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It's finished.
Some of the music ended up being way different than the script, since Movie Maker wouldn't accept some of the music files. Specifically, these are the Pokémon Battle Revolution songs. I think those ended up working pretty well. There's certainly something about that music when you haven't been hearing it all the time.
On a side note, I've been having some problems with my flash carts. The DS card forgot my save file, even though it was (it seemed) still on the flash card. I've been trying to get MOTHER 3 and EarthBound Zero on my GBA flash cart. (I DID use the patch to make it so MOTHER 3 can save.) I got them on a while ago. I've been trying to get save files on there, but to no avail. I think I might have gotten the MOTHER 3 save file on, but it was apparently erased by the DS flash cart. I suppose restarting the game today won't be as bad/repetative as it would have been on Thursday, when I experienced this problem.
Feb 28, 2009
Feb 25, 2009
Flash Carts Galore!
Posted by
Caleb, Of Asui
at
5:42 PM
Yesterday, I FINALLY received my flash cart in the mail. Ironically, when we ordered it, they said that it would ship in three to four days - then, four days later, it got here! Even MORE ironically, the very next day, the GBA flash cart I ordered SIX WEEKS ago came today! It seems that the cancellation of the order never got through and they ended up sending it. It's interesting to me that it shipped from China, since I'm taking a Chinese class in school this year. 你们好吗?
MOTHER 3 is a pretty amazing game. I'm not terribly far yet, but I'm having a lot of fun with it - especially the story. Amazing.
MOTHER 3 is a pretty amazing game. I'm not terribly far yet, but I'm having a lot of fun with it - especially the story. Amazing.
Feb 23, 2009
My EarthBound Dilema
Posted by
Caleb, Of Asui
at
8:21 PM
EarthBound is such a great game... It's really too bad that they don't make a lot of releases, with EarthBound 64 being canceled, MOTHER 3 never being released in America, EarthBound being confirmed to NOT be released on Virtual Console... you know, that kind of stuff. I've been playing through the series lately and have been having a lot of trouble obtaining the games. The funny thing is, my problems are completely independant of the game not being released. (Well, almost. ;D)
(NOTE: EarthBound Zero = MOTHER 1. EarthBound = MOTHER 2. EarthBound 2 = MOTHER 3. Just avoiding confusion.)
For Christmas last year, I asked my parents for EarthBound and a Super Nintendo. They were at the top of my list, under a flash cart for the MOTHER 3 Fan Translation (which I, unfortuantely, didn't get). I got a console that plays both NES AND Super NES, but no EarthBound. I got three other games (The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, and Kirby's Dream Land 3) only to find out the console didn't work. Sad Christmas, huh?
A few days later, my mom asked if I'd tried EarthBound on the Super NES. I acted as confused as I was, since I hadn't recieved EarthBound. It turned out that I actually was supposed to get it, but it had been misplaced. I tried it on the console and, lo and behold, it worked!! It was the other games that hadn't been working!
I played through that game and had a lot of fun with it. It's definitely one of the best games I've played. I tried to order a flash cart for MOTHER 3 A.S.A.P., but I had to save my money. After I finished EarthBound, I played EarthBound Zero, which was noticeably shorter. I ordered the flash cart toward the end of the game and just waited for a week.
I waited for another week.
Now a third week. This was getting pretty ridiculous. The flash cart I had ordered apparently hadn't been shipped yet, because it was out of stock.
I started to play Kirby's Dream Land 3 as the fourth week came. (It had recently been released for Virtual Console, yay.) One of the same flash cart happened to pop up on Amazon.com, so I decided to cancel the order and buy the one on Amazon.
During the fifth week, I miraculously managed to make progress in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link! (I have it on the GameCube Collector's Edition.) We never got the email saying that the order had been cancled, so I had no money for the cart on Amazon. At the end of the week, I decided to make a deal with my parents that I would be The Cheat for a day (referencing http://www.homestarrunner.com/) in exchange for earning the order of the flash card from them.
Then, it happened. On February 20th, I went on Amazon.com and found that the flash cart was out of stock. Somebody else had bought it.
I moped around the house (and the internet) for a while and tried to find another flash cart to buy from somewhere. I found one of the same that I was about to buy, but learned that it was out of stock. After a bit of reconciling with myself, I settled for the M3 DS Real Flash Card with the Game Boy Advance expansion. That might prove a little problematic since that's made for DS Lite and I have the original blue DS. Luckily, both my brothers broke their fat DS's and now both have their own DS Lite. I could borrow one of those if need be.
Since this flash cart was so expensive, we re- set up the compromize of being The Cheat for a day. It started at about 8 p.m. that day and continued to the same time the next day, the 21st. So, I was working all day that day in order to earn my flash card, that I would soon be into the sixth week waiting, although now more completely sure that this one would arrive.
