Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

Mewtini: Um, what are you talking about exactly? If you mean the pages linked in the Site History, the only one of them that is a recreation is the very first one, of the site as it was before it ever went online. The others are all archived versions of what the site actually looked like.



Squornshellous Beta: …huh. I really didn't think that page was using the codebehind files. Hmm. I'm at uni right now, but I'll take a look at it later.

[17/03/2011 08:34:15]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 03-14-11

That link was supposed to be for Arkeis.com, sorry.

[17/03/2011 08:30:19]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 03-14-11

The thing is the B/W animations aren't frames. Whereas for the fourth-generation games they drew two frames for each Pokémon and then just flipped between them to give a crude illusion of movement, Black and White take a completely different approach. They do store static "base" sprites, which are what has been ripped and is in most places on the Internet, but the sprites you see moving in battle are actually composed of individually moving body parts, each of which may have multiple poses drawn or simply be rotated or distorted, depending on what works for the movement they want the Pokémon to make. Thus, there is no individually drawn "second frame" or "third frame" for the whole Pokémon. Any individual frame of the animation, barring the base frame, is probably just not going to look very good if it's static, because at any point several body parts are probably in a distorted, pixelated state - they didn't draw an extra frame separately to look pretty on its own.



Arkeis does have full B/W animations, however, if you're interested. (Those are not ripped, but rather screen-captured individually from a ROM - ripping them would require wholly replicating the game's animation algorithms.)

[17/03/2011 08:28:40]

Albino Blacksheep

OMG just saw my new zodiak pokemon it is the cutist thing ever I almost cried can't spell its name though

[17/03/2011 07:50:26]

Squornshellous Beta

Hey look! The 'About Me' page is completely nonfunctional!

[17/03/2011 07:41:03]

Mewtini

How did I not ever see this…anyway…I saw the older site. Butterfree, was that site with the cursor trail a recreation?

[17/03/2011 05:15:49]

Porygon2
Website: Cinccino's Nook
Commenting on: 03-16-11

I had Porygon2 before, but now I have Darkrai Day! Day of Darkrai in Reign of Darkrai. I liked Porygon2 better.

[17/03/2011 04:30:33]

Knick-knack
Commenting on: 03-14-11

I may be being stupid, but I'll ask anyway. :( For Black and White, did you upload the first frames only? I can't find anyone on the Internet who has ripped all Black/White animation frames, which makes me sad.



And if you haven't uploaded them, are you considering doing it in the future?

[17/03/2011 02:23:51]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 03-16-11

Oh, whoops. Fixed! Thanks.

[17/03/2011 01:23:42]

NomMew
Commenting on: 03-16-11

Did you notice that the splash page isn't working? If you already did and I didn't see so, my bad.

[17/03/2011 01:09:14]

Enement
Commenting on: 03-16-11

The splash seems broken.

[17/03/2011 01:08:27]

Squornshellous Beta

According to Bulbapedia:

!The Japanese name of this move, ?????? Swallow Return (more commonly known in English as the "Turning Swallow Cut"), is probably taken from the signature technique of the legendary swordsman Sasaki Kojiro (the namesake of Team Rocket's James). It is widely believed that it consisted of first a rapid downward slash from above, immediately followed by an upward slash on the same line (this same motion is used for the move's animation in Generation IV). Its name came from Kojiro's observations of the motion of a swallow's tail in flight."

[15/03/2011 11:37:16]

YamiiDenryuu

Then I have no idea.

[15/03/2011 01:57:53]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

I thought the Japanese name of Aerial Ace was Beak Slash.

[14/03/2011 23:37:07]

EeveeFox

Magikarp the Gathering is HARD.

O_O' and the forum thread on it is all covered with spoilers…

[14/03/2011 23:18:19]

YamiiDenryuu

Actually, Arial Ace in japanese is something like "Sparrow Cut" or something. Something to do with samurai. And that explains it.

[14/03/2011 22:45:28]

Shadow Techie

genosect is an event only pokemon.



yes, that is strange. I got my electabuzz to learn the tm psychic….



so that means that dugtrio must have wings somewhere, and electabuzz can awaken psychic powers!

[14/03/2011 22:30:33]

joltikman409

i need some help with magikarp the gathering

[14/03/2011 21:56:47]

panpourman409
Website: Click here

anybody else think it's wierd dugtrio can lern aerial ace as TM

[14/03/2011 16:09:47]

snivyman409
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

does anybody know where to get a genosect

[14/03/2011 16:02:05]