Whatever.
And if I you want I can help with the processing, I've got a nearly-empty computer lab full of 2.8 GHz machines here. Just put up the ripper executable you're using, a save state, and whatever parameters I'll need (such as what song range I should work on).
edited 9:16 PM EDT October 12, 2005
Oh, and there isn't one savestate, just about 144 of them (the ripper doesn't like the TLB errors)
Hmmm, perhaps i might be able to get it working today...i remember what i patched into them (whats what you get from many hours staring at the same screen - it is burned it my mind.
I'll see what i can do.
Meh, i'll just go home early and start it there. Its too hot in this lab anyway.
edited 9:54 PM EDT October 12, 2005
I FOUND THE MONKEY BALL 2 SOUNDTRACK!!! It can be found here. Yes, it is the same place that Unknownfile posted for the Mario Party 3 OST. They just updated it recently and added SMB, SMB2, and Mario Party 4. So, you guys might would like to check it out.
A big thanks goes out to Unknownfile for posting this link. Thanks a lot.
See you later.
and this thread doesn't really have a topic, that's why I post random stuff here.
It's as close to blogging as I'll get.
edited 10:42 PM EDT October 12, 2005
64th Note has decided that it doesn't like the TLB Misses and that in the recompiler cpu it crashes and burns because of Non-mapped space.
The other option is to make the tracks miss the first fraction of a second (up to like ? a second).
Dang.
And here's the plugin
It might still be a bit buggy though. :P
So therefore, i have decided to use the ones from the sample, plus the special made sloprano, then running the rest of the original ones manually through the ripper one by one.
edited 7:17 AM EDT October 13, 2005
and are you sure you're using the right rsp.dll for the ripper? that bugged me to no end, since I don't have anything to specifically detect the rsp.dll with the trace code built in
Metroid Prime OST
And say NO to gamerips!
What do you think USFs are, in spirit?
edited 12:01 PM EDT October 13, 2005
xSFs are emulated sound formats, IMO.
Be done in no time.
It's true that a lot of gamerips are hampered by sfx, but careful rippers avoid that. Think about the Super Smash Bros. Melee rip, or any other from a soundtest, SSBM is on par with a proper OST release (not that any was ever made...)
I compared USFs (and PSF in general) to gamerips because their goal is the same, to seperate the audio experience from playing the game. When there's no OST or the OST is monstrously incomplete that's your only option. USFs are closer to a direct conversion of whatever native data format the audio is in to WAV, which I'd also call a game rip.
edited 9:42 PM EDT October 13, 2005
Yes, a very fickle beast. Im up to 0x5C
0x5d - 9:46
edited 9:46 PM EDT October 13, 2005
and by "send me" I mean "put in your web space and link"
edited 9:50 PM EDT October 13, 2005
damn, i didn't bring my savestate maker today, only
the savestates themselves. And i don't think it would be approprite to send 25MB of them.
I can try and make another whilst i rip the ones i got now.
0x61 - 9:55
You're right, I misremembered 9A as A9, which I think is the highest (though that one actually crashes, I'm referring again to the GSCentral page.
Well i'll just do the 0x94 i have now and check later for other indicies higher.
Ah, yes it says it freezes at 0x94, so i'll do that later, and assume that 0x95-0x99 work.
0x67 - 10:08
And i am still having that hyperthreading issue when it will only use ~50%.
edited 10:10 PM EDT October 13, 2005
Try two instances on one machine (two different dirs will be necessary).
edited 10:12 PM EDT October 13, 2005
oh, and I guess you shouldn't worry too much about 0x95-0x99, they're not listed as being anything with that code, so I'd presume they're just silence anyway.
edited 10:37 PM EDT October 13, 2005
Assuming they are silence.
Well almost done.
0x86 - 10:42
0x8c - 11:03
edited 11:03 PM EDT October 13, 2005
I also got this for my Mac several years back. Due to constant crashings on the mac, I haven't played Riven for a while. Hopefully I can unearth the five CDs soon for monsieur Windows XP Desktop avec un Pentium 4 trois GHz. (Yes, I do speak some french, at least Canadian French.)
By the way, I'm highly considering making a flash page for my main site (which is currently coded in PHP). I think that if I do this, however, that some space might be lost.
And did I ever mention I started the cello sometime way back when?
Thanks to Josh for uploading it.
edited 3:24 PM EDT October 24, 2005
Unfortunately it's a very low quality release... I'm having read errors with EAC and I just took it out of the shrinkwrapped jewel case and it looks spotless. I'm fairly sure it isn't bootleg, it just looks like they did a really shitty job with it.
