0D9 through 0D12?

[ramolnar]

It appears that Decipher printed, but never released, more D cards:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOTR-TCG-Special-FOIL-Promo-Set-Never-Publically-Released-0D9-0D10-0D11-0D12-/390504267959?pt=Trading_Card_Games_US&hash=item5aebde40b7

While I cannot confirm the physical existence of these cards, it doesn't surprise me. How do we get them added to the wiki card list? Also, we might need a clean picture from the ebay seller.

[ununtrium]

I have these cards. They are genuine. The "D"-promos actually go up to 14. I sent clean scans of the cards to the admin 2 years ago...I never heard back from him, though.

[TelTura]

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I have these cards. They are genuine. The "D"-promos actually go up to 14. I sent clean scans of the cards to the admin 2 years ago...I never heard back from him, though.

You caught me while I was in the middle of writing my reply.  Can you send me those same images, and I'll try and get them up?

[TelTura]

That's very interesting, thanks very much for bringing this up.

As far as adding them to the list, I think I may be able to add them manually if I do it right, and I'll get on that in a minute here.  Kralik was the maintainer of the behind-the-scenes stuff, and i haven't seen him around for a while.  If anyone reading this has his contact info, if they could get a hold of him, that'd be great.

As far as the image quality goes, that's about as good as we're going to get, especially with foil cards; I mean, take a look at http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/lotr00d02 and you'll see it's hit-and-miss as far as scanning foil cards goes.

I was going to say something about that still leaving 3 D cards unaccounted for, but ununtrium has chipped in on that.  Again, if you hit me up with some links, I'll see what I can do as far as getting them uploaded; I have some nonpublic rights as far as the wiki is concerned.

[thewitchhunter]

Hi there, can also confirm that the cards 0D9 to 0D14 really exist. I own a copy of each of 0D9 to 0D12 and 0D14.

Have pics of 9-12 on my from somewhere of the internet. Let me know if you need them.

[TelTura]

Alright, I did a quick-and-dirty test here: http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/lotr00d09

As you can see, it looks like it's all in order.  I have no idea if autolinking works, and I really hope it doesn't cause any problems behind-the-scenes, and I would need to go modify the index, but the image uploading and page creation is fairly straightforward (if obtuse).  This means if I have the images I can go in and modify it all by hand.

thewitchhunter, I'd be happy to take anything you have.  Once ununtrium gets back with me I'll grab his images as well, and I'll upload whichever is higher quality.  I'd like to do them all as one batch, as there's a sizeable checklist of things I'd need to look at while doing this manually, and I'd rather do them all at once.

[thewitchhunter]

Just sent you a mail with the zipped pics.

[TelTura]

Awesome, thanks.  These ones seem to have the same foil artifacts, but it is what it is.  I wonder if I shouldn't just 'shop the cards they're based on to have the correct collector's info.

[TelTura]

So as an example, here is the scan I received for 0D11:



and here is a combination shop that I made with the base of 11S255:



Would anyone be opposed to this kind of shopping?  I mean, the foil artifacts don't help, and I pulled the important bits (both the game text and the collector's info) from the scan itself, which you can see if you hold 11S255 right next to it. 

Thoughts?

[ununtrium]

Hey, I am almost certain that those are the scans I made (and sent to a couple of fellow traders...). I am not opposed to shopping the cards, but the foiling effect gives the cards a certain air of authenticity, don't you think. Anyway, it is your call. Cheers, everyone!

Update: I compared the files and can go on the record for these being my scans

[TelTura]

Well, thewitchhunter only got me 0D9-0D12; do you have scans for 0D13-0D14?

[TelTura]

Alright, I got high-res scans from ununtrium and converted those to the low-res used by the database, and got all the pages up:

http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/lotr00d09
http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/lotr00d10
http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/lotr00d11
http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/lotr00d12
http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/lotr00d13
http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/lotr00d14

I ended up going with just adjusted versions of these highres scans, instead of the image blending I showcased above.

Autolinking does not work for these pages (it appears kralik has a master list elsewhere that does not reference the wiki).  

I also have them added to the promotional index.  The grand index, though....seems to be having a very hard time parsing, since it's such a huge list.  In fact, as I type this, none of the wiki pages work, as it seems that entire wiki thread is trying very hard to parse the new grand index....I'm hoping I didn't break things for very long, and hopefully it will be back up as soon as it swallows the new grand index changes.

(If anyone has kralik's personal email, though, now might be a good time to get a hold of him <_<'')

As I was doing this, I was reminded that there are in fact a bunch of W cards also not in the main database...it goes up to 0W38, but considering what adding 6 cards did, i don't particularly care to put these ones in, especially since they're all virtual.

EDIT:
So, it appears to have finally parsed, but for whatever reason the grand index is borked.  Other indices work fine, so who knows what I did to destroy it <_<;;.  I imagine that wasn't a very much-used page, so....yeah.  Just don't use it.