Skyrim: Clean-Up/Repair Whiterun, Solitude, Windhelm After Civil War

After finishing the civil war storyline, you may have noticed that Whiterun and either Solitude or Windhelm, depending on which side you took, have some destroyed structures left over from the battle. These structures never repair themselves, and may look ugly. Fortunately, there are console commands to repair the cities.

Simply run the following console commands to repair each city:

Whiterun:

"FC90C".enable
"FC90B".disable

Solitude:

"100D97".enable
"100D98".disable

Windhelm:

"101FD2".enable
"101FDD".disable

And that's it! If you want the city to be destroyed again, simply swap the enable and disable. Make sure you make a save before doing this, just in case. If you want to run this through the bat command, make sure you put the file name in double quotes or it will throw an error.

Tera is Now Free to Play

Tera: Rising, a fantasy MMORPG published by En Masse Entertainment has gone free to play, as of February 5, 2013.

The game features a unique battle system, which requires you to aim at your target with a reticle instead of simply clicking of them. Leveling up to the cap, 60, mostly consists of quest and dungeon grinding. Once 60, it becomes a gear grind. The game features entertaining boss battles, guild vs guild wars, and battlegrounds fights.

Play as 1 of 6 different races and 1 of 8 classes. Classes are Archer (ranged dps), Berserker (melee dps), Lancer (tank), Mystic (healer), Priest (healer), Sorcerer (ranged dps), Slayer (melee dps), and Warrior (melee dps/tank).

Tera races from left to right: Castanic, Human, Aman, Popori, High elf, and Baraka.

Aside from the 6 races pictured above, the game also features the controversial Elin race, a race visually comparable to little girls with animal ears and tail.

ArmA 2: Combined Operations - Free For All Dogfight Map

I've recently been playing ArmA 2: CO, and I thought, "hey, why not try to make my own map." Well it turns out, making a simple F-35B dogfight map is actually ridiculously complicated. Arma 2 uses SQF script, something that seems similar to PHP, but with an interesting event handler. If you play on a server that's slightly glitchy, don't blame them; I can tell you first hand it's complicated. In the end, however, my map was quite successful.

Forum Post

Download Dogfight_F-35B_4P_FFA.Desert_E.pbo from my Dropbox

If you don't have a copy of ArmA 2, I invite you to try out ArmA 2: Free.

Minecraft Dota/Moba/LoL Map!

Zealock has created a pvp Minecraft map that emulates a Dota/LoL/Moba game in first person. Based on the League of Legends map, players on two teams take down the other team's towers and eventually their nexus to win. Complete with a redstone powered shop system.

It can be found here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1161133-minecraft-dota/

Although a server can run the game barebones without any mods, as the map implements a large amount of redstone circuitry to run, I've created a bukkit plugin that will improve the gameplay, which can be found here. Details about it can be found on the BukkitDev page.

Action Replay for Legend of Zelda Minish Cap on gpsPhone

Godmode/Invincibility for "1865 - Legend of Zelda, The - The Minish Cap (U).zip" on gpsPhone on iPod/iPhone with PC. (This really is the only cheat you need.)

Follow the tutorial for creating a *.cht file here, but instead of pokemon, name the *.cht file "1865 - Legend of Zelda, The - The Minish Cap (U).zip.cht" with the following text inside:

Infinite Health 

5CB4A820 19D7B24D

And you're done!

Action Replay for Pokemon Emerald on gpsPhone 7.1.3

This guide will outline the steps to use action replay cheats for Pokemon Emerald on gpsPhone on your iPod Touch or iPhone using a Windows computer.

This guide assumes you have already jailbroken your iPod, installed gpsPhone 7.1.3, its BIOS, and the GBA ROM Pack with 1986 - Pokemon - Emerald Version (UE).zip, and already have it working without cheats.

Skip to Step 4 if you know how to use OpenSSH and WinSCP.

Step 1: Install SSH on your iPod. Under Cydia, it's called OpenSSH. It's also a good idea to install SBSettings so you can disable SSH when you want. (note: SSH poses a security threat to your iPod. It is recommended to change the root password, disable it when not in use, or uninstall it when you don't need it anymore.)

Step 2: Install WinSCP on your PC. If you are using a Mac, you'll need to find a Mac equivalent. You will need to find your iPod's IP address. Its under Settings>Wi-Fi->[Press the little arrow by your network name].

Step 3: Run WinSCP, type in your iPod's IP. For username, type root. The default password is alpine. Navigate to the folder /private/var/mobile/Media/ROMs/GBA.

Step 4: Open Notepad, and copy&paste the following:

Masterball
128898B6 EDA43037
Rare Candy
BFF956FA 2F9EC50D
Faraway Island (Mew)
8DEB234A 4C8DC5EC
Navel Rock (Lugia)
842CB8A9 7F8B0149
Birth Island (Deoxys)
4A99A22B 58284D2D
Southern Island (Latias) 1
7703F025 00394020
Southern Island (Latias) 2
181690CB 4E53CB05

Save it as RomFileName.cht, or for Pokemon Emerald 1986 - Pokemon - Emerald Version (UE).zip.cht. The file MUST end in *.cht, not *.txt. All the letters in the code MUST be in UPPER CASE.

(note: Save before using cheats, in case your game glitches up. The Rare Candy and Master Ball cheats put them in your PC, use the Toss menu and toss 0 of them to remove any extra stacks. The map cheats will teleport you to your desired location when you walk through a door. Remember to disable them after you are done. You can replace the codes with up to 8 different ones, these are just the ones that I liked. I found that only Action Replay codes work, and of those only a few of them. I haven't found a working infinite money code, instead use the Rare Candy cheat and sell stacks of 99 of them to the store.)

Step 5: Drag and drop the file into the /private/var/mobile/Media/ROMs/GBA folder on your iPod.

Step 6: Run gpsPhone. In game, press menu, and you can now use the Toggle Loaded Cheats menu.

The Toggle Loaded Cheats menu.

A Simple Mincraft 1.0.0 TNT Cannon

ArmA 2 Free Realistic Action FPS

I've stumbled across this cool first person shooter: ArmA 2: Free. It's in my opinion the most realistic war simulator game that's also free. The free version lacks a local singleplayer campaign, but there's a lot of online co-op and team vs team servers. It features a wide array of weapons, vehicles, and a semi-destructible environment. You can destroy buildings and vehicles, even make craters in the ground from artillery, but of course there's limits. The downside to this game is that there's no permanent ranking or level system. Individual servers may implement their own ranking system, but scores are usually wiped every server restart.

Minecraft!

Its Minecraft! An awesome sandbox game where you can build anything you want with blocks. Beware of creepers though, they blow up your stuff.

Here's a screenshot from play.thetaylormc.com:27965