The Still New What Did You Last Do Thread

[Project Shadowcat]

I really hope they manage to capture the lore a little more capably than MWO did. I like the art style and am glad they are using it.

Me, too. MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries and MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries did the best of capturing the lore within the video games. They look to be shooting for a merc-like type of gameplay, so we may see a lot more of it here, too.
Now, I wonder what sort of timeline they're shooting for. If Jordan Weisman's ideas in MechWarrior 3015 had any connection to this project (doubt it, but you never know!), I'd be willing to guess it'd be around the later Succession Wars, before the Clan Invasion.

[XanderK9]

Speaking of Mechwarrior, I have found MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries in a pawn shop yesterday. I'll give it a try when I will be back from vacation.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

another thing with the AW2 soundfont, this time composed from scratch. these things are fun to do.

[Scripten]

Me, too. MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries and MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries did the best of capturing the lore within the video games. They look to be shooting for a merc-like type of gameplay, so we may see a lot more of it here, too.
Now, I wonder what sort of timeline they're shooting for. If Jordan Weisman's ideas in MechWarrior 3015 had any connection to this project (doubt it, but you never know!), I'd be willing to guess it'd be around the later Succession Wars, before the Clan Invasion.

Agreed! Although, I honestly would love to be part of something like Heir to the Empire or even the more competent Mechwarrior-series books. (Those were the canonical but otherwise throwaway books that nonetheless often had decent plots and writing.) Up until MWO, we always had some amount of lore being elaborated upon in the games. Would be great to see that again rather than just having arbitrary battles.

Speaking of Mechwarrior, I have found MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries in a pawn shop yesterday. I'll give it a try when I will be back from vacation.

It's really the best of the lot. Mechwarrior 4 itself was... pretty silly. Mercenaries does a much better job of it.

[TheBadHustlex]

Wonder if this works on real hardware, or if it's like 90% of the Mario 64 and Zelda hacks out there that only work in emulators...I'll test that out soonish.

That would be interesting. It would be a hell of a lot easier if you could use an original N64-controller for playing.

[Kostov]

Okay, I got off my ass and backed up my pictures & document folders on Dropbox. Unfortunately, Dropbox can't sync folders that aren't located in the main Dropbox folder. Not a huge concern with pictures, but my Documents folder contains my savegames etc. for some games.

I want everything that's created in the pictures or document folders folders to be backed up to Dropbox from now on, and therefore I need to move the pictures & documents folders to the main Dropbox folder and start putting my actual pictures and documents in there. This brings up a problem - I also need my applications to treat the folders as if they were still in their default directory - that is to say, C:\Users\Simon, because my savegames and the like are stored there by applications. How can I accomplish this?

tl;dr how do I make folder 1 point an application to folder 2 whenever the application tries to save something to folder 1?

[Project Shadowcat]

Barring some scripting or batch files, all you really can do is just manually back it up from time to time.

[Kostov]

I heard this could be useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

[DoomRater]

Yes, junction points are your friend. I've gotten it to sync to an SD card by using those.

[Kostov]

After trying something that should probably have been tried before, I concur that Windows 8.1 is very intelligently designed in this case. It creates its own kind of junction point, and if I try to drag the folder elsewhere it'll actually be both there and in my user folder without being copied, therefore not increasing the amount of space it takes.

Still, I'm happy to know what junction points are and how to make them. If anything is saved to, say, AppData, and I need to back it up - I'll create a junction point.

[Captain J]

i had no thingies to done with, so i recorded the sounds i like from the fist of the north star animation series and the movie. since i've put a credit and disclaimer for them, i hope it's fine.

anyway if someone wants to donate or eager to remake the fist of the north star doom, be my guest.

[TheBadHustlex]

Bad news for my Banjo-Kazooie-Hacking-Career: I need a not-buggy ROM, the one I have constantly screws up the camera, even if I don't apply any changes and play the originally downloaded file. On several different emulators.
It has to be a z64 or a v64 ROM, too.

[wildweasel]

Bad news for my Banjo-Kazooie-Hacking-Career: I need a not-buggy ROM, the one I have constantly screws up the camera, even if I don't apply any changes and play the originally downloaded file. On several different emulators.
It has to be a z64 or a v64 ROM, too.

Not that it really needs to be said, but if anybody was planning on helping out with this, please don't post links to ROMs on the forums. They are quite illegal.

[Kostov]

I'm not going to do it, but are private messages okay with that stuff?

[TheBadHustlex]

I don't think it is. They are still getting saved somewhere.
I think I'm gonna be able to find that ROM somewhere. I have a (not second hand) copy of that game, so I at least don't have to feel bad for it.

I'm also aware of the fact that distributing a hacked ROM is even more illegal then normal ROMs, just in case anybody worried. I know that you have to create a patch of the hack.