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MathOnNapkins  1100  In SPC700 HELL                    Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Ah... figured it was something like that. I was only weirded out b/c I thought you included your own data for the star's graphical data, etc. But since it used existing graphical data I'm not all that surprised. Trying to think if this would be easy to put into LTTP... probably. I've got enough room. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| but the atheistic mindset appears to me to be centered on the idea that there is some sort of proof against god.
............................................................. Given that most atheists try to be rational about the way things are (or they wouldn't be atheists), I'd have to say that your view of atheism / agnosticism is skewed. How WOULD one go about proving there was no God? You'd have to reach across the fabric of time and space and whatever else is out there, tear it apart, look through the other side and see that no one was there. That is far beyond any thing we know or even understand. The point is not to disprove anything, it is being unsatisfied with faith. I don't find faith reassuring in the least bit, in fact it makes me uneasy. I've often thought that the notion of God or gods was created by a genius before his/her time to control people. I say this b/c in early times religion almost always seems to be intertwined with government. Also, nearly every religion tells us to fear God, which could by association imply that you must fear the government. As I see it, agnostics and atheists are essentially the same, but agnostics have a hard time crossing over to the side, and saying with a firm mind that there is no God as most religions understand God. But that does not change the fact that both mindsets are the product of [I think] reasonable skepticism about traditional theistic ideas. When I was younger I used to tell people I was an agnostic b/c I didn't want to mention the word ATHEIST to anyone. If you say "atheist" in America it almost has the connotation of being a criminal or a monster. Criminality of free thought. When I continued on to high school I had a resurgence of faith due to my circumstances, being raised Catholic and going to a Catholic school. But upon going to college I fell back into old ways and became skeptical again. You pose the question of why religion has been so strong all these years. To you my answer is simply this: it is easy to be a free thinker in your own mind. But then you realize you might worry or frighten or even anger and alienate your family or peers if they were to know your true thoughts. The social constraints are very powerful and you worry so much about offending people you love. I would have to guess there are many atheists/agnostics who feel the way they do and never make a peep about it. I have no problem going to church just to make my family happy once or twice a year. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I have no idea why you would need an accounting program, but Microsoft excel is probably pretty adequate for most things you'd need to do. you just set up some formulas, use different workbooks as accounts, and you can even reference different workbooks externally. Then again, Excel is not free, but in all likelyhood you could get it off someone for free. Any free spreadsheet program similar to excel would also probably work. I repeat, I have no idea why you would need an accounting program. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I resent the implication that I am somehow not practicing "free thought" just because I belong to an established religion. Do you presume that I have been blindly indoctrinated into my religion, rather than rationally accepting it?
Poor choice of words, sorry for offending you. I've always been a free thinker, even while I was interested and involved in Catholicism. If it suits you to believe in God, so be it. Being unsatisfied with faith, or being unsatisfied with the perception of being somehow subjugated by the church, which has recently (and not-so-recently) become somehow demonized and painted, at times, as a corrupt and power-hungry force? That was not the implication. Any institution or beauracracy is going to have some degree of corruption, but that was not what shook my faith. Faith makes me uneasy because my mind requires some kind of evidence that things are moving along, and some kind of evidence of the way things were. If you think back to how scientifically advanced the people of Jesus' time were, you start to wonder if 1. gullibility is a factor, and 2. if exaggeration is a factor. Also consider that many aspects of Jesus' life and death are similar, almost identical to, certain popular cults of the time in the same region. Was the desire to convert by appeasement and telling a yarn there? In these modern times you hear that everyone has an agenda. Who's to think that people had scruples back then? It's been 2000 years and nothing has happened. Going further, though, why would your dissatisfaction with faith not lead to simple agnosticism? I know I keep saying this over and over, but I repeatedly find myself wondering. It did. And by your definition I would still be agnostic. You seem to think that Atheist = "BAD" and Agnostic = "... okay bad but at least they're not an ATHEIST." I know you are repeating yourself but I already explained my view that agnostics are essentially the same as atheists. Also, your notion of Atheist is probably not proper, and also probably pretty narrow. Many atheists are going to conclude that something created the universe, but not the personal Judeo-Christian God. Atheists do not readily agree on many things, which is why I'm surprised you're trying to attack viewpoints atheists supposedly share. (edited by MathOnNapkins on 10-20-06 01:52 AM) |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by JDavis Perhaps, but let me lay it out just so I'm not misinterpreted. Agnosticism doesn't seem to be well defined in the intellectual world at large, so it would be easy for me or anybody else to unintentionally skew it. Atheist: A person who is skeptical of the notion of a personal God or other deities that interact with humanity. This person views the personal God, such as the Judeo-Christian one, as a human construction, but is not opposed to postulations of higher beings being involved in the creation of the universe. Agnostic: A person who cannot make up their mind about the existence of personal God/gods. This could be for any number of reasons, such as a lack of evidence, a lack of time to do some reading to explore the matter, or simple skepticism. Theist: Believes there is a personal God or gods out there that watches over us and has an active role in humanity's fate. This God or collection of gods is responsible for the creation and fate of the universe. What I was trying to say about the term "agnostic" is that for some people who are atheists at heart, it can be convenient to label one's self an "agnostic" instead as people generally don't bother you as much or try to convert you as much. I was at work the other day and one of the guys who works for me is a devout, born-again Christian. We got on the subject of religion and it came up that one of the girls I work with is an atheist. She's 16. Myself, I said I was an agnostic b/c I wasn't in the mood for a huge debate. Predictably, he goes for the atheist and asks her gobs and gobs of questions about faith and pretty much close to all we've discussed here. And then after a bit of discussion, he concluded, "you're not an atheist, you're agnostic." Now I like this guy, but I'm a bit irritated that he would presume to make up someone else's mind for them. Golly gee, I'm an agnostic... thanks for telling me. Put quite simply, the atheist that theists have constructed does not exist. Atheists do not profess to know that God does not exist any more than theists profess to know that God does exist. Any real atheist you meet would probably instantly be labeled agnostic. |
