It’s a borderline random update, but I’ve been working on borderline random things this month.

Now that I have separate Superhero Sprite Showcase episodes for all the characters I’ve done them for so far, I’m embedding them in their sub-galleries.
Superman – Wolverine – Iron Man – Batman – Storm

Mini-Logos: Bucky O’Hare added to Comics – other and Crystal added to Marvel.

All new custom sprites and mini-logos were added to the PHP-powered GFX Generators where I made the screenshot at the top of this post! The fighting game-scale sprites are in this big graphic maker while the Kunio/RCR stuff is used in this screenshot maker that focuses on 8-bit screens.

Game Index: Avengers in Galactic Storm: added a page for it that also contains scans of the very early behind-the-scenes article on the game from the 1995 “Captain America Collectors’ Preview” comic. If you didn’t see the post I made about it before, this was from when the game was almost a side-scrolling beat ’em up/fighting game hybrid and had more playable characters. I have more to add to this entry in the future, but I really just wanted to get this update out there for Easter!

The Trick or Beat ‘Em Up project, the horror-themed side-scrolling brawler, is currently taking donations for fund work on the game. One of the goals is to “Immortalize Batsy The Cat” in pixel art that lives on in the game. Please read the plea and give if you can!

Back in 2021, I posted the third and fourth Superhero Sprite Showcases in a single video, mostly because I couldn’t make new video clips the usual way as Anime Studio stopped working (long story) and I had to cobble together a bunch of new ways to make clips in Blender and Magix Vegas. Batman got his solo Showcase a while back and now it’s time for Iron Man to get his. And to make up for it, I’ve added a lot of new and updated clips. That video hit the YouTube Channel last Friday, and here’s the site update with some of the new stuff made for the video:

Mini-logos – Marvel: Crimson Dynamo and Madame Masque added.

All new custom sprites and mini-logos were added to the GFX Generators, where you can make your own graphics like the one at the top of this post!

And now, check out the Iron Man 2025 Sprite Showcase!

If you can read this and are wondering why the site is taking so long to load, Dreamhost is still working on the issues that are currently slowing down sites that they host, and that includes ScrollBoss and the rest of my illmosis.net sites. I mentioned this in last week’s mini-update, but I figured it’d have been fixed because Dreamhost usually gets stuff like this sorted out by now. But it’s still going.

While it’s still possible to upload to my account, Dreamhost’s status page says “Content restoration from our backup servers is still underway. Most hosted sites are online, but some users may experience intermittent slowness as the restore continues. We will continue to provide updates as the restoration progresses.” That might mean that the old backups could overwrite whatever I add to the site before Dreamhost’s work is done. So I’m going to wait until that work is done before I add the update.

But the 2025 Iron Man Showcase will still hit the ScrollBoss YouTube Channel some time this weekend. It’s done, but I might work in a few more clips if I have the time. There are sprites I didn’t have time to do, so I might just try to work them into the mix while waiting for the sites to be fixed.

Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.

Sprites:
– Captain America and the Avengers: animated flying sprites for the heroes, some enemy drones, partial Giant Robot (Sentinel), and a few more pickup items added.

ToyBoss: I just got the Billy Lee from Syndicate Collectible’s Double Dragon line of 7-inch action figures and took some photos, including some size comparison pics. Updated my Jada Toys Street Fighter roster pic, now that I have Dhalsim and Guile. Now I only need Dee Jay to be 100% caught up on regular figures.

Dreamhost (where my sites’ accounts are hosted) has been doing maintenance all day (and possibly before), so things may be running slowly or not at all. But I uploaded the update a few hours ago just so I could say that I updated on Wednesday like the old days. Maintenance is still going on after midnight and previews for WordPress posts won’t work, so I’m posting what I have now and fix it when everything’s running at full speed again.

Last year I teased a logo for a solo version of a Superhero Sprite Showcase that I planned to just update a little bit, but a rough last half of 2024 kept that (and a lot of other plans) from happening. To make up for being so late with it, I’ve added much more than I’d have done last year and you’ll see that video on the ScrollBoss YouTube Channel next week. A few of those sprites, including some new villains, will be added to the Custom Sprite gallery and image generator. Here’s a preview:

Here’s a game-focused update for Black History Month 2025!

Custom Sprites:
– Guardians of the ‘Hood: not only did I redo both of Tanya’s old sprites, but I also made her win pose, and they all match. This game also got a solo gallery.
– Streets of Rage: I made improvements on my sprites for Adam and Skate, but scroll down if you want to see even more.
– Raging Justice: redrew the head for the Nikki Justice sprite I made in 2018, plus gave the game its own gallery.

All custom sprites for this update were added to the main GFX Generator, where I made the pic at the top of this post!

Taking it back to the old days of the site, I’m updating some of the sprite galleries. That’s right, the galleries with sprites from real games.
Sprites:
– Riot City: Starting the gallery with idle, walk, and taunt .GIFs of heroes Paul and Bobby, including one of the greatest walk animations of all time. I thought I posted these sprites years ago, but I only had the rips sitting in .MNG files and versions done for that “beat ’em up heroes” video clip.
– Streets of Rage: captured and added .GIF of the idle loops for Adam, Axel, and Blaze

Finally, I had to quickly change plans and make an update to my 2023 Black History Month-themed video, with nearly every clip updated and new character profile moments. All the new custom sprites show up in this, and you’ll also get a look at the newly animated Adam Hunter and ‘Skate’ Hunter sprites!

The Arcade Quartermaster celebrated its 17th birthday on Feb. 24th by adding shrines for Tekken 2 and DBZ fighting games!