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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5465/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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If you can get Geiger's Snes9x Debugger to work you can find these easily. Go into a level, get near a point where the sound will be made, and set breakpoints for 7E1DF9, 7E1DFA, 7E1DFB and 7E1DFC on write. Right away you should see something like 'STZ $1DF9'. You will have to use an AR code to remove that. (I'd look into what the exact codes are but I can't get it to run.  Basically you use the address that comes up and add 'EA' to the end, and again with that address plus one and that address plus two.) Once you've got rid of those write down these codes so you won't need to do that part again, then the next time a breakpoint triggers, you should see the address that played the sound. It's usually something like 'STA $1DF9'. One byte before the address, just about every time is the sound effect number.This may work for some music, like the star/POW themes too. Keep in mind these are all SNES addresses though; you need to convert them to file addresses before you use them in a hex editor. Also if you don't like any of the available sounds you can change the address (1DFx) after it too, but keep in mind that only one sound from each address can play at a time. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5466/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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You should always keep a fresh copy. If you have problems with accidentally overwriting it (like I did  ) you should mark it read-only too. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5467/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by knuck I don't really, but I thought GE was particularly bad. I liked Duke Nukem 64 though. Originally posted by Yoronosuku Ugh, just try to find a game with non-cheap AI. The main reason I've given up on Mario Party is that its AI is just so freaking cheap. (Good for multiplayer though.  ) Puzzle games are the worst because they like to do impossible things, in many cases even moving faster than a human physically can. They're getting better but there's still a lot of them. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5468/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Are you sure it's not just stopping because it can't read the disc? Turn it on and open it up after like half a second to one second, it should be spinning then. If not then yeah, your motor's toast. Shame it's not so easy to trick a Gamecube into running with the lid open, then you could just watch it start. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5469/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Kyouji Craw Yes. Yes he was. SMB3's Bowser was a close second though. The music especially rocked. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5470/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Peach, the floating pwns. Worst is probably Mario, there's nothing special about him. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5471/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Haha, not bad. Yoshi dancing in #2 was funny, where can I get that music? I don't get #3 though... why is Yoshi mad at the... whatever those things are? It's not their fault Mario fell. |
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Eh, well I'm getting rid of it anyway. If anyone knows of code for a PHP version (or one I can use like the Java applet) I'd appreciate it, but this takes up too many resources. |
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Doesn't work for me either. Also there are several objects below the Chain Chomp area |
 and it'd be nice if the ROM didn't have to end in .v64. Also I noticed all the level geometry is built in. (Doesn't respond very well to clicking Cancel.)
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Yes, it drives me nuts when someone yells at someone else for using a certain word because it happens to offend some people. They don't like it, they can cover their ears. |
Also, why is it OK to call the British 'brits' and the Scottish 'scots' but you can't call the Japanese 'japs'?
