Fenrick said:
I found a kitten today.

And here's a picture of her.

The fact that I could finally do this

It took me a fuck ton of time to make it work s y'all better praise me >:| (Kidding 9◡6 )
I'll eventually release the sources so others have something to start out :)

Edit: Oh, I also found this. This should help me a fuck ton

Xch3l said:
The fact that I could finally do this

It takes up to 5969 bytes out of a 256KB ROM (2.27%)

Nice! =^-^=

Fenrick said:
And here's a picture of her.

cute :)

Xch3l said:
The fact that I could finally do this

It takes up to 5969 bytes out of a 256KB ROM (2.27%)

It took me a fuck ton of time to make it work s y'all better praise me >:| (Kidding 9◡6 )
I'll eventually release the sources so others have something to start out :)

Edit: Oh, I also found this. This should help me a fuck ton

i'm guessing you're working on learning rom hacking? wonder what kind of hacks may come of this, if any.

New custom 330€ Headphones.
Everything sounds amazing.

NotMeNotYou said:
New custom 330€ Headphones.
Everything sounds amazing.

80€ more than those linked because coiled and longer cable, better colors (black everything, better cushions all around, and personal engraving, but otherwise the same.

DT-880s are solid and have excellent sound, I highly recommend them. If I wouldn't have gotten a good deal on the M-80s I have now I would have gotten that exact model.

I'm still probably going to pick up a pair of these within the next year or so for when I'm home.

furballs_dc said:
Nice! =^-^=

Thank you!

treos said:
i'm guessing you're working on learning rom hacking? wonder what kind of hacks may come of this, if any.

Maybe, but I'm more in general ASM programming for the SNES (even though I don't really have a development cart, but oh well). That'll be up to other people who use my sources (if they do, of course), though

parasprite said:
DT-880s are solid and have excellent sound, I highly recommend them. If I wouldn't have gotten a good deal on the M-80s I have now I would have gotten that exact model.

I'm still probably going to pick up a pair of these within the next year or so for when I'm home.

I wanted German headphones, for the simple reason that most German workers still get paid decently. The AKG ones I wanted to get initially aren't assembled in the EU anymore and I'd rather not support low-wage slaves when I can have a choice.
Also I don't trust Amazon with high-end headphones, as they had a couple frauds last time I checked and I'd rather not risk buying them from questionable sources.

And yeah, I do not regret this purchase, they are worth every cent.

Also, I can't even by the Crossfade M-80's in the EU at the moment, Amazon has some other Crossfade phones but those don't seem to be in the quality bracket I wanted.

Saturdays. Those are the best days, just laze around the house and do nothing all day. I love it.

Playing video games makes me happy. It's all I have left.

Finally revealed my true identity to my closest friend and he was okay with it.

I showed him some pics from e6 and we talked about our kinks and so on.

I'm much happier now that I am able to share this. It feels like a huge weight has been lifted from my chest. :)

Nothing.

Azarion said:
Finally revealed my true identity to my closest friend and he was okay with it.

holy smokes. you're batman

Knotty_Curls said:
holy smokes. you're batman

Ssshhhh!
;)

Xch3l said:
The fact that I could finally do this

It takes up to 5969 bytes out of a 256KB ROM (2.27%)

It took me a fuck ton of time to make it work s y'all better praise me >:| (Kidding 9◡6 )
I'll eventually release the sources so others have something to start out :)

Very cool. Assembly coders unite!

Suineder said:
Very cool. Assembly coders unite!]

DUDE!! You did that? Including the uploading to an actual cart?? Damn! My respects to ya
^{Also, thanks c:}

I still have to fix these things on my code, though:

• Text printing (it eats the next character after new line without doing an actual new line)

Palette uploading (now I'm getting this shade of purple on all entries. DMA is hard but I have no idea why it works with tiles and not with palettes >_<)

Aaand add tilemap uploading, for now°. I'll release my sources when I have those done, so others who want to use them have a stable ground to work on. n_n

Then, after all that is done, I'll rule teh worl with Technicolor hoerseses!!!

° I'll leave SPC audio for later

Xch3l said:
Then, after all that is done, I'll rule teh worl with Technicolor hoerseses!!!

Nice to see my code in action.

Lance_Armstrong said:
Nice to see my code in action.

Ayup! I had to look it up again though, since I lost my copy :/ (but now I have it again! :D )

I guess that made you happy, eh? :)

The More You Know♒★

Xch3l said:
DUDE!! You did that? Including the uploading to an actual cart?? Damn! My respects to ya
^{Also, thanks c:}

Yup! Though to be fair, the uploading was the easy part. It's literally just putting a file on an SD card and plugging the card into a Harmony Cartridge.

