Bad News for Our Bima Fans

So, yeah. First of all we want to apologize for about 3 weeks of MIA that we had. We do feel bad about it. We're sorry about that.

Secondly, and sadly, we want to say that we're dropping Bima. We don't want to but somehow we have to this in the end. There are reasons that forced us to drop Bima. We had some fun times doing this fan sub and regret none of it. In fact, the only regret we have is the need to stop subbing it. We really hope you guys can understand this. Again we're really sorry about this. If you still interested on Bima, you can grab one from Bima-Anon or Sky Fansub (Fact: We don't know whether they still doing this or not) which will be something we do to watch Bima.

If you were watching our previous release, we want to know how do you like it and some feedback on it. It's will help us much :)

Fact: We (almost certain) will step down from series funsubbing scene until unforeseeable time in the future. We still gonna do fansub but only for something that not have schedule (ie: PV).

That's the TL;DR version.
If you want the long version which include reasons, journey, and challenges that we had, keep reading.

Bima Satria Garuda - 01 (English Sub) - DBX-Sub First Ever Release!

So, here's the link on MediaFire
We can't support Torrent right now, so bear with it, okay?

Download [DBX-Sub]Bima Satria Garuda - 01 (480p)(V1.0).mp4
Download [DBX-Sub]Bima Satria Garuda - 01 (480p)(V2.0).mp4 -Uploaded The Wrong File. Please use V1 for a while- 
Download [DBX-Sub]Bima Satria Garuda - 01 (480p)(V3.0).mp4


TL Note: We didn't include this on the release but we thought it's worth to mention.
- 'Kak' is not restricted to siblings. It can also be used to address anyone older but without significant age gap. 'Senpai' is usually translated as 'kak'
- 'Dek' is similar to 'kak' but used to address someone younger.

Edit: V2 is here! Blame Xortimus for the late release. He messed up the encoding several times. We fix several timing problem, add Still image at the beginning, smoother ads portion, and Kara for OP and ED! 

Edit2: V2 have some unsync audio in the middle due to a mishap on encoder side and missed by QC the first time. V3 is similar with V2 on it's video and sub but has fixed the audio problem. Sorry for that.

Translator: mrbenz
Karaoke: mrbenz (V2.0)
Timer: Darchangel
Editor: Darchangel
Raw Searcher: Xortimus
Encoder: Xortimus (he only need to click several times for this. You lazy bum!)
QC: Mainly Darchangel, but all DBX will be involved.

Disclaimer: We, DBX, are by no means related to the series aside from the English sub. All rights reserved by RCTI and MNC Entertainment. Please support the official release.

[E3 2013] Dead Rising 3 - "Open World Zombie Apocalypse"

Do you like zombies?
Who am I kidding? Everyone LOVE zombies! There's a reason why there are a lot of zombie-themed games, movies, and comic books out there and that reason is not Zombie is hated by people.
And I bet you love zombie too, right?
And possibly you've heard about one of those Zombie game, Dead Rising.

Dead Rising put you in the shoe of non-Zombie in the middle of area filled with zombies. You will reveal the mystery how this zombie outbreak happens. You will meet a lot of other survivors which may or may not useful for you. There are a lot of events too. There are boss battle, meeting survivors, or something that relevant to the story. But beware, all this are time strict which mean if you pass the supposed time, then you miss the event. In a lot of way this could mean 'hello, bad ending.'

And now, Dead Rising is back with Dead Rising 3. This latest installment will give you yet another new character which I can't remember the name. Dead Rising 3 will feature a huge open world area instead of a small like a mall in Dead Rising or some entertainment area in Dead Rising 2.

Say, cheese!

[E3 2013] Bayonetta 2 - "Short Hair Is Fine Too"

Several years ago, a previously unknown game developer, PlatinumGames, deliver what was the most sexy action game and launch the studio to become well known (I, for instance, has become a fan of their games). The game that I'm talking about is none other than "Bayonetta."

With a sexy action witch as the main character, Bayonetta able to become one of the best hack and slash video game in the market back then. Universal critical acclaims from critics raining down on the title praising the characters, story, battle, and the fast pace.

Short hair is fine too!

And finally, after a long wait, we able to see the trailer of the next installment of the series, "Bayonetta 2." Planned to be published by Nintendo, this game is exclusive for Wii-U. Don't hate Nintendo, please, because it was said that Nintendo is the one that offering PlatinumGames to make the sequel. Without them, there probably no "Bayonetta 2" now.

