The anime, cosplay and doujin event Fancy Frontier takes place 4 times a year. The large events are called Fancy Frontier (FF) and the smaller events are Petit Fancy (PF). FF 19 took place last weekend and comrades at Aniarc went along to take some photos for us.
Looked like a load of fun! I could not make it this time but plan to attend the next FF in July where I will be setting up a booth too. Will also be having Culture Japan Night Taiwan Summer Edition too.
And here is some video footage of the event.
Are you or have you been attending any anime events this year? If so which ones? There is a poll embedded in this article. There is a poll embedded in this article. There is a poll embedded in this article.
Rayun from Switzerland posts photos of his most awesome eroge room over at Figure.fm. Rayun is surrounded by a load of wall tapestries, wall scrolls, posters, dakimakura, pillows, games, T-shirts and other memorabilia.
How many of you play eroge and what are your fave titles? If I had eroge when I was learning Japanese many moons ago, I'd probably would have gotten more fluent quicker!
If you are interested in learning more about eroge then http://erogetrailers.com/ may be a good place to start. There is a poll embedded in this article. There is a poll embedded in this article. There is a poll embedded in this article.
And here are some eroge goodies that Rayun picked up from Japan during his last trip to Japan earlier this year. A load of yummy goodies!
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Had my PS Vita since the launch in Japan and am starting to like it a lot! Lots of eye candy graphics and decent games are starting to come out. But, the PS Vita comes with a lousy feature that prevents you from charging the unit unless you use the adapter it came with. This means that you cant charge it from a Mac/PC USB port or even an iPhone/iPad USB mains adapter.
Being a portable games machine, it becomes particularly annoying that you cant use any USB battery packs to charge it either. Unacceptable! But rather than complain, lets do something about it because complaining never brings about results - only action leads to results and results happen even quicker if you take action yourself.
Today we will see how I made a simple mod that enables you to charge the PS Vita from any USB power source.
First up, you need one of these USB thingies - its a USB bridge adapter that allows a USB to be plugged into awkward places like the back of your left ear. They sell them at Amazon for 554 yen.
Once you got the USB adapter, pry it open using the Force or something like...a screw driver perhaps.
This will reveal 5 wires that are attached to the USB head.
Cut the green and white wire.
What may happen is this - the other wires come loose and fall off!
Now you need to whip out that pocket solder. Here I have soldered the red and black wires back onto the USB head. I have also soldered the middle two pins together. Not sure why this works because all I did was copy this guy ^^; Apparently this "shorts" it.
I tried to self study electronics for a wee bit but never really understood it. How many of you good at electronics and making stuff? There is a poll embedded in this article.
Now that the middle two pins are soldered together, its time to test it out.
Didn't want to test it out on the Vita so I dug up the old iPod Touch and used it as my test victim instead ^^; Tried to charge it from a mobile battery and it worked.
Next I tried it out on the Vita and you can see the electric bolt thingies in the battery - it works!
Once you have established that everything works, then you can glue everything back together.
