convoluted connor @notwa@witches.town

@dd86k ooh, you got an example?

alignment options are important too! sometimes you can weed out a ton of false positives by knowing the alignment of the AOB you're looking for.

i'd love something like grep but specifically for binary files. sometimes i can get away with piping xxd but i can't exactly, say, search for functions using some known set of registers in MIPS binaries.

watched a bunch of videos of programs from the windows 98-xp era and i gotta say…
that old gray UI style was ugly, but man did it ever work.

serpents raised in prisms till rainbows escape~

@Xkeeper yeah, there's one bitfield for each byte of ROM so it only takes a minute to figure out what bit you're after.

and yeah, i know there's a disassembly, for megaman as well. this way's just more universal and more directly mapped to the ROM.

@Xkeeper just using TASes as input for this tool. i've been doing some stats on 6502 opcode usage, and this makes for a simple way of separating data from code (although the file format is totally undocumented)
https://witches.town/media/0u0mPyFJOAO27wp1Smg

for those curious:
Super Mario Bros. "All Items" Tool Assisted Speedrun
https://youtu.be/X0g1Ls5oNeU

ooh, there's a new SMB TAS. time to trace some more data (and code)

guess we'll see if the whole script works properly in 31 days~

oops i forgot i was still overriding it in a more crude way, i deleted that and it should work properly now.

there's a COMPARE_VERSION thing in mxe, unsurprisingly this fails when the version "numbers" are actually commit hashes. i tried replacing it, but now it just seems to always choose to update. eh, good enough.

setting up something to automatically pull updates from mxe and ffmpeg/mpv and build them once a month…

computer randomly rebooted again, no bluescreen, no errors… yay hardware issues?

should probably look into how to upgrade my droplet to 18.04 LTS

oh yeah! i was gonna look for a game to replay. maybe something i wouldn't normally decide to replay.

do mice dream of electric nora? 🐭🐭🐭

[nora cat voice] Nora. Kato.

woke up feeling like i knew exactly what i wanted to do today and now i'm just kinda blank