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Post #AtdnTeXZ1htJx8ijx2 by [email protected] |
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I need a way to run NES games FASTER |
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Post #Atdnj4lRoD2Fd2ZKJk by [email protected] |
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or maybe just more in parallel.it's taking 15 seconds to run this TAS, with… |
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Post #AtdnsyySBwGcZBNNpo by [email protected] |
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I switched to a computer that's less in my lap, but that's still ~7s a … |
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Post #AtdoUdJl9q8EP9IM5I by [email protected] |
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@foone Sounds like you need more computers. Is bizhawk single-threaded? |
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Post #Atdpw73yly28Qoa5k8 by [email protected] |
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maybe I should just set up some kind of orchestration so I can run it on all my… |
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Post #AtdqHjbefJAw3IduGu by [email protected] |
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or I could get smarter. I don't want to do that. but it's an option |
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Post #Atds4m7wBLLo0ugtKS by [email protected] |
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it turns out being smarter also involves waiting for several hundred NES TASes … |
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Post #AtdsSuSupd1opC0liy by [email protected] |
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@bytex64 I don't think it is, no. Maybe running multiple copies at once is … |
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Post #AtdsWEKBS6RfHlVhiK by [email protected] |
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@foone nes as a serviceis there an amazon cloud nes tier? |
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Post #AtdsWEPr70yxZMAEYS by [email protected] |
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@niarbeht I know, right?I guess I could stuff a headless NES emulator in a dock… |
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Post #Atdsa9k8QaaeEcWMOu by [email protected] |
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man either this game is very resilient to corruption or my script isn't wor… |
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Post #Atdsa9rE0EGGabq1S4 by [email protected] |
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or both |
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Post #Atdt0XdeCxU1sG4HQG by [email protected] |
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the files are identical.MOTHERFUCKER |
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Post #AtdtFvRE0IOe1zapVY by [email protected] |
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yeah I left in one line from an earlier version which broke it. it was carefull… |
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Post #AtdtyKQ0UMCsFRCEK0 by [email protected] |
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@foone they’re exactly where you left them? |
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Post #AtdtyKW27x1kY812iO by [email protected] |
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@yakmoose which isn't what I wanted! I wanted them to CHANGE |
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Post #AtduGMoSKE3kt1EXeC by [email protected] |
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so my plan is that I'm taking an NES ROM and corrupting a kilobyte of it at… |
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Post #AtduJBHXeYiHzcBE8m by [email protected] |
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@foone Yeah, no doubt there will be some tricky state management. |
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Post #AtduLiK7mB4935b0Sm by [email protected] |
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the idea is to skip corrupting any chunk that I know can't affect the scree… |
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Post #Atdur0SMPOMsGQMydk by [email protected] |
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https://github.com/fhoedemakers/pico-infonesPlushmmm. NES emulator for the Pico… |
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Post #Atduxm7e6JM3pnuMfA by [email protected] |
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@foone Maybe a bisection approach would be faster? Probably still start with th… |
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Post #Atdv0Gnp0GazZCpDma by [email protected] |
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yeah that looks like an Interesting chunk. |
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Post #AtdvFX0d1uw8As5o5A by [email protected] |
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@bytex64 possibly, but I'd have to write it, and I'm disinclined to do … |
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Post #AtdvwqcO03WFRVPNCq by [email protected] |
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These two even moreso |
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Post #AtdwGQ8EBYjV5WdQkC by [email protected] |
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I should automate this completely.just randomly pick NES roms, figure out how m… |
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Post #AtdwPpw1cRyTinPvns by [email protected] |
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the real trick would be to figure out how to do it to DOS games. |
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Post #AtdwXIKSRu1xoMOy1o by [email protected] |
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lemme see if TASVideos has a better solution for a DOS emulator since I last di… |
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Post #AtdwbSy4pr1NxwvFbM by [email protected] |
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nope |
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Post #AtdwbWtyD474AN21ku by [email protected] |
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(technically not true: they now also support using libtas+PCem! A horrible hack… |
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Post #AtdwkgssSsjbjStAuW by [email protected] |
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I think I made the game orgasm |
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Post #Ate4kBG6qWbXHW1V7w by [email protected] |
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@foone oh, why don't you just port afl to this architecture??? How hard cou… |
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Post #Ate4kBMUSnhzbJ0b4a by [email protected] |
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@faux that sounds hard and it would need me to be smart. I like computers becau… |
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Post #Ate5GETyOdKoXun86K by [email protected] |
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@foone oh this is really neat |
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Post #Ate5gMnU6ZW9rYNaQS by [email protected] |
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@foone Like UberNES? https://www.ubernes.com/nesscreensaver.html |
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Post #Ate5mgXlbJreqK2ZLk by [email protected] |
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@foone NAAS: NES As A Service |
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Post #Ate5mvRaCapZ3UGLIG by [email protected] |
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@foone accelerate them to the speed of light. Or possibly yourself, I always fo… |
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Post #Ate9VdA7Js2vFW6Mxk by [email protected] |
