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"Big security on this VT4 delivery = oo"
I bought a sealed copy of the PS3 game Virtua Tennis 4 on eBay. It shipped via USPS. Everything seems fine.
Then I get a notification from eBay that my item has been delivered. At 4:28 am. Um.
It has NOT been delivered to me; apparently eBay's system can't distinguish between a "Delivered to final destination" or whatever and "Delivered to agent" message--because the actual tracking update from USPS was actually "Your item has been tendered to the military in SAN DIEGO, CA 92161 on April 23, 2024 at 4:28 am for final delivery."
Which is worrisome in itself. = o I'm not on a military base. And I'm in WA state, not CA. So, this seems odd. I called USPS, they couldn't figure it out quickly, so they've opened an "urgent" Service Request case and expect to get back to me today, they say.
Also went through eBay's chatbot until I convinced it to have an actual human agent call me. The human agent's first proposed solution was to give the seller a week "to send the correct item." I had to stop them there and make it clear that no, the seller shipped the correct item correctly, it's just that USPS has made an unusual tracking update on the item and YOUR system as misread it as meaning the item has been delivered to me, which is incorrect--it is still in transit. So after repeating that a few times they realized they had to do a little paperwork, and supposedly this is being reported to their back end team or whatever to try to straighten this sort of thing out. : P
Anyway, not every day I'm told that the Military is coming to my door. With Virtua Tennis 4.
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Oh man USPS already called me back as I had just finished writing that first bit! My call to USPS about this ended up getting someone at my local post office involved in tracking it down. According to them, it was just "thrown in the wrong bin" and ended up at a military base--in a different state--instead of...going the right way. So they're working on getting it re-routed. They said they'd never seen this "tendered to military" status either! |
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| | | | I didn't spot a tracking update the next day, which worried me slightly, but today--two days after being incorrectly sent to the military base in another state--somewhat to my surprise its tracking number appeared in my daily USPS Informed Delivery email, and a few hours later it was in my mailbox. No dramatic military stamps on it or anything. |
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| | | | Copying from Blu-Ray disc on jailbroken PS3 with Managunz file manager: 11 files, 3.3 GB. |
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| | | | The paper manual in the game case is extremely slim, basically just showing the controls (PS Move 'ppp'). A notice at the front of the paper manual says to download the "full manual," go to http://dl.sega.com/manuals/PS3/VT4/ -- a server that is not currently responding. |
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| | | RPCS3 currently crashes when starting the game's World Tour Mode--this started two years ago: https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/issues/12892
I got the game's last known working version from https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3-binaries-win/releases?q=0.0.17-12640&expanded=true , set it up in a separate folder, and yep it runs WT fine. : )
Two config things for this version 0.0.17-12640:
- Doesn't seem to have a folder that reads disc games automatically by default; had to pick the folder from "File - Add Games"
- Set "Settings - GUI - Check for updates on startup - No"
This older version doesn't let you pick between Bilinear or Nearest Neighbor for scaling; not sure which it's doing. There's no option to choose fullscreen type--I THINK it's doing borderless though?--or to start fullscreen. (Actually, I'm not sure what setting tells current RPCS3 to start fullscreen, but it is now.)
RPCS3 (in both version) lists lots of screen resolutions under "Supported Resolutions," but these don't necessarily seem to match what is shown officially for the games; VT4 is max 1080i, according to the case, and VF5FS is max 720p, for instance, but RPCS3 lists 1080p as supported for VT4; when I try to run VT4 at 1080p (NOT upscaled!), it actually comes out super-chunky. Hm, maybe I'll submit that as a bug. Okay: https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/issues/15517 |
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