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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy                  Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6617 days Last view: 6617 days |
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That story is totally fucked up. It's fucked up and I LOVE IT!!!  Now that is funny! It takes a special warped sense of humor to write something like that and to appreciate it, and I happen to be one of it''s recipients. Keep up the good work.
I can't wait to hear how Santa Claus came into being...  (edited by Kirk Bradford Myers on 04-17-06 06:30 AM) |
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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6617 days Last view: 6617 days |
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Originally posted by Captain Boh I believe that NES Pallette Editor will allow you to do exactly what you just described. It can be found here.  |
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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6617 days Last view: 6617 days |
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I chose the avatar I did because I am, deep down, an explorer at heart. Not only in the physical sense where matters of location and geography are concerned, but also in the artistic sense, areas of music, literature, ROMhacking, any creative ventures as I call them. I like to try to find new ways of doing things that no one has done before. If there are two things that haven't been nailed together yet I'll find a way to nail them together and make a case for why they should be nailed together. My love of new and different things to places to poke my big curious nose into probably explains my fascination with all things ancient Egyptian, hence the avatar. No doubt it also explains my obsession with the many different flavors of Metroid out there. 
Lest you all wonder, here is me. As you can see, I look nothing like my avatar. I think the cat comes a little closer in that regard. Hope you're all not too disappointed.
By the way, my avatar is also my desktop picture, and is a photograph that I myself took with a digital camera. Kudos and praise to the first person who can take an accurate guess as to where that photo was taken...  (edited by Kirk Bradford Myers on 04-18-06 06:43 AM) (edited by Kirk Bradford Myers on 04-18-06 06:45 AM) |
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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy  Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6617 days Last view: 6617 days |
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| There's nothing wrong with tomboys in general, because they tend to deliberately go against the rules of convention for the sake of being who they are and loving themselves for what they are and I can respect any person that does that, male or female.
However, that's not to say that anything should be appreciated for being taken to extremes. Any woman who can whip my ass in a game of Blades Of Steel or a pillowfight or a friendly wrestling match, re-wire an electric socket and put up a new bathroom shelf by herself, and then dress up and hang on my arm for a romantic, sweet night together by candlelight is a woman that I will remember for a long time. A woman who spends eight hours a day in front of the mirror worrying about a hair falling out of place or a chip in her nail and who smells like she took a bath in her lilac-scented perfume is not a woman I wish to associate with. Same goes for a woman who throws 500 pound steel beams over her head at her job, has "Born To Kill" self-tattoed with a butcher knife on the fingers of both hands, and drinks four six-packs of Budweiser and belches up the beer clouds so loudly that the body of Captain Smith of the Titanic rises a foot off the Atlantic seabed every time she lets it rip. Imagine a scale where 100 represents being the total and complete glamour and glitter girly-girl, the pinnacle of yuppie-class living and the kind of person who has no less than 9000 assorted colors of shoes....and 0 being the kind of women you see with mohawks and greasy overalls and dirty sneakers who often frequent hardware stores, the ones who smell like last year's underarm odor and who look like they can challenge Mike Tyson to a fistfight and win. Me personally, I like for the needle to fall somewhere between 47 and 70, leaning a little closer to 70.
What I'm trying to say in so many words is that I don't like extremes of any kind. I prefer the company of women who have both an even balance of masculinity and femininity to spare, without going too far in one direction or the other. Amen. |
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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6617 days Last view: 6617 days |
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| I actually saw a solo guitar player live that opened for Ozric Tentacles back in 2004 that uses a very similar two-handed technique like the one the guy in the video was using. His name is Bill Burke and he used to play in a progressive rock band called Ousia which has since disbanded. These days, Bill is doing the solo thing...just him and his guitar, no backing band, sounding like four guitarists at once. Thing is, this guy doesn't use one of those Stick thingies but rather had a specially-made 8-string guitar created for the purpose of playing like that.
Being a keyboardist myself, watching Greg Howard play this thing makes me want to go out and buy one of these instruments and mess around with it. He makes it look too easy! Of course...  (edited by Kirk Bradford Myers on 04-18-06 07:59 AM) |
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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6617 days Last view: 6617 days |
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| Kirk Bradford Myers
-------------------------------------------- Name: Kirk Bradford Myers Age: 33 ROMHacking Accomplishments: Currently working on a hack of Metroid entitled "Metroid Begins". Also working on an improvement to DahrkDiaz's "Pac-Man III" in my spare time. Work is commencing slowly... Websites: For now, only one...One With The Computer, for my progressive instrumental rock music project. The site needs some work at this time... -------------------------------------------- 1.What draws you to the ROM hacking community? The fact that there are so many people so technically inclined that they would dig into a video game just to see how it works and change it is a really cool thing, and like all communities, it's good to have fellowship with those who share your interests in any regard. I have always been somewhat the perfectionist, playing video games and wishing I could change the games to suit my personal playing tastes, and ROMhacking is a venture that gives me the creative outlet to do that as well as to learn something new. I am an adventurer and a tinkerer at heart.
