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Gaming Discussion / Re: Breath of Fire
« on: April 12, 2013, 01:22:30 pm »
I have spent about 30 hours on that game.

It is shit. It is poorly balanced shit.
NOT TO MENTION IT LOOKS LIKE THIS AND MAKES MY EYES BLEED.

~DS

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Site Talk / Re: Friendliness
« on: April 11, 2013, 12:14:13 am »
I've noticed a couple of users lately who seem to be having this trouble. I'm not picking on you johnny, or anyone else for that matter, so don't get the wrong idea here, but I've never had this problem, and I don't think most users ever do.

I actually toyed around with hacking for years and wrote multiple complete level editors before I ever even really participated in any hacking community. Not saying that that's the norm, and the "loner" approach isn't for everybody. But I read documents and taught myself, and very rarely found myself unable to find the answers on my own. The flip side is that when I found that a task was beyond my grasp, I moved on to something else. Not giving up, just knowing my boundaries.

The rom-hacking community is full of self-sufficient users. You can't really complain if these people are irked when somebody asks for help without putting in a fair effort, or when somebody plainly doesn't know his own boundaries, or when somebody tries to recruit help for a group project when his own hacking resume is empty. Be mindful of what you take for granted.

If you really don't think that people's behavior is warranted in your situation, there's also the fact that there are plenty of people in this world who aren't incredibly patient or friendly, and you shouldn't let that get to you either.

But mostly, what danke said.
Honestly, I had this trouble when I first started. But it mostly had to do with how I learn more than anything else. I was able to figure out most of the basics on my own. But when I would want to accomplish something and would ask about it, people would say "check this document" and that'd be it. I would look up the document and most of the time have no idea what it was talking about. I'm a very visual and hands-on learner, so the documents would usually not do it for me (only a select few of the documents on RHDN actually have images).

If it weren't for a few of the more experienced members here (RedComet, DaMarsMan and Gemini in particular) helping me out in private, I wouldn't be able to do much. And unfortunately, a lot of the other members are of the mentality that you should be able to learn this stuff on your own, because most of them did. And that leads to an elitist mentality that would more often than not create situations like yours.

I'd say you need to make friends with some of the more experienced hackers around here and see if one of them might take you under their wing to learn. But I'm not sure how many of them would be willing.

~DS

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Personal Projects / Re: Tales of Phantasia (SNES Enhancement)
« on: April 10, 2013, 10:48:26 pm »
Is it just me, or does that say "Gald" on the left side? I've never played the game so I don't know for sure if that's a typo for Gold or not.
Gald is the Tales series currency.

~DS

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: Shogi terminology
« on: April 10, 2013, 02:34:27 pm »
The first one says マッタ, which is a term for when you want to take back a move you made (the dictionary definition says "backsies").

The second one is just "None" or "Some/Yes". I'm assuming it is probably an option for a Handicap. So you could put it as "Off" and "On".

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: LinkedIn
« on: April 10, 2013, 02:32:32 pm »
Are you kidding me?! >:( How do I add people without giving away my email address?

And FYI, Geishaboy, LinkedIn was around a year before Facebook. :o
You want us to link up with you on LinkedIn, but don't want us to know your email address? I'm confused.

@Geisha: LinkedIn is a place where professionals can network. There's all kinds of groups on there. And I've gotten multiple job offers from there just by having my resume up. In fact, I'm doing a second interview for some multinational IT firm from Tokyo early Friday morning (2:30 AM. T_T).

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: LinkedIn
« on: April 08, 2013, 11:34:51 pm »
I don't think that link does what you thinka that link does.

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Swapping boot drive to an SSD
« on: April 06, 2013, 09:54:53 am »
I'm somewhat confident that it worked out. But is there a way to check which drive I'm booting from for sure, before I delete the C:\ partition to get my 75 GB of free space back?
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Can you not tell from Disk Management, in the Computer Management control panel?
That'd be it.