[E3 2013] The Division - "Tom Clancy Goes Online"

As an old timer in the world of video games, Tom Clancy has turn into a huge Intellectual Property (IP) spanning different number of platforms, title, and even genre. Though I doubt Tom Clancy himself still handling these games, the games still looks great and probably one of the biggest Military-themed IP out there.

With so much experience and firm ground to stand, the next installment of Tom Clancy series (other than the new Splinter Cell - Blacklist) will take it to the next level. Prepare yourself for "The Division"! This brand new title from Tom Clancy will be, like they said in the end of the demo, Online | Open World | RPG. Think of it as an MMORPG Shooter. Maybe you will frown thinking about this, but the demo looks great!

In the thickness of FPS games forest, a Third-Person Shooter is really refreshing.

The Division will use their favorite perspective which is Third-Person. This is a good choice considering the number of First Person Shooter out there starts to make me bored. The user interface using those futuristic UI seen on several other Tom Clancy titles such as Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. On the screenshot above you can see all the information you need to know ranging from remaining ammo, health, to other player status floating on the side of your character, not static on the screen like traditional UI. The menu is also in the same holographic manner. It floats around on your wrist. And when you select the menu you want to see, it will pop up in front of your character. Its not just sound cool, but it IS cool. It reminds me of the time I saw Dead Space II's inventory.

[E3 2013] Project Spark - "Let It Spark Your Imagination!"

Do you have an idea to create a game but don't know how to make it?
Do you want to play a game that you made yourself with your friend?

Remember how PS have RPG maker series that focused on creating RPG?
Or maybe LittleBigPlanet series that also on PS3?

Now, we have something bigger than those. Introducing a game where player "create" their own game at let other people play it, "Project Spark"! And by far, this is my favorite demo from day 1.

Make your own world!

Project Spark setting will be on fantasy world. Story? There's no such thing as story yet. Why? Because it's 'you', the player, that will be make the game! Said as Microsoft's answer to Sony's LittleBigPlanet, this Xbox One exclusive game give the freedom to player to create anything! Using Xbox One control mechanism such as Kinect and Smart Glass, player will be able to interact and change the world as they like.

[E3 2013] Plant vs Zombie: Garden Warfare - "Now in 3D!"

Remember a certain game several years ago that possibly bring zombies to the hand of casual gamers?
Yeah, it's 'Plant vs Zombie'!

Now in E3, they showcased a brand new Plant vs Zombie game subtitled "Garden Warfare" as a parody to "Modern Warfare" series. The title is true, however, since this game doesn't play like the original 'Plant vs Zombie.' No sir, it will not be a Tower Defense. Ah, sure, it still have a 'little' trace of tower defense, but that's it. The main game play will be like "Modern Warfare" though looks to me more like "Team Fortress 2" though (I haven't played TF2 btw).

Is this... Is this 3D??!!

 Yeah, it's nothing like the original. But I have to tell you, it's damn interesting! We play as the plants, now have the ability to walk around, to protect the house from zombies. But now, we control individual plant and play with friends to work together against the horde of undead army. We can use special weapons, which seems like other plants that not suited as player avatar, selected from the bottom right of the screen. If player press LB at the situation like above, the plant will throw a 'Chilli Bomb' which will roll for a while, and.......

KABOOM!

[E3 2013] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - "Tactical Espionage Redefined"

Snake is back!
And this time, prettier than ever!
Please welcome Metal Gear Solid V - The Phantom Pain!

Likes it's every predecessor since Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Konami once again push the current available technology to the limit. Who can forget the stunning graphic of Metal Gear Ray on PS2 early days. It's not for several couple years until that level of graphic can be finally surpassed. And Konami answer that with MGS3: Snake Eater. When PS3 come out, I was surprised how beautiful MGS4: Guns of The Patriot is. It's graphic still impressed me when I finally able to play it for the first time last year (no budget to play it early). This is the proof that Konami and Hideo Kojima will never disappoint us with Metal Gear Solid, at least on art, story, and innovation department. And that's the expectation we have for MGS V.

We already heard about MGS: Ground Zeroes. What happen to that? Nothing. Nothing bad happen to it. Ground Zeroes will still released and MGS V will follow probably a year or two later. Using their brand new FOX Engine, the team behind MGS V able to deliver the most stunning graphic video games history ever seen yet. If that's how the final game will be, then I will not exaggerating when I said it is, "The most realistic looking video game" to date.

I will warn you, this is the only screenshot taken from Cinematic (ie. cutscene/movie)

E3 2013 Is Here! Welcome Next Gen Game!

