Yesterday I wrote all the downloads that I mentioned in the last post on multiple CDs (in fact I also got Jazz Jackrabbit 2: The Secret Files and Abuse).  There was something unique about the way the Blood II CD-Rip was packaged.  I'd never seen anything quite like it before — the file I had downloaded was a 111 MB ZIP, which had about 12 RAR files within it.  There was also an installer, which when executed, unpacked those RAR files.  There are several folders created with hundreds of files (music, sounds, art) in them.  After that, a script is executed which creates Blood II's REZ files out of these folders.  Finally, you get a folder that is 568 MB in size!!  To avoid the trouble of someone having to re-extract it all over again, I wrote the 568 MB folder also on a separate CD.

In the evening yesterday, Kamal and myself played Jazz Jackrabbit 2 in Party Mode (multiplayer), on the same computer.  Jazz 2 has this cool splitscreen mode where two players can play on the same computer using two different sets of keys!  The Treasure Hunt mode (where the person who collects 100 gems first wins) was pretty amazing concept-wise and lots of fun.  I think Kamal emerged the winner in the end, because he won two maps whereas I won one.

I also started playing Blood II: The Chosen.  The game is very well done and playing the full game gives a much better feel than the two-level demo (which started and ended abruptly).  The game has you following a guy called Gideon, you track him through a train station, an art gallery and eventually reach Cabalco's Center for Disease Management (which is where the Blood II Demo starts).  After this, you follow Gideon onto an airship, which is where I am at currently in the game.  With any luck, I should have my computer back today, so I can copy the savegame files and continue my game.

I am right now downloading three files, the Super-high Resolution Teaser Trailer for The Grudge (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, directed by Takashi Shimizu, who is remaking his own Ju-On: The Grudge), and two video clips from Peter Jackson's King Kong Production Diary.

Work on my MIP Phase II Report (I have my MIP II Presentation on 19th) goes on very slowly.

EDIT (15:03): I watched the trailer of The Grudge sometime back.  It is very very creepy!  Also, check out the official site of The Ring Two, it is also very creepy (it takes a while to load because of a 890 KB Flash intro though)!