Vulpex' PAL Perfect Dark Times

Log Of Updates:

December 23rd Y2K8: I've put my SA Total time closer to Rayan's PA: just ten seconds away now, lol. 'Til Rayan's PA beat my SA, no-one had been in that position since Tim Greneby's 00A equalled my SA (32:52) on t-e.n's very first GE Ranks update in 2002, before his total was rolled back. And at that time I hadn't improved my SA for 18 months! Anyway, I've begun a quest on Inv PA, which I hope will yield a sub-3 time if I stick to it. I've also cut back a second on Villa PA, tying Craig, and four from Pelagic SA, tying Snap. Lastly, I beat Bruno de Vasconcelos Teixeira in Overall time, for the first time since early 2006!

June 20th Y2K8: Various small cuts, notably Infil PA (still my weakest time, and it'd need to drop 14 more seconds to be otherwise, lol!). A bit of success on G5 too, and an improvement to two minutes even on Ruins PA completes the update. So, to stats. At long last I top Graham Morris in Overall Time. He passed me in Time in March 2004, before rising to a Top 5 place in PD Agent Time! Even now he's tied 12th. Passing him back after over four years is pretty awesome. My Agent total breaks the three-way tie for 45th with Dan C. and Paul, and I pass Pat Z. back for 35th place in PA Time. Lastly, I must note that Rayan's PA total beats my SA total, d'oh! How embarrassing. =D

March 16th Y2K8: Good results for Villa, where I've improved all diffs. It's embarrassing to think that Craig had better times here, six years ago, but it's always good to beat my own ones. Also, I had some success on Covert Assault PA, of all things! Six seconds cut, and while I can possibly take that many off again (strafing & Elvis issues mainly, lol), I've already beat some PALies here. More broadly, meanwhile, in total time I've finally topped Andy Day who, lest we forget, was at one time #3 in PD to Paragon and Marsh. 'Course he hasn't played in over six years though. >D

January 31st Y2K8: More time spent on Escape, and although I cut time off all difficulties, I'm still ages behind Cck's times from *2001*! =( RB has done some stunning work here this month, knocking two seconds off the SA/PA WRs, which are the longest regular mission WR runs in the game, to score his first non-duel 300pt stage. I also had some joy on Rescue PA, slicing off TEN seconds! My time is still slower than Craig's (also from '01, d'oh!), but it beats Dirk and ties Snap, so meh. On Escape I have a tie with Expert & Marcus, and omg a win on Karl! Total-wise I pass some guys in SA time for 39th, and Brandon & Bruno in PA time for 34th, where I'm also 35th to break 47 minutes!

December 12th Y2K7: Big work on Defection PA; finally a smooth run there. Also some small results on Escape SA/PA, both of which I can do rather better on. The Def PA time beats Steve Foy, which on PA is quite an achievement, and also Cck's very old 1:54. On Escape, I net ties with Wabs, Bruno, Lavs and Marcus, and a win on FB! Time-wise, I finally top Brandon again - it's taken 5 years for me to reach him - though I've won match-ups for some time, (now 28-15-20 to me, which is of some interest). Plus I tie Paul Williams in SA Time, for 41st place.

October 16th Y2K7: More Air Base work, though I've about run out of potential there now. Also a surprising result for Villa PA, netting me a win on Claude and Brandon, but still not a great time, even for PAL. However my Air Base times are good by PAL standards, and they all tie Anaël. :o)

August 23rd Y2K7: Played some Air Base last weekend, managed to cut a bit off all three difficulties. I think I pass Jim and Andy in Points with these. Also I finally re-pass Mike Burden in Time! He has been ahead of me since about May 2002, so w00t for that. This makes me 38th by Points and 37th by Time.

July 17th Y2K7: Defense time. Just a second off A and SA, but a lovely 5 off PA, making that my 41st time under two minutes, out of 44 possible. Also a second off WAR! PA. These nice times put me ahead of Craig in points for 40th place!

May 14th Y2K7: Maian SOS PA cut by the same amount as SA last month. :o) Gains 12 points, though with the return of Rodrigo Toledo I've lost 50+ overall. I'm very close to Kingpin in points. That's odd, since he's two whole minutes ahead of me by time. However I'm also very close to Dirk in points now, and I'm 90 seconds ahead of him, but I'm far more accustomed to this type of occurrance by now, lol.

May 03rd Y2K7: Um, yeah. So I found a new time on my cart that I don't remember getting. o_ô It doesn't gain me any points, but yah, Rescue PA 3:39. Dunno how old it is. I feel lamer than before. =Þ *Update*: According to an old post-it sitting at the bottom of my drawer, I got this time on Feb 18th 2005, which makes it a remainder from when I was playing PD by request over those holidays. I had nearly 3,800 points back then. =)

April 18th Y2K7: Maian SOS times look a little better now; a six second cut from the SA time was more than I expected. I'm not sure whose 1:58 SA vid I have. =) It might be Wouter's; not sure. Also two seconds off the Agent time, which now ties Chris! I'll need to sit down and attack PA soon. The big news is that with these improvements I've passed Craig in Time! That puts me 5th in Australia, including Matt.

