article and also added a minor note concerning the bathroom symbols.
Added a note to Breath of Fire Oddities clarifying that you can still use the DrWarp to enter Nanai even after it's destroyed. There's also now a code to take you directly inside the bar.
Wheeljack is now correctly listed as a "Lancia Stratos" on My Favorite Autbots page. Thanks to everyone who pointed out that error.
Added some more screenshot comparisons to The Krion Conquest vs. Mega Man article, sent in by a site reader.
UPDATE: 04/27/08
I was cleaning up old emails and in the process of going through them, I put together another Switched at Birth?. This one was put together completely from emails that were sent to me, so there's nothing from the forums in it. I expect I might even be able to throw another one together (yes, I'm that backlogged). I tried to stick with only the best entries that were sent. Rejected submissions include:
Emails with no pictures.
Emails with pictures that are too small, blurry, pixelated, and/or difficult to see for some other reason.
Character comparisons that weren't close enough for my eyes.
Entries that are already in the database (please stop sending me the Sora/Sion one, folks).
Generic anime-to-anime comparisons. I only accept these if the match-ups are particularly unique/funny/uncanny. Otherwise, I end up with pages upon pages of "girl with black hair from anime X vs. girl with black hair from anime y", and that gets boring real quick.
I also added two more entries to the bottom of the Arc the Lad SAB.
UPDATE: 04/25/08
I nuked my Links Page. WARNING: Long blog post to follow:
1. I no longer see the point in linking to websites that I'm not affiliated/friends with. Most of them are large sites that everyone already knows about. In cases when I need to link back to a site for reference, I do it on the actual page that contains the referenced material.
2. If I removed your site and you want me to put it back on there, feel free to contact me. HOWEVER, make sure your site meets the following conditions first:
First and foremost, make sure I'm linked on your links page, or in the case that you don't maintain a links page, your front page.
Make sure the URL is www.flyingomelette.com, NOT www.geocities.com/flyingomelette.
Make sure your links page is easily accessible. If looking for your links page makes me feel like I'm an 1840's prospector, it doesn't count.
Make sure your site has been updated at least once within a year's time. I cut some slack for people who I'm close friends with or for sites I know for a fact have sporadic updating schedules but are indeed still active. But I no longer see the point in continuining to link to sites that haven't been updated since 2002-2006 and show no signs of revival.
If the only thing you update on your site is an off-site blog (like a livejournal, blogspot, or myspace), then my site must be linked on the blog. DON'T MISUNDERSTAND THIS RULE. If you update both a site and a blog regularly, then you don't have to worry about putting my link on the blog. But if your actual website has been sitting untouched for over a year, but you're still updating a blog, then the link must be on what you're actually updating. Why? Because chances are, no one's going to your site anymore, they're only going to your blog.
Make sure I'm not banned from your message board.
In regards to the above, I can't control what my friends do at other sites (nor would I want to), so I can't help them if they get themselves in trouble at other forums and end up banned. If they pull a prank or blatantly disregard some rules, and it has nothing to do with me, then it's their problem, not mine. However, when I'm directly in the middle of a situation and you start banning my friends for no good reason, it's same as banning me. Capice?
If your site suffers from POP-UP OVERLOAD, I removed it. There were at least two sites I removed that had such massive POP-UP OVERLOAD that they crashed my browser. For the love of all things unilateral, if you plan to continue working on your site, move it to a pop-up free server. It's not really that hard to find one in today's internet.
Q: But, FO, my site meets all those criteria and yet it was still removed? Why?
Possibility #1: I removed it by accident because I'm not the most careful person in the world when it comes to coding HTML. Contact me and I'll put it back up.
Possibility #2: Some of the members of your site have been repeatedly harassing me and the forums lately, mostly because of a 7-year-old scene war grudge. (You know who you are, my site tracker does not lie.) I was going to say that I'd really hate to break off an association with an entire website because of a few people who are ruining it for everybody, but I have to be honest here, and that'd be a lie. I just don't really care anymore. I've pretty much withdrawn from the "gamer" community anyway and the fewer ties I have to it, the better for me.
