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Hmm, this is going to be interesting. June 7th is exactly my last day of school due to exemption from exams, and I get to leave early. I guess we'll see whether I can make it or not... here's hoping I can.

So, I play BG2 without an experience cap, and I've been doing that for a while. My main character is a triple class--a level 50 fighter/level 40 mage/level 50 thief (translation: utterly insanely overpowered), normally weak because of the cap, but without it, I can get insanely ridiculous abilities. It occurred to me today that one in particular, Simulacrum, creates a slightly weaker clone of the caster to fight alongside you. BG2 also includes multiplayer mode, which allows for character importing from saved games. Entertainingly enough, duplicates are fine. Ergo, gentlemen: Can you say BI-HEXI-WINNING?

But it might be seen in the cutscene where There's also the matter of a multitude of beta islands that can be found left on the disc. I think there's a few Action Replay codes to view them with, and with that in mind, there's really no telling what sorts of islands Nintendo might've planned for the game. Theoretically, there could be an infinite amount of them since we see no end to the Great Sea within the game itself.

I'm gonna build an open-source satellite-based telecommunication network, and make every phone company ever butthurt and/or dead.

Bear in mind the old concept art was mainly meant to be printed in magazines and such, which gives that grainy effect. Other than the higher resolutions and more vibrant colors, the revamped concept art is identical to the old.

Sakura wrote a decompressor for it when it first came out; if I can get her permission, I'll share that with the community if anyone wants it.

Nothing like it, bro. Hell, I need to find a warm, humid, relaxing spot in the near future, especially once I get my hands on the 3DS come June.

Yeah, so, I don't see an entry in the Terms of Service that says "do not post a link to the MM Debug ROM, especially if it's a clean, working copy and includes alternate mirrors in the event of catastrophic failures." Just saying.

For that cartridge, I wouldn't fork over more than 5 dollars. Very old, very used games do not sell for more than that, regardless of collectability value. For a decent-condition gold cart of Ocarina of Time, it varies. I imagine the price could range anywhere from 20 dollars (someone who doesn't know how valuable the cart is) to 150 or so dollars (though that's pushing the limits of extravagance). Personally, I'd probably charge/pay between 50 to 60 dollars. It really just depends on where you can find it and whether the person knows it's valuable.

Why they refused to let you build there is still just beyond me, regardless of issues of pride. *facepalm* Sweet stuff there, Mr. Alkar. I see why you facepunched me off the property the other day, that would've ruined the surprise. XD

This vividly brings spinout to mind. I think he actually had to customize the way his wiki pages were loaded/compiled/whatever to force that s to be lowercase. XD My name actually originated from forgetfulness and a very mean dragon. In Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, there's a dragon named Nizidramanii'yt, which is, as you might expect, a very difficult name to pronounce, let alone remember. That name came to mind when I wanted to register for a forum related to mods for that game, but one spastic keyboard-mashing later, I somehow produced Naxylldritt. The name stuck, and thus, here I am (with such variants as Naxy, Nax, Naxx, Naxyll, etc., though Naxy is by and large my most preferred nickname).

Solution: About 60% of map imports using r12 of your converter.

Hmm. I don't know why, but I have a small bias against games where you cannot manually jump. Still, I might give it a go.

Of course, back then, that was only a couple years after the N64 had actually been released, so for its time I bet it was actually a pretty decent emulator.

I actually honestly believe the public should start homebrewing this to protest against the corporations. If they won't serve the public like they're supposed to, we should hit them where it hurts and show them who's really in charge in capitalism.

Is there a jump button?

I would consult spinout on the matter, then, as I can't discern much from that error output. As for all the other programs, if spinout's using a dual-boot as I suspect, then I'm afraid you're SOL.

Do you have VPython 2.6 installed (versus just the Python language)? Zappy requires that extension to work.

Python should actually be more compatible for Linux operating systems--I'm pretty sure the language was actually written for those environments specifically. So, all of spinout's Python tools should work great. Since these programs aren't working for you on Wine, I'd ask spinout what he does for that. I'm not positive, but I think he might have a dual-boot with Windows so he can use those other tools. This is why it's generally a good idea to install Linux along with Windows, so as to avoid common compatibility issues--while Linux is a fantastic and efficient OS choice, it does suffer from incompatibility with many common file formats for Windows users.

Patenting the cure is among the worst possible scenarios. This establishes an oligopoly of corporations and effectively makes the cure unobtainable except to those with hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispose of. It's because the cure is unpatented that it's easy to manufacture and obtain--except, it would be, but the corporations refuse to develop it, because they're profiteers even in the face of their customers dying. A patent will only propagate this bullshit mentality.

Here's some food for thought I'd like to share with the GCN today. Humanity has been scrambling for a cure for cancer for the past god-knows-how-many decades, and that search has been going strong even over the recent years. But did it ever occur to anyone around 4 years ago to read this article? TL;DR? The cure for cancer has been found for four years. Yes, you read that correctly. Four years. Four years of millions of people dying, of tens of millions afflicted, and billions suffering and grieving over the losses they've had. You may be skeptical that this cure is legit. How does this magical drug work? Simple. This diagram does a pretty good job of explaining it: The reason cancer cells are different from normal cells is because the mitochondria (the structures in our cells that go through respiration and produce energy for our body to use) shut off during mitosis, the reproduction of cells. Mitochondria also facilitate the deterioration of cells, so when they are inactive, cells can't die through normal decay processes. Cancerous cells, in turn, leave the mitochondria off permanently, because they are always reproducing. They get their energy anaerobically through glycosis, which produces lactic acid and allows cancerous cells to escape through tissues and spread through the body. The tumors can also suffocate normal cells, and when those cells are deprived of oxygen, they switch off the mitochondria and use glycosis, becoming cancerous as well. The drug in question is called dichloroacetate, and all it does is switch the mitochondria back on. This causes cells to resume normal decay, and the tumor can then be removed without worry of cancer cells remaining in the body. Best of all, the drug is relatively cheap to produce, and in small to moderate doses, has few (if any) adverse effects. So, why isn't this thing on the market? Well, dichloroacetate is cheap because it is not patented, nor can it be. This means it is difficult for drug companies to make substantial money off of it by making their own variations of it then jacking up the price, so no one's taken the initiative to mass-produce and distribute it. That also means news companies didn't bother much to cover this incredible development, so the public remained largely unaware of this drug. But shouldn't this be about saving lives and not about soaring profits? Oh, but wait, this is America we're talking about, where if you don't make at least a 25% profit, kick the idea into the dirt and let people suffer from a worse mass-murderer than Al Qaeda. Oh well, nice try, Canadian researchers, I guess it's back to the drawing board for you.

The shield texture has, in general, often been very problematic. In many instances it won't load for unknown reasons; I would recommend trying a shield texture that you know loads, and replace it with your image and save it within the hires_texture folder. Beyond that, I can't recommend much; I had similar troubles with that texture, and I have no idea how I managed to fix the problem, other than spamming saving it over various working textures. Sorry I can't offer much more help than that.

Soul Calibur has a plot? I really liked custom character creation in IV, I hope they expand from there in V to include fully custom movesets (instead of just new models with different equipment sets/abilities).

Politcally Apathetic Owl's hill.

Unless I'm mistaken, Mudlord's plugin only supports up to quadruple-sized textures, so in the case of the shield texture, the maximum dimensions allowed are 128x256. Yours is twice that (8x the original), and thus cannot be loaded by Mudlord's plugin. You can either halve the texture size, or use a newer version of the Rice-generation plugin series (i.e. Aristotle's, which supports up to 128x, or 1964, which has the latter and greater stability/options).