Dafydd

Ok, I'm done with the first 5 here. http://www.ngst.nu/OCR_Mascot_Bio_Edits_21-30.txt I really, really don't like the X bio. If I felt like I was good enough, I'd rewrite it all, keeping only the overall structure.

Yeah... it's always in the back of my mind, but I need to build up enough guilt to actually come back and do something. If I can break it down into batches of 10 at a time, I think I can handle it without giving up. And it's only 3 of those batches left now. New year's is my deadline, so I need to be done well ahead of that. I'm ok with DK2 switching with MPT (the former being alphabetically previous to the latter as well as chronologically), but a quick search on mobygames says FF7 was released 1997, and chocobo racing and dungeon 2 in 1998 and 1999, like the bio says. Where do you get your release dates? Any chance you read the release date of dungeon 1 as the one for dungeon 2 by mistake? The Saria quote was just a mistake on my part. Good catch.

I think you'll have to wait until it's finished, unfortunately. Who knows how long that is.

Zircon does mm2? This definitely caught my eye. So far, the second half of it doesn't sound all that interesting, especially when the synths just come in. Even though it sounds better than it would have if most people had attempted the same thing, it's nowhere near your best stuff. I'm looking forward to hearing the final version of this though.

Doh. My short-term memory is like a hole through my head. Dammit, I guess I only replaced all the the closers. You mean we don't sort them by system? I don't know, I kinda like the current setup. Like that scientist on stage 2 in Perfect Dark said (+infinite nerd points for quoting a game character): "Accidents will happen... he he he."

Oh noes, I forgot about page 74. Damn. I'll look there first next time. EDIT: Done. I should try to do the next 10 soon, while I have our guidelines fresh in mind I had some things I wanted to ask/point out/comment on though, mostly because I'm too confused to remember what we've previously agreed on, if we have: 1. If it's Super Smash Bros. , shouldn't there be a period mark after each occurence of the word "bros" in any Mario game title? I've added it everywhere now. Also, how do you do the italics if Bros. is the last word in a sentence? I italicized the period mark there as well (adding no second, non-italicized period mark, naturally). 2. Is it "Super Smash Bros. Melee" or "Super Smash Bros.: Melee"? (And what happened to the ^ and ´ atop the e's anyway? ><) 3. Why drop "Classic Gaming" when we've kept the website's name in all the other links we had? Because the dungeon feels sufficiently independent? 4. DMA Design made Lemmings? Lol, I guess a kid who likes to kill insects should be raised extra carefully after all... hahaha 5. If I screw up on quotation marks again, just tell me - no need to specify when or what - I'll just replace all 6. The Lemmings appearance list looks funny now that the sequels are listed as being made earlier than the first game in the series (by the looks of things). Funny as in "huh?". I'm not saying anything should be done about it though. 7. If Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 were released the same year, should they still be listed in their current order since everyone knows that the former was still released earlier that same year?

Hmm. Paint .NET does that too. Thanks though, Mr. Matchbox.

Hit your brother with a stick until he tells you what he did to screw it up.

Here's the next batch. http://www.ngst.nu/OCR_Mascot_Bio_Edits_11-20.txt I think most of the big bugs are gone. I double-checked all the links and italic...-ized (?) some words, changed a booboo where Super Mario Bros 3 was listed to have been released in 1998 (not 1988), added years to some games that didn't have them, fixed minor stuff like missing or double spaces etc. Hopefully there'll be less for you to complain about this time than last, but I'm sure you'll come up with improvements all the same.

That's where I first started out and only found the error page and the one for IT professionals. I got it now though, thanks anyway.

Okey-dokey.

I'm on medication. I guess everyone else is too.

I know I used a program at some point that allowed you to open an image on your computer and it gave you a list of the colors used in the image and how many pixels were using each color. I've forgotten what it was. Does anyone know of a program that does this?

Not because I don't trust you (I do), but I really want to try and participate more. I'm going to go through the rest of Lin's edits and post the next group of 10 whenever I'm done with one, and then ask you what you think. If you already have comments, post them right away. At least I have the first 10 in the correct format, so I can do most of the edits by just making sure the other 40 (41?) are the same format (and check for dead links). About the Darkstalkers, I was thinking the images could be side-by-side like this (an X is an image): XXXXXXX Paragraph Paragraph You think that would work? What would you suggest?

I got the computer back from repairs and windows update is active. It's not reporting any available updates. What are you suggesting I'm doing wrong?

This one looks to be the same as that other one (it was 266 MB). I'll try one of them and see if either works. Thanks! And yes, I was using IE...

Yeah, but that one's called "Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers". I don't really feel like either.

This is madness! I got a laptop back from the repair service after a hard drive crash, and now it's got Windows XP service pack 1 on it. I tried to download service pack 2 but only reached this page:http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/thanks.aspx?ln=en&&thankspage=5 which tells me I need IE5. I have IE6. Wtf? It also tells you you can get it from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=10678 But I can't find the actual service pack 2 there, only a very large number of upgrades for it! I'm in a catch 22 here. Help...

Man, you can tell a game is old when it has a saxophone playing the lead...

Look forward to hearing them. I would have picked it myself if I knew how to make anything but a sound upgrade out of it.

Yeah... well... some of the tracks are finished, and some are nearly finished. Some are sort of metal-ish. The biggest bummer, I think, is that GaMeBoX (who started the project) dropped out. He's been making this game that ended up second place in Microsoft's XNA game contest, so he's running a game development company now... hehehe.

So um. I'm sorry for being so half-hearted about this thing, but - what's left to be done, other than those 50 (now 41?) bios I'm supposed to finalize (with Polo's hawk-eyed helping hand)? Are you done with the other 100, Polo?

Done. Hope I wasn't too late to help.

Wow. The rest of the panel needs to catch up though. Only because Larry's done doesn't mean it's all done (unless he insta-rejected every single one, that is). Maybe now LT has the time to reject some more forum avatars?

Giving it a listen, yeah... either send it to OLR or scrap it.