I'm currently working on a Rarity-themed graphics and audio demo (48-pixel sprite and (relatively) high-quality sample playback).

DMA and stuff

Oh gosh, I don't understand that stuff at all. The only platform I really have any idea how to work with is the Atari 2600, where you do everything manually and everything is CPU-driven (except for bankswitching or coprocessors, of course). No video memory, no interrupts, manual vsync, Final Destination.
Then I start reading articles on the Nesdev wiki and I start to get overwhelmed by all the things an NES developer has to keep track of. I mean, sure, Atari development is absolutely low-level and difficult, but at least it's a relatively small system, ya know?

Suineder said:
Yup! Though to be fair, the uploading was the easy part. It's literally just putting a file on an SD card and plugging the card into a Harmony Cartridge]

Yeah, I just read that but was lazy to edit my post :V
Anyway, it's really cool such tools exist that, besides being used mainly for playing ROMs downloaded from the internet, allows us to try our applications on real hardware

I'm currently working on a Rarity-themed graphics and audio demo (48-pixel sprite and (relatively) high-quality sample playback).

Oh gosh, I don't understand that stuff at all. The only platform I really have any idea how to work with is the Atari 2600, where you do everything manually and everything is CPU-driven (except for bankswitching or coprocessors, of course). No video memory, no interrupts, manual vsync, Final Destination.
Then I start reading articles on the Nesdev wiki and I start to get overwhelmed by all the things an NES developer has to keep track of. I mean, sure, Atari development is absolutely low-level and difficult, but at least it's a relatively small system, ya know?

Yeah. I was quite overwhelmed too when I first read what did I need to program for the S/NES (that was a while ago, maybe around 2009?) and ASM seemed like a horrible work to do :S
I can say I learned ASM with this page, which really helped me understand the basics plus a bit more

Tech talk

From what I've seen, the SNES sorta works the same: you have write everything in registers (set a number in A and store it in CGADDR¹ and then write <x> color to CGRAM²) and basically take care of what you are doing so no errors occur (it's annoying that a break occurs where you don't intend because the addressing is wrong)

DMA stands for Direct Memory Address, which can be used to quickly transfer big blocks of memory from ROM to RAM or vice-versa, but it's also seemingly hard to achieve because you have to set 5 registers (data offset in ROM, bank of data, size of data, transfer mode and where to put the data) and an extra register to actually do the transfer

¹ Color Generator ADDRess. I call it 'palette entry index' (see below why)
² Color Generator RAM, which I dub as just 'Palette' because a write to this register effectively sets a color in the palette entry pointed by CGADDR

Xch3l said:
From what I've seen, the SNES sorta works the same: you have write everything in registers ... and basically take care of what you are doing so no errors occur

Right, everything's memory-mapped and you have to juggle register data around because the 6502 and 65816 have so few registers of their own.
I did a bit of reading on how DMA works; looks like cool stuff.

Anyway, we shouldn't drag this thread further offtopic. Would you like me to PM you a link to my Rarity demo when I finally finish it?

Suineder said:
Right, everything's memory-mapped and you have to juggle register data around because the 6502 and 65816 have so few registers of their own.
I did a bit of reading on how DMA works; looks like cool stuff.

Ikr?

Anyway, we shouldn't drag this thread further offtopic. Would you like me to PM you a link to my Rarity demo when I finally finish it?

Alright, but just one more

I'm a step or two to finally release my sources! :3

The Union Pacific Railroad is in the process of restoring one of its massive Big Boy steam locomotives to operating condition! It will be the only operational Big Boy locomotive in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_4014

NotMeNotYou said:
New custom 330€ Headphones.
Everything sounds amazing.

80€ more than those linked because coiled and longer cable, better colors (black everything, better cushions all around, and personal engraving, but otherwise the same.

Hm. There's this and was this ($199). Current buzz is here.

I'm using this. Basically got everything I wanted:
- closed back with ++ isolation
- not-gonna-break headband
- good all-arounder
- decent price ($155 + shipping? has gone up $60 lol)
- as a bonus, nice aesthetic

Downsides:
- apparently has a weird "distant" signature that eschews normal spatial separation (doesn't seem to my impede gaming; directionality still fine)
- the isolation is so great that it's mentally fatiguing

Reading and talking about tech shit makes me happy. It's relaxing when everything works. It's unfortunate, then, that I've only encountered one person in my life, offline who had a proper grip on current hardware and demonstrated that knowledge.

abadbird said:
Hm. There's this and was this ($199). Current buzz is here.

