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VGMaps Social Board / Doctor Who fans, here's a preview for the upcoming Christmas Special (SPOILERS)

« on: December 07, 2006, 08:35:46 pm »

Be warned, only Doctor Who fans will appreciated the awesomeness of seeing the TARDIS flying down a highway with the Doctor steering it using strings



The Runaway Bride Doctor Who Xmas Special - Preview



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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VGMaps Social Board / Experimental movie: The Cube (by Jim Henson)

« on: November 22, 2006, 07:42:58 pm »

The following link explains everything, but here's the short version: in 1969, Jim Henson did an experimental television movie called "The Cube". It deals with a man who suddenly finds himself inside a cubic room he cannot seem to be able to leave, while people of all sorts keep coming in and out through hidden doors and panels; as a result, the man becomes increasingly frustrated and dejected. Anything more would spoil it, but just know that it is a fascinating and very cerebral story, and it's now public domain so you don't have to feel guilty for downloading it



The Cube



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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Mapping Tips/Guides / Taking a break from mapping...

« on: November 20, 2006, 07:35:57 pm »

I don't know why, but lately it's become increasingly harder to work up any enthusiasm about mapping. Seriously, no matter which of my project I think of, all I can think of are obstacles that are difficult if not impossible to overcome, and it just feels so tiresome and *boring*. My batteries are drained it seems, so I'm taking a break for a while. Hopefully just a few weeks, but maybe more.



Of course, I'll still hang out around here like usual. You're not getting rid of me so easily



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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VGMaps Social Board / Kiwi! A sad yet beautiful animated short...

« on: November 15, 2006, 08:12:00 pm »

Just take a look to understand what I mean. Personally, I'll have to admit that every time I watch it, I get misty eyes.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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VGMaps Social Board / Happy birthday to me on November 5th!

« on: November 02, 2006, 08:53:29 pm »

Seeing as I won't be home on sunday, I'm making my own birthday thread in advance!



Hitting the big 27 this year, I'll most likely party it out with friends this weekend. Plus, my sister's present is a theater ticket to see "Le Royaume des devins", a puppet theater piece adapted from one of Clive Barker's novel (who also did Hellraiser).



My mom also bought something I had wanted for a long time but always forgot to buy: a water-and-fireproof safe to keep important documents as well as my backup CDs in a safe place in case something happens to my appartment.



As for me, my present to myself was buying all 6 toys from the first wave of the Transformers Classics line: Rodimus, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Astrotrain, Starscream and Megatron. Needless to say, I was quite glad to see all of them on the shelves tonight



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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VGMaps Social Board / RE: Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series (parody)

« on: October 25, 2006, 09:06:23 pm »

I never could stomach any anime series butchered and then shown on Fox Kids or whatever the current name for their Saturday morning block is. However, this series of Yu-Gi-Oh parodies on YouTube made me giggle and even laugh quite a bit. Basically, they've turned each episode into a 4 minutes parody by redoing all the voices and spoofing all the stupid happenings of the real series. The voices are pretty good for something fan-made, and well, it's been a while since I've contributed anything to the social board. Hope it makes some people at least smile Smile



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w71V2E3VC5s&mode=related&search=



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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VGMaps Social Board / This board is too quiet (also, I got food poisoning last night)

« on: October 18, 2006, 06:02:57 am »

I seem to remember the Social Board being more about posters than just random videos and what-not. So I'm posting this thread just because I can, and also in the hope that someone will have an explaination for my condition.



*WARNING, NTO FOR THE FAINT OF HEART*



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Short story is, I hate some Tostitos corn chips with salsa yesterday. Not a whole lot, but a reasonable amount. Afterward however, I began feeling bloated and not quite well, signs I both recognized and dreaded. Well things came to head at around 5 pm where nightmares woke me up and forced me to head to the bathroom in a hurry to expel whatever was shredding my insides. Let's just say that vomit and liquid diarrhea were involved in large quantities, and that despite how unpleasant it felt while my body purged itself, I felt *much* better afterward.



Now, my question concerns the fact that this is the second time in two years where I got food poisoning from eating those damn chips with salsa.  I've eaten those on more than two occasions during that time, but it strikes me as odd that I't get sick twice on the same stuff. Is there anything about corn chips and salsa I should know? Anybody?



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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VGMaps Social Board / Star Trek 40th anniversary tribute

« on: October 16, 2006, 12:17:40 am »

I used to be a big Star Trek fans, but I lost interest in the more recent series. Still, if you have any memory or interest in it, someone did a great montage set to music as a tribute to the franchise's 40th anniversary. It actually moved me.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr_Si2FcB9U



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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Mapping Tips/Guides / How to map with ePSXe?

« on: August 27, 2006, 11:00:36 pm »

This is just a big 'what if' for the moment, but assuming I ever got it into my head to map, say, "Castlevania: Symphony Of the Night" by emulating it with ePSXe, how would I go about doing that? Right now, the emulator in question doesn't seem to feature any screenshot command, making capturing rather long and hard.



