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Posted on 07-20-14 12:16:51 AM, in GBA cartridge bus question... Link

Coming into this thread way late, just to say that this reminds me of an old thread on PocketHeaven where people tried to run GBC games on the Game Boy Micro. I don’t think it was successful but it might have some useful info.

(Fun fact: the GBA was originally supposed to have software support for GBC carts, but they couldn’t get it to work, so they went with a hardware switch instead. See this post. I remember reading the relevant interview with the GBA developers several years ago but don’t have a link handy.)

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Posted on 07-25-14 04:52:00 PM, in Quoting and previewing are broken (sometimes) Link
Originally posted by StapleButter
It's also worth noting that the board's pages don't specify an encoding.

Here, Firefox defaults to Windows-1252

Not all the time, which is part of the problem. By the way, I can quote and preview Joe’s original post. As usual, different people have different behavior in their browsers, and that leads to a mess.

The way to go here would be:

  1. Dump every field of the database to a separate file.
  2. Use something like uchardet to figure out exactly how each field is encoded.
  3. Use iconv to convert to UTF-8.
  4. (Maybe not necessary: strip out any UTF-8 byte‐order marks, the sequence of three bytes 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF. This shouldn’t happen but Windows likes to add them to UTF-8 files; PHP and MySQL do not play well with them.)
  5. Reconstruct the database from scratch using MySQL’s utf8mb4 encoding (not utf8, because in true MySQL form that doesn’t actually support the full range of Unicode).
  6. Have the board emit the following HTTP header: Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
  7. And the following meta tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
  8. Keep a read‐only copy of the old board/database, just in case some posts got truncated.

After that, as long as nobody manually sets their browser otherwise, everything and everyone will being UTF-8 and there will be no more problems.

Originally posted by Joe
To be fair, I turned off Firefox's autodetect to make sure my posts get HTML-escaped when I post Japanese text, so it might happen less often to you than to me.

This helps for the moment but is not perfect—it only converts characters that aren’t representable in your native encoding. Since the board usually shows up for you as CP-1252, characters like × and — (which are valid in CP-1252) don’t get escaped when you post, and are inserted raw in the database.

Originally posted by Joe
Or does PHP detect the meta tag and become even more dumb than usual?

Thankfully not. That would be a nightmare…

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Posted on 07-25-14 07:43:50 PM, in Quoting and previewing are broken (sometimes) Link
Originally posted by Joe
Originally posted by IIMarckus
Originally posted by Joe
To be fair, I turned off Firefox's autodetect to make sure my posts get HTML-escaped when I post Japanese text, so it might happen less often to you than to me.

This helps for the moment but is not perfect—it only converts characters that aren’t representable in your native encoding. Since the board usually shows up for you as CP-1252, characters like × and — (which are valid in CP-1252) don’t get escaped when you post, and are inserted raw in the database.

Many posts already contain punctuation encoded as Windows-1252, not just mine. I made this thread because I came across a post I couldn't quote.

Sure, I wasn’t trying to imply otherwise.

Originally posted by Joe
It would probably be best to assume Windows-1252 when the code page detection is inconclusive.

uchardet seems to be pretty good at detecting that things are 1252. But I haven’t tried it on anything as large as this database, just a few individual pages saved from the board.

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Posted on 10-05-14 09:16:21 PM, in Pokemon Red: minor enhancements (patch) Link
Considered using the disassembly for this? Speaking from personal experience it makes maintaining patches much nicer.

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Posted on 02-15-15 11:12:58 AM, in Weird Discoveries Link
Originally posted by Rena
How does that Pokemon patch work anyway? Code in the save file? Or just resetting some variables?

Updating the RTC.

Unrelated: Pokémon Stadium 2 (USA) contains chunks of the Pokémon Game Boy games, including most of a Crystal ROM that predates the released game. Further analysis happening when I get around to it… (the differences are probably minor)

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Posted on 02-17-15 06:20:36 AM, in Weird Discoveries (last edited by IIMarckus at 02-17-15 06:28:01 AM) Link
Originally posted by Xkeeper
Parts of an earlier English ROM? Because if so I wonder if the JP game might have an earlier version of Crystal period.

Possible; JP Crystal and JP Stadium 3 were released the same day. Haven’t looked at the Japanese Stadiums yet. Stadium 1 USA has nothing interesting in this respect.

