If she blocked you- probably just easier to do this on our own.

Hopefully it's present in the EU disc, so I can use a rip from that to patch instead of downloading a JP rip.

Hearing mixed info on whether or not objects for the map exist...

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Can we protect the Cave Story article until this whole mess blows over?

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So- been getting the video for the article. Just recording everything; I'll cut segments from this I use.

It's something like 20GB in total.

Coming soon: a TCRF article on this TCRF article

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Hey, do we have a FLV plugin yet?

Getting videos for the Xenoblade page ready; converting the important parts of my huge 40-minute FRAPS screendump to FLV files for the page.

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Wasn't aware we had an ogg video handler. If we have it, that's excellent; far better than shitty flash videos.

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We apparently have a 20MB limit on uploads.

That's a bit small for these- none of these videos are more than a couple minutes long, but I can't get any of them under 20MB.

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European disc version has its own installer, doesn't it? Should make sure those aren't used there.

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Swordplay works well, but the MotionPlus aiming for slingshot/beetle/etc. is problematic. I don't see why they couldn't have used the IR pointer! Didn't they have that working at E3?

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No one's actually checked that yet...

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Yeah- that's an ongoing project which is currently held up by the downtime preventing Xkeeper from uploading some videos.

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Fun fact: MP3 proto has settings for "Fire Ball" and "Ice Ball" Morph Ball upgrades. Seem to be totally unimplemented.

Seems that Retro has a thing for ridiculous, stupid Morph Ball upgrades that get canned before anyone actually does real work on them- see Prime 2's random beam-bombs and now these.

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Even at a 2:1 scale, Minecraft blocks are not sufficient to make a decent-looking RX-78-2 Gundam.

dem noodle arms and dat mono-eye

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Originally posted by RahanAkero

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...MAKE A ZAKU. You know you want to.

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Should be three times easier to do Char's Zaku than a Gundam!

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I am getting to those!

Also- Victory is supposed to be depressing, but after a while the sheer number of characters who show up, introduce themselves, and die horribly is kinda funny. "Okay, so we have a name. Now... guillotine? Crushing? Explosion? How are you going to die?" Eventually you just expect anyone with a name to die pointlessly, painfully, and soon.

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Finished Victory. Angel Halo is fucking terrifying; managed to cross from dramatic to funny back to dramatic with the bodycount, which is impressive! (On a related note: Victory's credits were clearly done by people who had never watched an episode of the show; it's hilarious how upbeat they are when the series itself is this bloodbath.)

Probably going to wrap up the OVAs next- 0083 and the MSIGLOO stuff. Then G?

After the last of the 0079 OVAs and G Gundam I'll just have the dregs of the franchise, really- SEED, 00 (I hear the movie is supposed to be really, really awful?) and Endless Waltz.

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Oh, right. I watched Wing at one point.

That is one impressively forgettable series.

also, at the risk of being gutted: G Gundam sucks. Really hard.

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I watched everything else subbed! It didn't pose too much of a problem.

G Gundam is hilarious sometimes, but it doesn't keep up the same fever pitch of insanity the whole way through; it spends too much time attempting to treat its subject matter with just the teensiest bit of seriousness, and that ruins the whole show.

I have MSIGLOO left (all of it) and then I'm out of UC until Unicorn 5 hits. Supposedly MSIGLOO is really good, and I'm willing to believe that.

Still looks like a PS2 JRPG cutscene.

Once that's done with- Endless Waltz is a Wing sequel, which automatically makes me suspicious of it. I know I watched every episode of Gundam Wing, but I can't recall a single plot point; it's just so BLAND.

SEED is supposedly an average series with a really, really horrid sequel, right? And shitty animation, but it can't outdo 0079 in that regard.

00- I understand the series is a subject of mixed opinions, but the movie is unanimously agreed to suck hard.

Which of these should be next? Don't say AGE; I don't intend to watch it until it's finished airing. Supposedly it sucks anyway.

And because I know you all care so much, here is Afti's Gundam Ranking, compiled from what I've seen so far:

Best

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
Turn A Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
Mobile Suit Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

Everything above this line is good to excellent and should absolutely be watched

After War Gundam X

Everything below this line is bad, and I would not recommend watching any of these

Mobile Suit Gundam F91
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
Mobile Fighter G Gundam
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing

Worst

Feel free to recommend non-Gundam; this should help you to get an idea of what series I might like.

Unicorn isn't finished yet, but it'll probably be up there with the 90's OVAs if it doesn't go anywhere stupid with its plot.

I really wish F91 had been a series like it was supposed to; there are traces of something interesting there. But it's just so hopelessly muddled- 14 episodes cut into one movie, without 0079's pacing issues, result in something absolutely unwatchable. I'd watch F91 produced as a series in a heartbeat, but I really can't say much good about what we got.

ZZ would be an acceptable series if the first 20 or so episodes were cut into four or five; it just drags on WAY too long with no plot to speak of. That, and the ZZ is a terrible mech design!

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