Nintendo DS ROMs Playable with GBA Flash Cart? - You betcha!

True apparantly!
Darkfader from the forums of gbadev.org has been able to run Metroid through a gameboy advance flash device. Well from older news you heard he dumped Metroid onto his PC and now it just got better. After he extracted the ROM from the ARM7 part he flashed it on a gba cart. It worked along without the original cart needed.

Link here!

Not such a light-hearted Blog entry this time, but last night was a very scary time for my partner and I.
Our 1yr old son woke up from an afternoon nap with a high temperature and shortly after went into a convolsion. We called an ambulance and took him into the Children's A&E - although we feared the worst and paniced, it was quite reassuring to be told that the turn our Son suffered was common in babies who are overheated.
His temperature was brought to normal and we took him home. Today we have been monitoring him with a thermometer and following our GPs advice by giving him Calpol.
His temperature has stabilized and hopefully he should be back to his bouncing-self in a few days.

I thank God that he is alright - something like this clearly puts things into perspective, especially when only a couple days ago my greatest worry was where I would be spending New Years Eve. I now know the answer to that dialema , it will be at the best venue - at home with my family.

Bad Kids will get NO Nintendo for Christmas!

LOL - This one's a good'un!

Let this e-bay auction be a lesson to all those naughty kids out there that these days Parents mean business!

Check it out!

Funny - Activesync managed to sort itself out again this morning,but for no apparent reason.
I know Microsoft have a reputation for buggy software but this is ridiclious!
No doubt it will break down on me again (when I need it most vitally) at some point in the future...

Activesync - Software from HELL!

Bloody Activesync is giving me problems again, and this is NOT what I need at the head of what I hope to be a productive new year.
Its not regonising my Pocket PCs partnership with my desktop PC and keeps connecting Me as a 'Guest' which does not allow me to sync.
I had this mysterious problem several months ago but it seemed to sort itself out - I don't seem to have that luck again so any suggestions will be welcomed....

News on the N(intendo)5: No Revolutionary D-Pad?

New rumours on the Nintendo's forthcoming next-generation gaming console, (code name)'Revolution' has appeared. This is revolutionary!...

According to the latest edition 'The Diamond Weekly', one of Japan's premier economic weeklies, Nintendo's upcoming console will be revolutionary indeed. The Nintendo Revolution is supposed to lack a D-pad and A/B buttons!

Nintendo has stressed out that the Revolution would indeed involve a whole new gaming experience, but removing the most recognizable controls...

The Diamond Weekly did not mention any other details about the Nintendo Revolution, nor did Nintendo officially react on the rumours yet. And thus, the wait for E3 2005 continues...

Source: GameFront

Let the speculation commence!.....

Gmail Invites - Snapped up already!

Congratulations to the following visitors of my Blog who were the first to snap up the two Gmail invites I was giving away as a festive promotion!

silverquote@yahoo.com

yamuraizendera@hotmail.com


Merry Christmas!

Free Xmas Gmail Invites!

As Christmas Day is ever so close, i'm feeling all the more festive.
Therefore the first TWO people who leave their email addresses under the comments section of this post will recieve a free 1gb Gmail e-mail account!

I realise my Blog is very new and it may take a while to get some people to snap these up, but I will honour my Christmas gift of these Gmail invites for as long as it takes!

Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of storage. The backbone of Gmail is a powerful Google search engine that quickly finds any message an account owner has ever sent or received. That means there's no need to file messages in order to find them again.

When Gmail displays an email, it automatically shows all the replies to that email as well, so users can view a message in the context of a conversation. There are no pop-ups or untargeted banner ads in Gmail, which places relevant text ads and links to related web pages adjacent to email messages.


I advise you to snap these up as quick as you can! - Merry Christmas to you all!

Destiny's Child - Soldier

I just picked up my remote and ritually flicked through the channels - pausing at MTV to see being played (yet again for the umpteenth time) the new Destiny's Child video, Soldier.

Now I find this song nothing short of hilarious - we have an abating R&B group(headed by Blackgirl-turned-Barbie, Beyonce Knowles) who previously built a very public reputation as good, strong Christian women doing what can only be described as an image U-turn.
Now, if you actually listen to the lyrics of this latest single - you will hear these girls tell us that they want a "Soldier", which connotes to a deviant street hoodlum, who carries big things (a not so clever reference to genitalia)and whose "status [is] hood" - Oh dear so I guess Intelligent Gentlemen with decent jobs who pay their own bills-bills-bills wont do anymore eh? - Judging by that thing who does a Rap (sounding closer to an Asthma attack) in the middle of the song looking like a Crack-Fiend, I guess the answer is.. NO.
So the former God-fearing and sophisticated Destiny's Child bleat their hearts
out about how bad they need a 'Soldier to "take care" (or to put it bluntly, to FUCK them.

