Notices by JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz), page 6

@rainwarrior To tcrf!

Never narc on a comrade to the boss.

Hey, budget engineers, can I really boost my wifi signal with a beer can? Or is this malarkey?

'Cause the alternative seem to be to plop at least some 50 bucks for some gizmo from Best Buy.

@Jo TBH, is any Altered Beast version that great? Even the original is kind of shallow.

I used to be so freaked out by the game when I was a kid. The transformation scene with the fire looked painful and scared me.

Is the rock music movie montage dead? There's gotta be modern examples...

@Limax Sighhhhhhhh, I believe that, and I'm saddened that I do.

@Fogfriend Funny, I'm about to look at FF1 and see what I find, but I've decided that first I need to implement reading zip files 'cause I'm tired of manually decompressing everything.

Maybe compositing is the reason for Megaman 2 and Zelda to use CHR-RAM? Megaman needs an extra tile on top of his face and Link needs a variable-sized shield on him.

@Fogfriend Yeah, it seems really haphazard! CV2 does use CHR-ROM but I've found CHR-RAM all over the place. Megaman 2 and Zelda 1 also use CHR-RAM.

I don't really understand it, doesn't this mean you had to make much bigger PRG chips?

The 8-byte shift is curious because it makes everything look almost right, so I was worried I had an obscure bug somewhere.

Huh, this was an interesting little adventure in #NESdev.

The tiles in the #Castlevania ROM's PRG (i.e. mixed in with the game code instead of in their separate graphics chip), are exactly shifted by 8 bytes (game instructions don't have to align to 16-byte boundaries of tile sizes).

This made it really difficult to find Simon in there. I didn't even realise what was wrong at first, but now I get it: the high plane of each tile was mixed with the low plane of the next one. Shifting fixed it.

@pagrus @jalcine Holy shit, something actually happened. I didn't anything would, but something actually did.

I'm enjoying trying to keep my commits logs fairly clean too:

http://inversethought.com/hg/tilerswift/

#NESdev progress report:

I've been sneaking work on #Tilerswift whenever #Meximom is asleep or occupied.

My latest thing is that I implemented a little drop down that shows a few standard palettes to pick from.

@revolverocelot @Jo Oh well. At least my nephews seem to have grown out of their PDP phase.

@Jo Huh. Because the fans thought the Jews made him do it? This is all so weird.