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Discussion / Re: The most iconic robot of RA2« on: January 19, 2010, 05:17:41 PM »
It would be funny if everyone just said TDS' Digital Apocalypse.
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Chatterbox / Re: How did YOU come up with your name?« on: January 16, 2010, 02:07:23 PM »abandon my old name from 2001-2002. I prefer not to disclose. It's personal for a reason. 504
Chatterbox / Re: RA1« on: January 16, 2010, 02:04:46 PM »Forgive you for what? Vaguely but no, not really. I've dealt with so much needless drama from Miniclip/Club Penguin I kind of forgot most of the RA2 nonsense. 505
Chatterbox / Re: How did YOU come up with your name?« on: January 16, 2010, 03:36:22 AM »
My worthless retarded username (Radio F Software / RFS) is quite literally simply the name of the development group I belonged to at the time. I adopted "Radio F Software" in 2003 after a personal emergency required me to abandon my old name from 2001-2002. I had no username, but I needed one, so I adopted RFS with the intent to choose a new username "later". Radio F Software just so happened to be the media production group I ran at the time, formerly "**** Radio" (1995 - 1997), then "F Radio" (1997 - 1999), then "Radio F" (1999 - 2003), then "Radio F Software" (2003 - 2006), and finally "RFS Media Productions" (2007 - 2008), the name the group had when it eventually tanked and closed.
"Later" became "five years later" when in September 2008 I officially adopted "Dracophile" as my new username, a name that's creative and has some relevant meaning to me. "Dracophile" directly translates to "dragon lover". You can apply a sexual connotation to it if you wish and still be mostly correct in your assumptions, although the sexual side of it was not intended when I chose the nickname. My friends called me "dracophile" off and on for a while as a playful insult until I finally adopted it. Words cannot really describe how much I hate the username RFS and everything that is tied to it. The entire duration of my life that I used that stupid name is an entire chunk of time that I am deeply ashamed of because I was being someone I wasn't. Adopting "Dracophile" was my way to break those chains once and for all and go back to the things I once enjoyed before I became RFS. I retained my username here mostly so that people would know who I am because I don't post very often. So yeah. Nothing special about the story behind my name, just the fact that I loathe it. 506
Chatterbox / Re: RA1« on: January 16, 2010, 03:26:00 AM »Anyone got a RA1 CD image / installer / anything? I'd love to have it. Either that or I'll try to crack / unpack Trymedia's version if my reversing talents are good enough. Forgive you for what? :P I remember ya. :3 507
Discussion / Re: A blast from the past... Checkin' da archives.« on: January 16, 2010, 03:22:24 AM »
http://i46.tinypic.com/g2v.jpg
Old promotional picture for the RFS AI Pack. Circa 2003. edit: Each row of 6 is 1 AI team from the game. 30 teams total in the V1.5 pack, that's all of them. 508
Chatterbox / Re: RA1« on: January 06, 2010, 03:16:11 AM »I remember AW from AceUplink modded RA1 so you could ATTACH the fork lift but it didn't actually do anything. Letdown of the year.Didn't it function as the battering ram? I believe so, I think he swapped the model files because the Battering Ram used 2 locations. 509
Chatterbox / Re: RA1« on: January 06, 2010, 12:32:04 AM »
I remember AW from AceUplink modded RA1 so you could ATTACH the fork lift but it didn't actually do anything. Letdown of the year.
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Discussion / Re: A blast from the past... Checkin' da archives.« on: January 06, 2010, 12:30:48 AM »
I'm, you know, "around". I make on average 10 posts a year according to my join date. :P
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Chatterbox / Re: RA1« on: January 05, 2010, 11:05:32 PM »
RA1 was a pretty terrible game, as I cite my signature.