Im not trying to act all holier-than-thou but surely you must see the hypocritical irony of all of this??!!

Independant Women indeed?!......(Throw your hands up at me!!!)

By-GEORGE!, He's done it again!!!

Found these leaked images from the upcoming Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Judging by these pics, which show a rematch duel between Anakin Skywalker and Count Dooku, this film looks to freaking own the box office come its release date in May 2005; I CANT WAIT!!!!

If you look closely at Dooku's wrists in Pic 2, it appears that Anakin gets a little poetic justice in this confrontation!

May 2005 be with us!!

AnakinvsDooku pic 1

AnakinvsDooku pic 2

AnakinvsDooku pic 3

BitTorrent Websites Call It a Day

Source: Internet Movie Database

Rather than face a costly legal battle with the major film studios, several websites that enable users to download movies, records and other software with the BitTorrent program have shut down since being notified that they were being sued. The Associated Press reported on Monday that among those to shut down was one of the most popular file-sharing sites, Suprnova.org. A statement posted on the site said, "We are very sorry for this, but there was no other way, we have tried everything." Other sites that shut down included N4p.com, torrentbits.org and torrents.com.

Well I cant believe all the major torrent sites are running scared of the MPAA! I mean I understand why they had to make an example of Supanova as it was the most mainstream/well known torrent site out there, but torrentbits.org shutting down as well, and in fear??!! Damn!

The MPAA obviously mean serious business - there are a few good torrent sources still out there, but i'm not at liberty to reveal any links.
I wonder whether its just a matter of time before they bite the dust too!

Better than Bond!.... Jackie Chan's Police Story series

Just spent the first two days of my christmas leave time revisiting Jackie Chan's Police Story and Police Story 2.
I was pleasantly reminded of how superior these actions film are to contempary Hollywood-fare in terms of both comedy and action set-pieces. To put it bluntly, these near 20 year old films put all modern Hollywood big budget action flicks TO SHAME!

I have been watching the original uncut Hong Kong versions with cantonese dialogue (none of that dubbed into english and hacked for western release rubbish)

Knowing that I have the fifth installment, New Police Story awaiting as a Christmas present, I'm looking into getting Police Story 3: Supercop (With Michelle Yeoh) and Police Story 4: (Jackie Chan's) First Strike.
Obviously I dont want to go down the western-release route and end up with inferior versions of these films dubbed into English with 10-20 mins cut off. I want the raw uncut versions. But on the net, the Hong Kong versions of these particular installments to the Police Story series seem hard to find, so if anyone has any links/prices for the HK versions of these DVDs, leave a comment here!

Blogging via your Pocket PC

I've been looking for a Blogging solution for whem im out on the road, alone with nothing but my trusted iPaq; and I think i've found it..

Pocket Blog is freeware for your Pocket PC device that will allow you to compose offline Blog entries and sync to the blogger.com server once you connect you device to the Internet. It also allows you to download old posts to your Pocket PC and edit them.

Great app - which was used to compose and publish this post.


EDIT: This software doesnt seem to allow you to enter a Title for your Blog posts. My one was entered manually via a blogger.com edit - that's not too good...

New Years Eve Ideas.... anyone?....anyone?....

We havent even got past Christmas yet and already my mates and I are deliberating as to what to do in London for New Years Eve (with me at this stage delibertaing whether to go out at all!)

The nightclub event thing seems to be a played-out idea and we always end up regreting pre-booking the £50-£80 ticket while usually still stood in a queue outside the venue in the freezing cold while the midnight hour approaches.

So this year, everyone is fresh out of ideas and no decent events seem to be advertised and promoted.

So if anyone has any suggestions as to what's going to be down this NYE in London, leave a comment and let me know! Bear in mind that we like all things hiphop and R&B with a nicely mixed/varied crowd.

More on Eminem's disasterous production of 2pac's Loyal to the Game

Below is a great post that I found on Tupacboard a Tupac Shakur and general hiphop fan message board.
It relates to Eminem's disasteous production of Tupac's 'Loyal to the Game' (posthumous) album and raises some good points while providing some interesting food for thought....

