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Gaming / Have you ever made your own maps?

« on: November 06, 2007, 05:09:55 pm »

To clarify the topic title, I mean made with pencil and paper while casually playing.



After I realized that the in-game mapping system in Kid Icarus sucked (took about 5 seconds) I decided to save my hearts and just make my own map. It worked out pretty well, but drawing grids by hand is pretty difficult. I included the locations of shops, nurses, springs, and other important locations. I also drews arrow to indicate one way passages and walls for split rooms. I didn't bother including centurions because I didn't realize the point of hammers until the third fortress. I then realized that they also sucked.

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Gaming / Starcraft 2

« on: May 19, 2007, 12:44:38 pm »

Yes, it's real.



http://starcraft2.com/

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Gaming / Ikachan

« on: February 23, 2007, 05:54:10 pm »

http://www.tinsanity.net/ikachan/



Ikachan is a short cute little platformer. You play as a squid that somehow ended up in a place in the ocean that... I won't spoil the game. It's quite short. You can expect your first playthrough to be only 1 or 2 hours, and subsequent ones to be much shorter.



And before you ask: Yes, it was made by the same person who made Cave Story.



Also, I call dibs on mapping it.

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VGMaps Social Board / I feel like confusing all of you.

« on: February 19, 2007, 06:22:16 pm »

http://members.cox.net/xlegionx/Triangle%20Puzzle.gif



Figure it out and you get a cookie.

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VGMaps Social Board / Happy Birthday to me!

« on: January 04, 2007, 07:06:20 pm »

As of yesterday (January 3rd) I am 16 years old. This means I can get a driver's license soon so I can add a new item to my list of Ways to Terrorize Innocent Civilians. Joy!



The loot:

A new set of formal clothes

Star Trek: Generations/Insurrection

Zelda: Twilight Princess

Extra Wiimote + Nunchuk

A candy bar



I've only played TP for an hour. I think I've figured out the convuluted trading sequence, so I should be able to leave the stupid town soon. The game seems to be a bit cutscene-heavy, but luckily Ninty was nice enough to let us skip them. I watched my younger brother play for a bit after school today. He's at the first Wolf Link portion and his file is at 10 hours (but I think +7 those are from when he left the Wii on overnight >.> ).

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Gaming / Super Metroid: Impossible

« on: December 27, 2006, 03:35:29 pm »

The title of the hack speaks for itself. My suggestion is that you don't play it unless you're a glutton for punishment or a cheater.



http://www.freewebs.com/saturnsmovies/sneshacks.htm

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Map Gab / Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES)

« on: December 25, 2006, 03:44:21 pm »

Here's a Christmas present for you:



http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3220/stage1groundzerowipzb9.png



It's a WIP of Stage 1. The main layer is done and the other layers are just waiting to go into place.



I won't be mapping Stages 2 or 5 (the mode 7 ones).

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Maps In Progress / Lyle in Cube Sector (PC)

« on: November 10, 2006, 01:54:48 pm »

Crazy Metroid-style platformer: http://www.sitesled.com/members/bogo/lyle.html



I've already have all the rooms mapped out (except the final area). All I need to do now is fix the paralax backgrounds, and do a couple other trival things.



Here's couple maps for you to look at:

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/1425/14ahj2.png

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4497/2afp6.png

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Maps In Progress / Cave Story: Doukutsu Monogatari (PC)

« on: October 16, 2006, 09:45:36 pm »

Awesome Japanese freeware platformer. If you haven't played it yet, you should now.



Linky: http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html



First Cave: http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/9906/firstcaveyw6.png



Migma Village: TODO

Egg Corridor: TODO

Grasstown: TODO

Sand Zone: TODO

Labyrinth: TODO

Waterway: TODO

Egg Corridory 2: TODO

*Place whose name alludes me*: TODO

Plantation: TODO

Last Cave A: TODO

Last Cave B: TODO

Balcony: TODO

Hell: TODO

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Message Board Help / Editing Posts

« on: October 13, 2006, 01:58:31 pm »

I seem to be unable to edit my posts anymore for some strange reason despite the fact I have done so earlier.

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Map Gab / Jetpack (DOS)

« on: October 08, 2006, 09:34:43 pm »

Jetpack is the awesomest DOS game ever. If you want to download it, go here: http://www.adeptsoftware.com/jetpack/



I decided to have each image show 10 levels, considering the fact that the levels are distributed so there is a 'bonus' level every ten levels.



Levels 00-09: http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/9829/levels0009ib3.png



Thanks to DarkWolf for splitting the JETLEV.DAT file into .LVL files.

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VGMaps Social Board / Webcomics

« on: October 05, 2006, 07:19:30 pm »

I'm just wondering what webcomics, if any, you guys read on a regular basis. For the most part, I only check up on the following 2. I do occasionally check out a few others, but this is about it.



-=Pixel=-

http://pixelcomic.net/



A comic about Pixels. Many of the jokes are simply absurd, while others play on the idiosyncrasies of the author's pixel universe. For example:



http://pixelcomic.net/013.shtml

http://pixelcomic.net/154.shtml

http://pixelcomic.net/215.shtml

http://pixelcomic.net/225.shtml



-=The Adventures of Dr. McNinja=-

http://drmcninja.com/



Ninjas are cool. Doctors are cool. Therefore, Dr. McNinja is even cooler. 'Nuff said

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Map Gab / ZZT (DOS)

« on: September 16, 2006, 03:21:47 pm »

ZZT is an old DOS text game released in 1991 by Epic Megagames (now Epic Games). It also had had a sequel, Super ZZT, but nobody cares about it because it sucks. Despite being born the year it was released, I have fond memories of it. I now have the inexplicable urge to map the 4 official worlds starting with The Town of ZZT.



Maps were ripped using the Windows version of Kevedit.



Town: http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1564/townfl1.png

-Labrynth: http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5940/labrynthzl3.png

-Palace: http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/470/palacevl2.png

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