One of the few upcoming games I'm actually excited about is Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver, remakes of the Gold/Silver versions. The 2nd generation of Pokemon games are my favourites, and so I'm keen on the remakes for nostalgia reasons.

Another reason was that my original Silver game stopped saving. This was due to the battery. The Gold/Silver/Crystal games introduced the clock feature-you could set the time and day, and so day turned to night, which influenced certain features.

Unfortunately, this rather neat feature was also a drain on the battery of the game cartridge, which was also used to save. In short, this means that after about five or so years, the battery runs out and the game cannot save anymore. This, as you can imagine, sucks.

Rather than get an emulator and play through a ROM of one of the games, I went and replaced the save battery (it's a CR2025 battery, by the way), using a method I found. ([link])

AND IT WORKED.

So now I'm having a massive fit of nostalgia playing through Silver again. While I picked Cyndaquil in the original save file, I went and picked Chikorita this time to do things differently.

-in terms of fandom how would you categorise yourself?-

Transformers and Pokemon being the two major ones, and Gurren Lagann, Avatar: TLA (to differentiate it from the unrelated film coming out soon), Magic the Gathering and Mythbusters being the minor ones.

-what keychains are on your backpack right now?-

On my school backpack are my McAllister clan crest and a fleur-de-lys (sp?) from France. On my usual backpack there used to be a red crab, but it vanished somewhere along the Sculpture by the Sea walk.

-favourite subjects?-

Art, Modern History, Biology

-aspiration?-

To be the very best, like no-one ever was.

Ahem. A paleontologist, particularly a famous one.

-who are your heroes?-

Fred Morrison (for being amazing), Tom who helps run DnD club (for managing to be a total nerd and have a life at the same time, although in retrospect that's not really too amazing nowadays), and Kamina and Simon, from Gurren Lagann (for persevering in spite of all odds-even death-and going on to, rather literally, pierce the heavens).

-what famous people would you like to meet (up to 10)-

Fred Morrison

-one talent you don't have that you would like?-

-what three things bother you most right now (nothing that has a good chance of being solved in the next few days)?-

* I have a crush on someone and it's incredibly awkward
* I spend way too much money and don't save it long enough
* I don't like my freckles

-what are you afraid of?-

The dark, thunderstorms, sharks, being killed and eaten by predatory organisms in general.

-is your hair color natural?-

Yeah. I'm thinking of changing it, though.

-list 5 things that are beautiful-

* Dinosaurs
* Silver
* Gold
* Celtic knotwork
* Green hills
* Running water

-your three favorite ice cream treats-

* Strawberry
* Cookies and Cream
* Vanilla

-bonus points if you can say what a troclobite (dunno if i spelled that right) is (dont look it up!)-

You mean trilobite. They were hard-shelled organisms that lived in the seas millions of years ago, but went extinct in the Permian mass extinction.

-3 random things about you.-

* I have upwards of 45 Transformers toys.
* I have a thing for reddish hair and would like to dye my own that colour.
* I don't like all those effeminate gay boys who are all shaved and tanned-it just annoys me for some reason.

-3 random things about 3 of your ocs (if you don't have that many its ok)-

* Flynn refuses to wear a shirt because he's determined to appear as manly as possible.
* The double-mouthed taniwha speaks in two different voices, each of famous duos. So there's one which speaks like Laurel and Hardy, another which speaks like the Mythbusters, etc.
* Thanks to being the main character of my HSC Art animation, done mainly in frame-by-frame, Haro is the OC I have drawn the most.

-3 random things you have added to any canon characters you frequently rp-

N/A

-anything defensive you would like to say-

LEAVE BRITNEY ALOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooOOOOOOOONE

-tag at least 5 people-





...eh, do it if you want to.

I got a new DS game today: Fossil Fighters. As you can imagine from the title, it's basically a Pokemon-style game with dinosaurs: you dig them up and then fight other people.

The game, though, is more than a generic Mons game. For one, it's in full 3D-even Pokemon uses sprites for the most part. Another thing is that the designs of the 'vivosaurs' (because the revival process makes them look weird and gives them super-powers, unlike real dinosaurs) are pretty cool. Kronosaurus, being named after a god of time, has the Roman numerals for 1-12 on its body, Dimorphodon is coloured like a WWII British fighter plane, and Carcharadontosaurus has Egyptian-style markings in reflection of where it was discovered.

Fossil Fighters also has some pretty interesting writing that's actually rather funny, sometimes in poking-fun-at-the-game-itself type ways. Take, for example, Rex the anthopomorphic dog-thing: no-one is really sure of what he is, not even his fellow villains (they even ask you to tell them what he is if you know).

The battle system is also interesting, in that you have one main attacking vivosaur, and two others in support zones which give the main vivosaur stat boosts (or decreases, in some cases, for the enemy, or your own vivosaurs), and can be switched around. The main vivosaur can attack enemies in the attack and support zones, and the supporters can only attack the vivosaur in the attack zone. There's other stuff besides that, including the obligatory elemental matchup system, which all makes it more than the standard mons affair.

Oh yeah, and you can carry five vivosaurs around, but only three can be placed in a battle (although the other two still get gains if you win).

For me, though, the main appeal lies in the crazy amount of dinosaurs (and other prehistoric creatures) in the game. Aside from the famous ones like T-Rex and Triceratops, there's other, more obscure ones-I hadn't even heard of Shamshamosaurus before now (Shamshamosaurus, by the way, is a Chinese tyrannosaur).

Yeah, so Fossil Fighters is basically a pretty cool game.