User talk:Procyon

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

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Hey, Got Some News
Hey Procyon, it's been a bit since we last spoke. After all the hours I put into Tower of Druaga I finally decided to make my first Youtube video about the "Darkness Tower" and soon "Another Tower" since there were literally no videos on them whatsoever (and as far as I can tell only one based on the original arcade game). I thought you might want to check it out since it was your guide that got me to the point where I could make the video. I gave you credit for the guide as I included a miniature version of it so people knew what I was doing in each part. I only posted it yesterday. Was my first time using the camcorder so I didn't know about the auto brightness adjust or the slant despite it sitting flat, but my "Another Tower" video will have those fixed. The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlIpo8kkKOI and thanks again for all your hard work on this game. --PrinceGilgamesh 08:15, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

RE: Edit Summaries
Hey Procyon, its PrinceGilgamesh. My apologies, I'm still new to using wiki and didn't know it was more appreciated to give more extensive information. I've just been playing this game for quite a bit now and wanted to update things for future users. I see from the talk below that you were the one who probably made up most of that guide? If so, I wasn't trying to offend you in any way. If I can change the summary information I will gladly add more info. Fellow Druaga fan, PrinceGilgamesh 21:07, 1 June 2010 (EST)

I didn't realize you could continue until today. The whole time I was trying to climb back up to floor 28. So now that I could continue from floor 28 to figure out the command, its that a roper must cross you and the door at the same time. 01:05, 9 June 2010 (EST)

Additions
Hey Procyon, ReyVGM here. I've emailed you before about Tower of Druaga information but you never replied. I guess you must have changed emails. I'll just drop the info here then for future reference:

I played the Sharp X1 and MSX ports of Tower of Druaga and the solutions are NOT the same for those games. The first few levels work the same, but not the advanced ones. The MSX version also appears to have a new enemy type according to a Japanese page I found.

I also have something for the Famicom/MSX2 Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri Dōchū. On your guide you group them both together, but the MSX2 version actually has a ton more levels that the Famicom version doesn't. You see, on the Fami version, when you beat the game, you go to a new province/district of Japan (8 in all), but all the levels remain the same. You still get a different ending per district though. Now, on the MSX2 version, when you finish the game, you go to the next district/province (7 in all), but the levels are completely different. There are actually 48 original levels in all. You get a different ending per province too. -Unsigned

Reason to remove compilation versions for games?
I think its helpful to know about all the versions, and systems. Since there are differences between them. IE. Ms. Pac-Man --Negative1 00:51, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

About the enchanted enhanced sprites
Hello there. I wanted to ask you something. About the enchanted sprites used in some of the articles, (such as for the Pac-Man article) How do you create them? Superjustinbros. 23:39, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Procyon's method has been ported to a script (SCM script) for use in the GIMP raster graphics program. File:2Dimage-3Dimage.scm has information on how to use the script. — najzere T 23:49, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Lol, I refer to them as "enhanced," not "enchanted"... I actually left a tutorial on a Aniki21's user talk page, so you can check it out there if you like.  BTW Naj, I upgraded to GIMP 2.6, but still had problems with the script-fu.  The Gradiant control never shows up in the dialog, and I can't figure out why.  Furthermore, when I try to run it, it complains about too few parameters (I suspect the gradiant parameter is missing since it doesn't show on the dialog.)  Pro  cyon  02:20, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey
Sorry about categorizing Dragon Slayer IV – I didn't see the cat on the redirect until afterwards, and then I edit conflicted with you trying to take it out. :P Also, I'll check on that GIMP script tonight. It was working as far as I know, but I've made some additions to it anyway, so I'll just get the new version up. Cheers, — najzere T 18:42, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, I finally got around to copying over the script from my old computer and it works fine for me in GIMP 2.6.8 in Windows 7 (it also worked for me in whatever version of GIMP I was using in XP). .scm is no longer an acceptable file type, so I can't upload the newer version. You can download it here: direct d/l. I added feathering for the border and some behind-the-scenes stuff, so let me know if it works for you. — najzere T 09:17, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

hey can i edit again
hello, it's me again “THE KING OF ALL GAMES” and it's been 6 months and i've gained so much game info and i've learned my lesson about how to put things in the right place and youtube videos so can i please edit again?

