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Computer Talk!
The Computer
Asus P5Q (P45 chipset) mobo
Intel C2D E8400 (I should overclock this since its a Wolfsdale but I'm too lazy)
4GB DDR800 RAM (OCZ I think, they have crazy rebates)
Visiontek ATI Radeon 4850
Antec Earthwatts 500W PS
640GB WD SATA HD
320GB WD SATA HD
250GB Maxtor SATA HD
Samsung SATA DVD Burner
Gigabyte WP-01 Wireless Adaptor
Antec Sonata 3 Case
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition
Samsung 19" Monitor that's old and could do with a replacement
Will You Replace Your Computer Soon?
Not a chance. The only thing it didn't eat up that I threw at it was a Vicky+Rev game that went on for 35 years longer than designed, and it only stuttered on higher speeds.
How Much Would You Spend?
Less than a grand. Any more and your return rate on hardware starts to drop off. I count the computer alone though, so after monitor/speakers/keyboard+mouse... well I haven't gone shopping for those for a while.
Neat Computer Things
SLI/Crossfire is only for people who are allergic to money. You get horrible return rates for the money you put into it and you pay a huge premium for it when you could just get a single card that's better than the SLI setup and is also cheaper. Find better ways to spend your money.
Get good power supplies. I'm not talking about 1000W SLI EDITION SUPER HYPE POWER FROM SPARKY, its a peice of shit that could blow your computer to smithereens and you won't even approach 1000W on normal computers. Get a power supply from a good producer (Seasonic, Corsair, Antec, PC Cooling) that has plenty of current on the 12V rails (fewer rails are better) and it will kick ass for a long time.
Only get Quad Cores if what you do actually uses up those cores. Most games won't use four cores, so if you get one to game on you pretty much got an expensive dual core that isn't as good as a C2D at equivelant cost.
You shouldn't spend $lots on a new computer. You can get a great midrange computer for ~$1000. If you want to be on the cutting edge you'll get farther with two $1000 computers four years apart than getting a $2000 computer for eight years.
Asus P5Q (P45 chipset) mobo
Intel C2D E8400 (I should overclock this since its a Wolfsdale but I'm too lazy)
4GB DDR800 RAM (OCZ I think, they have crazy rebates)
Visiontek ATI Radeon 4850
Antec Earthwatts 500W PS
640GB WD SATA HD
320GB WD SATA HD
250GB Maxtor SATA HD
Samsung SATA DVD Burner
Gigabyte WP-01 Wireless Adaptor
Antec Sonata 3 Case
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition
Samsung 19" Monitor that's old and could do with a replacement
Will You Replace Your Computer Soon?
Not a chance. The only thing it didn't eat up that I threw at it was a Vicky+Rev game that went on for 35 years longer than designed, and it only stuttered on higher speeds.
How Much Would You Spend?
Less than a grand. Any more and your return rate on hardware starts to drop off. I count the computer alone though, so after monitor/speakers/keyboard+mouse... well I haven't gone shopping for those for a while.
Neat Computer Things
SLI/Crossfire is only for people who are allergic to money. You get horrible return rates for the money you put into it and you pay a huge premium for it when you could just get a single card that's better than the SLI setup and is also cheaper. Find better ways to spend your money.
Get good power supplies. I'm not talking about 1000W SLI EDITION SUPER HYPE POWER FROM SPARKY, its a peice of shit that could blow your computer to smithereens and you won't even approach 1000W on normal computers. Get a power supply from a good producer (Seasonic, Corsair, Antec, PC Cooling) that has plenty of current on the 12V rails (fewer rails are better) and it will kick ass for a long time.
Only get Quad Cores if what you do actually uses up those cores. Most games won't use four cores, so if you get one to game on you pretty much got an expensive dual core that isn't as good as a C2D at equivelant cost.
You shouldn't spend $lots on a new computer. You can get a great midrange computer for ~$1000. If you want to be on the cutting edge you'll get farther with two $1000 computers four years apart than getting a $2000 computer for eight years.
Japanese Internet vs. North American Internet (pic)
That's your computer's network speed. It can transmit/receive data at those speeds, but the bottleneck is your ISP connection (modem to the rest of the Internet) which runs a lot less than 100mbps.
If it was two computers hooked up to each other (either directly or through a 100mbps+ switch/router) then you could get those speeds. Just not over the Internet unfortunately.
If it was two computers hooked up to each other (either directly or through a 100mbps+ switch/router) then you could get those speeds. Just not over the Internet unfortunately.
