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The Cutting Room Floor
- lelandbatey 3y agoThis wiki is a delightful mine of information! It's also full of humor; as an example, the description for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is: > Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a game in which you rapidly deprive an island of its natural resources in order to craft tools that never stop breaking. https://tcrf.net/Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons https://tcrf.net/Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons
- astrange 3y agoThere's a lot of strange design choices in ACNH. It feels like there was a miscommunication and they accidentally made all the construction actions and dialog boxes take 10x longer than they were meant to. Besides that, they also added online features, but using them requires going through a deep dialog tree where a cartoon animal basically says that going online guarantees that hackers will set your console on fire and kidnap your children.
- vsnf 3y ago>but using them requires going through a deep dialog tree where a cartoon animal basically says that going online guarantees that hackers will set your console on fire and kidnap your children. This is classic Nintendo, which has been both absolutely paranoid and deeply incompetent about online services for nearly 30 years now. The sheer absurdity of Friend Codes speaks for itself.
- snowram 3y agoNintendo is actually thinking about the future by teaching children how to remember an IPv6 address, how considerate of them!
- TylerE 3y agoJapanese devs really see to struggle with this. They love confirmation dialogs for things that don’t need them. When I navigate 3 menus deep to load a save, or walk through a door to enter an area, I don’t need a confirmation.
- astrange 3y agoJapanese websites are the same way. Ordering from some of them takes 10 steps when it could be 1 because they're so afraid you might not have meant to do something.
- iceflinger 3y agoTo be fair in the Animal Crossing game on the original DS that basically happened (People could drop glitched items spawned with an Action Replay that would effectively brick your game).
- omoikane 3y agoThe most popular page with Hacker News appears to be the Tetris rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342543 https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris
- ido 3y agoI was confused by the 2nd rant using metric and imperial randomly (e.g. describing distance in feet but speed in km/h and temperature in c).
- howenterprisey 3y agoYeah, Canadian units system usage is somethin' else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Canada#Common_usage_today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Canada#Common_u...
- actionfromafar 3y agoMeasuring energy usage per distance, makes a lot more sense though.
- bregma 3y agoSeems normal to me, eh?
- molticrystal 3y agoThanks for sharing that article. New Tetris led me down the rabbit hole to the "Dirty coding tricks from game developers" [0] offsite articles. Lots of fun to read anecdotes about turning crashes and malfunctions into features. [0] https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/more-dirty-coding-tricks-from-game-developers https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/more-dirty-coding-trick...
- boomboomsubban 3y agoSo that's why saving never worked on NBA Jam TE. I figured they lazily didn't remove the save option from the port. A childhood mystery solved at last.
- kethinov 3y agoLove that site. I used their page on Secret of Mana as a reference [1] during my work making ROM hacks for the game [2] and a large focus of my work was restoring content that was cut, including unused graphics, dialog, and even unused music. Fun project. [1] https://tcrf.net/Secret_of_Mana_(SNES) https://tcrf.net/Secret_of_Mana_(SNES) [2] https://www.romhacking.net/?page=hacks&genre=&platform=&game=799&category=&perpage=100&order=Date&dir=1&title=&author=kethinov&hacksearch=Go https://www.romhacking.net/?page=hacks&genre=&platform=&game...
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago(2010) maybe?
- Philpax 3y agoEr, what gave you that impression?
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- up-n-atom 3y agoGreat resource and the community around the site are equally fantastic. I went on spree and contributed most of the WonderSwan[1] and WonderSwan Color[2] content a few years ago. Many titles in the catalog were developed with a handful of engines and a few yara[3] rules made easy pickings. [1]https://tcrf.net/Category:WonderSwan_games https://tcrf.net/Category:WonderSwan_games [2]https://tcrf.net/Category:WonderSwan_Color_games https://tcrf.net/Category:WonderSwan_Color_games [3]https://virustotal.github.io/yara/ https://virustotal.github.io/yara/
- ouraf 3y agoGold mine of a wiki. Check the pages for really big and famous RPGs when you have the time (Fallout 1&2, Baldur's Gate 1&2, Final Fantasy 7, etc.) Some games have so much stuff cut at the last moment you could pratically make a whole new game with it