(76.173.127.3 21:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC))


 * Since you asked nicely, I have removed your block. It will expire one hour from now.  However, if you give any of the sysops any reason to block you, such as not listening to their instructions, or spamming their talk page with useless information, I will not undo the block again.  You only get one chance.  Don't disturb other users unless it's necessary, and don't contribute content unless its absolutely relevant to the guide you are contributing to.  Ultimately, the one who will decide whether you get to edit or not is you.  Hundreds of other users have no problem following the directions, so it's not impossible.  Good luck.   Pro  cyon  04:22, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Edit counter
Just a quick note to make you aware of the edit counter made by Najzere. - Trevman 21:25, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Double Dribble
A little thank you… For bringing back memories of one of my favorite SMS games, Fantasy Zone. , najzere T 23:37, 19 February 2010 (UTC) Hi, I noted a discrepancy between the date for the FDS on the Double Dribble page (July 24) and the one on the Exciting Basket redirect page (July 27). Just wanted to bring it to your attention. Cheers :) — najzere T 18:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the amazing catch Naj! ;)  Pro  cyon  18:35, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Using Thumbnails.
I really admire the beauty of the N64 button thumbnails you have on this website. I was wondering if I could use them for a youtube video I am making. If you give me permission, and I use them, I assure you that I will credit you as the source of the thumbnails used (or someone else if they did the work), and will even direct people who watch my video to check out Strategywiki.org. Is that okay?


 * All non-game specific images on this site are contributed to this site under a copyleft license, originally GFDL, and currently CC-BY-SA. Therefore, you are free to utilize images from this site provided you adhere to the rules that govern those licenses, which stipulates that the original authors of such images be given credit wherever they are used.  Your offer to redirect traffic back to this site is entirely optional, but would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.  Pro  cyon  14:33, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Art of Fighting 2 edits
Hi, can you check on a new user's contributions to move lists? I can't find any mention of the moves he's adding, but before I call bullshit on him I wanted to check in. I'll leave the appropriate welcome message to you. Thanks! — najzere T 17:36, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I took a look at them... you did the right thing. The guy was just adding existing moves under alternative names, and don't get me started about that rambling he added to one of the character pages...  Pro  cyon  00:53, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Fighter Portraits
Hey Procyon, about those images I found them all over, but mainly The Fighter's Generation and The Street Fighter Wiki. (BackLash 23:32, 17 March 2010 (UTC))

Fist of the North Star buttons
Hi, I was wondering about these buttons:. Are these only ever going to be used on the Fist of the North Star (arcade) guide? Should they be replaced by normal control images or put into a control template? I want to categorize them, but thought I'd find out what they're going to be used for first. Thanks, — najzere T 19:10, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

So you're the guy...
...who's made all these cool Famicom/FDS guides. I always wondered who did most of these, as they are so well done with maps and pics and so forth. They remind me of Zach Meston's books he put out in the 90s for beating games. Very informative and easy to follow.

Thanks a ton for all of them, the ones I've used have been amazing. Any chance you'll do one for the FDS game Monty no Doki Doki Daisassou?

Adaml 23:45, 26 March 2010 (UTC)adaml

Game Capture?
I realise this is going back a long time, but why does Aigina no Yogen/Walkthrough use "Game Capture" instead of "Quick Walkthrough" or the like? Is this terminology used in the game or something? --Garrett (talk) 08:36, 6 April 2010 (UTC)


 * You are right Garrett, "Quick Walkthrough" would be more appropriate for the heading. "Game Capture" came about by me being too literal with the Japanese translation from Google. :)   Pro  cyon  14:03, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Walkthrough redirects
I went through all the walkthrough page redirects and only found one that has you in the history: ASO: Armored Scrum Object/Walkthrough. You may also be interested in Pac-Man Plus/Walkthrough, as it seems you wrote the guide. Cheers, — najzere T 16:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks For Editing Tips
It's Dana. I've been updating the Lady Bug game play tips as I proofread it. And thanks to whoever put it as the entire WalkThrough section; wasn't expecting that. Anyways, I will consider using the tips you gave me if I do any more updates. Thanks a bunch!--Dana MC 06:23, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Genpei Tōma Den/Strategies and Genpei Tōma Den/Tips have been marked for deletion...
...as they have been merged with the Walkthrough I have been working on over the last fortnight. Unused redirect Genpei Tōma Den/Elements should also be another page intended for the trash can. By the way, I've been meaning to ask you - why did you remove my warnings to German readers on the walkthrough page for Phozon? Namcorules 14:30, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: SMB Items
Sorry about the confusion over the items. I was working on a device with a smaller screen at the time, and all I saw was where someone before me had (rather badly) wrote an "Items" paragraph. I was simply trying to fix this paragraph up, and did not see the better-written table. I thought it was rather odd that there were no links to pictures, but I see now what happened. Thank you from pointing this out and from saving StrategyWiki users from some confusion.--Mnm3808 17:16, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Bounty
I won! Really?? =D I can finally get Red Dead Redemption! ^_^ Thanks, you're the awesomest. BTW, I hate to ask questions, but where's the e-mail link? O_o -- E-123Wario54 The Temple of Talk 06:53, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Bounties Prize
Hey thanks for the prize. I just stumbled onto this site when looking for some info on Torchlight, and here I am a few weeks later, getting a prize! Awesome! Thanks to you and all the other contributors for putting this site together. I'm just learning how to do this, but hope to do more once I figure it all out. BTW, I can't find the "Email This User" link on your toolbox either. Bigbank 08:25, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Bounties
Wait, what? :O I won money? That's awesome! :D Thanks! I still have to edit more to get the hang of this, but where's the link? --Rubberyducksryellow13 21:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

