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HyperHacker
Posted on 04-09-07 08:36 AM, in Super Mario Universe III - The West Key Islands Link | Quote | ID: 25093

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They're just a translucent layer 2.

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Posted on 04-09-07 08:40 AM, in Undocumented autoscroller! Horizontal AND vertical! Link | Quote | ID: 25095

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Posted by BMF54123
Sprite EB also seems to be an unused scroller. Setting it at Y=0 with Extra Info=0 causes layer 2 to endlessly fall straight down very quickly, while Y=0 with Extra Info=1 causes it to endlessly rise upwards. Pretty useless, since layer 2 wraps around and shows garbage.
Is there any way we could prevent that garbage?

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Posted on 04-09-07 08:43 AM, in Lotsa people fail at Mario Kart DS. Link | Quote | ID: 25097

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Posted by Doritokiller
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I rarely play it, because it takes like half an hour to find someone to play against (which happens only on worldwide, anything else you can forget about finding anyone at all), and then another half hour to do the same again because it disconnected as soon as the race started.

That's a huge exaggeration. I can usually get a 2-3 person race in a couple of minutes or less. The quickest it has taken was about 10 to 20 seconds.
Well aren't you lucky. For me it's at least 15 minutes on average, at best 3 to 5.

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Posted on 04-09-07 08:52 AM, in Funny vidio game moments Link | Quote | ID: 25101

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In Mario 64, falling into the snow/sand in such a way that only Mario's legs are sticking out. Somehow, I was once able to get him stuck that way right above the door to the upstairs in the castle too. He couldn't get out either, had to reset.

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Posted on 04-09-07 08:57 AM, in The ONO Thread Link | Quote | ID: 25102

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1426. GameFAQs' ads. Transition pages ftl.
1427. Anti-hotlinking scripts. Kinda like burning down the city to stop a shoplifter.

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Posted on 04-09-07 12:33 PM, in The NEW General Project Screenshot / Video Thread EX Omega Supreme++ (rev. 2 of 04-09-07 12:38 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 25124

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Posted by Stifu
Awesome work, HH. I can't see how I could possibly release my editor before you, now.
Well that depends on motivation and whether I keep working on this for a while or move on to another project for a while. 3D editing is difficult; an actual editor is still a ways off.

I've been considering how one would actually edit things. 3D editors' interfaces always seemed akward to me; it's just not easy to work with a 3D world using a 2D interface. I got to thinking instead, what if the program was controlled by Wiimote? You'd have a hand on the screen that moves just as your real hand would when you move the controller; use B to grab things and pull them around, etc. It'd be almost exactly like actually reaching into the world and manipulating it with your hand. The only downside is, you'd need to have/buy a Wiimote, a compatible Bluetooth adapter, and likely a copy of BlueSoleil (unless there's some free alternative) since Windows' built-in Bluetooth support doesn't seem to like the Wiimote with most adapters. :-/ It'd be a hell of a lot easier to use, not to mention code, than a mouse. I'm sure I could add some form of mouse control, but it'd probably suck.
Of course there are plenty of other cool things you can do with a Wiimote on your PC, so it may be worth the money anyway.

As for rendering, there are only a few things to fix now:
  • RSP command interpretation. Each level includes, in addition to the level script that builds the geometry, an RSP command script that does other things. In some courses, such as Mario Raceway and Rainbow Road, this sets the texture for most of the track. It also seems to be responsible for all polygon translucency (not to be confused with texture translucency). Hence, Rainbow Road is still opaque and half untextured. There's very little info on how these commands work, so it's difficult to implement them correctly.
  • Z-fighting problems. I can't seem to work out why but polygons that are close to eachother, such as the water at the foot of Koopa Beach's waterfall, like to flicker in front of eachother as you move the camera. Some sort of floating point accuracy problem, I suppose. OpenGL does all the depth testing though, so I can't easily fix it.
  • Culling. Some tracks use it, some don't. I suspect this is handled by those pesky RSP commands.
  • Framerate. It's pretty slow. :-/ I should probably look into how the game decides which areas to render (notice if you jump over walls, especially in Wario Stadium, parts of the track you normally couldn't see from where you jumped from aren't rendered until you land) and add the ability to only render one at a time.
  • 2D objects, item boxes, etc.
  • Animation, such as waterfalls.


