#oneaday Day 744: Quick Delivery

Rather remarkably, I ordered an Xbox Advanced SCART cable from eBay yesterday and it arrived today. Evidently the seller was feeling some Christmas spirit, because I did leave them a message asking if it was possible to get it sent out before Christmas and that I'd pay more for shipping if necessary, but they just did it, no questions asked. What a fine human being that person is.

Anyway, I'm now fully equipped with OG Xbox and I've spent a fair bit of this evening fiddling with it. I've been playing some Project Gotham and ripping a few CDs for the custom soundtrack feature — the latter was always one of my favourite things about the original Xbox and I was sad when the 360 didn't really latch onto the concept in the same way. There's something wonderful about playing games — mostly driving games, because it always felt faintly sacrilegious to do it with other types of game — with your own music, particularly if you pick tracks that are either completely inappropriate for the game in question, or at least are not the sort of thing you typically hear in that type of game. I was always a fan of playing driving games with dramatic orchestral soundtracks, for example; it made those races seem that much more important.

As I don't have many CDs left these days — a few years back Andie and I both got rid of most of our CDs by sending them to Music Magpie — the discs I'm ripping are all game soundtracks, but that's still going to be fun, I think. I'm picturing racing in Project Gotham to the Corpse Party soundtrack and it's a very appealing prospect. Still a little while to go yet, though!

I've also been making a wishlist of Xbox exclusives (and "better on Xbox" games) to pick up, so there are likely going to be a lot of new acquisitions in the very near future. Some of these exclusives I've never heard of, so I'm looking forward to finding out more about them — particularly if they were things that never got much love back in the day. I've already spotted a fair few intriguing titles like that.

Anyway, I've got a few more CDs to rip before bed, so I'll wish you all a good night. Not long until Christmas now — I hope you all have the opportunity for at least a bit of time off. We all need it!