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Nobody mentioned the general public having access, only specially-selected members of the government. If any random person could access my account, well I think I'd be going to another bank pretty quick. |
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Yeah, something's totally screwed up here. |
Several months ago, I found that my Start menu would occasionally not draw itself. It would display as just a solid black square until I hovered over items on it. I then got a new hard drive for Christmas, and installed Windows on it from scratch but somehow this problem has persisted. It never happened before then, but it still does to this day.A few weeks ago I found I could no longer access the Regional and Language Options control panel. When I try to open it, the process terminates immediately. Restoring it from the install CD didn't fix it. This would also happen if I tried to access the Game Controllers panel from within my joypad software, but just opening it from the Start Menu works fine. Well yesterday my computer was shut off unexpectedly and as a result the Windows partition was corrupted. Starting up the old installation on the old hard disk fixed this (it scanned and repaired the partition) but since then there have been more severe problems. I'm rarely able to drag and drop files. Often, Explorer's interface will lock up (I can't click the taskbar or desktop) until I hit Alt+Tab. Worse still, another program - one I use often and which worked 2 or 3 days ago - is now doing the same as the Regional/Language control panel, and re-downloading it hasn't solved the problem.  My computer has a history of weird bugs like this. Things are always screwing up in weird ways, even more often than is typical of Windows. (Also, according to the thermometer I just installed, my CPU temperature goes up 5 degrees in Standby mode. ) I've done memory checks, though, and it checks out fine, and I've never seen anything that might indicate a big problem like a faulty CPU. (If the CPU was screwed up, I would think programs would randomly crash, even Windows. I'm using XP Pro, which doesn't just randomly crash, it just has a million little bugs instead.  ) I've never had such severe or long-lasting problems though, usually just one-time or short-term stupid things (icons don't show up in the taskbar, titlebars don't redraw etc) or stupid things that are obviously Windows bugs (desktop icons moving when I enter a fullscreen app). I can't think of why these things might be happening, though... A hardware problem would probably have much more significant effects (random crashes, data loss) and a software thing like file corruption should be detected by the OS. XP keeps copies of the important system files and verifies them against eachother... I really doubt that unexpectedly shutting down managed to corrupt both explorer.exe and its backup in the same manner, and leave them with the same checksum, especially when all file activity was being done way off in a different partition.So does anyone have any ideas as to why these programs won't run, why Explorer is acting up, and why my computer's just so buggy in general? Specs copied from System Information: OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version: 5.1.2600 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation System Name: ORION System Manufacturer: 00101680 XG843 System Model: 15395700051130 System Type: X86-based PC Processor: x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~797 Mhz BIOS Version/Date: Phoenix Technologies LTD 2.05, 21/12/2000 SMBIOS Version: 2.0 Windows Directory: E:\WINDOWS System Directory: E:\WINDOWS\System32 Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume6 Locale: Canada Hardware Abstraction Layer: Version = "5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148)" User Name: ORION\Administrator Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory: 190.48 MB Available Physical Memory: 35.82 MB Total Virtual Memory: 828.85 MB Available Virtual Memory: 385.60 MB Page File Space: 638.36 MB Page File: E:\pagefile.sys More detailed specs: Motherboard: HP Pavillion XG843 CPU: Intel Celeron 797mhz Coppermine Video: 4MB Intel Onboard 82810 Graphics Controller Sound: Intel 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller Hard disk 0: Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0 250GB (232.89GB actual size) Hard disk 1: ST320413A 20GB (18.6GB actual size) CD-ROM: Mitsume CR-48X5TE IDE controller: Intel(r) 82801AA Bus Master IDE Controller Memory: 192MB OS: Windows XP Pro (no service pack, because SP1 causes a bunch of problems and SP2 won't boot at all) Average CPU temp: 40 (edited by HyperHacker on 07-02-05 11:27 PM) (edited by HyperHacker on 07-02-05 11:52 PM) (edited by HyperHacker on 07-03-05 12:00 AM) (edited by HyperHacker on 07-03-05 04:30 AM)
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I'm sure it's possible with some modification, but not really worth it. Anything less than ~1.5ghz is way slow by today's standards. I'd just buy a new motherboard. (Also depending how much you download 40GB might not be enough space either, and 256MB RAM is a bit on the low side.) |
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5479/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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Some of the fans shut off, I'm not sure which. I don't think it's anything serious but I would have figured it would cool off when it's not doing anything, not heat up. |
