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February 22nd, 2010 IRA

The past week I switched over to iragination.com. As usual I’ve been so busy that once the move was done, instead of making some announcement I just focused my attention on to something else.

Ok, there was actually some other thing I felt it need to be solved before making any sort of announcement. To get the new domain properly indexed on search engines. You may consider this superfluous, but I really took care to make the switch in order to make it easy for search engines to detect the change, so I really want this to be working too.

So, after a week, and after doing the relevant site submission and stuff, here are the results so far.

Bing: Perfect

Yahoo: Winner

Google: Failure?

This one is funny because Google offered me at least three times the tools Bing and Yahoo have to report such domain changes and yet it is underperforming. Maybe Bing and Yahoo are not as big as Google so they have a better time reacting to these changes. Maybe they don’t care. I don’t know.

Usually I’ll let this pass and wait for it to solve itself someday. After all I can’t underestimate the weight of years of referrers and links to my old domain. But when Bing and Yahoo are doing a better job updating their indexes, I can’t help but keep bugging Google about it until it gets this sorted out.

Well, I’m making this post to help Google a bit. Maybe they’ll catch the hint.

Hey Google, look: www.iragination.com

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Mega Man Zero Collection for DS

January 15th, 2010 IRA

Capcom opened a japanese site for this project.

This is all nice and good, but then I noticed something.

High quality versions of some of the cutscene game artwork. Here’s a quick site rip.

This would be great if it weren’t because this is the very reason I get books like Mega Man Zero Complete Works. Unfortunately that book contains the same tiny pixilated game artwork, and not high quality versions like these ones.

Are we ever going to get all these pieces of artwork at high quality?

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Años viejos 2009 part 2

December 31st, 2009 IRA

The past weekend there were already plenty of Años Viejos in the city so I took some pictures.

This time I am being more selective so I’m not posting that many.

I had a lot of inconvenient doing this post. I don’t know what changed in Wordpress recently but the past year the new gallery feature was incredibly useful and set up a post like this one was a breeze. Today, after uploading all the pictures, and thank goodness they were just a few, I had to “add” every picture again from the Media Gallery to the post in order to show it up in the gallery tab. The gallery tab was not showing at all before the second “add”. That was rather counterintuitive and annoying.

I was hoping to use this feature a lot, but please Wordpress developers, you had this sorted out. Leave it as it was or add some bulk functionality, otherwise browsing the Media Gallery again for every picture one by one is really discouraging.

Rants asides, Happy New Year for everyone!

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Años viejos 2009

December 31st, 2009 IRA

I have a tight schedule today, but at least I’m publishing this one.

The little one is obviously Mega Man. The larger one is X, but is it the X3 armor or the X2 one?

Update: Now that I think of it, seems like the ultimate armor.

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Did you notice?

December 21st, 2009 IRA

When I was drawing the first frame of Meet Sheep Man, I was thinking on some scene from the Mega Man X3 opening.

I couldn’t resist so today I checked out how close I got to the real thing. Here are the results.

I kind of nailed X’s stance, but Zero is way far on the right. Honestly I don’t think I’d have used that. Also in the game the image is flipped horizontally. Probably I could have done a better work by actually watching the scene while drawing, but as sudden as the whole idea was at the moment, I thought I already achieved the dramatic feeling with the ‘zomg extreme’ armors and seriousness, so I just went on with the rest of the strip.

BTW, The Mega Man Network found my comic. Neat!

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Mega Man 10 announced!

December 10th, 2009 IRA

Mega Man 10

I remember how I ranted when Mega Man 9 was announced because of the downgrade graphic wise.

I have to admit that I have learned to love these games. Announcing them in all seriousness with high marketing budgets and press releases is a parody on its own right of the game industry that puts a smile in my face. I love this.

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=107309

I remember how I ranted when Mega Man 9 was announced because of the downgrade graphic wise.

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Fall of 21XX finally playable on Firefox

December 6th, 2009 IRA

Fall of 21XX is now fully playable on Firefox and friends. You no longer have to use Internet Explorer to play it.

Back in 2005 when I released Fall of 21XX r2, for some reason the map scrolling didn’t work on Firefox. It was sort of acceptable to say, “Guys, it works well on Internet Explorer, just use that”.

Years later, that statement was getting more and more embarrassing.

So, as I needed a break from Bass Abyss, I decided to take a look at the old Fall of 21XX codebase and fix that bug once and for all. Ok, the initial plan was more ambitious, I set to rewrite the engine, make the game widescreen, and as a whole use the process as a sandbox to try and implement concepts in a small scale to be ported back to Bass Abyss. Obviously such an endeavor would not be ready in an afternoon, but that fix was faster than I expected so, I decided to publish it.

Have fun and sorry for taking so long in that.

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