User talk:Immewnity

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Question

Hi Immewnity, do you have any of the following discs? I happen to have them and am happy to create ISO files of them for you:

Nintendo GameCube Mini CD-ROM (Image link)
Nintendo GameCube Preview CD 2002 (Image link)
Nintendo Power August 2005 DVD (Image link)

I did not take photos of the discs and am definitely not selling them on eBay. :P

I also have the European GameCube Mini CD-ROM, but I downloaded it from an ISO site. Gaz (talk) 19:41, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I have the Mini CD and the Nintendo Power disc - feel free to add the preview disc ISO to the FTP.--immewnity (talk) 07:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Done. The file name is "Nintendo Preview.iso"; it's in the FTP server's root. Gaz (talk) 23:48, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

File Name Accidents

Immewnity, I'm sorry about me accidentally uploading files on to this wiki with bad filenames. I'm so used to uploading files on a wiki from a red link. I'm just making sure you're not upset at me is all; I've made this mistake about four or five times. Gaz (talk) 22:27, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

No worries! It's all good. --immewnity (talk) 14:46, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Secret Nintendo of Europe Site

Yo Immewnity, I found a secret Nintendo of Europe site which can be used to save some of Nintendo of Europe's content on to the Wayback Machine, unlike the other main sites: http://test01-gz06ghmn.nintendo.co.uk.

Cool, isn't it? I just saved Mario Party DS's site on the Wayback Machine this way. :D Gaz (talk) 15:48, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Huh, cool! Nice find! That's definitely useful.--immewnity (talk) 20:04, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey!

I'm Mario/Bazooka Mario from MarioWiki. We had a discussion about the Mario images recently, but in the meantime, I decided to sign up and help around with the categories and all. Let me know if I'm editing and categorizing correctly since I'm new here. It's just to let you know. Thanks! LeftyGreenMario (talk) 23:08, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

All right then! I'll be waiting until you're ready. In the meantime, my sister has decided to help with the uploading images here, so don't panic if you find another user sharing an I.P. with me, also uploading images that you've given me. LeftyGreenMario (talk) 22:24, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

1.34 GB, eh? Well, I can suggest some media cloud site like Dropbox or Mediafire, which have file upload limits that exceed well over 1.34 GB. But if the site crashes or something like that, you can split it into two files or more. LeftyGreenMario (talk) 03:52, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Oh, you have MegaDrive! Ah, well, I'm downloading the file now! :) LeftyGreenMario (talk) 03:53, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Got the files! Who's going to upload? LeftyGreenMario (talk) 04:06, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Request

Please delete this image as quickly as you can. If you look closely, that image is just a low-resolution sprite, noticeably by its indexed quality and inflated size. Meanwhile, I do have artwork of it in the Prima eGuide and I don't feel like giving a different name, especially when this wiki emphasizes on naming files properly. Thanks! LeftyGreenMario (talk) 20:32, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, I do have some more coming. I have recolors for all the Smash Bros. cast bar DLC characters. And, yeah, some might look like cheap recolors, but, as you see from Duck Hunt artwork (and future artwork such as Beach trunk Shulk), they seem to be official. Thanks, by the way! LeftyGreenMario (talk) 01:34, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Yeah. I'd like to note that even in the ripped sprites, some artifacts leftover from Photoshop recoloring you see on the artwork on Prima guide, it carries over on those sprites. I'll give it the benefit of doubt and upload those nevertheless! LeftyGreenMario (talk) 02:54, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Splatoon Style Guide

Hey! I have a question: where did you find the Splatoon Style Guide? Thanks you very much. Nintando (talk) 20:55, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Ah, ok. And the Logo usage guide - Nintendo.pdf ? And the Nintendo 3DS asset usage guide.pdf ? Nintando (talk) 15:56, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

High quality card scans

Heya, I noticed that there are some ridiculously high quality .png scans of Heart Gold/Soul Silver cards on this wiki. I also noticed that there were two scans of a similar quality of Diamond/Pearl/Platinum series cards, but couldn't find any more. Would you happen to have any more that I simply haven't found, or perhaps know anywhere that I could find such high quality scans? I've literally never seen them anywhere on the internet, all the other scans are either small or blurry, but these scans on this wiki were extremely crisp and huge too. TSG (talk) 20:02, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Press kits etc

