Game Plays

A few days ago I posted a post that talked about how I'll play some kind of non-related Nancy Drew game and do a game play of it to keep my YouTube channel busy while I work on the Nancy Drew games. That backfired. I was going to do something like New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and it was supposed to work, but it didn't. And believe me, you don't know how bad I feel because it feels like every time that I'm posting something, it's always about how I said I would do this, but I end up not doing it mostly because of technical difficulties. With that being said, there are no technical difficulties with the Nancy Drew games, so that's an upside. I do feel like the boy that cried wolf in a sense because, I keep saying one thing, but I don't do it, so it's not really true. Now I know that you're probably thinking, "How does that relate to the boy that cried wolf? Because that doesn't make sense." Well, in my mind it does! So... yeah, I thought that I would just inform you that I do in case feel bad about not getting the things that I said I would get done, done! I wanted to make sure that you guys didn't think that I was just lying around and doing nothing productive, when in fact, I have. With that being said,  I've recently been enjoying a game called Medal of Honor, but I've mostly played muktiplayer on it. Well... yeah, some of my life in 41 seconds,  hope you enjoyed.

So...

So I was thinking since I'm taking so long with the Nancy Drew videos, I'll just start uploading playthroughs of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. In the meantime I'll still be working on my Nancy Drew videos and I'll be keeping my YouTube channel more occupied with new uploads. However, once I get a sturdier schedule for my Nancy Drew playthroughs and I actually start uploading Nancy Drew videos, I'm going to delete the New Super Mario Bros. Wii videos and any other possible videos that I upload and aren't Nancy Drew related.

Still Working

So I'm still working on editing a playthrough, but I noticed that the sound quality isn't as good as the latest demos that I've uploaded to YouTube so far. It isn't bad, but it's just not as loud and I'm afraid that people are going to notice the difference between the latest demos and the other playthroughs that I'm going to be uploading in the close future and be annoyed with the sound difference. What do you think, should I be worried or am I just over thinking this?

Sound Card Up and Running!

I got my sound card to finally work so I can finish up my video editing. However, I think I need a new computer mouse because the one I currently have is starting to glitch a lot. So if I were to record right now with my mouse in its current state, it wouldn't look too good. On the bright side I do have a nice spare mouse, but I don't know if it's necessary to pull that out right now because I might be able to fix my current mouse. Also, lately I've been kind of disconnected from the internet world in terms of my blogs, my YouTube, Twitter, etc. I'm going to fix that. I'll try to tweet more often, right entries on my blogs more often, update my Facebook page more often, and work more on recording, edited, and uploading my videos to YouTube.

Daily Dose of Nancy Drew and Humble Origin Bundle

So as you've probably noticed, I haven't been getting by daily dose of Nancy Drew video games. Luckly, I have an excuse. My sound card is dead. I'm starting to think that fate doesn't want me to do Nancy Drew video playthroughs because, to be quite frank, I never had computer issues until I started doing Nancy Drew playthroughs. That's not going to stop me though. I am in the middle of editing a Nancy Drew playthough video at the moment, or course it's not exciting that much because it's just a demo. I could edit it on another computer but I'm afraid some kind of setting might change on the video editor that will then change the video up a little bit without me knowing it. And just in case you were wondering, yes, it requires sound for me to edit the video that I want to edit. I would also like to announce a lovely little deal I found while I was looking around on slickdeals.net. It's a bundle of 6 games (Action/Adventure type deal) that you can buy for a total of (your price here.) That's right you get to choose your price! It can't be anything under a dollar, which is what I paid, and you split up the money that you paid for the game for different charities and the Humble tip (If you want to include a Humble tip.)These games are only the downloadable copies, not the physical copies. You have the choice of either downloading the games for Origin, or, for Steam. One game can only be downloaded for Origin though. If you pay at least $4.71 for the bundle then you also get the codes for Battlefield 3 and The Sims 3 Starter Pack. (Those two games can only be downloaded through Origin.) Now, some of these games aren't the type of games that I would do playthroughs for, as they are too violent or just not something that I would do for my YouTube channel. For more information on the Humble Origin Bundle, just click this.