180s and 360s
Hey quick question isn't there a playstation 180 and 360 button image? If so where? I can't find it. KimbleTHEcommie 16:34, 14 October 2010 (CDT)

Rename a page thats already made?
How do i rename a page that i already made? Whenever i rename it it say page doesnt exist. I want to change God of War: Chains of Olympus/Bonus Costumes to Bonus. Any hints? KimbleTHEcommie 21:07, 14 October 2010 (CDT)

New Fist of the North Star
Hey, I don't understand the series nav for Hokuto no Ken. Where would the new FotNS game go? It's for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, if that helps. EDIT: Or maybe it's a Dynasty Warriors game? I dunno. — najzere T 16:31, 16 October 2010 (CDT)
 * Ugh, that is... that is just ugly... I'm not sure to be honest with you, the whole thing could stand to be touched up. The new game definitely is a combo of FotNS and DW.  So I really don't know how to classify it.  Frankly, that whole template is hardly divided up well, so if you just threw it on at the end of the first list, I don't think anyone would care or complain.  Probably the break down on Wikipedia would be the best way to reorganize the template.   Pro  cyon  19:14, 17 October 2010 (CDT)

Thank you!
I apprecaite pointing me at those guides. I actually just figured out what the star and other signets next to a guides name meant. I think I might have figured it out eventually, if you had not pointed me there, but you saved me running up against the learning cliff I posses hehe. I will definately try to keep to the common format, I do not want to reinvent the wheel.

Look forward to working with you all.--Cypherwulfe 11:35, 1 November 2010 (CDT)

Sorry to you too...
I see. The message might of went the wrong way.. But I assure you I do not care about my ego. I wish to say I am sorry for I have given a bad first impression in favor of all of Pikmin Fanon. Listen. I was being a jerk for saying that. I was already feeling bad about Pikmin Fanon's inclusion in NIWA, and I saw that it was not there and It made me angry. I had no reason to say that, and I hope I can mend the relationship between Pikmin Fanon and Strategy Wiki. Peanut64

Job
I know he's doing a good job; I just wanted to make sure he's aware of a good argument to do 4-6 before 4-5. When writing a walkthrough, it makes the most sense to put everything in a logical order. Putting 4-5 before 4-6 will let everyone think 4-5 is a more logical level to do before 4-6. SMB3 fan 16:07, 28 December 2010 (CST)

Thanks
Thank you for your comment! I used to edit SmashWiki a few years ago, so I still have at least a little familiarity with editing. Glad to know I'm helping out. - ZAJ573 13:12, 17 January 2011 (CST)
 * Wow. First of all, let me just say that I am incredibly proud to be nominated. It's great to see that my contributions are getting noticed, and I plan to keep working on the wiki.


 * However, I must decline the administrator position for now. I only recently came back to StrategyWiki after a long break, and I'm still learning my way around the place. Right now, there's nothing I need to accomplish that I need the sysop tools to do.


 * I still want to thank you very much for nominating me. Once I am used to the site and would feel comfortable as an administrator, I'd be happy to be considered again. - ZAJ573 18:58, 21 January 2011 (CST)

Grats on Miracle Warriors completion
Even though I'm not particularly active anymore, I support everyone here and have always appreciated your efforts. Keep it up. -- 16:53, 26 January 2011 (CST)

SMB3
Not sure this change did what you wanted it to do: http://strategywiki.org/w/index.php?title=Super_Mario_Bros._3/World_5&curid=21472&diff=540777&oldid=540770. -- Prod (Talk) 16:32, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * No, you're right, in hindsight the rollback was not necessary, but largely because I didn't compare the first and last changes he made. He basically undid his own work.  Pro  cyon  18:11, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Another Famicom Guy
Yeah I actually just got my Famiclone today (eventually I will get a Famicom proper when money allows) along with a single game, Musashi no Ken. First thing I went and watched a speed run to see what I was getting into, next check for guides if I would even need one. Ding Ding Ding, none anywhere so I decided I'd finally give a guide a whirl and this seemed like the best place so here I am. I will probably make a guide for every Famicom game I get that doesn't have one here as time permits. Hopefully I'll learn the ropes soon enough so as not to break any faux pas that might roam around here 'u' --Mkanke 03:08, 20 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey figured you might want to know I just got a copy of Megami Tensei for my famiclone and as time permits (student teaching leaves very little time sadly) will start making a walk-through for it with my basic Japanese knowledge, figured you might want to know as you stated you wanted to revisit it :) Mkanke 02:15, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the acknowledgment. I spent a lot of time on just two chapters, so I can't imagine how long it'll take me to finish it, but I'll try. :) --Rubberyducksryellow13 03:47, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Sysop

