#mine dw2

[mournstera]

"And in years to come, you might find yourself revisiting a few. But just the old favorites, eh?"

[necromancy-enthusiast]

If you've ever played Dynasty Warriors, particularly Dynasty Warriors 3, you may have at some point or another wondered if dw1 and dw2 are worth giving a try. It's. Uh. Well. You see... There's a reason dw3 was the series' breakout.

Dw1 didn't have the 1 vs 1,000 hack and slash setup that all its successors have, it was a pretty generic 2d fighter in the vein of Mortal Kombat and, well. Street Fighter. Dw2 is where Dynasty Warriors' recognizable mechanics were introduced, but it uhhh... It's not very fun, in fact it's often deeply un-fun, and this is coming from someone who grew up playing ps1 and ps2 games and is used to them being unpolished and cumbersome compared to games nowadays. I certainly wouldn't say to *not* check them out, I've played them both a good bit because Dynasty Warriors is a 22 year special interest of mine and I wanted them for archival/comparison purposes, but yeah you'll probably have a much better time with dw3.

[myshipperheart]

THE MOST IMPORTANT LEAF IN HUMAN HISTORY

[zerolympiustrife]

Hi, a friend of mine (he doesn't use Tumblr) wanted to know how you were able to dump the sprites from the Steam version of DW2. Thanks in advance!

Funny thing is, I don’t even have a full sprite chart for characters in LoDW and LoDW2. (Nor do I intend to make one.)

How I did it was that I took pictures (more specifically, screen captures) while playing the Steam versions of Dark Witch 1 and 2 (by using "Alt + PrtSc" to capture the game screen, then "Crtl + V" to paste onto Microsoft Paint), and finally, removed literally everything in the pic EXCEPT for the character sprite and ONLY the character sprite.

And if I wanted to make a gif of a Dark Witch character, then I’d go onto YouTube to search for someone doing a playthrough of the game for reference (resolution must be set at 1080p AND Playback Speed set at .25x because it actually makes me focusing on the movement animations and then ripping the sprite(s) from the Steam version of whatever Dark Witch game I’m currently playing a whole lot easier). This means that I strongly recommend ripping the sprites from the steam version of the game itself and NOT from a YouTube video, due to the Steam version providing a much higher resolution than a YouTube video.

Hopefully the information that I provided to you and your friend helps. Have fun!

[autoplaysdigimon]

Hey y'all, just wanted to post a quick update about what's happening.

So I've mentioned before the logistical problems I'm having with writing updates, but the individual games that I'm doing themselves have their own damn problems:

Dawn and Dusk are just so damn awkward to do both at once! There's no easy way to set up the two folders of images to be visible at the same time, the text is too small to read even on the largest folder size and I didn't necessarily do the same things at the same time for each game, making it extra difficult to sync up. (At least it's the only time I have to do two games at once NO WAIT IT ISN'T I get to do this twice more! One time with THREE GAMES AT ONCE!!! why do I do this to myself lmao)

Digimon World 2 has that weird mix up with the video order, and I can't figure out if the ones I need are missing or just in the wrong order or what the heck. Being that it's a game that I'm far less familiar with than, say, Digimon World 1 was, I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out exactly what is missing.

It doesn't help that both Digimon World 2 and Dawn/Dusk were games that dragged out for SO LONG near the end of my actually playing them (both my fault to be fair, DW2 I didn't get the hang of efficient DNA Digivolving and Dawn/Dusk I got carried away in leaving them to grind on the Farm Islands), so in my brain I've already spent far too long on them already. They're pretty sparse on actual content in the videos, a staple of the RPG genre, to be fair.

