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Here is a cool stop motion video of books moving around after the store is closed. I’ve done some stop motion animations before and I bet this took a long time to make! The video was made by Type Books, a Toronto bookstore. Their website looks awesome too!
I am also making a stop motion video for a school project myself. Stay tuned for that!
I had heard of a site called Emuparadise somewhere, so that is where I looked to find the game. You can download the Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and A LOT of other games from that site. The games you can download are called ROMs and the programs you need to play them are called Emulators. Here is a link to the Emuparadise site, which has links to the ROMs and a lot of good information about emulators:
Once you go to Emuparadise, click on “ROMs, ISOs & Games” from the site navigation. From that page, choose the console type you want to find games for. I chose “Nintendo Gamecube ISOs”. After you choose your console, you are taken to a page where you can either pick from the top games or search for a specific game listed in alphabetical order. I clicked “S” to search for the Sonic The Hedgehog games and then I clicked on the link for the Sonic Adventure 2: Battle game. The game page gives you a description of the game and some screenshots. Scroll down on that page and click the “Direct Download Link”. This might be a little confusing because clicking that link doesn’t download the game, but it takes you to another page where you can actually find the link to the game file. The actual game file will be under the “Direct Download” section of that page. Be very patient while the ROM is downloading. Some games can actually take hours to download from that site.
The file you will download will be a compressed file like a .rar or .7z file. Some emulators will uncompress the game when you want to play it, but the emulator I am going to write about makes you uncompress the file first. I use The Unarchiver or UnRarX to uncompress files.
Once you download the file and uncompress it, you will have a .iso file. This is the file that the emulator needs to be able to play the game. All of this sounds complicated, but it really isn’t. You can delete the compressed file once you have uncompressed it and have your .iso file.
https://dolphin-emu.org/download/
Once you have installed Dolphin, run the program. The first time I ran it, it did not automatically find my Sonic Adventure 2: Battle .iso file. I had to click “Open” and find the .iso file. Since then though, every time I open Dolphin, my game is listed in the home screen. Here is a tip – to make your game full screen, press Command-F (Ctrl-F for PC). Otherwise your game plays in a small window. Another tip – some of the game files are very big, so you might want to only download the ones you want most. The Sonic Adventure 2: Battle file is over 1GB.
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_Adventure_2. Spoiler alert! That page tells the story of the game if you want to play it before you read about it!
Here is another trailer for The Avengers movie that shows a little bit more than the first. I like the clip where the Hulk catches Iron Man in mid-air and slides down a building. I was very surprised when I saw the serpent-like creature chasing Iron Man because I hadn’t seen anything like that in the last trailer. I can’t wait to see this movie!
This trailer is for the UK release, which is titled “Avengers Assemble”. The UK release date is also different than the US release date. The UK release date is April 26, 2012 and the US release date is May 4, 2012.
I know that I said that I wouldn’t keep posting updates about the Sly Cooper Wiki, but I am making an exception because I have updated my profile page with fan art and links to other pages that I’ve made. I have the links at the bottom to the other pages that I’ve made on the wiki. One of the links on the page is to a story I wrote about me and my sister secretly being in the Sly Cooper Series. I’m known as Ty the Wolf in the story, and my sister is known as Ash the Leopard. I have pages for both of them too, but as of right now, I have only given a picture and basic info on the pages. Here are some pictures that I posted:
P.S. I’ve already reached 200 edits to the Sly Cooper Wiki! My 200th edit was the creation of the My Part in the Sly Cooper Story page.
Here is another movie that I can’t wait to see either. I have seen the first and second Batman movies and the third looks like it is better than Batman Begins, the first movie in the series. I’m not sure it can get better than The Dark Knight (the second Batman movie) though. I have been a Batman fan ever since I can remember.
Here is the trailer for the new Avengers movie that comes out April 27. I cannot wait to see the movie! It looks so cool. My favorite part in the trailer is when Loki says, “I have an army” and Tony Stark replies, “We have a Hulk”. I have seen almost all the Marvel movies so far but I hope this one is the best. After seeing hints for the next Marvel movie in each of their previous movies, I am guessing that Spiderman will be hinted at the end of The Avengers. I’m guessing this because I heard that the Spiderman series of movies is restarting.
I made EVEN more updates to the Sly Cooper Wiki. There are a lot of things I added, so I will post the link to my page. I added pictures to the Bentley, Murray, Penelope, Clockwerk, Clues, Cooper Van, and Clockwerk Eyes pages. I am going to add more, so check out this link to my profile page to see any other updates I make. I probably won’t post here whenever I make more updates because I don’t want this to turn into the Sly Cooper blog. Then again …
P.S. I have crossed the “100 Edits” mark for the wiki. I hope to get more and get a higher status on the site.
Here is the third photo of my Sly Cooper Color Blanks. This is the second scene where Sly, Bentley, and Murray are about to make their getaway with the loot on top of their van. There is also Inspector Carmelita Fox in the scene, who is trying to arrest the Cooper Gang, namely Sly. There is also the mechanical villain, Clockwerk, hiding off to the side. I colored all of the Color Blanks with sharpie markers, including my latest color blank, the Cooper van. Here it is:
Here are some pictures that I drew that are mixtures of Sly Cooper Characters and Kirby. Sly Cooper characters are from the Sly Cooper video game series that I love so much. Kirby is a round, pink character made by Nintendo. I thought they would make a funny mixture. Here are the pictures I drew:
Sly Kirby and Kirbylita
Sly Kirby, “The Kirby”, and Bentley the Kirby
As much as I hate to say it, I am turning off blog comments. This is because I have been getting so much spam. I might set up a twitter account instead so if anybody wants to send me comments, they will be able to there. More to come on that soon!