Note that my scummy, incompetent ass, who cannot even make a master CD without assistance (nevermind the fact that the only thing I actually needed were CDRs that didn't have holes in them... my technique was correct the whole time), still has to add the arches, the bats, and the drawbridge chains... new shots soon.
Rover, I am only going to say this one time:
Stop parading through the development process of this game, drawing attention to things said negatively about you in nearly every post you make.
You do not need to constantly bring up all the heckler/skeptic speech that you've attracted. In just two pages of this thread, you've already overdone it. It's giving people a reason to say more. You don't need to play the self-defeatist pity card to the PCEFX forum. Everyone here knows you have good intentions with getting this game done.
Now, on the topic of that CD assistance thing: Your technique might have been "correct" when building and generating the stuff for MSR in terms of producing a bin/cue or iso/cue, but, you definitely had audio track issues and other alignment issues that needed to be sorted out.
We
*definitely* had to assist you, and you came to us for the help. You even said you didn't know what was up. We didn't either, and had to dig in to sort it out. It was interesting, and a good learning experience for everyone involved.
Please do not lie and act as if none of that actually happened, because it did. You had some issues, we gladly helped you sort them all out and get your game pressed, and that's that.
Also, please don't insult people's intelligence with such made up excuses so far after the fact. It wasn't "holes in your CDRs". If the CDRs had physical integrity issues, they would not even try to go as far along as you got before data errors popped up.
Want to know how I know this?
I eat alot of chips. OldMan was chain smoking at the time. They have a cat. I excitedly launched a CD into a case at his house without really being careful, at like 4AM. It got a little scuff probably from my chipfingers, some cat hair that ended up on the tray, or a little cigarette ash.
They refused to even TRY to use this CD, as it didn't pass their FIRST wave of checks. Had your CDRs "just had holes in them", you would have been stopped at that point as well. One slight imperfection in the physical checking process will make them not even waste time proceeding. Spotting a hole is one of the easiest things to do. Even a small pinhole.
You know this. I know this.
This is why when you pressed MSR, I said to be super careful when sending a disc. I already went through them saying "this disc is physically unfit. send a better one.".
This is really not cool.
I imagine that the reason some people still bring it up as a flame point is because you sort of arrogantly talked about how stupid the pressing house was, and how you knew better.
...and yet, the entire time, you did in fact have some data issues, and now here you are deflecting and even making up absurd excuses for why you had issues.
Back then, I even *asked* you why you were being so arrogant about it, while asking us for help. Your reply on IRC was "because I can.".
The people are not flaming you because you needed help. Nobody actually cares if someone needs assistance.
It's because of how you went about it, and how you now are sort of downplaying it and acting like you were all set. Just admit you had some pressing issues and needed some help. That's going to do more to shut up the hecklers than drawing attention to their words while effectively throwing us under the bus. It makes their attempts to make fun of you no longer valid via accepting the actual truth of what happened, instead of giving them more things to laugh at when you come up with such goony ass excuses for what was wrong.
I personally don't appreciate that shit. Don't make people regret helping you.
We helped because making the PC Engine dev scene kick back into overdrive was one of Aetherbyte's goals.
Don't put a sour taste in people's mouths.
