite sure what went wrong, but the setup worked halfway through before it had a miserable crash.

I’ve never seen that type of error before, so I’m reinstalling everything on the usb drive and I’m currently in progress of formatting the HDD of the netbook again.

Let’s hope it works better this time. Seeing how I tried this guide that has a slightly different explanation to this.

It’s essentially the same thing, but as the guide I found this time seems to be from 2009 and not 2007 like the last one, I thought I’d give it a try.

If this doesn’t work I might giving network install a try, though it might take a lot of time to get that running.

As a last resort I might have to use a external cd drive (which I don’t have)  or stick to the default xp home that came with the netbook.

Gah, why can’t they have a default setting for installing XP from a Usb drive? It would make matters much easier.

//Sai

Yeah I did put it in the Programming category too, since this is not as easy as it may seem at first.

Sure you could just buy a external cd drive and take it easy from there. But I don’t really like to spend more money when I really shouldn’t have to.

So I’ve been creating a bootable usb memory stick to install Windows XP straight from the usb drive. At first it seemed rather easy, but it turns out there was more than met the eye at that point.

Luckily I found this guide to help me out. And I am installing the OS right now. It looks like everything is going as planned, but I’ll get back to posting about it when I know how it works.

Also a bootable usb drive is way better than a cd since you can stick a lot more stuff on it. I stuffed it with all drivers and utilities for the Eee PC together with browsers, antivirus and other useful programs that could come in handy with a fresh install.

Now the only thing really puzzling me is that 4th partition that was on the EeePC. First there was one for the system files and a extra second partition with the rest of the free space.

Then there was a small partition which I’m pretty sure is used as cache. However the 4th partition stated some kinda OS thing at the partition screen, so I’m guessing it might be a recovery partition.

Oh well. The setup formatting is at 30% right now so we’ll have to wait while longer. Stay tuned. (Or, better yet just return in some hours. This might take a while. )

//Sai

So, earlier today (or yesterday depending on how you see it) I got my netbook. =D

I haven’t been able to try it out much yet because I have to install the proper OS I want (freaking thing comes with XP Home in Swedish AUGH Dx). I did however try out some basic touchpad commands and other cool stuff and it works really nicely. ^^

Gotta love that multitouch scroll function and the instant command for the computer folder. =D

I also did a short run in Imperishable Nights  to try it out on one of the Touhou games, and I think it even outdid my desktop in this game. I didn’t notice the FPS dropping below 60 even a single time. And at the game screen it showed about 0.700% dropped frames or so. So yeah that’s is just wonderful! =D

And it doesn’t have the issues on multiple keys pressed at the same time like my laptop. I can move around using focus fire and activate the bomb key at the same time without having to let go of shift because of too many keys pressed. That makes things a lot easier in terms of reliability. =)

I might have some time to upload pictures and install the OS I want tomorrow, depending on which time I get back home again.

It’ll be fun to try out the awesome battery life later. =D
I can’t wait to actually be able to use the computer without an AC adapter which is required by my current laptop, seeing how it dies the instant you pull the plug.

Anyways, updates will be sure to follow and I’ll review the netbook after I’ve had some time to give it a good testrun. =)

//Sai

It’s been extremely hot these days, and because of the extreme heat making people more tired, I didn’t have a name for this song because yeah whatever. xP

So I just named it after today’s date instead. It’s not something big anyway as it’s just a small playaround thing. But anyways, enjoy it. =P

And you can get the mp3 right here: Moonsoul - June 24th 2009

//Sai