User:DandelionSprout

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Have played through:

I'm not a userbox kind of fellow, even less so outside of Wikimedia projects (The latter of which they'd make sense on to list language skills).

For screenshots, I use Elgato HD60 Pro, and OBS Studio with a hotkey attached to screenshotting.

Connecting the Elgato HDMI cable either directly into the Switch, or into "HDMI 2" of a Yamaha RX-V685, seems to make no differences at all, not even in regards to a docked Switch's output resolutions.

Language handles

  • Norwegian at top level (Oslo Standard, with less than 20 words adapted from Trondheim Standard)
  • English at undergraduate level (British Isles English, with a heavy northern continental slant for placenames and product names, but I can write American English too for projects that need it, which very likely includes this wiki).
  • Swedish fluently (Stockholm Standard, with occasional terms from Oslo Business Swedish).
  • Nynorsk fluently (NRK Super Standard, not the lawyer or Noregs Mållag standards)

Notes taken from feedback

To show I can receive and learn from feedback.

  • 0-9 must be spelt as words, e.g. "zero to nine". Double-check for things like in-level info additions.
  • Crops of OBS screenshots must be PNG too, as their source screenshots are.
    • But for animated no-sound images, "Animated WebP" seem far and beyond better than GIF.
  • Inter-locale comparisons are best suited for Trivia, presumably meaning that Trivia sections are allowed to be added to pages if none are already there.
  • Notes in parenthesis should generally speaking start with a small letter.
  • Turned out Volcano refered to one very specific volcano. Now I know.
  • I must admit that Kung Fu Peach and Ninja Peach are surprisingly difficult to tell apart when adding info to levels.
  • I guess I've been completely annihilated by User:Jdtendo when it comes to Parisian French terminologies 😅, and I concede that he's far better then me in that regard, as he is actually from France.
  • While I am not in the LGBT movement (though qualifying as aro), I know how to pay lip service to them to make them very happy in an instant. Nevertheless, with the Mario fanbase (and a whole lot of other fanbases, e.g. Mickey+Minnie) determining a character's gender from eyelashes alone, speculating in neutralities on the characters' pages is not a hill I'll battle on.
  • My debate skills in Proposals threads would be poor at best (harking back to my generally total failures at Sims Wikia's noticeboards), but I guess it can't hurt catastrophically for me to try Proposals threads once or twice, if my stamina permits.
  • While I presumed the complexity of Japanese writing styles would help determine what the target audience of a specific game was, I guess I can agree that the effect for games rated below PEGI 12 would be negligible.
  • The less commas, the better (Rule of thumb).

In-game achievements I feel proud of

  • Mario Kart: Super Circuit:
    • Managed a spectacular Time Attack run at GBA Rainbow Road, and while it'd be tricky to export the replay, I'm certain it has to be close to whatever the WR is.
    • Came back from 40sec behind to win in a 5-lap VS Race on GBA Sky Garden in a self-imposed challenge.
  • Mario Kart DS: Set up a 32-race VS Race cup at 150cc with Hard CPU, and won all 32 races.
  • New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Completed the game with two characters as one player. The carry system helped, but I'm still very proud of doing so.
  • Super Mario Sluggers: Was allowed to enter the Bowser Jr. boss match with only some random Toads and Nokis I found on a beach, won the 3-innings match 34-0, then immediately went on to win against Bowser, beating the career mode in 70 minutes on my first playthrough.
  • WarioWare Gold: Got 67 in SplitScreen Mash.
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe:
    • Got to 7,800 ranking points in online races, before the last two Expansion Pack cups were so bad that I abandoned the entire game (Athens Dash has to be the worst track in all of Mario Kart history).
    • Technically not my achievement, but rather Luigi's, as I managed to pull off a "Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing": I put him in VS Mode 50cc Easy CPU at N64 Royal Raceway, turned on Auto-Throttle and Auto-Steering for him, laid back in my couch like it was horseracing, and he somehow got 1st.
  • Princess Peach: Showtime!: 1-shot the boss fight of A Snow Flower on Ice.

