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(DIR) Post #Al4Zd0eapP0GtsZg80 by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:08:16Z
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I think I found an unused and hidden image inside a SNES game but I'm not sure I really want to go to all the work of extracting it properly (the palette is fucked) and more importantly, playing through the game to make sure it's REALLY unused
(DIR) Post #Al4awdIFUVHuCA2nRY by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:22:57Z
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I'll just learn how to program SNES games so I can manually reprogram the palette while the game is running. that's fine.
(DIR) Post #Al4bTgWGW8ynkzMQGO by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:29:13Z
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Found it.You have to hack the palette to make it appear correctly, but there's a hidden image located off-screen in Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit! (1994) for the Super Nintendo.
(DIR) Post #Al4bkEqceYtWrEmARE by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:32:25Z
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looking up the credits:Dave is either David Crane (concept/design) or David Lubar (Programming).Frank is Frank Lam (graphics/design)Jennifer is Jennifer L. MacDonald (graphics/design)Ross is Ross Harris (graphics/design)Jason is Jason Benham (lead programmer)Bill is Bill Jannott (programming)Andy is Andy Rogers (programming/design)Stephan is Stephan Ross (Game Layout Design)
(DIR) Post #Al4broQelHOFEoF4DY by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:33:19Z
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It's possible there's a way to see this, or even that it gets shown at the end. I'll have to play through the game (which I needed to do anyway, for... Reasons) to make sure
(DIR) Post #Al4csOU0oTVD0neX7w by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:45:08Z
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the existing cheats I can find mostly don't work, but I did find that setting 0x7E1A8A to 1 means you only need one crate to beat each leveland setting WRAM:0x317 to 0x68 gives you infinite invulnerability
(DIR) Post #Al4dDQJpBQAQmouoHw by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:48:50Z
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whoops I broke gravity
(DIR) Post #Al4dKeH9gqE46H70KG by NeonPurpleStar@outerheaven.club
2024-08-17T23:51:02.593386Z
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@foone ope, there goes gravity
(DIR) Post #Al4dP5iHcUKGM2v3I0 by PopeASDF@dobbs.town
2024-08-17T23:51:53Z
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@foone just don’t loose yourself in the moment
(DIR) Post #Al4dZ2aq4hyvZdBJqa by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:53:38Z
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@PopeASDF MOM'S SPAGHETTI
(DIR) Post #Al4e6nO778QWGGKD5s by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-17T23:58:39Z
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WRAM:00120B (signed, 16bit) is your y-speed, it seems.so if you force it to -200, whenever you jump, you'll slowly float up. So it's like a shitty jetpack
(DIR) Post #Al4eN3Q5HAwGcH016u by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T00:01:02Z
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set it to 5000 and you can fall downward through floors
(DIR) Post #Al4eWNfJNAYa0sZL5k by the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-08-18T00:03:08Z
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@foone Fuck. You gonna come to our house and get the cats off the ceiling now?
(DIR) Post #Al4eeNZnaSrU3PnwMS by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T00:04:56Z
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WRAM: 0x000309 seems to be your y-coordinate. set it and it'll teleport you up and down.
(DIR) Post #Al4fFYe5OYsj6CXPYe by Kiloku@burnthis.town
2024-08-18T00:11:45Z
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@foone That's kinda adorable
(DIR) Post #Al4g88wWesLTJLBv7I by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T00:21:41Z
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unsurprisingly, WRAM: 0x000307 is your X coord.also the game seems to have a weird fall-detection: if your Y coordinate increases too much in a single frame, you're considered falling, and it goes to the death scene
(DIR) Post #Al4j37B06AeSFMFuPA by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T00:54:15Z
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I think this game uses some kind of basic RLE compression for sprites, which presumably is just in there to piss me off
(DIR) Post #Al4jEdcfnv283wh5fM by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T00:56:32Z
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so now I just need to crack how their dialogue system works.
(DIR) Post #Al4jiqettwidBF8ofw by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T01:01:29Z
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it's time for some brute force an ignorance
(DIR) Post #Al4jqCHxsbJsI9uwEa by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T01:01:36Z
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in other words, I need MORE POWER
(DIR) Post #Al4jvlPKjhCsev1C7M by adriano@lile.cl
2024-08-18T01:02:53Z
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@foone good ol’BF&I, nothing beats’em
(DIR) Post #Al4k4B7J28wwiAbAUS by kandersonus@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T01:05:49Z
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@foone my life motto tbh
(DIR) Post #Al4kGI6YsVaLrL1g5w by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T01:07:58Z
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I figured out what byte determines which host appears in the TV0xC4 is Tim0xC8 is Alwhat are the other 254 possibilities? I'm currently bruteforcing the answer to that question
(DIR) Post #Al4kLQxNOWmYlEBLZA by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T01:08:39Z
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I wrote a script to generate all 256 ROMs and then set up a Tool Assisted Speedrun movie to get to the point where the image is shown. So I'm auto-running all of those, to see what image they give me
(DIR) Post #Al4kQw6j0JsOoyB7yq by gsuberland@chaos.social
2024-08-18T00:30:09Z
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@endrift @foone plus makes me remember that Tim Allen exists, ew
(DIR) Post #Al4kQwrsB1afBCEmTA by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T01:09:38Z
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@gsuberland @endrift I figured most people would use the generator to make fun of Tim Allen, thus why I'm making it
(DIR) Post #Al4kvOK8f2QH1IyV0a by tekhedd@byteheaven.net
2024-08-18T01:15:17Z
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@foone This level of determination is "get the popcorn" levels of impressive.
