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Still alive. Although called in sick to work today. Rawwwrrr

Also, I'm hacking pokemon ROMs again. Right now warming up by making a customized firered game for beasts_and_men but I don't remember why I ever stopped now. Writing a script produces a very pleasing sensation that I think is synesthetic? IDK it's not normal to feel physical sensations when learning new things, right? It happens when I do advanced math too, but with scripting is much more intense. To the point where it can trigger a bit of sensory overload in certain situations, like earlier when I discovered a new, more powerful scripting tool has been developed during my hiatus.

I also tried typing to someone while scripting at the same time. Turns out the two are...kind of incompatible. Usually I just make weird mouth noises while I script because lurrrrrrrrrrr and larrrrrrrrrrvvv. beasts_and_men enjoyed this xDDD I suspect it's because I'm trying to think in two languages at once. I consider web coding (like HTML) as english, but pokemon coding is veeerry different and I seem to have learned it as its own language. Weird things happen when I try to read German and communicate in English at the same time, so.

....This has been your daily dose of 'weird things my brain does'.


For those of you who weren't around back when I first started doing this...which is quite a lot actually I think...pokemon ROMs are digital copies of pokemon games, meant to be played on an emulator* of the appropriate system. So basically, they're the game files that allow you to play pokemon games on your computer. DISCLAIMER BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS NINTENDO ACTUALLY WORRIES ABOUT: it is illegal to download a ROM of a game you haven't already physically purchased. Personally, I do in fact own a physical copy of every. single. pokemon game. So. xD

Hacking a ROM is using various tools + scripting to change the game. It doesn't really translate well to hacking, say, a computer, because pokemon engines are written in their own scripting language.

I feel like I'm rambling about stuff that is boring for everybody except me, you can check out the tags on this entry to find actual screenshots of stuff that I have done lol

*an emulator, if you were wondering, is a program that runs, basically, another OS on your computer. You can, say, get a windows emulator on a linux system, within which you can run windows-only programs. Video game emulators run an imitation of the console OS on your computer.


ETA I feel like it's a reasonable expectation that I can take a psych class without having to listen to a lecture that is all about how I don't know the difference between a person and an object because I'm autistic. It doesn't help that this woman clearly doesn't know shit because she thinks infants possess theory of mind.

I have made enough progress on the Pikmin hack to show some of it off properly!

...I wanted to do this with a screen capture video, but, um, I can't get it to work right. CamStudio Recorder kept telling me it was having errors saving the audio when I had set it to not record audio and when I finally got it to record the video for me, the finished video was...choppy and jumpy and flashy? IDEK it wasn't watchable. So here are some screenies! I need to find better screen capture software.

( Screenies screenies )

So yeah that's it for now. I think for awhile I'll work on a hack I'm thinking about that won't require any sprites drawn by me, just a lot of new maps c: also, take a break to play some Pokemon Black.