Tale of Woe

So I use this screen recorder called Action!, and I absolutely love it! However, I found out the hard way this morning that this is a flaw to it. I was finishing off the Nancy Drew demos because, well, it's about time I finish them. All I needed to do was record the Shadow at the Water's Edge demo. So, I started to record. Well, somewhere along the way I messed up so I stopped recording and went to the Action! dashboard where I was going to delete that one clip. I right clicked that one clip, and here's that one flaw, well, the menu thing showed up. At the top it said delete selected file, and directly below it was an option of deleting ALL files. I was in a hurry and clicked what I thought was the first choice, delete selected file. Wrong. I actually clicked the second option, delete all files, but I didn't even realize it. A box showed up that asked if I really wanted to delete all the videos, but that same box always shows up when I want to delete one video, so I didn't read it. Nope, I just automatically pushed yes, and that's when everything disappeared. At first I just thought "darn it", but I wasn't too unhappy because I just thought that I could go into the recycle bin and restore the clips. Well, here's the other flaw of this program. When you delete something from it, it saves you the trouble and effort of going into the recycle bin and clicking delete all by yourself by permanently deleting it for you. That's when I started to panic. I quickly emailed to company - and still waiting for a reply, then I went onto the internet to look at programs that would restore "permanently" deleted files. I found a pretty good one, but to no avail. It found all these other files that have been deleted from the recycle bin except for the files I needed... the videos! Now I'm pretty depressed because I spent some time trying to record all 6 of those demos and now they're gone. You might be thinking that they're just demos, and they'll be easy to complete, but even though that may be true, I wanted all of those demos to be as perfect as I could have possibly made them. Now I have to re-record them, and I won't do that until I get a reply back from the company that developed Action! Also, I just want a break from the Phantom of Venice demo with all puzzles and whatnot.

Video Recording is Officially A GO!

Alright so I have a new program that records gameplay better than CamStudio did, so I’m going to start off redoing everything including the DEMOs (which is the first thing on my list to finish!)

Unexpected Trip

So I took a vacation, and when I got back I was so excited to be able to finish up part 5 of SSH and finally edit, finalize, and upload it! Not too long after I got back from this trip did I finish editing it, but after I finished editing it, an unexpected trip came up. I have to go to Washington, and won't be able to finalize, and upload the video until I get back. I'm kind of sad about it because according to YouTube I haven't uploaded a video in a month, and that's WAY too long to keep you waiting, but when I get back from the trip, I'll finalize the video, then upload it!

Video Recording Problems

So, many of you guys have probably heard tell you that I've run into troubles. It's either my computer breaks down once, then I get it back and everything's gone, or parts of a video is messed up, and I'll need to redo it. Stuff like that. Well, I just need to tell you that it seems like with recording Nancy Drew games, bad luck comes. Anyways, I'm hear to tell you that something else happened. I kind of told about it in one of my blog posts, Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand- Part 2 Update. Well, I tried to get the messed up part fixed so I replayed the game again and after I finished that someone came and closed my laptop lid when I wasn't looking. Well, I was supposed to save it but for some reason I didn't. That was a big mistake. I've learned the hard way in the past that if my laptop falls asleep, or somebody closes the lid while the game is still in play mode, basically wasn't exited out of, then when I awake the laptop, I'm basically opening the lid up to a black screen with an error message in the middle. That error message is telling me that there was an error and it's now going to force quit the application, in my case the Nancy Drew game. So that's what I was afraid of when I went back to the laptop and the lid was down. When I opened it the game was forced quit and I forgot to save too, so now I have to play it again. Hopefully it won't take that long, and if I get that part re-recorded, then the editing should be a breeze since that part of the game is all I have to add in. Everything else is already edited. After I get that done then I should be able to edit parts 3 and 4 then upload parts 2-4 up onto YouTube.