I have no idea what this massdrop thing is, but I can tell you that I suck at soldering, so creating my own isn't possible for me. Those were custom made by Beyerdynamic, they offer a manufacture service where you can pick the (mostly optical) parts you like and they slap them on the basic frame of the phones.

Pretty much a quick cash grab for parts that are sold at a lot higher price than they are worth, but I kind of like having everything fit together.

abadbird said:
I'm using this. Basically got everything I wanted:
- closed back with ++ isolation
- not-gonna-break headband
- good all-arounder
- decent price ($155 + shipping? has gone up $60 lol)
- as a bonus, nice aesthetic

Downsides:
- apparently has a weird "distant" signature that eschews normal spatial separation (doesn't seem to my impede gaming; directionality still fine)
- the isolation is so great that it's mentally fatiguing

Reading and talking about tech shit makes me happy. It's relaxing when everything works. It's unfortunate, then, that I've only encountered one person in my life, offline who had a proper grip on current hardware and demonstrated that knowledge.

Those don't sound bad, mine are half-open, it's silent enough in my apartment that I don't need a lot of isolation and being able to still here my food boiling over is a huge plus.

Nostalgia.
The future hurts.

TruckNutz said:
Nostalgia.
The future hurts.

Sometimes both past and future hurts, that's when you want to hug a pillow and cry insecurely in your private.

alirezatm said:
Sometimes both past and future hurts, that's when you want to hug a pillow and cry insecurely in your private.

Yes. The future is all lies to me. A simpler life is better. Screw progress.

Wiggly, happy puppies!

A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter flew over my house today. The sound and sight was awesome.

A long game of dota where you have no fucking idea if you're gonna win or not and the tension + intensity of the teamfights keeps your hands trembling for the rest of the day.

Feels good man.

Oh and riding bikes.

Garrett said:
Reading the Bible.

Yes, I'm being serious, it brings me comfort in an otherwise horrible world.

I do not blame you. Sometimes I fear there is no escape from this, this menace we call a society. Even in the backroads where I live, news still gets to our televisions, of course.

TruckNutz said:
I do not blame you. Sometimes I fear there is no escape from this, this menace we call a society. Even in the backroads where I live, news still gets to our televisions, of course.

The world is a scary place...

As for what makes me happy, any time there isn't a room full of babbling idiots not yammering around or whenever mom keeps to herself, I'm happy. Oh, and when it isn't humid out when I'm on the job...

The Government

TheGreatWolfgang said:
The Government

Ooh, a masochist, then.

Pizza, Youtube poops and this

Dillan0 said:
Pizza, Youtube poops and this]

That was awesome

R. I. P. Ramón Valdés (Don Ramón / Seu Madruga and many names he had over translation)

Xch3l said:
That was awesome

R. I. P. Ramón Valdés (Don Ramón / Seu Madruga and many names he had over translation)

yeah, he was the best comedian ever
R.I.P Ramón Valdés

Being appreciated, despite my faults.

Today (so far) and yesterday were good:

• Today
• I finished a blacklister for tumblr that supports infinite scrolling

Did some more progress on that SNES thing

• Yesterday
• I got good news: I'll receive my high school degree on Electronics Techinician in a couple months (I just need to sign some documents and the process will begin)

Did a Winamp skin

The Deadpool trailer. Holy shit, it's going to be awesome and hilarious. "You look like Freddy Krueger face-fucked a topographical map of Utah."

I like good stories with great characters. But I really love characters that are so 'over the top' with their personalities.

Good story writing and stuff mostly.

JoeX said:
The Deadpool trailer. Holy shit, it's going to be awesome and hilarious. "You look like Freddy Krueger face-fucked a topographical map of Utah."

Deadpool: thank you

they captured his character perfectly. lol saw that trailer on youtube the other day and everything about it was just what i'd expect of that nutjob mercenary. :)

definately a movie i want to see when it comes out on dvd. for those who have yet to see the trailer

Death of my parents.

alirezatm said:
Oh, even thinking to it makes me happy :)

Damn son, you just hit with the WOW effect!

alirezatm said:
They should die. They ruined my childhood and teenages. No more time to give them.

Damn, this got dark.

alirezatm said:
I prefer not to answer you, because you'll probably never understand how sad was my childhood and how dark was my teenages.

... Then why'd you bring it up? And I'm pretty sure they would if you explained it. You aren't the only one here who's had a screwed up upbringing. (Assuming what you're hyping up was as bad as you're making it seem.)

