Episode 14… FINALLY
We forgot how to prepare for a show, so expect alot of background noise, weird segments because Derek forgot how to edit the show and maybe some unwanted quotes.
Show is a bit loud, so you may want to adjust your speakers before playing.
Show notes
If you open me, i'll kill you
intro
opening credits
WTF, let me turn off the chat noise
level up is informative
capsule monsters
Skeletons... yeah...
puzzles
Insect Crush
Gades
Marriage?
Don rages and quits the show
HA! We still can claim we have released a show every month!
Music Update
The following have been added to the music section:
Doom
Earthworm Jim 1 & 2
Eternal Blue
Golden Sun
Kirby Super Star
Silent Hill 1
Mario Galaxy
Enjoy!
China?
WTF America? You gonna let China beat us?
Also i noticed alot of you like to visit the site before bed time 9p-midnight EST (GMT -5 for you Euro listners) and early morning: 5a-7a.
And those of you at work... Shame on you!
Edit: Oh, and don't go thinking that's all podcast. Some of that bandwidth is music, and the rest is "other" stuff.
A few requests.
First off, let me get the begging out of the way:
Go to iTunes and leave us a review. We thank Jackal27 for being our first (and only) review.
Now..
Check the music section. A decent update has taken place with many new songs to grab (And more to follow soon). Also check the bonus song for a taste of the next update.
Some of you may notice we now have a favicon. Yes, its the 4chan smiley. Unless you can do better thats what it will be. (if you can do better, feel free to submit it.. just don't expect anything for it. Just being honest). But mainly i was tired of my error log being flooded with 404 error because of a lack of a favicon.
My schedule has calmed a bit, so we hope to (i will no longer make any guarantees because, well life happens) record this weekend.
BUT! I have also been given a job offer (Same line of work. check the first off topic for details), so if i accept, expect another week or two of silence due to me changing jobs. But a bit of between you and me, i doubt i will because no employer in my field pays what i will be requesting.
Derek.
One reason we have yet to record
Below is an image of my schedule so far for this month. (Locations omitted for obvious reasons).
So ya. I have been busy this month.
But the bills wont pay themselves.
Derek
(For those of you who have trouble telling time around the midnight mark, Any 12a start times means essentially 12:01am in the morning on that day. Not 12pm noon)
Hydlide or Robotrek?
Give the people what they want...
You all keep asking for us to play the worst games out there, so tell us, which one would you rather we play after Lufia 2? Hydlide or Robotrek?
Vote for the game in the "Vote" poll.
Comment & tell us which is better or worse, to either save us or torture us. Your choice.
Possible site changes.
As some of you know, certain shows in iTunes are showing up as 1:01 in duration. This is an issue on our end and we are trying to figure out the cause.
Worst case, we revamp the site which means about a day or two of downtime.
As of now, expect no change.
If we make changes, they should be minor. Do not fear, all music and archived podcasts will still be available. However we make no guarantees on the blog posts.
Numberless show
We promise this is the last off topic for a while!
Don is on vacation so we do the show without him.
show notes:
crap
more crap
ending crap
Episode 13 is here!
Bit of a surprise in this show. We hope you like the new addition.
Show notes:
Modern Warfare 2 airport
Second life and its nonsense
More MW2
Derek bitches about Unreal Tournament and his homework
This is a short show, but due to impending doom (format HDD), I had to rush the editing on this one.
Everyone else is full of shit.
Who else hates searching endlessly for a game's soundtrack only to find you have to download the 50+ tracks individually?
This has been rather common in my search for game music so that we may bring you a less than shit podcast. But i have noticed a trend amongst video game music sites. 90% of them claim to have high overhead and either require "donations" in order to download the entire OST in one go, or require you get so many referrals before you can do so. A lame attempt at boosting their numbers. Both are scams and let me tell you all why. I pay $110 a year to have this site. With that $110 comes unlimited bandwidth, storage, domain registration for a year, and a few frills for my benefit. Let me say it again, "one YEAR! A YEAR! 365 DAYS! Less than $10 a month. My car uses more gas in a week than this site does in a month, and i drive a Hyundai.
So one of the reasons for the music section is that i am fed up with the bullshit everyone feeds you, telling you it costs thousands of dollars per month to keep up this site. The sob stories are always amusing, "Unfortunately, due to large server expenses we are no longer able to accomodate mass downloads. To be able to use the mass download feature you are now required to give back to the site." What a load of horseshit. RetroRPG will NEVER ask for, nor will we ever accept donations (advertisers are however welcome). The only time we will accept any form of monetary payment from our listeners is if we offer other products and services outside of the podcast (similar to what Sarcastic Gamer does).
Torrents are sometimes good sources, but there is that pesky detail of the seeder.
We offer you the music as a conselation prize since we do not release as often as we should, and as my way of saying "Fuck you!" to the snake oil salesmen of the video game community.