Green is my trademark color. Yet I have so few green shirts...

Blue and Purple a neck in neck..

Welp I got the Dalek.. so I'm happy. I got the Mother Brain for sure.. again you can't miss that one. I also got the two I added yesterday but you'll have to catch them to find out what those are. heh

Posted by Ijah

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So much PHP!

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As always your layout are quite awesome!


Oh guys/gals I may or may not in the future ask you to remove the CSS custom titles to be fair to those who get them the normal way. That said however that day is not today! Just keep it in the back of you mind for now.

Done. Yeah I think we need to think about returning control of the CSS to the server

Oh did I put up that Kawa said we could use the genshi in ABXD for syntax coloring if we needed it..

As much as Kawa disliked the catchpa we many need one in the future if it truly works for this kind of shit. Maybe at the least we should expand it to have different questions and answers, and parse it using Sukasa's Graphics Lib. I also think we should have a traceable, generated invite system using the e-mail notification system. It would allow a bypass of the cachpa once per invite.. either by hashed crc'd code or link. This way we can truly make it secure and yet easy for invitees.

The more important thing is a way to bounce tor on the register page. From what I've read it's a matter of taking one of the existing ip lists and building a table to test it, like an IP ban.

Thoughts?

It's got a very diverse list of IPs.. they do change periodically too. a Generalization is going to be tough.

Posted by Nicole

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Posted by Emuz

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Oh guys/gals I may or may not in the future ask you to remove the CSS custom titles to be fair to those who get them the normal way. That said however that day is not today! Just keep it in the back of you mind for now.

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What is the "normal way" for this site, anyway? (other than "be staff" )

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The usual Acmlmboard way, time on board + posts, given by staff, X number of posts. etc

The one in the FAQ is what it is now, but it'll be changing that shortly. I'm thinking of being closer to.. 200~400 after 120 days, and 300~600 (or end of ranks) if not. Those aren't too terribly hard to get to. The ones currently there are 800 after 200 days, and 1200.. which seems kind of ridiculous. I need to think on it more, but at this point we've all done the ranks before, and at least until we add a new set it's something we've all climbed before.

Posted by KP9000

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Posted by DJ Bouche

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This is why I want to put an actual CSS field with say, a modified Less parsing system, or something, and then disable the link tag.

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I think instead of doing this we should be admins and just regulate who are allowed to use it. Maybe implement yet another badge or just limit it to staff.

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Either option, or both are valid approches to the situation. Right now it's just that fake custom title thing that's in question. If when asked they remove it I don't think we have an issue for the short term. I'm giving a little leway only for fun. If (admins) you want to ask to remove them, don't wait for me. (like it saying "administrator" of "douchefuck")

Posted by Foom

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THE DESK/BEDROOM

THE LIVING ROOM ENTERTAINMENT CONSOLE

THE SECOND PICTURE, EXCEPT THIS TIME IT'S OPEN

i used dual monitors for a short while, i just use my TV as my second monitor if i decide i wanna entertain in my room

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Yay! Someone else with a turntable Very nick looking on too. I've got a Techincs SL-DD33. I tend to use Automatic turntables only due to the fact my hands aren't always the most steady.

The Kafuka Super Mario All-Stars Mario 3 Project

Backstory

For a very long time DJ Bouche and I have bounced around the idea of working on a super hack. Originally a long time ago we would have said it would have been Super Mario Bros. 3 in All-stars. Once we started talking again we made decision that we would, when the time was right, do it.

What is this?

Super Mario Bros. 3 All-stars Kafuka is (or will be) a in-depth project to in essence turn All-Stars into one giant Super Mario Brothers 3 SNES engine. This engine would be both for our debut hack, and for anyone else who would like to make their own SMB3 SNES hack.

What does that entail?

This won't be an easy project as it has many parts and subprojects involved. The base part is essentially what DD did with Ruben in that reworking of the game at the ASM level will be key to the project. A level editor, packing utilities and other tools will need to be built during the project to support it. There will also be a custom SPC engine built by DJ Bouche, and a custom logo screen to allow save/load games to be accessed in thre SMB3 splash screen instead of the overridden SMAS one.

