But not without giving me the opportunity to play some vidyas, learn about upcoming ones, and get some serious hours in at work. Plus, now there’s only a couple weeks left in the semester. Usually this has me really psyched as it means summer break, but this year I plan on taking two summer classes to get caught up on missed hours. I would be registering right now for the classes, but the PIN number my advisor gave me isn’t working. I sent him an e-mail asking him to check it again and let me know if there was a mistake (and if so, to just send me the correct PIN). I don’t like sitting around unable to register and get the classes I want while other people are able to take up seats. I hope this is sorted out soon. If the PIN my advisor gave me is correct, then I need to go to the registrar’s office and figure out what’s wrong.

I found something pretty cool on Friday and I’m a little embarassed that I’m so slow to mentioning it here. Somebody over at WiiNintendo got their hands on Mario Kart Wii and posted a nearly-two-hour-long video showing all 32 tracks. Just like in Mario Kart DS, 16 of the tracks (4 cups) are new original courses, and the other 16 are “retro” tracks from previous Mario Kart games. Go here to watch the video and read his lengthy impressions about it. This is the first major collection of info about the game. Until now MKWii has sort of been slipping in under the radar (most likely due to Brawl) and all I’ve heard is that there are bikes and online racing. Since the 32-track video has been posted other places, I’ll be a little different and post the other video here after the cut - only 20 minutes long, and it has two WFC matches and two battle matches. Take note of how quickly he connects to opponents and begins racing. Also take note of how many racers are in the Battle. It’s old news now that MKWii has 12 racers per race, as opposed to the previous standard 8, but even in previous games we never saw the full amount of racers in VS. Battle mode.

Mario Kart Wii, WFC and Battle Mode from WiiNintendo.net on Vimeo.

I also picked up the Metal Gear Solid Essential Collection over the break, but I didn’t get to start playing until Friday evening when I findally got the PS2 set up in my room. This process alone also presented me the opportunity to take my Dreamcast out of the closet and set it up as well. Though I don’t have many games for it, I look forward to playing through Grandia II for the 3rd-or-4th time. I love it. I started playing the first Metal Gear Solid and came to the realization that I lacked a PS1 memory card to save the game with. But I was eager to play so I started anyway. Before going to bed I got all the way to the first battle with Sniper Wolf, and afterwards Mei Ling starts insisting that I save (because “something” is coming up). I thought it might be the disc change, and not wanting to take any chances, I decided to take Mei’s advice and stop playing until I could save. So my game sat paused at the codec screen all day Saturday and then yesterday Kassi lent me her PS1 memory card. At last I could continue! As it turns out, it was just a part where Snake gets tortured and if you screw up, some shit happens and you get the “bad ending” at the end of the game.

Also yesterday I went to Funsville Adventure Crossing and played DDR, ate pizza, and raced go karts. All in all I think this past weekend was a pretty good end to an otherwise mediocre spring break.

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