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the AQUA CAT!

Not too long ago I started the SubReddit r/aquamouse and it's grown quite a bit. Nothing crazy but... enough lol. I like to call us who collect Aqua Mouses, Aqua Cats! (makes sense no?)

SO because we've grown a bit I thought why not make a mascot? Above is my idea of the Aqua Cat! The generic Aqua Mouse has a mechanism pattern under it's buttons so I used that and made it like a Tabby's forehead design. It's butt is the Aqua part with a little dead mouse floaty. The tail end is a USB! (also the cat pictured is my cat Murphy) The colors aren't set I just based it off that one specific Aqua Mouse. Ide love to design more cats based on different Aqua Mouses and different cats!

Maybe not perfect yet but pretty neat!

#aquamouse #liquidmouse #watermouse #caryfrank #funhaversclub #aquacat

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the TRUE Pikmin 3

Playing Pikmin 4 had me thinking about Pikmin timelines...

This was my idea for a Pikmin 3:

The galactic government gets word of the discovery of Pikmin and the profit made from the planet explored... and steps in...

The new game's explorer joins Olimar to protect the Pikmin planet from their new enemy...

(for the record I came up with this plot before realizing it is the basis of so many stories... )

#caryfrank #funhaversclub #Pikmin #pikmin #olimar #pikmin1 #pikmin2 #pikmin3

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So immediately after posting my little shpeal about Mameda no Bakeru, I did another google search and found this... Looks as if my cast predictions might be wrong?

#funhaversclub #caryfrank #Mamedanobakeru #Goemon

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Go for it! Mameda no Bakeru!

Okay so bad news is... this isn't a Goemon game. Good news? This is the god damn spiritual successor to it!

A tanuki boy named Bakeru, disguised as a human, uses taiko (drumming) actions to defeat a festival army wreaking havoc throughout a fantasy version of Japan!

Mameda no Bakeru is made by the company Good-Feel... The company of Etsunobu Ebisu, who directed and produced a ton of Goemon games when he was at Konami.

...and that's about all I know.

As far as comparisons to Goemon go? Obviously the look and design of the enemies and worlds. All the thick Japanese lore. As far as a cast goes, I think we might have 4 main characters? (but I'll admit I'm stretching)

Bakeru (Goemon) Small bowl head girl (Ebisumaru) the pink character with the fairy wings (Yae) wood robot looking into the sunset (Sasuke) Like I said... probably stretching.

It also looks like we have Impact style bosses! The tea kettle you fly around in transforms into a giant robot!

Although we're not in the cockpit this time around, we still get to have giant robot fights!

Goemon references aside, it appears that Mameda gets several powers!

The abilty to Shrink! Power Armor! Dumpling Popgun! and Grappling Fishing Rods!

Special mention to using REAL pixels...

Despite the screen static effect you can see they drew everything out in real pixels before implementing them into the game... I know I may sound crazy here to celebrate this, but it's pretty rare to see pixels properly used in modern games.

This game might never come out outside of Japan BUT it's okay! The switch doesn't have a region lock! Which means if you don't live in Japan, you can still buy this game and play it in your switch!

#caryfrank #funhaversclub #goemon #ganbaregoemon #Mamedanobakeru #sasuke #ebisumaru #yae #konami #impact

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Super Mario Brothers in Theatre?

I don't care what anyone says this movie is great. It's so bizarre and fun and weird. They took the source material and absolutely turned it upside down. From the very beginning explaining how the meteor that killed the dinosaurs split our reality into two different universes... We evolved from apes when the dinosaurs died, but they evolved from dinosaurs when dinosaurs survived?! WHAT? Its Super Mario?! The intro of the Goombas and Koopas looking like absolute nightmares. Not to mention the set designs and practical effects. The brothers intro in Brooklyn is heartwarming. There's so much you can hate about this movie, but even more you can love. I know people think I'm nuts but I will die on this hill! 

I recently had the HONOR to see this movie in a packed theatre for it's 30th anniversary put on by "Dumpster Racoon". The mixed reactions only made this movie I've seen 100 times since I was a kid even better... the gasps when the twin towers turned into Koopa towers... awesome. Hahaha.

