I Fixed The Annoying Thread Title. Yay.

Also this thread is getting quite interesting

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Lemme explain why I voted Complex and not Extreme:
I'm a programmer, so I know how to code. Learning ASM is just like learning another programming language. Sure, it's way more low level than normal programming languages. That's because it's not designed to be easily read/written by programmers, it's designed to be executed by the CPU. So yeah, learning ASM is one step further from learning C/C++, but it's not a very big step.

So, now you've learned ASM. You know how to read ASM and do modifications to it. Now what? NSMB's code is huge. Megabytes of ASM code, without any comments or function names or variable names. So what do you modify?

That's the big challenge. You have to understand how NSMB works internally to do interesting stuff. And that's no easy task. Most of what we know from the inner workings of NSMB comes from Treeki and his work on NSMB DS and (mostly) NSMBW. And it requires lots of time. Time he's been able to invest in this, and I haven't as much.

(Sure, you can poke around with the RAM search in DeSmuME, find where the amount of lives/coins/whatever is stored in RAM and do lulzy stuff with it (That's what Action Replay code makers do: OMG HAX LOOK 99 LIVES FOREVER). That's not cool.)

So that's why I'm leaving the "Extreme" rank for Ninjifox (and other people...? )

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So, this is how I'd classify the ranks, in order to standarize the votes a bit (It seems everyone's voting according to different criteria)

• Newbie: Umm, where do I download the NSMB ROM? And .NET Framework? Oh, okay, got it. Let's move some objects around and make a hack!
  
  
• Simple: I can make cool new levels, I understand sprites, sprite data, entrances, views, paths and stuff enough to make awesome levels!
  
  
• Regular: Hey look, custom tilesets! And BGs! And graphics My hack looks custom amd pretty.
  
  
• Advanced: Yay, I understand how palettes work, and I can do black magic with them. Multi-palette tilesets, blah blah. I can h3x 3d1t c0d35, 1m 50 31337!
  
  
• Complex: ASM haxx0rz. Nice. I can do interesting short ASM hax0rz. And I dream in h3x c0d35.
  
  
• Extreme: Hey! I know everything about NSMB. I can trash the world map and code my own. I can make custom bosses!
  

Please take these as a guide. These aren't a strict progression or anything. I know it's possible to understand hex stuff without having ever done a multipalette tileset. Meh.

And don't get offended, this is just a poll for fun! You can always LEARN MOAR if you want

Honestly I like the first one better.

Second one looks a bit like

In Spain it's that way too. Spain sucks. Politicians just go blah blah blah and they're really all equally bad. When voting you get to choose who will steal. That's it.

Lol fail.
Will fix now.

Yahoo Answers is stupid, never ever believe what's in there. That particular answer is stupid.

As for that IP visiting your site on localhost at random, that's weird.
Did you have port 80 open on your router so the site is accessible from outside?

Yesterday I pushed...

The Karma Update

Basically, now:

+1 is +10 to karma.
Deleted post is -25.
Trashed thread is -25.
Deleted thread is -40.

And now karma shows on the sidebar of posts, and on the tooltips of usernames.

And you can see which users have given most +1's to someone on his profile.

A clarification on why I did this:

The purpose of this change is to encourage post quality instead of silly postcount++.

If due to this update you have lower karma than before, it meanse you made lots of bad posts in the past that got deleted. Try to improve

That page is visible to anyone here: http://nsmbhd.net/postquality/
Except it's now broken, lol. I'll fix it.

Mega-Mario: Well, if you make a post or thread and it doesn't get deleted, you did "something" good, even if it's just a little. Given that getting a post deleted takes away much more karma, I don't think it's a problem.

Karma uservotes count the same as before: 5 for normal user, 10 for mod, 15 for admin.

I've made it count very little compared to everything else on purpose, so karma reflects more whether people like your actions, not whether people like you.

Wesley: Yep, posts in deleted/trashed threads don't count. Only if *your* threads get deleted/trashed.

I changed the karma weights a bit. Now the whole thing is as follows:

Karma starts at 0 (Not 100 as before).

+1: +10
new thread: +2
new post: +1
user vote: +/-5 (normal user), 10 (mod), 15 (admin)
Deleted post: -15
Thread you started is trashed: -20
Thread you started is deleted: -30

So karmas are... less negative now.

I've also clarified the "top +1ers" thing. It also shows the people you've +1'd the most.
Also displaynames are gone due to stupid and useless abuse.

It will be done. But no promises on when, I dunno.

Thierry you're not staff either so don't go tell people that they aren't staff.

I started coding Notifications some time ago, it's in a branch in the abxd repo. But then I ran into some problems. Those who make you go "uh we should fix this first". And then Blarg.

The way I was doing it was such that users can subscribe or un subscribe from certain types of notifications on certain things. For example you can subscribe to a particular thread or whatever. So by default you only get important notifications, like when your posts or threads are deleted, or PMs or whatever.

So no, it won't turn into a Facebook-like Spam.

And no, no estimated time of it getting finished.

About the +1 thing, yep, your suggestions are nice and you're not the first one to suggest them. Maybe they'll become real.

And now I'm going to mercilessly censor this thread by closing it forever.
Fuck democracy, this is a dictatorship.

svchost.exe is the "service host" process, it contains many system services. If you close it many other things can stpo working.

I see you have good old WinXP there. It's probably full of crap and viruses.
The easiest way out of that is to reinstall. That's what I always did back then, because trying to repair a badly broken XP system sucks. And while you're at it, I recommend you upgrade to win7 or 8. XP is old

Granted but a troll moderator edited tour post

I wish it wasn't so cold here

There's a thread about exactly the same thing RIGHT BELOW this one.

Yep, that's some crap adware (read: a virus that puts ads in sites you visit). Removing the extension probably doesn't remove the virus itself, so maybe that extension will come back later magically.

I recommend you do the usual things to get rid of viruses

No, we wont use autolock due to what i was saying earlier: posting in a one month old thread is not always bad. There are exceptions and common sense. Have you read the rules about bumping? You should.

 Arceus: that's the game boot screen graphics, not the ROM icon.
The ROM icon and titles are stored in banner.bin

I have FlashMe on my DS Lite and I have NO problems at all with sleep mode.

So yup, go for it

Also
> homebrew ds download play games

Does that exist? link me please