Hey people and fellow gamers!
We are back at the most anticipated time in the year for gamers!
Yup! None other than Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3!
It is one of the biggest gaming event in the world held every year at USA. We have dozens of developers from around the world showcasing their most current and best product and make us gamers drool over those highly anticipated games!

As a warm up, here's the article about PS4
http://benzmark.blogspot.com/2013/06/sony-finally-reveals-playstation-4-and.html

This post will be the gateway for E3 related post on my blog. Whenever new post added, a new link will be added here. This is to make it easier for you to search for the post. I'll try put this post at the top.

Demo Gameplay
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Project Spark
- The Division
- Ryse
- Titanfall
- Dead Rising 3
- Plants vs Zombies - Garden Warfare

Trailer
- Kingdom Hearts 3
- Final Fantasy XV
- Final Fantasy XIII - Lightning's Return
- Bayonetta 2

Click on title to see the post. Unclickable title means the article for that post hasn't been written yet.
The list is in random order and there is no guarantee that I will post article related to that.

This is Benz reporting, see you on the next post!!
AAAAAANNNNNNNNNDDDDDD CUT!!!!!!

Sony Finally Reveals Playstation 4! And Gosh, It's Pretty!

Like every other year, this year E3 is not short of great news and games. The most anticipated news is of course Sony's PS4! It was announced on February but we haven't seen it yet, have we? Using this huge event as the stage, Sony finally step up and give us the look of their Next Generation Video Game Console.

Black and a lot of doff. Pretty!!

A Cardcaptor Sakura Remake?! For Real??!!

So I got this news from my friends.
Not really sure whether this is true or not though.
But hey! They have a magazine photo!

Oh God! Syaoran and Sakura in wedding dress!! I APPROVE THIS!!

News From AFA ID - Anime Festival Asia 2012!!

Hi, guys!
Long time no see. I've been busy with my works and some other things *cough*peacewalker*cough*
I also have less time to put some ISML news here.
And if you didn't know, my HDD is dead :|
A lot of data were gone (but seems salvageable). Thanks God my Anime and manga collections are on external HDD.
IN ANY CASE!

Ever heard of AFA?
If you are not from Asia (especially, South East Asia. To be precise, Singapore) then you probably never heard of it. Hell, even I, a being from Indonesia (just several inch from Singapore) hadn't heard about this until couple of months ago.
AFA stands for Anime Festival Asia. Difference from your common local Anime Event, AFA hosted by pro and even invited original Japanese stars! Yep, it's the real deal, no knock-off star here. It was first hosted in Singapore and starting this year, AFA expand it's wings toward Malaysia and Indonesia. You read it right, IN-DO-NE-SIA!!

My Lappie Was Down, But Now Well Again

Somehow the title looks weird and kinda like old novels' title.
Anyway, I'm so sorry for the lack of update for the last week.
I wasn't able to write down any specific information and updates on International Saimoe and anything else.

The cause of this can be known simply from my post's title.
Yes, for exactly one week my lappie was down.
Not only opening internet, I was simply can't do anything on my Lappie.

The details goes like this.
On Friday night, after I arrived home from my work, I started my lappie.
The start-up was long, but it was expected. My lappie's always work hard and the capacity almost cross the limit. Long start-up is not that foreign to me.
But then, out of a sudden, before she able to finished start-up, I could hear the sound of her fan slow down. This indicated that her engine was down and restarted.
I was surprised, this was never happen before. But, I quietly waited for her to wake up again.
And to my horror, after the initial boot up screen, she didn't show anything ordinary.
I was scared. I scared that I might lose her. The black screen then spew out white text, some of them were command informations.
But, the worst came the last. At the bottom of half-screen list of commands, I saw something that made my heart jumped. "Operating System Not Found."
My head spun, searching for answer. I tried to restart her again and went to setup. I was surprised to see that her internal HDD was not detected.
Seeing that I couldn't do much at that state, I was unwillingly switch off her.
I threw myself to bed, hoped that tomorrow everything would be fine.

Long story short, Nothing much I could do until last Friday.
Somehow the lappie able to start normally when the IT guy on my office turned her on.

But, true enough, even without lappie, I could made few post on my works.
Just like previously. But, since I was quite busy at work, I couldn't do that and relying on lappie instead.

Anyway, the good news was already written.
My lappie is up and well again. Hope I can make a good updates tonight.

This is Benard reporting, see you on the next post!!
AAAAAANNNNNNNNNDDDDDD CUT!!!!!!

