Originally posted by Celice

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I recognize those. What exactly should a pointer look like? I know a pointer is just that: a pointer. But... yeah. It seems I haven't gotten too far on the deeper hacking processes.

Pointer table: $00~$FF, and then something saying $3D = $34007? Ish?

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Originally posted by Disch

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Originally posted by beneficii

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To calculate the ROM address you want, take off the last 3 digits of the RAM address, and add $10 to it.

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"CPU address" or just "address", plzkthx. Not all of CPU addressing space is RAM. In fact very little of it is. Misleading terminology is problematic when people have to actually differentiate between RAM and addressing space and they think of the two as one and the same.

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Originally posted by Disch

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CPU addressing space contains more than just ROM and RAM (though it typically addresses much more ROM than RAM). CPU space also addresses system registers. But it wouldn't make much sense to call $CD43 a register address -- since it's not a register.

Like I said it's an easy sub to just say "CPU address" instead of "RAM address". Same number of letters, much more clear, not a misleading term. Everyone wins. If you're worried about a conflict with the .nes file -- you can refer to those as "offsets". "ROM offset" and "CPU address" are not terms that will be confused for each other, and are not misleading or inaccurate.

I've also seen/used other techniques such as using numbers like $8000 for CPU addresses ($ symbol... always exactly 4 digits), but using 0x08000 for ROM offsets (0x symbol, always 5 or more digits).


But whatever floats your boat. I know I sound like a whiney anal prick, but it's just a pet peeve of mine when people throw around glaringly wrong terms. It'll do nothing but cause confusion for people down the line.

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Originally posted by Snow Tomato

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Yeah I wanted to shit on their faces today. I love how like 5 inches of snow is a huge ass deal. Like you're going to be stranded through a long winter day like the Donner Party with no food or shelter... in NYC. And these news people are are like "It's snowing! You just might get your feet wet!! Stay tuned for updates on the super disasterous BLIZZARD OF '06!!".

Bite me. I couldn't go out tonight because my parents were expecting the sky to open up and avalanche on our house. My mom bought cases of poland springs and stocked up on food. AND THERE'S THREE DELI'S AND A SUPERMARKET WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE!!!

I'm just pissed I couldn't go out. It is snowing... and currently there's maybe two inches on the ground. So, bite me Mr. Weatherman.

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Originally posted by UZI in my pocket

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O.K. Most of my levels have doors and pipes. How do I set it to make you go somewere else instead of a room that you just fall?

I HATE THAT.

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Originally posted by Nintendude88

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Hey gang,
I'm having trouble with pointers in a level (when you go inside a pipe to a new area.)
I'm trying to fix 1-1 pointers. Does the length of a level affect where Mario begins or is the just I have Mario coming out in the wrong place?

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Originally posted by Coby

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Actually the bird flu can only be gotten by getting in touch with infected birds, so just stay away from the birds. And the flu isn't harmful for humans, but SHOULD the bird flu combine with our flu then we would have a problem.

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Originally posted by DahrkDaiz

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Ok I know this is a big bump but it's very important information to relay: Does this editor by chance check for the file size of the rom you choose to open? It doesn't want to open up my expanded hack and the data for the maps have not be relocated despite the increase of file size. I suggest looking into this.

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Originally posted by emcee

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I don't think it would spred as fast a some people are saying. The virus would travel from coughs and sneezes, meaning symptoms would have to be present before its contagious. So once an outbreak is identified, travel would be restricted to that area. If an outbreak occurs in a developed country, victims could be quarantined in a sanitary hospital. those who do become infected in developed countries would be less likely to die because they likely started out fairly healthy. Unlike developing nations, where much of the population is already weakened by famine and other diseases (most specifically AIDS). On top of that, outside of maybe a few big cities, there is almost no clean hospitals to quarantine patients. I'm not saying the First World would be unaffected by the Bird Flu, if it were to mutate, just compared to its effect on the Third World, it would be minor. The flu already kills like 40 thousand people a year in the US, so maybe during a pandemic year it might be more like a quarter million. Alot, but "minor" when compared to the likely tens of millions in the Third World.

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What makes this scheme more complicated and also very important from the public health point of view is that the order in which the infectious period and the symptomatic periods happen is not fixed for different diseases. Thus in SARS people became sick (symptomatic) before they were maximally infective, so health care workers rather than the general population were most likely to be exposed. It was thus also easier to control the disease because apparently well people were not infectious. With influenza, on the other hand, the infectious period begins about 24 hours before the symptomatic period. This gives influenza a head start in infecting people, before the person knows he is sick and thus more likely to have contact with others.

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Flu may not be as transmissible as imagined: The incubation period for seasonal flu averages 2 days, with a range of 1 to 4 days, and viral shedding may begin as much 24 hours before symptoms appear [1]. The generation time, which is the time between when the first person becomes infectious and when a person in the next generation becomes infectious, is estimated to be approximately 2 days as well. The speed with which a contagious disease spreads is a function of the number of additional people infected by each victim (R0) and the generation time.

Influenza, which has a very short generation time, will spread very quickly even if each individual does not spread it to many others. The R0 for the 1918 pandemic is estimated to be only 1.8 [2]. Other recent estimates of R0 for seasonal and pandemic flu typically range from 1.5 to 3 [3, 4]. In contrast, SARS had an R0 of 3 (excluding super-spreaders), and measles has an R0 of 10 to15 [5], all of which suggests that flu is not as highly transmissible in a community setting as has been imagined. Flu spreads rapidly because it has a very short generation time, rather than a high R0. This has two important implications: 1. There is too little time between exposure and disease to perform contact tracing or institute quarantine; 2. Generally applied efforts to reduce viral transmission, even if only partially effective, may reduce the R0 enough to slow the progression of the epidemic.�

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Originally posted by Plus Sign Abomination

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Meh, to be honest I'm not THAT worried. I usually weather illness fairly well and have survived lots of little nasty infections. Absolutely isolating yourself just seems somewhat over the top to me.

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Prisoners sentenced for drug offenses constituted
the largest group of Federal inmates (55%) in 2003,
down from 60% in 1995. On September 30, 2003, the
date of the latest available data in the Federal
Justice Statistics Program, Federal prisons held
86,972 sentenced drug offenders, compared to
52,782 at yearend 1995.

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On December 31, 2004 -- ... Federal prisons were operating
at 40% above capacity.

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Originally posted by Skydude

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I think Canada has similar, if not looser, restrictions than the US. I'm not sure on the whole; I did a report on gun control laws back in high school, but a) I don't remember much of it now and b) things may have changed sinc then.

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Fuckin' legalise it, sell it in stores, punishing people for smoking pot is absolutely pointless.

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I don't think the whole "effeminate guys who smoke pot could get raped in prison" thing is a particularly valid complaint. Effeminate guys who steal could have the same happen. Or the ones who do any of a variety of other crimes.

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Originally posted by NSNick

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Originally posted by Skreename

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As for legalizing it... I'm rather torn. I know that if it was legal (and regulated) a lot of heavier drugs wouldn't be in the stuff, but... I don't know. I don't particularly like the use of drugs to relax, and that seems to be the main use for the stuff.

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But that's your opinion. Why should the law force that point of view on others? There are those who think drinking is the evilest vice since blasphemy, but that doesn't mean it should be illegal.

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