Originally posted by Waddler-D-neko

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I guess what was disappointing with MKDD in general. The music for me, it just didn't have the good notes that the earlier ones did and the fact that they reused 6 themes. That got old for me.

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Originally posted by Zem

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A better question might be "Why is my post text dark blue when most of the color scheme backgrounds are dark?"

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Originally posted by BGNG

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BONUS: Favorable Hacking Technique #4½: Binary Elimination via Corruption
Fancy words! You can exponentially locate resource data in a ROM by carefully corrupting the ROM. Start at the end and work your way to the beginning, since game program data is typically at the beginning of the ROM. Set the entire second half of the ROM to 0x00 using a corrupter. Load the result in an emulator. If your resource did not change, then you know that it is in the first half of the ROM and you can repeat the process. If your resource did change, then you know that it is in the second half of the ROM and you can repeat the process. It's a win/win!

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Originally posted by Celice

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I still stand by what I said yonder days ago: Converge the two worlds, so to say. For example, in World 2, Mario could be in a mountain path. Then, in World 5 for Luigi, Luigi finds himself in the same world, although it's... different. Perhaps a canyon Mario used collapsed and now Luigi has to find a new path. Or maybe a monsoon came through and there's a huge storm, forcing Luigi into some ruins. Or maybe just some huge apocolyptic event deforming all of Mario's levels, causing Luigi to have to play through in a new light.

I love those kind of things <3

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Originally posted by Parasyte +

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For hacking, be sure to pick up BGB, an emulator with probably the best GameBoy debugger available. (To hell with that no$gmb crap... it sucks.)

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I was thinking of making one too.

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The only solution to Digital Restrictions Management is for all of us "consumers" (what was once called customers) to refuse to buy anything that is encumbered. And to encourage all of friends and family to do the same.

If we simply roll over and buy the RIAA's and the MPAA's crap, well, we deserve what we get.

But if we all will simply buy *only* what we really want, the vendors will get the message.

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Originally posted by BGNG

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Changing some resources might appear to change the target resource without actually doing so. This is where it's important to think carefully about what you've found. In F-Zero Maximum Velocity, for example, the horizons are made up of a series of different image elements. After corrupting the ROM, let's say the horizon became totally black. Could this mean that part of the corrupted bytes were the horizon definition data? Yes. But don't assume that it is, since it could just as well have been that you overwrote the image data used for the horizon (thusly making it all black) and the horizon definition is actually somewhere else.

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Originally posted by icegoom

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I'm not a big fan of the dithering effect Nintendo used on the water, as it makes anything below the water line look kind of crappy.

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