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Island of
Rejected Toys

Horribly Twisted Gifts... Like Baby's First
Table Saw

Grand Theft OTTO: Springfield

Snake... Wiggum... Homer... They're all here!

Episode 134

Lifeguard Opportunity at Bayview Beach

Rastafarian Homer

Pass the Dutchie on the left side, mon.

Episode 131

Dexter & Marley...
Forever borowing stuff that ain't theirs.

Star Whores

Looks like Han is sleeping solo tonight

Episode 128

Dexter takes a cheap shot at Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney

Episode 127

Mary & Dexter discuss the American flag

Episode 126

Dexter & Marley go shopping for female hygiene products

Episode 124

Marley goes Easter shopping

Bill Gates
Goes to Hell

Dexter's rant about
Windows Vista

Mailbag

Ah, the joys of answering e-mail. Actually, I wouldn't wish this task on my worst enemy. So many questions, so little time... I do answer as many e-mails as I have time for though, and I've posted a few of them below.

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May 3, 2004

Once again, it's time to offer responses to all the questions that have been sent in... Well, at least a few random ones that I feel like answering...
Those diligent little helper monkeys have been frantically running around sorting mail, and deciding what should be posted here. Apparently, even monkeys have their limits. After only several months of being here, some of them snapped, and couldn't take it anymore. Maybe it was the stress of an insane work environment... Or maybe monkeys just aren't cut out for these mind-numbing tasks... Either way, it's back to the old drawing board to find another cheap labor alternative...

When I go on your Perfect Dark website, I don't see gameshark codes. In goldeneye, you have many gameshark codes and it's very usefull, why not with Perfect Dark. If you make some gameshark codes, tips and warnings on your PD website, it could get more people and this website will be a good reference on gameshark codes.

Basically, the reason why I've done so much more Gameshark stuff with Goldeneye than with Perfect Dark, is because using a GS with Perfect Dark is a pain in the ass...

For Perfect Dark to work with a Gameshark, there's the keycode issue where you need to keep switching games. And unfortunately you need at least a Gameshark version 3.3 plus a bunch of activation codes to play the games missions. If you have version 3.2, you can only play Multiplayer. I myself only have version 3.2, which has really limited what I can post regarding Gameshark codes and Perfect Dark.

Just for fun, here's a snapshot I took a long time ago from Perfect Dark's combat simulator. Using Gameshark codes to use the 007 weapons, to create a classic deathmatch.

It's quite obvious REAL Super Smash Bros Melee people do not check out your website. capt falcon and jigglypuff and all the hardcore characters were not even chosen as any favorites. anyways your site is still cool because it focuses just on melee though. well its been a long time since melee came about but me and my friends have to start our weekly ssbm weekend tournament here in west palm beach fla.

It doesn't matter how old a game is, so long as it's really fun to play. Melee is one of those few games that you can keep playing again and again. What actually defines a "hardcore" character is beyond me... Everyone is going to find certain characters that work best for their individual style. If you're going by the characters that require the most practice, some of the 25 characters are difficult to master, while other characters are easier to learn. Strong arguments for toughest character to master could be made for Bowser, Ness, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, and of course Mr. Game & Watch.

After you beat Aztec and Egyptian in Goldeneye, it shows two extra characters in the intro (where it shows the characters. Like "Starring 007 James Bond".) Well, it shows mayday. it also shows jaws. Jaws goes with Aztec and Mayday must go with Egyptian!!! MAYDAY WAS ONCE IN MISSION MODE!!!

And you came to that conclusion how? At one point in time, I'm sure most Goldeneye fans believed that these two villains were indeed hidden somewhere. They definitely are in there as "guest stars" since they're available as bonus characters for Multiplayer. But as for the one player missions, they just don't seem to be there. Don't you think after all these years, someone would have found them by now?

I have all the trophies in Super Smash Bros Melee except Capt. Olimar (289 trophies). I know no-one who has Pikmin and i can't rent it from anywhere, and i'm not really interested in buying the game. My friend told me that he somehow got that trophy without Pikmin save. He said he was playing adventure (or classic can't remember). Is it anyway possible to have this trophy without the save?

Hmm.... Get your friend to show you the Captain Olimar trophy in his gallery... I can guarantee that he'll make up some story about how Captain Olimar was there before, but somehow got magically erased. Having a game save file with Pikmin is the intended way to get the Captain Olimar trophy, although you can also unlock it (as well as a few other secret trophies) with an Action Replay cheat device.

Ok I love the All Bond cheat on the Goldeneye website, but is there anyway to get a "character" code for Lazenby and his pic though?

