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Other Games / zelda ocarina of time beta deconstruction
« on: February 03, 2012, 09:03:30 pm »
I've recently come across the zelda master quest debug rom, I know how many people want to learn about this but dont have much experience with the system and tools needed to use it. I WILL NOT give the rom out on bay 12 as the rules will not let me distribute roms. nor will any of you be allowed to post links to roms and downloads. I will be however answering questions and posting videos of the unused rooms and deconstructions of the levels. I've posted some links with information on the debug rom. post here what you want to see in the rom and what interests you about it.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7181664/Guide-to-LoZOoT-Debug-Version
tcrf.net/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time

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General Discussion / Online Piracy
« on: February 01, 2012, 08:28:37 pm »
It's been coming up recently. Sopa, Pipa Acta. Piracy is real and cant be ignored, but what is piracy online? One definition of a pirate is "One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization." isn't that the same as uploading a song of you and your friends doing karaoke? In my mind there are three types of pirates.... and a external 4th type.

The nice pirate:
I'll be honest. I've pirated before. i liked the game. so i deleted the files went out of my house. drove to EB games and bought it. and than the sequel. and than the spinoff. and than the spin offs sequel even without pirating them. (for those wondering it was the halflife 2 series and than portal ) I also played minecraft on a friends account for the longest time before I bought the game, I digress. The point here is the Nice pirate pirates to try, to see what the game is before they buy it and invest in the developer. This is like a demo of the software, and honestly not a lot of companies are making good demos now. Even worse pre-rendered trailers like dead island give gamers no real glimpse into the game, or even how it will play. I would play a demo before i pirate a game, even if i had to pay a little to play it, portal was a good example the game is short, but it works, and it's what got me interested in portal 2 because portal 1 felt like it was a demo i didn't NEED to pirate portal 2 due to the fact i already knew what it would be like.


The Poor/region locked/out in the middle of nowhere Pirate: Not everyone is right next door to wallmart, and it's something a lot of us take for granted. And even worse look at countries like Australia it can cost as much as $100-120 for a single game, let alone the console. Develoupers even force you to buy the game in your country even for those extreme prices by "locking" the game to that region, there are excuses to region locks(try playing the pal version of metroid prime 1 on a NTSC gamecube ) but sometimes it's simply to keep prices in each region set. A lot of people would say if your poor than you probably don't need luxury such as a game system, it's something I can agree with but things like computers are are becoming much less of a luxury and more and more of a necessity, and with common operating systems like mac and windows becoming more and more expensive it becomes difficult not to pirate.



T3h l33t H4x0r pirate:
as much as I'm buttering piracy up it's not nice to pirate even if you do invest. and these kinds of pirates are NO exception, I've know around four in my life. They pirate because they can and can make a quick buck at someone else expense, and all four of them found that funny. DRM only serves to push pirates like these further, they find it fun being able to crack open security. It gives them bragging rights, EAs current DRM is no exception, with there hardcore DRM being constantly cracked and more and more restrictions and checks being put on the user it becomes more of a problem for real users who want to play the game legally and more fun to the pirates that enjoy breaking there DRM. it Fuels there urges to prove that there better AND they can make a profit by selling the cracked( and with the DRM removed ) superior copies that can be installed on an unlimited amount of computers without being locked by the developer.


and finally
the Oblivious pirate:
Not everyone intends to own cracked software. just look at how many users were greeted years back when Microsoft created genuine check. this could be a result of two things, more commonly the above type of pirate. selling software for a quick buck, and when the drm updates the user is now stuck with exactly the same problems as the hacker. blocked out. Another reason could be sharing, we've all known since kindergarten to share with others. some software locks you out if you use its cd key on too many computers. Lets say you loan a game to a friend. but as soon as he installs it both you and him are now permanently locked out of that game, even though you spend the money to buy it. same as buying a new computer and moving your game to it.


I don't want people discussing there favorite place to pirate or rage on either side. I just want to know other peoples feelings and arguments behind this. It's an unpleasant topic. But it's coming up more and more in daily life, and in much less of a quite way than before.


related topics:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=98143.0 -piracy in general
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=99244.0 -piracy in general
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=96744.0 -on drm
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=94815.0 -piracy in genral
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=51500.0 -similar theme to this topic
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=85946.0 -begins to waver into cyber bullying not sure how much on piracy there is.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=57223.0 -Piracy in general with a pole
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=95636.0 -p2p file sharing
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=34865.0 -Nice pirating(small topic)
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59552.0 -general copyright and piracy
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=37612.0 -excessive piracy fines

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DF Suggestions / Haunted/Possessed materials
« on: January 25, 2012, 01:45:06 am »
google "The Real Ghostbusters: Lost and Foundry" now imagine the implications of your dwarfs metal crafts fighting back if you smelted it in a haunted region. or possibly the outcome of one of those new cursed mysts? it turns the crafts alive directly or takes the forge and corrupts it like it did in the show.

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DF Modding / The Vilous Mod V4.3 New thread in proper sub forum
« on: December 12, 2011, 04:44:01 pm »
NEW THREAD V4.3 and on


This is a variant of:chronojiuj and Skies Vilous mod

For those who have found this mod, welcome be you just interested in a new mod to play with or a fan of Trancy Mick's work. Those of you who have just stumbled upon this welcome to my take on a Vilous mod for dwarf fortress. First off what is Vilous? Vilous was a set of short novels written by Trancy Mick around 2008-2009 though much of the novels remain untranslated her works can be found here on the Vilous wiki. Though dwarf fortress is not able to copy the story of Vilous it is very much capable of bringing its own worlds to life with her creatures. Though this mod plans to expand much further at a later date to include some of her more recent work; I've mostly focused on the main races of Vilous. The races included in this mod are: both breeds of Sergals, northern and southern, as well as the avian like Nevreans, the talyxian cat people, the mechanical talyxia, the satyr like Agunder, the fish like Enoca and finally the undead Zess. Each race has a mixed variety of armor,weapon, and crafts they can construct as well as several new systems such as refining crude into asphalt or the construction of nevrean firearms (have fun finding saltpeter and sulpher together). Best of luck with your new fortresses! and remeber: The land of the beast men is on the march, May the other races tremble.

Spoiler: DF adventure hook (click to show/hide)



Download: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5255
NOTE: Drag raw and data into your main DF folder as it adds files to raw AND data!
NOTE 2: Mod is now safe to mix with any other mod due to creatures and items etc having a DL92_ prefix


GitHub page: https://github.com/darklord92/Vilous_Mod


Spoiler: Features (click to show/hide)

RACES:
Spoiler: Sergals (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Nevreans (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Talyxian (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Agunder (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Zess (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Enoca (click to show/hide)

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