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VGMaps Social Board / RE: New Transformers Article

« on: April 28, 2006, 09:27:45 am »

I think it's safe to expect the movie designs to be extremely divorced from their toy inspiration since Hasbro has little to no say in the matter.



It's like any movie based on a cartoon, comic or game; the director ultimately does what he wants. If he's a fan of the original material or thinks it will sell better based on recognition, he's go for a more faithful adaptation. Otherwise he'll do what he wants and just slap on the name as an afterthought. Which is what risks happening with the movie.



Now, despite how negative that seemed I'm still eager to see the movie, if only to finally see a truely original take on the Transformers concept, but even if it ends up being a truely rotten film with no redeeming qualities, it won't affect my memories of my enjoyment of the current comics.



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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: New Transformers Article

« on: April 28, 2006, 06:57:00 am »

There might be hope for you yet lad !



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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: New Transformers Article

« on: April 27, 2006, 02:50:04 pm »

Not to sound cynical, but seeing your response to the Neo G1/Redux Astrotrain from the previous board, I would have pegged you as being against anything that went against the old cartoon/comic, and it sounds like the new movie is a complete reimagining of the Transformers concept. Me, I'm really eager to see something *different* for once, which we haven't seen since Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Which is a shame when you consider that the franchise is centered around the idea of *change*.



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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: If you forget the space in "Game Boy" again I'm going to kick you.

« on: April 26, 2006, 01:59:15 pm »

Sooo... murderous rampage intent with foaming mouth aside, how are you this fine day?



But seriously, does anyone feel like listing all the system names as they should be written, including the spaces, capital letters and hyphens? Because despite the inaccuracy of the spelling, Gameboy looks better than Game Boy, which is the only reason why I've always written it like that.



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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: I just made a `Top Posters` page!....

« on: April 26, 2006, 12:23:09 pm »

Well, I'd post more but then work as been piling up lately. The benefit of being a goverment service employee in a satellite office is that when there's no work to do, nobody's around to berate you for browsing the net as you wish.



And since we're hooked up with a simple cable modem instead of being on any sort of goverment network, there's no firewall blocking sites or checking where we're hanging



Anyway, I was planning on writing a small mapping guide soon for GBA games. I just need to put my mind to it and stop mapping long enough to finish it.



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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: Red Dwarf Anyone?

« on: April 25, 2006, 10:41:45 pm »

I live in Quebec, and without cable or a dish, we don't get shit, no matter how good your antenna is. We're lucky if we can get 2 or 3 of the main french channels, so what would be the odds of an American public station broadcasting with enough power to reach us all the way up here?



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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: Red Dwarf Anyone?

« on: April 25, 2006, 10:02:45 pm »

I regret never having seen much of it, aside from a few episodes on PBS back when it was included in the basic cable package. I've always enjoyed witty  british comedies, what little of it I've seen anyway.



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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: Strange Dreams

« on: April 25, 2006, 06:57:48 pm »

Okay, I'll share one which happened two nights ago actually. Now, I've spent the last week or so mapping Metroid Fusion like crazy, and ended up spending almost all my time in Visualboy Advance's Map Browser to try and capture the various layers of the screen and beyond.



Well my dream or should I say, nightmare, was all about those tiles and layers. The dream wasn't about me mapping; it was completely divorced from the context and was just about tiles, colors, transparencies, shifting blocks around and trying to composite rooms together. It was really tiring, and frustrating because it was rather unimaginative as far as my dreams go. If I'm going to remember them, I prefer them to be interesting and full of fascinating images and experiences.



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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: Later guys, college early in the morning...

« on: April 25, 2006, 05:56:05 pm »

Inty Said:

Yeah, i'm so intelligent that i get pushed up years.



Well, that and the British school system is entirely different.

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Tell me about it. A guy from France on another board once told me that in his country, college is between elementary school and high school and last for 4 years, so kids there are between 11 and 15 years old. I remarked to him that I'll never claim with pride to have done 3 years in college while in France



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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: Strange Dreams

« on: April 25, 2006, 05:42:00 pm »

Sorry, but I don't need anyone to interprete my wacked-out dreams. What's significant is usually pretty obvious since I know my psyche very well, and the rest is usually a "guess the reference or inspiration" type of game where I try to determine what in my life resulted in which ethereal abnormality.



Too bad my dream file is written mostly in French or consist mostly of hastily typed notes, or else I might share some of the more bizarre dreams with you guys.



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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: I just made a `Top Posters` page!....

« on: April 25, 2006, 06:53:11 am »

Just noticed the inflated bank account, so thanks



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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 / RE: Metroid Fusion (GBA)

« on: April 24, 2006, 10:32:03 pm »

Update (now with links to previews, which were downsized for Imageshack/prevent stealing):



Main Deck: 99.9%

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/9145/metroidfusionmaindeck5uj.png

(453 kb)



Sector 1 SRX: 99.9%

https://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5126/metroidfusionsector1srx6jd.png

(313 kb)



Sector 2 TRO: 99.9%

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9475/metroidfusionsector2tro7dv.png

(524 kb)



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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 / RE: Metroid Fusion (GBA)

« on: April 24, 2006, 02:30:26 pm »

After thinking about it all day, I'll probably leave it connected like that, since there's the possibility that such a situation might happen again in the future and there might not be room to leave any spacing between then.



The whole problem comes from that damn boss room. It doesn't seem to conform to the rules of all the other rooms so far (where each map 'square' represents a 240 x 160 pixels area). For example, the upper-left door is thicker than normal because the screen scrolls *left* for 1 tile after entering and I've had to add in 1 additional row of tiles at the bottom because it doesn't show in-game (but does in VBA's map browser, my life savior so far). I'm really hoping there aren't too many such cases in the rest of the game.



I remember something equally frustrating happening to the guys who mapped Zero Mission. In several parts of Chozodia, the room would often be larger by 1 tile in every direction so that when assembled, almost all the rooms overlapped with their neighbors by 1 tile.



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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 / RE: Metroid Fusion (GBA)

« on: April 24, 2006, 10:48:35 am »

Well, you managed to echo all my thoughts on the subject. I wonder if we'll ever get the same ease of use that the previous board has for all the features you just mentionned.



As for the change itself, we in French have a great saying: "Qui choisit prend pire" which literally means "Who choses, picks worse".



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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: Game Checklists

« on: April 24, 2006, 10:45:31 am »

Well, I know that I often use GameFAQs to get lists of all the items and secrets for example. I also make sure to play the game through just in case I can find something new. Obscure games don't always have complete FAQs, as I found out with Treasure Master for the NES.



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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