User talk:Procyon

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Hello, Mobility

I would be happy to know two things. I may sound direct behind words but this talk page setup can be confusing. There is a project I would like to start, one for making the walkthroughs, wikis, or etc./game-lists offline and e-reader friendly. This may be hard work but if it can be made systematic than this can be portable-friendly for all digital readers. Any comments of where I should go or if this crusade is worth the grail than I would appreciate a holler. With Interest, The 7th Sage (talk) 14:16, 18 June 2013 (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 enlightenment :-) --Abacos (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Sysop nomination for Test

Please see StrategyWiki:Requests for permissions/T.testLP. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 20:35, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Fortune Street reply.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm just scratching my head. Even if I shouldn't mention Monopoly, it can be hard to explain how the game works. Anyway, it will be a long way since I tried without success, to find a walkthrough for this game. So making this should help alleviate that pressure. Anyway, better let you get on with your work.

Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 03:50, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

About your tip

Thank you for the tip; I actually misread the last contribution timestamp (I don't know how I could manage to misread that, I guess I just "read" 2013 and stopped).

Looking for maps in Gauntlet is a bit hard because "gauntlet level maps" are too common words: and when I do find maps, they're probably from a different version or just include the walls (no enemies, treasures, keys, or anything else). Anyways, since that date, I found a way to generate the complete maps (up to spawn points for all players), I'm currently tweaking it to make the task easier.

(It's based on stitching screenshots, of course, but I could edit the MAME cheats so enemies wouldn't move and I could pan the camera just how I like it. I'll upload the method to my user page.)

Thanks! ArenaL5 (talk) 13:46, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Area maps

Hello there,

Thank you very much pour your Pokémon B/R/Y walkthrough, which I found very instructive and complete.

I would like to know how you obtained the maps of the areas in the game, with all the sprites in it (for example, the map of Viridian Forest). Did you use a kind of tool to extract it from the game ROM ?

Thank you in advance if you can answer me.

Drake

Hi Drake, I actually just used publicly available maps which were generated on several Japanese websites, and modified them for use with the guide. I believe there are a few map ripping tools available for B/R/Y, but I have never used them before. I simply searched the web for maps which were not watermarked or claimed by any particular author. Hope that answers your question. Procyon 05:23, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick answer ! Yeah, I found some map editing tools but I could only have the maps with no sprites on it (no characters, items etc), so they seemed empty (I wanted the maps mostly for a nostalgic and collecting purpose). As you say, I will just search through the web to find already existing ripped maps, that should be simpler. Anyway, thanks again for your great work with this walkthrough !

Final Fantasy/Weapons: sentence complexity

Hi Procyon. I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I there's a misunderstanding. I edited the section exactly because I felt it was unnecessaryly complicated and I wanted to make it more clear and simple, but you just told me the opposite. No hard feelings, it's just... well... like climbing a mountain and finding yourself at the bottom of the valley :-) Ok, I'll try again. --Abacos (talk) 10:30, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Let me add this: just a couple of years ago I played for the first time Dragon Quest 4 (NES), where the characters have artificial intelligence. Thus I discovered the spellcasting weapons and the great usefulness of debuff spells, and this revolutioned my playing experience. Reading game guides, I seemed to understand that these two aspects are largely ignored by most players, who instead seem to focus just on dealing damage and healing. I therefore try to expand everyone's playing experience by highlighting these facts (I mean spellcasting weapons and debuff spells). Does it make things complicated? Maybe I should simply advertise Dragon Quest 4 a lot as RPG for beginners :-D --Abacos (talk) 11:12, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Understood! I remember now that my primary school teacher said: "Don't write sentences longer than three lines." Our excercise books were small, anyway. Short sentences is the key for easy reading, right? :-) --Abacos (talk) 09:27, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

As an exercise, I rewrote the Final_Fantasy/Black_magic#Recommendations section. If you have time, can you check if I managed to write less complex sentences? Thanks :-) --Abacos (talk) 17:24, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Duplicate Uploads

Sorry for the additional uploads on http://strategywiki.org/wiki/File:Pacman_Pattern.png

What happens, I see, is as soon as the new file is uploaded, it shows the old one as what was uploaded. So I tried again, and it still happened. I then realized this was the browser cache, and reloading made the new one appear; so I tried reverting, not realizing this would leave multiple copies of the file. So if you could delete those, at least the middle three. No sense to keep all those duplicates.Eric B (talk) 18:10, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Final_Fantasy/Weapons#Masamune

There's a little problem with the Masamune sword: check the comment by opening the section above for edit. --Abacos (talk) 18:55, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Problem solved. --Abacos (talk) 15:56, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Ultima 5: completion stage 4

Hi Procyon. I think I brought the guide for Ultima 5 to completion stage 4. Can you check if I forgot something?