Originally Posted by IIndHand219
When the "Loyal To The Game" CD was released, I was at FYE as soon as I could get there to sample the entire disk. Before that, I was a bit uneasy on if I should buy it or not because I had got word that Eminem was producing the entire disk, and I just bought the newest release by him called "Encore", which was a very below-average double-disk. While that CD will lead me to a very important point later, I sampled the 2pac disk anyway just for the fact that I won't let anyone change the fact that I will always be a 2pac fan, no matter what.

And when I heard it, I didn't only dislike it, I became very angry at the fact that all of the songs that were on the album, I've heard the originals already, and even though a few after-death albums were released in modified format, I actually enjoyed listening to them. But this new disk, I can't even listen to, and I refuse to buy the disk, or even ask someone to give me a copy. So what I did is just got all the original recordings of each song, and created my own "Loyal To The Game".

The point is, the shit was disrespectful in a million and one ways because how can you change a "raw" format of songs, and everyone has been waiting to hear these songs for 8 years now, and nobody wants to hear the modified versions. Afeni stated that the songs were modified to become more "relevant" to todays music, but all of 2pac's recording are "relevant" to todays events, society, etc. I feel the reason why this is being done is for economic reasons, and a lot of people fail to realize that, only the true to heart fans will realize what's going on.

I may sound harsh by saying this, but I will never buy this cd for the fact that even though it was modified, I would feel comfortable knowing the fact that Eminem produced it. It's very disrespectful by trying to turn "Pac into Pop". And if you didn't notice, even though the CD was produced for free, it all adds publicity to Eminems career, and that should've been avoided a long time ago. But it's so funny that the same person who made prejudice remarks to African-American women in a freestyle, is granted the opportunity to produce an entire album for an artist who loved African-American women to death, no disrespect to anyone's race, creed, ethnics, etc.

So it all boils down to this, was everything Benzino trying to say the truth, as well as The Source magazine? Is Eminem not only disrespecting Tupac Shakur's legacy, as well as the purity of the hip-hop culture? It's hard to endulge in someone elses pride, but I'm leaning towards their feelings, because if you listen to the "Encore" disk, Eminem even stated in his lyrics that half of the songs on the disk, he wasn't talking about shit because he knew everyone was gonna buy it, so what does that tell you? Is it hip-hop?


What I say may not matter to a few, but it matters to most, but only the true to heart Tupac Shakur fans(as well as hip-hop) know what this situation is all about, and what we need to do about it, because what we created(not just a race, an entire society), we can't let one man destroy, and we cannot definitely let one man bring death to a legends memory, we cannot allow that. What we gotta do in this situation the most is think....and I think that's what Pac wanted his fans to do.

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The Gamecube from Tesco.com arrived this morning!!!

My Mum's xmas present will also be delivered via another courier in 20 mins, meaning that I am at last on top of the xmas shopping.


Now time to just kick back and relax!

Every little helps?...

Came home from work today to discover that Tesco still havent delivered the Gamecube.
I immendiately went on the phone shouting the odds and was told that it will "probably" show up tomorrow and that I should at the very least wait until Monday.
I wasnt happy with their response but what could I do?...

Anyway, no longer than 30 mins later I get a phone call - from who?, Tesco.com!
They apologise and say that my Gamecube was actually delivered to the wrong address on a DIFFERENT street with a DIFFERENT house number, even though the correct address was visable on the parcel!
If I wasnt already so pissed off over this debacle , i'd have laughed at such incompetance.
To add insult to injury Tesco.com said that the residents of wrong address were willing to hold the Cube for me until I came over and picked it up!
This was Tesco.com telling me to go to a strangers house and pick up MY parcel (which I paid £5 postage for!)

I told them where to stick it and demanded a response from a duty-manager. The manager apologised and said that my local Tesco store would pick it up and hand deliver it safely to me tomorrow morning.

Result? - Nah I didnt need the stress in the first place!

Christmas starts TODAY! (for me at least, ho ho ho!)

I'm in a good mood today because it is my last day of work (day job) before my three-week Christmas break!!
I've given out the obligatory Christmas cards and biscuits/mince pies in an effort to spread my Christmas cheer!

As you can imagine I'm looking forward to winding-down, spending time with family and friends and dedicating some extended, quality-time to strategising various Television productions for the New Year.

Handbags @ dawn, its FANBOY WARS!!!

Thought i'd update the Blog with an amusing transcript of a simple MSN session between my Brother and I (5 years my junior) which degenerated into a chaotic fanboy bashing session regarding the Nintendo DS vs the Sony Playstation Pocket (PSP).

