Notices by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club), page 6

now I need an algorithm to push these numbers smaller while still getting the same result.
like, play the rom, run this, take screenshot at frame 2000. then try lowering one by 5%, re-run, see if we get the same screenshot.

best way to make a TAS:

if frame == 730 or frame == 816 or frame == 930 or frame == 1090 then
press_a()
end

@endrift I know! I'm currently working on coding this

though I may just jam a crappy pseudo-TAS into my lua script. easier than getting a fake keyboard, especially since I physically cannot get to my fake keyboards right now

I can replace that with my old standby... a fake keyboard!

maybe I'll move my process to native mGBA. I've been using bizhawk so far for TAS reasons, but my "TAS" is just "press A/B/Start a couple times until you get to the dialogue"

My current hack changes the background color, skips an unskippable 1:30 cut scene, and I froze all sprites at animation frame zero.

But it's not enough!

@grue oh neat! I didn't know that.

Anyway it makes sense, because bizhawk has moved on from being good. OOOOOOOOHHH!

but I'm doing the second best thing to scripting: INJECTING ARM MACHINE CODE!

I wish I could script emulators worth a damn. They all seem to approach scripting from an almost antagonistic direction, like scripting is evil or something

It's amazing how much stupid automation you can develop when the alternative is manually editing 240 sprites

@gewt which one?

@fontenot I'm not sharing the whole thing, sorry. That's just supposed to be a clip to demonstrate the quality

@rainwarrior I love Jan Švankmajer!

@cstross I know some people on Tumblr who seem to think In The Barn is a great erotic story

I observe them from a hopefully safe distance

@endrift nah I got it, I'm using arm-none-eabi-as.exe from devkitpro with -march=armv4t -mthumb

I need to get a better arm assembler. I keep using an online one and it is generating stuff that the GBA can't handle

@ben that seems to be standard for sprite viewers. it means "animation"

naturally squeenix helpfully included a sprite viewer and then forgot to make it load the palettes correctly

@jens sharing rotations makes sense
stuffing them inbetween each sprite? less so