:The Game Making Drive/Blog Topic
Community History
My memory is really shitty so this is probably going to be a terrible recollection.
Holy crap this is bigger than I thought.
Childhood
I started off along the same lines as Kentona, although it was my brother who got Dragon Warrior and introduced me to the wolderful world of RPGs. Later I got my hands on Final Fantasy but with no NES to play it on (midmove, NES was packed away for a while) I could only read the instruction manual so I could only play the game in my head. That's around where I started making RPGs; I'd doodle maps and enemies and gear and numbers and it all came together in my little head.
Years later I got a 2000 Shareware Games disc for Christmas. One of those 2000 games was ZZT, a DOS-based game making program. I didn't make any RPGs (I had no idea how) but I did make a few little unfinished games that has nothing regarding plot or direction except whatever was in my mind (and of course it involved purple keys). This was the first real games I made that weren't entirely on paper.
The Early Years (RPG Maker 2-95)
I first got into the RPG Maker series when I got the Internet. One Nintendo Power issue had a segment on Japanese RPGs and there was a two page article on one called Super RPG Dante or something like that (I don't think it was the proper Japanese name). It talked about how you could make your own RPGs and I searched for it on the Internet where I discovered Kanjihack and the wonderful world of SNES emulation. Kanjihack was working on RPG Tsukuru Super Dante 2 since due to emulator issues saving to SRAM was impossible with the first one. I don't remember much from back then, I wasn't in the community at all and everything I made was stuff like the first 5-10 minutes of SUPER EPIC FANTASY with 90% of the work being the world map, characters, and a town.
Eventually Kanjihack (/TNomad, I don't remember Ch33s3 doing much and Asperta was more of the PR guy iirc), 90% done with RPG Maker 2, moved to RPG Maker 95 and I loved it. No need to use an emulated SNES controller or any of that crap and it had named switches! I even managed to release a game called Lost Fantasy (guess where I got that name from) which was then about average despite a rediculously convoluted plot (I think it involved going from moons to the main planet or something and it was another damn SUPER EPIC FANTASY). I got a bit involved in the community via IRC and I remember chatting with guys like Asperta, DrWily, and others whose names I don't remember (Tolik? Klondike? I know Advo was around then but I don't remember if he was on IRC). I wasn't much of a forums guy then and I didn't stick with any particular website, although I did submit LF to the RPG Prophets or something like that.
Eventually possibily due to RMDrama Kanjihack got a C&D from ASCII with RM95 about 90% done. I left the scene/Scene dissapeared/I don't remember and kept playing with RM95 and only released my last demo (Chrono Stasis) for it on my own horrible website.
RPG Maker 2000
I heard of Rm2k when I was browsing the Internet one day, and before long I had found Don's website with a completed Rm2k translation available. I was back in the scene in no time and I loved the newest RPG Maker. I hanged out at Don's forums in the RPG Maker section (which was pretty much General Chat+RPG Maker threads, mostly seperate from the General Chat section. There was much intraforum drama). I was there for a long time, even released Age(s) of Darkness, a decent game from reviews (only because the standards were so low. Juan de Fuca(sic) rightfully tore the game apart later). I also released The Most Pointless Game Ever after being pressed by a friend and it somehow inspired a fangame. It was a pretty cool time with lots of games released (most awful now but good then) with lots of cool guys like Lys, Shqua, B&T, BL2k, Shadowtext, and others. Eventually intraforum drama started to tear the place apart, people left and I ended up in Sky Tower Games until Silicon Hero left and that place fell apart too. I eventually left the scene again without any place to call my "RPG Maker Home".
Its a short section but this is probably the part of RPG Maker I'm fondest of. Lots of good memories, even with the RMDrama.
Simulation RPG Maker 95
I don't remember when this happened, might've been during the Rm2k segment, but at some point Odin, Dragoon Falcon and I started a site dedicated to Simulation RPG Maker 95. I didn't live long due to lack of interest (SimRPG95 was a terrible program that required tutorials in how to import and name graphic files) but it was fun while it lasted.
RPG Maker 2003
I was never really involved here. At some point I ended up in War of the Magi and there wasn't much RPG Making going on there and I didn't have any inspriration/motivation to even make a new RM2k3 game. I was mostly there to hang out and talk about games and other people's games. I don't think I started a serious Rm2k3 project until there was a one-week game making competitition there that two people entered. Mine got blown away (a damn demo of a dungeon crawler, it was embarrasing how little I got done in the one-week extended to two contest). Around here I also changed my username to GreatRedSpirit since I started to hate my last one (it had a number in it and it was from Final Fantasy). WotM had its own little drama wars with the main admin leaving and being replaced and that later caused a shitstorm which ended up with War of the Magi dead.