On a side note, I've also done away with the "Golden Ridley Award of Excellence". Almost every time I give it out, either the site stops updating completely, the admin goes bonkers, or some other problem comes up. (I think the only exceptions so far are AlmightyGuru, CodieKitty, Random Hoo-Haas, and Sweetbee.) So, I'm beginning to think it's cursed. Only time will tell if I decide to bring it back again, and if you've already won it, feel free to keep displaying it, but just don't don't hold your breath waiting for it to be given out again.
UPDATE: 04/20/08
Caption Contest #13 has ended, but there is a new one now.
UPDATE: 04/19/08
Now to make my Non-Update for today:
Issue #1: I combined some more of the old "Who's Who" entries with the RAU Scrapbooks.
Issue #2: I made some more "Quick Access" tables on the Game Music Download pages. (I am not doing this for any page that only has one game listed on it.)
Issue #3: I'm working on fixing pages that have fixed backgrounds so that the backgrounds will stay in place for Firefox as well as Internet Explorer. These include pages in the Knights of Justice Shrine, Kid Icarus Shrine, Magic of Scheherazade Shrine, and Kirby's Dream Land 3 guide.
Issue #4: The Memory Card. Next month, I am going to initiate a clean-up of it. Sites that will be removed are ones that haven't updated in over a year and *cough* ones I'm banned from. One of the reasons I keep the Memory Card is to have quick access to sites I like to visit daily. The problem is that if you haven't updated within a year, chances are I've already seen everything your site has on it and if I'm banned from your site, then I think it's reasonable to assume you don't want me there.
So here's the deal if you want to stay on there: Either (1) update your damn site or (2) unban me and my friends from your board, then contact me to let me know you have. Doesn't mean we'll come back to your forums and I can guarantee you *I* won't, but at least I'll know everything's a-okay between us and we can just admire each other's work from a distance.
UPDATE: 04/16/08
I deeply apologize. I know that some of you are clamoring for me to get AT6 done, but I am having difficulty finding time to work on it. The sketch is written, but I haven't even begun any of the drawings for it yet. The problem is that every single time I have some free time to work on it, something comes up, and I'm just going to have to put my foot down and say, look, I planned to work on this tonight. I'm going to work on it.
Sometimes I think I should just say, "No updates guaranteed at this time", because even though I said I put the Equinox Shrine on hiatus, I have a few updates for it. (I felt bad about falling behind on AT6 and HAD to do something to make up for it, so...)
Equinoxfan82 has given me permission to embed his YouTube videos on my Equinox Shrine pages. Each part of the walkthrough that is completed now ends with one of his videos that demonstrates how to get all 12 tokens in each dungeon. As I continue to work on the walkthrough, I will add his other videos to those pages.
Equinoxfan82 has also sent me a bunch of high-quality Equinox scans that I will get posted to the site shortly.
UPDATE: 04/15/08
Despite the fact that I'm supposed to be on hiatus, I have several updates in store, and I forgot to end the Caption Contest, so I'll get around to that but probably won't start a new one until the weekend. I'm a little behind schedule on The RAU Gallery: AT6 sketch, but I'll try to get working harder on it now.
In the meantime, Christopher Paladin has written his own RAU sketch to help entertain you and keep you busy until AT6 is done. I don't have time to look it over right now, so I hope it's a good one.
UPDATE: 04/12/08
I forgot to update Q&A last night, so I did it this morning. Three more questions answered, and I dumped 141-160 into an archive.
I guess I should have made it more clear what I meant by saying I was putting the site on hiatus. I'll still run the Caption Contests and answer Q&A, but I won't be doing much else. There definitely won't be any updates to Game Music Downloads or the Equinox Shrine during this time.
