User talk:Procyon

I welcome any and all feedback here, so please post your thoughts. Thank you.

Archived discussions:
 * 2nd half of 2006
 * 1st half of 2007
 * 3rd quarter of 2007
 * 4th quarter of 2007

Name
As in the star, the raccoon genus, or the release group? -- Prod 23:51, 10 October 2006 (CDT)
 * lol, the raccoon genus. If I can't use Procyon, I sometimes use Lotor, or Plotor. ^_^  Procyon 07:58, 11 October 2006 (CDT)

Mighty Bomb Jack guide
I came across your guide by accident, and just want to throw you a quick comment to show my appreciation. I acquired my NES in 1987 at the age of 6, and with it, Mighty Bomb Jack. Since the game was my first real experience with console gaming, it holds a special place in my heart. I had never completed the game, and really never knew how close i'd come in my best attempts (only one room away from the king, it turns out!). I grabbed the rom today, and along with your guide had a good time turning the game inside out for old times sake. Nacht 17:40, 11 January 2008 (CST)

Woohoo!
You've just gained muchos respect from me for using the correct ellipsis entity in the last announcement. :-D --DrBob (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2008 (CST)
 * Excellent; at least somebody's paying attention to my public pedanticism. I did see what Nacht wrote, and I think it's great he took the time to tell you. Good job! --DrBob (talk) 08:16, 12 January 2008 (CST)

Alright, alright
I admit I was on a bit of a roll with the whole thing and maybe I went a little overboard, particularly on yours. I was mainly referring to paragraphing, actually. They seem kinda large and can be split into multiple smaller paragraphs rather than one big one.

I'm not sure if it was very "flame-y", considering how I mentioned how to improve and also how to get further assistance, but I'll edit it anyway. Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 13:01, 12 January 2008 (CST)

Pokémon guide
Just wanted to make sure you saw this. --DrBob (talk) 00:58, 14 January 2008 (CST)

Your baby needs some improvement
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is missing its Story time. xD -- 01:39, 14 January 2008 (CST)

Small Game ToC cleanup
Hey Proc: check out this diff I made to Beraboh Man:. I was thinking that maybe we should try and do the same for all of the guides you've pushed to stage 4 (an easy list to start off of). Getting Started can be static text when there's smaller sections, and walkthrough I think should be enlarged just because it's so important. I bet you'll say that it just confuses things, and I dunno, I need to think more on it... -- 04:58, 14 January 2008 (CST)

im thinking...(Pokemon RSE)
hey, you know how in Pokemon RBY you had boxes with the info on new Pokemon that you found on a new route you entered? Did you get the info from any particular area? i want to do something like that for RSE. if you came up with the info, can you look at what i write and edit it to suit? Plz Msg back. Peace out, God Bless. Halosonic 14:06, 15 January 2008 (CST)

Fractions
Yeah I can see the difference, but like I said, the difference is actually 3 pixels (at least on my PC) and so scanning it can be a pain, but ok. -- 18:14, 15 January 2008 (CST)

Samurai Shodown and series revision
After looking at Samurai Shodown V, I think some things really need to be changed, and I know you're the guy to help me out. First of all, I think rather than "Walkthrough" being the repository for game controls, "Getting Started" or "Controls" would be more appropriate, since the Walkthrough section needs to exist for guide standardization and explanation of how the info in the guide is contained.

Secondly, I think the characters section should be under so that it can be easily imported into each Nav, and I think it should have its own row where all three columns of characters are spread out, with a "Characters" title centered above.

Thirdly, the "Moves" section on the main page of Samurai Shodown V should be subpaged to its own movelist page, which should also appear on the SSV ToC. I can't think of anything else right now, except that it's ugly =P -- 19:35, 18 January 2008 (CST)

Question about game maps
I like the maps you included in the Mighty Bomb Jack guide, and I'm working on incorporating similar maps for The Lost Vikings but I need some advice. I can make the maps I need, but they end up being quite large. For example, the map for the second level of The Lost Vikings ended up being 1024 x 783 pixels, and approx 207KB. Some maps later in the game would be even larger. I think it's a good size to indicate everything needed for a player, but it's obviously too large to include on a webpage. I know I have the option of using the scrolling map template, but would it be better to use that or to scale down the image? Or are there other options I'm not aware of? I'm afraid that if I scale down the image then detail will be lost, making it potentially less useful. It would be like the difference in the Actraiser maps on snesmaps.com and the version of those maps used in the ActRaiser guide on StrategyWiki. Clearly, the SW version is so small it's hard to make some things out. Any ideas? --New User 21:43, 18 January 2008 (CST)
 * Thanks for the advice. Since seeing the path to the the exit (and the exit itself) is the main focus, I see how the smaller map will work.  Still, I never heard of "cubic interpolation" before, but after playing around with GIMP I think I've figured it out so I'll give it a shot.  Oh and about the name New User, I started that when I would use public computers to access websites, because some sites save the user name in the login screen even after the session has ended.  There's no chance of someone getting my password or anything, but if I use a computer at a library or internet cafe and sign in to StrategyWiki or Wikipedia, then sign out, when the next person goes to the sign in screen the name New User (which doesn't appear to be a user name at all) appears in the username field, so it's really just for increased anonymity.  --New User 22:44, 18 January 2008 (CST)
 * Sounds like the origin of my alias... -- 01:33, 19 January 2008 (CST)