What are the planned features ?

• Expanded ROM Space + use of areas that once were used by the other games
• expanded sprites per screen
• more advanced handling of sprites to break away from "sprite sets"
• Custom SPC engine
• implementation of some of the Super Mario Advance 4 items and features
• Recycling of code from SMB1(and 2j) and SMB2 to allow level types based on those engines (no promises)
• New Level format built to take advantage of what we would like to do

.. of course that isn't all but it helps show the scope of what the project will be.

Why?

This is the question I bet every single one of you are asking. "What's wrong with Reuben and SMB3?" you may ask. The answer is nothing at all. DD did a wonderful job and while the project hasn't yet been completed it is still something everyone should check out. As for why not just rework the NES SMB3? It's for the challenge, for one thing. Doing something of this level with an SNES game (with exceptions of SMW) really hasn't been done. This would be a rather large and challenging ASM modification to the game engine to allow us to have many many times as many worlds with many many times as levels. Since SMB3AS is currently constrained by the NES' limitations, it has room for expansion and more advanced methods. Also it could be asked, "Why not look into the more modern games like NSMB?" Part of the fun is expanding on the lower level areas involved in making levels. The style of the 16 bit era is part of it too, and Treeki (His name comes to mind right away) and many others have done a good job with NSMB and while it would be fun, we came to consensus it should be something from the 16-bit era.

This whole project is meant to be a challenge for ROM hackers, Programmers, and others who want something.. "off-the-wall" to work on that could serve not only as a learning experience but to help create something a lot of people I've talked to want: a really, really expansive game in the style of Mario 3.

More info will be coming as we develop.

I'm interested, what can I do?

This project will have two parts; the engine and the Kafuka "3" community hack. We'll accept (quality) levels and world maps from everyone on the forums and the community at large. Right now DJ Bouche and I are busy so we don't plan to start this just yet. That said if we do get enough interest and have enough people to kick this off sooner we will!

What we need is help from the ASM hackers, and programmers in the community. If you know someone who may be interested, please link them to this thread. If you interested (or the guy given the link) and you want to help, please feel free to post a response. That said right now we are far from the point where we could use Level makers and graphics mods... however you can still show your interest and say you'll help when that time comes too!

The project when started will be a fully open (source, forum, and IRC) and will be open to other working on it. This will be a fully open book project so ask any question you wish in the mean time. Please feel free to share the link to anyone you think might find this interesting, provided that you don't directly post it on others' forums without their permission first.

This will not be easy, and in fact it may be too much but, really I hope a challenge will spark something awesome!

Welp I am copying Colin's format as best I can. (as we discussed it.)

Note: I'll be looking for someone to take over running it. I've asked one or two people and if they say no I'll open it up for anyone to apply for. (again this is not meant to encourage spamming. We'll be extra cautious with spam posts) Also if this makes quality decrease we'll discontinue.

Top 1 = 10 pts
Top 2-3 = 5pts
Top 4-5 = 3pt

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January 8th
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Total Number of posts: 331

1. Jet 41
2. Liliana 36
3. Emuz 35
4. Kiyoshi 29
5. mrjs booty butt mk iv 23

Daily Points
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1. Jet 10pts
2. Liliana 5pts
3. Emuz 5pts
4. Kiyoshi 3pts
5. mrjs booty butt mk iv 3pts

Monthly Points
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1. Jet 10pts
2. Liliana 5pts
3. Emuz 5pts
4. Kiyoshi 3pts
5. mrjs booty butt mk iv 3pts

Yeah. However if it continues like it is, it'll resolve itself

Posted by Nicole

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Are you planning to keep the "bonus" system from how Colin did it?

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Actually I don't have enough info on it would you explain it?

Colin just doesn't have the time to run JCS and KCS both. I doubt I do for KCS but I'll get it started and hopefully I can hand it off to someone who does.