Special thanks to Hot Dog for providing a game manual. I did a bit of final editing on it, myself. (mostly just grammar I had overlooked, and spacing)

Let me know what you guys think.

What you do is either install StarCraft directly on the FlashDrive, or copy your existing installation there; then either apply a no-CD crack, (Google this, since we can't post such material on Omnimaga) or follow the no-CD instructions of the latest patch version. (this is done by copying all the MPQ files to the install directory, so the game doesn't need to access the CD) The latter method would mean a much larger installation, though.

I think StarCraft will still write data to the registry of any computer it's used on. If you're using a custom server list, (e.g., such as iCCup) this might be a problem.

Do you have any information about the pricing? That would be the deal-breaker for me, since a couple of these have similar specs.

Aaah ok, thanks for clarifying. And yeah I like how they can stack letters together. It can make text much smaller.

I think in video games they don't always do that, right?

Good question. In games that are unofficially translated to Korean, I can see how technical problems would arise. In games that are native to Korea, there generally wouldn't be any problems.

These are some really good sprite and tile conversions. It's so hard to get the right kind of detail in 8x8, but this captures it accurately. (in regards to both the tileset, and Age_of_camelot's sprtes)

Personally, I like the idea of an accurate port of Link's Awakening moreso than an original game. On the other hand, I think it would be interesting to add optional, custom content to the game. (such as an original dungeon; maybe to replace the "Color Dungeon" that appeared in Link's Awakening DX)

Voyager and Deep Space Nine. Love them both. Equally.

Favorite episode of Voyager is "Relativity." All the quirks, paradoxes and contradictions in causal mechanics just add to the charm.

Favorite episode of DS9 is probably "The Magnificent Ferengi." It's hard to pick a more serious episode, since story-arcs tend to number several seasons at a time. I would have to say "X season is my favorite," instead of just picking one episode.

I can't get into the earlier Star Trek stuff. Too retro-futuristic. (where the future is envisioned in such a quirky way)

Depending on the language in question, learning without any in-person experience / exposure to native-speakers can be very difficult. It will be very hard to get the pronunciation right if you aren't hearing it spoken in everyday conversation. Movies and television can sometimes help with that, but there are some cases where fictional media might have more exaggerated characters who don't necessarily represent the language from a practical, everyday standard. There's also a lot of room for misinterpretation, with no one there to correct you along the way.

There are some useful book-and-CD instructions for teaching yourself a new language. The book will have several courses outlining everyday conversations, and the CDs will have the audio of that dialog. The "Teach Yourself..." series of books comes to mind.

I've been teaching myself bits and pieces of Japanese. In a way, Japanese is a very simple language; but from my perspective, it's also radically different from the structure of language I'm used to. Japanese has three writing systems: The kana (hiragana and katakana) is around 46 base characters, plus 25 diacritical characters, which represents a phonetic alphabet of consonent-vowel pairs. Finally, there are about ~2,000 kanji (Chinese characters) that would be memorized out of highschool, and applied in everyday reading / writing.

The sentence structure of Japanese is what gets me most. Sentences are ordered as subject-object-verb, whereas English is subject-verb-object. (although, English is flexible enough that you can often neglect this order) It's not just the word ordering, but how things are expressed. At times, a simple expression can seem wordy, while at other times, it feels like you're speaking like a caveman. If I wanted to say something like, "I'm not interested," it might go," Kyoumi nai." (lit., "Interest (in something) not.") The subject isn't even indicated, unless I'm just now getting into the conversation, or no subject has already been established. Don't get me started on honorifics, either. There is an unnecessarily large selection of personal pronouns in Japanese, for every situation and setting. Using the wrong pronoun at the wrong time could imply hostility, intimacy, a familial relationship, or possibly anything else that might make a stranger feel awkward.

I think it's a lot easier to get into languages that share some etymology with your own. Usually, that language is going to have a similar writing system and syntax; so it might be easier to pick-up on.

I like the site layout in the first screenshot. It's much brighter and more lively. The current theme isn't bad, but it's very dark.

EDIT: Ooh. I didn't notice I could change my settings back to that theme.