November 28th, 2016

It’s finally that day in November when we remember the brave cyborgs of the past (or future who came into the past, thus becoming part of the past) who sacrificed so that Christmas could come to be!

New sprites of Kunoichi and Ninja from Ninja Warriors Again (Natsume’s re-imagining of Taito’s Ninja Warriors for the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo) have been added to the Taito Custom Sprites gallery and fighter-sized GFX Generator. They join Kamaitachi from last year’s Cyber Week updates to fill out that playable roster. I made a few improvements to his sprite, mainly the shoulder pad.

What’s Cyber Monday without a little pushing of merchandise? Don’t worry, this site has that covered… kinda. TeePublic marked their T-Shirts down to $14 a pop, so that means the shirt with the Minus World section’s logo is $14 for today only! What’s the Minus World section? It’s one of the oldest parts of the site, going all the way back to the days when the site was hosted on Angelfire. That spot seems a little dormant right now, but, now that the big, lingering GFX Generator project is done, it may be time for to start revisiting some of the neglected areas of the site.

Categories: ScrollBoss Updates, Site News, Updates by PrimeOp
Tags: Cyber Monday, Ninja Warriors, the Minus World

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November 25th, 2016

Illmosis / ScrollBoss prints sale!

November 25th to November 28th:
8×10 and 8×11 prints are $5.00 each!
11 x 17 and 11 x14 prints $8.00 each!

The prints are on the Shop page here and more non-game art on the Illmosis prints page in this link!

edit: I’m adding a small incentive to this, starting now. I just realized I have a few secret sprites for next year’s projects that just happen to have Black as part of the character name. So I made one more sprite and came up with an idea.

There are five sprites in that screenshot up there. For every print that sells before Monday, I’ll unlock one of those sprites in the custom sprite galleries and main GFX Generator. If anyone buys, I’ll make a fake hi-score screen with with the buyer’s 3-letter initials and display name of their choice and scores based on the number of prints bought. I know it’s not much, but it’d be my way of thanking you for buying something. If nothing is bought, those sprites will stay in the vault until their projects are done (next year or later).

Whether you buy or don’t buy, I hope you’re having a good weekend!

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November 18th, 2016

Custom Sprites
– Nintendo – Samus Aran, Donkey Kong Jr. and the Ice Climbers
– Data East – Karnov (new pose in his original look)
– Illmosis – Nutroll (new fight stance sprite)

Mini-logos
– Data East: Trio the Punch
– Nintendo: Ice Climbers

The new sprites and logos have been added to the new fighter scale GFX Generator. That generator also got the gold 16×16 font from Fighter’s History Dynamite/Karnov’s Revenge and the “Mego WGSH 176×192” got a new set of Data East portrait bubbles!

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As a celebrator of Karnovember, it’s my duty to send you a link to the Karnovember Tumblr tag, because that’s where I first heard about it. I’ll be doing my part to add content to that tag soon.

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recent stuff elsewhere:
Gaming Hell just added a page about Namco’s Numan Athletics and Mach Breakers, their super-powered sports games. There’s some really cool info in there, including a few things to prove that the games are linked!

Shadi dipped into the legendary Taito vault by adding shrines for Bubble Bobble, Puzzle Bobble and Kuri Kinton to Arcade Quartermaster

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There’s a reason why I managed to build an update so random that I couldn’t come up with a cohesive, goofy news post title. The plan was to drop a mini-update last Friday with Samus, the Ice Climbers and DK Jr. and build up to a full Karnovember update and an update with Illmosis characters (with Nutroll). That was until I was worn out by extra work at my day job, something that was going on for a while but really kicked into high gear last week. Combined with some sinus-related fun, I feel like I’ve been dropkicked down an elevator shaft and that includes pains in my drawing and spriting hand. Honestly, I probably need to rest for a little bit anyway, but this makes it obvious. I’ll be back in effect mode by early December, if not sooner. As Guru once said, “Peace out, we’ll be back, stay tuned.”

Categories: ScrollBoss Updates, Site News, Updates by PrimeOp
Tags: Donkey Kong Jr., Ice Climbers, Illmosis, Karnov, Karnovember, Metroid, Nutroll

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November 15th, 2016

I was going to do an update last week, but extra work at my day job has been wearing me out. I did a bit of work in Anime Studio 10 using one of the new spites (along with an older sprite modified to work with it):

click to see animated and in full size

There will be new scratch-made Samus sprites in the next update, possibly this week or weekend.

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Tags: .gif, Metroid

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November 4th, 2016

Hey, look, it’s a sprite of Doctor Strange! Why, his movie just came out this week! That sprite is based on his Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 fight stance and everything! Even converted two of his classics logos into mini-logos! They’ve been added to the new GFX Generator, which is still one surfer short of an old-school Defenders line-up! That’s all I’ve got this time!