I think I pretty much wrote the guide completely by myself. Is there a cookie for this? :-) --Abacos (talk) 15:42, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Demon Sword unused image

Can you check out where File:Fudo Myouoden item flame.png belongs to? While you're at it please also check if the first 14 images of Unused images are needed or not (especially the Button-images and Logos-images). Thanks in advance. Paco (talk) 10:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

No problem, that's for working so hard to clean all of these up. Your effort is very much appreciated Paco. Procyon 04:12, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm on thin ice

Hi Procyon. I expected that, I felt insulted and I overreacted. From now on I'll limit myself to editing guide content and I'll refrain from editing grammar, as I can't see which grammar rules are ok and which ones are to be taken easy.

But can I explain myself? The day before I just agreed with Moydow about that one edit, but then Paco wrote "we're not in school" and "your special grammar rules". From my point of view, that's an insult. First of all, because it's insulting schools, and second because that edit followed a codified grammar rule that was written down in grammar books. I accept the new grammar convention, as I said, and I'm not going to question grammar anymore, but I feel that Paco's words were unfair. Please tell me if I am over-sensitive. If I am, I apologize. --Abacos (talk) 10:46, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

I also think there is an administrator conflict: what was ok for Moydow was not ok for Paco. --Abacos (talk) 10:48, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

No ASCII

My mistake, I saved the page hastily because someone (my supervisor) popped in, but there was already a good Zelda map in the guide, and that ASCII in theory should have been just a reminder for myself on my sandbox. --Abacos (talk) 09:38, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Table sort

Hi Procyon. I usually put the sortable flag in most tables, I simply forgot about it lately. By the way, I never knew the names of monsters, that's why I never sort them by name. If I'm a minority, I just learned it now, so I have no problem changing trend. I usually sort monsters by earned experience, that is close to game progression, but there's no exp. in the Zelda series, indeed. Ok, I fix the page. --Abacos (talk) 14:03, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Browser

I'm using Chrome on Windows 7. The thing is, I usually get it back by pressing the forward button, but this time it didn't work for some reason. It told me I lost session data and wouldn't let me get it back. I just ended up starting over from scratch. This time, I was really unlucky. But now I'm taking a sort of different approach to what I was doing. It would be nice to know a few tips though. --PirateIzzy (talk) 01:07, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Please join this discussion

Hi Procyon, I am inviting you to join in on this conversation: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Megaminxwin#Unused_image --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 20:09, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Quick image edit?

Hey Proc, an anon found an error in one of your Final Fantasy maps. See this diff. I was able to verify this in the NES version, see this vid at 14:40. I also checked the GBA version (with a different map/tileset) - it also reaches that floor at the bottom right corner (where D is on the map, but should be "C"). See this vid at 6:30 for the GBA version. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 21:08, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

MapleStory skill template overhaul vote

Please see StrategyWiki:Staff lounge#MapleStory skill template overhaul vote. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 16:20, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

PirateIzzy nominated for adminship

I created the nomination, here: StrategyWiki:Requests for permissions/PirateIzzy. I was wondering if we still had the ability to do a site-wide announcement. I think nominations would be a good time to use this so we don't have to manually inform all sysops/active users. Do you know how to do it? Can I do it, or is it restricted to bureaucrats? --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 08:05, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Email

I sent you an email regarding a private matter. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 01:54, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Adminship nomination: PirateIzzy

Please see StrategyWiki:Requests for permissions/PirateIzzy. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 16:47, 14 November 2013 (UTC) It's okay, and thanks. I'm just happy I can take matters into my own hands now. And of course, I'll try to help out with other games as well, other than MS. --PirateIzzy (talk) 05:19, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Athena - a big thank you

Hi,

I'd like to personally thank you for the amazing effort you have put into the Athena FAQ. I've been trying to master this game for maybe 15 years, and its only been a year since I could even get off the FIRST LEVEL the game is so hard!

I recently spent £300 importing the arcade pcb from Japan and finally with this FAQ I feel I might be able to understand the mechanics behind this rare and weirdly playable game. If more than four people had ever heard of this title then perhaps there would be greater information on this game out there...

Thanks bro!

Atarijetman —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 188.30.194.28 (talk • contribs) .