Fortunately these are mostly minor issues and likely not too hard to fix, except the RSP commands.

BTW, I notice comparing these images that the game's render appears slightly darker and has a different perspective (the light is at the top of the screen instead of the middle when the camera is in approximately the same place). There's also a glitched polygon near the light. However, the brightness is probably an emulator oddity, I see no real reason to fix the perspective (but might anyway), and I can't get that glitch to reappear so it was probably just my dumb video card.

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Posted on 04-09-07 12:44 PM, in Funny vidio game moments Link | Quote | ID: 25125

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Posted by Jeshua
Niqi: So my dad is on a lvl of Tomb Raider
Niqi: and hes really high up, he's been climing stairs for ages
Niqi: and hes finally at the top
Niqi: so he goes and kills some gorrillas and alligators
Niqi: and hes walking on a ledge
Niqi: when out of nowhere a BAT jumps out at him, he jumps off the edge, and she falls screaming to a bloody death
This brings back terrible memories of Zelda OoT. Goddamn fire/ice keese!

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Posted on 04-09-07 12:52 PM, in The ONO Thread Link | Quote | ID: 25127

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1433. Staying up until 5AM when you didn't really want to.
1434. The Enter key being next to the apostrophe.
1435. Certain typos: duck/dick, shot/shit, disk/dick, as/ass, sec/sex, etc. These are "fun" when trying to have a serious conversation.
1436. My computer being crappy.
1437. The opening themes to various TV shows and (moreso) animé dubs.
1438. Porn sites with misleading, vague, or very-close-together links. You find yourself looking at something disgusting because you meant to click the link next to it, you thought they meant something else, or you just had to know what the hell that could be referring to (especially when it turns out to be the name of a kids' TV show ).

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Posted on 04-09-07 12:54 PM, in Random Gif Animations! Link | Quote | ID: 25128

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Posted by sirhax0r
WIN
I was going to reply in exactly the same way, but I already did so in a different thread today. Didn't want to overdo it.

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Posted on 04-09-07 09:28 PM, in The ONO Thread Link | Quote | ID: 25192

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1451. "Just friends". Keitaro, Xk, we're "just friends" right? When was the last time I made you guys anything for Valentine's Day?
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1445. The whole "quotes at the end of a sentence go after period" thing.
Yeah, screw that.

HyperHacker
Posted on 04-10-07 04:37 AM, in Professor who criticized Bush added to terrorist watch list Link | Quote | ID: 25374

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wtf admin abuse

Seriously, two problems I see here. One, he gets added to the no-fly list for dissing Bush. Two, they still let him on the plane!

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Posted on 04-10-07 04:45 AM, in Potsing from Sweden Link | Quote | ID: 25377

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Let's all just go to Animé North 2007.

If this did happen (yeah, right ) would it be open to all members or invitation-only?

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Posted on 04-10-07 04:48 AM, in Why I use Firefox Link | Quote | ID: 25378

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Posted by Chef Stef
Also, Firefox will always send my downloaded files to the desktop (though I suspect that I simply didn't bother looking hard enough for an option to change this).
No, you didn't. It's under Downloads.

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Posted on 04-10-07 05:06 AM, in So... What's your Wii Fitness age? Link | Quote | ID: 25381

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I tried once and got like 83 or something. The controls seemed to be very broken (batting backward, swinging the golf club toward my head, etc).

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Posted on 04-10-07 05:14 AM, in The ONO Thread Link | Quote | ID: 25382

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Posted by Kernal
Posted by Higsby
1459. When you reach a really hard part in a video game and you have to complete it to proceed.


1464. Final boss fights that are 100 times more difficult than the rest of the game.

1490. Bosses or levels that are 100 times more difficult than the rest of the game, but aren't the last (or aren't even close).

Posted by Koitenshin +∞
1482. People who do any of the following in public:

1)Scratch their groin
2)Scratch their butt.
3)Pick their nose.
4)pick someone else's nose.
ROFL.

Posted by Higsby
1483. When I miss an episode of a show I like.

1491. When I miss the first 10 minutes of an episode every time it comes on.
1492. The fact that dialup still exists.

HyperHacker
Posted on 04-12-07 06:23 AM, in Why I use Firefox (rev. 2 of 04-12-07 06:26 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 25973

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Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox and see.