UPDATE: 04/06/08
Caption Contest #12 has ended, but there is a new one now.
I've decided that I've had a long enough break from the RAU Gallery, so I'm going to focus my efforts on completing Part 6 of the Archaeology storyline. Therefore, I am putting this site on hiatus until it's done because I have a lot of work to do.
UPDATE: 04/05/08
I updated my scrapbook for Cory McRaven. I organized all of the pictures into sections based on concept art, old storyboards, and modern sketches. I also added some stuff that wasn't previously in there before, and I added her "Who's Who" information. Ideally, I'd like to eventually have all of the scrapbooks reorganized like that, but I have too many characters for it to happen right away.
The current Caption Contest ends tomorrow, so if you have a caption to submit, do it now!
UPDATE: 04/01/08
I never know whether I should update on April Fool's Day or not because I never know if people will think it's only a joke, but anyway...
I thought my Music Page for the Letter U looked a little bare, so I added music for U.N. Squadron, Uninvited, and Uniracers. I also completely cleaned up that page.
UPDATE: 03/30/08
Here's something I'm sure you were expecting:
Knights of Justice Oddities has been updated! The following changes have been made:
I discovered more Unused Dialogue in the game's ROM. They look like leftover system messages from development, but I added them into that section anyway.
Information on the area shown in the "Impossible Screenshot". Thanks to the codebreaking skills of Helder from The GSHI, I was able to hack into that area, as well as the Cave of Glass, and take some screenshots.
Information on the mysterious Mr. Cow. Yes, you read that correctly, Mr. Cow.
Unsolved Mysteries still remain: Does the Blackwing boss still exist in the ROM? Where was it meant to be fought? And what is that giant blue pile in the middle of the Stone Gardens?
Unless someone who worked on this game would like to contact me for an interview, I guess the world might never know...
UPDATE: 03/30/08
Ninja Gaiden music in the game music downloads section. (Yes, the NES game, not the Xbox one.)
UPDATE: 03/30/08
The Caption Contest has ended, but there is a new one now. I didn't do this for the past contests, but I've decided to pick a winning entry for the new ones. You won't get anything for submitting the winning entry except the satisfaction of knowing you made me laugh the hardest, but I thought I might as well pick a winner since I kind of regretted not doing that with the old contests. (My own captions are ineligible to be the winner.)
UPDATE: 03/29/08
New Metroid music in the Game Music Downloads including the Norfair and Title Themes.
New Equinox Shrine updates:
Added the Monsters for Quagmire, and also decided to integrate the overworld monsters into their respective dungeon area sections. Too many werebats in a row looked rather ugly.
Added the Sword and Zap spell to the items section.
Added the Guide for Quagmire.
Some more on "Mysterious Rooms With No Purpose" in the oddities section.
A note on a simple cheat you can do with an emulator in the codes section.
The Caption Contest will be over tomorrow, so if you have any captions to submit, do it now!
UPDATE: 03/26/08
Super Ninja Boy music in the Game Music Downloads. (You're welcome, Sethra.)
UPDATE: 03/23/08
Added the map for Atlena to the Equinox Shrine. Even though I'm taking a break from working on the shrine, I was visiting some of Crawl's relatives for Easter and couldn't really do much during that time, so I worked on the map and got it done.
UPDATE: 03/23/08
Here's something we haven't done in a long time. There is a new FlyingOmelette.com Caption Contest open now! Be sure to post or email your captions before next Sunday, March 30th!
UPDATE: 03/23/08
I've been feeling a little burnt out on this site lately, so I'm taking a break from updating the Equinox Shrine and the RAU Archaeology series. I will get back to both eventually, but I thought I'd work on some easier things for awhile.
