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You're welcome. Is there anything in particular you want me to check if I have on my hard drive? BTW, I assume all the stuff you have is uploaded to the assemblergames thread or archive.org? --[[User:Hiccup|Hiccup]] ([[User talk:Hiccup|talk]]) 18:44, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
 
You're welcome. Is there anything in particular you want me to check if I have on my hard drive? BTW, I assume all the stuff you have is uploaded to the assemblergames thread or archive.org? --[[User:Hiccup|Hiccup]] ([[User talk:Hiccup|talk]]) 18:44, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
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:Yes, for AssemblerGames (and have even archived that thread myself). I haven't uploaded the Nintendo Press Kits to the Internet Archive because I think that would be breaking the Terms of Use.
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I assume I have all of the Nintendo press kits. Which ones would you have that I do not have? [[User:Gaz|Gaz]] ([[User talk:Gaz|talk]]) 00:49, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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immewnity (talk) 14:59, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

RE: Press kits etc

Hello, and welcome to PidgiWiki! I'm glad you've found us. I know just the person who would love to talk with you about press kits: one of our members, Gaz. He's working on doing a bunch of press and web archival!

Unfortunately, my backup drive isn't accessible at the moment, so I can't check exactly what I've got out of the things you've got, but I know I have some things you don't have vice versa. Shoot me an email at immewnity[at]outlook.com and we can talk press stuff much more easily.

As far as what the site can do, it currently isn't set up to do videos, unfortunately. It's something I'd like to do in the future, but there are currently a few roadblocks to make it happen right now. Gameplay images (such as screenshots) are definitely acceptable! Just put "Screenshot" as the value for Purpose while uploading.

PSD files are accepted, too, but since they don't thumbnail, I try to keep images to single-layer files (though I think multi-layer TIFF files thumbnail). Feel free to upload the PSDs though, and when time permits, I'll get them converted over to PNG.

Thanks, and welcome again to PidgiWiki!--immewnity (talk) 14:59, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi! Yes, the FTP still exists - send me an email at the address above and I'll get you the login info.
As far as screenshot naming, just put "(screenshot)" after the name of the screenshot. I've edited the one you've uploaded already as an example. This is just to lessen possible naming conflicts between things.--immewnity (talk) 05:23, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Oh hey, Immewnity, I didn't know we allow screenshot uploads here. Last time I asked DK screenshot requests, you said that idea was dropped because it got too confusing. Do you want to explain to me when screenshot uploads were allowed? Gaz (talk) 05:34, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Fields

Yes to characters in screenshots, yes to the events, and yes to date. There used to be a date variable, I just could never figure out a good format for it. I'll add it in a bit. For now, you can manually add it, and use any of the formats listed here.--immewnity (talk) 14:34, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

RE: A bunch of stuff

  • Official screenshots that are viewable in-game (or left unused in the game data): I suppose, yeah. This might change once I get staff input, but I haven't gotten a response back from anyone regarding screenshots themselves, so I dunno.
  • Sound files from press CDs/sites: Ultimately yes, I haven't worked out the security issues behind it yet, though - same as with video.
  • Also, does anybody on this site have money to throw away?: Oh man, that's a lot O_o Not getting enough from the Patreon to have the money for that yet :D --immewnity (talk) 05:10, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Date formatting in filenames

Since technically, the Nintendo Direct title is what you're referencing, not the date, so format it like "Nintendo Direct 6.21.2012". Date formatting for the date variable is as I said before.--immewnity (talk) 03:40, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Subevents

The first way is what I thought it could be used for, but it isn't set in stone (like almost anything else on this site). --immewnity (talk) 15:34, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Any idea how to rip this video?

This appears to be the URL embeded by GDC2011.nintendo.com when it was online. Do you have any idea how to extract the video file? The closest I got was here. I got there from following links in the source. But I can't find work out the full URL of the MP4s. --Hiccup (talk) 14:21, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Doesn't look like the video is available anymore :( --immewnity (talk) 15:40, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Yeah... Alternatively, do you know if they ever released the powerpoint (or whatever) used in the presentation? It contained some early screenshots which would be nice to have in high quality. --Hiccup (talk) 16:07, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Unfortunately, they never release those. --immewnity (talk) 21:37, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Multiple things

  • RE: CD rips - Yes, for the two I own. I believe I've uploaded everything from those discs though.
  • RE: Raster images from vectors - Yes, I think Inkscape does it, but I don't remember if it is a direct 1:1 copy over, or if it depends on zoom level.
  • RE: Multiple sources - Put wherever the image came from. If a situation occurs where an image is in fact pieced together from multiple sources, then I'll add it, but for now, it's pointless. The image came from one source in 99.99% of situations (that's totally a made-up statistic, but considering we haven't come across that yet, it's probably pretty accurate).--immewnity (talk) 16:11, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, if there's something you think I might have, go ahead and ask! --immewnity (talk) 16:23, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Hmm... I've definitely got stuff from all those games on the FTP. Sonic Rush doesn't have a whole lot, mostly because there was never a backup that I've found from Sega's old FTP, but there are a few things in Banners and Videos for the series. As far as the others, there are so many all over the place (see here for an example - the FTP is "D:/PidgiNet things to staff/"). I wish I could give you a good spot to look, but there's so much since those are Nintendo series. The FTP isn't organized at all, it was never meant to actually be an FTP, only originally just my personal backup server, so it's a pain in the you-know-where to search through.--immewnity (talk) 07:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Icons

None of the icons you commented on were ripped from the game, IIRC. Regardless, depending on what it is, it could still be useful. There are a number of images ripped from games that are on here, and are useful. I'll check the CDs when I can.--immewnity (talk) 07:03, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. What if the in-game version is bigger/has less artifacts - should it be uploaded to replace the non-in-game image? --Hiccup (talk) 09:26, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the Links On Your Userpage

Hiccup, thank you for the links on the front page (and for helping upload stuff here). I really appreciate it, and I'm sure Immewnity really appreciates it too. The links help me find stuff to add to my archives (and to archive itself, if a website.)

I feel like I ran out of stuff to upload, but maybe Banjo-Kazooie sounds like something I could upload renders. I was playing it just the other day. Gaz (talk) 16:44, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Re: Thanks for the Links On Your Userpage

You're welcome. Is there anything in particular you want me to check if I have on my hard drive? BTW, I assume all the stuff you have is uploaded to the assemblergames thread or archive.org? --Hiccup (talk) 18:44, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, for AssemblerGames (and have even archived that thread myself). I haven't uploaded the Nintendo Press Kits to the Internet Archive because I think that would be breaking the Terms of Use.

I assume I have all of the Nintendo press kits. Which ones would you have that I do not have? Gaz (talk) 00:49, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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