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 Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 1/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
What a great thread! I love this kind of thing; I even considered becoming a city planner as a kid!
I won't be setting any records for huge numbers. Where I was born in Brooklyn, we lived in house number 5, and then moved to a house in New Jersey numbered 1. Acautlly the street I lived on in NJ was bizarre. On one side of the street you had houses numbered 1, 102, 106, 104, 108, 200, 202... on upward to about the 500s. My house (1) was built long before the others, which were put up after WWII and after it was decided that the north side of the street should be even numbers. So they then put up 102 and 104, but then squeezed a house between those two, and since there were no even numbers available they just numbered it 106. Crazy, but the same guy is still delivering the mail there evena fter 20 years, and he hasn't gone nuts yet. I also lived in an unnumbered building -- my college dorm which was addressed only with the street and then your postbox number. That's just the US. Living in Kyoto, I had a house number which existed but was never used -- stuff was addressed using the street you lived on and then the cross street and direction. Would a letter sent to "5th & Pine, east of intersection" arrive safely? It was certainly easy to understand and to give people directions. Other places in Japan have this bizarre system where the strets are unnamed, but the blocks in between the streets are numbered, and then each building has a number inside the block, so block 50, house 8 in Sakae-machi would be "Sakae-machi 50-8". There are sometimes bigger blocks surrounding those, so you can live at "Adachi 6-17-27" and other such barbarisms. The Kyoto system is much better. When I was in Vienna a while ago I noticed that they would never, ever skip numbers, even if there were miles of space between the buildings. You'd have number 272, then many blocks of empty land, then 274. What happens if they put a house up in that space? Do they have to shuffle everyone's number? Or are there already rules against building anything new? |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 2/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Ah ha, so this is where everyone went!
I was just thinking about how the Acmlm board isn't nearly as good as it was in the old days, and maybe I'm just getting old, but then I get invited to this newer incarnation. Now this is what things used to be like! Bookmarking this one now! |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 3/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
While the original F-Zero games has a set of 256 tiles used in creating courses (they were first assembled into 8x8-tile 'panels'), F-Zero Climax has sixteen separate banks of 256 tiles -- one for each racing venue -- almost all of which are identical.
They could have had some awesome variety in course structures, but instead they settled for the regular stuff and then the fence-like surface of the 'Lightning' courses. No idea why they did this, unless they initially had more grandiose plans and then had to shelve them. |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 4/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
I was born three months early and weighed just 2 pounds and 10 ounces; 15 inches tall (or 'long', considering how they carry newborns). Had to go in an incubator for a few weeks; without 20th-century technology I wouldn't have made it! |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 5/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Or play the Tetris of your choise with a Tchaikovsky CD on! (Or even one of the very fun OCRemixes; I love those.)
I got a similar deal once -- SNES "Extra Innings" for $5.75 and a glass of iced tea. Best $5.75 I ever spent! |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 7/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Already posted this on the "other" Acmlm board (didn't know about this one then!), but here's an advance screenshot of my upcoming Nippon Pro Baseball 2007 Bases Loaded hack:
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 8/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
I'm really grooving on that thin, unobtrusive status bar font. It makes the gameplay area look bigger.
(But you need to do something with the "4"!) |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 9/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Anya, you absolutely should have said 'let me have another look at that PS3...' and then just kept it until they handed the cards back.
What is going on with society when people can jsut announce that they're going to steal something right in the middle of a store and then do it? |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 13/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Googie, thanks for the encouragement! I'm making steady progress; all the player names are entered, all the graphic changes are done, and I've finished the position player stats for 6 of the 12 teams.
Any reason why you like the Base Wars font? 
It's only 6 pixels high and doesn't impress me much. (Super Baseball 2020 has a nice-enough font, though.) I wanted to make the regular numerals only one pixel high so that they wouldn't clash too much with the condensed two-digit numbers (I love those), and also so that the position stands out from the guy's name, which follows it with no space. I think my player lineups are a little easier to read than the original's. This game should be a great introduction for anyone who's wanting to get into Japanese baseball! |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 31/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Daanish Khan is the best name in the world. Seriously. Admit it, you'd rather be Daanish Khan than, say, Bob Johnson!
My actual first name is Mark, which is decent enough but will probably be an 'old man's name' around 2050, since few babies have it these days. My girlfriend and probable future wife has perhaps the most universal female name: Mina. So many languages and cultures have this name; I envy that. |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 32/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
I've always liked Xavier -- my grandfather is named Francis Xavier, and there are few names that start with X in English. So I'd be Xavier if I could choose my own name. |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 45/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Hey Luigi, I just posted a whole pile of Climax story translations over at MFO; only 6 to go! |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 49/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Whoa! Fellow font maniacs! This is passion and absolutely not craziness!