I've still been slowly and steadily combining the old "Who's Who" information with the RAU Scrapbooks. I completed my page for Kraken, and I added all the pictures of him that I could find in my archives. (I'm still missing quite a few. Maybe some will turn up later, but for now that's it.) Ideally, I would like for all of my scrapbooks to be as organized as that one, but it's going to be impossible for characters I have more pictures of. With Kraken it was easy because he was only in two episodes and I knew exactly what drawings were from each.
UPDATE: 03/21/08
Three more questions answered in Q&A.
UPDATE: 03/19/08
Updated Q&A.
UPDATE: 03/16/08
The guide for Atlena is up.
UPDATE: 03/15/08
Equinox Shrine updates:
There is now a full explanation of the lost Room 07-02, complete with screenshots, the code for accessing it, save state download, and YouTube video demonstration.
Added the American and European front and back box art to the Scans page.
I'll be working on the walkthrough for Atlena next.
UPDATE: 03/15/08
Missing Room 07-02 in Equinox has been found!. There will be a formal site update on this matter sometime today after it's daylight here again. Right now I have to get some sleep.
UPDATE: 03/10/08
Equinox Shrine updates:
Added the monsters from Atlena. Also decided to add the different overworld monster variations, even though they're all palette swaps and just take more hits to kill but are otherwise the same. But, hey, I did that for the other palette-swapped enemies, so why not those ones?
Added the items from Atlena.
Added the map for Deeso.
Added more info and screenshots to the "Graphic Glitches" section of the oddities. I also added a new section to that page called "Memory Management".
UPDATE: 03/09/08
I archived another forum topic to the RAU Gallery. Although that sketch is not a continuation of the current storyline, it still fits the continuity. It'll be awhile before I get the next chapter done, so that's something in the meantime.
UPDATE: 03/08/08
Equinox Shrine updates:
Added the guide for Deeso.
Added the monsters from Deeso.
Added the items from Deeso.
Added the map for Tori.
Added more "Mysterious Rooms" to the oddities. I also removed the part about the rocks not appearing in Sung Sung's death animation in the Japanese version. I played that level again on the Japanese version and this time those rocks showed up. So it was either a graphic glitch in the game or a problem with the emulation. (Didn't notice any changes in the Deeso dungeon between the versions, either.)
UPDATE: 03/05/08
Awhile ago, my better half, Crawl debunked the mystery of the Graveyard Duck in Castlevania 2 on his site.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to do one of my own.
Edit: And thanks to a site reader, I've already got an update to it!!
I've been cleaning up the Music Downloads pages, but the only thing new I added tonight was the main theme from Deja Vu.
UPDATE: 03/02/08
New updates to the The Equinox Shrine:
The guide for Tori is complete.
The Oddities page has a new section on "Mysterious Rooms with No Known Purpose".
A note on the Game Music Downloads situation. I probably will return to updating it once a week. What day of the week I choose to udpate it and whether the update will include new material or just fixing up old sections will depend on my mood. I didn't really need to update it this past week anyway since the Equinox Shrine Music Section contains plenty of new Equinox and Solstice stuff to tide you over.
UPDATE: 03/01/08
New updates to the The Equinox Shrine:
Added the monsters from Tori.
Added the items from Tori.
Added more information to the oddities about the changes from the English versions of the game to the Japanese version.
Added a detailed description of what causes the disappearing graphics glitches.
UPDATE: 2/26/08
And now to unveil the first major project I'm working on:
The Equinox Shrine!!
Here's the lowdown:
All site sections are mostly complete except the Guide and the Maps. I only have maps and a guide for the first dungeon (Galadonia) so far. I will continue to update the Guide and Maps sections as I play through the game.
UPDATE: 2/26/08
I am pulling the Game Music Downloads section out of retirement because I think I just proved a point to everyone who was complaining to me about certain issues regarding it. But this time, let's try to get a few things straight:
#1. I have always welcomed suggestions from readers, but ultimately I have the final say in what gets put on the site. That has always been and has never changed.