I apologise in advance for irrationality and immaturity of the following post - not to mention the total disregard for any basic spelling and gramatical accuracy.

But you know what it's like when Fanboys collide...grade-schoolers suddenly look all the more scholarly !

In the Nintendo corner is me, Jon W
In the Sony corner, my Brother WildBomber

Enjoy!

MP3 and MPEG4 Player for the Nintendo DS & GBA

Nintendo of Japan have announced the MP3 MPEG4 player for the DS and GBA, it seems to work by allowing an SD card, to be inserted into the player with your files on, these files can then be played out on the GBA SP /DS.

To me this seems like a great way to counter the competition of the PSP (Playstation Portable). One of the major criticisms from the Sony faithful of the Nintendo DS is its inability to multi-function as an MP3 and portable movie player, which of course the PSP can do out of the box.

However the PSP relies on Sony memory sticks for removable media storage, where the Nintendo accessory relies on SD cards.

A 1gig Sony memory stick will set you back around £529 where in comparison a 1gig SD card will only set you back around £45 to £60 quid!!!!

Seems like Nintendo-handheld fanboys have got the upper hand.... for now!
The Nintendo handheld media player is due for release in Japan Feb 2005 and Europe/US shortly after.

Is Peerguardian enough to counter the latest MPAA threat?

Apparently Hollywood, or rather the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have launched 100 copyright infringement suits to make an example out of a new U.S. film industry initiative that will target individual file-swappers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4018755.stm
The defendants are only described as operators of servers supporting BitTorrent and the MPAA will not let the cat out of the bag as to their identity. This means they could be targeting ANYONE - I know scores of people who use Bit Torrent on a day to day basis to download all manner of files.

This has got me thinking about PeerGuardian - the software that many torrent users use to mask their IP addresses from known MPAA / RIAA and media sources who snoop on download activity to instigate litigation. Peerguardian keeps a log of the known IP addresses 'sources' and much like a firewall, blocks any connection attempt.

Although the Blocked IP address list is meant to be updated regularly (the software searches for these updates periodically) when was the last time any of us actually had an update?? My last update must have been months ago - forcing an update just tells me that my list is already, erm, up-to-date. If the MPAA and RIAA (not that I have anything to hide!) is stepping up their game then you would have at least expected a significant update to counter the threat.

Which brings me to the question - to what extent can P2P downloaders rely on Peerguardian to protect them from any (either warranted or unwarranted) litigation?

Peerguardian is not 100% foolproof  - use it if you will but keep a cautious mind when doing so.
Or better yet, avoid 'pirating' at all, they might just get you in the end.....

Peerguardian can be downloaded (free) from: http://www.methlabs.org/

Cant believe Christmas is pretty-much next week!
Well at least I've got a full three weeks off work to look forward (last day tomorrow!!!)

Just trying to get through the last minute gift buying right now, as well as contemplating braving the bound-to-be hellish conditions of Sainsburys for some food and booze stock-up this weekend.

I am STILL waiting for that Gamecube to be delivered from Tesco.com - although they claim it was dispatched days ago.
I'm also waiting for my Mum's gift to arrive via a courier who seems to be incapable of finding my address. After a previously incompetent "non-attempt" at delivery the idiots sent the item back without consulting me which forced me to re-order.

My patience is wearing thin - they'd better not screw me over!

Ho-Ho-Oh-No!

I'm blogging from work for the first time via the e-mail publishing facility - so here's a random thought (yes I AM bored)....

I'm really, REALLY behind on my Christmas organisation this year. I've still got shitloads of shopping to do and am suffering from buyer's-block. I've no idea what to buy people - particularly my parents.

(Suggestions would be appreciated!!!!!)

I'm aiming to get it all done by this weekend though - even if it kills me - I haven't even wrote out any cards yet - I'm so bad!

Nintendo DS's so plentiful on ebay??!!!

Anyone who's into gaming and wants a Nintendo DS handheld for Christmas knows that they've a greater chance of finding Tupac Shakur alive, well, and living in Cuba! These things are so scarce they are like golddust!


Toy shops and electricals all over the USA and Japan are sold out of Nintendo's initial measly shipment, and even my Dad is having a hard time finding my little brother one in time for xmas day.

So where can the most desperate of Nintendo fanboys get hold of a unit? Why from
e-bay of course!, and at what appears as a most decent price?

Take this auction for example:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62054&item=8153580134&rd=1&ssPageName=WD2V

You may wonder just HOW Nintendo DS's seem to be so plentiful on everyone's favourite auction site - well a closer look at the auction details reveal what seems to be quite a widespread SCAM, duping the most eager Nintendo faithful - and that what's being sold is actually a PICTURE of a Nintendo DS!

