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Newcomer Level: 8 Posts: 5/9 EXP: 1935 Next: 252 Since: 04-01-10 From: Earth Last post: 2597 days Last view: 2597 days |
Hello, everybody.
Let me just say that I realize that it's been quite a while since my rather flamboyant inaugural post...almost ten months, in fact. Suffice to say I've been gone from these forums for quite a while, much longer than I would have preferred, dealing with a number of "real-life" issues which have had the misfortune of rearing their ugly heads all at once over the aforementioned time period. I believe that when I last left you, I had written something to this effect...
...and wouldn't you know it, with that statement I went and jinxed myself! Because it would turn out that the so-called "100% complete project" I'd been sitting on was only about 99.1% complete..."99.1% complete" being defined as "tested and working perfectly on actual hardware, but...it looks like crap on anything except for a nice, sharp computer monitor." Not to mention that it had been brought to my attention from one of my beta-testers that a very serious error, one that I had somehow managed to overlook in about one thousand runs, had managed to slip through the cracks. Considering that getting "The Project" to work on actual hardware was a definite aspiration, and considering my rather anal-retentive attitude towards quality control, "99.1% complete" just wasn't good enough, no matter how much time and effort I had already put into everything. In essence, I found myself suddenly saddled down with a lot of work to do as well as to re-do with less than a month from my self-proposed release date for this thing. Try as I might, I just couldn't get the work done in the time I allotted myself, and the release date came and went. I continued to toil on with this thing when suddenly...if you don't mind the pun..."KaBooM!" A good portion of my life pretty much fell apart last June. I won't go into too much detail except to say that it's taken me until last December to dig myself out of the hole. Obviously, lurking around on ROMhacking forums or any forums for that matter, as well as work on "The Project" did not figure into the equation. 
At least I can be thankful that full-scale data loss was not a consequence of the aforementioned events. As for what they did involve, well, I'll put it to you this way. Have any of you seen that "Star Trek: Voyager" episode titled "Year of Hell"? I think I would have rather gone through that, because what I've been through these past few months made that look like "Month of Heck". Sometimes I've actually felt like Kathryn Jameway in the last scene of that episode, preparing to fly what was left of her ship into...uh...well, go ahead and watch it, I'm not spoiling the end of that one for you all, sorry. In any case, I've think I've finally got things somewhat back to normal now. 
Having a chance to rest and reflect and look back on my first posts I realize...and this is just me being hyper-critical of myself...that I've initially come off exactly the opposite of the way I wanted to come off...like a hyperactive, overzealous nOOb with a severe case of attention-deficit disorder and with my head corked several turns into my own anus. If I did come off like that, I sincerely apologize. I just have a tendency to get over-excited when I'm stoked about something like this project I've been working on for ages, and it tends to come through in my writing... Oh, yes. That. "The Project". 
So what, may you ask, is "The Project" that I've been keeping under wraps for some time now? Well, I'm still pretty secretive about it at this point, but I can tell you this much...it's a ROMhack. Go figure, right? A ROMhack, or as I prefer to go against tradition and call it, a "ROM refurbishment" of an NES game. ("Hack" always makes it sound like a "bad" or "evil" thing to be avoided, at least to me.) That's all I'm going to say right now...what game it is that I'm working on and what exactly I've done to it shall, for now, remain the subject of mystery. No official release announcements and/or dates to be immediately forthcoming yet either, as I've learned from the past ten months that even the most well thought out plans can be laid to waste in an instant. Bottom line...everyone will know of it's release the day it appears on the front news page. I will make a stop on the "Personal Projects" page to talk about it in detail sometime before it's released...I just want to make sure it's wrapped up and ready to go with a pretty little bow on top before that happens. Just waiting for my "testing supplies" to be delivered so that I can make the last of what will hopefully be the final changes. In any case, I'm back, and hopefully here to stay for a while. It is my hope that I can eventually become a viable part of this community, be as helpful as I can when I can, not make too much of a fool of myself, and actually contribute something worthwhile to the ROMhacking community as a whole...for real this time. I really do have something nice up my sleeve which I believe that a lot of you will thoroughly enjoy, something I've spent a great deal of time perfecting and something I do feel that I've placed a rather unique spin on. So until that comes to fruition, well wishes and see you all out there. Cheers and good vibes to all.  |
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 The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 3558/4196 EXP: 21530178 Next: 306423 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 469 days Last view: 82 days |
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Hats Steam Board2 group Level: 121 Posts: 3834/3965 EXP: 19776574 Next: 280122 Since: 02-19-07 From: Sweden, Skåne Last post: 3300 days Last view: 2050 days |
Actually I seen hacking and "hack" being used in more positive context, or at least in context of "put together fast" (which can be a bad or good thing, but defiantly not illegal). ____________________ AIM: gamefreak1337, MSN: Emil_sim@spray.se, XMPP: ailure@xmpp.kafuka.org
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| Nicole |
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 Mole Level: 43 Posts: 299/363 EXP: 547818 Next: 17228 Since: 02-19-07 From: Massachusetts/Virginia Last post: 4348 days Last view: 3326 days |
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 Paratroopa Level: 28 Posts: 3/147 EXP: 123644 Next: 7694 Since: 02-19-11 Last post: 4349 days Last view: 4338 days |
I'm new, so I don't know you =(
Welcome back here though. I'm still learning my way around this board but I might see you around. Probably not though because I don't even know what roms are =P ____________________ |
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 Bullet Bill Level: 49 Posts: 246/509 EXP: 835452 Next: 48431 Since: 10-27-09 From: Earth Last post: 2997 days Last view: 2971 days |
Kaboom, I actually enjoyed reading your post. That is rare for an internet forum. ____________________ -Ninjablooper  |
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 Giant Red Paratroopa Level: 77 Posts: 1023/1443 EXP: 4171773 Next: 19356 Since: 06-15-08 From: Earth Last post: 20 days Last view: 20 days |
Welcome back, KaBooM!. Hopefully you are able to keep up on your project and successfully complete it. Looking forward to hearing more about it soon.  |
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