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Messages - Captain Southbird (EHOL Creator)
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« on: May 27, 2010, 10:21:26 pm »
Your screenshot collection is exhaustive, and it's great to simply look over it. "Exhaustive" is the word for it This site has a lot of context for me as well; I started it relatively young with an inappropriate view of what makes a website good. I was basically under the impression of "more is better", and figured when a website just posted 1-3 screenshots of an episode, it just wasn't presenting the truth of it. But I have more than enough that you could turn it into a comic strip! But I guess "more is better" wasn't always wrong; it did produce a large portion of the content of this site! A funny memory is that when I was just getting started, I went around to other El-Hazard websites and asked if they would care to merge with me (if I thought they had something in particular with merging.) I was even interested in character shrines at the time... figure a shrine-per-character would be of interesting value. But alas, none of them responded to me... only one El-Hazard site ever did, one I really hoped would join with me, and that was of course the one this template is known for. Looks like I won in the end. Just the lack of joining me made it an unofficial rivalry; quite appropriately like Makoto vs. Jinnai, where Jinnai claims crimes perpetrated by Makoto, who Makoto is oblivious to. So I tried my best to provide content that they didn't have, hopefully content that would make my site the greater draw. I suppose that worked for a while. But I'm really glad they offered up their work at the end of Geocities. And I mean it in a very mature, non-gloating way; they did some solid work, and they are truly the most appropriate merge for a site that wants to know-it-all.
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« on: May 25, 2010, 11:07:17 pm »
Well, I officially brought the forum to the front at about midnight CST (obviously that meant it was late for some and early for others, but that's the nature of timezones.) Everyone SHOULD be able to see the Wiki. The old site is still mostly intact though, and I'm sure some of you may have deviant bookmarks that will get around the currently three redirecting pages. UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS to the new Wiki: http://www.el-hazardonline.net/El-Hazard/wiki/index.php?title=Main_PageI will eventually backup and decommission the rest of the old site as time permits. But in any case, a special warm thanks to Icy who made all of this happen, the first serious overhaul since ... probably the lost "Executor82" made the persisting layout back in 2003.
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« on: February 25, 2010, 08:17:29 pm »
Yeah, I was annoyed about that too back in the day. But I did find that if you have some method of splitting the audio channels of the OAV's 5.1 track, you can manage to get SOME of the music with minimum to no voice. I forget which channels do what, but I was able to pull a few bits of otherwise unreleased music this way. That only works in the original OAV since none of the others have 5.1 audio. Also I think some of the music was recomposed for that release so it might differ slightly from the original.
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« on: February 11, 2010, 10:52:49 am »
I agree about the OAV 2 / 3 stalling the series. I "liked" them, but didn't "love" them as I did the original, shared by many fans (and I know of at least one who found them to be unforgivable.) I think the biggest problem in that sense is that the original author simply wasn't interested in doing them. The original OAV is the only "real" El-Hazard, everything else fed on its ensuing popularity. But just to keep in mind that the only imagined story begins and ends in the OAV, that's all there was ever really "meant" to be.
In general, when you lose the main creative force, any series will suffer, and fans will notice. I think El-Hazard basically imploded simply because there was no one who could quite duplicate the true story quality. Of course, another allure of the original OAV was the beautiful, painting-like artwork that also degraded quickly in the follow-ups. Alternative World in particular had more of a comic book level of coloring.
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« on: January 27, 2010, 12:16:57 pm »
Who DOESN'T need it?
But yeah, that's kind of funny something so special would've been missed. And I don't really know what the motive was with the screenshot taking... I realize now that screenshots are better done as capturing pivotal moments or something, not just an every-few-seconds splash. Supposed to help you remember the episode, not be able to write a comic about it. Probably ought to find a good way to condense that on the site upgrade.
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« on: January 06, 2010, 07:31:11 pm »
It's not like INSANELY off the mark, but there were a few creative liberties taken. It sort of made the game partially El-Hazard and partially spoof of other things. I don't honestly remember my motivation for customization. But since the game is fueled on scripts, really all the "work" required would be retooling some dialog.
As for the videos, that would still be a minor project ... for PROPER translation, we need a Japanese speaker. For just a "basically the same thing" you could overlay audio. But I still wouldn't have a VA for Ishiel unless I just pulled some "close enough" lines from another anime etc.
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« on: January 05, 2010, 02:13:00 pm »
I ripped those from the Saturn disc a long time ago; there is an old thread on it: http://www.el-hazardonline.net/El-Hazard/forum/index.php/topic,12.0.html (but none of those links work anymore.) My intention years ago was to supply movie playback functionality in my PC conversion, but at the time a good movie player lib was hard to come by. These days the Linux group has portable libs for pretty much every old and new format, so it's not really a problem anymore! Lately I've been caught up in whether or not I want to update the old conversion (especially to "fix" it so it's more on-target with mainline El-Hazard plots instead of the deviations I made.) If I got into that, MAYBE adding movies would be good, but there's still the problem of them being in Japanese. I was originally planning to substitute English voice clips into the videos like I did the main game, but there's a few problems with that, such as plot-specific things (Shrine of Earth) and Ishiel (who does not have an English VA since she didn't exist in mainline EH.)
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« on: January 05, 2010, 02:03:55 pm »
"Habba Habba Zoot Zoot"
... seriously, all I saw was that AMV and bought the series.
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« on: November 11, 2009, 02:14:04 am »
Okay, now there's an EHOL skin and all accounts should be switched to it. If it doesn't look like EHOL to you, then change it!
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« on: November 08, 2009, 12:39:38 pm »
As the news says, more to come! It's actually the bigger facelift in the pipeline that inspired a forum upgrade. An EHOL skin is forthcoming so this actually looks like part of the website. Note that website-based login is dead and obsolete (has been for a while anyway.) There is actually an unprecedented and fairly large thing happening, mostly due to one of our most active site fans
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« on: April 21, 2009, 04:52:55 am »
Hey, Mike. It's pretty quiet around here these days, but there's still a few diehards that show up occasionally. Always nice to find another EH fan.
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« on: June 13, 2008, 12:54:05 pm »
Ha, wow, I don't even think I noticed that.
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« on: June 13, 2008, 12:53:18 pm »
Although, I think you will find a lot of series don't explore the "default" relationships... perhaps because many fans themselves choose favorite characters and want to write their own situations that "could never happen" but do happen in their fantasies.
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« on: June 13, 2008, 12:51:41 pm »
Actually not too bad. I think the "Billions!" struck the laugh chord for me.
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« on: June 25, 2007, 08:15:48 pm »
But after a while there"s nothing more in El-Hazard, so people find some other great animes and than move to another. Maybe that"s happened here too. Yeah, pretty much. This site peaked its popularity a few years ago... you can even look back and see things slowing down pretty quickly by 2004. Not that it was ever very fast paced, though. Since El-Hazard does not see anything new, you can only say so much about it. But hey, every once in a while, somebody like you guys show up, so that's why I leave it here.
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