'ROUND THE 3-WEEK UNWRITTENS in one post

Hi! Emperor Slasher is here again! It's been almost a month that I didn't update my blog. First of all, sorry to my readers who competed in GeneRally Rookie Championship for not recapping 4 races (YEAH, and that includes the finale - Masters of Dicrette).

Nevertheless, I've wrapped up the things that I've wanted to say in the past three weeks (including now) in ONE BLOG POST. Starting with.... Quick recaps of GRC S16!

Quick Recaps of GeneRally Rookie Championship S16

Since my absence at the time the third round start (due to my semester test), I can't compete in GRC. In Fort Myers, I can't say much because neither me, Resir, nor SRT8 from Racing Van Java (It's our team, of course) are competed in that, but Calders once again showed his mastery of GRC. Meanwhile at Chartres, it's PEB1985 from Russia who won, followed by Calders, and mizzamar. Resir014 is the only one from our team who competed, and he finished 16th.

In Chivenor, It's the new competitor LorSong who won the race, PEB and Calders finished 3rd and 4th respectively. Surprisingly, Calders who done well throughout the season is warned because of his late submit, but thankfully, it's his first warning, because if he done that once again, he will be penalized. No Racing Van Java racers in the 5th round. Finally, the finale takes place in Dicrette. Although my 12th place is definitely out-of-Top 10, but who cares? As long as there's at least one Asian nation show up in GR compos, we're still showing that Asians also have passion to GeneRally, because as we know, the Asians plays online games made by Korean game companies. But it doesn't stop there, Japan made arcade games which are pretty likeable and thanks with the magnet card system we can drive through to reach the max tune point. Us? Well, not only Indonesian members like me, resir and SRT who are still alive, Japan is also still active (although not in competitions, they still make tracks and cars for the game itself).

Back to the topic, LorSong wins again with an impressive total time of 12"07'06. Meanwhile, Calders dropped to fourth, and resir014 is in the dead last, with a very dissapointing far gap behind the second-to-last driver. Well, Racing Van Java isn't a good racing team, but at least, it's a "Champion-in-the-making" team in Asia. I wonder who's the fastest Asian GR player around?

In the end, I placed 21st in the overall standings, and RVJ is in the 9th place before the last place Lukeno1 sports, let's call it RVJ is in the bottom two but safe if I use the ANTM term.

My TXRD2 Careers!!!

Not-so-successful in GRC, I throw my nightmare out from GRC and continue my TXRD2 career. So far, I played conquest mode and my current BAD name is "The Absolute Major". The last save game is much further because I was reaching Stage 3, but low Category Race level, lesser prize I acquire, and I don't beat CA rivals Redeye and the Ura Rokko CA guy.

Now I have to start my career from zero because the last memory card, where I saved that TXRD2 progress is broken. This time, I bought the red Silvia S13, and completed many events. I also bought the NA Trueno AE86 from the used car shop for two NA fests and completed Stage 1's Turbo Fest (Yaay :D). I also completed several CAT Sponsors which I haven't completed it. And in addition, I also beat the Redeye!

But that's not over yet for me. I'm also making a GeneRally cars depicting TXR rival cars, such as... Legendary Schneider and Emperor Speed. Actually, there's more cars I have to work on, like 13 Thirteen Devils cars (Minus Jintei, it's 12 to go), Kingdom Twelve cars (sadly I have no figure about their cars since I'm not yet facing one of them), Death Ruse (The most annoying CA rival), Haunted Shore, Ground Zero, and Slashers (that includes Absolute Emperor, Miracles Summit, Emotional King, and 8 others). In addition I also want Sitar Kaneyama and well... Others.

Why I want to do this? Simple answer: Ms... (Masa) from GeneRally made 2 car packs from 2 different anime series: Initial D and Wangan Midnight. Because he made two of Japan's most-popular street racing animes due to the expanding fanbase on forums, I decided to bring out TXRD2. Now, let's see if I could reenact them (only if I have enough pics to illustrate. Without pics, I don't know what the car exactly look like).

And also, others are on my way! Like...

Next Top Model shows!!! There will be lots of Next Top Model shows in the second half of this year, most notably Australia's Next Top Model C6 and Britain's Next Top Model C6. Sadly, I haven't watched any of their season 5 episodes, but I'm following it. Also, several NTM shows will return like Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and many others. Don't forget that my Jintei-ness to NTM girls who are walking in the upcoming Fall/Winter 2010 will appear with more power and more scream. Why Jintei-ness? Because I CALLED PATRICIA VAN DER VLIET MIRACLES SUMMIT AND VANESSA HEGELMAIER ABSOLUTE EMPEROR, AND I EVEN CALL KSENIA KAHNOVICH AS THE LEGENDARY NTM WINNER OF ALL TIME!!! UGH!!!

