I swear I posted this before, but I guess I didn’t. Here are some free and legal Star Wars Republic Commando MP3s:

• First, go to the SW:RC site
• point at “Navigate” in the tip middle
• under downloads, click MP3s
• From there you can download the entire soundtrack. I really like it – it’s a really good Star Wars vibe.

UPDATE: The site above is gone. Try this site instead.

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• $3.98 (shipped) PS2 Star Wars controller
• $5.29 (shipped) Xbox Star Wars controller

Great deal if you need a controller or collect Star Wars stuff!

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I have been playing this for a few days now and love it. I tried the first NBA ballers and it was OK. NBA Street 2 wasn’t very good either IMHO. I’m a guy that loves NBA Jam enough to have one in my home gameroom.

NBAB:P has what I like – it’s easy to learn without too much fancy stuf. the one on one games remind me of the fun I had playing Dr. J and Larry Bird go One on One on my C64. The two on two gmes play like NBA Jam. Fun stuff.

If you like B-ball, get this game. Now, back to some ballin’.

NBA Ballers homepage

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Check out this awesome candy wrapper alphabet quiz. It quizzes you on your knowledge of candy wrappers. Fun stuff.

• Candy Wrapper Alphabet Quiz

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Continuing with my GP2X posts, I finally got MAME working on it. There actually wasn’t anything to it, you just have to use version 0.34 MAME ROMS. There is a tool called clrmame that is supposed to help you convert your ROMs down to 0.34 but I couldn’t get it to work. I ended up having to download the 0.34 ROMs via bittorrent.

So how does it play? It’s great! All the classics (Pacman, Time Pilot, Arkanoid, Frogger, Galaga, Joust, etc.) play flawlessly. It can also play Neo Geo games, but I haven’t tried those yet since I still have only a 128MB SD Card (1GB on the way).

The coolest thing (to me anyway) is that you can press both shoulder buttons and it will rotate the screen so that vertical games like Pacman will take up the whole screen and you play the game by holding the GP2X sideways. So cool. I’ve been playing a lot of Time Pilot this way.

Here’s a great video that shows the GP2X playing MAME (and shows it switching the orientation too) it also shows it playing some movies and even outputting the movie and games to a big-screen tv:

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