(DIR) Post #Al4l9VApzPtOJqLvUW by lachlan@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T01:17:58Z
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@foone Wait, is that the bizarre, ridiculously hard one that I played on an emulator years ago, that features Tim Tailor fighting dinosaurs among other things?
(DIR) Post #Al4lEcafqFumllsXGy by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T01:18:25Z
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@lachlan yes
(DIR) Post #Al4lKm1nfMzrmEV4wy by gsuberland@chaos.social
2024-08-18T01:19:37Z
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@foone @endrift the only ethical usage of tim allen
(DIR) Post #Al4m5Hz1BqOUClNa0u by keith@retro.pizza
2024-08-18T01:28:13Z
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@foone you're incredible
(DIR) Post #Al4mPFuCcm8jYKeDNw by PJ_Evans@mas.to
2024-08-18T01:31:43Z
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@foone Talk to Scotty!
(DIR) Post #Al4pbD3RLkvm32MOCe by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T02:07:30Z
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and here they are. I don't know why there are so many duplicates. The weirdest part? Brad Taylor, who is used in the game, appears only once! Mark Taylor, who doesn't appear at all, is in there a bunch of times (the kid with the green shirt)
(DIR) Post #Al4pnASunmb7UcyhHs by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2024-08-18T02:09:47Z
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@foone placeholders for future sprites?
(DIR) Post #Al4pt50vyzHSK7i27s by lachlan@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T02:11:08Z
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@foone It might be the oddest licensed game I've played so far - particularly from that era. Never got very far though - at least I found it very difficult.
(DIR) Post #Al4qMPR18cMu3TtXBQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T02:16:09Z
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@cinebox no idea
(DIR) Post #Al4ruBti4jZjs0zIJ6 by lazerwalker@xoxo.zone
2024-08-18T02:33:29Z
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@foone Huh, I assume that's David Crane as in the creator of Pitfall! He worked on a whole bunch of licensed SNES platformers
(DIR) Post #Al4s0FwXwjG09hCrvk by bk1e@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T02:33:37Z
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@foone Hack the palette! Hack the palette!
(DIR) Post #Al4vL25Kxvhz7PuuUi by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T03:10:25Z
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@RueNahcMohr don't you mean ceilinged?
(DIR) Post #Al4vS8AAlZ15zpYz7Q by nensondubois@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T03:13:22Z
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@foone I know the programmer, will ask him these questions.I found some unused content in this game a while back, just not the apparent image.
(DIR) Post #Al4vaVP0FOGCO7Uen2 by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T03:14:28Z
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@nensondubois oh cool. thanks!
(DIR) Post #Al51GUFJR6LyjdnYye by ieure@retro.social
2024-08-18T04:18:21Z
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@foone Guess on the duplicates: the game supports animated host graphics (the guy walking to the door), and they duplicate the same image to every frame for static ones.
(DIR) Post #Al5AUXz1Elmjy2xMm0 by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T06:01:23Z
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@TatraT815 oh you're right, I missed one!
(DIR) Post #Al5oBu0Z7ZeGwPLOvg by jepyang@wandering.shop
2024-08-18T13:26:04Z
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@foone “tool assisted speedrun”ayyyyyy i see what you did there
(DIR) Post #Al5sbrHAIm7HoSjzPc by drmelon@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-08-18T14:15:46Z
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@foone theory: the id in the subroutine is modulo'd/bitshifted/xor'ed or something at some point, so a bunch of numbers will end up pointing to the same addresses of images
(DIR) Post #Al6Xdb2hiwGAAMvMmm by nensondubois@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T21:55:05Z
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@foone Said, he joined late in the team doing A I for the ants, and is going to ask around.David also asked if I have any more details.
(DIR) Post #Al6aVZBP3PQZwbr7FQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-18T22:27:53Z
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@nensondubois not really. It's loaded off screen during the TV segments, which are also used for the credits. It makes me think there may be a way to get it to appear, but no one has found the cheat code yet.
(DIR) Post #Al6hl95UXiwTK7Syum by nensondubois@mastodon.social
2024-08-18T23:49:04Z
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@foone "It's never a bother./ no need to apologize. It makes me feel good to know I was involved with things people are still interested in. I don't recall anything about a hidden image in SNES Home Improvement, but I was brought in near the end of the project and my only involvement with that game was writing the AI for the ants. (Not a very challenging task.) I can ask around. Gary Kitchen might know. Do you have any other details?"
(DIR) Post #Al7AWsBfTk7TWZtyvA by vxo@digipres.club
2024-08-19T05:11:40Z
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@foone ever since I played Lemmings as a kid I always wondered how fall detection logic worked in games