ACGパーティーのこと

Last night's ACG Party was pretty awesome. I was put in charge of the entire gaming section for the duration of the entire party. I think it's pretty much an honor to be hired by someone to take over the entire gaming, and ever since that night, Tim (founder of ACG) asked me to become a permanent GM (Game Master) for their organization.

I apologize in advance if the pictures are quite crappy, as these were taken by my cell phone.

This is a picture of my gaming setup minus the TVs, which came about an hour later after this picture was taken. It mainly consists of my JPX360 and two PS2s. One of them was supposed to be
a dedicated Pop'n Music console, while the other PS2 was supposed to be mostly for fighting games (Fate/Unlimited Codes, Melty Blood: Actress Again, MvC2, etc.)

Ron is apparently in a band and their set was being set up while I was taking this picture.
Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the duration of the party because I was busy working at my booth to remember taking pictures. A probably even more unfortunate situation I had on my hands during the party is that at the beginning of the party, the Pop'n Music ASC started to malfunction. I'm not sure why, but the buttons were randomly going off on its own, most likely because of faulty wiring (or the PCB might have died). Miraculously, the Controller started to work again after an hour of it breaking down, only to have another misfortune happen. The DDR pad started to fail and I had to put it out of commission for the rest of the party.

Other than that, everyone seemed to love Pop'n Music, Blazblue, and MBAA; Those three were the games that seem to be played the most throughout the party. I'm too lazy to comment on the rest of the events, except this one bid war I had been involved in with Draa during the silent auction over this one Touhou Artbook. If you were there during the party, the format of the auction was that there was a sheet of paper that you had to write down your name and the bid you're willing to pay for the artbook. Most of the paper consisted of

Draa
Khoa
Draa
Khoa
Draa
Khoa
Draa

Well, she basically won because she bid at least 34.75 and I didn't want to bid another quarter. Then after looking around YAJ to get the book for myself, I really should've bid $35 on it because it's going for between 4200円 to 4800円. Oh well.

I'll write a new blog entry soon to show my maintenance progress with my Pop'n Music controller and possibly my DDR pad.