Hold down left and space. The pieces stack up and eventually escape the game field. |
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Shift is like a debug mode (or "Second Quest"), and allows you to pan around and zoom in and out (with -/=). |
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I think I won, too :P on my phone, no less! |
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What am I doing when holding shift? |
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Not sure "game" is the right word, but holy mindfuck... |
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welcome to the tower of trickery |
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The helper won't do anything until a master connects to it. You have to do (in another window):
playfun --master 8001
You probably want to run more than one helper (also in different windows). About two per core on your computer. You just give the ports of each one to playfun like
playfun --master 8001 8002 8003
Also, if you run ansicon, then it'll show colors and stuff instead of the [1;36;40m garbage. :) Good luck! |
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The big things I found from this are:
1. The user (you, reading this now) needs to open up a blank Notepad and write four lines of code, of which lines 2 and 4 are left empty/blank...
-----code starts here------
game smb
movie smb.fm2
-----code ends here---------
...where "smb" is the name of the rom file (in this case, smb is Super Mario Brothers 1) and omitting the .nes filetype, and, a copy of the aforementioned recorded 1000-frame movie (in this case, smb-0.fm2 which I renamed smb.fm2 for my own purposes).
This file should be saved as "config.txt" in the same folder where learnfun and playfun reside.
2. The rom and the 1000-frame movie should also be copied (and named according to how you worded it in the config.txt file) into the same folder where learnfun and playfun reside.
3. Using the Command Line program in the Start menu, the user needs to navigate to where the learnfun / playfun / config.txt folder is. Once there, simply type in:
learnfun.exe
...and watch the fun happen.
But, see, this is where things go a bit wonky for me. Now, with the motifs and objectives set and ready to go, I type in:
playfun --helper 8001
...and it runs some text, until the final line is given:
[8000] <-[1;36;40m Ready.<-[m
...and that's where it hangs. It just hangs and does nothing.
Suggestions? |
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Glad you figured it out. :) There's currently no way to save and restore playfun's progress, though only because I didn't get around to it (it would be a pretty straightforward feature and I agree it would be useful). I'm sorry it isn't that user-friendly... |
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UPDATE 2: I figured everything out. It wasn't as hard as I thought. I do have one question though... is there a way to continue running the emulation (let playfun pick up where I stopped it)? This would save much time and resources. Thanks again. |
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UPDATE: I got everything to work up to the point where you have to run the "helpers" (What NUMW last asked about). How to I set up ANSI or whatever the software requires. I'm really looking forward to using the program, if I can ever figure it out! Thanks for any help! |
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If you still check this (and you probably don't), I am very new to this side of computers (setting up networks, compiling, etc.) and was wondering if you could explain the process from downloading learnfun/playfun (whether it's the source code or the 64 bit binaries, as I have 64 bit windows 7) to getting the software running playing games? I have the emulator and roms, can record an example for the software, but from there, the read me gets very complicated. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Tom (or anyone else)! |
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You're right, I think my memory is more musical than visual. The tune and the way it repeats itself is reminiscent of the C=64 days (the intermission screens too!).
But then the visual style is mode 13h indeed. More heart-sinking memories.. SEG A000 ... :°°°°( |
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Thanks! :) I was going for 320x200x256 mode 13H 90s aesthetic, but maybe you had a better compute than me. ;)
LOAD *,8,1 |
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this time more than ever you captured the feeling of those cheap but awesome games of the mid 80s afternoons.
now just add a 10 minutes loading screen otherwise I have no excuse for the milk and cookies I had while waiting.. |
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happy birthday! The colors in that race photo are tremendous. I've been reading for like 7 years I think. |
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Thank you long time marathon-readers! :) |
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12835. yxhQK (sol-fttb.30.123.119.46.sovam.net.ua) –
07 Oct 2014 19:23:03
[ Many Happy Returns ]
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The nicest sort of marathon has been reading your blog for nearly that long Tom. Happy Birthday! and best wishes as you keep going and going.. |
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FYI I have been reading your blog for that long (and also am that old). |
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This was my first time actually buying one. They're usually such a rip-off and so workmanlike, but what sold me on this one was all the death faces behind me. |
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Always purchase the official race photos. |
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