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Thank you, Atolmazel! Judging from your name, you're a true fan of the series of relevance, which is a good thing in this thread. Thank you, also, for not using a wikipedia page as your only source.

LOLWNDFAWTF! >< Eh... heh... huff... hrm, yeah, I'd... like to see someone trade his golgi apparatus for something... hah, what a deal

I thought F-Zero made it look like it was held high up in the sky. Not because of parallax backgrounds or an illusion of depth, but because of the low-res super fast cars and buildings (which I initially mistook for chipsets and electric pulses) surrounding the mute city track. And the box cover, of course. I know the list in the first post is hard to find unless you know it's around there somewhere, but the first post kinda needs to be that big... sorry.

Everything is nice except the bagpipe that comes in at 00:42, which makes a horrible contrast to the lovely irish whistle. The sample is looping about 10 times per second, and it sounds awfully synthetic, which is a shame. There must have been a better bagpipe patch. Other than that, I love it.

No, we'll leave that to wikipedia. But I'll add in that the picture used comes from Super Metroid.

#126 Ridley Nintendo 1986 Ridley, like Kraid (this is to become a link to Kraid's bio), is one of the recurrent major adversaries in the Metroid series. Shaped like a bony, dragon-like flying beast (this picture taken from Super Metroid), he has headed many high-profile Space Pirates' missions - among them the capturing of the metroid in the beginning of Super Metroid. He is likely one of the highest ranking Space Pirates, believed by some to be the man upstairs himself. He was originally said to be one of the original inhabitants of planet Zebes, one that was then taken in under the Mother Brain's command to become one of the Space Pirates. He has, in one way or another, appeared as a boss in most of the games in the Metroid series. He also cameoes in Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee. Appearances: NES Metroid (1986) SNES Super Metroid (1994) GC Metroid Prime (2002) GBA Metroid Fusion (2002) Metroid: Zero Mission (2004) Sources: the Metroid game manual the Super Metroid game manual the Metroid Database Ridley's Wikipedia page

The following information is likely not completely correct. Enlighten me. #120 Kraid Nintendo 1986 Kraid, like Ridley (this is to become a link to Ridley's bio), is one of the recurrent major adversaries in the Metroid series. Being one of the most powerful Space Pirates, the giant lizard is stationed as the boss of Brinstar in both Metroid and Super Metroid. Between the releases of these two games, Kraid's sprite grew immensely in size, from covering only small part of the screen in Metroid, to becoming likely one of the largest bosses in video game history at the time of realease of Super Metroid (which is where this picture is taken from), where his enormous and spiny body would take up more than 2 entire screens. He would attack Samus by shooting spines through holes in his stomach in both games. Kraid was reportedly scheduled for another come-back in Metroid Prime, but was reduced to a mere cameo role during the game development. He also cameoes in Super Smash Bros. Melee. Appearances: NES Metroid (1986) SNES Super Metroid (1994) GBA Metroid: Zero Mission (2004) Sources: The Metroid game manual The Super Metroid game manual The Metroid Database Kraid's Wikipedia page

Me too, I guess... Maybe 85%, but no less. You want an ending, huh? Hm. I thought the fade out was adequate enough, but ok. I'll work something out. There goes another 5 percent.

Speaking of assfeces... Fixed... Wow. Gotta love jokes about poo.

Don't forget about assturbans, asscalottes and assfezes. Hmm... this all reminds me about that South Park episode with the people who suffered from the reversed polarity syndrome... I am working on my song. Aeth, could you listen to it again and tell me what you think (the new version, which I linked to in the PM I sent you)? Since this is your project, any song that's not good enough for you isn't finished, right? Well... tell me.

Just like us No, but seriously, game manuals are sometimes wrong, too. The metroid manual, for example, clearly states that Samus is a man, but she's a woman even in the game. Maybe it was intentional, that her being a woman was meant to be a surprise at the end of the game, but the manual was wrong, nevertheless. This is why we need people who know what they're talking about, and part of why I'm not writing all of these bios on my own.

Speaking of the website, I still don't know where to find it... can someone pm me a url in case it's not appropriate to post it openly here in this thread? And speaking of PM's, I've updated my song and I think it's finished, or nearly so. I want you to listen to it. I'll send a link to prophet and aetherius, because they seem more in charge than the rest of you, but if anyone else wants to listen, just tell me and I'll pm you too.

I again stress the importance of having more sources and fansite links than wikipedia alone. Use manuals and fansites even if the wikipedia page is extensive and excellent.

If it wasn't for the judges, this is the kind of music we'd have crawling all over the site.

So much for writing stuff in stone.

I'm baaaack! I suggest you check out the RTW WiP I just posted in the WiP forum. tioG, that bio was fine. There was this sentence about the dude's mom that could be rewritten for fluency's sake, but overall, yeah, that's the way you write bios.