Still booting from my C drive. Screw it. I'm just going to cut my losses and install a fresh copy of Win7 on it. T_T;

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Swapping boot drive to an SSD
« on: April 06, 2013, 12:00:50 am »
Make sure your NTFS boot sector is correct, specifically the so-called "hidden sector" value, this tells the partition where it actually begins on the disk.  This is separate from the actual partition table, and is part of the first sector of the partition.  If this value is wrong, Windows won't boot.  If you changed your disk alignment from sector 63 to a multiple of 1MB, this value might be wrong.
Huh? That's never been mentioned until now. How do I change that?

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Swapping boot drive to an SSD
« on: April 05, 2013, 11:36:08 am »
Okay, so I tried doing that. But I realized you can't run those while Windows is running.

So I downloaded this program called EasyBCD. It's free and does BCD and MBR and all kinds of other stuff. At first, I just changed the BCD and added an MBR to my SSD and restarted. All that did was make my HDD's copy of Windows see itself as "not genuine". So I checked EasyBCD and it said it was still booting from that.

Changed a few things around in the program, and it started booting from it. In fact, it even changed the SSD's drive letter from J to D. It was still saying it wasn't "genuine". After I fixed that, it went back to being drive letter J.

I'm somewhat confident that it worked out. But is there a way to check which drive I'm booting from for sure, before I delete the C:\ partition to get my 75 GB of free space back?

Edit: Apparently there's a registry entry that says which boot disk the system is using. But it numbers them. Mine says "HarddiskVolume4". How the hell do I tell which partition that is? T_T
~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Just started playing Legend of Wukong
« on: April 04, 2013, 09:04:30 pm »
The graphics are fantastic in this game! The random battles are nothing to shake a stick at either (at least at first), I like how this game dosnt just let you hit attack attack attack  (at least for now) .

Fun colorful journey,  good theme, anyone else notice Oolong from Dragon Ball?

Im happy we finally got some Chinese RPGs to play in English.
Never played the game, but just so you know, Dragon Ball is based off of the same mythology as this game.

Journey to the West is where Sun Wukong (Son Goku) came from. Same with Oolong, Ox King, and a bunch of others.

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Breath of Fire
« on: April 04, 2013, 08:58:40 pm »
I second this! The first one has some very pretty battle sprites, and that's really all it has going for it in terms of being better than average. I enjoy the second game immensely, and it's a large improvement over the first, but it's not flawless by any means. The Shamans was a very neat idea that has yet to be revisited.

3 might be the best in the series, the Dragon Gene system was downright awesome, and the time skip was something entirely new to me when I first played the game.
I think maybe you guys are forgetting a lot about the first game. Think back to when it came out.

On the SNES, we didn't have very many RPGs. No Earthbound. No Chrono Trigger. No Secret of Mana (it came out in August 1993, BoF 1 was April 1993). We had Final Fantasy IV and FFMQ, but VI hadn't come out yet (V had come out in Japan, but we didn't have that either). We had Soul Blazer and Ys III. No Dragon Quests on the SNES for us. We had shit like... Secret of the Stars, Lagoon, Dungeon Master and Super Ninja Boy.

Some of those games were good, but the clear winners were FFIV/MQ, Ys III, Soul Blazer, and Breath of Fire I. And it did a lot of things right. The graphics were great. The combat flowed well. It had an interesting (if badly translated) story. Interesting characters (this was, I believe, the first game that had characters that were animals). All the characters had interesting characteristics and abilities. This is one of the first games that allowed you to fuse characters together. The dragon transformations were great.

I think you guys are being a little bit too hard on ol' BoF I here.

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Breath of Fire
« on: April 03, 2013, 09:54:19 pm »
As do I. Suikoden and Breath of Fire really need some new stuff!

~DS

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: A line I need help with...
« on: April 03, 2013, 09:53:33 pm »
"I'm gonna have a talk with Heikichi. I'm sorry, could you go hide under the table?"

Best guess without kanji.