I'm a big stickler for nice-looking fonts and (consequently?) have always love the Macintosh and its generous font offerings. Their old standby Chicago is the best use of 12-dots-per-inch that I've ever seen. The only thing the old Mac lacked was descending numbers, which look great. Why did people stop using them for three decades? Yoru, MS Mincho is nice enough (why Microsoft's version in particular?) but Hiragino Mincho has a bit more style for my taste. And Chinese/Japanese fonts should always be monospaced; the characters were designed to fit into squares. I hate seeing Japanese documents with proportional fonts, and Microsoft made P(roportional) Gothic the default in Japanese Excel, the philistines. ^^; Others I can't live without are Futura (the Baseball Encyclopedia was set in this), Eurostile (always looks modern, except for the extra-wide version), and Sylfaen. I wrote my master's thesis in Palatino with Gill Sans chapter headings. I also have terrible vision and hate hard-coded tiny fonts. The first thing i do when I open my browser is bump up the font size three times. Then I sit five feet from the screen so I dont't get irradiated! ^^; |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 51/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
I'm an inclusivist who thinks that everyone should not only accept both American and British spellings but all of each English-speaking country's slang as well, and feel free to use whichever one strikes their fancy. I myself probably use the American spellings, but not always. Sometimes I go out of my way to write dates in the American way (4/16/2007) because this was the standard when the US was part of the British Empire!
One UK-centric thing I've picked up is to use single quotes rather that double quotes when typing. The single quote is an unshifted key -- easier to type, right? But then when I moved to Japan and had to deal with the terrible-spawn-of-Satan-and-I'm-not-kidding-you JIS keyboards, for which almost all of the non-alphabet keys are out of position, each of the quotes was equally hard to type -- " is on Shift-2 and ' is on Shift-7. Considered going over to double quotes but ended up sticking with the single ones. Also, I place the commas and period outside the quotes (you might think 'that looks funny', but you shouldn't), where they logically belong, despite stickler English teachers insisting that that's wrong. I prefer metric but do not insist on it for others. And while I have nothing against smilies, forum software that forces the very-frequently-used 8 followed by a parenthesis into a stupid smiley with sunglasses is something that needs to be eradicated from the earth. |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 52/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Posted by Xenesis ++ for Skia! This is a great font for menus and GUI windows; I used it on my old Mac for a while. The '1', '6', and '9' in particular look great. |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 53/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
I used to live near Kyoto, which has the formal name 'Heiankyo' (peaceful and tranquil capital), so I picked 'Heian' (peace) as my nickname. I used to append the year of the city's founding, AD 794, but the 'word + number' nickname has that 1993-AOL-user feel to it, so I removed it.
And I've always just put a schwa sound between the m and the l in 'Acmlm', making the a like 'ah'. No idea if this is close to correct or not. |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 55/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Posted by Cirvante Not "thir-BAHN-teh", with that Don Quixotesque Castilian accent? 
Mine is like English "hey", and then "ahn". The "n" at the end is much more nasal than it is in English. |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 56/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
The Bases Loaded: NPB 2007 hack is finally done!
It's not perfect, but it's just about ready for release, so download it and have some fun. Screenshots: 
There are a few known flaws: it looked like there was more space for jersey numbers than there actually was, and in the end I lost two tiles and had to make adjustments. Watanabe of Chiba is wearing #33 instead of #31, and Esteban Yan of the Hanshin Tigers is #29 instead of #92. The other flaw is that sometimes the initial letters of the team names on the screen are incorrect. If the team's name started with B, S, or O, I couldn't figure out how to change the displayed letter without messing up the ball/strike/out indicator. I'm sure this can be fixed, though. The lineups are correct as of Opening Day; some teams have already made adjustments and switched around their rotations, but I left things as they were going into the season. Also, pitch speeds are given in MPH rather than km/h; had no idea how to change this back to metric. Japanese fans can use this game to familiarize themselves with miles. I paid very little attention to skin color, so a lot of these Japanese guys will have darker skin than they do in reality. But the displayed stats (which match up reasonably well with their actual abilities), the team colors, the player names, and the jersey numbers are just about perfect. This should be a good introduction to Japanese baseball. IPS file is here: http://www.geocities.com/heiankyo794/basesloadednpb2007.zip |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 57/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
No; it's a hack of the NES game Bases Loaded which substitutes the teams and players of 2007 Nippon Pro Baseball (the Japanese major leagues) in for the existing players (which were based on the NPB in 1987).
Sorry for not being clearer; I thought everyone knew that Bases Loaded was for the NES! The IPS patch is based on the North American cartridge "Bases Loaded (U)", though I could make one that's based on the Japanese original "Moero! Pro Yakyu" if people wanted it. It's been a while since i released a hack; if there's other essential information I'm forgetting, just let me know. |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 58/126 EXP: 111870 Next: 4289 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5844 days Last view: 5844 days |
Number font = SPIFFY.
(But you might want to take the slash out of the zero; it looks like an 8.) I agree with BooUrns; either lower the difficulty or add some paths so that the player doesn't have to get through all six stages. Maybe open a direct path from 1-3 to 1-6, but make the mushroom houses dependent on clearing 1-4 and 1-5. |
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