2. Do you think playing/modifying hacked ROMs should be more user friendly? One must take the overall intentions of the programmers of the original games into consideration in order to answer that question. I don't think the main purpose when anyone made ROMs was to give people license to tinker with and to reverse-engineer them to see what made them tick, in fact quite the opposite. Of course, these same people probably never thought that we would one day have the tools at our fingertips to twist and morph their games into ones of our own image and likeness, either! People and corporations are very protective of their intellectual property and trade secrets. ROM code, I believe, falls under both of these banners. But in a way, I think that it's a good thing that ROMs are so damn hard to modify sometimes, because it adds to the learning experience and gives one a greater sense of accomplishment when they manage to make one of these things do something it was not originally intended to do. And half the fun, they say, is in the journey to get to where your going. If you could just reach your destiny immediately, go the instant gratification route...where's the fun and sense of accomplishment in that?
3.What are the advantages/disadvantages of ROM hacking vs. ripped sprites with code written from scratch? It takes a lot of time and work to take someone's original idea and turn it into a working game that very few people may end up caring about, probably more work that it's worth sometimes. People don't want to spend hundreds of hours mastering a programming language just to program a crude version of "Space Invaders" as their thesis, when bigger and better ideas are already running through their head. ROMhacking offers a happy medium to this. Someone has already created a game engine, done all the hard work for you, and it's possible to turn it into a completely new game just by tweaking a few parameters. The learning curve is much less and the experience could possibly lead to greater and better things...who's to say that today's ROMhacker isnt' tomorrow's 6502 porgrammer? Not to mention that familiarity with an already established standard will interest people enough to care about the work you've put into a hack and make them want to give it a spin around the block. All of it is a learning experience, really, and ROMhacking let's people indulge themselves in that while getting the instant gratification that is sometimes needed to give one the motivation to continue doing what they do.
4. Do you think there are limits to what people should be allowed to do with their games? This issue has come up with many different areas of media, such as file-sharing, movies, music, etc. This is the way I see things: If you, the consumer, paid money to buy media, either a book, CD, movie, video game, etc. then you as the consumer of that product should have the freedom of fair use and the right to do anything that you wish to do with your copy of that product. If I purchased a cartridge of Metroid with my own money, I should have the right to use it for a frisbee or a friggin' drink coaster if that is my wish! No one would bat an eyelash if I sold that cartridge to my friend, but if I offer the ROM for free on KaZaA the shit's going to hit the fan? Really, that's stupid. The philosophy that it's okay to sell something, whether it's your intellectual property or not, but it's a crime to give it away for free is stupid, and is the exact reason that prostitution being illegal is asinine. Bottom line, if the government can't tax it, if there's no profit in it for them, it jerks their little weenies the worng way. However, while the above examples could legitimately be considered a copyright violation and an issue of morality, modifying a game you own to suit your own tastes, I believe, is not. You know what they say...if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But if it IS broke... Reverse-engineering a video game for the fun of it should not be illegal so long as no copyrighted material changes hands...
5.What do you think about the future of the ROM hacking community? It's really hard to say at this point. Fads come and go, as fads do, but it's hard to tell right now if this particular activity qualifies as a fad because the interest it's cult-following has generated has not dissipated over the course of the last eight-or-so-years...a pretty long run of time for a "fad" by anyone's standards! Of course, how long did Seattle-grunge rock last, right? Twenty-five years ago, someone said that video games themselves were just a "fad" and would die out pretty quickly. HA!! My belief is that, as long as there is something new to discover hidden within the code of some obscure video game somewhere, someone with an explorer's heart and a severe case of obsessive-complulsive bipolar attention-deficit disorder is going to be out there trying to find it! As I said before, it's the thrill of the discovery and the challenge of the chase involved in getting there that keeps people coming back for more, and probably will for generations to come. And with that, the ROMhacking community as a whole will continue to grow and to help each other weed out these little secrets. One of the smartest and most profitable things anyone has ever done in the history of video games, I believe, is when Warren Robinett hid his name in a secret room in the Atari 2600 game "Adventure", thus introducing the concept of the "Easter Egg" and ensuring the replay value and marketability of future games to come, and of the community that would dig these games apart to the bare bones to find and take advantage of these secrets. Without a doubt, the ROMhacking community is going nowhere anytime soon. |
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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6617 days Last view: 6617 days |
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| I used to chew the shit out of my pencils. I've had more pencils with teeth makrs on the wood and missing erasers than I care to admit...but I don't think I've ever helped myself to the writing end. Back in elementary school my ill-informed teachers convinced me that pencils contained real lead and that I was going to die foaming at the mouth if I sucked on it...much the same way your mother convinces you to be good by telling you that there is a Santa Claus and he's going to burn a big bag of fresh reindeer shit on your front lawn if you misbehave this year, and you'll have to face all your friends the next day.
I could see Alastor now walking into the dentist. "Well, your teeth are in great health, but I've noticed a slight discoloration...may I recommend Gleem?"
Hey now, if you REALLY wnat to go for broke, take out the middle part of a pen, cut off the writing end, and drink the ink. I know someone from middle school who did that on a dare. He had diarrhea and stomach cramps for two days. We made fun of him for years. He deserved it.(edited by Kirk Bradford Myers on 04-29-06 06:30 PM) |
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Kirk Bradford Myers Shyguy Since: 01-23-06 From: Baltimore, Maryland Last post: 6617 days Last view: 6617 days |
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| Well, I can't hold it against a girl for doing what she obviously loves. If she's good at it, which she must be. Apparently the casting director keeps calling her...
Just for the record, If I was a woman who had made that many shizer videos I would probably change my name, too. I doubt I'd want Mom to take a trip down to Blockbuster one fateful day and find out what I was up to... |
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