I took a course all about Kurosawa in my last year of university.



Seven Samurai is one of the big ones.  Rashomon is fairly well-known.



I'm surprised at Revned's grasp of films.  I did, however, see Caligari.

You mean Rumble Pak (no "c"), and while it sounds like you know which game it is, this is a quiz about a specific character.

I'll admit 2 is an awkward one, but it's not Donkey Kong.



I've edited the post to show who's the first to get the right answer.

Actually it IS Crono, but the game is Chrono Trigger.



I've always wondered if people are blind when they do things like misspell things or confuse Roman numerals and numbers.  But then again I'm probably a visual person and they are textual and remember what they read, not what they see.

[Inty: Error]

1. He's not mistaken, but insists that he is.

Inty: Error, from Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link.  He simply stands in a house and says "I am Error."



2. He wasn't published by Nintendo at first, but became a boss character in a Nintendo game.  Now he's a good guy again, or at least when he was on TV, with a slightly different name.

Inty: Lolo / Lololo / Fololo, of the Adventure Of Lolo & Kirby series



3. This Koopaling's airship has no propellors.

Revned: Wendy O. Koopa, from Super Mario Bros. 3



4. In the very first mainstream console game to feature force feedback, a special way of defeating it resulted in the largest vibration possible in the game.

Inty: Mechbeth, who is diverted into an arms factory, or some other explosive building, from planet Macbeth in Star Fox 64



5. What is the name of the character who reports no problems at the beginning of the blatantly-named sixth area of a game?

Inty: Caiman, from "Area 6" of Star Fox 64



6. What is the name of Miyamoto's dog, both in real life and in a game?

Inty: Pik, as seen in Nintendogs, and Pikmin was named after it



7. There are actually more than 386 different species of Pok?mon.  Name at least three Pok?mon that are not (or are not yet) numbered.

Inty: Bonsly, Munchlax, Lucario, various Japanese ones, from the most recent Pok?mon games and movies, also technically acceptable: the "glitch Pok?mon": Missingno. and



8. Adult import model Francine Dee has this creature tattooed near her nether regions.

bustin98: Mew, the original "secret Pok?mon"



9. Din is to Chattur'gha as Farore is to Xel'lotath and as Nayru is to?

Revned: Ulyaoth, from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - other names refer to Zelda goddesses/Oracles and the other Eternal Darkness "Ancients", corresponding by colour



10. This Hunter's name is half of the North American title of another Nintendo-published game for the same system.

Inty: Trace, from Metroid Prime: Hunters and the other game is Trace Memory, which has other names in other regions



No contest here.  Inty got 7/10.

Well, they found you.  One per line.  Tsk tsk tsk.



Now you're going to tell me that you probably spell "Game Boy" as one word, do you?  I really hate that.

I play female characters in fighting games.  Probably because the game designers and game artists are mostly male, as would be gamers of this genre, they tend to make them leggy.  This usually means longer-reaching (and often impressive) kicks.  They also tend to be agile, faster, and more aerial, which helps since I tend to be offensive in fighting games.  I'm not very good at even blocking (don't even ask me to try parrying), so thankfully they're typically smaller (in certain respects) or skinnier.



I don't identify with any of them enough to choose their name as my own, though, but that's just me.

If Terra is a Final Fantasy VI reference (the "Esper" part seems to confirm that), plus names that end in "a" tending to be feminine, does anyone ever think that you're a female?



There is/was a guy on GameFAQs called Celda.  (His name had nothing to do with Zelda: Wind Waker...I remember when Wind Waker's cel-dhaded style was revealed and the whole controversy erupted, he stepped into the conversation and I jokingly said, "hey, it's The Legend Of Celda", deliberately poking fun at his name.  I don't know what made him name himself that since it predated Wind Waker by quite a bit, but my own usage of that term was the first I heard of it before it became somewhat widespread.)  Anyway, they all thought Celda was a girl.

I hope the regulars aren't too bitter that they don't come back.  I know Revned signed up but hasn't said much other than that he didn't like Inty.  Understandable, he was one of the top posters (the others being mephea and myself).  mephea hasn't been posting much lately so maybe she doesn't know yet but Grizzly said he was having login issues.



Is the ".de" extension for email addresses not allowed or something?  He said it had to do with his email.

Then I'll throw in my vote for dynamic sigs, if it's not too difficult.



My concern is not so much about whether sigs are dynamic, but how big they are.  Especially if we allow for image sigs.  I hate it when a sig image is larger than the post.  You wouldn't write a letter and sign it with a signature larger than the whole letter, would you?



Of course, images relates to items, which is another series of issues altogether.  I like the idea of requiring an item for functions like images (it encourages daily posting to earn enough Gold, and also then newbies can't abuse images), but for the regulars already used to them, I may just give them the Images item.  It may not make up for the lost posts but it's something.

I'll believe it when I get used to all the features (including adminny ones) and when the site is a bit more active again.

Don't think I was kidding.  Even if I'm not as pissed as before, even if I know I can look forward to things, I'm not going to forget what happened and I still hold you at least somewhat responsible.  I still keep you as a coder because I feel that you owe me, not just because of your good intentions.