March 06th Y2K7: Isn't Extraction fun? (Hint: no). Took a little time off all three difficulties. Tied Craig and Marsh on PA there. Closing in on Biz now. Points-wise, of course. Oh, and my PA Total is lower than Siegal's now, too. 36th. =)

January 28th Y2K7: There goes 48 minutes PA! All it took was to sit down and improve Defection a little, and my time is still crap! XD I'm the 38th player to hit 48 minutes PA. Oh yeah.

January 02nd Y2K7: After watching Lec's now-classic MBR runs I cut two whole seconds off all three times on that stage. There goes 27:00 Agent Total, yah! I'm only, what, the 47th player to do that, lol. So close to 48:00 PA now too. Next time maybe!

November 14th Y2K6: Well, just look who it is! =D Finally going for <27/<48 on A/PA. Today I knocked Chicago PA down, and sharpened my awful Infil A time. Just looking below, I've fallen from #31 behind François to being #41 and still behind François. In 2 years. Not that bad, huh - wouldn't happen in GE! I've also lost a good 600 points, d'oh!

November 17th Y2K4: Five more improvements: much-needed ones too, like 0:07 on you know where. And a neat little Recon SA 1:00. I think I'll try getting below the next A and PA minute barriers before I stop playing again. Diogo Azevedo (Narigutita) challenged me to catch him in points in the next fortnight before he begins playing again (and as if I could manage that! =D) so I must at least get my Total Time ahead as far as possible to stave off being passed. Just 12 more seconds to François Remy. I've never hit #30 in PD before. So, back to work! ;-)

December 21st Y2K3: This game is becoming mighty tiresome! I thankfully cleared the SA 39:00 barrier, and my only goal left now is Agent 27:00 (and Cov PA 3:59, which is now just four seconds away =). In other news I bled yet another second out of Revenge Agent. Well, it took me a month less a week to make these cuts, and I guess they speak for themselves (they were mostly my weaker times). This brings my RARE FPS Total down to a very respectable 3:23:10. Up-and-coming PD player and established GE player Graham Morris has already flown past me and Craig there, so I'll never get #14 back, let alone #13 (my highest seeding ever: November - December 2002). Anyway, enough from me, and many thanks once again to Matt Cook, Ben Gorman, Karl Jobst, Bryan Bosshardt and others for the movies helped me out much more than any infomercial ever could. lol! =) =)

November 28th Y2K3: Now that Uni's over for awhile I can play again! I decided to do my homework before beginning, and watched the relevant movies to distraction. I think Karl's Skedar Ruins PA movie is more or less the most impressive. I watched about a dozen PA movies and the result was just five improvements, but what improvements! I got Escape under 4 minutes just for starters: now I have just Covert Assault PA to go, and I improved that one too. Three of these five cuts are safely on tape (Escape, Covert Assault and Battle Shrine). I also got Espionage PA 2:37 on tape which I later improved. All in all, I break 49 minutes PA and 1:55:30 Total Time! Not bad for fifteen days' work, huh? Special thanks to Karl Jobst, Matt Cook, Ben Gorman, Greg Lavery, Phil Hughes and Marcus Dolejsi for their movies which helped me make these cuts.

January 31st Y2K3: Long time since I updated! I've done much, but I focussed on the first four stages. I tried out Ben Gorman's recently improved Investigation PA strategy. I didn't get anything like the legendary 2:43, but I cut off 8 seconds and that was enough for me! =) I doubt I'll have any time to play anymore, but now I should be back over 7,000 points total. I know Simon and Graham could pass me in total time at any time, but now I'm *safely* under 3:26:00 so that might help me out a little. =) At least I got back to my overall highest placing in Total Time (33rd), but Kenny Hill is just too far ahead for me to beat that record.

September 04th Y2K2: Wow! I managed to surpass the great Mr. Jansen by 6 seconds! He'll be far ahead again soon enough though. Not much else to say really. I think I'm about 16th in the Rare FPS Rankings by time. About 24th by points.

August 01st Y2K2: A really big cut from my totals! Well, not really big, but considerable nonetheless! I think I've just about reached my potential on this game. I managed to get under 2 hours total! It's quite an achievement! I think I may even have just scraped over 3,000 points total! We'll see... Also, Randy Buikema got 0:15 on Stealth Agent!!! Great achievement, but there goes my WR Tie there.

July 08th Y2K2: Six weeks of improvements (minus a few days of exam study ;-)! I managed to knock about 90 seconds off altogether, after trying practically every Agent and Special Agent level. I also got my LTK times up so have a gander at those (even though I've only done just over half the levels).

May 25th Y2K2: Managed to take a couple of minutes off with help from the last 4 levels. WR Ties are now indicated in red font. I also fixed the links so they now go to the the-elite.net site and not the old one. =) btw I still spend heaps of time on MK:SC!

May 7th Y2K2: New times for Attack Ship and Skedar Ruins. I had the game for a few days and these I knew really sucked. I probably shouldn't try to get new records now as I've retired, but 1:59:59 is just too tempting!

December 15th: More new times, for stages 11 to 15. Not huge improvements, but everything helps.

November 23rd: First batch of PRs. Probably no more for awhile because MK:SC dominates my time now. =)

October 24th: Fixed up formatting errors which prevented the system recognising my times.

October 12th: Profile uploaded to the 'Net!