Then again, the version I find reviewed online is PCCG-00475 (Pony Canyon), whereas this one is KO-99116 (KO Recording Ltd.), though I think that's the same publisher for the Hellsing soundtrack. I guess it's just a reissue, but it's a lousy one.
edited 3:32 PM EST October 31, 2005
The more I look at this and the other discs I got from the same seller the more convinced I am that they're shitty reproductions. The one cover looks clearly photocopied, and the back insert is printed on both sides but behind a black disc holder (which was partially broken!) so you can't see part of it. Tau Analyzer seemed a bit confused and recognized some tracks as MPEG encoded but most as UNKNOWN, which seems to indicate to me that it's from dithered MP3s. Time to see what I can do about getting my money back.
I looked briefly on eBay and it seems that EVERY OTHER COPY being sold is from some bizarre brand, abnormally cheap. WTF?
edited 4:06 PM EST October 31, 2005
[edit]
MP3
edited 6:30 PM EST November 25, 2005
Well I finally got the shipping confirmation today.
Should have it inside a week. Good Christmas gift for myself, glad I planned ahead.
edited 1:28 AM EST December 18, 2005
Yay.
If anyone wants a lossless copy I could put it up somewhere, just let me know.
Here's a torrent:
torrent
Here's MP3s on rapidshare:
MP3
edited 8:28 PM EST December 20, 2005
The ringtone on my Motorola C201 is Someday The Dream will end.
I think the others i made for it are Secret Library Daguerreo, To Zanarkand, You're Not Alone! and the FF6 theme.
The Metal Gear Solid theme works really well, I'd be using that but I made it for my brother and we need to be able to tell the rings apart.
I also have Comic Bakery, First Step Towards Wars (Ys), that thing from Link's Awakening that was remixed as Braving Tal Tal Heights, Ballad of the Wind Fish, Hyrule Temple, Hyrule Castle, the Shop theme from Zelda 64, bits of the main Zelda theme, the Donkey Kong theme, Cosmo Canyon, some of a song from Ninja Gaiden... I found Gerudo Valley online, which is how I found out I could enter these in.
I'm having more fun with this than I have since I got my keyboard.
[edit]
forgot Robo's Theme, Mute City, and Song of Storms
edited 8:20 AM EST January 18, 2006
Anyway, it comes highly recommended if you have a few extra minutes to just tinker around with. Mouser X over and out.
Also, how 'bout them Steelers?
Also, I put the FF main theme and Clash on the Big Bridge (aka Battle with Gilgamesh) from FF5 on my cell phone.
edited 1:34 AM EST February 6, 2006
now 346
ow, my thumb cramped up
edited 6:23 AM EST February 8, 2006
The weird thing is it wasn't the thumb I was using to play the game...
edited 4:18 PM EST February 8, 2006
edited 9:57 PM EST February 8, 2006
*Grumbles* stupid new timetable.
*START ASM PLZ*
/*
Basic formula to get result for P
Formula: P = d / 10 + 1
Variables and their CPU Register equivilants:
d = eax
p = ebx
*/
mov eax, 0Ah ;set d to 10.
idiv eax, 0Ah ;divides d by 10
inc eax ;Adds 1 to d
mov ebx, eax ;moves our result, and we're done!
*END ASM PLZ*
That, and I've been caught again on JJ2 about giving servers illegal exceptions. Yaaaaaaay. Unreal is much better anyways.
I made a program in QBasic some time ago that wrote a string to a little LCD screen that i have (2*16 chars) in dos. The model is an Ampire 162B HD44780 compatible
So then i decided to write it in C and use the command line. For some strange reason i got the idea that the 3.81kb program was too big. So i made a little assembly program out of it. I was quite upset that i couldnt get it smaller than 108 bytes
Well here is teh code for it.
SECTION .text
org 100h
start:
PUSH ES
POP DS
MOV BX, SendCommandAND
MOV DI, SendCommandOR
MOV BP, DELAY1
MOV DX, 378H
MOV SI, InitData
MOV AH, 0DFH
CALL BX
MOV AH, 8H
CALL DI
MOV CX, 3H
InitLoop:
lodsb
OUT DX, AL
MOV AH, 1H
call DI
CALL BP
MOV AH, 0FEH
CALL BX
CALL BP
LOOP InitLoop
MOV AH, 0F7H
CALL BX
MOV SI, 80H
LODSB
MOV CL, AL
INC SI
CountLoop:
LODSB
OUT DX, AL
MOV AH, 1H
CALL DI
CALL BP
MOV AH, 0FEH
CALL BX
CALL BP
LOOP CountLoop
Finished:
MOV AH, 4CH
INT 21H
DELAY1:
PUSHA
MOV dx, 40H
IN al, dx
MOV AH, AL
WaitLoop3:
IN AL, DX
CMP AL, AH
JNE WaitLoop3
POPA
RET
SendCommandOR:
INC DX
INC DX
IN AL, DX
OR AL, AH
SendCommand:
OUT DX, AL
DEC DX
DEC DX
RET
SendCommandAND:
INC DX
INC DX
IN AL, DX
AND AL, AH
jmp short SendCommand
InitData:
DB 0FH, 01H, 38H
395.