As I type this Blog entry the current bid stands at £45!! With the bidder probably feeling quite smug about being on the verge of a major bargain!
These DS's retail at around £150 but i'm unsure of how much the PICTURES go for!!

But, hey! - At least shipping is free worldwide! LOL!

Me, the Consumer (1) , Tesco (Nil) !!!

Not only a personal triumph but a triumph for the little guy today! Let this be a lesson to those stinking large and greedy corporations out there always trying to screw-over the consumer.

In late November Tesco.com had on sale (For several days) a Nintendo Gamecube console bundled with Pokemon Coliseum for £35! Of course I bought one, to give out as an xmas gift as I already own a cube. I even used a £5 online coupon bringing the final price to an unbelievable £30!


Anyway - the order was confirmed, card was charged and an email confirmation with estimated shipping date sent to me. Then a day later tesco cancelled my order, refunded my card and sent me an email saying it could not get the product from its supplier. A quick check on Tescos website confirmed that this was a LIE as the product was still and orders still being taken, only difference being the price was now £115!
I called up tesco right away and they refused to honour my order and original price - contradicting themselves by saying it was indeed a pricing error and under the terms and conditions of their site, were not liable to provide me with the product.

To cut a long story short, I contacted watchdog and included screen prints of the original price on tescos website, email confirmations as well as a 60min audio CD of my telephone conversations with tesco.com staff (thanks to my trusty Sony Ericsson K700i) who continually contradicted themselves when explaining why my order was cancelled.

Low and behold, Watchdog reported the item with a follow-up from tesco saying that they WOULD indeed provide the product at the original price, and today I got email confirmation of my Gamecube having dispatched!


Keep fighting for those consumer rights y'all!!!!

The Playstation Pocket (PSP) vs The Innocence of Gaming

Last Sunday saw the release of the highly anticipated Playstation Portable (PSP) handheld games console in Japan. This being an obvious, if not somewhat arrogant attempt by Sony to usurp Nintendo's monopolising stranglehold on the handheld gaming market.
Now most who know me know that I'm a Nintendo fanboy all the way - sure I own/have access to other gaming consoles (PS2 / Xbox / Dreamcast) but I grew up with the Nintendo name which to me has always stood Synonymous with quality, excitement and fun. Attributes which console gaming used to be about before it turned dark, too adult and lost its innocence.
I shed a tear when I look back at the good old days when everyone owned a SNES and Nintendo stood king of the hill in terms of their market dominance.
How those days have changed! - These days its seems the Playstation2 reigns supreme, and Nintendo's reputation has been relegated to ridicule because of its wholesome, family (or kiddie as some Sony fanboys call it) orientated image.
It seems that the mainstream gamer is no longer interested in Nintendo's innovative and exciting franchises but would rather have endless upon unless redundant sequels to a wealth of mediocre Playstation simply because they are 'more adult'.

Gone is the dominance of innocence and charm from the Nintendo era. These days a good game is considered one not where you join in simultaneously with three other pals, but play alone gunning down prostitutes (only after you sleep with them of course).
To me, the fantasy and purity of gaming as reminisced in nostalgic films such as The Wizard has been completely tarnished, largely thanks to Sony's Playstation.

Regardless of the current status of the full-format console scene, Nintendo continued to rule in one area - an area where up until Sunday they held near 100% of market share - that being the Handheld market, namely with its variation of Gameboy products.
It is on this platform where the innocence of gaming continued to flourish - where men/boys need not feel insecure about controlling Italian Plumbers, or Cartoon Hedgehogs - where sex death and violence do not dominate.

Nintendo (in Japan and the US) released the latest in their handheld line, the DS - a dual touch-screen, voice recognition, wifi enabled device that was to sit alongside the GBA and Gamecube as a third range device. But then Sony go and release the PSP!

To be perfectly honest with you, i'm in two minds about the PSP.
While Nintendo aimed to revolutionise the way we control games with the DS, Sony aimed to create a powerhouse. And a powerhouse the PSP certainly is - its screen is much larger and wider than the DS screen, graphics sharper (on par with PS2 while DS is on par with N64) and colours more vibrant. More over it serves as a multimedia device that views Jpeg photos, plays MP3s and Movies on a Mini-DVD based prepriority format. Sony describe it as the "Walkman of the 21st Century" and its hard NOT to be impressed with its specs - as a Techie, one half my mind is certainly intrigued....