Having been out of any serious RPG Maker community for a while I went to the only one I knew about: GamingW. I never posted much there, I think it was Hero's Realm that got me to register and actually say something. That didn't last long, I saw all the horrible drama going on there and when Kentona PM'd me saying Hero's Realm was moving to Ghostlight I was gone.
Ghostlight was good, it was promoting people to release games with Demo Days, I got back into IRC with GL, and I even saw someone back from WotM. It was a pretty cool place until TSG happened. Combining three communities just did not work and the site and forums died in a few months. Well, there wen't another community. I heard about RMN... I don't remember where and saw Kentona and a few other familiar names from the ye olde days and signed up. Nearly eleven months later and here I am making this post.
The worst part is that I still haven't finished that WotM 2-week contest game. I need to fix that.
tl;dr
I have horrible dedication issues :(
Holy crap this is bigger than I thought.
Childhood
I started off along the same lines as Kentona, although it was my brother who got Dragon Warrior and introduced me to the wolderful world of RPGs. Later I got my hands on Final Fantasy but with no NES to play it on (midmove, NES was packed away for a while) I could only read the instruction manual so I could only play the game in my head. That's around where I started making RPGs; I'd doodle maps and enemies and gear and numbers and it all came together in my little head.
Years later I got a 2000 Shareware Games disc for Christmas. One of those 2000 games was ZZT, a DOS-based game making program. I didn't make any RPGs (I had no idea how) but I did make a few little unfinished games that has nothing regarding plot or direction except whatever was in my mind (and of course it involved purple keys). This was the first real games I made that weren't entirely on paper.
The Early Years (RPG Maker 2-95)
I first got into the RPG Maker series when I got the Internet. One Nintendo Power issue had a segment on Japanese RPGs and there was a two page article on one called Super RPG Dante or something like that (I don't think it was the proper Japanese name). It talked about how you could make your own RPGs and I searched for it on the Internet where I discovered Kanjihack and the wonderful world of SNES emulation. Kanjihack was working on RPG Tsukuru Super Dante 2 since due to emulator issues saving to SRAM was impossible with the first one. I don't remember much from back then, I wasn't in the community at all and everything I made was stuff like the first 5-10 minutes of SUPER EPIC FANTASY with 90% of the work being the world map, characters, and a town.
Eventually Kanjihack (/TNomad, I don't remember Ch33s3 doing much and Asperta was more of the PR guy iirc), 90% done with RPG Maker 2, moved to RPG Maker 95 and I loved it. No need to use an emulated SNES controller or any of that crap and it had named switches! I even managed to release a game called Lost Fantasy (guess where I got that name from) which was then about average despite a rediculously convoluted plot (I think it involved going from moons to the main planet or something and it was another damn SUPER EPIC FANTASY). I got a bit involved in the community via IRC and I remember chatting with guys like Asperta, DrWily, and others whose names I don't remember (Tolik? Klondike? I know Advo was around then but I don't remember if he was on IRC). I wasn't much of a forums guy then and I didn't stick with any particular website, although I did submit LF to the RPG Prophets or something like that.
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Eventually possibily due to RMDrama Kanjihack got a C&D from ASCII with RM95 about 90% done. I left the scene/Scene dissapeared/I don't remember and kept playing with RM95 and only released my last demo (Chrono Stasis) for it on my own horrible website.
RPG Maker 2000
I heard of Rm2k when I was browsing the Internet one day, and before long I had found Don's website with a completed Rm2k translation available. I was back in the scene in no time and I loved the newest RPG Maker. I hanged out at Don's forums in the RPG Maker section (which was pretty much General Chat+RPG Maker threads, mostly seperate from the General Chat section. There was much intraforum drama). I was there for a long time, even released Age(s) of Darkness, a decent game from reviews (only because the standards were so low. Juan de Fuca(sic) rightfully tore the game apart later). I also released The Most Pointless Game Ever after being pressed by a friend and it somehow inspired a fangame. It was a pretty cool time with lots of games released (most awful now but good then) with lots of cool guys like Lys, Shqua, B&T, BL2k, Shadowtext, and others. Eventually intraforum drama started to tear the place apart, people left and I ended up in Sky Tower Games until Silicon Hero left and that place fell apart too. I eventually left the scene again without any place to call my "RPG Maker Home".
