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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:08:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:23:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:29:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:32:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:34:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:45:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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 level

     and setting WRAM:0x317 to 0x68 gives you infinite invulnerability

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:49:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     whoops I broke gravity

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:54:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • PopeASDF :vepi: :jrbd:

     @PopeASDF MOM'S SPAGHETTI

   • PopeASDF :vepi: :jrbd: (popeasdf@dobbs.town)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:54:05 JST PopeASDF :vepi: :jrbd:

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     @foone just don’t loose yourself in the moment

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 08:59:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 09:02:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     set it to 5000 and you can fall downward through floors

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 09:05:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     WRAM: 0x000309 seems to be your y-coordinate. set it and it'll teleport you up and down.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 09:22:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 09:54:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 09:56:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so now I just need to crack how their dialogue system works.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 10:02:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's time for some brute force an ignorance

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 10:03:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     in other words, I need MORE POWER

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 10:08:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I figured out what byte determines which host appears in the TV
     0xC4 is Tim
     0xC8 is Al

     what are the other 254 possibilities? I'm currently bruteforcing the answer to that question

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 10:09:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • lachlan but less spooky (lachlan@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 10:19:22 JST lachlan but less spooky

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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?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 10:19:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • lachlan but less spooky

     @lachlan yes

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 11:08:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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)

   • Soul Filing Cabinets (nensondubois@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 12:14:55 JST Soul Filing Cabinets

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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.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 12:14:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Soul Filing Cabinets

     @nensondubois oh cool. thanks!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 07:28:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Soul Filing Cabinets

     @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.

   • Soul Filing Cabinets (nensondubois@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 07:28:29 JST Soul Filing Cabinets

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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.

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 14:12:06 JST vxo

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     @foone ever since I played Lemmings as a kid I always wondered how fall detection logic worked in games