Xkeeper
Lets Watch Links Awakening #14 - catfish
updated
this is a sign i got that i'm programming via php (because i can). i might make it do other fun things like mark twitch stuff or whatever later too
music: youtube.com/watch?v=etuuQyKuel4
data: openweathermap.org/city/5505411 though lol @ it saying it's gonna be sub-32 (not a chance, pal)
It's still a doozy of a code:
• You need a Famicom, the Famicom Keyboard, and the US (!) version of the game
• Soft reset the game nine times
• Type in "@COMPILE" and hit return
• From there, pause and press CLR/HOME, DEL, and INS to do various things
FCEU(X) has a weird bug where something gets corrupt/mishandled in the keyboard scanning and it skips the first character, so the page (and all the people who copied it, cough) say you just have to type "COMPILE", no at symbol. Welp.
We'll update the wiki proper later. We were looking into the FDS version, but it looks like the code was stripped out of it.
The offset at the top left is the current music pointer; the information below that is Square 1, 2, Triangle, and Noise. DPCM isn't on here yet, because I kinda forgot about it and it's like 2 in the morning.
Each channel has its own offset after the main music pointer, and it looks like channels can choose to "loop" that segment. Square 1 seems to be the master control, choosing when to move onto the next segment.
Some of these overlap, but this script isn't sophisticated enough to show that yet.
mario farty 3 (all easy cpus) streamed at twitch.tv/xkeeper_
(boring)
Pangya has the beginner mode on by default and I didn't turn it off, so... welp. And Raspberry followed up with a goofy chip in of her own not a lot later.
The capture is bad because GameGuard is awful. The music is goofy because someone in chat said that Pangya's music sounded like "supermarket music", not that GunBound's is any better about that
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this game is pretty terrible and still, 13 years after it was released, I still personally doubt an ending exists. or if it does I certainly haven't seen it!
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(i didn't look at this at all before uploading it oops)
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NES CPU $ECA0 (ROM $1ECB0) = #$60
2P: Raspberryfloof http://twitter.com/raspberryfloof
Never back down and never give up
Live from http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_
in which a single tetris piece spins for 15 days to score 9,999,999 points all by itself
(okay, the square block helped, too)
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"How does the block climb again?"
http://harddrop.com/wiki/Tetris_DX#Wall_climbing
"Why does it hover sometimes and go up/down sometimes?"
Variety (one or the other for 15 days would get old even faster)
"Do they score faster/slower?"
Both hovering and climbing/falling are about the same rate, it varies by under a point per second or so
"w h y ???"
inanity is love
inanity is life
"what music is used?"
first bit (in this video): Puyo 15th, Satan's theme
second (before end): Super Hexagon's ending area
"why does the high score screen last for 10 minutes or more"
twitch is bad at highlighting
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thank god for lua scripting support
I originally tried to make an automap like you see in Super Metroid, but... I haven't quite figured out how the map layout works. It makes my head hurt.
Instead, I end up digging through the starting area, coming out next to the baby Metroid, and then going back to the ship, only to find a flashing missile where the ending should be! Oh well. Spoiler alert.
Uses VBA-RR, might work in BizHawk but who knows or cares.
Lua script: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27790736/temp/metroid2.lua
This is a Lua script hooked up to the Hitbox chat for my channel. It accepts game genie codes and memory addresses from the chat, and then enables the codes/sets that memory address until the timeout is reached.
Unfortunately, the chat isn't recorded in this video, but you can see the codes and values people were using appear in the top right corner.
The game is SMB1 because it has a self-playing demo and tends to break in interesting ways. The goombas are Twitch icons as a shoutout to Kanthes.
Download: http://xkeeper.itch.io/columns-clone
Source code: github.com/Xkeeper0/columns-clone
Download at: github.com/Xkeeper0/columns-clone
(The HDMI cable is faulty but it picked an interesting time to show it)
-- www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_/c/3186417&utm_campaign=archive_export&utm_source=xkeeper_&utm_medium=youtube
The top right is a status panel for what corruption is currently active:
C: GG Codes. Any active code lights this. (Hold X: add; Hold C: del)
R: RAM* random corruption. (Hold A)
I: RAM* +/- 1 corruption. (Hold S)
E: Ext. RAM** random corruption. (Hold Q)
S: Ext. RAM** +/- 1 corruption. (Hold W)
Rewind functionality: Hold Z. (Rewind time remaining shown in bottom right)
*: 0000-07FF: All games use this, often is the basic game data
**: 6000-7FFF: Extended RAM/SRAM. Used for save data or decompressed data (level layouts, etc). Not all games have this, but several do
You can change the keys at the top of the script to fit your needs, or increase the default rewind length (it's pretty short).
Script link: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27790736/lua/boom-plus-dx.lua
Save and run with FCEUX 2.2.2 (http://fceux.com).
To view the indicators, you'll probably need to change the scanline cutoffs in FCEUX's Video configuration from 8-231 to 0-239 (but you should do this anyway).
It causes different effects than the usual RAM-based stuff.
Special debug mode buried in the game! Push A x 24 then B x 24 at the "This game is Game Boy Color only" screen or use a longer code on the above page to access it.
This video is mostly demonstrating the music, so I turned sounds off. They're still there, though.
. -- www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_/c/2699653&utm_campaign=archive_export&utm_source=xkeeper_&utm_medium=youtube
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LIVE! LIVE, DAMN YOU! http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_
DJ K-RPT http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_
mm, delicious live corruption. http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_
more corrupt than a politician, it's a live stream! http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_
Running around town with a camhack (to force a top-down perspective, mostly) and brighten everything up.
Nothing obviously unused, here, but you can see some stuff you weren't meant to. Fun fact: the pits on the roof kill you! WOW
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sort of. work in progress. breaks a lot. may cause seizures. doesn't always work.