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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:32:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   terrible idea for a gimmick hacking tool:
   you give it two copies of a ROM, and it runs them both in parallel according to a recorded input movie, but pauses when they desync and highlights what is different.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this game goes 2 minutes 18 seconds before it renders the first line of dialogue. good lord.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     "I've written software to do this already" says the foone, but she left out that:
     1. she wrote it in python2
     2. this computer doesn't have python3
     3. does it do a lot of printing (not print()ing) from random places? yes.
     4. does it do a lot of weird string-byte manipulation? yep!

     brb rewriting this for the nth time

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     actually, no. it turns out that getting to a point where I can "be fast" is too far away, I'll get there quicker doing it the simple dumb way. Boring.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I spent about 25 minutes and 12gb downloading a longplay to figure out how long I'd have to go in the game to find a better place to inject modified roms, or if I just give up and have a really long run time for each sprite-dumping-run.

     the answer turned out to be "like two rooms over" :(

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This is the third time TODAY!

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh, even better!

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and I have portrait injection! I can enumerate all the portraits by just generating 255(65536?) versions of the ROM and running them all and screen capturing them.

     would it surprise you to learn that I have written software to do this already?

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     gotcha!

     Doing it manually wasn't THAT painful.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 16:39:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I could use this for some very silly, very lazy text injection hacking