Hi

I'm collecting pre-release Nintendo stuff (especially 2004-2006 stuff), and I wondered if you mind sending me some press kit stuff I don't have. I prefer stuff in (redump quality) ISO format, with information on what was written on the box and disc. Th is is what I have. I'm willing to send you stuff that you want. EDIT: I only just realised this whole site is for press stuff. Great! Does it/will it accept official gameplay video or images? And may I upload PSDs? Some stuff comes in that format originally, and I don't have photoshop so I cannot losslessly convert them to PNG (GIMP and Irfanview mess up colours/layers). --Hiccup (talk) 11:29, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Good to know. BTW, can I have access to the FTP, if that still exists? And what naming should be used for screenshots? Same sort of thing as artwork? --Hiccup (talk) 15:55, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Immewnity, I'm the guy who introduced Hiccup to here. Redumped ISOs would be fine with me as well (original source format reasons). Gaz (talk) 00:34, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Source of images

Hi
What is the source of these images?:
File:Logo - Pokemon 20th Anniversary.svg
File:Logo (simple) - Pokemon 20th Anniversary.svg
File:Pattern - Pokemon 20th Anniversary.svg
Thank you
Nintandi (talk) 19:54, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

3 Patrons, Good Job

Hi Immewnity, I have two things to say:

1. I pretty much told Hiccup about this place, which I mentioned earlier. 2. Congrats on getting three patrons. Did you promote this site better or did it happen as time went along? 3. When did you start allowing screenshot uploads?

As always, good luck on this site.

Gaz (talk) 05:39, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Just Wondering But

Why are we not allowed to link to press sites. I was wondering that since the start because I would see all of these images without a source. I was seeing recent changes and was only wondering. Gaz (talk) 08:44, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Also, I can never find a time to chat on Skype. Will you be free from responsibilities this Easter break? And that's interesting (the press site), but I felt like it would be respectful if you gave credit. Gaz (talk) 01:48, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Should screenshots have characters listed?

Also, can the "event" field have stuff like "E3 2005" listed? And one more thing, could I/you add a date field? --Hiccup (talk) 19:09, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

PS3, PSVita and XBox 360 systems

I was wondering if you could add the PS3, PSVita and XBox 360 systems to the template. --Moonboy65 (talk) 15:01, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

I'd also appreciate this :P --Hiccup (talk) 17:16, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

How should dates be formatted in filenames?

I need to specify which Nintendo Direct a screenshot is from. --Hiccup (talk) 19:07, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Subevents

How is the the new subevent field meant to be used? Like this?:
Event: E3
Subevent: E3 2005

Or this?:

Event: E3 2005
Subevent: Nintendo Conference

--Hiccup (talk) 14:44, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Multiple things

Do you have any images of the packaging/discs that Gaz posted on assemblergames? I want to make sure I name them appropriatly when referring to them in file descriptions.

Also; could you make it so you can have multiple sources in an infobox, and set one as the "main - the highest quality one that is uploaded to the site? Sometimes screenshots can be found on multiple official sites. Sorry if I'm annoying you with my constant questions. --Hiccup (talk) 11:08, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay. One last thing: if I want access to stuff that isn't on the FTP I think you might have access to, do you mind if I request it? --Hiccup (talk) 16:16, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay: Videos and screenshots from: Sonic Rush, Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, New Super Mario Bros., New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the Super Mario Galaxy series, the Paper Mario series and. These are the games I want to focus on/am interested in :P. Or if they are on the FTP, could you maybe give me a pointer to the locations? I don't really want to download loads of stuff to find out what is/isn't relevant. --Hiccup (talk) 16:41, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I'll explore a bit more then. About the CDs: could you tell me what was written on them and their packaging? --Hiccup (talk) 11:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Videos

Could you add support for uploading videos, even if they can't be embedded? I'd really like to start archiving video stuff. --Hiccup (talk) 16:32, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for adding ogv, webm and mp4. Could you also add mov, wmv and flv? Those seem to be the format that most (or all) the stuff I have was distributed in. --Hiccup (talk) 16:58, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Okay, I'll upload my mp4 stuff. What is your opinion on uploading avis (when the security issues are sorted out)? Should they somehow be losslessly compressed or somehow converted into a smaller lossless format? --Hiccup (talk) 17:27, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Could you add support for AVIs? I don't think they have any security flaws. I've got eight high-quality E3 2005 DS trailers from GameFront that I'd like to upload. --Hiccup (talk) 18:50, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

I see. I may have already asked this, but if I send you some vulnerable-format videos that I have confirmed are virus-free, could you upload them? Or can you not make those formats only upload-able by admins? If so, do you have any ideas on how to get around this vunerable-formats problem? --Hiccup (talk) 08:29, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

How to know what to name "main art"?