Forget that, next topic. Trying my best of how "Otaku" am I, I decided to watch K-On! Yaay, I watched the first episode and it's so funny. Not only that, I'm starting to grow my interest to two of their songs Cagayake GIRLS! and Don't say 'lazy'. I might plan myself to watch other anime episodes, like Wangan Midnight. I just watched the first episode and I am intended to watch the second episode, but maybe next time...

Beside those animes, I also watch primetime shows. In my country... No, I mean, in SE Asia, Glee reaches its final episode. I'm pretty sure that New Directions will kick Vocal Adrenaline's Schneider-y butt with Will's Inazuma-istic song! I can't wait to see who win!!! Meanwhile, some of the primetime shows I watched through this week are Smallville (The episode where Clark became a new quarterback and he has to investigate a green-coloured drink which is actually, a love potion), and still counting. I want Parenthood, Melrose Place, 90210, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries (no, I download The Vampire Diaries. Not on TV unfortunately), and many others!!!

Finally, I have to say this bitter thing but my computer is broken again. You might think "How come???" because usually my computer broken when there's a damn immovable virus called runouce. But this time, I don't have a virus, but it's my motherboard. That's because my computer restarts before the BIOS screen, also my computer, although I pressed "Delete" or "F2" button, it keeps restarting. What do you have to say?

And with all this bombshell, it's time for me to go. See you next time!

~Regards

GeneRally Rookie Championship 16 - Race 1 Recap

GeneRally Rookie Championship is back with its 16th season, with new tracks, and still the same FR/13 car. Different than the last season, this season has many teams competing for the title. Teams in this season are much greater in number than the previous seasons which most of them are privateers (No passion to run a team, perhaps???). Opening this season’s GRC is Trigger Park by AleksiNir.

Bottom right sweeper is making me RAGE. -Haruna Say

This track is pretty, well, let’s say “challenging” due to the fierceness of the penultimate corner. I wonder where Death Ruse had been... But well, we’re talking about GRC, right? So no time to talking crap about the hardest CA rival of the Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2 right now. Speaking of the “Season Opener”, we have 21 racers driving for this first race, which is the biggest in GRC since 1st event of 13th season in October 2009.

Best Drivers Arise!

Well, Europeans rules GeneRally, hence the best position they’ve got. Just look at the first race results! After a long battle, nico wins the race with a speed of 103 kmh (How I could reach that speed?). At the first lap, there was a fierce 5-way battle. The fight continues as nico, Calders and Haruna Say are fighting for the first place. Not only that, Quiklis and mizzamar are fighting too. You can see the action at the picture strip below:


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For me, it’s not a great outcome.

"Goh-dang-it, another out-of-top 10-place..." -Rendy

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Unfortunately, yet again I placed below Top 10 which is sad because you feel that you've expected yourself to be one of the top 10 racer, but it turns out false. I finished 14th, 0.97 seconds behind medal89 and 0.22 seconds ahead Red. And since I’m on the Silver class (Means I’m no longer in the Bronze class, the class I’ve been since my first GRC until the previous season), I can’t hide this God-awful shame.

However, I’ve been involved in the battles against Santana 2.0 and Ginseng for position. In the end, it was me who got pwned by Ginseng, followed by Medal89. Once again, it is not a good result, but I don’t surprised at all because I made mistakes and bad trajectories. Oh my Lanta!

Teammate got sucked

Horrible track, horrible race, just horrible. -resir014

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Racing Van Java, an Indonesian GRC team consisting of me, ChargerSRT8 and resir014 competes in this prestigious event. ChargerSRT8 had been active on GRC competitions since the RSC era, and resir014 comes from RaceDepartment.org and was a leader of the Race Department team of GRC. But unfortunately we’re out of luck. Let’s face it, ChargerSRT8 didn’t race in this first event and he said (via Facebook chat) that he might be racing for the second race after he is done with his “Otaku” thing. Meanwhile, resir014 had pulled out his great skills, but he’s last (Ever since he was on the RD GRC team, he wasn’t that slow). Again, I have to say “What a Dreckitude” to this outcome.

We need some more training in order to achieve best results on Xavelot, the second track of the season.

Well, sadly I have to conclude this blog. While I conclude this, check out The Secret to Go Fast thread on gene-rally.com, it is where you can find the guide for beginners to go as fast as the professionals. Once again, thanks for reading!

~REGARDS

New GeneRally stuffs

Hi! It's Emperor Slasher again here. Due to a lack of interest in writing blogs because of my life, I would announce you my GeneRally stuffs. Of course you can found these stuffs on GeneRally International Racers Forums :D

First up, my new car... Which is Genki Racing Project S2000 - inspired by a real-world car of the same name.

This is the first version of my car. Actually, it isn't my first car. I've made TGS Devilbat RS (Fictitious car) on RaceSimCentral forums' GeneRally section. After RSC's GR is dead, I don't care the Devilbat anymore. Also, I made TGS Sasuke ST, another fictitious car. And also, I made RidgEout Racers (Cross between Ridge Racer and Wipeout video game), but unfortunately I halted it for some reason.

