posted by Gauntlet101010
June 21st, 2003
Well, well, well, another new epilogue! This one starts off the Series finale for Series 4! No more clowning around it’s time to take the Decepticons down!
I’ve added more sprites to the Gauntlet sprite gallery. One of Roll and a few of Gauntlet in MM7 style (mainly because I didn’t like my last MM7 style Gauntlet). I think I did a good job, so go and check it out!
And I’ve also changed the introduction. The last one was getting a little stale so I figured it was time for a change.
posted by Gauntlet101010
May 30th, 2003
Sorry for the lack of updates last week, but considering I’m doing this for free I don’t think I need to apologize. So, I take back my sorry!
First off the Epilogues have once again been updated! A story by me entitled “You are the Admiral Now!” I am feeling particularly good about this once so I feel the need to pat myself on the back.
Next up is more images in the gallery. Images of Topman and Gemini Red by Nightmare! Go see!
The BIOS now have images of the MM3 TV show guys! Ripped straight from the DVD! That’s right folks, Gauntlet has actual DVD rips of the rare MM3 robot masters and that’s absolutely NOTHING compared to the update I have planned for Planet Megaman.
The Spriting Page has been updated in the custom sprite creations. Auto gave me Rockman 3 styled Neo Geo Pocket sprites to celebrate my third year anniversary! They’re really neat and worth a look-see.
I attended Anime North once more this year, and I must say it was a successful trip. Not only did I get the aforementioned Megaman DVDs, but I also got once signed by Scott Mc Neal voice of Protoman (and Wily)! Perhaps one day I shall get the first DVD set signed by Ian Corlett voice of Megaman. On a side note, I discovered that there’s a bit of a voice acting train here. Ian Corlett voiced Wily on Captain N and then went onto do Megaman on the TV show. Scott Mc Neal did Wily there and is now doing Guts on the EXE anime. Kinda funny in a way. Scott McNeal seemed like a nice guy and a good sport with all the fan-attention, however he did seem a little tired (it WAS 11 PM when he made his arrival). Anyway, fun was had by all.
Also, not only did we top 90, 000 hits, but we had an all time high of 900 hits in one day while I was at the con! I’m not sure why traffic jumped like that, but keep it up!
posted by Gauntlet101010
May 23rd, 2003
Another week, another update.
Well I am pleased to announce our counter has reached 100,000 hits today! Breaking 6 digits feels really good to me and I thank all my loyal viewers for support.
Series 4 of the epilogues continues with War Between Wilys. The Mechanical Maniacs finally face off with the powerful True Chimeraman!
The Image Gallery receives an update in the “Others” section. A picture of Megaman cosplay I took when I was at Anime North a few weeks ago. A kid dressed as the original Megaman. While the helmet isn’t quite right, it’s still …. adorable really.
The Sprite Gallery has seen another update. Specifically the sprite group shot. It now goes up to Megaman Zero 2 including even those stupid resistance guys.
A new Gauntlet’s Guide has been posted. My guide to why I consider games like Megaman PC in continuity. See, the vast majority of people I talked to seem to regard those types of games with disdain and not even Capcom products, really …… so I decided to write my opinion. Kind of the minority report of the MMC.
Finally, I have added a new section in the rightframe. The Downloads section. It WAS in the miscellaneous section once, but no one really figured to look there.
Finally, I would like to announce a victory in the team-scene. I have managed to un-hack Ice’s Eye-Lephant account. So Ice now has access to it and the last of the whole “hacking” thing has been wiped clean. Huzzah!
posted by Gauntlet101010
May 13th, 2003
It’s been three entire years of mechanical mayhem! Hard to believe ain’t it? Seems like only yesterday that I joined this place with our old Senac forum and trying to be as good as the S6 (which was a seemingly impossible task since, initially, our team had a long bout of laziness!). But here we are with content to spare!
To be honest I jumped the gun on some of the anniversary content. Stuff like the layout change and the 404 page SHOULD have been anniversary stuff, but whatcha gonna do?
First up is an all-new epilogue by Topman! Tops hasn’t written much this series, but this one is worth the wait so go on and read it!
The Spriting section has a lot of updates. Not only did I update the various mugshot sheets in game rips but I added Megaman fonts to the bit containing many useful fonts. Also spriting-related is more sprites in the Gauntlet sprite section! The rest of the custom MM3 soccer sprites have been added along with an animated Gauntlet Dixie.
The Image Gallery has been trimmed a bit. I took down images now featured at Auto’s page and put up a Shadowman mug by Quickman in the “Others” image gallery.
Sadly, I have to take down some affiliates. Jetsu and Megaman Universe seem to be down and have been for a while now. Pharaoh Man’s Temple has also been taken down due to lack of activity.
The Guestbook has gotten a final face-lift. It now matches the page even more!