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@foone this could make for an amazing art installation, especially if it could … |
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Post #AteEOYIfUvEBuhXtFQ by [email protected] |
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I found that if you change byte 50647 to 97 in the ROM, bizhawk gets confused a… |
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Post #AteHYthj4XFt3VtHqC by [email protected] |
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@foone ees yesyees!yess!The ground is very affirmative and enthusiastic. |
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Post #AteOsclGTU29yktpQ0 by [email protected] |
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@foone yes. Do that. :) |
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Post #AteRFq7VAnvPykUxiy by [email protected] |
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@foone nes emulator as a boinc project? |
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Post #AteWyRtsZGizfHDWue by [email protected] |
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@foone "I'll have what she's running." |
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Post #AtelaH04wOZEDn2zB2 by [email protected] |
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@foone fuck the 6502, put a Ryzen 9 in that bitch |
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Post #Aterz9uv0qULDYsowS by [email protected] |
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@jackemled if I had a ryzen 9, I'd happily use it for NES emulation! |
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Post #Ath7dXd0A7Cry58WJM by [email protected] |
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2048 gibberishings later and I think these two are the closest I got to a usefu… |
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Post #Ath8OKGHfxl47hoqA4 by [email protected] |
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automating windows programs is always a nightmare. what does your command line … |
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Post #Ath8bnZe0MO2nYIalU by [email protected] |
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when I was automating some visual studio build machines a decade ago I had some… |
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Post #Ath8gqAdmHMiIe0XkO by [email protected] |
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okay out of 2048 gibberishings on the target chunk (1 kilobyte) I got 166 examp… |
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Post #Ath8nVUn2rseCjbxzc by [email protected] |
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none of which are useful |
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Post #Ath8qH6d0CkiRbd6DA by [email protected] |
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I already knew I wasn't smart enough to hack this game, but apparently I… |
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Post #Ath8vhMApWphJ7UG5g by [email protected] |
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@foone what game is this? |
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Post #Ath8ymh1Rjzyj5i6bY by [email protected] |
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@CowboyWho Clash at Demonhead |
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Post #Ath92NnnvmvUghbAdU by [email protected] |
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@foone you had me trying to figure out what "studio enough" meant |
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Post #Ath9C2ounSjKVbj11s by [email protected] |
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@habbie I'm all too stupid to spell correctly |
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Post #Ath9Z6gsZZz1Amxn2O by [email protected] |
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@foone I loved that game even though I was never good at it. |
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Post #Ath9bnhhcas19hdJ0S by [email protected] |
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@foone I used xdotool and ran the program in wine. Then automating it was so ea… |
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Post #AthAU1jjfE8cJaROwC by [email protected] |
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@foone nah, just not studio enough |
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Post #AthBTWx2DvOUn0zMXo by [email protected] |
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maybe I can make a bot to play the game for me and just make it exhaustively ch… |
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Post #AthBnJxqDc6KIpnpeS by [email protected] |
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you know a project is serious when you need two different hex editors |
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Post #AthBw1SeNk0fWTMY0O by [email protected] |
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@foone I feel this one, minus the context. |
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Post #AthC3EMknftPZd2eNE by [email protected] |
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@foone I have 2 hex editors... I like HxD's UI more, but ImHex binary forma… |
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Post #AthCAuoXNSwpFdhYlU by [email protected] |
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@cr1901 yeah! I use HxD as my main one, but I use WindHex as my backup because … |
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Post #AthCDpjqhlkENVts5Q by [email protected] |
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@cr1901 I tried to load ImHex once and it hurt my eyes. I'm on a high-DPI s… |
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Post #AthCGtSNKyf6mLBbEG by [email protected] |
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@foone What's TBL? :o |
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Post #AthDCIoliYGnwQ2EkK by [email protected] |
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@cr1901 translation tables. useful for NES games and such, which don't use … |
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Post #AthIDuMQ7TCSRFMOqe by [email protected] |
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@foone (Windows 7 opening blocking dialog boxes »behind« every other window) |
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Post #AthIGuIymYxv8RBHJA by [email protected] |
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@foone @cr1901 plugging my own project here... have you tried https://github.co… |
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Post #AthPniDLSLHws58RgO by [email protected] |
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@foone you’re literally describing The Travelling Salesman computational prob… |
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Post #AthZd5YbKK6HckeOdE by [email protected] |
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@foone maybe you can get it running on a Boinc client like seti at home |
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Post #AtlE0bOBimZUeOQVii by [email protected] |
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@solemnwarning @foone Well, I have it starred on GH, so at some point I intende… |
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Post #AtlE0bUvJjxWzHZtDc by [email protected] |
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@cr1901 @foone It has a template language based on the one in 010 editor, I'… |
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Post #AtlE0bc0tNd9LGtYGm by [email protected] |
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@solemnwarning @foone The UI is def better than ImHex (for me anyway). Is it po… |
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Post #AtlE0mxgh8VIXg7W52 by [email protected] |
