Games tutorials

Nintendo 3DS: Make DS and DSi Games Fit Full Screen

contributed by Jimmy Selix on March 27, 2011 under Games

This tech-recipe is for you new Nintendo 3DS owners.  One of the biggest selling points of the 3DS is its backwards compatibility with DS and DSi games.  When you first play a DS game though, you will notice it may not take up the full bottom or top screens. Let’s fix that!

 

Playstation 3: How to reset the display output options after changing video cables

contributed by Jimmy Selix on February 12, 2011 under Games

This recipe is for Playstation 3 owners who change their video output from using the SCART / Component cables to HDMI or vice versa.  I’ve moved my Playstation 3 from HDMI to Component cables and initially could not get the video to display.  Lets fix this!

 

Cityville Hack: How to Grow Crops Instantly

contributed by Rob Rogers on January 4, 2011 under Games

Cityville for Facebook is a social game that allows you to build your own city. Your businesses requires supplies that come from planting crops. As with other games that have crops, higher yielding crops take longer to grow, meaning it can take hours or days before you can harvest them and use them. This hack allows you to grow your crops instantly and harvest them immediately to quickly resupply businesses so that they can earn coins.

 

Xbox 360: Log on to Xbox Live While Appearing Offline

contributed by Rob Rogers on December 14, 2010 under Games

If you don’t want your buddies to know that you’re playing way to much Xbox, or if you don’t want to feel obligated to include them, you can appear offline while being logged onto Xbox Live.

 

Kinect / XBOX 360: How to adjust Kinect angle manually / Redo Tracking Setup

contributed by Jimmy Selix on November 5, 2010 under Games, Uncategorized

This tech-recipe will explain how to adjust the Kinect sensors angle manually and how to go through the Tracking Setup again.  The Kinect sensor has a built-in motor that moves the camera on its base, this tutorial will also explain how to adjust it to optimize its angle for your setup.

 

Gameloft: Mega Tower Assault Cheats and Hacks

contributed by Lê Hoàng on October 28, 2010 under Games

Mega Tower Assault is a famous tower defense game from Gameloft. With this mobile game is very hard to finish a level even when playing in normal mode. This tech-recipe shows you how to cheat the game to add more lives and how to unlock all levels of the game.

 

XBOX 360 Slim: How to configure an Apple Airport Extreme Base to connect to a 360 at 802.11N speeds

contributed by Jimmy Selix on October 8, 2010 under Games, Mac networking

This recipe will explain how to setup your Airport Extreme Base (AEB, 802.11n compatible) to allow your XBOX 360 Slim to connect wireless to it and get N speeds (up to 70Mbps).

 

Sony PSP Go / PSP: How to completely wipe device and memory card and remove PSN ID

contributed by Jimmy Selix on September 20, 2010 under Games

This tech-recipe is for PSP and PSP Go owners who are looking to completely wipe / delete all media, saved games, games, and personal information on your PSP prior to selling or gifting. This includes removing your PSN account login info, deactivating your PSP from your PSN account and the actual formatting of the storage memory and any M2 memory cards you may have too.