Gauntlet’s Guides has been a long-ignored section. Not that I haven’t written anything, I just didn’t think it was good enough to post. But – NO LONGER! Seven new guides have been posted in that section. Will there be more to come? Unlikely. But anything is possible!
The Secret Page’s link has also been moved to a place that is easier to find. Good luck to you all.
Lastly, and most importantly, is the opening of the Mechanical Maniacs’ Store! There I am selling t-shirts, mugs, and more shirts at Cafe Press. The link SHOULD be easy to spot. I am very excited about this and hope everyone will open their hearts – and their wallets – to my humble store. Images and merchandise will change occasionally, so check back and see if something catches your eye.
This has been quite a year. Breaking 80,000 hits makes me feel good and I am sure that the next year will be even more prosperous than the current one.
posted by Gauntlet101010
May 2nd, 2003
The epilogue madness continues in an ep written by Lennon! This one wraps up the loose ends left by the Robotic Raiders eps (which were also written at least in part by Lennon).
MY sprites page has also received another update. Not only did I fix up the older sprites a bit (saw they had bad outlines and shading problems thanks to the new, brighter, monitor setting), but also a couple brand new sprites! A Gauntlet Dixie has been made and a Gauntlet in MM7 style. Also, Ice’s MM Soccer section (which is coming soon to the S6, I am sure) inspired me to make a Shadowman Soccer sprite. Ice’s is great, but it didn’t use the Capcom-official Shadowman Soccer head that was peeking out of the car in the background. I think I had marginal success with it, but Capcom’s official head isn’t easy to work with.
Lastly, the page has been given a custom 404 error page! With it comes a layer of class that only a custom 404 error page can bring! Yes, folks, the dream has come true. Go ahead – give it a whirl! Type in a broken link, you know you want to!
posted by Gauntlet101010
April 25th, 2003
The epilogues have once more been updated with another one by me! “Team Badass.”
On another note, I’ve been doing various cleanups. I discovered the other day that, for the past few months, my monitor was on the darkest view setting it could manage. So, upon brightening it, I discover that the mugshots I was using for the past few years are horribly coloured! Although they looked fine on my crappy old monitor and a darker setting of my current monitor, viewed normally they didn’t look good. So I recoloured them.
I ALSO discovered that the huge black background in the image galleries is MUCH more noticeable than I originally thought on my crappy old monitor. So I finally took it off.
AND, if all THAT wasn’t enough I decided that I am getting a little sick of the layout on my current bright colour setting. So I may go in and darken everything so it looked like it did when my screen was much darker.
All that got me in a cleaning sort of mood, so I did what I’ve been meaning to do for the last little while: clean up the cluttered images in the bios. Now they all have spiffy thumbnails. I also went over some things in the Mice. section and reorganized one part a little. So all that amounts to no real content.
Although I updated the image gallery and the Gauntlet sprite gallery with images you’ve seen if you frequent my forum. I’ve also decided that the sprite gallery featuring sprites from epilogues is a waste of space and I deleted it.
That’s about it for this week.
posted by Gauntlet101010
December 20th, 2002
Right, then. Few new updates. Image Gallery has some major new images in both the custom sprite creations and the images category including images drawn by Forte-Chan, Lennon and Needlegal.
The epilogue is seeing a major update today! Along with the next issue of Series 4, there’s new side stories. Saturday Night Live parts one and two have been posted. It’s actually a rather old project, only it’s recently been finished.
Sparkman has made us a holiday banner, as you can see, so I’ve put it up. Happy Holidays, everybody.
posted by Gauntlet101010
December 6th, 2002
A new epilogue has been posted. “Mystery of the Cossack bots” by Geminiman.
I’ve added one new file to the music section, but it’s a doozy! The Megaman 3 NSF file. You’ll need Winamp and a plugin to play it. It has the complete Megaman 3 soundtrack including sound effects.
Speaking of the Music section, it has been moved to the Misc. section under downloads. Game Graphics and Mangas have been moved to the image gallery. And the Gallery itself has been organized further, separating ripped sprites from custom works.
The affiliates have been moved to the right frame using some fancy HTML script. So now they appear on just about every single part of this site.
*Update a few hours later* Was board and decided to take out background MIDIs in the bios (finally) and replaced them with Play/Stop MIDI controls. Killed a few minutes….
posted by Gauntlet101010
November 22nd, 2002
The Walkthrough has been updated. I was never happy with how the last few “hints” turned out, so I’ve made them better. Changed are the hints for Needleman, The Doc Robot stages, and the Wily stages.
Geminiman has given me more of his sprite animation for people to view. You can find them in the Image Gallery.
And the epilogues have finally resumed. Series 4 has begun with a brand new epilogue by myself.
Affiliation has been going well. There’s one spot left now.
