The official site has been updated and the 360 port will include the following (as usual, translations are not 100% correct due to my wavering knowledge of Japanese):

• addition of new routes for every heroine
• new CGs, this is a given since they’re adding new routes
• new opening, new insert song from FES, and six image songs from our heroines
• 1280×720 high definition graphical upgrade from the PC version’s 800×600 CGs

You can listen to a (very) short clip of “fake me” by Kanako Itou on the site if you so desire.

More to come as more news are revealed, stay tuned.

I don’t know who would ever want to talk to me but I’m Chinese, about 5′8″, and I wear glasses. Since that probably doesn’t help since we know all Asians wear glasses, you will probably find me manning the Versant booth (#2 on the map) with Markus and Christian if I’m not currently attending a session or talk somewhere.

After days of worrying over housing, I’ve finally managed to secure a place to settle down here on Hamburg for the rest of my internship term. Bad news is, as the title implies, is that there is no Internet there. I had some plans for blogging a series or two this season but I guess that’s not going to work out.

Well, following my promise of updates from my last post, the website has officially opened with some real content today! :D

One thing to note is that the page actually warns the user about the violent nature of the game (and website, in a way) with an 18+ warning (although there’s nothing disturbing on there right now). On the other hand, the original website over at Nitroplus has no such warning. Is this one of those things that divides console and PC gamers in Japan? Note that Nitroplus does have a warning on its main website although it’s not a “showstopper” that appears upon loading but merely one line of text.

Anyway, I’m extremely pleased to see a “新要素” section as it would mean that they’re going to be introducing some new elements into the game. I always knew they wouldn’t do a disservice to us fans but there was a part of me that still worried that it was just going to be a direct port onto the 360. Another thing that caught my eye was the mention of XboxLIVE in the copyright section. Will this mean that there is going to be an online component to this game? I have no idea as to what kind of online component one can add to a visual novel so I’m probably just over analyzing the damn website due to my overflowing excitement but there you have it.

Every once in a while, someone will come on IRC asking for help setting up his or her project for some homework assignment. Paul and I usually have our hands full here (not that they’re never not full) because the teachers seem to enjoy giving out .class files to the students and it’s not always immediately obvious how to set things up properly with JDT. I hope that this blog entry will streamline the setup process for my fellow students.

Before we get going, make sure you are in the ‘Java’ perspective. You can switch to it by going ‘Window > Open Perspective > Other… > Java’ and then clicking ‘OK’.

Now, the first thing you have to do in Eclipse before you start hacking on your Java files is to create a Java project. I too had difficulties accepting this back when I started using Eclipse in 2005 for my own homework assignments. For those of you that are reading this, well, it’s time to accept it too and just get over it, I really don’t know what else to say. :O I got over it and so can you!

To create a new ‘Java Project’, you should go ‘File > New > Java Project’ and then click the ‘Next’ button. Enter in a name for your project and then click the ‘Finish’ button, the defaults shall suffice.

Now I have my fancy ‘StackAssignment’ project in my ‘Package Explorer’ view!

Alright, let’s start writing that stack implementation right away then. Select the ’src’ folder in the ‘Package Explorer’, and then go ‘File > New > Class’. Type in a name for your stack implementation and then click ‘Finish’.

Okay, now we have an editor open. Let’s start coding then! Since our teacher told us to implement his Stack interface, let’s get right to it, shall we?

Woah, what’s this? “Stack cannot be resolved to a type”? It seems I can’t compile my code. What’s a “type” anyway? I don’t think I had this problem when I was using ‘javac’ on the command line. Hm, could this be because the teacher’s Stack.class file isn’t in my project? Let’s try pasting it into the project then!

Well, it’s there now but it doesn’t seem to be taking effect. I still see that nasty red X mark on my beautiful StackImpl.java file! :( Why isn’t the compiler picking it up? The problem here is that the Stack.class file is not in this project’s Java classpath. If the term Java classpath doesn’t make any sense to you, now would be a good time to ask your teacher. It’s okay, I’ll wait.

Or I won’t, because we will now fast forward to five minutes before the assignment is due so I’ll quickly explain how to add the Stack.class file to your project’s classpath so our assignment starts compiling properly. Select your project and then right-click (or left-click where applicable for the left-handed mouse users out there) on it, and select ‘Properties’ at the bottom. Go to ‘Java Build Path > Libraries > Add Class Folder…’.

I’d suggest clicking the ‘Create New Folder…’ button and entering in a name of your choice.

Click ‘OK’ to close the dialog and then ‘OK’ again to close the properties dialog. You should now see that the ‘Package Explorer’ view has been updated with our latest changes. Drag your class files and then drop it into your created class folder.

Notice now that the “Stack cannot be resolved to a type” error has now disappeared! In its place, we are now told to implement the methods that our teacher told us to implement.

Alright, let’s do this!

Well, not really, since I can’t do your homework for you. I’m a student too, so I know how it feels. ;)

Before I sign off, I’ll do a plug here for Wayne and encourage both teachers and students to take a gander at the IDE4EDU project. Thanks for reading and good luck with those assignments.