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Saturday, October 13, 1901
11:21PM EST
I was wwatching the news and Al Qaeda released another message to the USA. "Stay out of airplanes and tall buildings," the message said. This got me thinking. I have now added a new feature to my site, the "Kiss My Ass Award".
Here is the first winner:
3:28PM EST
ATTENTION: If you have a Playstation 2, you MUST play Ico. It is absolutely awesome.
It is pretty short; it took me about 7 hours to complete, but if you ranked games by "Gaming Goodness" per hour, Ico is definitely numero uno after those 7 hours. The game sucks you in like no other game I have ever played. The gameplay never dimishes the ENTIRE time you play. It is that good. The graphics are absolutely stunning, but the fun factor is through the roof. Wow.
Wow.
NOTE: I still think Chrono Trigger is far and away the best game ever. You should still play Ico, though. It is one great game.
Friday, October 12, 1901 2:54PM EST
I have a question for you,
What is a good, free message board service? I used to have Coolboards, but they went out of business. I went to another service, but they went out of service. Do you know of any good services? Please contact SquareSoftWizard if you have any ideas. Thanks.
Monday, October 8, 1901 2:26PM EST
Well, in case you haven't heard, Star Wars Episode II is called Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. I guess its a B-Movie or something, the title really doesn't bother me too much, unlike some other people. I think Star Wars is going down the toilet. While Phantom Menace was all out cool, there was one thing that destroyed that movie. Everyone say it with me: JAR JAR BINKS! What a disgrace. The movie is tainted by his presence and AOTC is tainted by his encore presence. Aye ye ye. I came to thinking what the next movie (Ep. III) would be titled. Here are my finalists(along with the other movie titles):
SquareSoftWizard's Belief in Star Wars (at least for now...)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Hypothetical Titles for Episode III
Star Wars: The Jedi Who Shagged Me
Star Wars VI
Star Wars: Jedis in Space
Star Wars: Yoda's Birthday
Star Wars and the Sorceror's (Philosopher's to all you British) Stone
Star Wars: Retreat of the Clones
Star Wars: The Movie
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
My personal favorite is Star Wars: The Movie. Oh yeah, Star Trek is still better than Star Wars.
Sunday, October 7, 1901
4:11PM EST
MWAHAHAHAHAHA! Terrorism Wars: The US Strikes Back!
4:11PM EST
Oh boy, you should see Resident Evil on the Game Cube. Looks purdy. But, if they even touch the voices I'll scream! The first RE will always be remembered as the best "Worst Voice Acting in a Video Game" game. We have some memorable moments like: The famous: Jill the "Master of Unlocking" "Barry, where's Barry?" "No, don't go." And the very cool "Resident Evil"
Wednesday, October 3, 1901
4:09AM EST
I uploaded a partial New Arena Battle. I did it all in JavaScript so anyone can play with it on the fly right through their browser (after you save it to your computer). I haven't done the battle engine yet but the statistics engine is coded. You can check it out here. Go ahead and view source and play with the numbers. You can get a lot of neat/interesting stats with it. I implemeted a scripted event value for items so that any item can basically do anything you want it to do at an event (such as recalc the stats, or attack in battle). Because only the stat engine is done, the only events are heal, and recalc. I have only implemeted item-events in the recalc for now. I have the limit enabled (Level 99, Strength 255, etc). Turn it off to see the characters reach incredible powers. Have fun with it if you want; I will be working on the battle engine. Just don't go ripping my code off...
3:27AM EST
I added a NOSCRIPT tag to the menu for certain browsers (eg. lynx).
3:07AM EST
I fixed some broken links and cleaned up some space.
Tuesday, October 2, 1901 6:53PM EST
Wanna kill Osama Bin Laden? Well now you can, all day long! Just check out this article.
Monday, September 24, 1901 3:17PM EST
This has nothing to do with Chrono Trigger/Cross, but if you are interested in computer architecture and such, there is an excellent article: Technology Review - It's Time for Clockless Chips
Thursday, September 20, 1901 10:44PM EST
The RPG engine for the Arena should be up soon. 'Should' being the operative word...
Wednesday, September 12, 1901
12:00AM EST America Under Attack
6:59PM EST
No new updates.
