I've got a bunch of computer annoyances you can pull.

1. This is like Alt+F4 but opposite.
Lean over to your friend's computer as he's using it and quickly hit and hold for a few seconds Windows+E. Haha, My Computers everywhere!
(Though it spoils the fun a little if he realizes that Alt+F4 can close them quickly.)

2. Hit Ctrl+Alt+Left/Down/Right to flip his display 90/180/270 degrees. That'll piss him off. (Doesn't work on every computer. At least not mine. It does work on my school's computers though.)

3. Hit Alt+Shift+Print Screen then Enter quickly to set it in High Contrast mode, a really annoying looking mode that's supposedly for those with bad eyesight. In my opinion, I think it causes bad eyesight.

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Posted by Bomberman10

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Hey, I'm just saying what okibi told me.

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Oh I didn't realize okibi told you.

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Damn, I liked my password. Easy to remember for me. It's even easy to type in for me!

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Ok, if 5834 is five then i've figured this far out:

5834-01430-5834-78510 goes to
FIVE-??EV?-FIVE-?IF??

So all I don't have now are what 0 and 1 are if what I've deciphered is correct.

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It's my birthday today and I feel happy so I made a quick two-level demo of my game for you all. No fancy overworld because the levels aren't even connected in the true game--this is more like a short level sampler.

Pics:











Here's the download link: super mario eternity-birthday version.zip - 0.34MB

The full version is some time away and I'm not giving any more demos after this. If you want to know how far I am on the full version, I'm in the middle of world 4 out of 7 or 8. I haven't decided exactly how many worlds to put in even though I'm halfway done. Heck, I still don't have the whole overworld done yet but that'll be done soon.

Have fun!



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Ok then if thats the case:

Step 1: I believe this was the unlock the fake rom and figure out what wrong with it. The hint for unlocking it was "Where is the Triforce located?"

Step 2: Figuring out the Three Eye Rock, dragon, and Hojo (?) clan connection. The hint was, "hidden in the symbol" and the question, "So you knew about the rumors of the Triforce in Ocarina of Time? Maybe not, but you knew where the Triforce was kept. Did you know the triforce has a hidden meaning that is derived from an ancient clan? Tell me about this." There was also a picture of a triforce with three 3s hidden in the image as well.

okibi also gave a hint:

Posted by okibi

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If you saw the symbol on step 2, then you probably looked up the story behind the Hojo clan from Japan. The tale is about a dragon who gave three scales (roughly). Three scales are three parts of the triforce, hidden in the picture are 3 3's. The 3 3's relate to the dragons... Valoo, who is supposed (maybe) related to Volvagia, who was once in a game mistakenly called Barba, from Zelda 2. Three dragons, three scales, what else is 3 related to the final dragon... Barba...

That's right, in Zelda 2 he was the boss of Palace 6, which is called ***.

Which leads us to ***.ratedo.com

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Step 3: Step 3's hint was I AM ERROR and also gave a picture of Zelda holding a shield from Minish Cap.

I think Drag had the rest of the hints and stuff because he sent the e-mails.

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1. Two levels isn't much of a demo, but this wasn't a true demo and I've already released one demo here. It's somewhere back on the SMW Hacking page.
2. As for the trees in the switch palace, the level on the overworld is in the middle of the forest so I thought I'd include some forest elements.
3. There are sprites walking in front of all the walk-through walls and I haven't encountered any disapperances.
4. The pallete I found and all I did was recolor the sprites to also look underwater. The original form of the pallete left them alone.
5. I have trouble making levels look underwater if there's no underwater background used. Truth be told, I hate the underwater BG. It looks sloppy and hastily thrown together so I rarely want to use it. Aside from my short rant though, I can't think of a way to have it more underwater-looking. The level it's in goes really fast due to me making the blank land left movement blocks and calling it a strong current so I guess I didn't really worry too much about whether or not it looked underwater because the fish should show that and you'll only be spening about 15-20 seconds there.
6. I'm planning on inserting some true ExGFX into the game for anything that the original graphics can't cover and probably just some general levels as well. I've got some Metroid Zero Mission graphics for a temple I'm going to make later in the game and am looking for some more as I go.

