Dragonsoft Studios Site History --------------------------------------------------- Site Version 2 - 07/01/2014 to 12/11/2014 --------------------------------------------------- --------------- :: July 2014 :: --------------- 07/01/2014 - Sooner or later, I've got to get this thing back in order... o.o; So yeah, it's been quite awhile since the last update. It's one of those things, I need a few copies of myself, one to run the site, one to make videos, one to handle social media stuff, one to job hunt, one to draw, one to play games just for fun, and we just switch off every day so no one gets bored or overworked. It doesn't help that things have been kind of tense lately at home. My aunt had to switch to a new type of chemo treatment for her cancer, and it's been leaving her feeling very sick and drained. It's really rough seeing her in such a condition... My own medical situation, since I haven't covered it here since the last update, my surgical wounds are as healed as they're going to get. I'm back to feeling pretty much normal, though I have a nasty bit of a scar from the operation. But hey, at least I don't have to worry about my appendix going boom again, that's pretty much a one time deal. So anyway, UPDATES! THEY HAPPEN SOMETIMES! They should probably happen more often like they used to. GETTING OUT OF BAD HABITS! IT'S A THING! - The previous... uh.... time period of updates have been Archived. It's July, so, uh, technically we're supposed to be in a new set of three months for updates! I'm not betting anything on actually keeping up with them, but I can try! - The Library has been added with a few new games, with the purchases of Pokémon Battle Trozei and Shovel Knight, and the donations of .hack // INFECTION and Sonic Lost World. - The Polls page has been updated with a new poll. Older polls have also been given their own spot now. Kind of wish I'd thought to do that earlier with much older polls, but unfortunately I have no records of those. - The Projects page has been updated with the completion of the Rock Force Blind Run and the Mega Man 5 Fortress stages, as well as Spyro the Dragon. The current project has also been updated to the Mega Man 6 Fortress stages. - The Fan Art gallery has been updated with 20 new images. My thanks to all who sent in new work! ----------------- :: August 2014 :: ----------------- 08/29/2014 - Whew, busy updates are busy! I actually did quite a bit with this update. The major addition however is that I decided to sign up for an account over on Patreon. I'm hoping perhaps this can lead to some extra income to help out with household expenses, and possibly even may lead to being able to save up to improve my recording equipment. It's all kind of in the learning process stage, but we'll see what happens! I've added a new page detailing the Patreon account, as well as providing a link to it. Meanwhile, I've been practicing up for the Pikmin 1 No Deaths Run. And remembering how much I hated fighting Burrowing Snagrets in the first game... Still, practice will definitely help and I'm getting more in the groove. Neo meanwhile is very kindly helping out with title cards, he's already finished the Outro card and is working on the Intro card currently. So, onto a list of updates! - The Patreon page has been added, and all pages on the site have been updated with the new menu link to it. - The Contact page has been updated with a note about Skype. I prefer to keep my contacts there fairly minimal, really just to my close, personal friends. Similarly, the General FAQ page has been updated with this. - The Gaming FAQ page has been updated with the difficulty rankings for the fortress stages from Mega Man 5 and 6. - The Links page has been updated a bit. Some old, obsolete links have been removed, and some new ones have been added in. - The Projects page has been updated with the completion of the Mega Man 6 Fortress Perfect Runs, as well as the Shovel Knight Blind Run. - The Fan Art gallery has been updated with 23 new images. My thanks to everyone who sent in new work! Also, due to the artist's request, DanteBaiocchi's folder has been removed from the Fan Art archives. Wow, an actually respectably large update! They happen sometimes! -------------------- :: September 2014 :: -------------------- 09/01/2014 - As far as practice runs go, Burrowing Snagrets continue to be the avian incarnation of evil. It's always the birds, I'm telling you. Always... In the meantime however, in thanks to those who have started supporting me via Patreon, I went ahead and put up the promised Hall of Backers on the Patreon page. I'm hoping that it looks alright, and also I hope I got everyone right on there. The trick is the only names I have to go by really are the names they supply me with on there, so I do hope I got the names right as to what you all wish to go by on the site ^_^; If not, please do get in touch with me, and I shall happily correct it. I'll try to keep this updated fairly regularly. ------------------ :: October 2014 :: ------------------ 10/03/2014 - Greetings from Silent Hill! I'd send post cards, but the lock on the door of the gift shop was broken, and the door was jammed, and it was blocked and I couldn't open it. There was also a keypad and I didn't know the code, and it was broken anyway. Credit to Shagg for the joke about the