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HyperHacker

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Since: 11-18-05
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Posted on 11-23-05 03:12 PM, in What's your school's browser homepage? Link
Some of your schools' tech guys are awesome. Mine uses IE and their boring school site. And get this - lololol is blocked. The reason being, apparently, that their cruddy filter system doesn't catch it. Of course, the block is based entirely on filename (durrrr), so I just install it and rename it to iexplore.exe. BLOCK THAT BITCH.

They even used that one registry hack to put their name in all the IE windows' title bars. Blech. And student accounts have a crappy wallpaper with their logo on it.

It was nice before they started using Deep Freeze, because FF would stay installed, and people always changed IE's homepage to weird crap. I actually like it better with, though, because there's no spyware that way. Of course, I managed to get FF installed before the systems were actually frozen.
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Posted on 11-23-05 03:14 PM, in Have you ever...? (The end! Finally!) Link
Yep. Big mistake. Beating the crap out of someone IS awesome, but being charged for it isn't.

Ever had to call 911?
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-23-05 03:23 PM, in Super Mario Kart AI: I'm confused Link
Holy shit, it's DJ Bouche. I'm guessing you're not going to actually finish that MKSC editor?

Anyway, I know OK Impala was working on a hack with changed AI, but I haven't seen him in a while.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-23-05 03:29 PM, in My SMB Hacks (4)/ Impossinbe mario series Link
I thought the first few looked good, but I agree about the rest. Poor graphics (particularly the fonts, and that out-of-place black stuff in the SMB2 hack) and palettes. I suck at GFX too, so I know how it is, but you have to be able to tell when your work is just no good.

The levels aren't too bad, though. I do agree about the SMW one looking plain. You need to take pictures of more exciting places.

(edited by HyperHacker on 11-23-05 02:31 PM)
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-23-05 03:53 PM, in Team hacking? Link
Actually, in some cases ROM hacking can be more difficult than making a game from scratch. You have to figure out how a completely undocumented engine works given only its executable, and work within its limitations or remove them yourself. True, most ROM hacking is done using premade editors and documentation (by other hackers), but then most games are made by modifying existing code too; for example, Zelda: OoT is built from Mario 64. Also, programmers have more resources like IDEs, programs designed specifically for group work, specialized debuggers, and in some cases entire computers to test on. ROM hackers have whatever freeware they can find or make. (Even if you're willing to pirate, there's rarely any commercial products that come in useful.)

As far as group hacks go, the biggest problem is finding a competent, reliable partner. Since they're doing it for free in their spare time, there's very little incentive to actually do their job, and of course most are already working on their own hacks. I'd like to make a hack based on someone else's specifications, with or without their help, but I'm already working on several hacks/programs and have plans for several more.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-23-05 04:01 PM, in Group hack, anyone? Link
Why try to merge IPSes? LM has file import/export for just about everything it can edit.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-23-05 04:04 PM, in Rain\Snow request Link
I think that'd be especially difficult, seeing as layer 3 graphics have a different format and everything. It'd probably be easier to write your own layer 3 ExGFX system. Of course, you'd need to restore the old graphics somehow.
Originally posted by spel werdz rite
Originally posted by blackhole89
syr but 1 stel hvnt lrnd hou 2 spel
Hey! I'm supposed to be the crappy speller here!

Check the 'edited by' on that post.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-23-05 04:13 PM, in ASM hacks / Custom Blocks / Custom Sprites Requests Link
Yes, except it should reset the slippery flag when you're not standing on one. Just take out that BEQ.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-23-05 04:24 PM, in Call to make a new, LM-like SMW editor Link
Heh, you actually started this? Nice.

Regarding developing the actual editor, I got to thinking that I've already mostly developed one. It's a Pokémon G/S editor (not done yet), but I don't think it'd be too hard to make a basic SMW editor out of the final product. (True, SMW uses coordinate-based objects while Pokémon uses tilemaps, but Pokémon uses coordinates for sprites, so it already supports that system. ) Only thing is, we'd have to wait until the Pokémon editor is done and the code cleaned up a bit (not too much since unlike Fu I try to keep my code nice and clean as I write it) before we could do any major work on the SMW editor.

Of course, we could base it on the current unfinished editor. It edits maps and such fine, but lacks more advanced things like map linking (not comparable to anything in SMW anyway), file import/export, and graphic editing. If the code were kept similar enough, it could probably be copied from one editor to the other fairly easily.

Also there's the fact that this is a pure Win32 editor which uses the raw Windows API and GDI quite a bit, so a Linux version would need large re-coding, or the actual editing logic would have to be external. (Or you can use WINE. I have yet to test the editor on Linux.)