Anthony Olivira hosted the event (He's the one dressed as Bowser) He runs ''Dumpster Racoon'' and he hosts a queer film series that does screenings at the Revue Cinema every month.

Before the movie started I walked into a full blown Mario Kart Tournament in this vantage theatre. Between the concessions line up and general fans the theatre was alive with all sorts of dressed up Nintendo characters.

As the crowd settled, the costume contest started. Specific... and non specific costumes walked across the stage. The winner was rated on crowd reactions. Despite the great costumes, nerdism prevailed. The winner... was non other than...

...a random NPC from Mario is Missing on the SNES!!! If that doesn't tell you, you have an audience filled with diehards nerds I don't know what does?

Perry and I talked about going in costume. It never happened but I was thinking...

After that was the drag show! A sexy Piranha Plant sang songs and slowly found her way out of her warp pipe. Hahahaha. When everyone was nice and settled into weirdness with a side of Mario Brothers... the lights lowered... the movie started...

#caryfrank #funhaversclub #mario #mario90'smovie #dumpsterRacoon #Toronto #RevueCinema #AnthonyOlivira

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No one will ever replace ah-you!

If you haven't already seen... the man, the myth, the legend, Charles Martinet, the voice of Super Mario himself... has... retired.

Thank you Mr. Martinet for blowing my mind when I started playing Super Mario 64 Christmas morning! hahaha. Up until then, Super Mario was nothing but a pixelated plumber.

It's not a dark day yet! Based on the the press release above it seems like Martinet will still be traveling around and possibly appearing in Comicons or other events? "sharing the joy!"

Going forward the thing I really care about when it comes to Nintendo voices is that they treat them with as much respect as Martinet did. It's not just about imitating that familiar voice... it's about bringing the same level of originality to the table and not trying to re-create a classic.

I guess the Mario Wonder trailer featured a NEW Mario voice actor. We will see how the franchise goes moving forward. I'm sure it will be fine. Voice actors in no way make video game play BUT it certainly makes a memorable character!

(PS: if you're wondering what Martinet is holding in that picture with me... it is the signed copy of the 2nd and 3rd game he ever voiced as Mario... the first being the Super Mario pinball machine! You can check out the post here)

#Mario #SuperMario #funhaversclub #caryfrank #CharlesMartinet

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NES classic "DUCK & COVER"

This was a one night game design. NES era style game. I'll probably never do anything with this so I figured I'd share it.

:)

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Super OddBird?

Friends of mine own a pizza place and have a few arcade machines in there. Years ago I built a tabletop “arcade” and haven't done anything with it...

https://funhaversclub.tumblr.com/post/35130939687/this-is-part-1-of-2-ive-been-somewhat-shadowing

I figured I’d donate it to them... But I couldn’t just let them have any normal game! I waned to give them something special! Before the pizza place they started their bar OddBird so I wanted to make a video game for that. After pulling my hair out trying to program a game from scratch I decided to just take Super Mario World and make the characters look like a sketch I had done for them:

The old title screen and first level rough layout:

I Have most of the Small Mario sprites done. In Super OddBird you start as a little chick!

Ideally Mario and Luigi will look something like this. (These were from the custom game before I kiboshed that)

(sorry for the potato quality gif)

Remaking the Logo was a bit nutty...

...Hopefully I’ll finish this sooner than later. In the meantime if you’re in the area defiantly check out their establishments. 

PS: If you bring your own eggs and ask for a “Low Key Triggered” you’ll receive one of the best eggs benedict I’ve ever tasted... But that’s a secret... So good I had to sketch it.

PS2: I almost forgot... I also painted one of their washrooms with this neat animal theme!

#funhaversclub #Cary Frank #OddBird #SuperMarioWorld

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My Marvel Origin Story!

This was the product of being very bored one weekend. Figured I’d share it with yall. The actual story is I ordered an infinity gauntlet off amazon and when it arrived it was not what I had ordered and cheap as fuck so one night I chopped it up and made that monstrosity. Then made this comic! My movie comes out 2030. Co-stars robot Chris Pratt. yeah... the future is wild. 

#comix zone #caryfrank #Deadpool #InfinityWar #FunHaversClub

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Stanley the Bug Man!

