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Katamari Hack (2011)
- raydiatian 4y agoI remember this!
- dang 4y agoDiscussed at the time: Katamari Hack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486038 - April 2011 (5 comments)
- nippoo 4y agoAnd March 2013 (34 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318076
- dang 4y agoThanks! Macroexpanded: Turn any page into Katamari Damacy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318076 - March 2011 (33 comments)
- jitubhai 4y ago
- adwmayer 4y agoOh man, I was at the hackathon at the University of Washington where this was built. Good memories!
- lookagain 4y agoIf only real-life worked that way! But you can always try to live like your fantasies are real and see what happens to your life!
- Sniffnoy 4y agoHow does one use this on modern browers? If I paste it into the Firefox address bar, it interprets it as a search. I can get it to work by stripping off the "javascript:" prefix and pasting it into the console instead, but only on the site itself; if I try it on a different site the request is blocked by browser security measures. Is there any way to get this to work?
- stavros 4y agoYou should create a bookmark with the JS as the target.
- jakopo87 4y agoManually add "javascript:" at the beginning, it gets stripped when you paste it.
- bmacho 4y agoPut a character in the address bar, paste the text, then ctrl+left for a while then hit delete. (Not like it will do anything, but that's how you can put the text in the address bar.) Firefox address bar is broken. When you want to copy an url from it (e.g. wikipedia link) it url encodes the text, and makes it unreadable (especially when your language contains non latin characters). I copy links starting form the 't', and manually add the 'h'. Also when you copy something in the URL bar, then ctrl a then ctrl x, it will copy the original url, instead of your text. But if you do it twice, it will copy your text instead. (Same in windows, linux, even in palemoon.) It looks like a normal input field on the screen, and it tempts me to use it, but bites me most of the times.
- jakopo87 4y agoI tried what you said and it doesn't work with "javascript:" uris (probably to prevent running of unwanted code?). Firefox bar is not "broken", as every browser I tested has the same behavior, and I think it's because a valid uri should only contain ASCII characters (as described in RFC3896[0]), but I agree with you that it's annoying: it should copy the text as it's displayed. Fun fact: Internet explorer let you copy the uri "as is" without encoding. [0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.html#section-2 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.html#section-2
- shafkathullah 4y agoDoesn't seem to work in https enabled websites.
- butz 4y agoSeems like a good way to crash Firefox.
- wildrhythms 4y agoRolling around Katamari style worked for about 8 seconds, and then crashed, not just my Firefox, but my froze my entire system on Ubuntu 22.10 (AMD gpu).
- branon 4y agoSimilar experience here, ran it in Firefox on Steam Deck and it seems to work, but freezes the whole system for a few seconds at a time quite often
- bitwize 4y agoAh, the early 2010s internet.
- chungus 4y agoI really like this! Tip for on mobile, press and hold anywhere on the page to aim the katamari. Going to fire up my ps2 and play some katamari today!
- Reason077 4y agoFor those without a physical PS2, AetherSX2 is amazing on M1/M2 Macs!
- smoldesu 4y agoIronically, there might actually be more PS2 units out there than M1 Macs. The PS2 sold nearly 155 million units during it's lifespan, which is genuinely mind-boggling from a marketing perspective.
- Reason077 4y agoSure, but how many still in service? (For a real mind-boggling number, Apple has sold 2.2 billion iPhones so far, with 1.2 billion of those still in use.)
- ck2 4y agoLove it! If I wanted to "nit pick" I would ask for httpS and not to use 3rd party googleapi so no-one else knows you are goofing off at work ;-) I really wish Katamari Damacy had been ported to other platforms. Maybe there are knock-offs out there but not really a gamer so never went to look. Oh wow I was about to complain that "Journey" was another playstation game I always wanted to try but now I see it was eventually ported to windows so now I have to go look for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_(2012_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_(2012_video_game)
- ghusbands 4y agoKatamari Damacy is also available on PC at https://store.steampowered.com/app/848350/Katamari_Damacy_REROLL/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/848350/Katamari_Damacy_RE...
- monkpit 4y agoAnd Xbox!
- KerrAvon 4y agoStill missing the best of the Katamaris, though — the second PS2 game — We Love Katamari. Best level designs and stunningly good co-op play. They are leaving money on the table by not porting it.
- aasasd 4y agoBummer that it's only on Windows. It's a casual game, while I spent plenty of time on my Macbook on rather more dedicated games. DirectX 11 is probably in the requirements simply because no one bothered to check with previous versions (however Wine on Mac doesn't properly support DX ≥10, and VMs have trouble too, plus Steam doesn't work under Wine on Mac).
- aasasd 4y agoSome version of the game was on Android—dunno about now. This was at the time when PS4 was vaguely new-ish.
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- shahahmed 4y agoOthers have mentioned this is blocked on https for a Mixed Content violation. Would anyone want a https hosted one? I can spin in up if there's interest.