UPDATE: 05/14/08
My Oddities Section continues to be extremely popular, and after looking at it, I realized I was a little embarrassed by its crappy, barebones layout. I'm of the mind that a site's content is more important than its layout, so long as it doesn't look like TimeCube or is overloaded with popups or anything else that makes navigation or reading difficult, and I think the continued success of that section is a good argument for Content vs. Design. However, I didn't feel a little change would hurt in this matter, and while it's nothing spectacular, I did fix it up a bit.
No new content, but I also linked a bunch of other articles from around the site on there that basically count as "Oddities" articles, too. I imagine some people might just discover the oddities and read through them, and then decline to peruse the rest of the site, so you'll find out what you were missing if you did that. I also removed the old version of "Equinox Oddities" because the new one on the Equinox Shrine obsoletes it.
Back to work on AT6...
UPDATE: 05/13/08
Those of you who go to the forums already know this, but due to the size of the sketch and the amount of drawings I need to complete for it, I made the decision to release Part 6 of the RAU Gallery Archaeology storyline in pieces.
AT6: Stranglehold, Scene 1 is completed.
I will continue to add the new scenes as the drawings for them are finished.
Also added "The Seikens" to my Links page.
UPDATE: 05/04/08
Final stuff for today:
Some new information on the runes in the Book of Eld for the Knights of Justice Oddities page.
A submission for Yoshi's Island on the NES & SNES Nudity article, which is probably the single most bizarre case of it I've yet seen.
Another page of random reader-submitted oddities.
With that done, I am almost cleared of my email backlog. More recent SAB submissions will be compiled on a future page along with entries from the forums.
UPDATE: 05/04/08
New stuff today:
Another Switched at Birth? page compiled from old emails. Please note that I'm not ignorning the forum submissions. I just want to cut through all of my old emails so I never have to peruse them again.
Those Equinox Scans I promised awhile ago, courtesy of Equinoxfan82. I now have the European and Japanese manuals, cartridge scans for all three versions, the Japanese box scans, and an Equinox magazine advertisement.
The NES Kid Icarus manual in PDF format added to Kid Icarus Scans page, courtesy of a site reader who wished to remain anonymous.
A small note added to the Final Fantasy 7 section of Reader Oddities 3 concerning Red XIII.
Still have a few more things in the works, I'm almost done with the backlog.
Since I'm a little busy right now, I'm going to suspend the Caption Contest for at least a week. If I don't end the current one sometime today, I'll do it next weekend.
UPDATE: 05/03/08
I added another Special Password to the Kid Icarus Codes page, thanks to yet another site reader.
I also added some more stuff to the Breath of Fire Oddities page. Looks like we found where the cinema scene data is stored via the magic of the DrWarp.
I have some more stuff I'm working on. When I get through the rest of my email backlog, I'll post everything else.
Things I will NOT be posting to the site at this time:
Music requests - I put these in a separate folder for review later. When I get around to updating that section again, I'll look them over. But until I get RAU Gallery AT6 done, the music section is on hiatus.
"Things We've Learned From RPGs" - I have a folder of new submissions for that article, but it might be awhile before I'll update it. It needs an overhaul. I think there are some redundant or cryptic entries that need to be cleaned up or removed.
Cameos - I appreciate that readers are still taking an interest in that portion of the site, but it's dead, Jim! Dead!
Also added to the Links Page:
Egger Land (Adventures of Lolo fansite)
The Gamer's Journal (General Gaming Site)
NES4ever (German language NES fansite)
Retro Warp (New up-and-coming NES fansite)
