God damn 64Digits sure goes down often.

I just got back from the airport now, James and Pina have left for Los Angeles, but it sure wasn't that simple.

Two flights were apparently canceled, so we spent about 2 hours finding out what was going on, lots of hiccups, they had to get their luggage back, re-tagged, etc, eventually it looked like they would have to catch a flight tomorrow, so we decided to go get some lunch.

As we were leaving, we were called back, quickly said goodbye, and they had to run off and get on the plane.

My mum has plans to visit them in 6 months, and if I get a job soon I should have enough money to go too.

Right now, I'm in the process of making my curriculum vitae.

I do already have one, but it's one I made in about 30 seconds, and it looks like crap, because up until now I haven't wanted a job.

But now that I do, I'm making a much better one.

Twinsenly speaking, I've done a little work;

Remade Twinsen's uppercut animation, made Twinsen's house, and I made another level.

This level is designed as an un-lockable, made specifically for stringing together some impressive combos.

I think there's over 100 enemies, and it is possible to kill them all in one combo, even though i haven't been able to yet.

The level itself is much bigger than any of the regular levels so far, and there is a fair bit of slow down.

Especially when I'm up in a 30+ hit combo and there's particles flying everywhere.

So Cocopuffs is gonna see if theres anything he can do to combat the slow down.. fingers crossed.

I've also made a little progress with the trailer, I've found the perfect song, the only problem is it didn't have a good ending, it just cut off rather abruptly.

In the process of searching for a program to edit it myself, a friend offered to edit it, and by the next morning he had it finished, it sounds great.

I have most of the footage planned out, I just have to wait until we have the final demo ready.

I've also decided I'll record the footage with the built in function, that way even if I do experience any slow down, it won't be recorded, and I will have full control over every single frame.

And I've discovered I can easily import the frames into Windows Movie Maker, instead of importing it into a gif, then converting to a movie, and then importing the movie into WMM.

My uncle has gone to Las Vegas for 2 weeks, so we're looking after his dog, a 5 month old black Labrador named Donald.

He isn't disciplined at all, and I don't really like him.

The first night, he woke me up at least 74 times, jumping into my window and barking all night.

There's a world of difference between Jazz and Donald, it seems Jazz is acting even more obedient in an effort to impress, I'm telling Donald to sit, and Jazz will drop whatever she's doing and sit down.

Donald is even ruining games of fetch, I'll throw the ball and hope Jazz gets it first, because she brings it back and drops it at my feet, but Donald just drops it and pisses allover it.

I finished Super Metroid Redesign, man what a game.

I think I might like it more than the original, partly because I have played the original so many times, and because the Redesign is much more challenging.

Once I finished it, I decided to play Fusion again, and 2 hours later I was finished.

The only Metroid I haven't finished is Metroid 2 on the gameboy, so I have started it, I haven't gotten very far and I'm not really feeling it much yet, mainly because the screen is so small, and Samus's sprite is still massive- feels cramped.

I think I may start Super Metroid Redesign again, that game was a lot of fun.

In other Metroid news, those of you with Wii's may have noticed a new channel made to build some hype for Metroid Prime 3 which launches in just over 2 weeks.

It only offers 2 videos and some character art, but it looks to be the start of Nintendo offering unique content for Wii owners.

And GameTrailers released part 3 of their Metroid retrospective, another great entry.

Since I haven't shown any screenshots for a while, and 64Digits has been down for so long, I'll post some screens from the Combo Expert level:

BYAAH!