I don't know if anyone is waiting for a project of mine to be finished (aside from JonLeung) but just in case, I wanted to apologize for not releasing anything in a while.
For starters, I haven't had much free time to actually work on anything. This is actually a good thing since around the time I released my maps for The Immortal (NES), I was rapidly approaching "mapping burnout". This tends to happen to me after several months of mapping where I slowly stop playing games at all and feel like I must map something, anything to occupy my mind. It's hard to explain but it's like I feel like playing a game just to have a good time or heck, catch up on a TV show on DVD is basically time wasted where I could be mapping instead (yeah, I'm fully aware of how weird I must sound right now). Thanks to working more overtime, I've stopped mapping for the most part and I'm slowly but surely allowing myself to play games for instead.
The second reason why several projects haven't been worked on in forever is that right now, I'm faced with having to switch emulators. In short, VBA-ReRecording is simply much better than VBA-M in terms of tools and customization, just like Gens-ReRecording is much better than plain old Gens (and someday, I should really leave ZSNES in favor of something better but so far, no other SNES emulator seems to have emerged as the clear winner in terms of alternatives). I just *hate* having to change emulator for a given system since it means all my previous savestates are no longer usable and in GENS' case, since the colour rendering has changed, everything already captured is pretty much unusable without being adjusted which would require a lot of time.
And don't suggest using two emulators for the same system because that's just not how I work. It's stupid, it's probably infantile, whatever, but it's either an old emu, or a new one, but not both. That's just unworkable for me since I'm way too rigid and methodical.
Anyway, I'm slowly working on switching over like I said so once the adjustments have been made, I might just start working again on some pending Genesis map projects like Ristar and Contra: Hard Corps.