The next day, Sunday the 22nd, during church, I realized that the previous day had been my half-birthday. I had been working all day on my half-birthday! (My actual birthday is August 21st.) It's not such a big deal, I suppose, since the basement and my bedroom closet, which were both deathly dirty, are now clean AND the flash cart will probably be here at the end of this week or the beginning of next week.
Today's the day after that Sunday. I'm waiting for the sixth week after beating EarthBound Zero to play MOTHER 3. I'm getting to the end of Zelda II and plan to edit (or start editing) the second episode of my machinima, Asui Gaiden. I hope that everything goes well with this series and that I can enjoy the final game. I suppose these past six weeks can be somewhat of a metaphor for the huge gap between releases in the actual series, plus the extra two years for us Americans (and anyone who speaks English, for that matter).
I know Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon came out a week prior to today and that Pokémon: Platinum Version will be released next month. I'd normally take Fire Emblem's release as a cue for me to play that series and Platinum's release as a cue for me to appendage that to my playing of that series. Hopefully, I can play MOTHER 3 fast enough without speeding through it and lacking enjoyment.
(NOTE: EarthBound Zero = MOTHER 1. EarthBound = MOTHER 2. EarthBound 2 = MOTHER 3. Just avoiding confusion.)
For Christmas last year, I asked my parents for EarthBound and a Super Nintendo. They were at the top of my list, under a flash cart for the MOTHER 3 Fan Translation (which I, unfortuantely, didn't get). I got a console that plays both NES AND Super NES, but no EarthBound. I got three other games (The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, and Kirby's Dream Land 3) only to find out the console didn't work. Sad Christmas, huh?
A few days later, my mom asked if I'd tried EarthBound on the Super NES. I acted as confused as I was, since I hadn't recieved EarthBound. It turned out that I actually was supposed to get it, but it had been misplaced. I tried it on the console and, lo and behold, it worked!! It was the other games that hadn't been working!
I played through that game and had a lot of fun with it. It's definitely one of the best games I've played. I tried to order a flash cart for MOTHER 3 A.S.A.P., but I had to save my money. After I finished EarthBound, I played EarthBound Zero, which was noticeably shorter. I ordered the flash cart toward the end of the game and just waited for a week.
I waited for another week.
Now a third week. This was getting pretty ridiculous. The flash cart I had ordered apparently hadn't been shipped yet, because it was out of stock.
I started to play Kirby's Dream Land 3 as the fourth week came. (It had recently been released for Virtual Console, yay.) One of the same flash cart happened to pop up on Amazon.com, so I decided to cancel the order and buy the one on Amazon.
During the fifth week, I miraculously managed to make progress in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link! (I have it on the GameCube Collector's Edition.) We never got the email saying that the order had been cancled, so I had no money for the cart on Amazon. At the end of the week, I decided to make a deal with my parents that I would be The Cheat for a day (referencing http://www.homestarrunner.com/) in exchange for earning the order of the flash card from them.
Then, it happened. On February 20th, I went on Amazon.com and found that the flash cart was out of stock. Somebody else had bought it.
I moped around the house (and the internet) for a while and tried to find another flash cart to buy from somewhere. I found one of the same that I was about to buy, but learned that it was out of stock. After a bit of reconciling with myself, I settled for the M3 DS Real Flash Card with the Game Boy Advance expansion. That might prove a little problematic since that's made for DS Lite and I have the original blue DS. Luckily, both my brothers broke their fat DS's and now both have their own DS Lite. I could borrow one of those if need be.
Since this flash cart was so expensive, we re- set up the compromize of being The Cheat for a day. It started at about 8 p.m. that day and continued to the same time the next day, the 21st. So, I was working all day that day in order to earn my flash card, that I would soon be into the sixth week waiting, although now more completely sure that this one would arrive.
The next day, Sunday the 22nd, during church, I realized that the previous day had been my half-birthday. I had been working all day on my half-birthday! (My actual birthday is August 21st.) It's not such a big deal, I suppose, since the basement and my bedroom closet, which were both deathly dirty, are now clean AND the flash cart will probably be here at the end of this week or the beginning of next week.
Today's the day after that Sunday. I'm waiting for the sixth week after beating EarthBound Zero to play MOTHER 3. I'm getting to the end of Zelda II and plan to edit (or start editing) the second episode of my machinima, Asui Gaiden. I hope that everything goes well with this series and that I can enjoy the final game. I suppose these past six weeks can be somewhat of a metaphor for the huge gap between releases in the actual series, plus the extra two years for us Americans (and anyone who speaks English, for that matter).
I know Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon came out a week prior to today and that Pokémon: Platinum Version will be released next month. I'd normally take Fire Emblem's release as a cue for me to play that series and Platinum's release as a cue for me to appendage that to my playing of that series. Hopefully, I can play MOTHER 3 fast enough without speeding through it and lacking enjoyment.
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