Upload Wizard

Have you noticed that Upload Wizard adds unnecessary Summary and License sections? --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 05:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I have, it's kind of a drag, but it beats uploading 80 images individually... I'll see if Prod has any ability to customize it. Procyon 05:54, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Wizards & Warriors: Version comparison inquiry

Hi Procyon. For the NES game Wizards & Warriors, I would like to add an article about version difference between NES and Famicom. Would you please advise where I shall make it? Akumaxx (talk) 01:15, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Adventure Island flower sprites

Thanks for uploading the white one. However, given the strategy for coyotes, it sounds like there are one or two brown flower sprites that should be included on the enemy page so that we can visually distinguish which flowers indicate what. Thoughts? I can re-upload the first version of the flower you made. I assume that is the main brown flower. Akumaxx indicated that a second sprite was used to distinguish jumping coyotes later on in the game. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 19:31, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

I suppose, if you really feel like doing it. The thing is, it's not really an "item" as in it's not collectible. It's only a visual indication. As far as I can tell, the only difference between the normal coyote flower and the jumping coyote flower is the color of the stem. I think Akumaxx's screenshot could suffice. Maybe it should be blown up and zoomed in if anything. Procyon 04:36, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Original Japanese Titles vs. American

If a title is originally released in Japan, we have usually made that title the one of the guide here at StrategyWiki, though Prod's move of Shadow Land from its original title, Youkai Douchuuki, goes along with our style of being English-centric. Though we have a standardized way of romanizing Japanese titles, if that title feels uncommon to the original guide creator, then they would use the American title that they are used to. Simply put, American titles usually become our guide titles because that is what was played by the guide creator (who is assumed to be American). However, to be objective we would normally stick with the Japanese title. I don't have a preference, but it is a point of argument for Namcorules who wants Youkai Douchuuki to have its name be the primary one. F/A is a similar example, although I prefer the American title to overcome the mediawiki flaw with having "/" in a title's name. What I'm getting at is we should decide on whether the original Japanese name should be our standard, or if the primary English name should be our standard. Our options:

1. Original name centric (chronologically centric)
2. English centric

Either option is fine. I feel like we have been mixed so far, so I want to define it on SW:Guide's main page article regarding naming (will link later). I don't have a preference, though my bias is towards whatever version I have played - usually English centric. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 22:19, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

It's a very good question, I have a personal preference for option 2, but there are (very few) occasions when option 1 seems more practical, particularly when the game is obscure in either language. A lot of the games that Namcorules covers only make it big in Japan. They are released in North America with some American sounding name tacked on, but don't succeed, so even if you used the American name, nobody would really be familiar with it.

All that being said, my "when in doubt" solution is to look at Wikipedia. Wikipedia goes with both wp:Shadow Land over wp:Youkai Douchuuki (and wp:Yōkai Dōchūki), and they chose wp:Fighter & Attacker over wp:F/A. By in large, I think we should agree with them as much as possible since, presumably, they've chosen the term which is most likely the most frequently used search term. The only issue is... Namcorules can be a bit touchy about renaming guides :/ --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Procyon (talk • contribs) .

Well, since everyone chimed in on Namco's page, we will finish this there. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 17:20, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Two new featured guides

Hi Proc, can you take a look at http://strategywiki.org/wiki/StrategyWiki:Featured_guides/Current_requests and see if they can be upgraded now? I think they are both worthy. Thanks! --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 20:55, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

I know this is silly, but since I haven't done it before, I can do it? I am unsure of whether or not we need more support before making them featured. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 18:55, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Hey NMH, two things. First and foremost, I have absolute trust in you, so if you want to do it, I fully support you. Second, I apologize for not responding sooner, this has been a crazy week. However, I will have some free time over the weekend, when I can scrutinize the guides. I doubt that I will find anything that would prevent me from supporting the nominations, but if you don't mind waiting, I can take a look and officially add my support, then you can go ahead an promote the guides once I add my sig. Does that sound good to you? Procyon 00:15, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Zelda: A Link to the Past

On Zelda: A Link to the Past I can't get past dark world level 5 because the block that I push off can't be pushed over the tile with the button for some reason. Level 5 in Dark World is the lake and ice level. I can only push the block once, but in order to move it over the tile with the button I need to push it three times. What is going on? Qewr4231 (talk) 08:33, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

simcity societies scenarios walkthroughs

hi procyon, well i started to do some work in the SCSD guides as it isn't a very popular game and the section is REALLY very abandoned, personally, your deletion request really freaked me out, I already read your warnings and recommendations so the article should be clean now, if there is something still lacking, please help fixing it as i am not a native speaker and the wild typo can suddenly appear sometimes, that's all by now i'll go back to expanding the walkthroughs.ErnstCornell (talk) 23:43, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Bionic Commando (NES) nominated for featured guide

Please add your support/comments to StrategyWiki:Featured guides/Current requests. Thank you. --