 * Can I please be a sysop. I can be a great help to the wiki! Slipknot Darkrai 11:50, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep. I am willing to help. What am I to do on the Guide? Slipknot Darkrai 18:56, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that link. I know a lot of stuff, however. Why? Because for over 6 months I was a user on Wikia. I just don't know the layouts quite yet on here, but I think I am getting there ;). Slipknot Darkrai 19:10, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I didn't read about the images because I thought I knew everything about them already. Well I read about the quality of a game guide 0-5. So I did read some. I know the layout of a game article because I looked at it... so thanks for the tip ;). Slipknot Darkrai 19:45, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Reply

 * What am I doing wrong? Slipknot Darkrai 22:04, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to rick roll you for fun. Why are making a big deal out of it? Slipknot Darkrai 18:52, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok Dark you were helpful earlier but now its not funny "rickrolling" someone has nothing to do with this project. Pro has told you to knock it off, your not listening. --Goldenpython 19:45, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

E for Everyone?
Procyon how do you add that image of ESRB or something is it easy to do, or hard? Anyway thanks. --Goldenpython 15:28, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Procyon i got it now
you beat me to it lol thats great that i know how to do this... T thanks for the insturctions pro. --Goldenpython 15:16, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sweet, but I think I'm more rated M ;)  Pro cyon  15:20, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * sorry again pro, whats num? --Goldenpython 16:16, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Procyon I have got a bad memory, part of my mental illness but i come on here and video games guides are great I don't even remember how i stumbled apon StrategyWiki but iam glad i did, the num thing i still don't get so I can either leave StrategyWiki or i have no idea... but please don't ban me thanks. --Goldenpython 21:07, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Your Explaination...
In order to edit the page with accurate information, I first had to determine where it actually worked. Took me a few more minutes.

Understand now, Oh sarcastic one?

RedwoodElf

My Apologies, and a question.
My apologies for referring to "Generations" as opposed to individual pokémon games, I will change it immediately. Also I would like to ask if there is a template to link to Abilities on bulbapedia as I have noticed the bp and bpm but no "bpa", also should I have replied here as opposed to on my talk page? I am very sorry for taking your time. Also please reply to this on my talk page if you do normally reply on your own talk page D=

Lionrt60


 * Thank You ^^
 * Lionrt60 18:03, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I must say I am very impressed with this entire place so far, I had never expected you to be so prompt at answering my n00by questions. Really, Thanks a lot :3
 * Lionrt60 18:03, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Really sorry to bother you again :( but can I reference smogon or not, I guess not really.
 * Lionrt60 18:37, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay then :3 Thanks again xD
 * Lionrt60 18:44, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry, again :(, but I can't see how to anchor anywhere. This'll be the last time, I promise D:
 * Lionrt60 20:14, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh, I may have got it wrong. I am trying to link to

http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon/Competitive_battling/The_Basics#Understanding_Stats
 * but I havent set what would be the  tag in html and I don't know how to here D=
 * Lionrt60 20:43, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks :3 that was what I was doing but I found out I was using an uppercase S father that a lowercase s xD
 * Lionrt60 21:22, 29 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Do you know how to autoredirect a page? Thanks in advance
 * -- Lionrt60  T  16:38, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Dangerous Seed/Stage 6 and Dangerous Seed/Stage 7 have been marked for deletion...
...as I have split their proper writeups into five separate pages - Dangerous Seed/Stage 6-J, Dangerous Seed/Stage 6-S, Dangerous Seed/Stage 7-U, Dangerous Seed/Stage 7-N and Dangerous Seed/Stage 7-P.

By the way, I've been meaning to tell you - if I have inadvertently offended you by listing all of the 16-bit Namco arcade games which featured their years at the bottom of their "legal notices" on the guide's main page (which you described as "excessively ridiculous"), you should accept my most sincere and heartfelt apologies. Namcorules 16:36, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
Cheers! :D — najzere T 04:51, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

ESRB?
How do you correctly use this in guides? --4uekw2 19:40, 17 November 2011 (UTC) nvm i got it thanks. --4uekw2 19:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

I got your message!
http://gradius.wikia.com/wiki/Tutanhamanattack

This is where I got the official name of the boss you are talking about. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AirSharkSquad (talk • contribs).

Super Pitfall for PC-8801
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/video/niconico/sm587280

I found a video playthrough of the PC-8801 version of Super Pitfall. Watch it. It has many differences from the original NES version of the game.

Dawn of Fantasy
Thanks for your kindness Pro, I was asked by the ceo of the game to post the new player guide created by a fan on the forums, so that's what I did. I completely forgot about the first person voicing being a problem (as you saw). Next (hopefully not) just send me a message and I will clean it up. This is my first experience with doing a wiki and I'm making mistakes as you've seen. I will work at providing info within the guidelines and feel free to just shoot me a message saying ( this needs fixing xyz) and I'll be glad to do it. Thanks for your hard work!

