The Old Skool Cult of Kefka, bitches!

[LocoColt04]

Haha, in all seriousness though, I'm open to all sorts of suggestions -- especially since this wasn't even my idea to begin with.

I'm sort of aiming for an over-the-top cheesy Burger King crown type of thing.

Except, you know, awesome since it's sprite art.

[Georg Prime]

, yeah i'm really fine with the title belt or the crown. I definitely agree, the more over the top and cheesy the better. When the title belts were mentioned, i thought the same thing with using sprites. Then i thought of making the emblem of the belt in the shape of the respective sprite character. I also agree with the personalized idea..that is a good point, when i was thinking of my old idea, i figured to personalize it i would just have each person's name written above their sprites head so each banner would be different. These ideas are a lot more funny and over the top though.

As for the crowns. I like the idea, would we use the same character for the three sprites on top, or different ones? For mine, i would probably all use general leo but each one would be in a different pose. I think for one i have to use the one in my avatar, then i'll have one of him laughing, then the last either his "cast magic" pose, or his victory dance after battle pose.

Also, does anyone know a good program to make gif files? I used to have animation shop, but i can't find it anywhere. I've been meaning to make an animated general leo avatar forever

Edit: And holy shit! i missed the part about your eye Loco, really sorry to hear that. I've had some bad stuff happen to my eye but no burning yet. When i was little i had a growth that was literally growing over my eye, it got so bad that my eye was literally shut and i couldn't see out of it. Had to have surgery to remove it, then i wore a patch for awhile and felt like a pirate. Then later, at a pool in California, i was swimming with my eyes open (like i always have/do, i know its kinda stupid), failing to realize that the staff had put about 3 or 4 times the normal ammount of chlorine that day. After swimming for awhile my eyes started to burn and after about half an hour to an hour later i literally couldn't open them. I was like that for awhile until we went to the nearest drug store and got some eye drops. My mom had to pry my eyes open i remember...and even then it was a good 45 minutes or more before i could fully open them. Hopefully that's temporary though!

[Setzertrancer]

I nearly went blind a long time ago when I was 8-12. The past is really fuzzy and I'm not sure what happened when. Anyway I was at some house party and a saw a really scary looking spider, so I got a can of fly spray and attempted to spray the shit out of the spider, but instead I sprayed the shit out of my eyes. I immediately ran inside and strarting trying to put my eyes under running water and did so for about 1/2 an hour straight, until I was sure that I had cleaned my eyes out as much as I could, after that they were really sore and the doctor gave me eye drops and stuff that I had to use for a few weeks. But anyway I'm sure that isn't as bad as burning hot oil, and maybe I'm remembering an overdramatized version of the event as you often do. Now that I think about it I'm not sure if I even came close to doing any permanent damage to my eyes.

Congrats on 900 posts GLC, I've actually been racing you, but I think I know who's going to reach 1000 first now. I'm afraid I wouldn't know the answer to your question.

[LocoColt04]

Ask Dawezy and he'll hook you up with a nifty little animation program. Speaking of which, I think I need it again as well, since I don't have it on this laptop and I don't believe I have the install file on the other laptop any more. Go figure.

It's the program that he and I used to make our series of animated avatars back in the day, such as the Braska Spira one everyone was buzzing about last week.


I've got a couple hours to kill prior to my eye appointment, so I'll go whip up a crown for myself and we can discuss any changes/etc. that we want to make. Oh, and I think the idea of three sprites of the same character is probably a better one, so we'll go with that unless we change our minds.



Currently Playing:
Advance Wars: Dual Strike (NDS) for short periods of time, as to avoid straining my left eye too much. ^_^;;

On the bright side, I've decided that this will pull me away from Counter-Strike and all other shooters that require extensive visual attention, and thus throw me back into RPGs (specifically MMORPGs) where such concentration is not necessary. Don't get me wrong, as a WHM, I have to keep an eye on everyone's health, but fortunately there are nifty little HP bars that do that for me.

[Victoria]

Speaking of eyes, I just got back from the eye doctor. So my eyes are all dialated now.

Glucoma runs in my family, so I'm being checked on for that. But the doctor is skeptical of me having it right now, so I'm going to go back in 6 months.

[LocoColt04]

CLICKY!