Sorry, I’m still dry as **** after the DangerTerrorHorrorThon, which wasn’t even a week ago. Don’t worry, I’m going to re-hydrate with two bottles of Arizona Iced Tea this weekend before getting back into the game.

edit 2016-11-05: Already drank one bottle of Arizona, so I’ve got enough power to make some fixes to the Doctor Strange sprite, along with making a more comic-accurate version.

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November 2nd, 2016

Upgrading the GFX Generators to the new engines wasn’t easy and I’m surprised that it went that well. Still, fixes to the new GFX Generator engine:

1.) I made some fixes & improvements in September and thought I’d uploaded them then, but I somehow didn’t. The links on the outside frame let you skip around to different menu sections, but the “DONE” button link on the second menu page was busted until now.

2.) The redone version of the “Super Powers 176×192“ wasn’t displaying the mini-logos and I missed that when converting it to the new data format. That’s fixed now, too.

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October 31st, 2016

DangerTerrorHorrorThon 2016 pt. 6 – the Final Chapter!

Custom Sprites
– Marvel:Blade
– Other Games: Bayonetta
– Data East: Zombie from Night Slashers
– TecmoPumpkin Head (Ninja Gaiden)
– Movies: The Shape/Michael Myers, Laurie Strode, Jill Franco
– Illmosis: Hazelle (my witchy Halloween mascot returns from limbo!)

Mini-logos
– Movies: Blade
– Movies: Bayonetta

All new sprites and mini-logos have been added to the GFX Generator, where you can make your own screens and graphics. Blade (and the 144×160 I made from scratch) are also in the separate Darkstalker 3 and Marvel Super Heroes vs screen makers

That’s all (more like “that’s enough”) for the DangerTerrorHorrorThon for this year. Happy Halloween!

previous parts of the DTHT: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5

Categories: ScrollBoss Updates, Site News, Updates by PrimeOp
Tags: Bayonetta, Halloween (movie), Illmosis, marvel comics, Night Slashers, Ninja Gaiden

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October 30th, 2016

This update could be done only at night, for it is filled with Vampires!

Custom Sprites
– Castlevania: Dracula (original CV and SotN)
– Alpha Denshi (NEW!): Kyros
– Movies: Blacula/Mamuwalde and Selene (Underworld)
– VanillawareVampire (Dragon’s Crown)

Mini-logos
– Movies: Kyros
– Movies: Blacula and Underworld

All of these bloodsuckers (and their mini-logos) have been added to the GFX Generator, where you can make your own screens and graphics, including one with that new Dracula’s lair background based on the original Castlevania.

You know, that’s a lot of vampires and tomorrow’s the last day for the DangerTerrorHorrorThon. I really hope someone shows up to make sure these nosferatu MF’ers don’t get out of control…

previous parts of the DTHT: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

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Tags: Castlevania, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Dragon's Crown, Kyros

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October 30th, 2016

Sunday is that day of the week when many people go out there to get themselves a little religion. With a site update like this, they may need it.

Custom Sprites
– Movies: Pinhead/Priest (Hellraiser)
– Konami: Silent Hill Nurses: Movie/Homecoming and Bubble Head.
– Splatterhouse (new solo gallery): Boss 5
– Capcom: Asteroth (Ghouls n’ Ghosts)
– Sega: Neff (Altered Beast)

Mini-logos
– Movies: Hellraiser

As usual, those new items were added added to the GFX Generator, where you can make your own zombie or non-zombie horror (or non-horror) screens and graphics.

previous parts of the DTHT: part 1, part 2, part 3

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Tags: Altered Beast, DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Silent Hill, Splatterhouse

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October 29th, 2016

Did you think you’d have to wait until Sunday night to get your zombie fix? Never fear (unless we tell you to do so), because we’re here for you.

Custom Sprites
– Movies: Peter from Dawn of the Dead (the original)
– Sega: Cyril (House of the Dead)
– Capcom: Chris Redfield and the classic Zombie
– Data East: Zombie from Night Slashers.
– Other Games: Zombie (Zombies Ate My Neighbors)

Mini-logos
– Movies: Dawn of the Dead
– Capcom: Biohazard and Bio Hazard, Chris Redfield

All of those new sprites, mini-logos and a new graveyard background were added to the GFX Generator, where you can make your own zombie or non-zombie horror (or non-horror) screens and graphics.

previous parts of the DTHT: part 1, part 2

Categories: ScrollBoss Updates, Site News, Updates by PrimeOp
Tags: DangerTerrorHorrorThon, Dawn of the Dead, House of the Dead, Night Slashers, Resident Evil, Zombies Ate My Neighbors

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