#2. If you really don't want to download or listen to anything because it was suggested by a reader and not 100% by me, then please just don't. From now on, I will always make it clear when something was suggested by someone other than me.
#3. I've decided to keep the Ending Songs Tribute Article, but it will remain as an archive only and will not receive any further updates. Any new game ending songs will be added to Music Downloads only.
Are we all clear on this?
Although the section has been reinstated, it's still on hiatus right now. I've got too many other big projects I'm working on and don't have time for it at the moment.
UPDATE: 2/18/08
I've been watching a lot of music videos lately in an effort to lift my spirits out of this terrible mood I've been in. Nothing much was working...but I finally struck gold:
Maybe it's because this video is so rare, but I'm really surprised 1:48 to 2:25 of this is not "legendary" by now.
Seriously, Bob. It's a great song, but what the hell???
UPDATE: 2/17/08
The Game Ending Songs article will be retired and no longer updated.
I will be working on a shrine for the SNES game Equinox as well as the remaining two (or three if I have to split it again) chapters of the RAU Gallery Archaeology storyline. The rest of the site is on hiatus.
UPDATE: 2/13/08
Game music downloads for today include:
Added a section for Contra 3 with 4 new songs.
I replaced the three Ninja Gaiden 2 mp3s with higher-quality versions and added "Fire Cavern" and "Unlimited Moment".
"Hyrule Field Main Theme" from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had a weird "pop" in the beginning. I edited that out and re-uploaded the file.
UPDATE: 2/11/08
I updated Q & A.
UPDATE: 2/10/08
I finally finished Part 5 of the RAU Archaeology Sketch.
UPDATE: 2/9/08
Game music downloads for today include:
Cleaned up the sections for The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Super Castlevania 4.
Added a new section for Silver Surfer with 4 new songs.
I've also made some other changes to that section. First of all, I took the introduction off the "A" page and put it on the Main Music Page (see left table). I removed that part about WMA's because I don't actually have any WMA's anymore and forgot that note was even in there. I also implemented a personal rating scale for each song which is explained on the Main Music Page. (However, it will be awhile before I get a rating tacked onto every song. I'll just do a few here and there until I've got them all.) I've also started to put a "Quick Access" table at the top of each page, which you can see if you click that link to the "S" page right above there. I don't have every page done yet (I think just C, D, L, and S are done for now), but I'll eventually have them all finished.
I started a 2008 Update Log. This is just a minor thing, but I actually found a copy of my old go.com page with some early 2000 updates. They don't make much sense now, but I stuck them in the 2000 Update Log anyway.
UPDATE: 2/8/08
I updated Q&A.
I decided to take down the "Who's Who" section from the RAU Gallery. I had been talking about taking it down in favor of combining that section with the Scrapbooks. I was going to wait until the combining process was complete, but I just said the heck with it. The characters who are most important to know about already have entries on the RAU Gallery Cast page, not to mention you can learn more about them just by reading the sketches. I'll still slowly but surely finish combining the old Who's Who information with the scrapbooks (some of the scrapbook pages have already been altered and uploaded), but I probably won't mention individual changes in favor of waiting until it's all done to announce it. I think the extended character backgrounds are useful if you find you really like a character and want to know more about him/her, but it certainly isn't required reading. (That's the main reason I created a separate "RAU Gallery Cast" page with briefer descriptions, because I didn't want people to feel they had to read a novel before they could understand a simple sketch comedy.)
UPDATE: 2/6/08
Game music downloads for today include:
Added 3 new songs for Final Fantasy Tactics.
Cleaned up the sections for Kartia and Star Fox.
I know I'm a bit behind schedule for Q&A. I'll get to it hopefully by Friday. I'm also still furiously working on that RAU sketch. I just have a few more scenes left to draw so I'm hopeful for a weekend completion date.
UPDATE: 2/3/08
Game music downloads for today include:
Added a new section for Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Added a new section for The Lion King (SNES).
UPDATE: 2/1/08
Game music downloads for today include:
Cleaned up the Alundra section.