We can always go with a smooth font if you wish, but in keeping with the old school idea, I figured something a little pixelated would probably be best for the crowns.

I did a sprite of my choice (laughing) in the middle, with walking sprites on each side. Obviously, this was just personal preference, so if you guys like what we've got going here, let me know and we can start duplicating them for each of you -- I've still got the seven layer original project file ready to go for everyone.

Also, remember that the background is actually transparent, not white.

[Georg Prime]

Hey that looks cool. I like the somewhat old school look of the crown itself, it probably wouldn't have looked good if the crown was really realistic or metallic looking. If you have the basic crown itself, i can start making my personal one. What font did you use?

Or maybe if you are just doing them all yourself so they look the same, I could just tell you what sprites i want to use. I'm looking over some different poses right now..there are a lot of funny ones. But i think the laughing one would be in the middle like yours, then on the outside...on the left where general leo is looking down at the ground, his "sad" pose, and the other on the right, the pointing finger pose that is in my avatar right now. I'm not sure where you get the sprites from, I was looking at these but i know rpg-icons has a great selection too. I like the magic cast pose but because he is faced to the side it wouldn't go well with the others, and also the surprised pose would look weird in comparison with the normal ones.


I finally got animation shop, and i'm going to use some of the other poses in my General Leo animated avatar.

[LocoColt04]

Or maybe if you are just doing them all yourself so they look the same, I could just tell you what sprites i want to use.

That was the idea, yes. This way, they could all be hosted from my server as well, keeping them all in the same place and all that jazz.

There's nothing wrong with a sprite facing sideways. I can just as easily flip another facing sideways so that it faces inward. You don't have to use the same two sprites on the outer edges, again, that was just a personal preference.

I do, however, think it would be best to have a forward-facing sprite in the middle.

[Georg Prime]

Yeah good point you could always mirror them..hmmm. I guess let me think about what sprites i want to use, because i want to make sure they are 3 good poses and there is a good variety to choose from. I think the only one for sure i want to do is the forward posed laugh in the middle, the two outside ones i am still debating over.

And i like what you have done with yours!! That looks really good and fits perfectly around your other banner, it's too bad my nintendo one is so big but i can always shrink it or else put the crowns on either side of my my "other clubs" list.

[LocoColt04]

And for the record, for everyone else, the sprites don't HAVE to be from FFVI.

Any old school game will do, though FF titles would obviously be preferred. I think having three sprites of the same character will probably be best for these.


edit:
GLC, if you have your sprites picked out, just post with what you want and I'll do yours when I get home from the eye doctor. Still don't know if I'm having surgery today or not, but I guess I'll find out in an hour. I've got a pretty in-depth General Leo sheet, so just let me know which ones you want and I'll get it done later today for sure. (Couldn't say when today though... Kat's coming over, so she and I will be up in my room watching movies until she feels like leaving, so, eh.)

[Georg Prime]

Sweet, good stuff. I appreciate it and i think after toying around a little with the sprites i finally have my final idea down. All of these are forward facing..

On the left i want his wave pose where it looks like he has his hand on his head. In the middle his laugh pose. And on the right i want his shaking finger pose BUT MIRRORED so his finger is on the right side. Of course they aren't going to be animated but i included the links just so you know but i know you have your own general leo sheet

Don't worry about not getting it done soon, I'm in no hurry really. But my sig is sure gonna look spiffy with the crown in it.

[LocoColt04]

GENERAL LEO CHRISTOPHE

I opted to write General Leo rather than GLC, though if you prefer GLC, I can change that when I get home (I'm about to leave) and then re-upload it to the same file, so you won't even have to change your signature. Your call, let me know, mate.


edit:
Whoops, wrong sprite on the left. Good to see you edited your posts with actual image links.

I'll change that right now and then I'm out the door.


edit again:
New image up (at the same link) and I'm out.

[Georg Prime]

Haha yeah sorry. I posted it first then accidentally hit back then just re wrote my post and added the links. Looks great though, yeah i totally agree General Leo should be put on and not GLC. My real username would be General Leo is somebody hadn't used it already.

Thanks though, i'll add it to my sig once you are done so then i'll be reppin the old skooool!

EDIT: I think you just forgot this time to change the LocoColt name on the newer one. Sorry to keep stopping you from leaving, If you already left it's fine though.