How to Install Older Nancy Drew Games to Windows Vista/7

I got questions about how to install older Nancy Drew to newer operating systems, so here's the answer. To Install older Nancy Drew games, like the original Secrets Can Kill for example, make a folder for the game. This folder can be named whatever you want. I would personally name it Secrets Can Kill, just because that would be the game that I’m installing. Now, this should work for all other old Nancy Drew games. Anyways, you can also put this folder on your desktop, or wherever. Now you can start the actual installation of the game. As you’re in the Nancy Drew setup, just keep installing it as you usually would, but stop when you get into the part of the setup that tells you the folder it will be installing it into. In my case, since I’m installing Secrets Can Kill, it will probably tell me that it will be installing in to a folder named: C:\Nancy Drew\Secrets Can Kill. You’ve probably seen this folder for all games that start with the C:\. If want this game to work on you’re newer operating system (Windows Vista/7) then you DO NOT want your game to install in the default C:\ folder. Instead install it in the new folder that you created. Once you’ve told the program to install it in that folder, then just install it like normal and once it’s done try playing the game and it should work!

Editing to my Blog

This post is kind of random and really contains nothing about Nancy Drew. You've may or may not have noticed but I've added a music player on to the top of my blog! I tried adding 23 more Nancy Drew tracks on to it, but it didn't let me. However Tumblr allowed me, so if you care to listen to some Nancy Drew music click here for my Tumblr blog. The purpose of adding a music player to my blogs was so if you were reading something on my blog, then you could listen to some Nancy Drew music, although with some people music makes it harder to read, but it's your choice. Also, I would just like to state that everything that's posted or gets posted on this blog also get posted to my Tumblr.

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand- Part 2 Update

So I already uploaded Part 1, and I was hoping to upload part 2, but while I was finishing the editing of Part 2, I realized that in the end of the video, the video shifts to the right a little. Well, it seems that I accidentally put the wrong coordinates that the screen recorder is supposed to record, so now some of the Nancy Drew game is cut-off! Sadly, that's a part of the video that was saved, but then I saved something else over it. On the bright side it's an easy fix, but everything is going to have to match up perfectly, so I'm starting the game over to get to that point, and the next video of SSH probably won't be uploaded until either later tonight, or tomorrow.

Tomb of the Lost Queen Arrived in the Mail!

Just got Tomb of the Lost Queen in the mail. My plan that I posted on my blog will continue, except it's going to be changed up just a little, basically I'm finishing Secret of the Scarlet Hand, then on to Tomb of the Lost Queen and so on.

My Secret of the Scarlet Hand Re-Do Update

Okay, so believe it or not, I actually spent the whole day re-doing Secret of the Scarlet Hand, and here's the unbelievable part. Only two parts got done. Part 1 is going to be about 14 minutes long, and Part 2 is going to be a little less than 13 minutes long. I can't wait to try and finish it up tomorrow! It'll be just in time for Tomb of the Lost Queen since I ordered the physical copy.

Do Over!

So, last night I accidentally deleted the first part of part 5, and I can't figure it out, so I'm just going to do the whole walkthrough over. I have absolutely nothing to do today, so I'll just play Nancy Drew the whole day. Who knows? I might finish the whole walkthrough of it, it just won't be posted to YouTube. Then when I get Tomb of the Lost Queen, which should be tomorrow, I should be able to start that. After I'm done with editing and I get the videos on YouTube of course.

Official Video Walkthrough Plans and a Little TMB Update

So I've made it official on what I'm doing. I was looking through some of my videos last night and this is what I've decided. After I finish Secret of the Scarlet Hand, I'm going to fix Message in a Haunted Mansion because the Firebird puzzle got cut off. Then I'm redoing Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, Senior Mode this time of course. After that I think I'll redo The Haunted Carousel, because it should be senior mode, but instead it's junior mode, otherwise I wouldn't redo it. When I'm done with that I'm going to redo the Danger by Design demo, because of an important part of winning that demo. Yes, I realize that more people care about the whole game than the demo, but since I've already decided... Anyway once I upload the redo's I'll delete the original ones so I won't have multiples of the same walkthrough. For the demo, I'm just redoing that one, but I'm deleting the other demos so when I upload the Danger by Design demo, all the other demos will follow. It seems a little ridiculous, but I'm a picky person. I should be done in time to start the walkthrough for Tomb of the Lost Queen by then. I'll be preordering it, so I should get it a few days earlier before it's released to stores. If there's a gap between when I'm done with all this stuff that I've listed, and when I get Tomb of the Lost Queen, and it's a big enough gap, then I'll do the original Secrets Can Kill. If not, I'll just do it after I'm done with the walkthrough for Tomb of the Lost Queen, then the rest of the Nancy Drew games. I think this is a really good plan, but I really want your opinions. So, leave a comment below, or message me through YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr. The links for my Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr are on my YouTube page. Her Interactive just released a background picture for Tomb of the Lost Queen. It's not incredibly exciting, but at least it's something. One more thing, be watching out for a trailer for Tomb of the Lost Queen! By the way Her Interactive worded it, it sounds like the trailer will be released in not too long.