Also, rebooting got that one program to run again (thank God) but not the Regional controls. They haven't worked in weeks. The desktop/taskbar still locked up too, and I haven't tried to move a file yet. (Both of those problems appear and disappear randomly though.) Another issue I've noticed in the past few days is that sometimes it just slows right down. With very little CPU load, I'll try to open a page in Firefox and the whole thing will pretty much lock up. Firefox just sits there processing for a looong time, appearing to not be responding at all, and things like the volume control won't respond (which is way annoying when I have loud music on and it takes literally a minute to turn down the volume). I figured it was just overheating, since it's been hot out, but the thermometer I stuck in there reads 40-42 the whole time just like it usually does under any amount of stress. (42 is the highest I've seen. Right now with only Firefox, Winamp and Notepad running, after gaming for an hour and finishing 15 minutes ago, it's at 39.6.) I guess this could be a Firefox issue though, since it never really affects anything else, but then Firefox probably uses the most resources of any program I generally use except Photoshop. (I generally only have Firefox, Winamp, Textpad, a command prompt and a few dozen instances of Notepad and some folders open, so yeah. )Could a fragmented hard drive be the cause of any of this? I probably don't defrag as often as I should, probably will tonight. It generally takes like all day, though, and doesn't actually make much difference according to the graphs in the program. I'm about to install the newest graphics driver. Thought I already had it, but Intel's site shows otherwise... I'm pretty sure I had it before I reinstalled though, and the only issue is with the Start menu which I've found is pretty weird anyway. Alright, got that installed, nothing seems to have blown up. Started in 640x480 though, which messed up my desktop. The menu bug is pretty random though, so we shall see.(edited by HyperHacker on 07-03-05 01:44 AM)
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5480/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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I don't know what Fu's test program is doing differently but I can't get this to work. It did the same thing long ago when I tried to use it in VB, and I assumed it was a VB problem but apparently not: |
 If anyone's got this to work right (or is Fu ) maybe you can explain how. All I'm doing is opening the file, using LunarDecompress (decompressing into an unsigned byte array) and drawing the decompressed graphic data with my own code (which works fine; non-compressed graphics display perfectly). Maybe there's some bug that LunarRender8x8 works around or something? (I don't want to have to re-do all my graphic code though...)(On a side note, using DLLs is surprisingly easy. It helps when they include initialization code though. )(edited by HyperHacker on 07-03-05 04:22 AM)
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5481/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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That shouldn't be a huge problem, the old install (which should be pretty much identical) is on C:. |
This interface-locking-up thing is really annoying though. It seems it's not just a simple matter of Explorer, but rather the entire system won't respond to anything being clicked until I Alt+Tab. It happens like every 5 mintues now. I'm gonna defrag and go to bed, hopefully that'll clear things up a bit.(edited by HyperHacker on 07-03-05 10:44 AM)
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5482/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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Personally I wouldn't trust camera install software at all. It's always full of crap. My webcam's installer is 70MB, and it works fine with XP's generic camera driver. |
 Have you tried manually installing it through the Device Manager or Add Hardware control panel?
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5483/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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Originally posted by VL-Tone Clicking objects doesn't select them. If I click Cancel, it renders the level (sans objects), and asks for a file again, cancelling that crashes it. This is the old version though. Regarding the missing objects like Goombas and coins, it's certainly possible that they're variations of other objects. Many old Mario games used a similar format, where the object format would be like ID, X/Y coord (all one byte), screen #, X/Y size (all 1 byte). Object 00 would indicate a 'special' object whose size doesn't change, the object ID replaces the size in this case. So the game may be using something similar. (Perhaps other object types besides $1824 modify the next object?) I have a bit of a theory on the object format too... Notice that the 'important' data (location, type) is right at the beginning of the object information. I figure they're all laid out the same way (eg, the 3rd byte is always type, 4th is always act #, etc), and if a certain byte isn't included in the data it's set to some default value. (Like, suppose the object was 8 bytes, then the Z location and everything after it would always be set to some specific value.) It would explain the length byte, and make a bit more sense than having a 'layout table' for each length. What does the 24 do, anyway? Anything? (Sorry I haven't been working much on this, I've been busy with other projects.) Have you tried rendering some of the other types of objects and just filling in the 'missing' bytes with 00 or something?
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Better yet: Open the ROM in a hex editor and scroll to the end. If the last address is xxx200, it's fine, otherwise go back to the beginning and add (NOT overwrite) 0x200 (512) bytes, all 00. |
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