The Coop

I've been pimping EC:CFtDS for years. While the Genesis version is a letdown overall, the Sega CD sequel was better on every front. Better graphics, much better music, rather detailed and copious levels of gore, better controls and gameplay, and lots of extra characters. It's not the best BEZT FIGHTAR EVAR, but it's fun, and trying the find the dozens of different death spots was fun. Oh yeah, and the deaths? Woooooo boy... they're just brutal, sometimes very much so. They make MK II's stuff look tame And just for old time's sake...

Both Rebel Assault games are fully supported with DOSBox .72. Just be sure to set up their sound manually with their setup programs, as letting them auto-detect causes issues.

The potential lack of interest might be because a lot of the established remixers are busy with this or that, and the new folks are a bit sheepish to inquire knowing what's likely expected in terms of quality for this. That's just a guess mind you.

Khan Dancing? Edit: I meant to post this here, but forgot about it. I got a PM from Strider Kyoden a week ago about this person on MySpace. Now, it took me a bit to notice it, but on Game Over's "Cataclysmic Clash", notice it says the name of the MySpace poster, and not Game Over, under the song title. Another musical thief perhaps? http://www.myspace.com/megamanmusical Maybe he was. However, I've also been told that on his site, he now makes the comment that he didn't make the tunes himself. I can't find that comment, but then again, I'm not all that familiar with MySpace's functionings. However, the labels are still there, so I'm sure people are still thinking he did them as they swing by.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousness?

You know, sometimes in a game, you run into a boss that's a pain in the ass for one simple reason... the bastard won't stand still. In the game Blood, there's a large stone gargoyle that you have to face at the end of the first episode (assuming you're playing them in order). Now, it's not just that he takes a lot of hits (though he does), it's mostly because he moves quite quickly out in the open, and the arena you're fighting in consists of a circular set of corridors... which happens to be where you need him to be to get a real chance at hurting him. Out in the open, you can't hit him unless he's chasing you. In the corridors, you can't hit him unless he's chasing you, and he only does so for a short time. While he's chasing you, he'll use one of two attacks. Up close, he slashes you for a nice chunk of damage. From afar, he fires two bluish orbs that do a decent amount of damage. So basically for most of the fight, you're running backwards, trying to lure him into the corridors so that you can hopefully get a few shots off with whatever weapons you have... all while trying like hell to not let him catch up to you. Oh, did I mention that the floor's not even? Yeah, when you go up, it causes you're aim to point down a bit, and vice versa. This makes getting a shot off tougher. Anyway, I've only ever beaten him when he got stuck on the edge of a wall. Then I'd unleash everything I had and hope it was enough. If it weren't for that, I'd probably still be running in big circles, wondering what the other three episodes look like. Oh, and a happy sixth year to this thread

I believe part of the problem comes from the lyrics themselves. They're not bad or anything, but the Japanese style of writing doesn't always come across well when it's translated into English. It's the same when translating English into Japanese... something just seems to get lost. The end result can be hard for some Americans to get into lyrically. It's doubly so when the group's songs get translated, and they turn out to be dripping with lovey-dovey romantic commentary. Some folks just don't want to mosh to how a girl looking into a boy's eyes causes her to melt into a pool of hearts that fill the air with the sweet scent of love as she floats on a passion that's like thousand giddy school yard girls... ya know? Edit: Of course, that's another thing some folks can't get past... the stereotype that Japanese songs are all mushy and love drenched. That simple idea can keep people from even trying the music, whether it's translated or not. Then if they do try listening to a song, and they hear one thing that sounds even remotely mushy to them, it's over. Generalizations take over, the music's ditched.

I thought this thread was going to be about the music from the Chuck Norris movies.

Your evil twin. He posts a lot.

What do Roman Catholic priests have to do with the movie?

You knew it was going to show up eventually...

With four tracks unclaimed, and three possibly in limbo, perhaps you should see about either making a short lived new thread, or moving this one, to Community to do some re-pimping of this. Might stir up some new talent to help put those last four - seven tunes to bed.

And all that would utterly negate the purpose of having a nice, simple site dedicated to the quirks of this place. It would become "The Best of OCR", with a list of members and what they did/said. UnMod.org has something like the latter with their UnMod Wiki, and it was a fun read back when I posted there. But that's an entirely different beast compared to what I'm doing with my site.

I believe that's what the UnMod Awards were for But, beyond things like "shitty judge fgt", "Homophoipce" and possibly "You're opinions of late have been ridiculous" (which I'm beginning to have second thoughts about), OCR Quirks is about things that became regularly used staples around OCR, or things that affected a lot of the site. A quote that struck you or me as funny or insightful isn't a quirk, much like a popular sig isn't (yes, I changed my mind on that). The last thing I need or want is for this thing to turn into a popularity contest, or some "I read this and it was funny"/"Why isn't __________ included?" ordeal. If anyone wants to compile a list of things OCRians have said over the years, I see no reason to do it. I think it would be an entertaining read. But to me, the things in there wouldn't be quirks (unless you included the conversations that lead to my first two examples above).