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Do not approve this guy... he is too good and will make us all look bad  . |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| coincidentally, one of those e-mails is mine, but I don't ever check it b/c it's a spam factory. | |||
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| Try not to think of a WHITE BEAR. | |||
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| Nice calculator, though it should be a little more explicit on the page that you are using a reversed byte order on the right and a normal byte order on the left field. e.g. $FF0800 produces $3F00, but in an assembler someone would want to write LDA #$003F for that color, etc. Maybe I'm a nitpicker, but it wasn't intially clear to me. Useful if you're working in a hex editor but most people who know how to work in a hex editor will swap the bytes in their head anyways. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Work that anyone does has a certain style to it. You would recognize it the moment somebody plagiarized you. I wouldn't worry too much about getting "ripped off" by people simply stealing offsets and other descriptions. I've found people posting my work before without credit, and I pestered them about it. Some things, however, just take too much effort to make everyone do it all over again on their own. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| So uh.... I'm still at a loss to understand how any copyright was infringed. Was it because they were selling a product of another company without exp |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| The SNES9x cheat finder is fine for most basic exercises in finding an address. I found a myriad of addresses in Megaman X within minutes using it. There are a few quirks of using it but once you know them it's pretty versatile. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Not sure exactly what the problem is. Can you start from a fresh rom and produce the behavior in maybe 3-4 steps without modifying anything else? If you can give me that I might be able to help you. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by trashykins B/c not all of us care about this platform or this game. But even as i don't care that much about it, I'm glad they've taken their project this far. (In the sense that I'm happy to see people succeed) (edited by MathOnNapkins on 10-26-06 06:04 AM) |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Using a scientific principle of control (modifying only certain things while leaving other things constant), you would see that you are in fact wrong that the X and Y coordinates don't matter. Unknown 1 and Unknown 2 don't seem to effect any of this behavior. As for calculating what the X and Y coordinates should be... well that doesn't seem that intuitive. However, if you turn on "grid" and also check the "overlays" box you basically find the coordinates as detailed below. (This combination of checkboxes makes the grid chop up the screen into 16x16 boxes instead of 32x32 ones.
start counting in each direction from the upper left. The coordinate you need is the 16 x 16 pixel box that the upper left quadrant of the door resides in. The first square on the left is zero, then the next is one, and so on. Count up until you reach the upper left quadrant of the door and you will have your answer. e.g. if you have to count to box 19 from the left then the X coordinate is 19. Shame seph3 didn't take the hassle out of doing this. (edited by MathOnNapkins on 10-26-06 08:02 AM) |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| You can mess around with the feature called graphic schemes a bit to tweak everything to your liking. I don't know if something that drastic is necessary though... you might have some luck just toying around with the sprite gfx # in the dungeon editor. | |||
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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I'm not big on how the overworld works, but I do know this - the internal SNES hardware is such that each tile is set to have priority over certain thing and some are not. This is not necessary hardcoded into Zelda3, but it is "hard data-ed," if that's even a word. To solve that problem I just copy pasted the structure from the top corners of that section (where the existing doors are). Those specific 32x32 tiles would obviously be known to have priority over sprites, whereas, say, the blue floor would not have priority, which is why you see Link instead of him slipping beneath a blue opaque cloud  . Basically, use tiles that are known to obscure Link b/c that is your best option at this time. Other options may come about later since I'm working on an editor but it's not even close to being done. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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On the main part of the expanding tree in HM's user interface, at the bottom is "graphic schemes." I wasn't even totally aware of what it did until Orochimaru pointed it out to me about a month ago. Basically you'll have to play around until you find the sprite graphics that go with what you want. I'm not too knowledgable about the particulars, and it's somewhat irritating that seph3 didn't implement sprite placement to where you could see the exact sprites before loading up the rom to play it. (in other words, no what you see is what you get type editing  ) |
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MathOnNapkins 1100 In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| That's the same version as the one I'm using. Though... that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. If you can't find it I could send it to you.
edit: Using those sprites indoors is not looking very promising atm. I'm pretty sure graphics are handled pretty differently between dungeons and the overworld. This may be harder than it looks to pull off, even if you have graphic schemes at your disposal. The graphic schemes seems to be for the overworld, and not for the dungeons  .(edited by MathOnNapkins on 10-26-06 10:55 AM) |
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| Double click on the right hand side in the overworld editor on a particular 32x32 block. Then in the right hand side of that dialog box, double click on a particular 16x16 block. I would think that your version should have this. |
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