As in, periodically changing?



BTW, I didn't make today's poll.  I think Final Fantasy VII is overrated, though I probably would put it on the poll, but I'd definitely use "VII" and not "7".  Also, I'd put the period in "Bros." and fully write out "The Legend Of Zelda".  And it's "Chrono", not "Crono".

The date is misleading, what happened mostly took place yesterday, at least in my part of the world.



Since Grizzly asked what had happened, I will go through this once more.  The regulars have already heard what happened, or at least hints of what might have, so I think the best way will be to just lay it all out.



Now one thing I want you to know is that I think I've been harsh enough to Inty for all of us.  What still hasn't been said, if anything, is likely to come from me.  I don't need anyone hating on Inty in any topic.  Any vents about the loss of old topics we'll keep in this topic if anyone still needs to.  It's such a downer, which is why I don't need to hear about it everywhere, even if I'm the one doing the most complaining around here.  Giving Inty the benefit of the doubt, I think I could be to blame as well, in a certain way.  And I apologize for calling him a "saboteur" because he has given us the current forums, even if he has broken the last two that he has given us.



Anyway, Inty, who has been the sole coder of the last two iterations of the forums, has the Easter week off.  So he thought he'd fix up the boards.  I wanted him to fix the EXP (which seemed to be working again, but increased every day, instead of every day with posts - a key difference) and the annoying red block beneath everyone's user info on large posts.  He confessed to me that punBB (or whatever those forums were based on) confused him and that he was sure he could transfer everything (users and posts) to the GameFAQS++ code, which is what the current forums are based on.  He's more comfortable with this code, meaning that if I keep him around as my forums coder, we could see more and better features if we wanted them.



Now here I am, trying to find out why my host is so slow getting back to me about a hosting plan upgrade, which is the key obstacle in my enormous maps backlog, while trying to deal with a number of other real-life issues less related to VGMaps.com, including preparations to go to E3 (you heard me, I got approved).  The last thing I needed was one more thing to worry about.  My gut instinct said NO.  I really should've trusted it.  Unfortunately, I know that Inty isn't always available to fix things, so I said yes...on ONE CONDITION...that users and posts would be kept intact.  We know what happened there.



Now Inty would be the one to ask what went wrong if you want the specifics.  Something about how my host's cPanel went down while he was doing some work - unfortunately (though fortunately for Inty's sake), I can confirm that it has expired, and I hope it's not related to my push for a subscription upgrade - and/or how the character set isn't recognized by something or  other and so the conversion process totally messed up.



I've already kicked Inty for not having a backup.  I'm also kicking myself for never having learned how to properly back up the forums.  I had always assumed that all the forums were all locally stored together in the www.vgmaps.com/forums folder, and that was what I periodically copied to my hard drive.  I really don't get why it's not all there, or why I never noticed that the files were small and didn't change (except for the avatars which I did salvage) but nonetheless, Inty is going to teach me where the actual user data and posts of the forums are, so that I can make periodic and proper backups myself, i.e., as long as I am around to maintain VGMaps.com itself, the forums should also be intact.



All that I could say to Inty has been said...if it was totally his fault, I'd wished that he was actually a paid employee so that I could sue him for damages.  That he was no different from a saboteur (again, I'm sorry for calling him that).  That he was making a fool out of myself and my site.  That it was unprofessional, especially frustrating coming from Inty, one of my largest critics of professionalism.



I don't like how this had to happen during the month of the April Fools' joke (no one really responded to Mega Man Solid X: Guns Of The Mavericks, but this doesn't help matters), or that it is during other VGMaps.com issues.  I really miss certain topics, such as Revned's/TerraEsperZ's team effort on the Zelda Oracle games or Grizzly's/Geminiman's Wily Wars teamwork - and especially saddening is the loss of the SMB3 and MMSX:GOTM topics.  These all captured the essence and usefulness of the forums...while me and TerraEsperZ and bustin98 could bicker about Transformers until the end of time, topics from something specific to that time that actually resulted in an accomplishment can never be restored.



Oh, I'm sure I may edit this post.  Yeah, I was once told I like to be tragic, so this is my last big "dwelling on the past". But essentially, that's the situation, drama and whines and finger-pointing and hair-pulling and all.  Good intentions failed, that's really what it is.



What we have now are new forums, that our coder is more comfortable with.  If not for the inconvenience of the loss of the posts, we'd be absolutely elated right now.  But looking forward, things can only get better.  Sounds preachy, but hey, it's not going to get worse.



Regardless of how much it may have seemed to be Inty's fault, he is still our coder, so you will treat him with enough respect.  Please limit your negative feelings.  If you have to vent, that's what this topic is for - nowhere else, so that we can move forward more positively.

And after Inty shows me how to properly back things up, I'll be doing it myself periodically.  I can guarantee you I was the most pissed of everyone here when they were lost...again...when I only approved the new forums on the very promise that nothing would be lost.  But I shouldn't keep going back there, now should I?



Inty's learned his lesson.  And if you still don't trust him, I hope you'll be happy to know that I'll be doing the backing up as well.