Yeah, no problem. I know how busy we all are, so if I don't see a response for a couple of days I figure I might as well go ahead with "being bold" as we say here. I haven't messed with featured guides in a long time so I was at first hesitant, which is why I asked you to do it at first. Just let me know if you notice any big changes that should be discussed. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 21:59, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Mega Man

The issue is that it's a four boss run, without any healing. Ice Man is the most powerful of the Robot Masters in terms of attack power, and is deadly on his own. The player will have already fought Bomb Man and Fire Man, and will likely be injured, and they need to have enough health to survive Guts Man afterwards. It doesn't make any sense to suggest a skill-based strategy in that circumstance, since failing to dodge leads to taking a lot of damage. The thing about the Robot Masters' stages is that you don't need to have mastered the strategy for beating them in order to defeat them, you just need to win once to clear their stage. In my case, I took a break from the game for a week or two after beating the Robot Masters since Yellow Devil was a major pain, and then came back and finished it off, so fighting Ice Man was hardly fresh (I was playing on the 3DS, which allows me to suspend play). I get that if you put a lot of time into building the skills to fight Ice Man, you're going to feel that you should use them, but there isn't any reason whatsoever to do that the second time round, since once you've killed him you can flee the scene. --Poppy Appletree (talk) 04:28, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Data loss

Well, looks like I'll have to save everything I do in a text document in case this happens again. I'll just look up a video of the quests to re-do them. And if I can think of anything, I'll let you guys know. --PirateIzzy (talk) 04:32, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Alright, I'll keep that in mind, thanks. Text documents work pretty good for me too though. --PirateIzzy (talk) 02:57, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Pokemon red world map

Excuse me, can I please ask why the complete world map of pokemon red was removed? I thought it would be a great inclusion since players could use it to follow the walkthrough better. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 50.148.26.78 (talk • contribs) .

Because it was redundant to the content already available on the site. Maps for all locations are available on the pages which reference them. Why would we ask users to visit a different site and switch back and forth between windows and tabs when all of the information is cleanly presented on one page? We're not a showcase for other site's features, no matter how cool they may be. Off-site linking should only occur if the content is out of scope for the site. Procyon 00:26, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

ah, okay. That makes sense. Well cheers, and thanks for the great job on the walkthrough. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 50.148.26.78 (talk • contribs) .

Support

Thanks so much for supporting me on Super Mario Bros. 2 and finishing up Super Mario Advance that helped out a lot :) - RodKimble (talk) 20:20, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Donkey Kong walkthrough adjustments

Talk:Donkey Kong/Walkthrough. A new user brought up some issues. Appears to be version differences related. Please respond, thanks. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 17:10, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Pokemon crystal

What did you mean by this diff? Crystal shares the same ToC as Gold and Silver... --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 05:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey

This user is an admin.

Current status	Inactive
Registration date	November 29th, 2006
Sysop Adminship	June 28, 2007
Bureaucrat promotion	April 21, 2015
Gender	Male
Location	USA (WA)
Age	27
Time Zone	Pacific (GMT -08:00)
Occupation	Network Engineer System Administrator Wireless Deployment Specialist Office Manager
Consoles in possession	Dreamcast GameCube Nintendo 64 PC Playstation PS2 Sega Genesis Super Nintendo Wii Xbox 360
Currently playing	Chrono Trigger (Android) Larva Mortus (Steam) Super Meat Boy (Steam) Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Heroes of the Storm Hyrule Warriors Kritika: The White Knights New Super Mario Bros. Wii Super Mario 3D World Terra Battle (Android) Volgarr the Viking
Links/Tools	Special:Notifications Calendar My images A list of "major" contributions Games I own Games I've completed Special thanks Lua notes Extension:GraphViz (for flow charts and diagrams) Good Japanese translator. MediaWiki:Newarticletext (preload buttons) Special:Interwiki SW code editing MediaWiki:Common.css MediaWiki:Common.js MediaWiki:Dolphin.css dolphin.js (not editable via wiki)

Hello, I am one of the few bureaucrats at SW. I am currently inactive (as of January 2020). I am excellent at persevering through criticism, which I hope is to the benefit of SW. I (and others) sometimes abbreviate my alias as NMH.

I patrol unpatrolled edits. If I see that you are significantly contributing to StrategyWiki, you may see me praise you with a thank you notification. I really appreciate everyone's hard work here. =)

I spend most of my game-related time on retro games, flash games that are not part of SW's scope, or MMOs too large and daunting for one person to work on. I have come and gone from SW over the past 7 years, but I always seem to return.

You can find some of my contributions through the links at the bottom of the infobox (on the right side of this page).

Need help?

Ask on either my talk page or the Staff Lounge.