Its a short section but this is probably the part of RPG Maker I'm fondest of. Lots of good memories, even with the RMDrama.
Simulation RPG Maker 95
I don't remember when this happened, might've been during the Rm2k segment, but at some point Odin, Dragoon Falcon and I started a site dedicated to Simulation RPG Maker 95. I didn't live long due to lack of interest (SimRPG95 was a terrible program that required tutorials in how to import and name graphic files) but it was fun while it lasted.
RPG Maker 2003
I was never really involved here. At some point I ended up in War of the Magi and there wasn't much RPG Making going on there and I didn't have any inspriration/motivation to even make a new RM2k3 game. I was mostly there to hang out and talk about games and other people's games. I don't think I started a serious Rm2k3 project until there was a one-week game making competitition there that two people entered. Mine got blown away (a damn demo of a dungeon crawler, it was embarrasing how little I got done in the one-week extended to two contest). Around here I also changed my username to GreatRedSpirit since I started to hate my last one (it had a number in it and it was from Final Fantasy). WotM had its own little drama wars with the main admin leaving and being replaced and that later caused a shitstorm which ended up with War of the Magi dead.
Having been out of any serious RPG Maker community for a while I went to the only one I knew about: GamingW. I never posted much there, I think it was Hero's Realm that got me to register and actually say something. That didn't last long, I saw all the horrible drama going on there and when Kentona PM'd me saying Hero's Realm was moving to Ghostlight I was gone.
Ghostlight was good, it was promoting people to release games with Demo Days, I got back into IRC with GL, and I even saw someone back from WotM. It was a pretty cool place until TSG happened. Combining three communities just did not work and the site and forums died in a few months. Well, there wen't another community. I heard about RMN... I don't remember where and saw Kentona and a few other familiar names from the ye olde days and signed up. Nearly eleven months later and here I am making this post.
The worst part is that I still haven't finished that WotM 2-week contest game. I need to fix that.
tl;dr
I have horrible dedication issues :(
Japanese Internet vs. North American Internet (pic)
Fixed link:
http://www.topnewsblog.info/tblog_11080.htm
Also doesn't NA Internet sucks due to the infrastrucutre that everybody wants the money to upgrade but just won't do it? I don't have a source for this info so v
v
http://www.topnewsblog.info/tblog_11080.htm
Also doesn't NA Internet sucks due to the infrastrucutre that everybody wants the money to upgrade but just won't do it? I don't have a source for this info so v
Really, really upsetting error! "Event script referenced an item that does not exist!"
Pet Peeves, Hang Ups, and other things that get on your nerves.
The PKRS doubles EVs you get from battle. It doesn't affect the number of EVs a pokemon can have (255 EVs in any stat, 4EVs->1stat point, total of 510 EVs allowed)
Pet Peeves, Hang Ups, and other things that get on your nerves.
Your cartridge isn't bad. Its impossible to have a minor flaw that recalculates stats to rediculous proportions, plus it would fail the checksum and I believe the GBA hardware won't load in those scenarios.
Also that build would need to look out for anything with Sturdy since it only has one way to attack.
Also that build would need to look out for anything with Sturdy since it only has one way to attack.
Pet Peeves, Hang Ups, and other things that get on your nerves.
Bullshit. Nothing gets 600 speed/defense. Jolteon with its 130 base speed, 252 speed EVs, 31 speed EVs, and a beneficial sppeed nature doesn't even break 400 at level 100. The only thing that even gets close is Blissey's enormous HP.
You don't breed for EVs, you get those through fighting. You only breed for IVs which can only contribute 31 points to any stat and natures which give 10% of a stat.
If the hacker was changing their pokemon's stats, they'd do it with something that wasn't Smeargle with a legitimate moveset and they wouldn't mess around with one-hit KO moves with shit accuracy when they could give 999 attack and oneshot anything with a perfect accuracy move like Aerial Ace.
You don't breed for EVs, you get those through fighting. You only breed for IVs which can only contribute 31 points to any stat and natures which give 10% of a stat.
If the hacker was changing their pokemon's stats, they'd do it with something that wasn't Smeargle with a legitimate moveset and they wouldn't mess around with one-hit KO moves with shit accuracy when they could give 999 attack and oneshot anything with a perfect accuracy move like Aerial Ace.
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