Tabs are nice, yes. They're like a way of categorizing individual documents/views, like a sub-taskbar. I have my taskbar vertical to get the most space out of it, and still tend to fill it up, so being able to have the 8 web pages, 32 source code/text files, 4 AIM conversations and 12 Photoshop documents I have open at once take up only 4 buttons on the taskbar is nice. (OK, I usually don't have this much open, but it happens.) I can be a bit anal about my screen space, moving things to pixel-precise positions and sizes. I also love having things like Gaim and Winamp in the tray since I don't use them as often.

As for downloading, I do tend to use my desktop as a temporary file dump, but if I know where a file is going to go and I intend to keep it, it's more convenient to just navigate to the right place from within the browser.

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Posted on 04-12-07 06:37 AM, in ITT we reveal setz's days as a little turd! (rev. 2 of 04-12-07 06:41 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 25976

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I've suicided a few accounts on boards that have gone to shit, and been banned from here once or twice as a joke, but I don't recall any others. Oh, wait, there was some anarchy/general stupidity board I hung out at when I was 14 or so, that banned me for knowing too much (read: knowing how to work around a "maxlength" HTML attribute and creating very long thread titles). By then I realized how dumb the subject matter was anyway so I didn't care to go back. (Really, I just enjoyed reading peoples' stupid plans to commit stupid crimes ("lol how i build bombs"), and discussing how to hack a school computer. )

There are no records of either but my very first venture onto any sort of electronic forum was a town-wide BBS using the school computers. I don't even remember any of my posts, and it got shut down after a while. IIRC, my first foray into the actual Internet was on some random site's Java-based IRC channel, where I used the name "BoWzR". I also had a Hotmail address under my real name, but quickly moved to pika98765@yahoo.com because Hotmail was utter garbage. (Another of my early screen names.) I started using Mozilla and Yahoo eventually started only supporting IE, so I got an account at lakmail.com (some service based in Sri Lanka, the first free service I found that wasn't Hotmail or Yahoo). I don't recall why but I eventually went back to Yahoo as micros0ft_hater255@yahoo.com (lol!) and later to Gmail.

I think the first forum I joined was CMGSCCC.com, a code hacking site. It was a nice place back then, met some good people there, probably would have gone out with one of them if she didn't live in Pensylvania. I eventually just plain stopped going there in favour of GSCentral, and stayed there for a long-ass time until Rune killed it a few months back. At this point I waited a few weeks for Kodewerx to fix their broken IP ban list that classified me as a spambot, and joined there.

When I made my first ROM hack ever (which I don't think I have a copy of, but it might be out there), which turned Mario into a girl in SMB1 using NESTicle, I wasn't familliar with the concept of ROM hacking. I asked about it at GSC, they directed me to Zophar.net's crappy forum. Someone there pointed this place out to me, I think it was still an EZBoard at the time, or at least a very early build of Acmlmboard. I don't recall ever signing up, though I meant to, and it eventually went down. Someone else on Zophar's pointed me to Total Animé Forums (a Pokémon hacking site which I think is still around under some other name), and someone there eventually pointed out that acmlm.overclocked.org was back up, and I joined.

You should be able to fill in the blanks fairly easily from there.

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Posted on 04-12-07 06:46 AM, in When is something "passion" and when is it "crazy"? Link | Quote | ID: 25979

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Perfectionism: Spending hours getting everything pixel-perfect for some personal/low-traffic site nobody cares about.

Passion: Spending hours getting everything pixel-perfect on what is to be your portfolio; a page you might show to someone as an example of your design skills, or even just one someone might stumble across and ask you to design something for them.

Crazy: Spending hours trying to get everything pixel-perfect in IE.

This thread title reminds me of an old joke: Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken.

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Posted on 04-12-07 07:35 AM, in Acmlm's Town Square 9 Link | Quote | ID: 25988

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Yeah, my high school had some shit-tastic rules and general idiocy.