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Swapping boot drive to an SSD
« on: April 02, 2013, 06:25:31 pm »
The last time I had to play around with this stuff I was upgrading my hard drive. I simply copied from source disk to target disk in clonezilla and everything seemed to work fine, until I tried to wake the thing from hibernate mode(sleep mode works fine). The problem has something to do with the location of where ram is stored during hibernation and the fact that the new disk is larger, as far as I understand it that is.

Anyway, I did a lot of research trying to fix the problem and as a compulsive "bookmarker" I saved every site I visited. Here are a  few, I hope they help clear stuff up:

http://www.howtohaven.com/system/change-disk-signature.shtml
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/15234727-540f-49ab-8d09-4d8fcc250c4c
http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/bootsectexe-modifies-the-bootsector-not-the-mbr/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392
After reading these, it seems to me that the simplest thing to do in my situation would be to run bootrec.exe, export my BCD, then import it into the new partition on my SSD. Then, use bootrec to fix the MBR on the SSD.

Is this correct?

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Swapping boot drive to an SSD
« on: April 02, 2013, 02:51:25 pm »
just to double check, you're sure the partitions are aligned, right? i assume gparted normally should take care of this for you, but i'm not so sure if you cloned your partitions from your HDD.
I'm not sure you mean by "aligned". I simply opened gparted LIVE, selected the two partitions (the 100 MB System partition with the "boot" flag on and the 75 GB Windows partition) and copied them over to my SSD. When it was finished, I set the "boot" flag on the System partition so it was the same as the original.

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Swapping boot drive to an SSD
« on: April 02, 2013, 12:08:23 am »
As mentioned before, that SSD isn't going to boot even if you have the boot order correct in your CMOS config.

You still need an MBR and either a sysprepped BCD or the will to change the NT Disk Signature in the existing BCD to match the SSD's.
This is where you lost me last time. Am I just going to use BootIce to put an MBR on it, and do the BCD thing?

And for the BCD stuff, I'm just going into the hidden partition (the one I copied over to the SSD, I assume) and changing the drive signature to match that of the SSD? That was the part I got the least when we talked about this last.

~DS

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Script Help and Language Discussion / Re: [PCE] Nazo no Masquerade
« on: March 31, 2013, 09:08:01 pm »
I actually bought this randomly for my PC Engine when I was in Japan. So I'd love to help.

謎のマスカレード The Mysterious Masquerade

円陣探偵社捜査日記 - Circle Detective Agency Search Logs

龍之介と5人の仲間たち Ryuunosuke and His Five Friends

伝説洋館連続殺人事件 The Serial Murders at the Legendary Mansion

第1章 Chapter 1

殺された死神 The Murdered Reaper

第2章 Chapter 2

狼男の爪 Claws of the Werewolf

第3章 Chapter 3

山神家の伝説 Legend of the Yamashin Family (could be "Yamashin House" or something else, depends on context)

第4章 Chapter 4

消えた相続人 The Disappearing Heir/Heiress (depends on gender)

第5章 Chapter 5

謎の迷路 The Mysterious Labyrinth

Feel free to post more of this and I'll translate it as soon as I see it. Sounds interesting.

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Swapping boot drive to an SSD
« on: March 31, 2013, 08:56:46 pm »
I suppose it depends on the BIOS.  Certainly, you used to be able to.

If you've already swapped the boot order, I guess that means it still boots off your old drive when you start up your computer?  Did you deactivate the boot flag on the other drive?
If I deactivate the boot flag, and for some reason it doesn't boot into the SSD, will I be able to restore it and boot into my HDD again?

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Swapping boot drive to an SSD
« on: March 31, 2013, 11:42:43 am »
Go into your BIOS and change the boot order of the drives?

You should probably disable the old one at the same time for good measure.
I swapped the boot order already.

You can disable drives through your BIOS? o.O

~DS

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ROM Hacking Discussion / Re: Help inserting FFIV scripts
« on: March 30, 2013, 04:22:34 pm »
Did you find a solution to your problem?

I started the hack of Final Fantasy IV, but I would enlarge the space for dialogue.
Me and the guys who offered to help are working on it. But my professional life is kinda getting in the way of my personal projects, so it may be a while.

~DS

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