edited 7:12 PM EST February 11, 2006
401
edited 2:51 AM EST February 12, 2006
I was waiting for a class (not one that I'm in) to end so I could go in the room and look for something I'd left there, so I pulled out my iPod, put on Hellsing RAID, and started absentmindedly playing Parachute. At some point I glanced at the score and it was around 350, and I realized that by not caring about the score I had done quite well (I don't think there were any men on the ground at that point). Of course from there I paid attention to the score and things quickly fell apart, but I did wind up with a new high score. Played it twice more after that but didn't break 350.
<-- Having trouble with this webseed thing... I've had it working once! I can't seem to make it work with anything now. :X
I've tried reinstalling both the tracker and the webseed again... but nothing wants to work. *grumble*
It turns out UPS lost it... and they are going to send me a 30GB iPod video... black with another year of warrenty ^___^
I think I'm glad my crappy B&W iPod went missing!
This is the aftermath of me playing around with Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - a music player. Now, the tricky part comes in isolating the needed data from the icky stuff. :)
EDIT: it's done. I'm going to tweak my registry a tiny bit then I'll upload a new version. Hooray for $esi being the command line stack pointer.
EDIT NUMBUH 2:
http://rapidshare.de/files/13757344/jj2mplay_v2.zip.html
EAT IT UP FOLKITIES.
edited 10:06 PM EST February 20, 2006
To the tune of Magical Tetris Challenge.
That's right, me and my school's Concert Orchestra will be performing in the Kawanis music festival that's going on throughout the school system.
I'm going to be on second cello cause I'm a n00b.
Also, I'm going to be taking computer programming and MIDI sequencing next year. That means that as I learn C++, UFBot will make its way over into new territory.
x = 0;
but wrote
x == 0;
it would compile fine, it just wouldn't do anything.
EDIT: I mean that's like trying to assign a value to a constant string.
EDIT: He's also missing a semi-colon;
Compiler error! :)
edited 2:57 PM EST February 22, 2006
edited 3:02 PM EST February 22, 2006
Anyway, I just found out that my Computer Architecture professor wrote a Tandy Color Computer emulator in Java.
edited 3:01 PM EST February 22, 2006
In any case, yeah, very little of that would compile.
edited 3:04 PM EST February 22, 2006
Also shaved today, in preparation for a job interview tomorrow. So now I'm back from this:
to this:
edited 10:30 PM EST February 23, 2006
Yes, i might do something similar for new semester starting monday.
Ugh, i got classes at 8:30am. I hate 8:30 ones, that means i gotta catch the 7:30 bus, which means i got to wake up at 6:45 which means i gotta go to sleep earlier. And whats even worse, i got a lecture at 4:30-5:30 which means i gotta rush out to catch the 5:35 bus into town and try to catch the 5:55 bus home (which tends to be hard with the 5:35 bus being late most of the time) so i'd better get used to walking a little over a mile uphill; average 40? slope.
Well, at least i got a new mp3 player to listen to tunes whilst i walk.
And today's a late start. Yaaaaaaaaaaay.
I AM MORTAL KOMBAT!
556.
edited 2:19 AM EST February 26, 2006
I AM AN AUTHOR OF NOTE
edited 9:11 PM EST February 26, 2006
You get one guess where I am here. Get it right and you win a prize.
Anyways, I have a week of SCHOOL to endure, then I'm off to see Spamalot in New York. I will need to bring along a bullet proof vest in order to not get shot.
edited 10:20 PM EST February 26, 2006
NOTHING
Come again
Anyways, I'm planning yet another xSF format which will most likely die out before I can do anything serious with it. I'm going to restrict it to Windows games first, but I might also expand it to support other operating systems.
Once again, my coding skills suck, so I will need help writing a plugin.