Why Jon Talbain? I've always been a fan of the werewolf mythos, Darkstalkers is probably my favorite fighting game series, and I've been using my "JT vs Smiley" thing for years. So it seems pretty fitting.

It's not honor, Doulifée, honestly. I just don't like burdening people with my personal setbacks or problems. Posting images is fun, and sigs are great and all, but clogging up someone else's personal site or PC with the stuff that I do for shits and giggles doesn't ring right with me. Even with a generous offers by kind folks like yourself, Maha, and phill, I'd still feel like I'm continually having my fun at the expense of what someone else paid for out of their own pocket, you know? It makes me feel like the friend who's invited over, but who always eats some of the food in the fridge every time they show up. I'm always happy to lend a hand to anyone here when and if I can, but I don't like my needs getting dumped in the laps of others. That may seem prideful or stubborn to some, but that's the way I am... for better or for worse. Edit: Some good news. I managed to find a site that allows image hotlinking. I can't put my site there because it has ads (big ones along the top), but at least I can have my sigs back in action.

Alright. The Quirks are up again, the links are all tested, and I even made a few updates to a couple pages (mostly OCR Hacked). The new Quirks (hopefully permanent) site is... http://coop.herograw.net/ocrquirks/index.html And I'll give that a try, RD. Hopefully he has that bit of the old site archived.

Radical Dreamer- Yeah, I remember that it was on the orange boards, and I can even picture that funky way the site had responses to posts lined up. But I can't for the life of me find that archive. It was around two or three years ago, but it may have been lost. I hope not. phill- I've decided that I'm going to put all the Quirk stuff on the same site as the Nice Work Archive, since like the NWA, it's something for OCR as a whole, and not just my personal usage. As such, it needs to be taken care of first and foremost. As for my personal website, I really don't want to be leeching off of other people's PCs or websites. Back in the days of old, it was really frowned upon to leech off of others. I was guilty of this to a degree for a while with Lightbunny's Comcast setup (he gave me a 30MB mini-site on his account there) until it vanished when LB quit Comcast. Since then, I've done everything I can to not leech off of others, as it always felt like having my fun on someone else's bill. So while I do appreciate the offer, I'm afraid I'll have to decline it. Thanks nonetheless

Necrobump. After loosing my Geocities Plus account, I've moved the Quirks thread to a new host. Click my sig to go there. I also went through and updated every link in the various Quirks pages, and every last one of them works now. No more dead links. And I still haven't found that thread where "Your opinions of late have been ridiculous" came about. Edit: Nevermind. I'm without a site again. The place that seemed so handy was basically useless to me, which I found out about only after I'd uploaded everything. Sorry folks, but the quirks and such are gone again.

Hmmm... let's see if I can keep this short. I've never had a musical lesson in my life, and I can't read or write sheet music. Instead, when I was younger, I was given a half-sized keys keyboard because of (if you can believe it) the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I saw that seen with the keyboard, and it struck up an interest in me. So, a year or so later, I was given a Yamaha Portasound PSS-470, and began playing on it. I never got particularly good, but I did get skilled enough to be able to play a bunch of game tunes pretty accurately, start fleshing out original compositions, and eventually begin recording complete original songs (all by ear). Needless to say, that little keyboard got a lot of use over the years, and I still have it to this day. About five years ago, I bought myself a full-sized keyboard (a Casio WK 1300), and continued playing game tunes and writing new original works (multi-instrument ones thanks to the 6 track recording ability of the WK 1300). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to play much at all over the last four years, as I simply don't have the room to set it all up. As a result, most of my original tunes have been written completely in Cakewalk's Music Creator 2002. Anyway, there's my musical background.

Re-uploaded the three Liquid Kids ones. I have no idea how a white background got on them, but they've got transparencies now. Also, are you suggesting gradients with your reply LT? LT: Yes, sir. Big problem seems to be that no matter what color is used on those last three, part of the character's outfit or body gets absorbed into the background and it just doesn't look good. And some of the lightest colors are just too much of a contrast and don't work with the sprite as a good background.

So it's going to be littered with 'American Pie'-style sexual innuendo jokes, horribly lame 'I'm cool' lines, walk on characters repeatedly trying to get into Bulma's pants, and teen angst sprinkled over the top?

Paper airplanes tend to fly well, as do remote control helicopters and planes thanks to there being such little wind. Of course, that means kites don't get much use here, but you can't have everything.

Here are the three Liquid Kids avatars you liked... LT: Need transparent backgrounds on these. Seems like some white/blank backgrounds got retained somoehow. ... and here's my next attempt for the final four from Puzzle Bobble 2... LT: Whoaz. Haha! Gradients?

"What a resolute ass he is." - unknown character, Exile "Taste the blow of this reborn titan! Ha cha cha!" - Big Bear, Fatal Fury Special "Coin detected in pocket!" - Berzerk in Attract Mode "VICTOLY!" - Samurai Shodown IV win screen