Hi... I'm stuck with my old computer this week, I wasn't able to bring it with me to campus, and I can't continue working before I get it back here... I'm aiming for being done before february. I'd like more comments on my song... maybe some help as to how to clean up the sound somewhat... and recommendations on distortion in reason. I couldn't find a distorted sound I liked, but I want to distort the drums somewhat. Also, I'm not too happy with the bass I have right now. Maybe distortion could fix that as well... ?

Most of the covered characters are listed on page 1. I think most of the fighting game characters ARE open, so do your best

Hi assuming I'm still under consideration, here's an update. VGMIX is being stupid so I'm stuck with these yousendit links for now. Save the file on your disk so you won't have to dl it again, I think it'll only work for 10 downloads or something... make sure the coordinator gets a copy. ... Heck, if the first one expires, use this one, instead... That should allow everyone interested one download each. I'm going away for at least a week and a half, but I'll be able to continue when I get back and have the song finished at the end of January. I've been trying to listen to everyone's advice, and now it's all just basically limited by knowledge of the software... This is not finished at all yet... but it's more complete than my last WiP. It's a little loud and stuff... and the ending sucks. The song still has a lot of issues, but I'll fix them... soon. Comments are welcome, of course. Whether I'm in or not.

The original idea was to list every single little appearance for every character, but then came Mario and we realized we could never mention every game he's been in. Recently, I've been thinking about the fact that while the bios won't be updated every so often, the world will. Because of this fact, it's no use trying to list every appearance now, because it's likely to change anyway. I don't think this project will be finished in 3 months anyway, but... If you want, you can mention the fact that he has an appearance in Kingdom Hearts, but not list it below. This depends on how important this appearance is, and how well-known the character is. With some characters, like Captain Falcon, I thought it necessary to mention a few appearances, because a lot of people don't know who he is, despite the fact that he's an important character in game history, or the game that he stars in is an important game in game history. If you want to clarify that "this isn't just some random character, there's a reason he has his own mascot here" even though maybe there isn't Then you should mention somewhere that he, and a lot of other squaresoft characters have cameos in Kingdom Hearts, but if a lot of squaresoft characters DO cameo in Kingdom Hearts, it's gonna be a nag to mention that in every single bio, and we'd be better off mentioning it in Sora's bio instead. This is a difficult question, and I think we'll have to continue discussing it when I get back. Or you could try yourselves while I'm gone. Your opinions are important to me, even though I disagree with you sometimes.

If it's supposed to be roman numerals when written short and arabic numerals when writing the full name, then do it that way. All I want is consistency I'm not really sure what you mean. BTW, I'm going away for at least a week and a half (I need to see the sun before this darkness kills me), and during that time I won't be able to peek in here. Hopefully I'll be able to reply to any posts written Sunday before noon, but I can't promise anything, and then you're on your own. Hope you'll make do without me Good luck!

The more well-known nintendo characters are the ones I'm the most concerned about. I'd like to see some kind of combination, but unless you really want to do it now, I think we can wait with that one for a while and just leave them as is for now. I need to sit down and read them both through thoroughly. Mouser X, your coding proposal sounds pretty complicated. It'd seem like an easier solution would be to have 2 separate, near-identical bios for both pictures. I don't really understand why they put in more than one picture for any of the characters, anyway, but that's how it is.

Yeah, linking the game manuals might be an idea... hm. Well, thanks for the additional info! I'll add the links to the first page. I've been trying to update my Captain Falcon bio. It's better now, but it's still not cool. Btw, watkinzez, I've been having second thoughts about your Samus bio. I remember saying that Mega Man and Mega Man X should have their own separate bios... but that's because they are different characters. As for samus, isn't she really the same person in all of the games? Link is a reincarnated hero, but I'd still want him to have only one bio (which I think can wait) (except for the deku link, which needed a bio of its own for clarity's sake), and... well... I don't really see a reason to let Samus have two bios. She's changed design-wise, but the storyline of all the games are connected, arent't they? Even though the games haven't appeared in the correct order, storywise. And in that case, we'd have to use both images in the same bio, and explain somewhere that the one image is from metroid prime and the other one from super metroid... Besides, it'd be silly to have different appearances lists for the two "versions" of Samus, and it'd be even sillier to have the same appearances list in both bios, because both "versions" can't exist in the same games. Meh. This post is messy. What I'm trying to say is I think it'd be better to have only ONE Samus bio, one that explains 1. the fact that the games haven't appeared in the "correct" order and that missing chapters are being filled in with every new game 2. how all the games are connected, 3. why there are two images and which one originates from which game as well as 4. Samus' past etc. All of this without revealing the entire storyline of the series.

I've tracked down (or, rather, stumbled upon) a website that hosts old game manuals! The site is located at http://vimmslair.com and will hopefully enable some of you to refer to game manuals in addition to the wikipedia pages in the sources list. I'll add the link to the first post as well.

I'm just bumping this before it ends up on the wrong end of page 2.