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Sliver X                  Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| This should be better.
Oh yes, and here's a link to a non corrupt archive of Townedit: Townedit And another useful utility: DW1MDE (edited by Sliver X on 11-23-05 02:19 PM) |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| This is due to a bug in FFHackster itself: I recently ran into it myself, though the pattern was slightly different from what yours is. You just simply have to blank that tile back to black to get around it.
The standard map editor is by far the buggiest part of Hackster, as I've ran into 3 or 4 issues with it over the course of hacking Dragoon X Omega II (Two of which I would consider fatal bugs). |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Dragoon X Omega II doesn't expand the ROM. Also, this is a much more recent source of information regarding it. | |||
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker 1, 2 Google, much like the internets, is hard. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Homebrew ROMs are completely legal; there's nothing a company can say about them, unless it does something to bypass some kind of copy protection mechanism, which could potentially fall under the DMCA.
There are also once commercial games that have been given to the public domain/freewared by the copyright holders; Elite for NES is one game I can think of off the top of my head that falls under this category. Once again, unless there's some kind of distribution limitations attached to the release of a game, you can download these with impunity, because it's totally legal. Also, though Nintendo battled in the courts to outlaw copiers, to varying sucess, dumping a copy of a game you own will also result in a legal ROM, so long as you don't distribute it, and destroy the copy if you sell/give away the original media. This falls under Fair Use, which sadly is a concept being raped by the music and movie studios of late. ROM hacking, on the other hand, it a very grey area. I'm not so sure if it's the actual hacking that's of shady legality, or the fact that you probably have a copy of a game you don't own yourself that you're hacking. IPS files *should* be legal, because it only contains changes made by the hacker. However, as a previous post said, ripping sprites and such from other games and pasting them in is most definitely some kind of copyright/trademark infringement. Expanding a ROM will also tend to put original code into an IPS file, so you're distributing code that's still protected under copyright. Why, I'm not very sure. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| <Shitty hacks no one should care about> <one or two decent hacks, probably mentioned unintentionally> | |||
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Personally, I really like it. The only gripe I have is that the version of Dragoon X Omega on the page is v1.0 (2000), not 2.0f (2003); much was done to the game between them.
Also: "We don't have many of you in our community at ROMhacking.net and we'd like to get some of you over there." Consider me moved; This place usually just makes me sad anymore. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| The term "Hacking" in regards to electronics in general goes back for *decades*; before digital circuits, even; modifying analog electronic circuits was called hacking.
Basically, hacking something is figuring out how something works, then making alterations based on said aquired knowledge, usually with the pretense that you have no documentation whatsoever on how the hacked object works. Yes, this is reverse-engineering, yes this is "modding", but the term Hacking has been in use for so long that I think it's basically retarded to go on some holy mission to change the term (Like 99% of anyone who hacks anything even knows, or cares, that this place exists; most of the ROM hacking community itself doesn't even come here). People who confuse Computer Hacking (Like OMG, L33t H@X0r stole my mega hurts) with the traditional meaning of the term are usually very computer/technologically ignorant in the first place... If it's some kind of stigma that ROM Hacking happens to use the term in the correct sense, who cares? |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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A string of asine and retarded posts have been recently initiated by one BGNG, slapping a heaping mound of ghey on boards already plagued with said gheyness. Plan of Action The mature thing would be to ignore this douchebag, bug as he/she/it seems to thrive on drama and refuses to acknowledge that most of he/she/its points are stupid and not even worth arguing about, I am compelled to make a statement exp Final Words You are a moron, and nobody cares about anything you say. Go back to making third rate F-Zero editors and keep your opinions about anything to yourself. The world at large will thank you. Also, suck my balls. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| He's talking about Dragon Warrior, which unlike FF has variously sized maps. Resizing them is very easy, but the trick is to actually make space for the bigger maps (DW is only 80KB).
Also, I don't know if you've read this, dormento, but it may be of some use. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| A sloppy hack indeed; the copy of SMB1 that was all over the internet in the mid to late 90s was from a pirate cart of the game; You can notice this due to the fact that the title screen has been removed.
