Ripples of 495 Years

Next they should discover a rainbow with sound effects or something. Even if science is able to explain this kind of stuff, it doesn't make it any less awesome.

Anyway, thanks to Rei for offering to give me my weekly photo assignments. I figure I'll try to have them up with the first entry I make every week (Sun-Tues), and then have the rest of the week to work on the next. The first assignment was "The Sky's the Limit".



It was a bit tricky getting the house to shoot into the mid troposphere temporarily, but it seems to have gone over well for the most part. I've already started to realize the limits of my camera (I'm back to using my 5MPx Sony from high school), but I think that's good, since it might force me to try to come up with unusual solutions if I run into something I can't quite do. It actually turned out better than I expected, since I'm not exactly pro at image splicing like that. But hey, an idea's an idea, and as long as I can figure out how to make it work, I'm gonna run with it.

Back in Touhouworld, somehow unknown to myself, I managed not one or two, but an additional five stage clears in Shoot the Bullet. This brings my total up to 46 and unlocks Level 10. Of course, I can hardly do anything there, Shikieiki is all like 'GUILTY! DIE!' And I do. Sheesh. There is one more level I have left to unlock, the mythical EXTRA level. Of course, that's not going to unlock easily, I need 66 clears, or another 20 to be able to even get to it, and it's probably filled with Spellcards that will make my head explode before they're even fired off (Flandre Scarlet is the first boss in Extra, if that's any indication >_>; ) So with that, I think I'll be taking another extended break from Aya's photo strike force.

Anyway, I half gave up on the idea of hacking the JP Touhoumon games. It seems alot of the data and text is stored differently than in US Pokemon games, and it doesn't help that I can't read japanese to find the proper tools to use, heh. Also, english text is all fat and stuff in japanese ROMs, and I don't know how to recode that to make it use standard texting. Ah well, I can at least fiddle around with english releases and fix all the buggy stuff that those localizers leave behind. Maybe if I can find the sprites, I can add newer or unofficial Touhoumon to an english cart too, like EX Rika, Shanghai, Hourai (different than the Dolls) or even Funndoshi Rinnosuke, lol. In the meantime, I guess I'll just play the JP Touhoumon Lunatic. Not like I haven't read all that text 10 times over anyway, haha.

PS. I need more Umineko RIGHT NOW! *explodes*