Test

  • The backend of Super Mario Wiki seems to be unable to handle three-= category headers at all, which leads to "Error code: Plessie".
    • The backend doesn't seem to like turning headers into pagelinks either.
  • Ribbonеr
    • How in the name of goodness did the backend's wordfilter mess up so much that I had to use a Cyrillic Е to avoid getting Error Code Plessie?
  • Ribboner
  • Ribboner
  • Ribbone
    • Turns out that the wordfilter objects to "b*ner", but it only objects to me and no one else…???
  • Zero-width spaces, zero-width joiners, and left-to-right markers aren't helping. I think the backend hates me and specifically me.
  • Ribbo\ner
  • Link autofilling doesn't fix it either. How.
  • I can only presume the site doesn't consider me truly autoconfirmed. Or something. Goodness knows. If it hasn't got better by Sunday noon CEST, I need to contact at least 1 beaurucrat.
  • Ribbo''''ner
    • Why.
  • Ribboner
    • This can't possibly be the intended method either.
  • Ribboner
    • …Close enough. Or not. But still.
  • Ribboner
    • Works now (9 April 2024), it seems. Will certainly make level-page updates much easier.

Test 2

Although bopomofo seems to be effectively non-existent in Mario and Wario games, I can just as well test it for the fun of it. 🌞

John Maddenㄚㄝㄧㄛㄨ

(Close enough.)

Minor notes that aren't needed in the top section

  • Miitopia 3DS will likely remain de facto online well into the 2030's, due to its QR Code system to add new Miis.
  • XHTML's ruby support is complicated at best, I must admit: <ruby>Aeiou<rp><rp>(</rp><rt style="font-size: 67% !important">John Madden</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>
    • Very large improvements to Template:Ruby made things a fair bit easier in the time afterwards either way.
  • Using colspan=2 for "Available by default" outfits, didn't seem worth it, as it'd make the text lean too far to the right at the time of writing.
  • German quotation marks are a little weird, enough so that I've never account for them in Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator at any point between 2013-24: „John Madden“
  • I can confirm the existence of a France European locale for PPS (e.g. "parle !"). The locale is not designed with Swiss (Flaque/Gouille) in mind, whereas France-Belgium differences seem non-existent in the game's text strings.
    • In most sections, the only differences between France and Québec, is the spacing for !/?. However, fairly large differences are seen in the first section of Welcome to the Festival of Sweets (e.g., Stella exclaims "Chouette" in France, but "Super" in Québec).
    • Turns out Québecians do in fact use spaces around colons. Was news to me, at least.
    • JP/SK transliterations are not valid at all to determine soft R's, even more so as I live in a region with extra soft rolling R's, and whose main regions of communication also use it.

To-do

6 April 2024

  • Make GoödFeël a redirect to Good-Feel if no one objects to it.
  • Upload and add a track layout comparison image for Wario Stadium (MKDS), though it'd have to be placed in a part of the page where it wouldn't stick out too much.
  • I'd say there's a fair few features in the demo that would warrant a subsection in Princess Peach: Showtime!#Development :
    • Demo save data are not carried over to the full version. I know quite a lot of non-wiki players, me included at the time, wondered about it.
    • Ninjutsu: The Art of Rapids and Cowgirl in the Wilderness has their doors fenced off with tied ropes. No such ropes are used at any point in the full game.
    • The demo's intro menu has "Start" and "Nintendo eShop" options, while the full game only has "Press A Button".
    • The Lobby Shop never opens, whereas in the full game, the shop opens after The Castle of Thorns.
    • The 3 leftmost +-menu options cannot be selected.
    • Basement cannot be entered in the demo. In the full game, it can be entered after The Castle of Thorns.
    • X Button is used in the demo.
  • Add a "Controls" section to Princess Peach: Showtime!. Make mention of how only 4 buttons are ever used in the entire game, and that X Button and Y Button are never used at any point. Control instructions reflect the A Button/B Button setting.
  • Take a screenshot for sideways Sparkle. If there's one chance I've got to make myself "in" on the wiki, this is a good chance.
    • Sparkle quotes: "Fantastic.", "Lovely."
  • Game runs 720p, both docked and handheld. Framerate approximately 30fps.
  • The Castle of Thorns cannot be left during the first time the play is performed. Closing the game mid-level, will make the game resume from the Toad "I've got the tickets" moment.
  • Heart Charm increases HP from 5→8 with no negative effects, but the extra hearts are shown in green.