ThatBIackGuy said:
You aren't the only one here who's had a screwed up upbringing.

That's EXACTLY why I feel safe and in-home here.

And yes, I'm a awful person in keeping my secrets. (I said "MY" secrets. I'll never tell anyone's secret to nobody.) So I'm not bitching about it, That's my awful, stupid personality that leads me to tell everyone everything about myself.

I hided all those.

alirezatm said:
That's EXACTLY why I feel safe and in-home here.

And yes, I'm a awful person in keeping my secrets. (I said "MY" secrets. I'll never tell anyone's secret to nobody.) So I'm not bitching about it, That's my awful, stupid personality that leads me to tell everyone everything about myself.

I hided all those.

Umm... okay?

When people aren't full of shit and stop downvoting macro/micro artwork for half-assed reasons XD :D

not watching tv and thus not having to experience the absolute stupidity that is tv commercials.

seriously, do the people that come up with that crap even have brains and if they do, where are they? cause they're brains definately aren't in they're heads to come up with such crap.

also this :)

TruckNutz said:
Seeing the world slowly die.
It also breaks my heart immensely because it'll destroy all the good things the earth has.
But seeing this abominable, pussified, beuraucratic, and now globalized, society collapse is a sight that makes me feel somewhat hopeful.

What's your ideal society, then?

WAtchin P0rn:D

TruckNutz said:
pussified

Nice meme.

Well, I'd have to say that going to a car show and seeing a Huey helicopter from the Vietnam War was pretty cool. I've seen Hueys at museums, but they don't let you get up close and touch them. Not only did I get to touch it, but I met a door gunner, too. He had photos of him next to the chopper he was on, along with close-ups of the M60 door guns. What an awesome experience!

Fenrick said:
I approve.

I sat in a Seahawk once (did not actually ride it). It had an M240 on the port side. They also let us sit in the pilot's seat.

My dad and I saw a Huey and Kiowa on display and he was opening the cowl door. They weren't blocked off or anything.

I haven't been inside any military aircraft, but I've ridden in an M113 APC at a military museum. There's an event that lets you fly in a B-17, B-24 or B-25. Problem is, rides are super expensive.

Masturbating makes me happy...but it's a hollow happiness...

*single tear drop*

Video games are love, video games are life.

The_Diggler said:
Masturbating makes me happy...but it's a hollow happiness...

*single tear drop*

Maybe you need to work on the view on it. Any negativity around it?

TsukiWolf said:
Video games are love, video games are life.

Yiss... It's a lifestyle.

Penises and 37mm flare launchers

Fenrick said:
Aside from the Seahawk, my dad and I sat in an AH-1 cockpit (they just had the cockpit, not the entire helicopter).
The WSO (gunner) seat is way better, for anyone wondering.

I think that's it. I might be forgetting something.

I also toured two submarines, an amphibious assault ship, rode a landing craft, and stood on the deck of an LCAC, all at Norfolk during NJROTC.

I live within driving distance of one of two surviving Ju-87 Stuka divebombers in the world. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a Ju-87 and a Spitfire Mk. I on display. The engines of both planes have been removed, but they are in storage. The Stuka's engine has a softball-sized hole in it. They also have a German U-boat known as U-505 on display. You can go inside and explore it. There's a huge exhibit, including a torpedo that's been cross-sectioned. I also have a tank museum nearby.

Moving into a new apartment, and finding the wifi is absurdly fast.

When people who generally don't like cubs (in general, not just the poon) still take a liking to your(my) characters (kemonololis/cubs).

Eating. Its funny I'm not even fat yet. Probably a good thing.
Oh, and also playing dobro makes me feel better. But I don't own one myself.
Driving long distance is another thing.
Hmm, what else?
Fishing.
Also, yes even cuddling would make me happy.

Playing video games, writing fanfiction, and browsing E621 makes me happy.

Also, being alive.

Yesterday was my birthday, which was awesome! As part of my birthday, my mom let me rent Mad Max Fury Road on demand. It was as awesome as the critics said it was. I went to one of my favorite restaraunts and had a platter of fried alligator, fried crawfish, fried frog's legs and boudin sausage. I had a slice of key lime pie for desert, and we made a trip to Wal-Mart where I was able to find two TIE fighters and an X-wing from the new Star Wars film, along with the Matchbox BMW M5 police car and 2014 Porsche Cayman. I also got a copy of Ultimate Star Wars, which has biographies and behind the scenes info about everything Star Wars. One of the best birthdays ever!