Message from CNCguides
Thanks for the message. I understand. I just saw a bit of a thread about linking to other sites and thought perhaps the philosophy had changed somewhat. I can understand your position and accept it. I appreciate the clarification. Cncguides 21:26, 7 February 2012 (UTC)cncguides

Call Of Duty: Black Ops
I'am still a little lost on how to format things I wanted to make the multiplayer maps page and weapons how do i do this? ty. --Gunnerontharun22 03:22, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Final Fantasy Tactics
Hello!!

My (user)name is drkelflord and i would like your help

with something.

You see, after touring this site and subsequently joining, I

realized that the Final Fantasy Tactics page has a great deal of pages

that are simply gone or missing(or never there)and i would like to rectify

that. If you or anyone else could help me with this i would be greatly apreciative

thank you for your time

sincerly--Drkelflord 19:39, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

SEIWA
Congrats! This wiki is now an official member of SEIWA! If you're not the admin, let them know for me, please? UxieLover1994 17:50, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Your Suggestion
Thanks so much for the idea! I like your format better and definitely plan on using it. YoshiSoy 21:34, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you, but I have a couple of questions. Thanks in advance. YoshiSoy 23:09, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
 * What point of view should be used, second person or third person?
 * What's a cookie? I keep seeing it on the stub pages, but I don't know what it is.
 * I'm having some trouble uploading files right now. Do you have any idea what the cause is?

What happens is that I click the upload button, and the page acts like its working, but it doesn't upload or change pages, it's just caught in the transition period. And it's only with this one image I was trying to upload- I later uploaded a different image successfully, but then couldn't upload this image when I tried again. I even took a different screenshot and tried to upload it using that one, but with no success. YoshiSoy 00:04, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Never mind, I was finally able to upload it. YoshiSoy 00:06, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm new here
I was wondering if there were any ongoing projects that I could help with or something. I've contributed a bit already, but would appreciate some guidance.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this sort of thing.--Salnax 02:19, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Kid Icarus: Uprising
I've been working away at the Kid Icarus: Uprising guide, and noticed that it looked kind of bleh. Is there a good source of images for these kinds of games. Alternatively, do you know any good ways to take pictures of a handheld screen? Thanks again!--Salnax 23:02, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

This is the website I used to get a lot of AR cards for my personal playthrough. It's far from complete, but is by far the best source I've found.--Salnax 21:54, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Pokémon Taxonomy
I did two grammatical corrections, actually ("whose", not "who's"). :-P Just kidding. What I'm doing is important for the criticism that bigots from the USA "Christian Belt" said against Pokémons. Get real: all the websites like StrategyWiki are just for fun, and I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I'm far more active on Wikia, but there are too many Pokemon-Wikias, and ended up choosing StartegyWiki more or less by chance. If you don't like me, I'll leave the website and continue offline. --Abacos (talk) 16:41, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you an administrator? --Abacos (talk) 16:42, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Technically, he's the owner. Go add some details to a guide and we can ignore this conversation. :P -- 16:44, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Wow, I'm just arrived, and already have disappointed the Owner! I foresee a not-too-long career here... XD Well, I just play old videogames from the Eighties and Nineties: is the name "retroplayer"? But I think I have something to say about those that no one said yet. My contributes will come soon, I'm getting tired of all the pop-ups of Wikia. --Abacos (talk) 18:30, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * By the way, my position is that there is a mistranslation in the Pokémon videogames: what they call "evolution" is just "growth" from young to adult, and what they call "species" are just "life stages". "Evolution" takes places from parents to children, not within the same individual. Also, less than 10% of them are supernatural creatures, the other ones being animals and plants (and artifacts) that can be easily classified according to Lynnaeus, who lived before Darwin and the Theory of Evolution. Therefore, I'm demostrating the bigots' criticism is pointless. A wise Irishman (I forgot the name) said: "People is not in pursuit of happiness: people just love to complain". ^_^ --Abacos (talk) 18:30, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps upon perturbation they gestate endogenously and the new cells quickly consume and mutate the host? -- 18:33, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, There's no strategy wiki about Ultima 5, the videogame I'm playing now. Can I start a wiki even though I'm a beginner? --Abacos (talk) 13:56, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure, that is why we're here. I also worked on Ultima 7 - Serpent Isle even though i only played it once and i'm also fairly new here. Paco (talk) 14:36, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll let you set it up, Abacos. Click here: Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, then click "Main game page" from the little boxes above the edit box to fill in a basic template.  Then start adding content! We will help after you get that far. -- 16:33, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

you are best
also your enemy/item sprite postings are best

thanks for best 76.105.194.160 08:00, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Golgo 13: Kamigami no Koukon/Cast
Typical casts are displayed either in order of appearance, by significance, or by grouping (protagonists/friends & misc/enemies). Your call, bro! -- 01:37, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Is this cast information actually useful when playing the game, or is it for the sake of completeness? Garrett (talk) 01:53, 7 June 2012 (UTC)


