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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 17:13:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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   @dpflug @c0dec0dec0de @passenger @ifixcoinops I keep forgetting to look at this when I'm near a computer, but I'll have to take a look

   • dpflug (dpflug@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 17:13:52 JST dpflug

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     @c0dec0dec0de
     Even if it weren't in Assembly (unless RCT just dedicated a handful shades of it's palette exclusively to the little veeples) it still seems like you'd need a big, tedious mapping table for their location in each sprite.

     But @foone has found some impressive hacks on occasion.
     @passenger @ifixcoinops

   • 0xC0DEC0DE07E8 (c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 17:13:53 JST 0xC0DEC0DE07E8

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     @foone sometimes reverses things; maybe they know @passenger @ifixcoinops

   • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 17:13:54 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     like seriously this is a worthwhile endeavour but I had my head stuck in modern 3D game design where you stick in a few new models and boom where's your excuse Blade and Sorcery, but nah, apparently every little one of those little dudes has in addition to the four direction walking a bunch of head-and-upper-body shots inside coasters too, and the hell of the thing is that the images for the coaster peeps are apparently saved in pairs, which makes the numbers get exponential

     so just adding more gfx probably not the way forward

   • Passenger (passenger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 17:13:54 JST Passenger

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     I was going to comment about the possibility of writing a script to go through the sprites and palette-swap any pixel which had a pink skin tone for a different one.

     And then I remember that Rollercoaster Tycoon is famously written in Assembly, and I went haha nope, this is well beyond the limits of my skill, here be dragons.

     (Presumably if it could be done using a script, someone would have done it already, anyway.)

   • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 17:13:55 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     upon searching, someone did the maths a couple of years ago and hoo boy yup that's a WHOLE LOTTA SPRITES involved

   • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 17:13:56 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     I wonder how well it would go down if some enterprising artist were to add all the missing people to #openRCT2

   • Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2023 17:13:57 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     Previously talked about playing The Settlers on my #gameDad and how jarring it is to notice that every single character is a tiny lil white dude, well lately I've been playing the Absolute Heck out of Rollercoaster Tycoon (in the form of OpenRCT2 via PortMaster, very cool, lets you play old (and not-so-old) PC games via #gameDad friendly controls) and huh yeah it's a thing here too

     Everyone's a brown-haired white dude