Amethyst Round 1 Result Was Like How I Predicted

Like what the title said, the first round of International Saimoe League 2012 Amethyst Period was predictable. Nothing hard was on the match-up.
I'm proudly said that more than 80% of the match were just like I predicted.
Please note that I predict only who win and who lose, not some percentage like in Fantasy Voting on the ISML forum. (PS: I'm not really good at that... And I miss the first round Fantasy Vegas orz)

Anyway, here's the result~

ISML2012 Amethyst Period - Round 1 Result

Our "Tenshi" Is The Winner!! Aquamarine Period Has Ended

 Hi, sorry for the late report...
Since I'm late, probably post will be talking about out-dated info.
Whatever~
The International Saimoe League 2012 Aquamarine Necklace Showdown is over!
And the winner is......
Tachibana Kanade of Angel Beats!

I somehow ended not really liking this image of our Necklace Winner

Aquamarin Is Almost End! ISML 2012 First Necklace Showdown Is Coming!

 Hi, sorry for the late report.
Been busy and all (*making excuse*)
Anyway, FYI International Saimoe League 2012 Aquamarine Period is almost over. But brace yourself, because International Saimoe League 2012 first Necklace Showdown is in the corner peeking at us!!

Brace Your self! Aquamarine Necklace Showdown is Coming!!

If you haven't know already, Necklace Showdown is always held at the end of every period. The purpose? To give a period Necklace to those who are worthy. And the worthy one are the best at the current period. There are rules and etc that have been changed over the year, especially with the introduction of the division system, there need to be a new system for the showdown.
Curious?
Of course you are. But before that, let's see the final ranks for this Aquamarine Period. I won't post the result for bandwidth sake, just the rank. Because Ranks are important for Necklace Showdown.
So, here are the latest ranks for both division.

ISML 2012 Aquamarine Period Final Result

Last Round of ISML Aquamarine Period

 Hello guys!
If you're somehow delicate enough to notice the one writing here is not mr benz but benz, then I must say that you are have absolutely waste you time :| Well, though I should say that I'm happy someone manage to notice... (Well, who wouldn't after I pointed it out like this, no?)
It's still your same old Benz here. See, there's still my name on the bottom of the post. This is just another account that I made for my office usage. It's such a pain to switch profile each time I want to write a post.

Anyway, first I want to apologize for how I unable to write post yesterday. I was literally killing myself last weekend XD Being in the office until 4 AM etc etc etc...
So, I will skip the result and just go to the match-up.

If you're following this International Saimoe League 2012 quite closely, you will know (and additionally from my post's title too) that this is the last round in Aquamarine period. That's right folks, ISML 2012 Aquamarine period is nearing it's end. After this we will have Necklace Showdown which I will explained on the next post. Let's hope tonight/tomorrow I will be able to post it (in fact, I'm itching to write it down).

Enough for the chit-chat.
Match list for today!!

Want to see my comment about this?
Click on read more if you're on the main page.
You're not? Good.
Just move on then!

ISML 2012 - Aquamarine 6

Hi, what's up?
Sorry about this lateness for the post.
Meh, I won't talk much here since I'm at the office right now.
Anyway, at first I thought I will skip one match to comment.
But, when  I saw some of the match, I really couldn't argue that I really need to write this.

But, before we move to the match, what about we peek at the last result first.

Sorry, but currently I'm in no mood to put the standing... :p
So, let's go see the match!
Oh, btw, all my prediction on the matches on Aquamarine 5 are correct. Though I only predict 7 of it, but hey! 100% accuracy! LOL

Aquamarine Round 5 - Bites Your Nails Fella! It's TOO HARD!!

Hello guys!
My last post was around not that long, it feels like yesterday! (It is yesterday, you moron!)

Anyway, new post, new review!
Here the match list for International Saimoe League 2012 Aquamarine Period Round 5.
Fyuh, ISML official name is amazingly long...






We have derby in each division. How will it be?
Let's go into my preview and prediction!
Click 'Read more' if you are on the main page.

ISML 2012 - Aquamarine 3 Result And Standing And Aquamarine 4 Match!

Hello guys!
We meet again in another International Saimoe 2012 related post. Well, as I said before, I want to be  more active this year.
Still, I'm surprised on how 2 weeks of sleeping like normal person do really makes me couldn't sleep late. Last Friday I was up until 4 AM and couldn't wake up until 1 PM. That seems normal. What didn't normal is that I couldn't do much on Saturday. I literally beaten up all day. - -a
And that's, people, is my reason of lateness in doing this post. I'm still sad that I couldn't involved in Featured Match translation because of this....

Anyway!
Let's move to the result of third round of Aquamarine Period!

Well, how was it??
Was it live up to your expectation?
Here are my thought about these....