Profile

I've protected my pages from being edited by non-sysops, but if you have an idea for making them better go ahead and discuss it with me on my talk page.

About me

I love and, to some extent, am addicted to video games. I enjoy gathering data for them just as much (maybe even more).

I perform all of my edits by hand. The most automated processes I rely on are copy/paste, some regular expressions and the find functions within Firefox or IE. I am currently trying to experiment with AutoWikiBrowser using my bot, Notmybot.

History

In November, 2006, I was writing articles on Wikipedia for Gunster: Rain of Bullets and non-video game topics when I noticed that "game guide information" was not allowed on Wikipedia. I panicked and, seeking refuge for my work, found GameInfo at Wikia (where I dumped some of my contributions) and then later StrategyWiki. Since SW had an active community and a much more original skin and organization, it had me hooked.

Interaction with the wiki

I most often work with monitoring MapleStory edits. I also spend a lot of time copy editing the content of guides, creating new article pages, setting up guides for others, solving editing problems, and contributing what I can remember from playing games ("walkthrough dumps"). I also work with screenshots, image touch ups and transparency, content verification, inquiry (clarifications and suggestions), helping discuss community issues, and handling (pun intended) vandalism.

Current studies

I am currently enrolled in a university where I am pursuing an undergraduate management degree program with a minor in information technology. I hope to grow in my ability to apply these concepts, especially to StrategyWiki and other communities.

My gaming history

Although I am relatively young, I grew up playing NES and Atari games, and I still have many if not all of my NES carts (my brothers and I went through maybe 4 systems but none survived). PC games were also a big thing, since my brother purchased a Pentium 400 or something that I used to play Commander Keen games, Scorched Earth, and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans on. Eventually I killed that computer (probably by formatting it) and we got a newer one later which I used to play Ascendancy, Civilization, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and The Secret of Monkey Island on (all of which I sucked at). I also remember watching my brothers play some of the first online video games, such as "Tomato Wars", an ascii dodgeball game that looked like a single room from Adventure (for Atari), but with stick figures.

I think I was 8 or so before I got my SNES (it was like $115 used with several games), which I still have (yet it's now broken, and I will soon find a FC Twin to replace it). I was given Shadow Run as part of the bundle, however because I was quite young and impatient, I went and traded it for Secret of Mana; a great trade indeed (although I had to pay an extra $20 or so during the exchange). I feel bad for getting rid of that game though. I have only traded/sold around five games in my life and I have regretted every single exchange. Unrelated: I remember writing an "essay" in the third grade where I wrote about skateboarding safety equipment themed from the sprites and items present in Secret of Mana... wow.

Sold games

• Shadow Run
• SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
• Vagrant Story
• this one basketball game for Xbox though I gave it away instead of selling it

Lost games ='(

• Banjo Kazooie
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

When I turned 11, 5th grade, I rented an N64 and had a party with a couple of friends, playing GoldenEye 007 and Star Fox 64 throughout the night. That December my cousins and my brothers received an N64 to be split between us. After several years of swapping my family ended up with the system (which I still have).

Around the age of 14 I got a GameCube for my birthday with Luigi's Mansion.

At the age of 16 I got a student Visa with a low limit. Thus the ability to purchase things online was now mine. I went on a Genesis rampage and now have 2-3 consoles, about 10 controllers, several crazy adapters, a 32X without a connector cable, a Menacer Rifle, about 8 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 cartridges, and many other games.

I recently acquired a PlayStation, and am borrowing (for a very long time) a PlayStation 2 (one that cannot play PSX games, so I am glad to have both systems).

Now I spend most of my time playing free games, or games on Steam.

Favorite games

• Ascendancy
• ActRaiser / ActRaiser 2
• Beyond Oasis
• Blaster Master
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Chrono Trigger
• Commander Keen series
• Contra: Hard Corps
• Counter-Strike
• Darkwing Duck
• Devil May Cry
• Diablo II & LOD
• Diablo III & Reaper of Souls
• Drakengard
• DuckTales
• E.V.O.: Search for Eden

• Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, MQ, XIV
• Flash Flash Revolution
• Gauntlet Dark Legacy
• Guerilla War
• Heroes of the Storm
• Legendary Wings
• Little Nemo: The Dream Master
• Heroes of Might and Magic III
• Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

• Killer Instinct
• Legend of Mana
• League of Legends
• MapleStory
• Master of Magic
• Mega Man 1-8, X1-6

• Rogue Squadron
• Secret of Mana
• Soul Blazer
• StarCraft & Brood War
• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, Legacy of the Void
• Stepmania
• Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

• Super Meat Boy
• Viking: Battle for Asgard
• Volgarr the Viking
• Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
• Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos & The Frozen Throne
• World of Warcraft/TBC/WotLK

