OK, so the "corrupted" game file thing was alleviated through an incredibly difficult approach that pretty much only a genius would've been able to come up with: restart your computer.

Now that the project's back on track after a quite stressful "halt", the game looks like it's shaping up rather nicely. I've done the rest of the GUI (except the background, I'll be doing something special with that), will have to redo the health bar a second time (the one I've done looks like ass so far), and the Item graphics looks nice as well. I only have to redo the shop and the random banners (like the 'Level Up!' banner) and that'll be pretty much it in terms of visual overhauls. As for actually PROGRAMMING overhauls, I'll have to program three special Orbs that are handled differently (as in, they don't just shoot stars) and that'll be pretty much it.

From there, I'll have to do everything not having to do with the actual gameplay. That is, menus, the stat tracking, and adding a few features that I've planned. Those are the thing's that'll probably eat up most of the "development" time, but I'm doing the "easy" stuff first so that I see some noticeable progress before taking on the hard stuff.

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In other news, I'll be graduating from high school in TWO (count 'em, two) days! I haven't been going to school since Friday, but this is finals week and seniors don't take any finals :P

Anyway, I got a $100 scholarship from French Club and I already know that $100 in college terms is basically $0.01, since college expenses range from 3-digit numbers to 4-digit numbers a year. My parents already know that, and since the college I'm going to is covering all the costs AND giving me like $3000 for this first semester, AND since the college I'm going to is like 20 mins away from my house, I won't have to pay for overpriced and vomity housing. That means that those $100 will be free for me to use in whatever I want, and my siblings are racking up some moolah as a graduation gift. So what can I do with ~$180? Well, do that one thing I haven't been able to do due to me not having extra money like that: Buy a DS! New DS + a ton of used, MUCH-cheaper-than-$50 games = a happy entering college student.