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- Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:23 am
- Forum: Front Page News and Forum Guidelines
- Topic: Little Ninja: Terrains and Tilesets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2590
Re: Little Ninja: Terrains and Tilesets
Hmm... Those spambots are getting pretty sophisticated. Not only was this post almost on-topic (even if it didn't make a lot of sense), but one of the others was as well. It's almost difficult to tell the difference between the bot and someone who can't form sentences properly. Back on topic... This...
- Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:20 am
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: 2D Tile Editors
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3765
Re: 2D Tile Editors
Can you explain what you mean by objects? Ever tried, for example, a Quake level editor? Basically, you can place down markers that tell the game where to create various in-game objects. The player's start location is an obvious one. Enemies, collectible items, hazards, doors, moving platforms. The...
- Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:43 am
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: 2D Tile Editors
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3765
2D Tile Editors
I've been looking into these recently, and so far I've not been able to find any that don't suck. Basically, I'm looking for something that could be used on multiple platforms (the most restrictive of which are the DS, and the Dreamcast), supports colour palettes, multiple layers, and can be used as...
- Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:16 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: Poll: What OS will you be on next year?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4077
Re: Poll: What OS will you be on next year?
Despite typing that last post on my Macbook, from Mac OS X, I completely forgot about it. This thing will probably be running Mac OS X 10.6 next year as well. I've been using Windows 7 for a few days, trying to get some work done, and it's actually really starting to irritate me. Specifically, the n...
- Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:14 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: Ireland masters time travel, leaps back to Middle Ages
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1073
Re: Ireland masters time travel, leaps back to Middle Ages
It might be worth noting that this is in Europe Technically, yes. It is in Europe. However, the phenomenon you're noting is basically a side-effect of the Nazi's influence, and a strong desire by populations affected to ensure that something like that never happens again. The Nazi regime was charac...
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:48 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: other than DCemu
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3998
Re: other than DCemu
</paraphrasing>Dreamcast4life wrote:I don't come here much anymore because it's a waste of time. Whinge, whine, moan, complain. Gibber gibber rant. Rant rant rant. Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah. Wibble. Thank you and hope you take what I said into consideration.
OK... Then why are you still here?
- Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:51 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: other than DCemu
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3998
Re: other than DCemu
Does Stack Overflow count?
Other than that... I tend to read a few forums (the other DCEmu, a couple of other retro-game development forums), and I have an account at a couple (Ubuntu forums, for example), but don't really post much.
Other than that... I tend to read a few forums (the other DCEmu, a couple of other retro-game development forums), and I have an account at a couple (Ubuntu forums, for example), but don't really post much.
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:50 am
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: ADPCM
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3138
Re: ADPCM
In response to BlackAura's comment on whether the ADPCM wav files generated by wav2adpcm are totally correct... is this the same ADPCM format as ADX audio? If so, the code that does the conversion in bero's wav2adx/adx2wav is similar but different. I've no idea. If you run it through a round-trip (...
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:09 am
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: ADPCM
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3138
Re: ADPCM
If space is a bigger concern that CPU time, something like MP3 or Ogg Vorbis is better. If CPU time is a bigger concern than space, you might has well just use CD-quality .WAV files and stream those - at least they'll sound better. There is an ADPCM encoder in KOS. It works reasonably well (nxDoom u...
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:28 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: Poll: What OS will you be on next year?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4077
Re: Poll: What OS will you be on next year?
Considering that I write Linux applications for a living, and that I have a good number of applications that only work on Linux (including a rather large collection of scripts and small tools I wrote), probably either Ubuntu (for working), or Mac OS X (for almost everything else). Although a Linux v...
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:23 am
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: Trying to make a Dreamcast Mappy playback library
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7883
Re: Trying to make a Dreamcast Mappy playback library
There are probably a few things you could do to make the code shorter (the clipping code in particular), but nothing immediately jumps out as being a performance problem. If you want to optimize it anyway, I suggest trying to come up with a situation in which your code isn't fast enough anyway. Draw...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:54 am
- Forum: Homebrew Software and Indie Games Discussion
- Topic: Genesis+ Status?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11325
Re: Genesis+ Status?
I do not see the point on having to create a rom list. I do not scan rom files either but i sort rom file list. As far as i can see, there is no reason to change this approach. Yeah, I'm not quite sure what the romlist is for either. Unless you have something like NesterDC SE, I'd have thought that...
- Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:21 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: Stimulus
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1147
Re: Stimulus
here's a solution, quit spending money we don't have obama. Basic economic theory - in order for an economy to work, there has to be a continuous flow of money around it. It's reliant on continuous expenditure, by people, companies, and governments. It's also reliant on continuous growth (unrealist...
- Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:00 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: Questions About iTunes HD Video
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1015
Re: Questions About iTunes HD Video
Yeah, but check out the bit rates. A DVD is encoded around 8 Mbps, whereas the iTunes downloads are 4. So while the iTunes file is higher resolution, it's not actually capturing as much detail. Different codec. MPEG-4 AVC is pretty much exactly the same quality as MPEG-2 with half the bitrate (so i...
- Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:33 pm
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: Trying to make a Dreamcast Mappy playback library
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7883
Re: Trying to make a Dreamcast Mappy playback library
How can the PVR handle clipping in hardware if I don't tell it where to clip? My drawing block function will only draw the whole tile. If you're drawing full-screen, the hardware will clip everything to the screen coordinates. It's a side-effect of the tile-based rendering approach the PVR uses - f...
- Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:52 am
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: Trying to make a Dreamcast Mappy playback library
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7883
Re: Trying to make a Dreamcast Mappy playback library
Unless you're doing 3D, don't bother clipping. The PVR can handle that just fine in hardware. Just draw every tile that's even partially on-screen. What you appear to be doing at the moment is only drawing tiles that are completely on-screen. Essentially, instead of looping through by screen coordin...
- Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:43 am
- Forum: Homebrew Software and Indie Games Discussion
- Topic: Genesis+ Status?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11325
Re: Genesis+ Status?
Yes, it is. That's why it was so difficult to find a copy of the code.Neoblast wrote:EDIT: the link you gave me blackaura is broken, that mirror seems to have been dead for a very long time...
I checked in the source code for that exact version into the Subversion repository. So you can check it out from there.
- Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:38 am
- Forum: Homebrew Software and Indie Games Discussion
- Topic: Genesis+ Status?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11325
Re: Genesis+ Status?
To my knowledge, that was the latest version of my codebase. Specifically, it's the contents of gpdc-src-20060726.tar.bz2 - I believe this corresponds to the binary I released in this post . I'm pretty sure that was the last version I released. Pretty much everything I did since then has been lost, ...
- Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:46 am
- Forum: Gaming Forum
- Topic: wiikey 2 and gamecube homebrew?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1627
Re: wiikey 2 and gamecube homebrew?
The thing that the "not many features that will be interesting to most Wii owners" refers to (I believe) is Bootmii (I feel that the statement isn't exactly correct, because of the NAND backup/restore functionality, but whatever). Yep. I updated the HBC on my Wii the other day. It downloa...
- Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:05 am
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: Trying to make a Dreamcast Mappy playback library
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7883
Re: Trying to make a Dreamcast Mappy playback library
You're welcome.