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Author Topic: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !  (Read 6337 times)

lanux128

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Even my 4-year old uses Farr !
« on: December 17, 2007, 12:40 AM »
my son apparently observing my launching habits has used Farr to launch a game that i specifically told him not to play.. i had removed the icons from the desktop & start menu but when i saw him playing the game again, i was curious and my son enlightened me.. he told me that he looked for the 'F' icon in the tray, clicked on it & typed the first three words and the game's exe is on top of list and my son duly clicked on it to start the game.. ;D

on another note, why try not to allow him to play the game is because this game (Re-Volt) upon start-up throws up a language selection dialog each & every time and sometimes my son clicks on the non-English option and the whole interface is garbled! but then that is a rant for another thread..

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Re: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2007, 01:18 AM »
 ;D That's excellent! You can't help but applaud the guy  :Thmbsup:

Oh, and he deserves to play now, IMO :P

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Re: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2007, 01:38 AM »
 :greenclp:

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Re: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2007, 05:15 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D

Fantastic.
That just shows how brilliant farr's interface really is ;)

PS: revolt is damn good game, no kid should be forbidden from playing it!!

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Re: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2007, 06:59 AM »
Or at least buy him a real RC car. Or bash Acclaim for not... oh, wait, they filed for bankruptcy

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Re: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2007, 11:50 AM »

Thats funny and as others said shows the greatness of FARR.

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Re: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2007, 06:25 PM »
after reading all your responses, i overcame my inertia and went poking into the game's install folder and found out that the language strings are in a text file and after some trial-and-error, managed to overwrite all the other language files with English.. now, my son can click on any language but only English is available.. so ladies & gentlemen, i present you..


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Re: Even my 4-year old uses Farr !
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2007, 06:47 PM »
In 2006 Canadian game publisher Throwback Entertainment acquired the license and publishing rights to Re-Volt and has confirmed a next-generation version is on the way

w00t! And I didn't know they made a sequel for the PS2. It seems that after all those years, the game is living a TrackMania-like second youth, with that vibrant community mentioned in the article.