 * It's not incredibly useful, it's really more there for completeness. I think I'll actually just fold it into the Getting Started page.   Pro  cyon  03:04, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Final Fantasy 1 white magic
Hi. Actually, my plan was to substitute the eight tables with a single one, thus saving space and condensing the data. Unfortunately, yesterday evening I had to stop halfway through, and I just saved what i did so far. I'll complete later today when I have time. Then, once it's finished, we will decide whether it's good enough or not. --Abacos (talk) 09:15, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree with you. I abandoned the idea. --Abacos (talk) 14:26, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Video game titles
Yes, I agree with you: articles (the, a, an), conjunctions (e.g.: and, or, thus) and prepositions (e.g.: of, to, from, by, in, with) are not capitalized unless they are the first word of a title. And I understood Notmyhandle's point too: section headers, unlike video game titles, have to be written with just the first letter capitalized. If that's the standard here, I don't object, I just wanted to be sure. --Abacos (talk) 21:03, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Spell classification
I saw your edit of the spell classification in the Dragon Quest pages. I definitely like "exploration" instead of "travel", and also "exploration+combat" instead of "healing", but on the other hand I think that two categories only is an oversimplification. In particular, I disagree with merging debuff and attack spells in the same category.

With we agreed on five categories (although I initially proposed four only), and such categories can be applied to every role-playing video game, and allow not to have any exception or "miscellaneous" spell.

Actually, I'm searching for a standardization of the mechanics of role-playing video games. The five spell categories and the Character Class Triangle (see a few on my user page) are two examples of this. My philosophy is that once a general mechanics system of the RPVGs will be found, the player will be able to fully enjoy the story told by the video game without necessity to re-learn the mechanics at the beginning of every video game.

Said this, the same definitions of five categories can always be applied, even to RPVGs that have less (e.g. Mega Man Battle Network 1 lacks "Healing" and "Exploration", i.e. all the "chips" are battle "spells"), therefore giving a standard to the beginner. For example, if you clear Final Fantasy 2, then start Dragon Quest 1 for the first time, all the spells do have different names, but if the spell lists on the respective StrategiWiki pages use the same identical classification, then this is really helpful. --Abacos (talk) 18:25, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

P.S.: You probably realized that I always wrote "one target" small and "All targets" capitalized on purpose. By the way, it's ok to have them all capitalized.


 * By the way, are there some pictures by Akira Toriyama for the spells of Dragon Quest 4 too? I simply recycled those from Dragon Quest 3, since the two video games have the same spells (only one is different). --Abacos (talk) 18:32, 19 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Having played a bunch of MMOs, I'm a big fan of buff/debuff being separate. Exploration/Travel is fine. However, I would be happier with separate columns for "Can be used during battle" and "Can be used outside of battle." Classifying the spells as types isn't that important.  Also, we can't redefine buff/debuff.  In the description for the spell it should just say something like, "A buff that applies a for ." For target, we can be more accurate and say "All allies", "One ally", "One enemy", or "All enemies" to be more specific. Non-combat travel spells aren't really applied to individuals; perhaps the target should be "Group", although "All allies" is, technically the same thing... Oh the joys of nuances. -- 20:00, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

I understand your point. From now on, I'll leave in peace strategy guides that are already there. Anyway, I suppose I can continue working on the "stubs" that I edited (some Ultima's, The 7th Saga etc.), right? Since I saw that there are 4000 guides but only 500 are complete (just one out of eight!), I'd like to help completing stubs before starting new ones, if you agree. (In particular, I'd like to help completing Ultima 4 before starting Ultima 5) --Abacos (talk) 09:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Ultima 3&4
Just one detail about Ultima 3&4: I only played the NES versions, that are known to be slightly different from the original ones (some different items, text semplifications here and there, etc.). Anyway, I think a guide about a NES version is better than no guide at all, do you agree? --Abacos (talk) 14:46, 21 June 2012 (UTC)


 * By the way, I wrote most of the Ultima 5 walkthrough on codex.ultimaaiera.com. Would it be fair to copy and paste my sections from there? I want to avoid any risk of plagiarism, although I am the main author there. --Abacos (talk) 15:22, 21 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Perfect! Thanks for the explanation. By the way, is it "copyleft" when someone left it on someone else's website? Just kidding! ^_^ --Abacos (talk) 10:58, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi ! Im onto it ! :)
Thanks for the message... I will try to break up my SMAC guide and incorporate it! I made a bit of a mess last time i added a link tho and didnt want to make more work for anyone. Also my guide is specificly for dealing with dangerous human and transcend AI opponents on aggressive AI setting, so its not about civ building and diplomacy! (Thats well covered elsewhere) I was a little wary of popping some of these more extreme tactics into the general guides. I dont want to mess up your existing info! I also like to try and break up the dry subject matter with the occasional minor gag, about green police states shooting litter bugs or what have you, I hope thats acceptable. I'll try to break it into bits that will fit the various catagories - Im thinking I should label any additions I make with a note pointing out these are tactics and ideas Ive developed for militant games to combat the specific dangers found therein and are not always needed on more civilized worlds! - Thanks for the help and patience... DARogers (talk) 05:36, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