Originally posted by Foxhack
I wonder if they used the ROM to grab data for the Pokemon (attacks, behavior, etc.)?

Maybe. Unsure (but haven’t had time to test) because it also has movesets that are not valid in the games proper (e.g., NYPC). Also unlikely that they were used in Game Boy Tower (even more so given that they aren’t complete ROMs).

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Posted on 05-04-17 08:19:14 AM, in What's your OS(es)? Link
Originally posted by IIMarckus

I use OpenBSD on all my computers. It’s pretty cool.

I still use OpenBSD on all my computers. It’s still pretty cool.

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Posted on 02-18-18 06:35:24 AM, in There was yet another school shooting Link
Originally posted by Xkeeper
It would be nice if something, anything concrete was done about the gun problem here.
What do you propose?

Or rather, what do you propose that actually has a chance of surviving a constitutional challenge?

This isn’t a rhetorical question. The Second Amendment definitely limits the options, but it’s not some impossible barrier to gun control. Automatic weapons have been effectively banned since the ’30s. Domestic abusers and felons are prohibited from owning guns and have been for decades. None of these violate the Second. A bump stock ban would most likely be legal. (DC v. Heller is worth reading by anyone interested in the subject of what kinds of restrictions would pass constitutional muster.)

I’m going to go out on a limb and say repealing the Second Amendment is politically untenable. But that doesn’t mean gun control advocates have to sit on their hands. It does mean that they need to be shrewd and realistic in drafting legislation that is practical to pass.
Originally posted by Kazinsal
It's hard to find a workable solution for America because no matter what you do you're going to need to send in the National Guard to take two hundred million guns by force and a lot of people are going to die.
Trump is President, and you think it’s a good idea to flout the Fourth Amendment via the military? You don’t see how that could go wrong?

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Posted on 02-18-18 08:20:10 AM, in There was yet another school shooting (last edited by IIMarckus at 02-18-18 08:20:37 AM) Link
Originally posted by Kazinsal
Originally posted by IIMarckus
Trump is President, and you think it’s a good idea to flout the Fourth Amendment via the military? You don’t see how that could go wrong?

What, you seriously think that any gun control is going to happen in the next three years, let alone the unilateral ban of firearms and subsequent buyback/mass enforcement?

No, but I think another authoritarian goon like Trump can be elected again. If the Bill of Rights have been sufficiently eroded—and I’m talking fourth and fifth amendments here—it’s game over.

Originally posted by Kazinsal
Originally posted by IIMarckus
What do you propose?

Designate the NRA as a terrorist organization and use that to arrest any politician who sides with them or takes their money.
That’s bonkers. You’re opening the door to legal persecution of people for supporting Planned Parenthood, or the Communist Party, or whatever flavor of the month is considered anathema by the party in power. Can you look at the history of the United States, or the present, and not imagine that these sweeping powers you’re proposing will be misused?

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Posted on 02-22-19 11:41:56 PM, in Game Boy Advance appreciation thread Link

The Game Boy Advance had an excellent library. I’d say my top three are Wario Land 4, Advance Wars 2, and Rhythm Heaven. But I’m pretty sure I played the Mega Man Zero games more than anything else.

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Posted on 04-16-19 03:53:10 AM, in What's the farthest you've traveled in each cardinal direction? Link

I’ve never been further north than Berlin. Next furthest is London. East, Budapest followed by Ljubljana. South and west are both taken by Taipei. All of these were vacation/sightseeing trips. Never been south of the equator… a dream is to hit Antarctica, but at this point in life I’m starting to doubt I can make it happen.

Challenge mode: surface travel only, no air travel allowed!

West would be San Francisco. I rode the Amtrak to California, rented a car, and road tripped and camped my way through Sequoia, King’s Canyon, and Yosemite, then headed to the ocean and drove down the coast all the way to the Mexican border. One of my favorite trips. California may have way too many people, but its national parks are to die for.

South: a road trip to Brownsville, Texas. Almost as far south as Taipei (within a degree of latitude), and as far south as you can get in the lower 48 except the very tip of Florida. Though Brownsville was a family trip when I was a kid, so it might not count. I guess on my own I never went past Austin.

East: Chicago, purely by train. And north: from Chicago, I took another train just over the state border to Kenosha, Wisconsin.

I suppose that time some friends and I drove to Niagara Falls from Ohio might count; I lived in Cleveland then.

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