Tuesday, October 23, 2012

How to log in to Minecraft with any Username

I spent a while yesterday trying to figure out a simple way to log in to Minecraft in Offline mode with a name other than Player, that anyone could use. I found out that you could use a command line to start Minecraft with all sorts of values tweaked, but no forum or website detailed how to do so in an error free way. After taking an original command line and tweaking the hell out of it, I figured out how to do it. This will work for all Minecraft versions unless the format of the game is changed, which is probably won't be.

If you paste this text in to notepad and save it as a .bat file, when you run that file, Minecraft will open in offline mode with the player name of your choice, simply replace Ebob101 at the end with what ever name you want.

java  -Xincgc -Xmx1024m -cp "%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\minecraft.jar;%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\lwjgl.jar;%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\lwjgl_util.jar;%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\jinput.jar" -Djava.library.path="%APPDATA%\.minecraft\bin\natives" net.minecraft.client.Minecraft Ebob101

This is useful for when Minecraft.net goes down and you want to play on the server your friend just rented with all of your friends. You won't be logged in so the server you join will have to be in Offline mode.
I guess I'll figure out how to do it for Tekkit now.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Teemo is the Best Champion in League of Legends

I've been playing Teemo since he was on free trial last week. I have an excellent build for him and he is my favorite champion in League of Legends. His mushrooms will irritate any pursuers and his blinding dart counters AD carries.
Edit: 4th random game ever below. Some players are bigger jerks than others.
Edit: 8th random game ever below. I am never going to not play this game again.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Borderlands 2 is Cool

I've had a chance to play Borderlands 2 now, and I have to say it's pretty good. I never played the first Borderlands, but I'm good at shooters and RPGs in general, so don't count me out when I say that it is a genuinely challenging and fun game. It's fast paced and well written (if a bit childish at times (most times (all the time))) and while the game has very little story direction and the graphics make everything look jumbled as heck, it adds to the atmosphere in a big way and Pandora is a pretty cool place to be.