PC/Phone Specs

PC 1

• 1.75GHZ AMD Sempron 2500+
• ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard
• 1GB Rosewill (2x512MB, PC2700) SDRAM
• 80GB Seagate Barracuda (PATA)
• 200GB Seagate Barracuda (SATA with Rosewill bridge)
• 450W Power Supply
• ASUS GeForce MX 4000 V9400 64MB AGP GFX Card
• Additional USB/Firewire port PCI card

PC 2

• AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.66GHZ)
• PCChips M811 V3.1 Motherboard
• 512MB (2x Modules) SDRAM
• MSI NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB w/ Zalman VF700-Cu heatsink, AGP GFX Card
• 160GB SATA Seagate with Rosewill bridge.
• 80GB Seagate Barricuda
• Rosewill 500W RE501 Extreme Edition Powersupply
• APEVIA (ASPIRE) X-Pleasure BK Case

PC 3

• AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6GHZ)
• 1GB DDR SDRAM
• Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB AGP Gfx Card
• SB Live! Wave Device Sound Card

Notebook 1 (Primary)

• Acer Aspire 5739G
• 15.6" HD LED LCD, 16:9 ratio
• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1
• Intel Core2 Duo T6500 2.1Ghz
• 4.00GB of RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M Cuda (1GB RAM)
• 216GB HDD (advertised as 250)
• CD/DVD RW DL Drive

Phone

• Motorola 'Moto' X 1st Gen, Model XT...
• 4.7" screen, 720 x 1280 pixels
• Android 4.4.2 Kit Kat
• Kernel version: 3.4.42

High scores and other stats

Aero Fighters
Endurance mode	1'35'99 with Hien
Batman III
100,863
Beyond Oasis
First run, via Xbox 360: Time: 5 hours 17 minutes Rank: 30 Max H.P: 258 Max S.P: 350 Deaths: 0 Kills: 777 Jewels: 50/60 Class: Myrmidon
Mega Man
256,400 No powers used Gutsman destroyed Fireman destroyed
Mega Man X
Best Speed Run w/o powers: 2 hours and 30 minutes Best Speed Run w/ powers: N/A Has completed Sigma stages without the leg upgrade.
Star Fox 64
Normal	1325 Downed 5 Medals
Expert
Super Mario Bros
Speed run times (route w/ warps)	1-1: 367 remaining 1-2: 330 remaining 4-1: 340 remaining 4-2: 342 remaining 8-1: 168 remaining 8-2: 301 remaining 8-3: 236 remaining 8-4: 282 remaining
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Cruel Brawl	21 KO's w/ Pit.
Super Mario Bros.
Final Score	556,450
Time	N/A
Resident Evil 5
Professional completion time	4'08'46 (with infinite Rocket Launcher).
Veteran completion time	4'05' (with infinite ammo for MG, MAG, RIF, and Gatling Gun).
MMOGs and MMORPGs
Game	Level(s)
AdventureQuest	64, Guardian since 2004
Drift City	30
Dungeons & Dragons Online	15
Earth Eternal	10-15
EpicDuel	7
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn	50 Warrior, 15 Gladiator, 11 Pugilist, all other classes average level 4.
GoonZu Online (Luminary)	20?
Heroes of the Storm	Player level: 34 Number of heroes purchased: 3 (Abathur, Gazlowe, Thrall) All characters level 4+ (except Murky and Lost Vikings)
Kritika: The White Knights	Level 52 CP: 51K+
League of Legends	30
Mabinogi	10 or so
MapleStory (GMS)	Bellocan 109 Mihile (SWEditor) 77 Mechanic 67 Luminous 60 Aran 41 Assassin 34 Mercedes 16 Cannoneer Other 28 Rogue 20 Dawn Warrior 20 Warrior 10 Mihile 10 Magician
Warrior Epic	11 Spellbinder, 5 Outcast, 5 Devotress
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King	Main: 80 T7/8 Undead Priest; quit when Ulduar was fresh.

Sysop info

Note, edit stats are from ~2013.