I was just doodling old Nintendo IPs for a future post and decided to do Stanley. I made his spray burst look like that to match Petey Pest's spray... Because obviously Stanley is Petey Pest's father and I can't wait to finish the game and have Nintendo love it and incorporate Petey into the main roster...

What's that? You don't know who Petey Pest is? oh it's just an old game I'm working on. Haven't made much progress lately but check it out!

#cary frank #fun havers club #PeteyPest #Stanleythebugman #Nintendo #Vimeo

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Level 1-1 in the Mario Movie?

This was such a great detail in the Mario Bros. movie! The middle section doesn’t really seem to follow level 1-1 but the beginning and the end are amazing! Not to mention when they go into the sewer...

“dada dada dada...”

#mario #funhaversclub #cary frank #MarioMovie #Luigi

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Glug, Glug, Glug, Glug...

I quickly photoshopped this when the first round of promo images from the Mario Brothers movie came out. It’s rough, but as soon as I saw the brothers in Brooklyn with their plumber van all I could think of was the 90′s Mario Bros. movie.

PS: if you’ve never seen 1993′s Super Mario Bros. PLEASE treat yourself and watch the most bizarre adaption of a video game you’ll ever see...

...my “Blu-ray” copy just arrived...

PS: On July 22 Perry and I are seeing this Mario Bros. in a packed theatre. I can’t wait and hopefully I’ll have some footage to share. You best believe Ima be rocking Luigi’s flaming yin yang shirt and hat.

#caryfrank #funhaversclub #supermariobros. #mario bros. movie #supermariobros #mario brothers plumbing

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Say hello to Ghost Cat!

So we’ve decided to rebrand a bit here at the Fun Havers Club. Our new mascot is this little blue cat... GHOST CAT! 

In college there would be weird occurrences where dishes would fall off the kitchen counter or objects would shift positions on desks and/or shelves. I don’t really believe in the paranormal but things were happening that I didn’t really have an answer for. To dismiss all discussions of “ghosts” or anything of that nature we would just say “oh, that’s just ghost cat” and leave it at that. Over time anyone who came through our apartment grew to know and love Ghost Cat and treat it as just a pet. It became kind of the mascot of our apartment... and now the mascot of the Fun Havers Club! 

The image above is our new header but the sprites below are the original Ghost Cat sprites I made in college. 

...as you're reading this, if you feel a warm brush against your leg or a random sound in the other room, don’t worry. It’s just Ghost Cat.

#all your attention are belong to us #caryfrank #funhaversclub #ghostcat #allyourattentionarebelongtous

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SUPER MARIO RPG!

...I know you've probably seen tiktokers and youtubers freak out about this already but this moment will never not be a moment to celebrate!

It actually happened. Never in my lifetime did I think I would see this day. My co worker, who also grew up playing SNES and this is his fav game, came up to me after watching the Nintendo direct and said...

"cary what is the one game we want to see a remaster of?"

I thought for a bit and really couldn't come up with anything (Mario RPG was so off the radar I didn't even consider it) So he was like...

"REALLY??? WHAT'S THE ONE GAME..."

He didn't even finish talking and I blurted out MARIO RPG??!?!?!?

Still now I hardly believe it's real. This is a game that helped define me. The guide book I have has worn out pages because I spent so much time drawing things from it. The first time I played it was on my dad's busted old black and white tv... I'm not that old we just didn't have a lot of money back then hahaha. This was the game that made me fall in love with Mario lore... and possibly lore in general. I even had Mario RPG songs on my MP3 players growing up!

I can't wait to play this! I can't wait to see all the unique characters again. The Axem Rangers, Jinx, Gaz and his dolls, Belome... my goodness this is amazing!

Here's one thing that stood out that made me happy:

As soon as I saw Mario do that pose with Mallow it reminded me of that picture of Mario finding the hammer from the guide book. Just made me smile to see the game come full circle and become the same as the old official artwork. Speaking of the guide book artwork...

I REALLY hope when you equip a new article of clothing you get to see it on the character. As a kid I always imagined the team wearing them!

