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 Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 469/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Smileys are not one of those things that are better in direct proportion with their quantity...
It doesn't work that way... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 470/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
What's that, MoN? Doesn't sound like you...
I mean, there's a margin between interesting crazyness and plain stupidity... The latter does not belong here... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 471/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Sure... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 472/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Nice, but it still doesn't answer one of my questions: when you contract a loan, electronic money - not gold - is created and added to your account. From where is this money coming from and what is the counterpart of the transaction? |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 473/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Yep, it's done, the first level of Contra hacked using Red Falcon...
40 screens of sheer madness... I'm quite satisfied with my work so far, knowning that it's the result of my work on the editor, and that it could produce something interesting and challenging... The level is 40 screens long, 209 enemies, for an average of 5.225 enemies per screen... I threw in a few AI tweaks, many enemies are more agressive than in the original game... There will be no mercy... You start with 8 lives, and the first extra life happens at 10,000 instead of 20,000. The following extra lives are earned after 30,000 points, as usual. I just couldn't pinpoint the data to change it. I made some extensive use of the mortar, which was not used in the game, and the triple mortar is equivalent to level 3 and 5 scuba diver's weapon. Oh, and I tampered with the 30-lives code. Sorry... The difficulty level is above what you'd expect in the original game. I tried to make the level progressively difficult, however it seems like the game engine itself insists to make it harder as you go on, mostly by sending more Running Man and make them shoot bullets all the time...
It's quite fun to modify levels and configuring enemies with the editor. I'll continue working on other levels odds and ends, especially indoor level data formats... Download: Contra One-Level Demo ROM used to create patch: Contra (U) [!].nes Comments and questions are welcome! |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 478/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
What exactly is this test? I want to try it with Safari... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 479/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
If it's real money as you say, and that the electronic part is just a way of telling you how much you have, where does this money come from? From another person's account? No, I doubt it. A special bank account with infinite money, like in Monopoly? Maybe. If it's the case, it means the bank can charge you interest on infinite money? |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 481/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Where does the money come from, then? That's my question... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 482/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
It all depends on the incentive to get new staff... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 483/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Banks don't lend other people's money, that's why I ask the question... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 484/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
That's a key point of our banking systems, in my opinion...
If the bank can't take money from my account to lend to somebody else, where does it come from? |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 486/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
If you consider Contra 93 a real hack, then this one would be the second one in existence...
Unless there are others that I don't know of... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 487/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Posted by "NightKev" When you go to the automatic guichet, does it say on the screen: "Sorry, Mr. NightKev, your money is being lent to Mr. Doe, come back later". No, of course... But let's assume, as you say, that they "make" money with my money. What is created in exchange? Example: if I bake a cake and sell it to you, there is two parts in the exchange. You receive my cake, and I get your money. Cake <-> Money. But now you're saying that banks are doing: Money <-> Money? It doesn't make sense. You think you can buy 6$ for 5$? If you could, you'd be rich in no time. Pretty cool... Posted by "Skreeny" Aaahh?... They have fantom money? And they charge you interest and fees on fantom money? Money that "doesn't really exist"? Wow. That'd be cool if I could do that, right? Hey, Skreeny, here I lend you invisible money, at 16% interest, what do you think? Do you think this makes sense? |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 489/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
The image itself is not THAT bad, IMO, but the phrase "a miserable little pile of drama" is not relevant anymore... It just gives the impression that the forum is not what it actually is... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 490/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Exactly. I've seen that a few times, it's possible that a JSR doesn't come back to where it was called, because the routine it points to pulls a byte from the stack two times and jumps to the address using the two bytes. But there's no way you can tell until you know the ROM well. There are even blocks of code that end with BNE or BEQ...
The first oddity looks like an indirect address fetch. It could be that, just next of the RTS, there's some data table, and the offset variable is known to be always more than 0. It's made this way sometimes when the variable values are not zero-based... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 492/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Yeah, I vaguely heard about it... But since they can create money in it (according to Black Lord), without any counterpart, we have to call it fraud. Just like those who make counterfeited money...
Posted by "boingboingsplat" If this is true, it effectively connects to what I said earlier. The bank uses this money to "buy" money. Do you think it makes sense to buy money? If you can buy 6$ for 5$, then you can't call it money anymore, since money is supposed to be the means between goods, not goods itself... Here, a conversation between a client and the bank clerk: - Hi, I'd like to buy 120$, please. - Sure, hold on a second. The clerk types on his computer... - It will be a total of 133.26$. - Okay, can I pay cash? - Sure. So the guys gives 133.26$ to the clerk, and the clerk gives back 120$ to the guy. |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 493/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Posted by Kawa Usually, I'm on serotonine, but you don't need to get it somewhere, you produce it naturally. I keep a bag of chocolates handy all the time in my house... More seriously, it's not a question whether I'm on something or not. The situation I depicted is obviously pushed to ridicule, but the principle is always the same: You can not buy moneyWhen someone lends you an amount of money and expect a greater amount in return, this person is buying money... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 495/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Posted by NightKevPosted by TraxNo. Look. Yes. It's counterfeiting. It's equivalent. Stop bickering like a child. Creating money out of thin air is equivalent to counterfeiting, even if it's in electronic form. Money, by definition, must be the result of a transaction...
When you put money in the bank, it's the bank's duty to give you back the amount whenever you ask for it. That's how it's supposed to work. That's the contract between you and the bank... But okay, let's suppose they do what they want with the money in your account. What if they lose it? Do they have a debt towards you? Where will they take the money when you come to the counter and ask for the entire content of your account? Let's go back to "buying money". You're saying that they do something with the money in their client's accounts. What do you think they're doing with it? They lend it? They gamble with it? If they lend it, they ARE buying money, because they expect more money than before, through interests... Posted by "BoingBoingSplat" If this is true, it's the equivalent of buying money. Give 100$, expect 105$. You just bought 5$. And nothing was produced in the meanwhile. And the bank made no effort. No work...
From what I read, this concept is (was) known as the minimum reserve, or "reserve ratio". To the last news, the ratio was at 70:1, which means a bank can lend 70x more money than they have. This is "fantom money". But this is prior to 1994, after what the ratio was simply abolished. This means the banks don't have any restrictions from the law anymore. Nowadays, I think their ratio is somewhere around 180:1. But they could make more or less if they wanted... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 497/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
No, the other way around. The bank (or any other lender) buys money because they lend 100$, and demand 105$ afterwards. And even worse, they do it with fantom money (stated previously). And you still think it makes sense? |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 498/1145 EXP: 3035931 Next: 131183 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3627 days Last view: 2879 days |
Their money? How is it theirs? Someone earlier said that it's the bank's clients money they are using. But another one said that money is created at the very moment they lend it to you. In other words, they create money out of nowhere, ping!, and lend it to you, and they charge you interests. No work, no effort, no sweat, no risk. Now, I ask you a question. If you could create money indefinitely and charge people interest on it, at any rate of your choice, do you think it would be fair for the others?
And where this percentage is supposed to come from? You pick it in a money tree? Suppose that the initial 100$ you borrow is real money. The 5$ added to it, as interest, is created from nowhere. It didn't exist before. So where are you supposed to find this 5$? |
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