Metal Slug: Missing in Action has some bits and bobs, most notably more early footage and some weird discoveries in Metal Slug 7's missing areas. The Bomberman site has a pile of guff I just wanted out of the way, though Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Bakuretsu Bomberman is worth spotlighting for its sheer strangeness (also hello i'm still looking for issues of dengeki nintendo ds please hook me up), and Super Bomberman 2's media section because we all need a bit of GamesMaster in our lives.
2017's been a bit of a blur - so much has happened in the world and so little has happened in my life! It's weeks away, but I'll probably tune out for the rest of the month, so I hope everyone has a good December and wish you all have a decent new year.
Have I any plans for Random Hoo Haas next year? Pffft. I barely accomplished my plans for this year! I'd like an excuse to write more guff, be it reviews or blog content or just spewing nonsense out of my mouth that's hopefully amusing or interesting (though no promise on both counts). We'll see what happens!
Just uploading stuff that should've been uploaded
months ago!
Metal Slug: Missing in
Action has more concept art courtesy of Division 六's lovely scans
from Neo Geo Freak. You're best just browsing the
directories to
see what's new, those thumbnails are a nightmare to navigate (and even worse to
update!).
Scans & Bits
also has some new content, including the City Connection manga, some
Animal Crossing, plus more Peach's Great Adventure, Go-Ketsu Wario and Sonic
the Hedgehog.
I'm still writing bits and bobs on the side, though whether it'll find a home on the site is up in the air. All this documentative gumbo scratches an itch, but I do miss a good all-purpose waffle. Sometime, hopefully!
All that waffling about gaming manga wasn't for
naught - there's a
page for scans now, starting off with some Mario, Sonic and
Kirby manga as well as a big pile of research on Dengeki Nintendo DS and
Fami2Comic! More cleaned-up stuff will appear in future, but until then you can browse my
MEGA for the
raw scans.
The Random Hoo Haas main page has also been overhauled a bit, cramming in a new
logo, another sidebar and a new page to shuffle all the
miscellaneous crap
(or Additional Impedimenta if I'm going to stick to my branding)
into
instead of dumping it all under General Writings. Do people still use site maps?
I've been real tempted to make one, if only because I've no idea how to navigate
this site without just browsing the directories. Let me know how you cope and
I'll see if I just turn the front page into a phonebook instead.
Metal Slug: Missing in Action has some odds and sods, including lovely concept art scanned by a site reader (hats off to Division 六!), and the Bomberman Shrine Place also got a makeover for its front page (with some light coverage on media, merch and the Jetters anime - more to come when I'm not stressing myself to death under self-imposed deadlines!), and now has a full banner on the hub. Now it won't be taking over Random Hoo Haas' updates log! (i'll probably change that hub banner sometime - it was an "it'll do" job, not one of my best collages)
There's stuff I had to leave out of these updates that'll probably come out soon-ish, but we'll see what happens! Maybe I'll finally take a break and enjoy some other pursuits instead. One of the two!
Thanks to a reader submission, we now know there was a level select and sound test hidden inside the first Metal Slug! Now if only we could find a way of loading different objects - looking at those test stages shows some curious object behaviours I didn't notice before. I'm also testing the waters to see if SNK really do poach my updates for Metal Slug Attack fodder. I'm not crazy, I swear.
The Bomberman site got a lot more stuff, but I couldn't tell you if any of it is worth looking at; I just got tired of sitting on them until I had a bigger, fancier update to bundle them with.