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Post by FM-77AV on Nov 13, 2008 7:02:18 GMT -5
Yeah, that's a pretty weird thing. How to apply a registry backup? I once removed all the references to the Outlook Express program in my registry, so that I could finally delete the damn program. It was a success! Before I had fiddled in the registry, OE kept re-appearing shortly after I deleted it. I even did this: I made my own, fake OE exe file... and made it WRITE PROTECTED!!! So I deleted the real OE file, and quickly pasted my fake in its place. And the fake appeared there. But a second later, it got replaced with the real one again - DESPITE MY FAKE BEING WRITE PROTECTED! What if that file was important? Does this thing qualify for a lawsuit?
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 7:27:19 GMT -5
I finally have success with my hacking utilities. Eh, guess it's just luck. I don't know whether to feel sorry for the Guru, as he's about to be gutted; or feel sorry for Fieg, as he still looks like a dirty, naked hobo with sunscreen. X) Hey, adoru! How's the ousting of the hobo going?
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Post by FM-77AV on Nov 13, 2008 7:28:53 GMT -5
Hey, I too want to draw Faxanadu graphics. My speciality lies in tiles, though. Not sprites.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 7:40:01 GMT -5
Hmmm... okay, entertain me. XD I'd like to see these tiles.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 8:29:50 GMT -5
Implementing the retranslated text. *nods* Exciting, no?
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 10:41:50 GMT -5
Something's been bothering me. There are some lines of text that I simply do not understand. "You need a key." "You need a different key." These aren't featured in the actual game, or I just haven't found them yet. Chances are, 9/10, you'll just hear: "There is the mark of "your mom" by the key hole." Once I get everything translated, of course I will have to piece it all together like a puzzle. That shouldn't be too hard, as long as I write down the order somewhere. I'm pretty organized with this hack, if I do say so myself. // I'll likely replace those lines with shop-related text. For some reason, the english merchants say the same exact things for buying and selling. The japanese merchants do not. This means, of course, that I will have to go into the game's text routine programming first, to fuck around with a few pointers.
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Post by FM-77AV on Nov 13, 2008 12:28:54 GMT -5
If you try to open a locked door without the key item equipped, I THINK you get "You need a key", I feel like I have seen it in the game. And different key applies to having the wrong key equipped. I THINK I've seen that too.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 12:36:04 GMT -5
I haven't seen it, regardless of which key is equipped. It's usually: "There is the mark of "Jack" by the key hole." Replace Jack with any other key name, and that's the usual text. I can't say I've seen any other text used outside of that one.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 12:50:46 GMT -5
Another line is "You don't have a key." but this could be related to the japanese shop, I'm guessing.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 13:54:18 GMT -5
It looks awesome. Oh, and forget what I said about using = for line breaks; you can just hit "enter" as normal! // Dammit, I thought I'd hit "Post Reply", but this window has been waiting on me.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 19:59:53 GMT -5
Man, Wiki doesn't have it; I'm looking up currency symbols, and ducat isn't found. I want to know what to change that "G" to.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 20:03:15 GMT -5
...Shit. My audio is missing. What's worse, my hacking utilities won't start at all, now. They used to crash, but now they don't even think of starting!
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 20:08:17 GMT -5
Does anything look suspicious, outside of the fact that I've ended the processes ntvdm.exe and vssrvc.exe?
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 21:38:39 GMT -5
I have audio again. I used services.msc to start Windows Audio. I wonder what had stopped it.
Not only that, but starting Windows Audio has allowed me usage of hacking utilities again.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 13, 2008 22:54:09 GMT -5
I'd thought of that. Here's something else I'd thought of: The ducat is European. I could either use the Euro Sign, or possibly a D crafted like the Euro Sign, sound good? €
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 14, 2008 0:30:15 GMT -5
I won't have much time for hacking tomorrow or the day after. I'm working and then I'm taking a little trip to see my short, big sister. She's going far away. Also: I'm scanning my computer again, with Avast! bootscan. I bet you 20 ducats it won't find shit. When you're running, short of breath, and you see a low branch ahead, do you know what you have to do? Ducat!
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 14, 2008 8:52:31 GMT -5
While my computer continues to produce many strange and interesting errors, it will be a while before I can do anything about it. Avast! wouldn't start up last time, producing a red circle and talking about some kind of error which I failed to copy down. I continued to tweak some of the dialogue structure before work. It's looking pretty damn good!
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 14, 2008 23:16:35 GMT -5
I managed to make a character table for Faxanadu; the Japanese version! Considering that I don't understand or read Japanese, or recognize hiragana, this was quite a feat for me. I think I'm gonna dump *the whole script* now, and hand it over to adoru. X)
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 14, 2008 23:21:42 GMT -5
Phuck. I didn't expect THAT. This is going to be a lot harder than I'd thought. Why? Because FCEUX 2.0.2 doesn't understand Hiragana from the table file I've created. It gives me an error instead. How nice, hm?
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Nov 15, 2008 0:31:57 GMT -5
I've gone through 80 Hiragana, 82 Katakana, 6 Numbers, 5 Symbols, and 6 Text Codes... that's 179 entries! The remaining 76 (179 + 76 = 255, FF) are (I'm not shitting you) unified ideographs.
In other words, it's a collection of mashed kanji, tailored to confuse the shit out of me. Also known as "I have no clue in hell how to TYPE these!". So I'm missing 76 entries. You can thank me later. XD
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