And the first game has been ripped. :-)
edited 12:09 PM EST February 27, 2006
In case you were wondering, I chose programming ;)
http://rapidshare.de/files/14384995/Jazz2_WSF.rar.html
it was a fish
it liked fish because it was a fish
it was also fish because it was a fish
and I got slapped with it because it was a trout.
Today I proudly present UFBot getting slapped by fishbotclone.
EDIT:
(16:20:55) UNKNOWNFILE: And now, the moment you've been waiting for since I announced it.
(16:21:04) ***fishbotclone slaps UFBot around a bit with a STUPCARP!
(16:21:04) ***UFBot dodged swiftly.
(16:22:42) Mouser_X: Amazing!
(16:22:55) Mouser_X: I'm glad I was here to see that.
(16:23:00) UNKNOWNFILE: what's even more amazing is http://unknown.halleyscometsoftware.com/usfcentral
(16:23:15) Mouser_X: I've been waiting in front of my monitor all day JUST FOR THAT!
(16:23:29) UNKNOWNFILE: </sarcasm>
edited 4:25 PM EST March 1, 2006
Further contact should be sent to certifiedunknownfile@SPAMBOTSSUCKgmail.com
(remove the SPAMBOTSSUCK)
I have just been coding ASCII Pong! Why?
For fun! :P
I have to put the paddles and the scores... but that will be tomorrow. Goodnight!
EDIT: Haven't done as much as I had wanted (I had to do my shopping today...)
Put here is a proof of conceot thingy. Please maximise the window!
ASCII Pong(almost)
edited 8:47 PM EST March 4, 2006
Anyways, this internet access here is super sux, as I'm limited to 10 minutes before the system tells me to fuck off. Anyways, I'm going to Spamalot tonight with my parents and stuff. I'll be back in #usf tommoropw evening for some bot wars. :)
It is now a playable state. All the basic pongness is there, apart from AI... so you'll have to erm... play with yourself for now... The source is included.
NOTE: The screen flickers, and you have to maximise the console window. A and Z move the left paddle, K and M move the right paddle.
NOTE2: This is a prerelease version, by that I mean I haven't formally released it on my own site yet. This is because I haven't put together the readmes and made the code as tidy as it ought to be.
And now, a bit of Google-based research:
number of results for "# pages of bullshit"
1: 14
2: 135
3: 158
4: 85
5: 65
6: 100
7: 22
8: 13
9: 7
10: 44
11: 4
12: 1
13: 2
14: 2
15: 1
16: 5
17: 0
18: 2
19: 0
20: 7
edited 7:17 PM EST March 5, 2006
and an informative graph
edited 7:26 PM EST March 5, 2006
Hopefully I get better by tommorow, otherwise I'm going to miss an important test =(((
Me no like.
Well i kinda literally slept through my C lectures. It was boring as hell...and the lecturer made 7 mistakes. And i was unimpressed when she told us we were using GCC on a 15 year old unix system though telnet. It has no graphic or network capabilities whatsoever which totally ruins my fun.
Well whilst in the labs the others were making programs that did averages of numbers, i ported my blackjack game and played with that to fill my time. Very boring indeed.
Im not going to even say how boring the Database Management Systems classes are. Good thing i had my MP3 player.
P.S. My ISP is now the crappest thing ever. Now it wont even reconise me on the network.
edited 7:19 AM EST March 7, 2006
@Josh I kinda know what you mean! 3 of our modules now are in Java... I HATE Java... I don't know ANY Java... I can't DO Java.
Not only that.... but we have a Russian Lecturer on Fridays, that no one can understand. e.g. He pronounces "height" as "hate".
Ooooooooon the upside... We are doing 3D GFX this semmester, and I made a cube spin in oGL last week ^_^ I even defined the surfaces of the cube myself.
I used GLUT once, in high school, to do some simple stuff (we designed and implemented a 2D visual scripting language, which we called Fauntleroy because the minimal requirement was that it could render a Mickey Mouse head), but never done much in the way of 3D.
edited 10:00 AM EST March 7, 2006
This stupid fever hasn't let up yet! Aaaaaaargh!
That means... NO SCHOOL. Yay, except for the fact that I miss a shitload of homework ;(
BTW it is a 4x CPU Pentium Pro 200Mhz with 256Mb ram and 20Gb of scsi hdds, and i think it weighs more than i do.
WinXP (according to the Task Manager) only reported that it had 2 cpu's. I wonder if it didnt detect the 2 others and werent using them and that would make it run slowz.
Anyway, Knoppix live on CD found all 4 and so i might install that...although im gunna have to put in a graphics card because the onboard gfx suck big time...it could only do 640x480x256 colors.
edited 7:17 AM EST March 8, 2006