To end this post I've heard a lot of people saying they hope for new content/dlc or something. I'd enjoy that but I'm okay with a true remaster. That being said, I saw two things I didn't recognize from the original game. One was Geno and Mallow on a rainbow road. I figured maybe that was some sort of change to star road's design? The other I don't remember at all!

...I don't remember any time when Mallow and Mario ride in the clown car? Maybe I'm wrong and it's around Boosters tower?

November 17th! Can't wait to play it!!!!

#cary frank #fun havers club #Mario #MarioRPG #Mallow #Geno #Nintendo

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Super Mario Bros. Z’s Mecha Mario in 3D!

So if you haven't seen it, go and watch the Super Mario Bros. Z series RIGHT NOW! I don’t think it ever got it’s true ending but it is amazing! Amazing story, amazing sprite animation. It is really something.

Today I discovered someone made a 3D animation of an intro for the series... which then led me to discover that it was actually based on the original creator’s intro which I had never seen!!!! It is fucking amazing! the animation... THE MUSIC!!! please go check it out!

Here’s the original intro by the series creator Mark Haynes AKA Alvin the Earthworm:

https://youtu.be/tz8qsmLmgI4

Here’s the 3D remake by NooB:

https://youtu.be/PiZwBpr4k3M

That 3D animation is unbelievable... please go check out everything I’ve mentioned above you will not be sorry.

Here’s the original sprite assets for Mecha Mario for Alvin:

https://funhaversclub.tumblr.com/search/mecha+mario

#supermariobrotherz #mechamario #CaryFrank #FunHaversClub

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a Physical Copy of Mario’s Lost World?

I’ve mentioned this game before in a previous Haxors! post but I mention it again because NOW I HAVE A PHYSICAL COPY! woo!

The box and cartridge art were made by me :) I didn’t draw it but I used official Mario assets and put that cover together in photoshop. 

Icegoom made this hack if it isn’t clear. Their work is amazing. Their goecity site hasn’t been updated in forever BUT HERE IT IS: 

(you can also find his hacks at smcentral.net)

https://www.oocities.org/icegoom/marioslostworldscreens.html

OH! and the custom game hack cartridges come from:

https://2dgamecity.com/

...they also had the english translated goemon games ON PHYSICAL CARTS! if you wanna see them:

https://funhaversclub.tumblr.com/post/683306885598806016/heres-a-little-update-on-the-goemon-collection

oh and the original Haxors! post is here:

https://funhaversclub.tumblr.com/post/19513534645/do-you-love-hacks-and-edits-of-retro-games

I think my next project is going to be making a custom game case and cartridge image for the Super Mario World “redraw” check that out as well. If you haven't played SMW in a while DO IT... BUT use this game. It’s a whole new feel to a classic experience!

PS: if ANYONE knows how to get in contact with “IceGoom” please let me know!

#SuperMarioWorld #theFunHaversClub #HaX0rs! #Icegoom #Mario'sLostWorld

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my Whiskerless Albino Koi

"Unlike most LEGO themes, the theme is an experimental theme that was launched as a crowdfunding project to see if adult LEGO fans would be receptive to a theme based around display sets. The theme contains large and elaborate models with "skins" to completely refurbish the model if the builder desires."

- brickpedia...

I've always wanted LEGO's "Forma" set but it's pretty rare and pricey. That made me think... maybe I have the parts to put it together! A quick Google search gave me the instructions, part list AND the 1 to 1 print for the Forma skin! After about 2 hours... *sigh* I was like 7 pieces short. Technical pieces or pieces I wasn't ready to take from other builds... RIP Ghost Riders Motorcycle.

After I ordered the missing pieces I printed off the Forma skin template. It was really easy to find and just think of the possibilities! If you don't care about the official skin? Tie-dye? Fish Bone?

The last 2 speedbumps: 

1) I don't have the official pegs to hold the skins

2) I hope my makeshift idea to hold the skins using other parts will work...

With the help of a hole punch on the homemade skins... THE PARTS AND SKINS WORK! YEEEAAASSS!

POINT BEING you can make this great LEGO set at home! Kinda!

LEGO!

#caryfrank #brick by brick #the Fun Havers Club #LEGO Forma #Forma