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
 * 1st quarter of 2008

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)

Fighting Movelists Mini Discussion
See User_talk:Notmyhandle. -- 20:02, 3 April 2008 (CDT)

Game category reply
What's the category for the fighting move lists? I'm not sure what you meant. I can help out with that once I know what it is. Also, I've made the category just party, is that fine? I looked through genre, and nothing else has game listed in it. RobJ1981 14:18, 7 April 2008 (CDT)
 * I understand now. I've managed to do some already. RobJ1981 14:42, 7 April 2008 (CDT)
 * It loaded a little slow for me, however I did have several windows open at once. That usually causes slowdown for me. RobJ1981 15:00, 7 April 2008 (CDT)
 * I died a little inside ='( -- 16:49, 7 April 2008 (CDT)

Re: CV1
Thanks! I just need to copyedit the rest of the pages and I want to expand the Secrets page, but we might have another CV game ready to become a featured guide at some point. I refuse to say it'll be ready "soon", because every time I do, I end up not being able to work on it for a month :P. - Koweja (Talk | Contributions) 10:55, 11 April 2008 (CDT)

NDS (Zelda Phantom Hourglass) screenshots
Hi. I like the screenshots of maps of Phantom Hourglass you uploaded. Can I ask - how did you take them? If via an emulator, which one? I'm using no$gba but the colours are very washed out compared to your pics. Pelago 15:16, 13 April 2008 (CDT)
 * Ah, it looks like No$GBA (which I believe is supposed to be the fastest emulator, not that I've tested myself) can be configured to give brighter colours, by going into Emulation Options, then setting GBA Mode to "VGA (poppy bright)". Then the pics look just like your IDeaS shots. This is good because I was thinking of submitting some screenshots and wanted them to look consistent with yours. I've put some notes about this in Talk:The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Pelago 16:19, 14 April 2008 (CDT)

Re: Nice work
Thanks, glad you like it so far. If you don't agree with any of my changes, feel free to revert or bring up with me. I'm more than happy to find a middle ground. As for the "less-is-more", I agree with that for the walkthrough (though I don't always follow that philosophy) especially, though I find that some sections, especially the Getting Started/How to Play/etc, the more you can put out there, the more likely you are to cover everyone's needs. As long as things are properly sectioned, it shouldn't be too confusing.

One thing that I meant to ask you about is your(?) strategy against Dracula's second form. It originally said to use the Holy Water, however I changed it to say use the Boomerang. Since only Dracula's head is vulnerable, the Water didn't seem to effective. Is there a way to killing him with the water that I missed? - Koweja (Talk | Contributions) 16:23, 13 April 2008 (CDT)
 * Okay, I think I've gotten everything that I want added/changed. Let me know if you disagree with anything or if I missed something. Do you know of any more differences between the first and second quest? - Koweja (Talk | Contributions) 00:32, 15 April 2008 (CDT)
 * Well, if you can't think of anything else to add, go ahead and nominate it for Featured Article. I'd be happy to support it ;) - Koweja (Talk | Contributions) 09:29, 16 April 2008 (CDT)

Re: lyrics
I forgot to ask this before: but why exactly are they listed in the first place? This is a video game guide site, I don't see why the site is promoting the video game music in the first place. It doesn't provide guide help. Random things thrown into main articles doesn't seem like a good thing for here. Isn't it better suited for a Nintendo fan wiki, or a general video game wiki (that doesn't have the main purpose of guides)? RobJ1981 00:07, 15 April 2008 (CDT)

Re: controller templates
Yes that's it! Thanks. Now I can do controls a lot quicker. RobJ1981 16:11, 16 April 2008 (CDT)

MrSue
I didn't ban him for that. If you can't see his acts of vandalism, then you need to look closer (and at other wikis). For the king dedede page, only some of the changes are valid, and so I reverted it as the first step in fixing it (although I should have waited and done an undo, I think. Wait that doesn't work does it...). Anyways, clearly his contributions are positive in some ways, but that doesn't mean they are always acceptable. If you want to clean up his shit from now on, go ahead and unban him. I'm not going to deal with assaulthead if I have to. -- 16:44, 18 April 2008 (CDT)
 * I rechecked the edit, just to make things right, and I see the little thing that triggered my revert click, although yeah I shouldn't have on that edit - the image was purposefully formatted incorrectly to require an edit anyways (should have made it right to minimize edits), but the additional info is indeed valid. His tactics are brilliant...  BRILLIANT!  -- 16:58, 18 April 2008 (CDT)

GamerWiki
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this item. I've been tracking changes using the RSS feed of RecentChanges, so didn't pick up the message you left on my (Tyagi) talk page @ GamerWiki. This sounds like something we should definitely discuss. Can we do something via email with the right people on the list? My email address is at: gamerwiki about -- tyagi at GamerWiki.com

