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It has been announced that Dawn Wells -  Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island has passed away. I have added her to the memorial in each of the Gilligan's Island maps. I'm having trouble logging into the Yahoo account so I'm uploading them here.

I noticed that there hasn't been any announcements of how many maps since 10,000 on July 5, 2008.  So I was just wondering how many maps are up as of now after nearly 3 years?

This port of Xevious is from the Turbo Graphx 16 system known as PC Engine in Japan, where it was only released in.


The Japanese writing in the title screen says "Fardraut Densetsu"

This version of Xevious has 2 games to play in it.  Arcade which has the original game, and Fardraut which is a 4 stage game with new enemies and a story line.  I got the Arcade game done.  As far as the Fardraut game goes,  I would appreciate some help finding more hidden objects namely Sol Towers and Special Flags though I found some already.

Here are the raw images, so any of you who might know this game here can show me what's missing.

Stage 1 Area 1 http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2863/st1area1.png
Stage 1 Area 2 http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/8827/st1area2.png
Stage 2 Area 1 http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2641/st2area1.png
Stage 2 Area 2 http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2118/st2area2.png
Stage 2 Area 3 http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7453/st2area3.png
Stage 2 Area 4 http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4308/st2area4.png
Stage 3 Area 1 http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3489/st3area1.png
Stage 3 Area 2 http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/604/st3area2.png
Stage 3 Area 3 http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2010/st3area3.png
Stage 3 Area 4 http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6263/st3area4.png
Stage 3 Area 5 http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7545/st3area5.png
Stage 3 Area 6 http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2589/st3area6.png
Stage 3 Area 7 http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8418/st3area7.png

One of the stages, that I didn't include, is a revisit to areas 7 to 16 of the Arcade mode which is skipped if the obscenely difficult boss at the end of Stage 2 Area 4 is defeated.

What will we do after every game gets mapped?

[Standard screen (4:3)]

Here are the desktop wallpapers of the condor in the arcade game Xevious, seen fully in area 7, in various resolutions to fit your screen.  These are all PNG-Gauntleted.



Sample

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1060/condor3.png" width="320" height="240" alt="User posted image" />





Standard screen (4:3)



640x480

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3408/condor6.png">http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3408/condor6.png



800x600

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3589/condor8.png">http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3589/condor8.png



1024x768

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8468/condor10.png">http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8468/condor10.png



1280x960

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/8456/condor12.png">http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/8456/condor12.png



1600x1200

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2346/condor16.png">http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2346/condor16.png





High definition (16:9)



1600x900

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7199/condorhd16.png">http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7199/condorhd16.png



1920x1080

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9850/condorhd19.png">http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9850/condorhd19.png





Wide screen (8:5)



1280x800

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2729/condorws12.png">http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2729/condorws12.png



1440x900

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5998/condorws14.png">http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5998/condorws14.png



1680x1050

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5274/condorws16.png">http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5274/condorws16.png



1920x1200

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7097/condorws19.png">http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7097/condorws19.png

First let me say I know that someone named Thraxian started a thread on this game over 2 years ago but hasn't been heard since.



Using walk through walls (and over mountains and water), and no random encounter codes, I was able to map the world and some of the surrounding tilesets which will be removed from the submitted version.



Here is the scaled down map.

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9629/doaemapiz0.png">http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9629/doaemapiz0.png



So far, I've done the towns and caves up to Gui Yang.

I mapped this Atari 2600 game and is submitted to Jon Leung.



Here is a scaled down preview of it here.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1969/pitfall2smtk9.png">http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1969/pitfall2smtk9.png

Now under 2,000 away!  Any plans to celebrate this milestone?

You are now under 500 away from getting 900,000 hits.  Congratulations!  Here's to getting 100,000 more for 1,000,000!

Here is yet another port of the arcade classic Xevious.  It will open a new section here.  All are already done, PNGGauntleted, and submitted.



The Atari 7800 is in the generation of consoles with the NES and Sega Master System.



Here is the scaled down version of the background map.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9559/xa78cthge9.png">http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9559/xa78cthge9.png



One weird thing about this version of Xevious is that the water in it is green, looking much like the forest.

I just downloaded and installed the PNGGauntlet.  Before I try it, I want to ask something.  How should I set the PNGOut options?  How is yours set?

I am now mapping this Commodore 64 game.  This is going to be a HUGE map.  It will be about 7000 pixels wide and I don't know how long it will be.  I'm doing this map in sections to be put together later.



Here's what I got so far.  These are scaled down.



Upper part:

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/940/quoupperxv4.png">http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/940/quoupperxv4.png



Lower (or middle) part:

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/315/quolowervy2.png">http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/315/quolowervy2.png



-kk

I'm back into mapping now and this is the game I'm doing now.



Here's what I got so far:



China

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/2391/chinato1.png">http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/2391/chinato1.png



Egypt (train)

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/599/egypt1ge4.png">http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/599/egypt1ge4.png



Egypt (pyramid)

http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/4962/egypt2bx8.png">http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/4962/egypt2bx8.png



Japan

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/3087/japanwy5.png">http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/3087/japanwy5.png



Kazakh

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/1363/kazakhtx9.png">http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/1363/kazakhtx9.png



More to come later.

You are now under 200 hits away from 700,000.  Congratulations on getting this many hits!

I'm letting you know that you are just over 5,000 hits away from 500,000.  That's a half million hits!

I am now mapping all the remaining areas in this game.  These include all the interiors, hidden passages, and the passage to Malkil.  This time, I'll put all the interiors of an area, such as the Town of Piedup, on one map arranged the way the buildings are shown on the main map.  So hopefully,  all will go well here.



Here's what I have so far with much more to do.



Town of Peidup

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6909/peidupingo4.th.png" width="75" height="165" alt="User posted image" />

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6909/peidupingo4.png">http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6909/peidupingo4.png



Castle 1

https://img211.imageshack.us/img211/705/incastle1ka6.th.png" width="59" height="165" alt="User posted image" />

https://img211.imageshack.us/img211/705/incastle1ka6.png">https://img211.imageshack.us/img211/705/incastle1ka6.png



Castle 2 (within main part of interior castle)

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5190/incastle2wa7.th.png" width="125" height="165" alt="User posted image" />

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5190/incastle2wa7.png">http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5190/incastle2wa7.png

I found the Help file for the Digital Pandemic board which this forum uses, that includes the User Level list.



http://www.digitalpandemic.com/wiki/index.php/Help">http://www.digitalpandemic.com/wiki/index.php/Help



Congratulations TerraEsperZ for being the first to reach the "22:Experienced User" level.  I had this posted somewhere else but it's here now.

When I edit my posts with links in them, it keeps adding HTML tags here and there on the links which messes up my post.  Such as "< a href >" at the start of the line.  When I try to re-edit the post, I get a few "< /br >" here and there.  That happened when I edited my "PIGN forum in 2004" post.  Just want to let you know about it.

I found this in the Wayback Machine, unfortunately the threads didn't make the archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040610100712/http://www.pign.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21">http://web.archive.org/web/20040610100712/http://www.pign.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21



Here's a history of Vgmaps.com.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.vgmaps.com">http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.vgmaps.com

For the upcoming 40th anniversary of Star Trek, I'm now taking a shot at mapping this game.  Here's what I have so far of the first planet you beam down on.