Alias	Account Creation Date or Date of First Edit	Adminship Date	# of Edits
0-172 (talk · contribs)	August 10, 2006	January 8, 2007	4,424
Arrow (talk · contribs)	November 28, 2007	August 23, 2008	4,928
Blendmaster (talk · contribs)	January 16, 2006	July 30, 2007	998
Bmuig (talk · contribs)	September 8, 2007	March 8, 2008	3,289
Dan (talk · contribs)	January 5, 2006	January 12, 2006 (Sysop & Bureaucrat)	875
DrBob (talk · contribs)	April 21, 2006	June 17, 2006 (Sysop) July 9, 2006 (Bureaucrat)	21,471
Dukeruckley (talk · contribs)	June 2, 2006	July 5, 2006	4,477
Echelon (talk · contribs)	December 3, 2005 December 17, 2007 (First Edit)	December 17, 2005	1,703
Garrett (talk · contribs)	June 2, 2005	March 11, 2006 (Sysop & Bureaucrat)	20,887
Hack (talk · contribs)	December 21, 2005	December 28, 2005 (Sysop) January 6, 2006 (Bureaucrat)	617
Inarius (talk · contribs)	March 9, 2006	October 18, 2006	406
IsaacGS (talk · contribs)	December 11, 2006	July, 29 2007	6,996
Koweja (talk · contribs)	July 14, 2006	March 8, 2008	3,316
Mason11987 (talk · contribs)	January, 2 2006	June 23, 2006	2,674
Melon247 (talk · contribs)	March 26, 2008	September 12, 2009	4,084
Moydow (talk · contribs)	January 15, 2010	June 20, 2010	4,001
Najzere (talk · contribs)	October 3, 2008	November 21, 2008	43,939
Notmyhandle (talk · contribs)	November 11, 2006	June 28, 2007	32,123
Paco (talk · contribs)	March 6, 2012	October 2, 2012	4,000?
PowerMatt (talk · contribs)	July 21, 2006	January 11, 2008	70
Procyon (talk · contribs)	January 9, 2006	September 5, 2006 (Sysop) November 30, 2007 (Bureaucrat)	32,731
Prod (talk · contribs)	December 3, 2005	October 18, 2006 (Sysop) May 10, 2008 (Bureaucrat)	28,351
Rocky (talk · contribs)	February 4, 2007	April 11, 2007	11,860
RobJ1981 (talk · contribs)	August 3, 2006	April 24, 2008	2,429
Ryan Schmidt (talk · contribs)	May 10, 2006	March 6, 2007 (Sysop) September 17, 2008 (Bureaucrat)	5,454
Sakurina (talk · contribs)	December 27, 2005	December 28, 2005	162
Sigma 7 (talk · contribs)	January 28, 2009	April 7, 2009	6,002
Teddy (talk · contribs)	February 19, 2008	February 20, 2008	1,088
Vizeroth (talk · contribs)	December 26, 2007	April 16, 2009	3,944
Zaiqukaj (talk · contribs)	June 11, 2007	November 30, 2007	3,871

Sysop bots

Alias	Owner	# of Edits
Auto Prod Bot (talk · contribs)	Prod (talk · contribs)	13,881
Boothby (bot) (talk · contribs)	DrBob (talk · contribs)	4,566
Garrbot (talk · contribs)	Garrett (talk · contribs)	4,956
HAL (bot) (talk · contribs)	Echelon (talk · contribs)	1
NajBot (talk · contribs)	Najzere (talk · contribs)	22,306
Notmybot (talk · contribs)	Notmyhandle (talk · contribs)	1
Sigmabot (talk · contribs)	Sigma 7 (talk · contribs)	139
Vandalbot (talk · contribs)	Ryan Schmidt (talk · contribs)	164

Misc

My MTG card.

Edit count: 26,592
Main	14,767
Talk	498
User	945
User talk	2,424
Project	829
Project talk	450
File	3,682
File talk	1
MediaWiki	15
MediaWiki talk	10
Template	988
Template talk	73
Help	1
Category	789
Category talk	16
Last run: November 10, 2012

"The Hot Q: Grand Theft Auto 4
...It's something I get asked about a lot (thanks for the E-mails, guys - you know who you are). It's Grand Theft Auto 4, and prepare yourselves for a whopper of a rumor, folks. Here goes: The just-announced Grand Thef Auto: Vice City is just the beginning of what will become known as the GTA Universe. After Vice City, the next Grand Theft Auto game will be dubbed "Crime Online." And if you haven't guessed by now, it's going to be the first console-networked title in the series. There will be a new stand-alone GTA as well, but that's still a ways off..." --Q-Mann, EGM August 2002.

