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New version added!



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Added Laterite.  A somewhat useful ore of iron, nickel, and aluminum, in small amounts.  You won't always get anything!

Added cobalt glazes.  Now you can have pottery in gorgeous cobalt blue!

Added cinnibar as a glaze.  Now that brilliant silvery glaze is yours!

Added Heavenly Steel.  One of the rarest and most sought after alloys possible.  But can it match adamantine?  Not really, but it sure beats steel!  It's production is rather difficult, though, and of course requires adamantine for said production.  Only viable if you want to stretch out your adamantine at the penalty of it not being as good.

Bug fix:  Minor grammatical fixes.

Put it in a weapon trap, gives highest accuracy when combined with high-quality weapons.

Artifact+artifact=always hits

Yeah, back then they didn't really have rechargeable batteries in that size.  They used either lithium or CMOS batteries, which contrary to popular belief, do not recharge (Lithium-ION is rechargeable, not regular lithium).

It's just the case that they power such an incredibly tiny chip that it uses next to no electricity and thus can live a year or two.  Kinda like some digital watches, they just go forever.  (Except NES carts had way bigger batteries than a watch).

But no, most used SRAM or EEPROM, which is solid-state, meaning the data remains when power is lost.  EEPROM can age through use (IE, the more it's written, the weaker it gets, until it fails) while SRAM is pretty all-around durable, just expensive (hence why it isn't used for larger purposes even today, and is reserved for things that need highly reliable, high speed memory in small amounts)

Heh, well at least I'm not like the majority of rom users and don't look for a rom unless I can find my hard copy.   Still these cart batteries are gunna fail eventually.  Kinda be sad to lose these games forever.  Or well, the ability to save at least.

Anyway back on topic.  Except I can't think of anything else to say.   I wonder when Toady's gunna get around to making more.

Actually, most cartridges use SRAM or a form of EEPROM, very few actually used batteries for this very reason.  They were almost exclusively early NES titles, and the batteries would have died by now by sheer age, they only got 1-3 years average.

Most RPGs, such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, etc. used SRAM.  Those don't die, it's solid-state.

I'm prolly gonna make a super rare good-only map creature, 'Golden Goose' that lays gold nuggets.

That doesn't help me.  But nevermind, folks on the IRC got me going.

Theres always soundsense.

I currently use soundsense and have a few The Last Remnant Town themes along with the standard Soundsense seasonal music.

For Sieges and adventure mode fights I have it looping these (and a handfull of others that I cant find on youtube) I find the old SNES synth fits the DF theme well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcHl_MD-srA  FFMQ Battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0KilHkxFk    FFMQ Boss

Special fights that I use manual playback.  Stuff like 2 sieges at once
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-M8fuegtVc&feature=related FFMQ Boss on a real guitar

Exploring an abandoned fortress in adv mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkVVkUgjy0E&feature=related FFMQ Doom Castle

Yes I am currently on a Final Fantasy Mystic Quest kick.  Wish I still had my cartridge so I could get a rom on good conscience.

Actually that's a huge misonception, ROMs are illegal even if you own the original game.  It's not covered as legal backups unless you create the ROM yourself, and don't share.  Lots of ROM site owners have been fined and jailed under this misconception.  Be warned.