Fried the CPU but it was new? Did a power surge happen?
Well, seems like a lot of things are going awry with computers. Apparently one of my musicians said his orchestra VST was acting up, which explains some slowdown on that end.
Well, it doesn't seem to be too bad if you can still get the files (and your own, did you even back up your own game?). Just expensive, which is bad enough on it's own.
Also, remember to make backups of stuff (even if it's just sending email attachments). I could tell you if I lost all the sprites I made, I wouldn't bother starting over. That's why I have backups on a CD AND a flash drive.
Well, let me know when you get it up. I doubt there'll be much lost time. At least the menu was coming along.
Edit, if it matters: I'm at about 1.5 songs created, the 1/2 done song waviering between declined or accepted depending on how he continues with it (by itself it's good, but not what I asked for so...). On another topic, I've got another person who just, out of the blue, decided to help with music. Talk about one door closing and the other opening. The plus side is that this guy can do EB styled music matter-of-factly. So I may have gotten the better end of the deal on this one. The other guy was really good, but he may have been too good as he voiced it being a bit difficult to adjust to making SNES to N64 at best sounding music. I can imagine that being jarring, considering making 8-bit sprites with detail limitation was actually a CHALLENGE for the artists of Mega Man 9. Seems like as time goes by, people forget how to downgrade (not everyone, but some). And having Redbook type audio for PISE would only be good if the entire soundtrack was recomposed, but since I know I'm mooching some EB music, might as well make it all fit (and why bother recomposing all those battle tunes and such from EB when they're pretty much as authentic as they're going to get?*).
On top of it all, the new guy has proven by all his submissions to Starmen that he works fast. So, hopefully, I should be getting some music done double time. Well, considering the rate now, I'd even daresay quadruple time (half joking, half hopeful).
*I say that mainly pointing to the Starman Jr./Mani Mani etc battle tune. I have not heard ANY arrangement of that superior to the original, and it makes sense as it's hard to capture. The closest was done using the samples direct for a module version of the song.