How do I determine if it should be named "key art", "group art", "character art" or what? --Hiccup (talk) 18:39, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Three questions

1. For DSiWare games, should the system be "Nintendo DSi" or "DSiWare"? 2. You know you said there were security issues with certain video formats? What were they? 3. Could you post a complete directory listing of the FTP? That would help with navigating it a lot. Thanks --Hiccup (talk) 18:53, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

1. Okay. Do you think "subsystem" would be a good field? For stuff like DSiWare? 2. Could you enable WMVs etc if I virus check (using virustotal.com) every upload I make for those formats? Maybe that should be a rule for all uploads of those formats?

3. Even if it was outdated, it'd still be helpful. And maybe for the new stuff, you could post change logs? Just a sugestion. --Hiccup (talk) 12:08, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the directory listing. Regarding the video-virus problem, would it be possible to limit those types, so only trusted people can upload them? --Hiccup (talk) 16:15, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Okay. I wonder if an indirect method would work: a bot that deletes all uploads of that type by users that aren't on a "whitelist"? --Hiccup (talk) 15:08, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Seems like a pretty big problem. If there is some way to have externally hosted files on the wiki, I'd be willing to use space on my file hosting accounts (google drive, mega etc) --Hiccup (talk) 16:42, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about the bombardment of messages, but I've had another idea :P. Would it solve the problem if all WMVs (etc) were uploaded in archives (e.g. ZIPs)? --Hiccup (talk) 10:24, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

HTTPS for pidgi

Hi could you enable https please.

You can use https://letsencrypt.org/ which is free and is sponsered by mozzila and facebook and other big companys.

I keep getting something about insecure image.

Nitro PDF

Could you send me a link to the program files folder of the installed program? I can't use the installer. --Hiccup (talk) 18:50, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

The problem is I don't have admin access on this machine to use the installer. --Hiccup (talk) 12:24, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Maybe so, but the program is free. Couldn't you email me the files? :P --Hiccup (talk) 09:47, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Never mind. --Hiccup (talk) 16:28, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

How should files be named if they pertain to more than one game?

Should it even have the " - Game Name" bit? --Hiccup (talk) 19:47, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Well, I'm referring to the E3 2004 Game Informer Online footage I recently uploaded. How should that be dealt with? --~~

Different platforms for one game

How should different boxes for different platforms be dealt with? E.g. Box NA (Nintendo 3DS) - Zero Time Dilemma.jpg or Box NA - Zero Time Dilemma (Nintendo 3DS).jpg --Hiccup (talk) 10:13, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Sorry about the SM64 box art

That was an obvious mistake. --Hiccup (talk) 16:59, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Could you add support for EPS files?

It is sometimes used instead of PSD. Thanks --Hiccup (talk) 13:32, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

The reason I uploaded them was for them to be converted later. I realise that they are much better converted into a common format like PNG. I'll try and get ghostscript sorted out for EPS in the future though. --Hiccup (talk) 11:50, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Yeah I do, where's this script? :P --Hiccup (talk) 14:23, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Filling the "Set" descriptor

Hey there! Just a question that came to me while I was browsing, are we meant to fill the "Set" descriptor on Template:Info like how it has been done here and here? It seems to be a mistake, but I wasn't completely certain. Thanks.

YoshiKong (talk · edits) 12:31, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Vulpix, Ninetales, Exeggutor, Sandshrew and Sandslash

Hey Immewnity, I saw you uploaded High-Res artwork for Meowth, Raichu and Marowak (since they got Alolan forms. But I don't see the other Pokémon on there (specifically Vulpix, Ninetales, Sandshrew, Sandslash and Exeggutor), I wonder if there was even any High-Res artwork for them. --Moonboy65 (talk) 16:21, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Wrong RGB images

I'm trying to fix some of the artworks with the wrong RGB coloration, I was wondering how you fixed the coloration for Ralts and Cacnea because I would love to help you with the rest of them. --Moonboy65 (talk) 03:16, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Some of them don't have ANY change or have very little change when I'm doing the CMYK to RGB convertion, idk how to fix them. --Moonboy65 (talk) 03:58, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

"Beta" logo naming

Hi. Do you think it is a good idea to name early logos by their date or event, if it is known, rather than just calling them "beta"? And if so, how should it be done? One of these combinations?:

"File:Logo (E3 2005) NA - Mario & Luigi Partners in Time.png"
"File:E3 2005 Logo NA - Mario & Luigi Partners in Time.png"
"File:Logo (E3 2005)- Mario & Luigi Partners in Time.png"
"File:E3 2005 Logo - Mario & Luigi Partners in Time.png"

[note that there is are no different versions of this E3 2005 logo - just the one international version] --Hiccup (talk) 19:56, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Big video file (453 MB)

