Originally posted by VL-Tone
Well nobody should be blamed for anything here We're doing this on our free time, and there's that "real life" thing outside of this virtual community.
The version I sent to messiaen is essentially v0.6, but the sky bg and model importer are unfinished and buggy. The goal was to test a version where some basic stuff was fixed (for example, the limit in the GBI command buffer and maximum number of textures), and releasing some intermediary version (0.5995b?) with the bg and model importers disabled. So I was asking messiaen to test the main functionality, because I changed a few things in the main interface.
But now I'm thinking of changing my plans... I may release the same version I sent to messiaen , as is (with the new importers enabled) right here in this forum but not on my webpage.
This version would be clearly labeled as "Pre-Alpha" and buggy, and not intended for real work. I already put some disclaimer in big red letters right on the title screen.
I do have more time these days than I had a few weeks ago. My main problem at this point is not the lack of time, but that since I've only seldom worked on it over the last couple of months, I forgot about many of the remaining issues, and I'm really stressed about the fact that I don't know where to start when it comes to fixing and finishing that thing.
The debugging feedback would help me get back into working on TT64, and focus on specific issues, without feeling alone in all this.
I just don't want this debug/pre-alpha version to spread into the wild. I don't want people to complain that this version corrupted their ROM or crashed before they saved their changes.
So what do you guys think about this?
I haven't even touched M64 hacking in about 6 months but I do keep up with the progress you guys make and to both you and Messiaen I'm impressed. (who's not?) Anyway, if you were to release a pre 6.0 or the test that you sent Messiaen then I would definitely go and try and find out any bugs it has. Since I am one of the few people on this forum that has a mac (PPC & Intel) I can let you know the bugs it has on a Mac operating system other than your own and I guess pretty much anyone else can let you know what happens on Windows.
-On a side note, A part of the FAQ should say if you ask for a TT64 release date you will be banned. Something like that, just to discourage the people that only sign up to ask that question-
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