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[ressurectionx]

If anyone would like to help with non-coding and non-video related work, there are a few side projects that I probably won't be getting around to now that could use some help.

1st, is collecting cool videos for games like the Angry Video Game Nerd reviews on YouTube, or any cool commercials and stuff.  

2nd, is collecting FAQs for games on gamefaqs and editing them in notepad so they work with the newly fixed word-wrap features in the upcoming Madmab edition emulators.

If anyone is interested in helping, there will be betas in it for you.

Let me know.

~Rx

[ressurectionx]

C'mon people!

Why's it so dead in here.  It's snowing outside, don't ya know?

It'd be real cool if somebody could collect some of these video game review videos and edited the faqs.

Madmab already fixed the word wrap so FAQs look great after they've been altered correctly.  

We're hoping to one day be able to choose the order of the videos for games too, so if there are commercials for the games or funny reviews online they can display before the game preview if you desire.

It won't work unless we have the vids though!!!!  



I'm not asking for commercials now because I probably have about 1,000 of them already and wouldn't want people doing double work.  I will eventually get around to sorting them out too.



Thanks,
~Rx

[king bongmaster]

I use all these xtras on my xbox and I love 'em.   I could help with the game faqs,  in what way do they need to be edited?  For what systems and games are they needed?

[ressurectionx]

That'd be great man.  



Basically, we'd need somebody to copy the text and put them into .txt files.  Once there, they'd have to remove all the hard returns and extra spaces between words.  Basically, if you turn word-wrap off, every paragraph would only take up one line if viewing in notepad.

Maybe somebody knows how to remove the hard-returns and extra spaces in bulk?  I don't know how to, so it takes quite a while to get a larger FAQ for an RPG ready.



I have no specific list of games to do.  I would like to have them done for the various RPG's for the main consoles/hand-helds.  Also popular games like the Metroid and Castlevania series.

Let me know if you'd like to do this, and which one's you're planning on doing.

Later,
~Rx

[XTecuterX73]

hey rx, good to see you are still very active,  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pop.gif)

over the past few months i have shifted my priorities over to finishing my nes set stuff. ive recently acquired numerous world of nintendo fiberoptic signs, world of nintendo signs, an nes test station, an m82 unit and loads of other nes memorabilia.  im only 32 titles away from the complete set and got about half of those complete!

i had been out of the loop collecting for a while but decided to focus on this for a while, as to this is why i havent been on here posting much lately. i plan on never going away from here though as id love to do some more.

i had spent the last year or 2 working on xbox stuff and needed a change of scenery for a lil while. im gonna be shifting  back over to xbox stuff. for a lil while it almost felt like work i had been doing it so much and so focused. lmao.

XT-

This post has been edited by XTecuterX73: Dec 5 2009, 10:29 PM

[z0p]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Dec 5 2009, 08:38 PM)

That'd be great man.  
Basically, we'd need somebody to copy the text and put them into .txt files.  Once there, they'd have to remove all the hard returns and extra spaces between words.  Basically, if you turn word-wrap off, every paragraph would only take up one line if viewing in notepad.

Maybe somebody knows how to remove the hard-returns and extra spaces in bulk?  I don't know how to, so it takes quite a while to get a larger FAQ for an RPG ready.
I have no specific list of games to do.  I would like to have them done for the various RPG's for the main consoles/hand-helds.  Also popular games like the Metroid and Castlevania series.

Let me know if you'd like to do this, and which one's you're planning on doing.

Later,
~Rx

I have to many projects going on now, but i wrote a quick and dirty python script that can download and reformat the document for you if you are interested. It will still need some manual editing, but it will save you for a lot of time

http://prosjektet.net/xbmc/test.py

usage: python test.py GAMEFAQURL

example:
python test.py http://www.gamefaqs....le/576152/25105

output: http://prosjektet.net/xbmc/output.txt

it's something i cooked together in some minutes, so it's neither elegant or stable, but it works ok. just ask if you have questions or want some specific improvements

[Xmodder deluX]

I found a cool Double Dragon II NES parody on youtube.  Check it out:

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

[ninjagaidenfreak]

I've been watching the Xtras project for a while now and I wouldn't mind helping with the Game faq's.

I'm just wondering if there is any naming convention I should follow or a certain system you would like done first.

[ressurectionx]

Thanks for the script z0p!

I'll have to check it out when I get a chance.


Hey ninjagaidenfreak,

No real naming convention other than the name in the spreadsheet should be good

gamename.txt will be good for all of them.


Maybe you should give the script z0p put together a few posts up and let us know how it works.  

Also, why don't you send the first 1 or 2 my way when you get them done so I can see if I have any further suggestions.


Very excited to see what you can come up with man.  Whatever games you'd like to do for whatever system are fine with me.  

Later,
~Rx

[ninjagaidenfreak]

Sounds good Rx I'll get you some as soon as I can weekends are my busy time so I'll probably have something for you Monday or Tuesday, still working on a good work flow.

The python script is nice but its kinda situational on what faqs it will work on.

Looks like a lot of them I can automate via simple search and replace strings.

I let you know once i get a better idea.

[ninjagaidenfreak]

i was also thinking about deleting the controller setups in the guides for some faqs as they don't really work all that well.

and also use the shorter basic walkthrough for games as well because most of the time the formatting for the item list won't work that well and when playing a game I tend to go to them more for when I get stuck.

I would be interested on hearing others views on this subject though.

This post has been edited by ninjagaidenfreak: Dec 14 2009, 10:33 AM

[ressurectionx]

I think all of that other stuff would look good if we could get a true "fixed-width" font working with the FAQs and other text files in the text file viewer.  Unfortunately, the "fixed-width" that the emu uses now isn't really what it says it is and nothing lines up right.  

Bottom line, these are for you and you're sharing them with us.  Do them the way that you'd want them to look unless we get that fixed width font working or anyone has any better suggestions.

Thanks a ton man.  This will be a very valuable feature and hopefully if people see what yours looks like they'll be inclined to do some more of their own and share.

Later,
~Rx

[ninjagaidenfreak]

I've got around 10 done so far but don't have access to my xbox at work so I can't check it.

When I get home I'll try it out and post my results.

[ninjagaidenfreak]

Here is a small amount of them to preview, let me know if anything needs to change.

They do need to be proofed again and I plan on doing that when I have a good amount done but this should give an idea what I plan to do.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LFUII11T

[ressurectionx]

Thanks man, I'll try it again later.  Looks like Megaupload is being a pain again.  Says the file is temporarily unavailable.