Hi! Could you change the wiki so it can upload files of at least 453 MB (475,839,736 bytes specifically)? At least temporarily? I have a high-quality MP4 video of E3 2009 that has a bunch of game footage that I'd like to upload, and I don't want to lose any quality by converting it. EDIT: Also, should the description field contain the game's name? --Hiccup (talk) 13:50, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Okay. For now I'm going to put all the non-compatible video files in a google drive folder, and you can have access if you want. --Hiccup (talk) 19:11, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Re: Console categories

Yeah. I wanted some way to differentiate "Wii console" media from "Wii game" media, without resorting to using google to search for files that have " - Wii" in them. Wii is just an example - any other console also applies. --Hiccup (talk) 18:24, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Okay. I'll re-do those files. --Hiccup (talk) 18:42, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Yeah mostly, but there are some that don't have info boxes that I'll sort out. Also, what should be done if it has a game listed, but it is for a console (e.g. the game "Mario Kart DS" listed for an image of the Mario Kart DS themed NDS console)? Should I delete the game(s) or could you make a parameter for these situations? --Hiccup (talk) 18:46, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Removing press sites from sources

I recall you saying via email that I shouldn't add press sites to the source field of media, due to legal issues. Should I go about removing (or replacing with "Nintendo of [country]"), press sites from previously-uploaded media's infoboxes - if I happen to be editing one? Or should I just leave them be? --Hiccup (talk) 18:56, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Another file format question

Could you add support from .doc formats? Some old press releases are in that format. Also, you may be interested to know that you can probably extract some sort vector logos from these documents. --Hiccup (talk) 19:25, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Seems like Word lets you save them as PDF perfectly fine, so I'll do that. An unrelated file question; how do you determine what files are a security risk? Aren't WMV, MOV, MPG and MP4 vulnerabilities only for end users who open the files in outdated versions of video players? --Hiccup (talk) 10:20, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Could you add MP3? It seems to be one of MediaWiki's allowed formats, and converting them to OGG cannot be done losslessly, apparently. If not, then a lossless format like WAV or FLAC would be good. --Hiccup (talk) 02:04, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Re: File:Logo EN - Paper Mario Color Splash.png

Sorry for not being clearer. Hopefully these will explain my thinking: 1 2 --Hiccup (talk) 11:50, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Useful tool

This tool may be useful in situations when a logo is provided as a version with a white background and a version with with a black background, but no transparent BG version. These images may be relevant: 1 2 3 --Hiccup (talk) 17:43, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Re: E-mail

Thanks for the email. I've replied. --Hiccup (talk) 12:19, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Two small niggles with the site

I've noticed two slight annoyances while using the wiki:

If a date is set to just a year, it displays some sort of "dummy" day and month
There is no "watch" button (for adding pages to the watchlist) in the default (MetroLook) theme. --Hiccup (talk) 17:45, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Cropping logos

Would it be okay if I didn't crop logos when uploading? The blank space doesn't really take up any storage space (especially in PNGs) and I think they may be intended as "boundaries", for when logos are used near to text etc. Alternatively, the boundaries could be marked in the description, like "+10 pixels on all sides". What do you think of that? Also, which is better:

Logo (E3 2012) (alt 3) EN - Kid Icarus Uprising.png

or

Logo (E3 2012) EN (alt 3) - Kid Icarus Uprising.png

or something else? --Hiccup (talk) 17:01, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

"Sub-characters"

If a piece of artwork depicts a character (e.g. Koopa Paratroopa), that is also a "sub-character" of another character (e.g. Koopa Troopa), should both characters be listed in the artworks field? Or should it be handled by just putting the sub-character, and making the sub-character category a sub-category of the parent-character category? (e.g. put "[[Category:Koopa Troopa]]" in the "Category:Koopa Paratroopa")? --Hiccup (talk) 11:42, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Do the latter for now - if we want to do the former, we can script it for the few instances for which this situation happens.--immewnity (talk) 13:34, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Re: Watchlist and The Betabase

Watch button seems to function fine (apart from the hover image glitching out on some browser setups) and great news on the betabase! Should I start making uploads? Or should I wait until you've created a bit more of the organizational "skeleton"? I assume I should make a new account for the betabase? And finally; I've started making playlists for games and series-es on the youtube channel - you might want to consider linking those on the game pages (or game categories, in the case of PidgiWiki). --Hiccup (talk) 09:59, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Immewnity, I have a question about the Betabase--can we delete any screenshots from here if they get uploaded to the Betabase? Gaz (talk) 20:12, 13 October 2016 (UTC)