[ZRO]

Well, I know of one way to get the sprites. <.<;

And I'm gonna have to be a bad person and double-post to get them all uploaded. ._.

[LocoColt04]

EDIT: I think you just forgot this time to change the LocoColt name on the newer one. Sorry to keep stopping you from leaving, If you already left it's fine though.

Haha, that I did... I was in a hurry and forgot all about it.

It's all nice and fixed and ready to go (again, same link), so there you have it! You may have to refresh the image to replace the one in your cache with the proper version.

Now we just need the opinions of others, and if they like them, I'll need their sprite choices as well. ^_^

[ZRO]

But yeah, like I said, I know of one way to get them. And in case you're wondering, yes, I have a shit-ton of the other FF sprites as well. I had a period where all I did was go around looking for sprites. This was, of course, back before I got into FFXI. Maybe one of these days FFXI will flat-out crash or something and I'll get a life again. XD

CP:
FFXI (camping Behemoth atm, HATE HNM camping, 3 hours of camping, witha minute of anticipation every half hour, freaking yay ~.~)

[Georg Prime]

Awesome. My crown is looking nice and i added it into my signature. Yeah i have a lot of sprite sheets as well those are from http://videogamesprites.net/ aren't they? The one thing i like about those is they have so many of the battle sprites including sabin's blitzes and edgar's tools, etc. Those are really going to come in handy with my rpg maker presentation. That's really the reason why i have so many sprite sheets, rpg maker.

I haven't been playin much lately besides DoD: Source. I got pissed after playing Grandia for awhile because my disc is scratched and it froze mid battle after playing for a long time. Eh..I'll probably get into playing it later tonite.

Anywayz, i'm likin the crown! Reppin the old skoool beyotches!

[LocoColt04]

Oh, and good news about the eye, gents.

Looks like I've got to give it a few more days to clear up, and we'll see what it's like from there. Either way, I'll be getting a new prescription, since it's been about five years since I've had my eyes examined. They can't do a proper examination until the injury is healed up, so that'll likely be sometime next week.

Fun stuff.

[Scorpian]

Not bad lookin. Now about my sprite choice. *looks at Avatar, looks back* gee, that's hard, see the blue guy there? yeah. However, the owner of that and just about all my custom sheets ( except FFIV:SU and MM:SU ) is Dawezy, so once he gets his lazy arse in here and posts what he got, then we can move forward with regards to me..on a note to that manic Aussie. Can you post up the Status screen of my char from your FF3j game, similar to the one you did with your M (D) Knight a couple weeks back? thx

Cp:
blegh

[LocoColt04]

Actually, I've got all of your custom sprites, but I think they're on the other laptop. Of course, I'll know in about ten seconds whether I transferred them here or not.

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No, I don't, but I can easily pull them off the old laptop tomorrow.

[Scorpian]

Hmm, okies LC, you gots a deal, DD can't seem to find abunch of them ( too many folders of Hentai to sort thru me thinks ) so we'll see what you gots and go from there.

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[Setzertrancer]

This looks awesome LocoColt04, from the sprites that ZRO provided I would like the Setzer sprite 5 from the left on the top row, where he is holding a pose. I would like Setzer on the left tip. I would like the Locke where he is looking to the right, looking sad or thinking, Which is the last one on the second row.

In the middle I would like a Pixelized version of Stan from south park, now does anyone have any ideas where that could be found?

[Georg Prime]

Like Loco said, you can choose any sprite you want really, not just ones from FF VI. I have too many custom sprite sheets to name honestly, I'm sure I'll have whatever anyone is looking for in terms of different characters from different games. Even ones you might not be thinking of..like solid snake and osama bin laden!

As for Stan, I'm not sure if you can find a real legit sprite of him out there but i took a few minutes to cook up my own sprite version of Stan which i attatched to this post. Tell me what you think. Kind of bootleg i know..but eh?

[Setzertrancer]

Wow that looks awesome GLC, nice one. I would like to use it if you don't mind. I could probably get some sprites for people, I've got a whole lot of wierd ones from when I was experimenting with RPG maker, I always sucked at it though.