DW3
What's your take on this? -- 17:50, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

DW3 enemy template
Yeah when I started the cleanup I was like "Wow this is ridiculous, I'll just do the overhaul and then continue to clean it up." But it is definitely worth the time to fix the template first before changing the page's parameters. Take a look at DW3enemy and let me know if there is anything else I should change. -- 17:50, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah I saw the suggestion. I'm still thinking about it. Currently updating all the parameters; almost done. -- 04:25, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not a fan of the multiple table solution; it adds an extra row or two and the cells don't line up logically. Combining the remake (not remix) columns makes sense. If there an exception is discovered, it can just be added with parentheses). I think adding the Japanese details to the notes works best because this is unnecessary, additional info. -- 06:22, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Game engine question
I keep finding unmade categories for specific game engines while working on category red links and can't find any pre-existing examples of some finished engine pages. Do you know where any examples might be found? I feel like I've seen some before but on the other hand it could be a case of why is this a link at all. I'm at a real loss on what to do.

Keep up the great edits by the way. You are always such a productive member of the community and it is appreciated. --Zaiqukaj (talk) 22:27, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I've got to agree that they are a useful thing to keep track of for people to find more games they may like. I'll look into researching what types of information are useful for our site objectives so in the least I can make a solid infobox for it. --Zaiqukaj (talk) 22:48, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Star Force version disambig/cats
Proc, Star Force has an alternate release, Mega Force, that you categorized. However, there was an Atari 2600 game that came out two years prior with the name Mega Force, which should take the page. How do we enable Mega Force to be categorized correctly as an alternate for Star Force in this situation? -- 15:36, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Good catch NMH, that's an obscure one. I went ahead and moved the redirect from Mega Force to Mega Force (Arcade).  Simple enough, and it should suffice.  I'd just put a disambiguation link at the top of the Atari 2600 version article to refer people who are looking for the arcade game of the same name to Star Force.  Pro  cyon  15:56, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Portal FG nomination
Please review, here: Featured guides/Current requests. -- 07:14, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Revising LoZ: ALttP map
See this diff for the reason to update File:LoZLttP Dark World.jpg. -- 07:24, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I checked around, both names are accepted for that location, and since some areas are named after their respective dungeon, it seems like more trouble to modify the map and rename it at this time.  Pro cyon  03:50, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Mmk. Shouldn't the alternate names be on that page, at least? -- 16:50, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Unused Golgo enemy sprite
Proc, see File:Golgo 13 TSE enemy harpoon.gif. I don't see any description of an alternate diver enemy on the enemies page. Did you forget this one? Or is it an alternate image for the diver? -- 17:30, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Re: Thank you
No problem, buddy! I hope to see you around here more often. Your guides are what keep us going strong. -- 05:55, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Blocked?! Man, you are bad at hiding your habits! I do mine when no ones around :P Congrats to you two! -- 15:36, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Japanese romanization
I hate to bring this topic up again, but I can't find any of our/community previous discussions on the subject. I was looking at Kyūkai Dōchūki and was wondering if we should use the Kyuukai Doochuuki (or Douchuuki) as the name to avoid using non ascii characters in the title. Do you remember what the conclusion was? Per-guide standardization? My preference is duplicate vowels and avoid inserting u's for lengthened o sounds. -- 05:24, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * That's hilarious, I saw that happening, and saw that it was NamcoRules, and simply decided that I didn't have the patience to deal with him right now. I completely agree with you, I'm in favor of a) making every guide name capable of being typed out by a standard keyboard and b) in the case of arcade games, agreeing with MAME's spelling (Kyuukai Douchuuki) since that is the most likely spelling to be Googled.  NR is going to make the argument that he's following Wikipedia's spelling.  I know we've gone over that discussion before, but I too can't find it at the moment.  I'll initiate the conversation on NR's page, feel free to back me up.   Pro  cyon  15:41, 31 August 2012 (UTC)


 * See his page for a follow up question. -- 07:14, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Bots
I had previously created to use AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). I've lost the login so I'll see if I can recover it. Other than getting a new bot account, should I continue to use AWB? I don't think I figured it out last time I tried to use it. -- 04:35, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Ultima 5 guide
Hi. I just cleared Ultima 5 and got to the end of the walkthrough. Can you give me some suggestion to bring the guide firmly to Completion Stage 3? I created the guide and am the main contributor, but right now I think I need some feedback --Abacos (talk) 11:38, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Striking a balance
Thanks for the explanation, I'll keep in mind from now on. I thought that the class triangles were a good summary and introduction, but looking back you're right: they're something I made after playing a number of RPVGs. --Abacos (talk) 11:37, 12 September 2012 (UTC)