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@cr1901 @foone There's no API for assigning highlight colours from Lua scri… |
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Post #Aw2n8CHRqpT2mHyrvk by [email protected] |
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huh. Clash at Demonhead uses an encoding with a funny property:characters "… |
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Post #Aw2pDiB2t3dD3mk8nI by [email protected] |
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It's gonna take 51 minutes to extract all 256 variations of this font? Good… |
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Post #Aw2pHpHwODfCH0vkRc by [email protected] |
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Have you ever noticed that the way I deal with long processing times is by post… |
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Post #Aw2q5v1LLpuyWz3LnM by [email protected] |
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@foone 5 font variants per minute seems pretty fast |
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Post #Aw32bkJvruYm3sgtMW by [email protected] |
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I'm always saying this! |
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Post #Aw37S0EcLPbsIHNVcu by [email protected] |
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@foone just-(edit: CONSENTINGLY)-flirted-with-trans-girls be like😁 |
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Post #Aw38MufXi5QJXR6pP6 by [email protected] |
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I found one byte that seems to be half of the pointer I'm looking for but I… |
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Post #Aw397jZCo0GYiRTG40 by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] Boss: "Did you obfuscate the code like I asked?"… |
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Post #Aw3CRRhLFaygx1MqRc by [email protected] |
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@mkoek I don't recall exactly, I think it's something to do with the 65… |
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Post #Aw3FQHk552V5e8mqlE by [email protected] |
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nope, found it. it's just little-endian. |
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Post #Aw3O4hx7qiFy9YfsSe by [email protected] |
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so I have figured out where 1 pointer to 1 dialogue is. that's progress, te… |
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Post #Aw3O7cGVS2iDNn7tey by [email protected] |
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I have been trying (and failing) to hack this game for YEARS at this point |
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Post #Aw3TiP5xsanX1QYZoe by [email protected] |
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@foone So someone needs to create a NESjit like beebjit. How hard could it be, … |
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Post #Aw3Xq9h5QNqjOBs72e by [email protected] |
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@foone it's your white whale at this point |
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Post #Aw3i2NjC4UIhvoKHNA by [email protected] |
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@foone @mkoek yes on 6502 it's much easier splitting pointer tables (I was … |
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Post #Aw3jm9c8ygzNQwQ04u by [email protected] |
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@foone some programmer definitely felt like it |
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Post #Aw3ky7Crr5gvOZrZNQ by [email protected] |
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@foone Are 00-09 also numeric values? That'd be pretty clever if so |
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Post #Aw4Cpo7vhrmwcYNdkO by [email protected] |
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@deater78 @mkoek thanks for explaining! |
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Post #Aw5F6MdZYl8JLvAC5w by [email protected] |
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I should collect my raspberry pis together and build a redundant array of inexp… |
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Post #Aw5F8xJcA7pdge41q4 by [email protected] |
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gotta build an NES Command & Control system |
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Post #Aw5FH92USPykMdxWfw by [email protected] |
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I just set up a job definition and it get automatically farmed out to all the a… |
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Post #Aw5FMDhSYXK8GdXg80 by [email protected] |
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@foone kubernetes and NES emulators "at scale". Need to weasel in the… |
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Post #Aw5FPFpR69PVjoihf6 by [email protected] |
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lemme see if any of the cloud providers can do 6502 VMs |
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Post #Aw5FXlv1fhbta3OcgC by [email protected] |
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@otte_homan I have a policy against doing kubernetes unless I'm being paid,… |
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Post #Aw5FlRlRP1oH7tQwTI by [email protected] |
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@foone OMG don’t give them too much ideas. Can’t wait for dishwasher and wa… |
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Post #Aw5Gb9vYxqr6rgpILw by [email protected] |
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@foone Is that a VM running 6502 architecture, or six thousand five hundred and… |
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Post #Aw5GbA2IYoF9CZyfqq by [email protected] |
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@soviut both |
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Post #Aw5HrIgWGwdWc43C3k by [email protected] |
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@foone What hardware do you want it to have?I think I'd want 64K RAM, less … |
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Post #Aw5U156coQ2kqPgw3U by [email protected] |
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OK I've figured out some bytes that set the palette and portrait, but separ… |
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Post #Aw5pucc02MhNj4gwlc by [email protected] |
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@foone 6502 x 6502 |
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Post #Aw6WBTjUV0BjBYurcu by [email protected] |
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@fooneRetro AWS! "These are our 8 bit datacenters"That would be prett… |
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Post #Aw6hcQuGDL5vjb0cOe by [email protected] |
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okay so there's a 4 byte (at least?) dialogue pointer, which has a byte for… |
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Post #Aw7370XaOCJbydp7aK by [email protected] |
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>python dialogue.pystart_offset=50315,is_bottom=False,palette=4,portrait=48,… |
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Post #Aw73A3vYFqmnLhUQgC by [email protected] |
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start_offset=50327,is_bottom=True,palette=127,portrait=128,address=64864[End of… |
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Post #Aw7D3p6bRp3LBUK4UC by [email protected] |
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switched to an emulator with more debugger (Mesen) and found the code that pars… |
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Post #Aw8LvMfsMazFR4p4QS by [email protected] |
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@foone Hah! |
