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Fallout 3 licensed soundtrack with Amazon MP3 links

Ben Hollis — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:48:14 +0000

I just finished Fallout 3 last night. Yeah, that’s one of the reasons I haven’t released anything new in a while. One of my favorite parts of the game was the old music they used. I loved the BioShock soundtrack too. Now that I’m done with the game and won’t be listening to Galaxy News Radio anymore, I figured I’d hunt down the individual songs on Amazon MP3 so I can listen to them while I’m playing other games (my favorite is when Halo or Chrono Trigger music plays over another game). As long as I’m doing that, I thought I’d post the links for everyone else, since I didn’t find a list with links to download the songs anywhere online. I got the list itself from Wikipedia’s Fallout 3 page. Unfortunately not all of the songs are available – hopefully they’ll show up in time.

“I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire” – The Ink Spots
“Way Back Home” – Bob Crosby & the Bobcats
“Butcher Pete (Part 1)” – Roy Brown
“Happy Times” (From the Danny Kaye film The Inspector General) – Bob Crosby & the Bobcats
“Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)” – Danny Kaye with The Andrews Sisters
“Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” – Ella Fitzgerald with The Ink Spots
“Anything Goes” – Cole Porter
“Fox Boogie” – Gerhard Trede
“I’m Tickled Pink” – Jack Shaindlin
“Jazzy Interlude” – Billy Munn
“Jolly Days” – Gerhard Trede
“Let’s Go Sunning” – Jack Shaindlin
“A Wonderful Guy” – Tex Beneke
“Rhythm for You” – Eddy Christiani & Frans Poptie
“Swing Doors” – Allan Gray
“Maybe” (Intro song from the original Fallout) – The Ink Spots
“Mighty Mighty Man” – Roy Brown
“Crazy He Calls Me” – Billie Holiday
“Easy Living” – Billie Holiday
“Boogie Man” – Sid Phillips

Update: Amazon added the right version of “Butcher Pete” and I’ve linked it above.

Trouble downloading the new Halo 2 maps from an Xbox 360

Ben Hollis — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:00:51 +0000

The new Blastacular map pack for Halo 2 launched today, and being a huge Halo fan I raced to pick them up. I’m happy to see new content coming out for a game that’s over two years old, and Hang ‘em High (remade as Tombstone) was easily my favorite Halo: CE map. I’m also really glad that Bungie decided not to make the maps Xbox 360 exclusive, a move that would have greatly simplified purchasing and downloading the maps at the expense of fragmenting the player base between Xbox 360 players and original Xbox players.

I chose to download the maps to my Xbox 360 (I love the 720p upsampling), but the purchase process was not particularly smooth. When I tried to buy the maps, I got this message: “Premium purchases are not enabled for this Xbox Live account”. This was a confusing error since I’ve bought plenty of things through Xbox Live Marketplace before without any problem, and I knew I had no parental restrictions in place. My friend Mark figured it out though, and clued me in. Like many Xbox 360 users, we’d created Xbox Live Silver accounts in non-US regions to get access to foreign game demos. This came in really handy back when the Chromehounds demo came out everywhere but in the US. However, for some reason it messed with the backwards-compatibility-mode Xbox downloader. I’m not sure if it’s because the accounts were from a different region, or because they were Silver accounts and the original Xbox has no concept of Silver accounts. Anyway, the solution was to sign in with the Silver account and attempt to purchase the maps. This will fail, but then you can sign in with your regular Gold account and download the maps. Hopefully this fix will let more people enjoy these great maps.

No Xbox Live Arcade Demos – Greasemonkey Script

Ben Hollis — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:49:25 +0000

Last night I hammered out a quick Greasemonkey script (poetically called “No Xbox Live Arcade Demos”) to solve one of my pet peeves in the otherwise awesome Xbox.com website. The problem is that while you can check out the list of games you’ve played, and all your achievements in them, it will also include Xbox Live Arcade demos that you’ve played but not purchased. Since you haven’t purchased them, you can’t earn achievements or gamerscore, so it’s kind of useless to have them in the list. All my script does is go and look for games with “0 of 200″ points – indicating an Arcade game you haven’t played (or a new one, which is a problem but unfortunately that seems to be the best way to find them). As a bonus, the script also removes these games from your “total games” count, and removes their score from your total possible gamerscore. The total gamerscore thing in particular annoyed me, since you’d have to buy every demo to realize that “potential”. The script also works on the “Compare Achievements” page, removing any Arcade games that neither you nor your friend have played from the list. I hope everybody enjoys this!