Dual Stage Release - Catacombs & Diana Manor Released 1-6-2010

[DarkValentine]

First two new stages from me, for the new year. It's a relief to take a break from extensive editing, and just sticking to simple stages. So now, its time to talk about the stages.

Catacombs


Diana Manor





http://generation-now.net

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And here are the release notes for both stages:

Catacombs Release Notes

1/7/2010 - minor fixes

Correction of the addalpha for the lights. They appeared brown, instead
of the correct "yellow" color. The Y delta was fixed on all objects in
stage, due to stage not having any "high jump" action in it. Since stage
was made to promote normal jumping, without camera movement.

Thanks goes to Tamez who pointed out the errors.

Diana Manor Release Notes:

1/7/2010 - Stage Fix

Problem with leftbound & rightbound settings produced a big problem with
projectiles moving towards the right. The leftbound has been adjusted
along with the rightbound, to keep it even, and allowed projectiles to
move across the right side of the screen properly. Also, corrected improper
Y axis settings for the main floor of the stage. Since there is only normal
jumping in the stage.

Special thanks goes to Tamez for pointing out the issues in the stage.

Enjoy

[VargVikernes]

Great! 

I'm going to download them now, thanks for this release.

[DarkValentine]

Thanks, hope you enjoy them. But that's nothing compared to what I'm doing next, as a total conversion stage.


I'll probably post about it sometime soon.
Post Merge: January 07, 2010, 02:43:36 AMUpdated to reflect problems found. Please check the first post.

[C.R.O.M. jodafro619]

Mr. Old School still dropping those great stages again!! Thanks man!! Still waiting on that technodrome stage with the super jump !! Just kidding man, but thanks again!!

[DarkValentine]

Thanks

[Shingokusatsu]

I'm playing dumb here, I went to download your last stages but there is something odd

There is only one file in Diana_Manor, catacombs, broadstreet (all your last stages), normaly I should have a .def and a .sff and here it's only one file with no extension at all.

Is it something for the new mugen ?

[DarkValentine]

I downloaded them just fine actually. I will advise to not use WinRAR, if you're trying to open the files. WinRAR has an issue with some of my stage files, despite they are in .zip format.

You may want to use something like 7zip or peazip, or AlZip to extract them.

WinRAR has an issue with reading the CRC information of certain .zip file downloads. And this doesn't just apply to my stages. A number of other programs and things that come in .zip also have this problem.

This problem happened to me, when I was trying to open's someone stages, and oddly enough, they used the .RAR extension. So I made the switch to AlZip, and the stages opened fine.

This will be the second time I've reuploaded the archive, after someone has complained about it. However, it is indeed WinRAR that is having these issues. So if you use that, try using something else as a test.

If it's doing the same thing, I'll reupload them one more time.

[Shingokusatsu]

Thanks for the reply, it's true I've got winrar, so I used 7zip but with no better luck, I went and download Alzip (that transformed all my files) I opened, same result, so I got the idea to reupload the stage but it didn't change anything, there is only one thing in the .zip and when you unzipped it no matter what you use, the computer don't seem to find anything else (odd enough my computer is not saying that the file is corrupted like something is missing)

Sorry for the disturbing

[DarkValentine]

I'll see what's going on with this issue. It really shouldn't be happening, but I'll see what I can do to rectify this issue for you.

I found the problem. It seems like this only affects those who use Internet Explorer. However, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong in the HTML scripting for the page, to denote not allowing IE to download the files properly. Everything did indeed checkout. I tested the download just fine in Firefox, Google Chrome, Oprea & Avant. And they opened like it's supposed to be opened. Yet, when I ran a second test in IE, it appeared the same way like it did for you.

I'll have to edit the page, with an alternative for those using IE. However, I find this strange. Simply for the fact that this problem happens at random, for ppl who actually use IE as the browser, when downloading the most recent stages. Others who use it, doesn't seem to run into this said issue. This has never happened before. But, I intend to fix the issue.

EDIT: Created an alternative page, as an option to IE users. This will give fair warning. Whether or not you use IE as the browser doesn't matter. Simply follow what appears on the page, when downloading my stages from now on.