I also remember that before the board went under, someone said he was using a program that could dump/log any texture loaded with DirectX, allowing him access to them to help mapping. Does anyone remember who did that, or what he was talking about? I'd appreciate any help you guys/gals could give me



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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Map Gab / Super Castlevania IV (SNES) - Proof of feasibility

« on: August 20, 2006, 07:15:39 pm »

Here are a couple of maps I did today. Like the title indicates, my goal was to see if maps of this game could be done without too much efforts, which was a valid question seeing as I haven't found any on the net yet. As I suspected, the main obstacles is removing the background since it shares many colors with the foreground.



I might keep mapping this someday but for now, these will stand on their own. I'll probably add a map header for final submission too, just so they at least serve some purpose.



Block 1-1(A):





Block 1-1(B):





Block 1-2(A):





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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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Gaming / RE: PS3 vs. Wii (Pc vs. Mac spoof)

« on: August 12, 2006, 04:58:14 pm »

A funny little spoof posted on another board...



PS3 vs. Wii



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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VGMaps Social Board / RPG Character Art (shameless art boasting)

« on: August 02, 2006, 11:07:01 pm »

A good friend of mine has been trying to get me to participate in an RPG game he's preparing. Having a pretty big imagination and being quite the nerd, I would have been prime RPG material as a teen were I to have had the right friends.



In any case, he's asked me to try and draw my character, which I was very reluctant to do because of my atrocious drawing skills but after many sketches, I finally managed to somewhat put on paper what the character looks like in my head.



Taking place in the Rifts universe (I know nothing about it except that it's supposed to be a dark futuristic setting at the start of the game, a bit like Blade Runner). My character is a small time arms dealer who sells small guns and ammos on the streets of the underworld, and explosives too if he's lucky to get his hand on any. He's got enough street smarts to never get caught during his illegal activities and is kinda paranoid, which is why he's still alive today considering that he gets his wares by stealing them from armed gangs or other dealers. His goal is to somehow earn enough money to get off the street and go into more legal activites, although how legal those would be and if he even runs a chance of making it this far are up to debate.



He's kinda tall but very skinny which is a bit hidden by the coat he's wearing, and he keeps his hair bleached and in a punkish style to appear more badass which doesn't really fool anyone (but then again, his clients on average aren't that smart so it does the job).



And for the real artists on the board, be tolerant! I'm still struggling with basic anatomy and proportions, so anything advanced like expressive faces, shading and coloring and stuff like backgrounds and composition are wayyyyy out of my league







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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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Map Gab / Castlevania: Harmony Of Dissonance (GBA)

« on: August 02, 2006, 10:53:10 pm »

I know Zeric claimed this game back on the previous iteration of the board and were he to finish before me, I'd gladly let him have his maps on the site. In the mean time, I've gona back and remapped this game from scratch since my first maps didn't include anything like candles, items and even had the edges of some rooms missing.



Seeing as I have no idea when I'll ever finish these and not wanting anyone to steal my work, you'll have to do with these half-size, color-reduced previews. Note that the red lines make up the grid that I use to align every room in the game, but unfortunately, because of inconsistencies on the part of the map programmers, some horizontal doorways don't align from one room to another (unlike Circle Of The Moon and Aria Of Sorrow).



Entrance A:



http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/6162/hodentranceaha8.png



Marble Corridor A:



http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4303/hodmarblecorridoragc1.png



Room Of Illusion A:



http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8876/hodroomofillusionauh7.png



The Wailing Way A:



http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3199/hodthewailingwayakr3.png



Shrine Of The Apostates A:



http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/3646/hodshrineoftheapostatesazl0.png



Castle Treasury B:



http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/4016/hodcastletreasurybef2.png



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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me

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Map Gab / Bucky O'Hare (NES)

« on: July 27, 2006, 10:35:04 pm »

Okay, so it's late and I've worked 13 hours today, so I'll be brief since my bed is calling to me. I loved this game over a decade ago when I rented it, and I finally got around to map it a little. I've finished two planets this week. Previews for now, hopefully final maps soon.

[LINKS REMOVED]

*EDIT 24/05/12*

I've since completed all the maps and they've been linked at the bottom of the thread.

[-Sonic Adventure 2]

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Mapping Tips/Guides / Maps with unknown authors/rippers worth sharing

« on: July 25, 2006, 10:46:05 pm »

JonLeung, feel free to move this since it didn't really seem to fit any forum in particular.



Anyway, I had a few maps of unknown origin on my hard drive and I thought maybe others had some too that were worth sharing despite not being allowed to be posted on the site without knowing who made them.



-Sonic Adventure 2 (ripped from the game and it shows; it looks extremely clean):





http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4868/sonicadventure2mapsy5.png



-The Neverhood (cool puzzle/adventure game made almost entirely with clay in a cartoony style, worth downloading if you ever find it):





http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/8620/theneverhoodmapbm1.jpg



<-b>Castlevania 64 & Castlevania: Legacy Of Darkness (for the N64, this map is a hand-drawn map of the castle and surrounding areas done by JorgeFuentes; it's strictly supposed to propose an arrangement for the various levels in the games and is thus aesthetic only. I don't mind as I've always found the design for Castlevania really interesting, especially that final staircase):







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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard



B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me