MAME Guide
Hi Procyon, Barthax from GamerWiki here. I figured it'd be easier to have a cross-wiki chat than concentrate it at GW. :) StrategyWiki is nothing new to me - the Hydro Thunder page is largely mine (baring formatting & split).  The MAME guide is an excellent foundation.  I went through a stage of "collecting" emulators and have many more derivations if you are at all interested in expanding the historical derivatives.  If there is to be one addition to that list that is required (IMO) it is WolfMAME - a gaming-specific derivation which includes measures for anti-cheating.  --Barthax 05:37, 22 April 2008 (CDT)

I know it's been a long time
You can delete my Forums now, I got a real one.--GaleZephule 17:43, 21 April 2008 (CDT)

Re: Sometimes, less is more.
I could truncate it very easily, if desired. I feel I only wrote as much expository information as I did because of what existed before it.--Metatoast 11:46, 30 April 2008 (CDT)

RE: Request for help
I'll see what I can do about it tomorrow/on the weekend, I'm not going to be online much more today. RobJ1981 18:53, 1 May 2008 (CDT)
 * As a follow up, I made a small adjustment to the TOC. It looks a little better. I'm not sure what else can be done. RobJ1981 01:27, 2 May 2008 (CDT)

Super Smash Bros. Melee: merges?
See: Super Smash Bros. Melee/Glossary, Super Smash Bros. Melee/Easter Eggs and Super Smash Bros. Melee/Misc. Do you think these could be merged somewhere else? I don't see the point of tiny pages like those. The glossary is just a small list of in-game terms, easter eggs is a few things as well, while Misc is a few other unlockables. Perhaps I'm being too picky. RobJ1981 00:25, 3 May 2008 (CDT)
 * Well the Technique Terminology section could just be merged into controls, couldn't it? I'm not sure where the else could be moved to. On a different note: I found a site that has instruction manuals. This looks like a very reliable site (and I think it's free from what I can tell). It would help expand controls, and even plot/story sections of games.  is the site. Is there any sort of general resource page (to list links and so on) on Strategy Wiki? RobJ1981 18:55, 3 May 2008 (CDT)

Hyper Fighting
Needs a redirect, but I'm not sure if it needs categories (wikipedia points me to this). -- Prod (Talk) 00:35, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

Re: Image Names
Sorry dude, I just kinda forgot about the names, but you may want to look into the coding for the multiple upload form. I don't think it's reading properly; I was putting in the category names and it didn't categorize properly. I had to go back and re-categorize every image. --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 15:53, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

I guess I was in a rush to revert the edits MrSue made. >.> --Arrow Windwhistler (talk) 16:17, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

Space Invaders (and similar games)
I think we need to start adding the compilation and alternate names to many more articles (especially older games like Space Invaders). I didn't do a complete check for alternate names when I had done the removing of a few systems, but if I would've seen it on the article already I would've known. Compilations are just evil. I looked up Battlezone (arcade), and I'm not sure if I caught all. I saw some other Battlezone games on a list, but I wasn't sure if they were ports, sequels or just something else. With a decent size of compilation games on here, it shouldn't be too hard to go through the systems. RobJ1981 12:38, 7 May 2008 (CDT)
 * Yes, that covers it. From now on, I'll look more into games that have been ported to other systems (and the titles related to them). It's frustrating with all the slightly different titles they slap on games that are the same thing. I use Gamefaqs as a source, when I'm not sure of the results I see on Wikipedia. Moby Games loads slowly for me, so I rarely use that. RobJ1981 23:59, 7 May 2008 (CDT)
 * I own Namco Museum for PlayStation 2 (which has Pac-Man Arrangement). I always thought it of it was a remake/remix of the original. Did it come out for anything by itself though? I've only seen it listed in compilations. RobJ1981 15:07, 8 May 2008 (CDT)

Re: Pokemon Template
I placed it on those subpages because I've always considered them a kind of standalone article... I'm fine with taking the template off of them. Do you think the way I laid out the template is fine? Any suggestions for cleaning it up?-- Duke Ruckley Talk 19:57, 14 May 2008 (CDT)

Requested Guides Removal
What's with this diff Proc? -- 22:16, 15 May 2008 (CDT)
 * Well, I agree with you on brawl (although it's not comp level 4), however the other two are basically stubs - by "requested guide" are we just asking for people to tell us what pages we should create from wikidumps? I dunno, maybe he was requesting improvements xD -- 02:06, 16 May 2008 (CDT)

Thank you for the help and advice
Thank you for your help and the guide was really something, but it is really a bumper since I didn't understand some parts. It took me half an hour just to know how to send other people a message.