7 April 2024

8 April 2024

  • Add descriptions of the shapes of Figure Skater Peach, for the benefit of colourblind players.
  • Take Elgato screenshots for: Lobby Shop
  • Attempt a futile layout comparison for GBA Sky Garden, whose MK8DX layout is so different as to be all but unrecognisable.

9 April 2024

  • Sparkle Peach "Ran out of hearts" quotes: "No way.", "Oh no."
  • Get a screenshot of Peach's de facto blue dress during transformations.
  • Add pages: Sour Bunch Figure Skater (I still doubt that "Figure skater" could possibly be his official name, but sure), who of course happens to be moderately popular on Tumblr. One album photo exists of him, but I need pose screenshots from the second ice level as well.

10 April 2024

  • Add full (though only with non-existing rows) translation tables to relevant pages that don't already have full tables, because, sure, it can't hurt. The changelogs of User:Mariuigi Khed in particular inspired me to add this on my to-do list.

11 April 2024

13 April 2024

  • I know there's at least one in-play area where Peach can also slide down stairs. Maybe the second Swordfighter level? Perchance.

16 April 2024

  • Screenshot of Sparkle upwards attack, seemingly only possible in boss fights.
  • I remember JPN ruby top characters have been wished for in regards to Peach Showtime in particular, presumably (but not certain on) level names.
  • Music names for PPS levels seem desired, but I only personally want to add them if the stages only really have one song each.
  • Attempt to get an MP4 or WebM footage of Sparkle Peach dancing in levels. I'm not super-happy with GIF either nowadays.

20 April 2024

I think I've got the core stuff for PPS done. Anything remaining at all would be the last 5 levels' pages, which I can only hope goes well.

21 April 2024

  • I need to get an animated image of how spectacularly poorly the Theets in Mighty Mission: The Rescue tried to "defend" themselves with the "swords".

23 April 2024

  • I've accidentally got myself into a both-ways "pronoun battle" (Usually I play "both sides" on e.g. Tumblr, but usually end up on the centerlines), so I'll be crosschecking Italian and Russian-language names for characters that have been contentious this week, as those languages have a reputation for very heavy gender-tensing of words.
    • Mighty Sparkla: Il suo / Ним. Strongly implies male, but is just short of 100.00% confirmation. Still more than Professor's and Mighty Sparkla's less than 40% confirmation in English.
    • Kung Fu Sparkla: No characters in that level, let alone the Sparkla, have any even the vaguest indications in Italian (except Hat Man's congratulation towards Peach). None of the characters even talk about the Sparkla beyond Stella's one-line intro. Combined with the carnival mask, the Sparkla may as well be a robot.
    • Patissiere Sparkla: Even if it were to not be mentioned in dialogs, I'd personally say it's not even a question that she's female, based on her entire design.

24 April 2024

  • Although it's ended up controversial by the dozen on wikis I've been on before, whether it actually went splendidly, if minimodders thought I couldn't hold a spoon right, or if access was very hardlocked to "Admins only", it'd be within my skill scope to set up an AutoWikiBrowser trial run on Mario Wiki to convert ([\=]|//|\s{0,})http://(www\.|m\.)?youtube\.com/ to $1https://www.youtube.com/ Starting it very simple with one single type of conversion, and extraordinarily safeguarded to not convert Wayback Machine.
  • Make pages for: Junior Detective
  • Get 1× scale screenshot of the mermaid at the end of the Dribble & Spitz WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! level, which I admit was the biggest reason I created the Category:Merfolk images section. 🧜
    • Get one for the merboy too, presumably; although from what I've understood only for core Mega Microgame$ purposes at most.
  • As far as easy-to-suggest Proposals go, a proposal to replace Princess_Peach:_Showtime!#Plays with a "Main link" to Sparkle Theater hopefully can't be a too bad first attempt.
  • Mass-utilizing Template:Cite, as it seems to be a near-verbatim equivalent to Wikipedia's Cite Web, seems to be a possibly great move, but would be practically impossible to do on a large scale.

27 March 2024

  • Due to a total lack of any other plausible options, the icon for a Stella ribbon page would be the one from the top of her wardrobe menu, with the round red-black circle being extended to a square to avoid any PaintNET wand transparency issues.
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