I wrote an article about the game for the ill-fated GatorAIDS website but I never posted it. Took some recent screencaps of it, here's one of them from the article. ![]() And for the sake of being on topic, here's some quotes from the article. Quote I bought this game in 2002 for $22, which is about $21.99 more than what I probably should have paid for it. Quote You’re able to build the design that you want, assuming that your dream robot is something that can be made from about twenty prefabricated parts and weapons and five different chassis each with about eight specific locations where you can put something. Quote There’s a fat black boxing has-been and a half-man half-robot gimmick, but the winner of the Most Idiotic Enemy Ever goes to my main man The Infamous B.A.D.. No, he’s not some smooth rapping dark skinned fellow, he’s a wigger complete with a backwards cap and a peach fuzz mustache that screams out “I’m thirteen years old and I get uncomfortable erections in math class.” Quote Overall: Robot Arena was the first true game devoted to the budding genre of robot combat simulators. Because it’s the charter title of the genre it’s impossible for me to say “Robo Cockfighting Battle X is a better game” because there were no previous games to compare it to. However being able to call dibs on a new genre is no excuse to **** everything up and capitalize on being the game with the monopoly in the gaming world. I give Gabriel Interactive huge props for having the balls to explore uncharted and incredibly popular territory with a game this broken, but as you can see with Robot Arena 2 Gabriel Interactive is one of the few developers who learn from their mistakes and went on to effectively set the bar for what robot combat games should be with Robot Arena 2... even if their sequel was the last robot combat game ever made (great timing). 512
Discussion / Re: A blast from the past... Checkin' da archives.« on: January 05, 2010, 10:43:34 PM »I remember all of those. I hated that guy. I can't believe I co-administrated his damn forum for a few months. Whatever happened to Chex Mix/COLONMAN anyways? Found an old picture of a rebuilt Digital Apocalypse THE FIRST VERTICAL SPINNER IN RA2 BECAUSE THE ONE THAT CAME WITH THE GAME DOESN'T COUNT. DUR DUR. Look what I found saved on my computer! I loved that guy. If it weren't for him I wouldn't have spent so much time on RFSHQ. Maybe that's a bad thing in hindsight. Also like, none of these robots ring a bell for me. Guess I wasn't around very long, I remember dropping out of the community in 2004 when I opened RFSHQ and then from there I just did my own thing and left altogether. 513
Discussion / Official Rights to Robot Arena 2« on: June 24, 2009, 08:02:58 PM »
I've had legal run-ins with Atari in the past, they aren't going to sell you a damn thing. They will probably laugh at you... er not "probably", they WILL. Atari stopped being the easy-going "have fun and smoke weed all the time" game company it was in the 70's a LONG time ago.
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Discussion / Custom AI Packs« on: June 24, 2009, 07:59:47 PM »Quote from: SpyGuy;45570 There's also an AI generator that someone made up - should be on the downloads section. It was called "RAI-" something. Pretty much, you plug in your values, and generate the script to paste in your bindings. I think Hacker X (XRAH, HX, Rekcah, etc) is the one who made that. :) 515
Discussion / Remember Robotica?« on: June 18, 2009, 06:42:40 PM »Quote from: Reier;44479 And the others I remember were Botzilla, Flexy-Flyer (Which was in BB under a different name which I can't remember), Debbot, and the Killa Gorilla (which was also in BB called Silverback). And some rendom bot in a trailer called Shenanagins or howevber you spell it. Shannonagains (spelled like that because the guy's kid was named Shannon and they were using her truck "again"... I think) was the one made from the Power Wheels truck. It was armed to the teeth with all sorts of things that made me get all giddy inside but it never worked properly and lost. ![]() 516
Discussion / The Ranks: VOTES ARE IN!« on: June 18, 2009, 06:41:15 PM »
Methinks the list, especially Stock, needs more veterans. I'm glad to see Rejected made an appearance. What about MAD Scientist, Omega, disembowelinatron, and TeamOmegaforce?
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Real Robotics Discussion / Favorite Real Combat Robots?« on: June 14, 2009, 01:12:04 PM »Quote from: MikeNCR;44020 College 120lb will be on the CBS college sports channel. Haven't heard if/when/what the Pro 220lb class or the HS120lb class will be on. In a previous thread where I was making fun of Bender someone mentioned that he was drawn against Megabyte and that "Bender is now 2-6", which I'm assuming means Megabyte won at least 1 fight. 518
Robots Showcase / Some old robot combat photos of my bots.« on: June 12, 2009, 12:15:04 AM »Quote from: JoeBlo;43802 I have a little shell spinner, could be an US antweight not entirely sure, there isn't any robot fighting that I know of in Australia so I didn't care on the weight just build one for the fun of it, show it off to my friends basically smashing soda cans.... just made some pointy metal teath for it :-D the shell was a recycled 25 CD-R container haha still works though I had a similar idea going on for a shell spinner. :) 519
Robots Showcase / Some old robot combat photos of my bots.« on: June 11, 2009, 08:25:25 PM »Quote from: kill343gs;43788 I would like you to know that I have in fact started development on a CD-blade toting cardboard robot. Haha, awesome - keep the spirit alive! :3 520
Robots Showcase / Some old robot combat photos of my bots.« on: June 11, 2009, 07:01:37 PM »Quote from: R1885;43785 I see the famed French Kiss of Death:P Haha, YES! I loved the name of that weapon. :P |