And like I said on AIM, if you want to use LM to find things, you'd be best using an old version as it'd have less ASM hacks. There could be copyright issues, though.

Oh, and to those who say it's crazy because LM took 5 years to get to where it is: Think about where it is and how it got there. It's developed entirely by one person and passed the status of 'complete level editor' LONG ago. Plus, Fu wasn't working on it much in later versions.

(edited by HyperHacker on 11-23-05 03:26 PM)
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Posted on 11-24-05 03:39 PM, in GD GIF Link
Originally posted by Gavin
Although I'm not sure what you were saying about not working on windows systems (never tried it before). Did you mean server-side or client-side?

Server-side.
F:\>/usr/bin/convert -delay 2 -loop 10 /tmp/test*.gif /var/www/html/Tests/Test-Anim.gif
The system cannot find the path specified.

Windows doesn't have such a program... nor a /usr, /tmp or /var directory.

(edited by HyperHacker on 11-24-05 02:39 PM)
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Posted on 11-24-05 03:43 PM, in Libraries and C Link
On Windows, generally you compile a library into a DLL file. Then other programs can load the file and call whatever functions it exports and access any resources in it.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-24-05 03:55 PM, in Have you ever...? (The end! Finally!) Link
You forgot the question.

Ever break down in the middle of nowhere?
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-24-05 06:26 PM, in Luigi vs Mario Demo Release! Link
Looks awesome. Mario's powers sound a bit unbalanced, though. Luigi's seem to have a lot more limitations.
Originally posted by PSlugworth1
after I got a Game Over, it went back to the original SMB3 opening sequence (with Mario catching the leaf, Luigi hitting him with the shell, etc.), which may be a bug or may just be something that's there -- it went back to the character select title screen as soon as I pressed start anyway, so no big deal.


Originally posted by DahrkDaiz

KNOWN BUGS: [...] The game over screen isn't complete, thus, a game over crashes the game.

[...]

KNOWN BUGS: [...] The game over screen isn't complete, thus, a game over crashes the game.


Wow.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-24-05 06:33 PM, in The third group hack thread in about three days Link
I'd do it, but I'd find it difficult to make a really nice level using only SMW blocks. I'd suggest just adding a bunch of custom blocks (make sure it doesn't slow down) and then publishing the list (or better, distribute a patch with no modified levels for each person to build from and send back the MWL files). ExGFX could be a problem as the original GFX are boring; maybe you could do similar with them.

Also, difficulty distribution is a must. I'm willing to bet there ends up being a ton of hard levels.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-24-05 06:53 PM, in Call to make a new, LM-like SMW editor Link
All I see are some images that are down half the time and no information whatsoever on the program.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-24-05 06:56 PM, in Sprite-creating routine disassembly Link
SMW is weird like that. In a lot of 2-byte tables, it stores all the low bytes, then all the high ones. Map16 has low bytes at 7Exxxx and high bytes at the same address in 7Fxxxx.
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Posted on 11-25-05 12:33 AM, in Libraries and C Link
Originally posted by FreeDOS
Yeah, I know what libraries do (and Windows doesn't give anything special but a .dll extension typically), but I don't know how they interact with programs/UIs.

How do you mean? Like actual code to load them?
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-25-05 12:34 AM, in A little problem, hopefully some of you can figure it out... Link
Did you jiggle the cable, try another monitor, etc?
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-25-05 12:41 AM, in Luigi vs Mario Demo Release! Link
Originally posted by PSlugworth
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Wow.


Calm down. It didn't crash the game at all. I just said it went back to the original opening.

He said it's unfinished. You can't predict what will happen when a game crashes.
HyperHacker

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Posted on 11-25-05 12:48 AM, in Super Mario Kart AI: I'm confused Link
When you say every game, does that include the original? Either way, I think it's because of how the levels themselves are designed. In X, they're drawn using a lot of crazy geometry based on a series of points, so it's easy enough to just have the AI follow the same path that's used to draw the track. SMK uses a tilemap, so the game doesn't really have any idea what path the track follows, plus it can split into different paths. It has to have them pre-defined. I imagine it's possible to calculate them mid-game, but that'd take a fair bit of processing power that the SNES doesn't have.

Hm... could there be multiple paths for different difficulty levels and/or characters?

Originally posted by DJ Bouche
lol, I think the most I got done was it to display a level, reading all the gfx from the ROM, in birds eye view.. It's a pretty dead project but I will gladly release the data info when and if I can find it .

I'd appreciate it.
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