AmperSam

hm.

For no reason, here's what Yoshi sounds like eating an enemy in Mario is Missing on PC.

Yeah, I know of or have seen a couple disassembly-focused alternatives that are out there and there's no way the average SMW hacker will find it near as approachable, despite all LMs flaws.

Exactly, people just miss out or refuse to acknowledge that compared to many other retro-game editors the ease of use of LM is a huge contributor to why so many people hack SMW--many those people also don't give a shit about the license/source code, they just wanna make a silly fan game and can.

I believe a real LM alternative (open source or no) needs a solid WYSIWYG editing UX to succeed otherwise it's dead in the water or will stay niche. If an average person (outside the program dev) can make a hack with it just by clicking around and messing with levels, then you have a winner.

I love open source (I built a career on it) but whining about Lunar Magic and its closed-source-ness is not a winning formula, and it's not something most people who have come to SMW hacking even care strongly about.

To me that seems like the practical way to go about it: focus on building a solid level editor first and foremost and then go from there. Let the Lunar Magic ecosystem exist and still cater to 99% of hackers who will still use it.

I believe for an alternative to really get off the ground you'd need someone who cares enough about catering to the use case that a basic WYSIWYG editor would cover and wants to build that, and who won't get bogged down in scope creep, reaching parity with LM, or adding features beyond the basics.

One of the things that seems to be a blocker is that folks who are interested in alternative workflows are not at all interested in a similarly easy to use WYSIWYG editor and are more focused on full disassembly based workflows which are inherently for the more tech savvy.

I would love this to exist but folks have been going on about an open source SMW level editor for nearly the entire lifespan of Lunar Magic. There have been numerous talented programmers flow through the scene and yet no alternative has materialized with real potential--just endless lamenting.

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Incredible

act 5: make a kaizo rom hack

there nothing cathartic i can do for the situation either, since i'm responsible to many people. just gotta absorb it all and press on. probably step back a bit and wait out whatever is in the air to pass and find something restorative to do

it's been a draining few weeks. the emotional labour of being a community manager and dealing with a bunch of situations (incl harassment) has worn me down, made me less patient/more irritable--which I haven't been able to contain--and my coping mechanism of being productive took me to burnout zone

this is incredibly impressive

Finally got my C3 project done. A much faster ROM loader using USB2SNES. Links in the reply.

pretty slick

My project for this winter's SMWC3 - SNESPride, a Pride Flag renderer for the SNES. Check it out, it was pleasantly painful to build! www.smwcentral.net?p=viewthread...

the 90s star wars games all ruled

yeah I get in the same zen mode doing any UI work, putting all the little pieces together then making them work--super satisfying

We've found plenty of keitai freeware games, but "Super Merio" has shown up on multiple devices. As the name suggests, it's a Mario clone. Released in 2001, it's one of the earliest pieces of keitai freeware that we've preserved. It has two sequels (?) and even a spinoff called "Dr. Merio."

"wow this discord situation sucks huh" I type onto the 20 year old web forum I manage that has barely any active users

time to go all the way back to mailing lists

Abandoning self-hosted php forums continue to be a mistake

I'd personally 100% move to something else but no one is fuckin on Matrix or Revolt or IRC or whatever. Even as someone helping manage an online community, can't realistically push a migration for chat because other platforms aren't where people are, we'd lose contributors to inattention.

sadly, the network effect will continue to lock people into Discord. it might lose a percentage of people because of this change but people will give up privacy and other rights simply for convenience and to talk to their friends or be a part of communities. as always RIP to independent forums

You a teen? Wanna talk to your friends? Let me scan your face with our app to check (jk it's some software we got from a third party vendor that got integrated). Don't worry about that data leak from October either, we got this now! Also we made a panel of zoomers to hold us accountable. 😃👍

decided to finally watch Dead Space the movie.. I mean Event Horizon, what a trip. i liked it. they don't make bad 90s movies like they used to

mario could never