Video Walkthrough Plans

I'm without a doubt finally uploading Part 3 of Secret of the Scarlet Hand. Maybe Part 4, but I haven't started editing that yet. I finally got around to editing Part 3 today, but at the last minute, right when I finished editing, I had to leave to go somewhere. After 4:00pm tomorrow (Chicago timezone) I'll review the video, make last minute changes, publish it to my computer, then I'll post it on YouTube. Also I decided on working on some notes for redoing Message in a Haunted Mansion, so it's not as slow at the ending, when I do the puzzle. Also, this time the puzzle won't get cut off. I'm also redoing Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, because of something that got cut off in part 3. I still don't know how I'm going to do it. My plan on Message in a Haunted Mansion, was just to get the saved videos I keep on a disk, put it in movie maker, cut out the part that was messed up, replace that with the newly recorded part. and repost it on YouTube. So everything would be the same, except I would solve the Firebird puzzle faster, and you would be able to see the whole thing being solved. I might want to do something like that with Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, where I just redo the messed up part, but the thing is, when I did that video, I was a rookie, not as good with the video recording process thing, so the quality isn't as good. I don't know, should I just do that, or redo the whole thing? I want your thoughts, so please tell me!

Re: Nancy Drew Sneak Peaks!!!

These pictures from my other post have actually been released to the public by the Her Interactive company themselves. Don't worry guys, I wouldn't post stuff that could possibly be fake. The thing is when you go to the Her Interactive website, they don't have it on the home page (I don't know why) they do have it on their Her Interactive blog, but it's not the amateur sleuth blog, it's the Dare to Play Blog. Sorry that I didn't back it up with the facts in the first place, I know now that with the new stuff that Her Interactive doesn't make incredibly public that I should probably back up. Also this is a blog that has the real Nancy Drew information from Her Interactive, it's not just a blog that takes information from other sites that could be fake.

Nancy Drew Sneak Peaks!!!

Just like Nancy Drew, I'm a sleuth, trying to find the truth!

So here's a photo of Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen

And here's the new interface of the upcoming Nancy Drew games!

The Main Menu

The Difficulty Screen

The Option Screen

Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion Game Review

I'm a person who's fasinated with the supernatural things. Not like bigfoot, and even if it was that, no I don't think that bigfoot exists. Anyway, I'm talking about ghosts. There are a few Nancy Drew video games that involve ghosts in a way, but this one was different. In newer Nancy Drew ghost games, the ghost or supernatural creature would usually jump out at you during an unexpected time, or maybe it was expected for some people, but like Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge, that one was creepy in some parts, and things would jump out at you. In Message in a Haunted Mansion nothing would jump out at you, but it was kind of creepy with the whispers that you would always hear, and the unexpected shadows walking down the halls. I know when I saw that one shadow that walked in front of the door downstairs made me jump a little. That stuff is creepy. I think this is a great game for ANYBODY, even the people who don't like Nancy Drew, I won't say the same for people who like point-and-click games though. This is a very old game and is probably the next on the discontinued list if not already, but I doubt it's discontinued already because I saw it at Target. Anyways Secrets Can Kill and Stay Tuned for Danger are already discontinued, and I actually got those games very recently, (You can see in one of my other posts. It has all the pictures.)but that was only because I won the only auction for the only brand-new unopened Nancy Drew 1st and 2nd original games that they were. I got Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion last year from Amazon, and just so you know you can't get the 1st and 2nd Nancy Drew games from Amazon, because before I won that auction on eBay for those games, we went to Amazon, sent in an order for the first Nancy Drew game, and the order was cancled because they apparentley didn't have it in stock. Why would they have it up on their website if they don't even carry it anymore. Well, enough of me rambling on and on about this stuff, basically, just buy the game!