The Real Golden Pig Winner

question for you linux heads: given linus being a turd and all that, is there a way to pretty much forbid my system (at the very least the parts of the linux base that we 100% know were touched by slop) from updating ever again? i don't have the time or energy to switch to freebsd right now and would love a momentary alternative

@ben@mastodon.lubar.me @goaty@meow.social

Yes. Hell Yes. Hell Fucking Yes.

@BitBun@raru.re rip (rest in pyoi)

@tully there's some hella good posters in there ngl

@ocean@raru.re the creature himself

@ben@mastodon.lubar.me @Vordus@chitter.xyz

finally......... this is the last photo replacement............now its ending time.

@wasabi@raru.re big sleepy ceo can fuck right off into a crater

in the pocket of big sleepy

@izalia@sharkey.barkshark.xyz i n c r e a s e

Worked on it a bit more today. 2 is done, and now I'm fixing the script, carefully checking whenever someone talks about Link's huge boy hands and balls and replacing accordingly for Zelda's huge girl hands and balls

@privateger@plasmatrap.com no, not the meme reacts folder, nooooo

Just two photos and the ending (three graphics) and I'm done!! This photo must be my favorite so far =w=

The hack is done! https://raru.re/deck/@ciatmusings/115872082609632243

@ocean Yes to all of this. it sounds silly, but the best solution is to pick any option that would put you into contact with other people whenever possible. Practice socials like it's a muscle! If I weren't working in Highschool Ed, I'd have a lot of extra work to do, to shift my way of living from isolated worker bee to community asset and friend.

@Miaourt amazing bullshit

@mynameistillian@plush.city i like your voice!

Update! A friend of mine playtested a bit and found: 1: A wrong warp on the first dungeon 2: A missing sprite replacement 3: Some errors in the script So I'll get a clean rom copy and pass all sprite sheets straight to it, and recheck the script. This should be a fast process, since I'm pretty sure that 1. was caused by me being sloppy with the hex editor, and 2. just means I have to do one extra replacement and that's it. 3. is looking for the word "boy".

Ending redraws complete. Now it's replacing bitmaps and tweaking tiles. The ending slides are four scenes: Zelda holding on to a log from a distance, then a closeup, after that a profile view, and finally looking up. Assuming I'm looking at the right place in memory at all, the bitmaps are hella messy, so wherever I cannot literally see what has to be replaced, I'll probably use my certified mapping method as much as possible.

@mynameistillian@plush.city @mutualaid@fedigroups.social 🫂

@kondziu@raru.re welcome to freedom

@ocean@raru.re truly a gaming afternoon ain't it

@slothrop that's a pretty cool drawing ngl

@Miredly@raru.re oh no! Take care :(

@funkula thats so coooool. love the tiny detaila in gold

@BitBun the absolute fucking GOAT. we stan my yuriest daughter the king

Finally got around to finishing the game! All sprites look fine, so I consider that part wholly complete. For the ending though... The redraws themselves will be easy. Yet the colors of Link are spread across *five* background palettes and at least one object palette. This'll be a doozy, and like in the last redraw to implement, I'll probably have to adjust the new image to fit a tile I have no control over, or change many, many palettes to make it fit.

Speaking of which, I've sat down and checked if the same techniques are useful for other Zelda GBC games, since they use the same sprites for Links, a lot of the work would be done already. This was the original objective of this project btw! I haven't played the Oracle of Ages/Seasons, saw model swaps for Zelda in Breath of the Wild, and thought it'd be a fun idea to do the same. Since I knew Link's Awakening inside out, I felt like it'd be a nice starting point. Unfortunately, most of the ROM uses a compression algorithm, so straight sprite swapping would only get us as far as replacing the most common sprites. I have found a few nice resources to figure out decompressing and extracting assets, but that'll have to wait for now.

After a small break, I went back to drawing. Finished all but one photo redraws, replaced all redraws into the game and tested them. Already address mapped the tiles, so it's just a matter of replacing slices of one image into the other. All that's left after that is the ending, and that means both a redraw of all ending sprites and then palette swapping from Link's greens to Zelda's blues. For that I'll manually go there from a save near the end, and see how it feels in the way there.

@0xabad1dea a respadable gostak won't let no glaud vorl them doshes *mods in agriesance*

@lynn@raru.re goddamnit

@ocean@raru.re you play garlic roulette on every sip as a piece may or may not go through and get stuck in your throat, killing you instantly

@lynn@raru.re that sounds like an excellent time

@crlf@raru.re if i see link's stupid face for another frame i will throw myself off a cliff

@crlf@raru.re oh I intend to! All this hussle was for that. I can at least replace 'most of Link' from them, we'll see :3 One way or another I'll play 'em this year

@pry@raru.re @tante@tldr.nettime.org you can always get more bricks to build a stairway to Heaven

@no2nsense@mastodon.social ahí es cuando vamos y le sacamos su sombrerito de izquierdas así puede ir llorando por haberlos #canselado a los brazos de los ancaps

i will folly my way to mastery. witness me

@kondziu@raru.re >: get well soon

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pPQnhhUqtU this perhaps?

@p one chu tri fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_syD_ihhp8I