 * About tables editing: yes, I'm always converging towards a format that can display as much information as possible in the smallest possible space. All the Final Fantasy 1 tables I made so far are final version now. That format is the same I'm using on other pages, with minor changes to fit different video games:


 * In my sandbox I also have two 100% complete tables for magic in Final Fantasy 1, but I'm not sure I'll ever move them out of there: they're extremely condensed and useful just for advanced players like me (see? I'm learning something from your observations :-) Thanks again). Moreover, the two magic tables have no room for all those cute sprites :-P Still, it would be a pity to delete them, after all the time spent writing them. --Abacos (talk) 12:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Something looking off
I'm not sure what is wrong but the popular guides listing on the Education catagory looks broken and like it is possibly listing unrelated things. I don't know what's going on but thought it needed a second set of eyes to look it over. --Zaiqukaj (talk) 06:43, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Getting Started standard naming versus sentence case
I don't mean to bring up stuff that creates work, but... Isn't it hypocritical of us to force sentence case on titles when we use "Getting Started" on every guide? We have two options: 1) be hypocritical (I'm okay with that) because we don't want to do the work to fully standardize, or 2) update our preload button for the ToC and run a bot to rename all of the pages... Thoughts? -- 21:51, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Lol, I brought up the same argument several years ago, but I was overruled. Check out this discussion.  At this point, I think it's more of a headache to change it than it's worth, and that as undesirable as being hypocritical is, it's so low on the priority scale, that I'm willing to let the matter go.  Then again, if you think you could convince Prod, you'd have my support.   Pro  cyon  02:50, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Lmao! I forgot that I got angry with you towards the end of that discussion :D  Pro  cyon  02:54, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, NMH created the first capitalized Getting Started page. If only someone would have corrected it back then... We probably should change it, but Getting Started, Walkthrough, and Appendices (our three main headings) are all title case! -- Prod (talk) 03:35, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Salnax nomination
Please see Requests for permissions/Salnax. -- 17:25, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Kickle Cubicle original title
Hi Procyon.


 * 迷宮 島 = Meikyuu Shima = Labyrinth Islands (Kickle Cubicle)
 * 迷宮 神話 = Meikyuu Shinwa = Labyrinth Myth (Eggerland 2)

I admit my knowledge of Japanese is just basic, but I compared the kanji from different titles, as shown above, and checked using an online translator. I understood that "Meikyuu" can be equally translated as "labyrinth", "puzzle" and "mystery", while "shima" is both singular and plural. I chose "labyrinth" because of the similarity with the title of a more famous Eggerland game, from the series that Kickle Cubicle has many elements in common with. What's your opinion? --Abacos (talk) 11:38, 17 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Labyrinth seems like a reference to the gameplay/tiled paths, but does mystery make sense in terms of the plot or setting? -- 15:34, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Edittools update
Please see Paco's post at MediaWiki_talk:Edittools. -- 17:08, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Deep Dungeon III: Yuushi he no Tabi romanization
Hi Proc, I hope you have time for this nuance. If ディープダンジョンIII 勇士への旅 literally translates as "Deep Dungeon III: The Journey to the Hero" why not use that as the title rather than the romanization? Also, if sticking with the romanization, why capitalize Yuushi (warrior/hero) and Tabi (journey)? Neither are proper nouns. -- 23:45, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi NMH, no problem, thanks for bringing this up. To answer the first question, I'm using the romanization because that's the name that the game was actually published as.  Since no actual game with the title "Deep Dungeon III: The Journey to the Hero" was ever published, it wouldn't be proper to title the article with that name.  That applies to any game that was only released in Japan, and nowhere else.  As for the capitalization, just as you didn't capitalize "to" and "the" in the English title, people don't capitalize "he" and "no" in Japanese.  Basically, I took the title exactly as it was provided on the wp:Deep Dungeon page.  However, I'm seeing more evidence that I should concatenate "he" and "no" into one word.  Pro  cyon  03:45, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Apologies
Hi Procyon. I apologize if I pointed out punctuation errors in the wrong way; truth is, in December I had to grade loads of reports from my Irish students, and they were full of grammar mistakes: in that case, it was my duty to point out their errors. I'm sorry I got carried away here, I didn't mean any harm, and I know I should not bring home work problems nor vice versa. By the way, my philosophy is always: "if you make a mistake, I tell you with no hard feelings, and if I make a mistake, please tell me with no hard feelings as well", although sometimes I stray from it, but that's a mistake that I accept gladly to be told! Like in Ultima 4, I keep striving for enlightment :-) --Abacos (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2013 (UTC)