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Post by Fryguy64 on May 23, 2011 17:39:50 GMT -5
Just to keep you updated...
I haven't dropped the ball. The rest of the site's system updates are going to go ahead as planned, but I'm going to do the rest of them in a block before E3.
The hold-up is that I am slaving away on putting all the cameos online. Yup. All of them. But how, I hear you ask? Well...
First of all, I have scoured my site archives and pulled up the last lot of cameos that were featured on NinDB. I have so far reformatted around 70% of them for the site, and the rest won't take long. That's the easy part, and I expect the archived cameos will be online in time for E3 as well.
The hard part is scouring the Cameos board for submissions. I have been super-crap! I am basically making a master list of submissions going all the way back to 2004, and there are so many that I never got around to adding or simply skimmed over. And I'm only up to the end of 2006! I already have what looks like hundreds of cameos to add... which doesn't include Smash Bros...
Anyway, that's the goal. I'm sure it can be done.
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Post by Manspeed on May 23, 2011 22:55:19 GMT -5
Since you mentioned Smash Bros...whatever happened to that Smash Bros. guide you waned on making? Is that gonna be what you do for Smash Bros. cameos or have you dropped that completely?
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 24, 2011 4:46:35 GMT -5
All of the information and images gathered for the Smash Bros. guide is still all in existence, just not finished. However, given how many times I've worked on chunks of it, I expect it won't take long to sort out.
What will take a long time is scouring the SSB board to make sure I haven't missed anything.
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 28, 2011 16:35:04 GMT -5
Lordy! I really needed to get my shit together in order to get the cameos back online. There's the cameos that were online but were taken down when I moved to nindb.net, then there's the hundreds, possibly thousands, of submissions since then. Then there's the issue with more than one person submitting the same cameo, sometimes with a gap of years between them. So, I have scoured the entire cameos board, my emails and the website and created a number of archives. There's one huge archive containing every submission between 2004-2011. So many of them are - and always have been - missing from NinDB that I am ashamed in myself. I have locked the system-based cameo topics in the cameos board because now I have these archives I would like to go back to individual game-based cameo topics straight away. The next step is to do a rush on them, and the system cameos, getting as much as possible online before E3. But this time it's actually happening!  |
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Post by The Qu on May 30, 2011 20:29:06 GMT -5
Sorry to post this here, Fry, but I've got one last cameo for you before you finalize the list. N&B blocks in SMB2:  I'd hate for you to get all the cameos up and then immediately have one you may have not had. |
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Post by Wildcat on May 30, 2011 20:35:15 GMT -5
Wow, I never noticed that one before. Is that in the American SMB2?
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Post by The Qu on May 30, 2011 22:27:50 GMT -5
Oops- turns out this is a photoshop from NeoGAF. Earlier in a thread, somebody typo'd SML2 to SMB2 and somebody mocked that up. Man, I feel dumb.
EDIT: On a completely unrelated sidenote, the reason Nintendo doesn't make N&B Blocks anymore, from a post on NeoGAF:
Lego tried to sue Nintendo over the bricks, not the level. It wasn't exactly surprising, though, since N&B was a pretty shameless rip-off; the bricks even had the same size as Lego bricks. But the main reason Lego went to court was apparently Nintendo's TV spots, in which two children tried to build a rocket, but only one them used the cool rounded N&B bricks while the other one used the lame, blocky bricks by another company... and he wasn't satisfied with them.
The commercial didn't mention Lego by name, but it was enough for Lego to sue Nintendo over comparative advertising and also plagiarism.
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Post by Nester the Lark on May 30, 2011 23:55:31 GMT -5
Hey, at least they didn't have the kid say, "Le'go my N&B blocks!"
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Post by Fryguy64 on May 31, 2011 4:58:20 GMT -5
I was gonna say, I'm sure that level didn't have N&B written anywhere!
Progress update:
All I have left to do is the lost Starbeans cameos for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and then I'm down to just the DS cameos. While there's a lot of these, I have in fact done most of the work reformatting and rewriting them already. They just need link and submission info.
I'm not exaggerating when I say there have been hundreds of cameo submissions, some dating back to 2004, that have never been on the site. Plus the huge number that were on the site and had to be taken down when the site moved to nindb.net.
Then I'll take a break from cameos and focus on E3 and the site's 10th birthday in June.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 1, 2011 8:15:56 GMT -5
I'm having some forums nostalgia! Going through my old emails, I've found one from Johans Nidorino introducing himself and the original "Smelly Hippie" email that encouraged Tei to join the board (as "Tei the Smelly Hippie" no less). The exciting discoveries of Kazumi Totaka's Song in VB Wario Land, Pikmin 2 and Luigi's Mansion, a request from NoA to review Chibi-Robo (didn't happen thanks to not being American) and loads more! Ahh, I love nostalgia!  Cameos coming in the next couple of days! |
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Post by Nester the Lark on Jun 1, 2011 12:25:42 GMT -5
A request from NoA to review Chibi-Robo for what? The official website? Nintendo Power magazine? As for nostalgia, I admit that sometimes I browse thru old topics myself. In fact, I can't believe that it will be exactly six years tomorrow (June 2) since I registered here! And you've all been a swell bunch o' guys! Thanks for the memories! |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 1, 2011 13:47:23 GMT -5
I think they were trying to drum up fan support for the game by getting fansites to review the game on their sites. They were going to send out a copy of the game and all I'd have had to do was play it and write up my opinions...
It would have gone something like this:
Chibi-Robo! is one of the most disappointing games on the GameCube. I put the disc in, turned it on and the first thing I was greeted with was a title screen that doesn't match the title on the box, but I wouldn't recommend any game called "This game does not work on your system"... I couldn't even work out how to get off the title screen, the controls are so bad!
;D
Seriously though, I love Chibi-Robo so much I probably would have put a review up even though my site doesn't do reviews. It's one of the few games to make me feel something other than "I Win!"
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 3, 2011 17:40:46 GMT -5
I don't mean to alarm anyone, but I have just this second finished formatting every cameo that will go onto NinDB. Except for that Ocarina of Time 3D one Megabyte just found  The only hold up now is putting together the last few system pages, which are almost all done. I suspect that this will all be going online tomorrow (unless I pull an all-nighter!) This, my friends, is the hardest I have ever worked. And not just on NinDB. |
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Jun 3, 2011 21:25:44 GMT -5
ProBoards should implement Facebook's "like" system so your last post gets liked.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jun 4, 2011 0:41:57 GMT -5
I've seen a non-English language system that allows GPs (likes) and BPs (dislikes), counted separetely, with whoever done it known to others. The member's profile shows how many GPs did they get as well. In other words, it's like dA's favs (plus the dislike part, but I haven't seen anyone use that). But I don't think this is enough reward for Fry. Maybe we as NinDB regulars should think of something.... hmm... |
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