Getting the character select photos for the old Bonds is one of the many amazing things that can be done with a Gameshark. However, Gameshark codes can only modify things, and replace them with things that are still inside the game's memory. Goldeneye's memory holds photos of Connery, Dalton, and Moore... But unfortunately, George Lazenby isn't one of them. So because there's no photo of Lazenby to be found, he can't be added to the character select screen.

Eventually finding George Lazenby in Goldeneye shouldn't be completely ruled out though... Check it out, as SubDrag shows you an amazing new project here: http://www.rarewitchproject.com/specials.php?id=007facemap

I believe that Sonic and Tails are characters in Super Smash Brothers Melee because I have them. I beat 25 people in Cruel melee using Roy's up +B move, and I was challenged by them. I am not the only one who has gotton these characters, alot of my friends did too. Sometimes it might not work in cruel melee, but if u play alot, they might come and challenge you. They act like the ice climbers and try to stick together.

Really now...
I suppose you'll be more than happy to send in some digital pictures of these two legendary characters to prove this fact...
Let me guess... Your digital camera is broken, and none of your friends have cameras? Figures... That's the case with everyone who's unlocked Sonic and Tails. Talk about bad luck...

just wanted to tell you that in your Goldeneye screen shot gallery the pic of the guard surrendering is FAKE. None of the guards surrender in goldeneye they only do it in PERFECT DARK. it looks like a very good edit cut and paste job and i know its not real.

Cut and paste? Not likely. I took this screenshot myself, so I can assure you that it's not a fake. It was however done using Gameshark codes, because as you mentioned, the guards in Goldeneye 007 don't surrender... Until now.

Hey do you have msn? add me easier to talk together... Most people say your gonna be number 1 i don't think so... You have some spellings words Wrong and can you better the Perfect Dark mission walktrough to Agent, Special Agent, and Perfect Agent I'm most searching out which the Complete mission's on any level it's ... I swear it's Easier.. you have only to do copy Text and make a link from Agent Etc.... Understand? I hope so

In a world where time is money (and I have neither of the two), it's a bit of a time-waster to create separate walkthru pages for every single difficulty level, because the individual mission format doesn't change. As the walkthru page states, the pages were designed for Perfect Agent, that way the walkthrus offer a complete overview of everything found in the missions. If it's so easy to just copy the relevant text, then feel free to go ahead and make your own custom walkthrus for Agent and Special Agent for your own reference.

As for any spelling errors you've found on the website, these things do happen... In the future though, you may want to proofread your own e-mails (for spelling, grammar, sentence structure AND comprehension) before complaining about a few typos.

When I first saw your Goldeneye site I almost over looked it, but when I did enter it I was taken by surprise. Every thing I learned about the beta version I learned from this site. You have single handedly combined certain aspects of what interests people (beta version/mysteries/screenshots) and roll them all into an attractive layout, taken all together and organized it into the perfect site.

Spending long hours of hard work into noticing every little detail from the skulls on the hats of Goldeneye guards to the the one spelling mistake in perfect dark. After spending days looking for sites of equal value none came even close. I find myself visiting on your site, games that I don't even have because the information is so interesting and extensive. You have a talent of taking information and making it interesting to even the most bored people. For example most sites just give a chart of cheats for perfect dark. But yours gives pictures, by type, and just about everything else. You have out done yourself to some this is just another website but for me it goes so much deeper. Amazing... Simply amazing... Thank you for reading this e-mail and keep up the good work.

It's quite possible that I've gone overboard trying to cover some of this stuff, but fans of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark don't seem to mind. Quite the opposite in fact, considering that some people say they've spent weeks browsing all of the content.

Excellent work with your site. A while ago, I asked you this before. How can you be able to respond to day-old mail, but not old ones? Don't want to accuse you or anything, of course...

You need to understand that I have several thousand messages in my mailbox, with hundreds of new ones arriving every day... So as more new mail floods it's way in to the top of my inbox, older messages get pushed further and further down to the bottom. So don't be surprised if a new message gets a reply before an older one. And of course since I'm just one person, there's no way that I could ever possibly reply to everything that gets sent in.

This is a cool trick for Goldeneye. If you shoot the ammo boxes that are lying around, they will double. You can repeat this process.

I'm not sure if that's a hidden secret that the programmers threw into the game, or whether it's some sort of glitch. It's been a while since I tried it out, but if I remember correctly, the amount of ammo you collect actually gets cut in half when you split the ammo boxes in half...

In Super Smash Bros Melee, why does it say "2L84ME" (Too Late For Me) on the bottom of the barrel cannon trophy? Why did they put it there and what on earth does it mean?

Yeah, I know it's a rather odd detail to find on the bottom of a barrel... Perhaps it was a message left by a designer who was on his last day at the company after learning that he'd just been fired... Anyone's guess could be right about something this unusual.