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by slowbeef
Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:37 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Solfieri wrote:Comrade slowbeef must older than Yoda, for all the romhacking knowledge of the world is contained in his very soul. Keep on rocking, man.
I feel like it sometimes.

I'll be turning 31 on the 26th of June.
by slowbeef
Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:25 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

I do plan on writing up a big tech doc to that effect, actually. Maybe like the grand old story of how I fell into this. Who wants another hardcore tech post? LZO Decompression and Pipelining That's a mouthful. When we figured out the pipelining issue, I was a little flustered because it meant I had...
by slowbeef
Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:22 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Crappy Jack wrote:I've been following the project since before the Silent Year, but I decided to finally register once I heard that it would let me block Akor. Keep up the good work!
I just laughed out loud while doing a PSP build. Thanks for that, Jack.
by slowbeef
Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:52 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Artemio wrote:Couldn't be more alienated from hardware than that.
I'm a Java programmer. And our Ruby on Rails team considers me a low-level programmer nowadays.
by slowbeef
Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:00 am
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Hmm, but isn't this unsafe? Maybe it will work most of the time but once in a while its plausible that the memory access wasn't completed in time. It's not exactly a timing issue like "it will take the processor 0.60 ms to read from memory." The notion is the processor can do Fetching, De...
by slowbeef
Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:53 am
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

I'm going to be quiet for a little while. Good things are happening on the backend. We actually ran into a couple of issues on hardware (and not the emulators) which was a little scary for a bit, but we were able to recover, though I'm still retooling one final hack in that regard. Since Piratero is...
by slowbeef
Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:39 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Interesting. I wouldn't of have thought Konami would be using a multi-threaded system. The oldest system that I know of that openly uses threads is the N64. If you open up the game you'll see KERNEL.SC - it's a plaintext file that lists all the processes the game uses. The first one is OPEN, and yo...
by slowbeef
Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:27 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Just so you know, Marc's absence does not hold us up from further bug testing and fixes, so we're not just waiting on him.
by slowbeef
Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:18 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Project Status (1/14/09): Alpha Testing

Oh! Do tell what they missed! Be as technical as you can possibly be. :D One of the features Policenauts had - which was a pain in the ass for us - was summaries. When you load a saved game, you get an optional summary (View Summary Screen? Yes/No) which you can view to "catch up" on the ...
by slowbeef
Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:58 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Adam: "Bark like a dog..." Female Protagonist: "Little dog? arf arf! or big dog? WOOF WOOF" ( Mentioned in their review, that was an easter egg in one of the early versions of the game... don't think it made it to the retail copy but as the game sucked so much, I never bothered ...
by slowbeef
Fri May 29, 2009 5:53 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

I think we should use IPS because all my favorite NES nudie ROM hacks use that.
by slowbeef
Fri May 29, 2009 5:42 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Artemio, how are we gonna patch this thing?
by slowbeef
Thu May 28, 2009 3:37 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

I don't want anyone to think there's ROMHACK DRAMA!!! going on or anything. It's just honestly that the bug list is going up and down on the back-end and there's really not too much to report. I guess we're mostly dealing in hardware specific issues now, and I feel kinda lame doing this whole "...
by slowbeef
Wed May 27, 2009 9:49 am
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Still at the exact same place we were last time people asked (hardware issues, various minor bugs, and me checking the script). This would be a lot less stressful for us if you guys would please let us give you updates when we have them instead of people asking for them. Seconding this. It's just r...
by slowbeef
Sun May 24, 2009 4:52 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

JimboKudo wrote:Does the xbox allow you to change the plugins?
Honestly, I have no idea. PCSX does, and I figured the X-Box one was a build off that. Maybe they're using some custom plugin for the XBOX or something?
by slowbeef
Sun May 24, 2009 1:12 am
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

I'm considering playing policenauts on my modded xbox, and it will supposedly work. I haven't actually tested it yet, but the compatibility list for pcsxbox at http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=238506 says it works "perfectly." I don't really want to play through the game b...
by slowbeef
Sat May 23, 2009 6:38 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Anyway, I guess that means when it gets released I'll test how it runs on the Xbox emulator and let anybody who may be interested know how that plays out. I thought having a modded Xbox was a little more common, guess not. If it works in hardware, I mean it *should* work in the emulator. I just don...
by slowbeef
Sat May 23, 2009 4:47 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Letiumtide wrote:I would actually be interested in how this would run on a modded xbox, which would be my preferred way to play it. Does anybody plan on doing testing on the PSXbox emulator?
No, but I plan on scream-singing "Space Lord" by Monster Magnet.
by slowbeef
Fri May 22, 2009 2:19 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

We're past the end credits bug insofar as we've done all we can do with it, but since it works in the E}I{ Video Plugin with ePSXe, that's honestly enough for me. We're still at one bug because we discovered another. This is a byte-aligment issue we found on the PSP, where the voice acting scenes we...
by slowbeef
Tue May 19, 2009 12:15 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Policenauts english patch to PS1, how would this work?
Replies: 12
Views: 8367

Re: (No Subject)

JonnyTanna wrote:Can you patch the ps3 psn version?

That'd be pretty sweet...
That's all encrypted, so no, I don't think I can.
by slowbeef
Sat May 16, 2009 2:56 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

PPF is good if the modified file is the same filesize as the original. That's not our case, so we've actually had a ton of success with XDelta, which is pretty much just a binary diff. Easy to use, apply. I'm all about it right now.
by slowbeef
Fri May 15, 2009 1:48 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

It may be a minor detail, and I wouldn't have brought it up if it would single-handedly hold us back, but if I see something I mention it. For the record, I'm also not just blindly doing whatever he tells me. One of the changes I pushed back on was a new font - midway through, Marc asked me the fea...
by slowbeef
Thu May 14, 2009 9:52 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Well, for the record it's not like "This is the only thing holding us back from releasing" - there's other shit to do in tandem on both Marc and Artemio's sides so it's not like this put off release or something.
by slowbeef
Thu May 14, 2009 12:52 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

Bumping this, think it kinda got overlooked. Anyone care to follow up on it? I'll take a look at it, because I'm interested to know too. A funny story from the world of ROM modding. Recently, Marc asked me to change "Auto-Save" into "Autosave", a simple one-character fix. I aske...
by slowbeef
Wed May 13, 2009 4:30 pm
Forum: Policenauts
Topic: Patch is up (v1.01 incoming)
Replies: 3822
Views: 1421861

Re: Current Status (4/26/09): 1 Bug Till Beta

haha, ign gave it a 3.0/10 or something -- that really shows you what game reviewers are looking for in this gaming era (i.e. not creativity or actual fun). Yeah, I never gave God Hand a second look until I saw a Let's Play of it. It's highly addictive, and it's weird because it's not like unfairly...