However, it is too much faulty... I mean, look here:

Sorry, but that doesnt look like an s2000.
Is this your first car? For first its good. :D
Lights should have atleast 2 polies, it should be thinner and hood should be longer. (Sutinen)

And also, The Great Falcon's complex theory. I thought I've made an S2000 but not exactly look like S2000. So, I've updated the car and here's what I got:


Differences between the first version with the second version.

In the second version, the car's shape is starting to look like S2000. Some fixes also done, that includes the color change. Lorenzo stated:

I was told that GR uses chosen colour and two next colours for reflections. If you chose 169 (dark grey) game uses also 170 (grey) and 171 (dark blue). It's not everything: look at the car when it's under the water! In that case game uses also 172 (yellow). And it is yellow in the water, isn't it?

So, using 168 as the black colour in the models is IMO better than using 169.

However, there's one more flaw that I haven't notice since the first version. It is...

This car needs a diet. Too wide in my opinion. (Haruna Say)

Yep, the car is looked Plus-size which doesn't reflect S2000 at all. So I worked it to slim it down. Also, I decided to spend two polies for the headlights for the price of the rear parts' polies (Since I've used ALL vertexes, 30 to be exact).

But how this thing turned out? Will this thing is turned out to be a good one?


Differences between the second version with the latest version.

Well, that concludes the blog post for today. I will update the RENDYTuned site ASAP, since I want to put some new stuffs in it. Adios!

~REGARDS

Effort of a 358mb download, Game Maker, and New Turbo Sliders Tracks

Hi! Emperor Slasher is back!

First of all, my free days are about to gone after today, because tomorrow I will go to school again (school break is over). So, how can I update myself? Well, I might do it between Thursday-Sunday. I need my home internet!!!

Okay, so today's blog is "Effort of a 358mb download, Game Maker, and New TS Tracks.". But before I start, I will tell you that the blog on RendyTUNED is no longer exist. So if you want to read my blog, go here! If you want to go from here to RendyTUNED, the link is http://rendytuned.webs.com/. I updated the layout, but I should do some major makeovers.

First up, 358mb Download - The Effort. It is a bittersweet thing of course. It's all about speed of download. However, it is a different story for me because I'm downloading an *.avi file that has a size of 358mb. Sometimes my speed is approximately 45kb/s, and it takes more than an hour to finish.

Downloading a 358mb file is pretty painful, especially if you have an internet connection which has a slow downloading speed and also a website which gives a full advantage for premium users (example: Megaupload). Yes, I download a 358mb file on Megaupload. I wish I have a credit card and fully understand the internet payment. (But I'm 15, and my parents aren't understand the internet payment, hence they don't have PayPal :p).

Rather I rage about that downloading, let's move on to the Game Maker thing. As you know, Game Maker has released the new version which is the 8.0, with a new logo. I've downloaded it and it's a great game making tool! Trust me, build your own game and show it off to your friends! You can find Game Maker here.

Talking about Game Maker game, I made one. The name of my first GM game is "Catch The Fruit". Well, it is the first phase of my game making skills. The game's concept is to catch the fruit while avoiding bombs. You can DL it here.

Actually, I'm planning to make another level, hence because it's just the first version. My mega project is a Mario Kart-inspired Game Maker game. That is when I found Goomdaddy's Mario Kart engine. Also, I made a Super Mario Kart-styled sprite of Takumi Fujiwara's AE86. Here's the link to see it.

Finally, New TS Tracks. As I told you earlier, RendyTUNED Blog is now defunct and this blog replaces it. Let's review what I've made:

- I've made 8 tracks for normal cars, one of them is a Nightmod track and it's a single lap.
- 13 Photoshopped tracks, nine of them are inspired by video games.
- Made 2 Photoshopped single-lap tracks
- Made 2 XBumpz tracks.

For today, I uploaded 4 new tracks! And they are... in alphabet order... *drumrolls*:

- Drift Highway - Inspired by a Big Blue Track of F-Zero GX. Beware, this is the first version and it has bugs. Regardless, it's fun to drive, especially the "Glass Fleet Slope" before the second jump. Link.
- Racing Lagoon - Inspired by a Playstation game called Racing Lagoon. Drive through mountainous roads! See if you can tackle the sharp turns! This course has 2 versions, Daytime version and Nighttime version.
- Rookie Ring GP - Rookie Ring GP! It has a tight turn at the start, followed by hairpin, "Le Mans Square" and a banked turn in the end. My first track to have a TSE layout. Link.

Unfortunately I'm too lazy to show you the pictures, so yeah. Next up, my TS Track Mega Project, Tsukuba Circuit.


"I know the runoff area is quite crappy, I'll fix it ASAP."

As you can see, the Tsukuba Circuit's completion is 45%. I might be upload it, maybe next week or faster.

And... Because I'm really lazy right now, I have to go. See you at the next post!

~REGARDS