And since most SMB1 hacks were done back around then, they were based on this pirate dump, which is why they tend to have the world 0-1 glitch as well. (edited by Sliver X on 03-18-06 06:37 PM) |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Yeah, I got a letter from them as well:
From: nintendo@noa.nintendo.com Date: March 31 12:52:29 PM PDT To: worldmachine@panicus.org Subject: Mario Adventure Infringement of Nintendo Intellectual Property Rights IDENTIFIED PROBLEM: Copyrighted ROM file on server. Greetings: We represent Nintendo of America Inc. ("Nintendo"), the owner of the trademark(s) and/or copyrighted works listed above (the "Nintendo trademark(s)/works"). It has come to our client's attention recently that you are using the Nintendo trademark(s)/works in the hidden page http://dahrkdaiz.panicus.org. This use is unauthorized, and we are writing to demand that you immediately cease and desist this infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights. Nintendo has acquired substantial rights in the Nintendo trademark(s)/works. Nintendo's customers--including many children and their parents--have come to identify the Nintendo trademark(s)/works with the high quality of Nintendo products. Your unauthorized use of the Nintendo trademark(s)/works will tarnish Nintendo's reputation. This infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights can subject you to sanctions under applicable federal and state laws. Accordingly, you must immediately cease and desist from any and all use of (1) the Nintendo trademark(s)/works, (2) any other Nintendo trademark(s)/works, and (3) any mark which is confusingly similar to a Nintendo trademark. This includes, but is not limited to, your infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property as explained above. I look forward to your immediate confirmation that you have taken the necessary steps to resolve this matter. To that end, you may contact me at either 206‑359‑6742 or StopInfringement@perkinscoie.com. Sincerely, Christie Hamilton Nintendo of America Inc. Consumer Service Department Message(#6851-000372-58283725828) My hosting providers have pulled Panicus.org down, as you can see if you try to access any page on it. I have no idea what's going to happen next. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| No, it's not. My letter was dated yesterday. | |||
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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I think this is even better:
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Is it wrong that I've masturbated while thinking of the Virgin Mary? | |||
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| The title screen in DXOII is a kludge; it's really text, but since there is only one weapon type, etc, I had a lot of free tiles to use for it. You are also limited by the DTE routine, since any value (above?) below $80 will be a DTE string, and not the corresponding tile to that value. Another limiting factor of this was lack of space, due to having to use a ton of blank spaces to make the strips of the logo align vertically.
So yes, it is possible. Easy? Not at all. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| 1.What draws you to the ROM hacking community?
The community? I'm not sure. I hacked ROMs for years before I ever actually talked to anyone in "the scene". ROM hacking itself is a half realized childhood dream of making my "own" video games (I can't code much of anything from scratch in any language). 2. Do you think playing/modifying hacked ROMs should be more user friendly? Playing is braindead simple, and always has been due to the IPS format. As far as hacking goes, yes, I think some aspects of hacking could be more user friendly. While it's true that the great editors tend to result in a huge flood of worthless drivel (See 99% of any of the Super Mario World hacks), the few people who are actually doing something interesting have the capabilities to do things they may not ordinarily have been able to do, as well as severely lowering a lot of aggravation from things that would require a huge amount of manual work to accomplish. 3.What are the advantages/disadvantages of ROM hacking vs. ripped sprites with code written from scratch? Pros? First, the program is already there, so usually any code modifications are only tweaks. There's a vast difference between hacking ASM and creating it from scratch. Secondly, there's just the whole "Wow, I'm hacking an old console game I played as a kid" factor to it all. And if you have a copier or something, you can play the games on the actual system. As for the cons, you're severely limited by the original programming in most cases, are dealing with ancient hardware that also imposes limitations, etc. 4. Do you think there are limits to what people should be allowed to do with their games? Whatever floats people's boats; I just don't get how a lot of ROM hackers expect everyone to like the steaming piles of shite that constitute the vast majority of ROM hacks (NES in particular, though SMW hacks give them a run for the money). You can tell that most ROM hackers are either lazy, immature, apathetic, talentless, or some mixture of the above. The good ones out there more than make up for the noise, though. 5.What do you think about the future of the ROM hacking community? It'll shift more towards SNES and N64/PSX, though the Genesis scene is growing lately. The main problem with PSX/N64 hacking is just the sheer difference in how games are rendered; to make any progress, you have to understand 3D programming, which is a whole different ballgame than the 2D 8bit and 16bit systems. |
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Sliver X Since: 11-22-05 From: Panicus Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Seeing as you can't even read what's on the chip, I have no idea what it is. If it's something made specifically for this, it'll probably be cheaper and less of a hassle to just buy an adapter somewhere, unless you're wanting to do a little electronics project.
The trick is figuring out what they're using, though. |
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