most un-openable door in Silent Hill. With October here, and with the Pikmin run completed, it's time once more to venture into... Shepherd's Glen...? Well, we'll get to the usual place soon enough. The project seems to be going well enough so far, my thanks as ever to my viewers, fans, and supporters! So now, on to site updates : - The Patreon page has been updated with the newest additions to the Hall of Backers! My most sincere thanks to everyone who has chosen to support my work. I'm hoping to start price hunting for some of the equipment I'd like to get, first priority will likely be a new external hard drive. My current one is near as makes no difference full, so I definitely need more storage space o.o; - The Library has been updated thanks to Jeroen van der Velden sending me a download code for Mighty Gunvolt! Thank you kindly for the game! - The Projects page has been updated, with Pikmin added to the completed projects, and Silent Hill Homecoming as the current project in progress. - The Polls page has been updated with the closure of the most recent poll. It seems the results are in, and people want more of the official games. And so it shall be! Those will likely be resuming in 2015, Mega Man 7 Fortress Perfect Runs will most likely follow MMBN4. - The Fan Art gallery has been updated with 4 new images! My thanks to those who sent in new work! ------------------- :: November 2014 :: ------------------- 11/20/2014 - Hello, Roahm Mythril here in... uh... site update... form...? First and foremost, this is a fairly minor update, just something I wanted to be sure to take care of, and that is updating the Patreon page with new backers. My thanks to everyone who is supporting me there and continuing to do so. I'm hoping to put the funds to good use soon, I keep saying to friends when they ask that, when things settle down, I'll be price checking some equipment I need to get, but... yeah, things haven't really been settling down. Hopefully soon though. Obviously, things have been quite rough for my family after the passing of my aunt. Looking over it, she had been fighting cancer for about four years. Time has a weird way of playing tricks on you, it had honestly felt like it had been going on longer than that to me. Either way, we're contenting ourselves with the knowledge that her long pain and suffering is over, and that she is free of the disease. It is my sincere hope that one day, we find a cure, and no one has to go through this again. As far as video stuff, I am actually getting back to a point where I'm starting to feel pretty good. I'm hoping to maybe start working on continuing Silent Hill Homecoming soon. I can't promise EXACTLY when it will be, between up and down mood shifts, weird sleep schedules, and a trio of games I have reserved coming out tomorrow, but I do hope to resume work before too much longer. I'm rather looking forward to getting some semblance of normalcy going again. I want to thank everyone who has sent in kind words over the past few weeks, it has truly meant a lot to know I have such a large, supportive fanbase, and I feel truly fortunate in that regard. Here's hoping we can get back on track soon! ------------------- :: December 2014 :: ------------------- 12/11/2014 - First and foremost, I just want to let everyone know I've been in a much better mood lately. Right now, delays are just being caused by essentially digging myself back out from everything that's piled up over the last few weeks. Thankfully, I think I'm pretty close to where I need to be at this point. I got my site account taken care of, helped out with a few other household accounts that needed to be transferred, took care of some early December Christmas decorating that I'm usually in charge of, and have been trying to do a better job with keeping track of Tumblr and updating the Pokémon nickname blog. Still have quite a backlog of listy questions to go through over on Tumblr, but getting there at least. And now, hey, a site update! I'm basically multitasking here, getting this site update together while I work on transferring all my Lv 100s from X to Alpha Sapphire. A lengthy process, that, though at least Bank makes it a good bit faster than it would have been otherwise. Still tends to be best done as a "one step at a time" process over my connection though. Also listening to Katamari Damacy music because that's been on my mind recently for some reason. I'm hoping to get a more detailed updates and announcements vid together soon, hopefully with some sort of gameplay going on in the background, so hopefully that will be soon. Anyway, as for what's been updated : - The Library has been updated with a few new games I've obtained. I got a trio of games I had reserved at GameStop thanks to gift cards, so I got Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby, as well as Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Also, thanks to an anonymous contribution of eShop currency, I got Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition. I also received a copy of Super Smash Bros. for 3DS, sent by my friend Beedolphin, so that too has been added. - The Hall of Backers has been updated on the Patreon page. My thanks to everyone for your continued support! - 5 new images have been added to the Fan Art gallery. My thanks to everyone who sent in new work!