...then again the other half of me hates the damn thing and wants it to fail. I mean the whole device smacks of arrogance. The Gameboy has (over the years) seen-off the (Then) more powerful Atari Lynx, Sega Gamegear, PC Engine GT, Neo Geo Pocket Colour and Bandai Wonderswan. What makes Sony think they can come along with a mere powerhouse (without a thought to revitalising any aspect of gaming) and steal Nintendo' s near 15 year market with such ease while also stealing thunder from Apple iPods, PDAs and Portable DVD Players??
Unfortunately this isn't as unfeasible as it seems - there are many gamers out there who highly anticipate the PSP simply because of its Playstation branding. Forget about the fact that it has a pathetic 2 hour battery life, the discs skip/jog and freeze the machine and that you are forced to spend at least £30 (min) on a Sony memory stick for the privilege of saving a game!
Nope - these Sony fanboys now represent the mass market, the mainstream and in a worse case scenario this thing could overtake the Gameboy - that is if Nintendo follow past mistakes and don't play their cards right.

I urge you all, if you care about gaming at all, to give the DS a chance - once again the ever-innovative Nintendo (which 90% of the industry's evolution is attributed to) have gone all out to envision and creative something that will revolutionise the way we interact with games. It is a so much more carefully thought out device than the PSP, which ultimately is nothing more than a beefed up GBA. The industry needs vitality - but if Nintendo by some miracle are bullied out of their handheld market-share you can pretty much bet they will do a Sega and pull out of the hardware race.
And that, my friends would truly be the day true gaming innovation, or more importantly INNOCENCE will whither away and die due to the Playstation's dull mainstream sterility.

and if that day comes (which it probably wont), I will never play video games again.

2Pac - Loyal to the Game

Well, today saw the release of the late tupac Shakur's latest posthumous album, Loyal to the Game.
Anyone who knows me will know I am a massive 2pac fan - I had crazy respect for the man and what he stood for (Highlighting the REAL social/political issues that affected the Black community while promoting Upliftment).
However this will be the first 2pac album that I WONT purchase. Why do you ask? Because Afeni Shakur (Tupac's mother who manages his estate) has decided to alienate Pac's core audience and bring in Eminem to executive produce the album in an effort to dilute Pac's words in order to target a slim shady audience of 10-14 year old white suburban MTV TRL viewers.
Okay so some might like Eminem's beats on the album, but me, I find them sterile and repetitive . Not only do they sound wack, but Em had the cheek to slow down Pac's vocals to meet his lousy beats - piss poor production if you ask me.

Em has brought on the Shady Aftermath crew on this LP - they feature so prominantly that one might wonder whether this be a shady production featuring 2pac rather than the other way round.
On the record are the likes of 50 Cent, Obie Trice and the rest of G Unit - with their usual Coonish antics that set the black race back another 30 years each time they open their dumb mouths. The nonsense that these "artists" promotes has no place on a tupac record. They dont stand for what Pac stood for and they certainly would not be "down with Pac" if Pac was alive.

Eminem has abused his position on this album as exec producer to shamelessly promote his label's roster. Eminem should NOT have produced this album, someone who knew and understood Pac should have.
Would the man who wrote uplifting tracks for Black women such as 'Keep Your Head Up' and 'Brenda's Got A Baby' really want his work produced by a white man who on several early recordings called Black Women "Nigger Bitches"??!

If that wasnt insult enough, Eminem (though the wonders of digital editing) has digitally manipulated Pacs voice to say things that he would never have said!
On this album we get to hear Pac say "G Unit in the Motherfucking house" and "My Nigga (thats right NIGGA) Em on the Boards!"

ALL THIS PROJECT IS, IS EMIMEM'S FANTASY TO LEGITIMISE HIS WRONGFUL POSITION WITHIN HIPHOP HISTORY BY STANDING ALONGSIDE PAC. It is a selfish effort and a disrespectful tarnishing of a talented mans legacy.

If you are a fan of Tupac then BOYCOTT THIS ALBUM!!!!
If you MUST listen to it then DOWNLOAD IT www.ircspy.com should help you find the Mp3s.

DO NOT HELP LINE THE POCKETS OF MARSHALL MATHERS

This is my first Blog post, its late and im tired - I'm so furious about this issue its hard to bring my thoughts out in a rational manner.
I'll sleep on it and follow up tomorrow.

But for now check out www.freetupac.com for further details as to why this Tupac album is just plain WRONG and should be boycotted.