Wherein Seohyung shows up unexpectedly

[sniffnoy]

So I am returned to Chicago. Also I have set up my Dreamcast, with what few games I have for it, in the lounge.

Also when Lucas returned, Seohyung was with him! She was flying to Boston via Chicago to return to her boarding school but the flight out of Chicago was weather-cancelled, and so it seems she's staying here for the night.

Lucas didn't realize Wei had changed problem 8 on the writeup to be in a complete metric space. Let's see if he can come up with a counterexample to 8b before Wednesday... :D

Also: Brian has returned, and Frank now has a roommate again - except that that roommate isn't Brian, who is now in Maclean. It's some foreign student doing a study abroad thing. Haven't met him yet. Also, it seems Boz is leaving - going home to Philadelphia for the rest of the year. Hm.

...also, I got a reply from DrSpud, that Blue Spheres guy! It turns out I had gotten it a while ago and failed to notice it... perhaps one of my adhoc filters was filtering it out? I'll have to fix that when I get home. Anyway, he already knew that the purple passwords are just different passwords, not levels, but he doesn't have test data to work with - he has a rom of S&K and of many other games, but, it seems, only in .smd format, not .bin format, and it seems that you can't splice them together in the former format. He no longer has S&K itself. The result of all this is his test data is just 3 passwords from GameFAQs. Well, had I seen the email at home, I could have got him a whole bunch of test data, but now I'm here, and all I have is the 4 test cases I recorded on this computer. So I sent him those. So, if by some chance, any of you have S&K with you, and feel like helping, but not enough to actually try and figure it out for yourself, but enough to get perfects on levels to get their passwords, send me your test data!

-Sniffnoy

Comments

[grenadier32.livejournal.com]

Once I get back to school you could guide me through it with my PS2 Sonic emulator thingy. Or you could find a combined ROM of S&K and Sonic 1, which I know for a fact does exist, since I've had it before one of my miscellaneous hard drive crashes/computer switches.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

There's a general way of splicing them together which I'm sure you can look up, though apparently you need a .bin rom. But it's not S1&K that gets us these - we already have the normal passwords, which are really the important ones, of course, it's the purple passwords we're looking for. To find a purple password, you have to lock something else to S&K and get a perfect on the level that comes up - write down that password, then go back to S1&K, plug it in, and hit up to see the level number (not the stage number), write that down too. Also note whether or not you used the level number given there (1-indexed) or subtracted 1 from it (I subtract 1 from them so it's 0-indexed, and also as that's what's actually used to make the passwords (of course it's equivalent, but the password is made from bits of n-1 and n+0x1234566; if we let m=n-1, then it's the bits of m and of m+0x1234567, which makes a bit more sense)) to avoid confusion.

please--

[seooes.livejournal.com]

-do tell colleen (sp?) and charlotte (sp?) that i thank them for letting me crash. they were most wonderful. didn't get a chance to say g'bye.

-get a hair cut

-we shall play puerto rico should we both return.

so long, my friend!

Re: please--

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

It will not be so easy to find a hair that has not already been cut...

Re: please--

[seooes.livejournal.com]

i never excluded the possibility of a hair already cut getting cut again=)

Re: please--

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

So I should get a hair recut?