  • Wearing a hat is a 3-day suspension.
  • Starting a fire is a 3-day suspension.
  • Swearing, or saying things that sound like swears, is anywhere from a one to 5-day suspension. There was no official statement on how the length was detemined, it seemed to be random.
  • I was once nearly suspended for using Notepad on the computer, because the librarian didn't recognize the program and feared it was a virus. As you might expect I did get kicked off them a few times, despite that I was taking a programming class. I actually ended up turning in a few programs on paper, but after a few days the teacher decided to let me use the computers anyway, disregarding the ban. That guy was awesome, and had a tendency to randomly buy every student a slice of pizza (not very often though).
  • Nobody in the school save for the librarian, two teachers who taught the computer classes, and a few students had anything close to a clue when it came to computers. They threatened to call the police and report that I was putting antifreeze in the hard drives when they found me with a disc labelled "antifreeze" (a Deep Freeze removal script and some other junk). Yes, I'm referring to the liquid here.
  • Every single member of the administration was female. This meant guys generally got shafted, the washrooms in disrepair, etc.
  • You could be failed for any reason whatsoever, including none.
  • Incomplete assignment = fail. You can get 100% on every other assignment and test, but fail to turn in one, and you get an F (or "R" as they called it for some reason).
  • If you were more than one minute late, you'd be sent to the office. They'd never actually get around to addressing you though. You'd just sit there until the bell rang, then leave for the next class.
  • Skipping detention is a detention, and that's it. No penalty for skipping repeatedly. However, I still went occasionally just because I had nothing better to do.
  • At first, you weren't allowed to eat during detention, which took up the entire lunch period. However, when I pointed out that the law required them to give students a chance to eat, and we weren't allowed to any other time, they changed their minds on that pretty quick.
  • One teacher had a policy that you could only take 5 bathroom breaks during the entire semester, and had to sign in and out on a sheet on the wall to track it. Nobody ever did though, and he didn't seem to notice. Many had you write the times you came in and out (with no limit to how often), but even then people just filled in fake/nonsense times.
  • Every student had to take a literacy test to graduate. I failed the first time because they lost half of my work and claimed I hadn't done it. >:
  • You had to use school-issued locks on your lockers, even though they didn't work (just give a good tug and they come right open). Nobody seemed to care that I put on my own though, which used a key rather than a combination. When I did use a combination lock, I gave them the combo backward or in hex (hey, they should have been more specific ); if they wanted to root through my things I was going to know about it dammit. Nobody in that building was trustworthy, things often went missing and were never investigated.
  • Once when I was in class, some kids were selling drugs. The teacher saw them, and told them to do it outside. Didn't care that they were selling drugs, only that they were doing it in class.
  • At one point the fire alarms stopped working, so they had some people come in to repair them. This meant there were a number of false alarms throughout the day as the technicians worked on and tested the system, and they were warned this would happen in advance, but they let classes continue anyway. So what if one of the many pyromaniacs takes this opportunity to actually light a fire? Yeah.
  • Hall passes were "required", but nobody cared because teachers rarely actually gave you one.
  • When something happened between two people, the guy with the most friends was always right, because both peoples' friends would lie in their favour and somehow the teachers never managed to realize that these people are good friends, that their stories don't add up, or that they weren't even nearby and could not possibly know anything about the incident.
  • "Zero tolerance", the dumbest rule ever. If some idiot just runs up and starts punching you, you are required to stand there doing nothing until a teacher stops them or you both get the same punishment. I'm not sure how this was supposed to stop fighting, as it meant you got in equal amounts of shit whether you did nothing (because even if you did stand there doing nothing, they'd still consider it a fight because "they didn't see the whole thing and you could have done something before they arrived") or knocked the idiot on his ass, so people tended to choose the latter. They finally got rid of this policy in favour of cameras the day I graduated, as if to say "fuck you" one last time.


There were a few dumb incidents in grade school I can recall too:
  • Some idiot brought a fake (but realistic) gun to class. The teacher just came up and asked him to hand it over. Real smart.
  • You had to take music class, no matter what. It didn't matter if you failed every one of them though, which I did. I suck at music and the teacher was a total asshole, so I didn't care.
  • Teachers were supposedly allowed to permenantly confiscate (read: steal) anything, and one tried to once. I just grabbed the thing off their desk at the end of class and left. They couldn't do squat.


Man, Ontario's school system is a load of crap.

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Posted on 04-12-07 07:37 AM, in YourNintendoWii4Free.com - Assist? Link | Quote | ID: 25989

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Posted by setz
"proof" that it works.

is it just me or does that look insanely photoshopped
I see a guy with an iPod pasted over his hand and a white thing that looks nothing like anything Wii-related floating in the corner.
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