Even the anime is giving me trouble! The setup it requires disrupts my usual workspace - I have to change the TV away from the usual podcasts and let's plays that I usually have in the background of my working, which mucks up my layout with all the folders and everything, and I need to switch frequently between actively watching it and having background music on while I caption and write. Hell, having to go back and forth between the show and photoshop when I have to caption a long line is an ordeal in itself. Plus... and this is entirely an opinion based problem, but I get the same arc fatigue from the Dark Masters arc that I did from the two games. It's a great arc, I enjoy a lot of it, but I'm also sitting there going "okay that's great but be over soon! It's time for 02! It's so clooooose!!" I'm aware that this is very much a Me Problem. Also, if I don't go back to it at all, then Piximon will be fine forever! :(

Even the games I'm currently playing are being bastards! The one that I've already talked about in the previous post, which I referred to as Adventuring with Giant Lizards, is giving me serious end game fatigue also of my own doing as I finish up sidequests and the like. This isn't entirely arbitrary, I ended up having to do some major grinding anyway. I'm actually very close to being able to fight the final boss I think, so hopefully I can get that finished soon. I recently finished the game that will come after Monster Racers, lets call it Super Mafia Bros, but the sequel is giving me a hard time right now. Soooooo all of that to say that video games are making me sad.

Monster Racers is being good... for now. Once I get to the part where I had to grind a lot it'll be hell, but for now it's a dream. The fact that it's the only one that isn't giving me problems kinda sucks though. Like, one day out of seven the blog doesn't feel like a burden! Hooray?

I really can't keep leaving the games I'm posting for so long between updates, it means I spend half of the time I'm updating trying to figure out what has happened already and then not making any progress. But it's also very difficult to actually get into the headspace for it at the moment, as well. So I'm thinking two possible solutions, both of which I can use at once. One, I remove the obligation to post every day and the schedule from the header - I'm not posting daily anyway and the header looks terrible. Two, I shelve one of the two Digimon games, probably DW2, and come back to it later. When I finish the game that was meant to replace whichever of these two games finished first, I start posting that, and come back to the shelved game later. Part of me is wondering if I've just started to get sick of Digimon all the time! Maybe it'd be nice to have a detox of it for a while.

I did even wonder about doing a different show for a bit, even maybe one or two episodes of something not on the list. Contenders include the original 1965 series Get Smart, and that one episode of The Simpsons that I harvested screenshots from for that one post about Tim that I have on hand anyway. Get Smart would be kinda fun for a bit maybe, it's very repetitive so it'd get old after a while but it might be fun and it's very ripe for mockery, as well as being a huge shift away from Digimon. Plus I could turn on the subtitles and harvest those too, so I wouldn't have to caption it manually!

I mean.... I should probably talk about the elephant in the room, which is that the anime posts are the ones that people generally like more. I get a few new followers after the weekend posts, and maybe one or two occasionally during the week. If I were desperate for followers, I'd switch to mainly anime posts and have the games be a side thing... but the games are the fun part for me, so I'm not gonna do that. Sorry to anyone who followed for the anime posts! (ALSO I recently passed 300 followers so yay! Thanks! Sorry there's been no fucking content!)

Oh, as long as I'm talking schedules and future games, I should mention another game on the list. I've already told at least one person this anyway, so might as well. Wayyyy down on the list is Undertale. Of course I would. But not for a long-ass time, so hey. There's another (indie) game that I have on the list that is supposed to get a major update later this year, so I've recorded a whole bunch of what it looks like now so that I can do some comparisons when I get to that one, but that thing is even further down the list than Undertale is, so uh. Don't wait up for that one for a while.

Alright, so that was good to get off my chest. Don't get me wrong, I still love doing this and I love you all and I'm not planning on quitting this dumbass hobby of mine any time soon. You all must suffer with me. But it's a lot of effort at the best of times and it's nice to vent sometimes, especially if I think I'm gonna change some things. Thanks guys! :D

[sven-mke]

#DW2-33 #WBH-01

After arriving at Omega Mining, the Midgard got a respray. Now she is in her new old reddish livery.

From now on I start my 6000 Ly #WayBackHome tour.

[mournstera]

What? Stop it.

[mournstera]

[mournstera]

Rose Tyler The Rise of the Cybermen, Doctor Who.

[mournstera]

#tfw you find out you like being told what to do but you're out in public

[mournstera]

it was

[mournstera]

Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion

[mournstera]

The Christmas Invasion / Journey's End

[mournstera]

So I've gotten used to coffee sweats Still getting used to road regrets And hell I took you up on all your threats To leave

[mournstera]

“There will be no years of silence in the shadow of regret I won’t let it so betray me, though my soul got used to it I will look at love as more than just an instrument of pain.”

The Heart Is a Muscle, Gang of Youths

[mournstera]

"Rose Tyler..."