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by Dinoguy1000
Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:06 am
Forum: Website
Topic: Tips on income/financial support of the Game Research Forum
Replies: 41
Views: 43948

Re: Tips on income/financial support of the Game Research Fo

Might this be an appropriate time to look at switching hosts, as well, Mr.Mouse? I know we're having some trouble getting any support with the wiki from the current hosts, but other than that I don't know how their QoS is. If the answer's a "yes", I'd suggest Curse , which have experience ...
by Dinoguy1000
Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:40 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: New subforum: Video file formats
Replies: 6
Views: 4566

Re: New subforum: Video file formats

Moved. Keep 'em coming as you find 'em (and if you spot non-video-format-related topics that you think need to be moved, go ahead and list them here as well)!
by Dinoguy1000
Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:55 pm
Forum: Tutorials
Topic: tutorial on tutorials
Replies: 6
Views: 3632

Re: tutorial on tutorials

Aah, but of course! What could I possibly have been thinking?! :D
by Dinoguy1000
Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:44 pm
Forum: Tutorials
Topic: tutorial on tutorials
Replies: 6
Views: 3632

Re: tutorial on tutorials

Keeping in mind that I've never written a tutorial myself, it seems a good method to writing one is considering the full scope of what you're trying to teach, and breaking it down into its parts. Write a separate tutorial on each individual part, and focus on making that specific part as well-writt...
by Dinoguy1000
Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:42 pm
Forum: Tutorials
Topic: tutorial on tutorials
Replies: 6
Views: 3632

Re: tutorial on tutorials

Keeping in mind that I've never written a tutorial myself, it seems a good method to writing one is considering the full scope of what you're trying to teach, and breaking it down into its parts. Write a separate tutorial on each individual part, and focus on making that specific part as well-writte...
by Dinoguy1000
Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:35 pm
Forum: Tutorials
Topic: good tutorials for anything relates to resource reversal
Replies: 3
Views: 2836

Re: good tutorials for anything relates to resource reversal

Not sure if we really need a thread in the tutorials section of a forum revolving around reversing data formats, calling for tutorials on reversing data formats. :) But you seem to be making regular strides here in your own work. Have you backtracked your own steps to reference how you've come upon...
by Dinoguy1000
Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:07 pm
Forum: Holy Cow!
Topic: Modders getting sued
Replies: 13
Views: 5250

Re: Modders getting sued

If that were to happen, though, I'd hope you would at least release the source first (even if you did so covertly to mitigate the possibility of them suing you for that). I haven't heard anything about either of them; probably the closest that's happened for Xentax would be a few years ago, when a c...
by Dinoguy1000
Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:37 am
Forum: Code Talk
Topic: Files embedded in exe's?
Replies: 12
Views: 4462

Re: Files embedded in exe's?

I know that some packers/extractors allow you to create EXEs with embedded files (almost always as self-extracting archives) or extract files from EXEs in some cases. For games, this would be terribly hit-and-miss (and, probably, mostly miss), but it's there as one possibility. File rippers (such as...
by Dinoguy1000
Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:26 am
Forum: Holy Cow!
Topic: Modders getting sued
Replies: 13
Views: 5250

Re: Modders getting sued

I haven't heard anything about either of them; probably the closest that's happened for Xentax would be a few years ago, when a company contacted Mr.Mouse threatening legal action if he didn't take down the description for a format from a game of theirs. He replaced it on the wiki with a "Off d...
by Dinoguy1000
Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:10 am
Forum: 3D/2D models
Topic: MSET RESEARCH PROJECT + FILES UPLOADED + SOURCES
Replies: 170
Views: 82645

Re: MSET RESEARCH PROJECT + FILES UPLOADED + SOURCES

Does anyone have a plugin to view KH1 mset files on neosis 2.82? KH1 MSETs can only be viewed with Yaz0r's original ModelViewerD3DX program. There is no plugin, or converter, for Noesis, or any other program; Yaz0r's is the only one that reads these animations. Now I have to ask: is that due to som...
by Dinoguy1000
Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:36 pm
Forum: Holy Cow!
Topic: Weird stuff that you found
Replies: 2
Views: 2415

Re: Weird stuff that you found

I didn't find it myself, but this seems to be a series of test images or something in one of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force games (some background on image extraction for the game(s) can be found here).
by Dinoguy1000
Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:16 pm
Forum: Holy Cow!
Topic: Minecraft - fancy a game?
Replies: 15
Views: 6164

Re: Minecraft - fancy a game?

Minecraft wasn't made by a business man, but by someone who wanted to build a game he truly wanted to play. Your complaints about the outdated Classic version are certainly valid, but they are not a justification for not only dismissing the game (especially given how different the full, pay-to-play ...
by Dinoguy1000
Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:47 pm
Forum: Holy Cow!
Topic: Minecraft - fancy a game?
Replies: 15
Views: 6164

Re: Minecraft - fancy a game?

It's been a building game from the very beginning, heavily influenced by Infiniminer and Dwarf Fortress, among other things. This is its main appeal; survival and fighting is a distant second for the majority of people (though survival is also an indispensable part of Minecraft's atmosphere for many...
by Dinoguy1000
Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:35 pm
Forum: Holy Cow!
Topic: Minecraft - fancy a game?
Replies: 15
Views: 6164

Re: Minecraft - fancy a game?

Well, I figured I wouldn't have to say anything. =D
by Dinoguy1000
Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:44 am
Forum: Code Talk
Topic: Clear and understandable format spec writing
Replies: 3
Views: 1914

Re: Clear and understandable format spec writing

The wiki uses a reasonably straightforward method of laying out specs, though said method was originally designed with archive formats in mind and therefore may not be quite developed enough for all image, audio, model, etc. formats.