Monday, September 10, 1901 12:06AM EST
I am preparing to upload a series of files on statistical analysis in relation to RPGs. It sounds like nerdy stuff but it really gets to the core of understanding the RPG stat system. I started my own model and then decided to scrap it and continue off of the orignal The Arena: Match of the Moment model I already started a few months back. Whether you know or not, the code behind the arena is actaully based off of linear equations that derive certain statistics for a character at a certain level. A more accurate piece of code would be using a quadratic equation that allows for an amount of geometric growth beyond a finite amount per level. Previously I used 2 reference points to derive statistical interpolation. If you look closely, you will also see that I fudged a few of the stats (*cough*robo*cough*) and the enemies all share the same stats (which generally blow away the heroes anyway). In the meantime I need to collect data for characters at different levels to understand their potentials. A problem will arise if a custom value is set for each level (such as a sudden HP max growth at level 20). A little deviation of growth is also present during level up, and I will try to find that deviation's value. For those that don't care. Okie dokie.
Sunday, September 9, 1901 11:11PM EST
Hmmm... Apparently I received a congratulations from Geocities (hosting files for me) for using more than my alotted allotted bandwidth. Right.... So as a reward they are going to charge me or shut the site down. Right... So I have a simple solution. I get a few more accounts and split my files up. Cut in half my bandwidth it should do (uh, yeah). Just so you know, the files (specifically music files) may be periodically unavailable this month until my average bandwidth rate drops to uncongratulatory (Not a word, but it fits the situation enough to give it "temporary word" status.) status. (I like to put stuff in brackets (see))
Saturday, September 8, 1901 6:03PM EST
First of all, I didn't know there were 2 Saturdays this week...
Second of all, I got Final Fantasy Chronicles. My opinion is that like Final Fantasy Anthology, you get two games for the price of one. You get Chrono Trigger (*imitating Homer*: Chrono Trigger.... ah... *drool*) and Final Fantasy 4. In Final Fantasy Anthology you got treated with the original Final Fantasy 6 and the officially translated Final Fantasy 5. With Final Fantasy Chronicles, things are little different. First, Final Fantasy 4 is the original Japanese version (in English, of course). Nice. Second, Chrono Trigger is something of a remix of the original. Some dialog and such is tweaked to make it fit more with Chrono Cross. A note: If you want genuine Chrono Trigger, get the SNES cart; it is definitely worth it.
My warning to you fantatics: "Do NOT look at this as the original game. Look at this for what it is: a remix". The game itself is very, very, very much like the original, except for the occasional cutscene. Newcomers to Chrono Trigger will not be left out. The load times before and after every battle get annoying, but this you get used to especially when you realize that cartridge RPGs on the SNES at that time still took longer to begin and finish a battle anyway (with all those zoom-in-the-screen-like-your-smacking-the-player-in-the-face-with-the-map shots).
One thing I noticed that I find wierd is that the normal boss music has the first stanza repeated twice. Odd. Again loyalists, to stop from fuming at this you should look at it as a remix. Ayla's theme also seems a little different. Maybe the instruments are a little different. Some of the songs that have an echo present (Like a lot of the future songs) seem to lack the echo which seems to 'dry' out the song.
All in all, this compilation takes basically nothing away from the original and gives much, much, more (Wait till you see all the extras! :) ). I think they did a better job on Final Fantasy Chronicles than Final Fantasy Anthology.
And thats the end of that story... Saturday Tuesday, September 4, 1901 3:56PM EST
A visitor pointed out something to me. Some how, some way, someone somewhere likes Gobots. Just so you know how inferior the Gobots are to Transformers, Mattel (owner of Transformers) bought the Gobots license and then destroyed it. No more Gobots. End of story.
"This message will self-destruct if not stored properly."
-- The Simpsons
Saturday, September 1, 1901
5:18PM EST
Hate those popup ads? Hate those programs that say they remove popup ads? Hate those popunder ads? Hate those prog... You get the picture. You want to settle this problem? All you need is proxomitron and a little web coding knowledge (Web coding knowhow is not necessary, but it is helpful.).
4:20PM EST
Guess what? Transformers is back! I was watching FoxKids and a commercial for it came up. Sweet! It shows a truck driving up a street with some nice Anime grafx and BAM the front goes flying off and transforms into a robot. There, in all his glory, was Optimus Prime. The voice even sounds the same. (Which doesn't surprise me. If you listen, you can hear his voice used on some Cartoon Network commercials, mostly Gundam ones.) Anyway, you can read up on the show at FoxKids.com or go straight to their page on Transformers: Robots in Disguise.