Cleaned up the R-Type 3 section.
Added a bunch more Lufia 2 songs.
I also updated Q&A.
UPDATE: 1/28/08
More Game Music Downloads, including:
Cleaned up the Akumajo Dracula X section.
Cleaned up the Dragon View section and added Fire Field, Sektra Temple, and Snow Field.
Added a ton of new songs to the Final Fantasy 8 section.
Cleaned up the Raiden Trad section.
I also added a few more links to the Links page:
1. Honestgamers.com, which I actually added several days ago but forgot to announce (well, up here, anyway, I did mention it on the forums.)
2. NESworld.com, which I could've sworn I had on there but didn't.
3. Super Sprites, which I just discovered via my site tracker.
UPDATE: 1/27/08
More Game Music Downloads, including:
Cleaned up the Castlevania 2 section.
Added a new section for The Castlevania Adventure with 2 new songs.
Added some more songs for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
Cleaned up the Ultima 6 section and the U page in general.
Added some more songs for Vagrant Story.
I also updated Q&A.
Still working on The RAU Gallery Archaeology Sketch Part 5...
UPDATE: 1/16/08
I updated Q&A.
UPDATE: 1/13/08
Another huge update to Game Music Downloads , including:
Added a section for The Addams Family with 1 new song.
Added a section for Bubsy with 5 new songs.
Cleaned up the section for Donkey Kong 64 and added Fungi Forest Day, Fungi Forest Night, Jungle Japes, and a version of The DK Rap without sound effects.
Added a new section for Killer Instinct with 9 new songs.
Added Grass Land 4, Ripple Field 1, and Ripple Field 2 to the Kirby's Dream Land 3 section.
Added Hometown Domina, Moonlight City Roa, and To The Sea to the Legend of Mana section. Also, the volume on some of those mp3s was too low, so I uploaded new versions with increased volume. The corrected songs include: Calmly Traveling, Cliff Town Gato, Leading into Prosperity, Memory of Running, Mystic City Geo, The Excitement of Both of Us, and Those Who Are Shining.
Added a section for Street Fighter 2 with 10 new songs.
Cleaned up the section for Super Mario Bros. 3 and added a ton of new songs. Almost every level theme and world map theme are available except for a few I skipped that I don't like so much. I also replaced the Ending Theme with a higher-quality version that has a fadeout, AND I added the Super NES All-Stars remakes of almost every song, too.
I'll eventually have Hiryu No Ken, Castlevania, and more Mega Man 2 music up, but I really need to get back to working on Part 5 of the RAU Gallery Archaeology Adventure, so I can't guarantee it will be anytime soon.
UPDATE: 1/12/08
Several huge updates to Game Music Downloads include:
Cleaned up Battle Clash section, added mp3 for Scarab's Theme.
Added to Chrono Trigger section: At the Bottom of Night, Black Dream, Epilogue: To Good Friends, Memories of Green, Robo's Theme, Secret of the Forest, and Silent Light.
Cleaned up Equinox section, added mp3s for Atlena and Title Theme.
Added to Final Fantasy 5 section: mp3s for Battle With Gilgamesh, as well as the PS1 versions of Fate in Haze and Harvest.
Added a new section for The Guardian Legend with 8 new songs. Also replaced the old Ending Theme mp3 with a new one that has higher sound quality and a fadeout.
UPDATE: 1/11/08
I updated Q&A. Changed the link for The Center for Glitch Studies to Glitchi: The Glitch Wiki.
UPDATE: 1/5/08
I finally finished Part 4 of the RAU Gallery Archaeology Sketch.
Because I had split the story up two more times than I originally planned to, I had to put that one through several rewrites. It would've been far too short if I had left it the way it was when I first wrote it. So I added scenes, dialogue, and rewrote parts of it to make it flow a little better, and I drew at least twice as many scenes as the script previously called for.
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