8Bit transformation

"Hi Aniki! I've used the same technique on Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Galaxian. I discovered the technique to making them when I discovered this page on a video-game blog: http://iconfactory.com/freeware/preview/arcd I saw it and set about figuring out how to recreate the effect. I can teach you exactly how I do it (which may or may not necessarily be how Gedeon Maheux developed them, although I've been in contact with him and he said they're very close.) I use GIMP 2.2

1. Start with the original sprite, and scale it 7x
2. Duplicate the sprite in a new layer and shift it to the right 7 pixels. Darken the new layer through the Brightness and Contrast tool (I darken it by -96)
3. Duplicate the sprite yet again in another layer, but only shift it one pixel to the right. Brighten this layer with the Brightness and Contrast tool (I brighten it by 127.) This layer goes between the original and the dark version.
4. Now it gets a bit tricky. Select the transparent space (or background color) around the sprite in the original layer. I hit Shift+Q to show the selection mask, then I push it over to the left by one pixel. Hit Shift+Q again to go back to the selection mode and press Ctrl-X to chop off the rightmost pixels. This exposes a little more of the lighter pixels underneath on the right side.
5. Again, select the transparent space around the sprite in the original layer. Now invert the selection so you're only selecting the sprite. Create a new layer, and choose the gradiant tool with a gradiant that goes from black to white. With the area over the sprite selected, create gradiant straight across the sprite. When you're done, select that layer in the layer dialog, and choose "Grain Merge" and set the opacity to 50% to soften the effect.
6. Lastly, you want to sample the transparent space around the entire image (check the "Sample Merged" checkbox.) Pick one of the dominant colors of the sprite, and darken it substantially. Fill the transparent area with the dark color, and then shrink the selection by 4, and feather it by 2.0, then press Ctrl-X to cut it and create the dark border around the entire picture, and viola.

That's the best way that I can explain it to you. If you're unfamiliar with GIMP, IM me @ procyoncoon through AIM or Yahoo. Good luck! Procyon 09:03, 31 August 2006 (CDT)"

July 12, 2009

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game cover

Congratulations!
Procyon is the winner of the Walkthrough competition!Your guide, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, was the winning walkthrough!

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Rules

Romanizations

For more details on this topic, see StrategyWiki:Guide/Main game page#Japanese exclusive titles.

• SW Japanese Romanization simply follows the romanization of their hiragana constituents. In the case of Kanji, refer to the On'yomi readings to break it down to where the vowels can be pieced together. Sometimes a Japanese dictionary is necessary to determine which reading is appropriate to the context of its use. E.g. if you know what the word means in English, find the reading for the character that matches that translation (e.g. for Senpuukyaku, puu can appear as pu or puu, but puu is the word that means air, which matches the whirlwind kick translation).
• For Genpei Touma Den series games:
  • 源 -> げん (gen) -> gen
  • 平 -> へい (hei) -> ぺい (pei) -> pei
    • Genpei
  • 討 -> とう (tō) -> tou
  • 魔 -> ま (ma) -> ma
    • Touma
  • 伝-> でん -> Den
• For Naruto Clash of Ninja series games:
  • 激闘 -> げきとう -> Gekitō -> Gekitou (Ge, ki, to, u)
  • 疾風伝 -> しっぷうでん -> Shippūden -> Shippuuden (shi, little tsu, pu, u, de, n)
• For Street Fighter games:
  • 竜巻 -> たつまき (kun'yomi) -> Tatsumaki (ta, tsu, ma, ki)
  • 旋風脚 -> せんふうきゃく -> Senpuukyaku (se, n, fu, u, kya, ku) - note that the fuu here has been replaced by a puu - no explanation has been discovered as to why
• For Shadow Land (Youkai Douchuuki):
  • 妖怪 -> ようかい -> Youkai (yo, u, ka, i)
  • 道中記 -> どうちゅうき -> Douchuuki (do, u, chu, u, ki)
• For 64 Ousumou and all sumo games (Oosumou means grand sumo, as in a tournament or pro match, or professional sumo wrestling):
  • 大相撲
    • Literal transcription -> おおすもう -> Oosumou (this is never used; use sumou or oozumou)
    • Arbitrary cultural version -> おおずもう -> Oozumou (this is the one used by professional sumo wrestling)

Templates

• {{paddedfloat}}: used to center text under a walkthrough link.
• {{im}}: for in-line images. Best used as a base for a guide-specific clone. Most notable clones are {{im/oot}}, {{im/loz}}, and {{im/mmx}}., I know they do, I was just trying to exclude the use of the Template:T:Sidebar for only Crystal-exclusive information, much like how you're highlighting the instances of Super Mario Advance information. In that particular edit, the sidebox a) wasn't about information exclusive to Crystal and b) wasn't about anything that wasn't mentioned elsewhere (in the items section) and that the player couldn't figure out on their own anyhow. So I just chopped that one instead of trying to find a new home for the info. Procyon 23:39, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Picross e series naming conventions

Hi Proc, I need some help. Jupiter corporation lists their games on their site with the following typeset format: PICROSS e#. Standard naming conventions for titles would display it as Picross E#. However, I started a naming trend here like so: Picross e#, which follows sentence case. Which one should we go with? --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 17:04, 31 March 2014 (UTC)