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

Flag of the Kingdom of Norway since July 13, 1821. For Norwegian release dates.
  • 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)

Social media

As of 8 June 2024, I can also be contacted on:

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.
  • Peach being listed as 160cm on her page, is apparently not official to determine how high she can jump in games.
  • The less commas, the better (Rule of thumb).

In-game achievements I feel proud of

  • Mario Kart: Super Circuit:
    • Managed a spectacular 0:53.85 Time Attack run at GBA Rainbow Road. Much later turned out the WR was 0:34.91.
    • 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.
    • 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.)

Test 3

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese 探偵たんていピーチ
Tantei Pīchi 		Detective Peach
探偵たんていピーチ
Tantei Pīchi
Chinese (traditional) 偵探碧姬
Zhēntàn Bìjī 		Detective Peach

Minor notes that aren't needed in the top section

Activity-related

  • 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.
  • German quotation marks are a little weird: „John Madden“
  • Turns out Québecians do in fact use spaces around colons.
  • 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.
  • Trying to centre any of the 3D files at Models Resource with 3D file editors, is a 100% guaranteed method to cause severe psychosis and insanity. So don't even try to get any icons from them.
  • Apparently there's no e-Manuals for Switch games either.
  • There's always something really bafflingly godsdamn strange that happens on all previous wikis I've worked on (except Wikipedia and Wiktionary, of course). I can just really beg that it won't be the case on Super Mario Wiki as well. Particularly negative shoutouts:
    • PCGamingWiki had its moderators and at least one admin go from being normal people to textbook-example sexist weebs within the span of less than a week.
    • Dolphin Wiki had a fake admin who trolled everyone into thinking he had any authority to trashtalk me for made-up reasons.
  • Once I realised that the new "Notes" cells in "Names in other languages" did not count towards removing the "Articles with unsourced foreign names" category, the categorisation approach became so pointless that I've set up mariowiki.com##[href="/Category:Articles_with_unsourced_foreign_names"] with uBlock Origin on my user-end, so that I don't have to see that category listed on the bottom of pages. (The same entry would also work in AdGuard.)

Other

  • Miitopia 3DS will likely remain de facto online well into the 2030's, due to its QR Code system to add new Miis.
  • If anyone wonder "Man, what is it with that Dandelion Sprout guy and clocks?" Essentially I bought a TFA View Meteo as a bedroom alarm clock in the early spring of 2024, and discovered to my absolute astoundment that the product description blatantly lied about alarm functions. So I've had to come up with alternate alarm clock methods in the interrim time.
  • He/him, but not strict on it. If anyone wonder "What did that Dandelion Sprout guy use again?", it's a free pick with 0 consequences at all.
  • I am a proud supporter of the Flag of the Republic of China since 1928, used as the flag of Taiwan since 1949. For Taiwanese release dates. Republic of China in their battles for freedom against the PRC.

Worst levels/tracks in franchises

Mario Kart

  • 5) Electrodome in 8: It's just really boring to drive through. It's no more interesting than heading down a Danish motorway for 3 hours, except Electrodome doesn't have roadside diners to look forward to.
  • 4) Shy Guy Bazaar in 7: Strange use of market stands as obstacles, horrendous physics on (and rubbish lack of checkpointing for) the final glide.
  • 3) Cheep Cheep Lagoon in 7: While it likely served as a prologue in 7 on how to drive underwater, nowadays it's miserably boring to drive on.
  • 2) Vanilla Lake 1 on SNES: The ice blocks make it feel more like a bowling lane than a track, making it practically impossible to even reach the finish line, let alone get top 4.
  • Worst) Athens Dash in 8DX: Impossible to tell if you are supposed to turn left or right, non-existent straights to re-centre the views and geographic perceptions, sharp turns coming from out of nowhere. I have nightmares about this track at night.

WarioWare

  • 2) Stumblebot in Gold: The microgame's physics engine clearly didn't work at all. Among other major problems, instead of actually falling down to the ground she instead just vanishes.
  • Worst) Write On, Dude in Gold: None below, none beside. Abysmally bad text detection. It'd be easier to benchlift 175kg than to get the Index flower for it.

Super Mario Bros. 1

  • Worst) World 8-3 by far and beyond. I once did a run of the NES version without savestates in NSO, and managed to lose all 27 lives on this level.

To-do

Mario Wiki seems to rely far more on Archive pages than e.g. Sims Wikia and PCSX2 Wiki (among many others I've edited on), so I'll make an archive page for To-Do resolved plans ("Done deals"): User:DandelionSprout/To-Do done deals

Additionally, speed-up tables for Template:Foreign names can be found at User:DandelionSprout/Ideal Foreign Name tables.

20 April 2024

  • Test rumble support for games that have "Technical aspects" paragraphs. While it's certain to say that all such games have rumble, I very faintly guess that it's good to have on the record.

16 August 2024

  • Get an audio recording of the Get It Together demo's title screen for the purposes of Tetris 99.

29 August 2024

31 August 2024

2 September 2024

  • ★I have now added and handled all things on this wiki that I have expected of myself to do★ Now I should much instead expect of myself to not put any pressure on myself anymore.
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