[Georg Prime]

Yeah definitely use it if you like it, I made it so you could have the sprite on your crown. Just thought I'd help out since i figured it might be kinda hard finding a sprite version of stan, and creating south park characters isn't too bad because of their simplicity, i.e. no need to shade or anything.

Anyhoo..eh i'm tired. Just woke up after a long night and about 5 hrs of sleep..i need food asap my stomach is rumblin. I'm gonna b happy to see the rest of these crowns made!

[Jin]

Hello, fellow Old School people. I'm back. Welcome me. Good, good.

Yes, I am back in this dreary frost hole of a city I call home, much to my displeasure, but c'est la vie.

Anyways, what's been happening since I've been gone? Surely, judging by the ammount of posts (that I'm too lazy to read), there's something you can tell me.

Obviously, I haven't really been gaming much since I left. A few Soul Caliber 3 rounds here and there, and I just recieved the new Final Fantasy Finally (/Cheap Joke), so I'll probably start that up soon, old skool or not. Right now I'm far too tired as I didn't get too much sleep last night. It was bloody hot in Tennessee. But yes, I'm back. Rejoice.

CP:
Nothing, too tired.

[Setzertrancer]

Have a Merry 8-bit Christmas everyone, I'm not really being forced to sit and eat with a family I don't get along with isn't my idea of fun. But posting here in a forum full of great people is.

I've been doing a lot more old skool gaming then usual for me lately, been trying to play through every old skool Zelda game.

If I may be so bold as to ask a non old skool question, I'm currently stuck in a dilema about the next game I should get for my Wii, Monster Truck Madness or GT. It apears that MMM comes with a cool steering wheel accessory but I know GT is a more awesome game, at least it's history says so.

That's all I really have to say, please bring this club back to life, I suppose every club has it's quiet moments, but I just want to see another good discussion apear here again.

CP:
Zelda: Oracle of Ages

[LocoColt04]

Happy 8-bit!

Everyone (relatively active at all) gets NESes from me! Hooray!

Oy vey, I've been so freaking busy at work that I haven't had the time for the forums, let alone videogames -- and especially not anything oldschool. I get a bit of Soul Calibur III here and there, and I should probably go back to FFXI sometime soon whenever I have the chance. My Nintendo DS probably gets more playtime out of anything else right now.

Did you all know that Dragon Quest IX is going to be for the NDS? I can't recall if we mentioned that or not, but I know Cain's got a thread about it in General Gaming. Huge slap in the face of Sony by SE on that one. Good call, too.

In any case, just swinging by to say I haven't forgotten about you. Anyone else who was interested in the crowns will get them in the near future. I'll probably ask for a sprite reminder whenever I'm ready to actually put those together. Who knows? It could be as early as tomorrow before work or as late as the weekend -- either way, it'll get done sometime in the near future.

[Tiffany]

I want a tiara! Screw Zro, it's my turn dammit!

Ha ha ha, kidding...kidding.

It's been forever and a day since I posted in here. Probrably because I've been wrapped up in the not-even-in-the-slightest-old skool game of Final Fantasy XII. But that's okay...right?

Hope all are well. Funny enough it took me getting the nintendo as a gift to come back here. Apprantly I do well with bribes. Yee-haw!

[Rasler]

Holy crap, how long has it been since I've posted in here? I blame school.
I had a Christmas that was merry, due to the expensive stuff that I received for free. Heh, I don't even follow that particular religion. Or any at all, for that matter.
Finally got an ipod. Now I just need to create a scenario where I can listen to 180+ hours of music...

In my videogaming news, I have nearly completed FFIII DS and FFXII.
The endgame sequence in FFIII DS is the most brutal videogame experience I have had in some time. No return, 4 uber-bosses followed by the game boss, no save point. How brutally oldschool of S-E.

Does anyone else absolutely LOVE S-E's decision of making Cid a villain? He's just the lovably charismatic mad scientist Final Fantasy needed. FFIV's Lugae was too goofy and FFVII's Hojo was too morally bankrupt.

And now in "I just had a massive nerd-gasm" news:
Final Fantasy Tactics finally receives some love from S-E.
People now have a reason to buy a PSP.
FFT update for PSP. All is right in the world.

CP:
FFIII DS
FFXII
Castlevania: PoR (DS)
Elite Beat Agents (DS)