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Ark42 Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 1/8 EXP: 283 For next: 246 Since: 05-29-05 Since last post: 157 days Last activity: 157 days |
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So I've played with MetEdit, and read SnowBro's document about the level data format, and I've been writing a program to read all the map data myself. I've got all the palettes, structures, and rooms decoded. Even the palette switch items and all the other enemy and item data. I didn't know until just recently that it is possible to have more than 1 item in a given room. (The end game rooms have many items, such as 6 "turret" items, a "rinkas" item to make all the little circles fly at you, and 2 "zeebitite" items, for example). The only really important thing I havn't figured out how to decode so far is the sprite format. For example, it looks like there is a pointer table for sprite definitions, then the sprite data follows, and the data looks like 0D 03 03 84 85 94 95 FF in the case of an energy tank. I know 84-95 are the 4 pattern tiles, and FF is probably just an end marker, but I can't figure out what these first 3 bytes are for. In the case of a missile tank, the data is 0D 03 03 3F FD 40 3F FD 00 4F FD 40 4F FF, and it looks like the FD 40 and FD 00 pieces have something to do with setting patterns to be mirrored. MetEdit doesn't seem to actually display any of the items, but it does show the starting position of the enemies, which have data formatted in a very similar method as the item sprites. I'm not sure if he just hard-coded a few pattern tiles to make up the enemies to display in MetEdit, or if he has decoded the data I am looking at somehow. At the end of his document on the level format, he says 'What's that? "Enemy data information", you say? Nah, better save that for my next document.', but I don't think the "next document" really exists  |
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Ark42 Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 2/8 EXP: 283 For next: 246 Since: 05-29-05 Since last post: 157 days Last activity: 157 days |
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Yes, I did see that, the copy I'm looking at was at http://www.classicgaming.com/mdb/m1/m1source.txt and it has been very valuable for information, however, I still cannot understand the sprite format and did not see any comments in the source code regarding it. |
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Ark42 Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 3/8 EXP: 283 For next: 246 Since: 05-29-05 Since last post: 157 days Last activity: 157 days |
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Did I do something stupid, or can't you change your password here? |
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Ark42 Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 4/8 EXP: 283 For next: 246 Since: 05-29-05 Since last post: 157 days Last activity: 157 days |
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Where is "Editprofile" ? I still see the same menu (with Register | Login at the top) even after logging in. I tried just going to editprofile.php manually and it says I must be logged in. Logging in doesn't seem to change this. |
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Ark42 Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 5/8 EXP: 283 For next: 246 Since: 05-29-05 Since last post: 157 days Last activity: 157 days |
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| I'm using Firefox normally, but I just tried IE, and got the same problem. There is no other software that would be blocking cookies or anything. I think what the problem is, is that I skipped entering a password when verifying my account, which I had just created, because I didn't see that box for some reason. Now I think my password is just blank, and I'm somehow in limbo between logged in and guest status because of that. So.. I think I did do something stupid by accident, but I'm not really sure, or how to fix it. |
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Ark42 Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 6/8 EXP: 283 For next: 246 Since: 05-29-05 Since last post: 157 days Last activity: 157 days |
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| test -Legion |
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Ark42 Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 7/8 EXP: 283 For next: 246 Since: 05-29-05 Since last post: 157 days Last activity: 157 days |
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| Good, glad that's cleared up -Lilmario |
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Ark42 Newcomer Level: 5 Posts: 8/8 EXP: 283 For next: 246 Since: 05-29-05 Since last post: 157 days Last activity: 157 days |
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