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I've grown up as a margerine kid myself...

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My. God.

In case you haven't heard by now, there was a school shooting today at Virginia Tech University. A gunman entered the West Ambler-Johnson Hall and proceeded to kill one and would two others. Police responded to the scene. Two hours later, in Norris Hall, the gunmen killed at least 20 and wounded at least as many. The gunmen is now deceased.

More info:
CNN.com
FOXNews.com
Also, you can turn on CNN or FOXNews for constant coverage.


My God, I was going down there in 4 days to visit the campus!

I can't believe this happened... They are saying this is worse than Columbine. Is anyone on this board at VTech? Are they ok?

Update: Now 32 are dead, I'm not sure the number of wounded. The VT President should be having a news conference as I type this.

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Posted by Keitaro

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There was no motive or anything? The guy just...did it?

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That's what it seems. I've had CNN on for a while but heard nothing of a motive.

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Yeah, there was one at VT in August. I don't know anything about it though.

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Thompson is a windbag. Any chance he gets he tries to bring flaming fury down on video games for anything that goes wrong. Not all games are bad, Jack. Adults are playing games now too; are you going to start broadening your scope to them or keep focused on the mainstream gamers?

(I had to get that out.)

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Actually, "A Link to the Past" makes perfect sense!

Step #2: You had to link the triforce and the Hojo clan. In the game title, "Link" is the second word.

Step #5: You had to translate the Old Hylian. Old Hylian refers to a past language and "Past" is the 5th word in the title.

Could this be the answer we've been looking for? Someone e-mail this to him quick!

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But did you all ever send "The Golden Land to okibi in an e-mail? We only used it to open the fake rom...

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I'll let the pictures do most of the talking. This would most likely be a mini-hack for me but if I get this working correctly, I'd make it free to use by anyone for a mini or large hack. The biggest issues I face are a potential health bar and lots of graphics changes. Also, how I'm going to fit Samus's sprite into a 16x32 space. (Hers is 24x48 or something like that.)
Other than that, I have an idea for an hidden upgrade in the game and I'm going to use Bio's new Fire HP patch to give enemies health against fireballs (Power Beam shots). I've also disabled spin jump and made even normal enemies like shell-less Koopas (probably Zoomers or Geemers in here) unable to be jumped on.
The way I'm planning on doing samus is that she's always in "Fire" mode and when small she's in Morph Ball. So when she approaches a tunnel I've placed "make Mario small" blocks and on the other side I've placed "make Mario fire" blocks.
I still have to fix level names and stuff, plus add more to the world map. I spent a good deal of time yesterday handdrawing the overworld tiles.

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Man, it's times like this that I knew stuff about code/disassembly/etc. Oh well, I'll just sit back and watch how it goes.

Just thinking, shouldn't this go into its own thread so this one doesn't get derailed? (And also because I wouldn't think of looking for a complete SMW disassembly in a thread about unused level sprites.)

(200 Posts!)

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I know it doesn't have to be, but I just want to try and see how far i get.

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I downloaded DeSmuME, supposedly the best DS emu and then used eMule to get a NSMB rom. When I go to open the game, it loads past the screen where the Nintendo logo appears then gives me a screen saying that it couldn't erase the file and that I should reset it and try again. I can't get past here, even when i tried it in a different emulator (iDeaS) and even on another computer. My guess is that there's someting wrong with the rom I got. Should I just try for a different rom?

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I already have beaten the game on my friends NSMB but I don't see him much anymore to ask for it. I could buy it though. Thanks. This can be closed when a mod sees it.

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Here we go:

Posted by "okibi on ratedo.com"

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4/26/2007 by okibi
The March 2007 Project Zero Contest is over. There was no winner to claim the Zelda III Proto NES rom, so it will become a prize of another contest later. We do still have a few days left this month, so the next contest starts now! The solution to the March contest will be available upon request.

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So now this supposed thing goes to another contest at some other time. Whoop-de-doo. Next time I want to see a print screen of okibi's computer with the rom playing in an NES emulator as some kind of evidence that the thing is real.

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