Games you must play before you die

category: residue [glöplog]

So, my friend christy and I had a bet to settle. Rumor has it that if you beat super metroid withing 2 hours she is in a bikini for a moment at the end. We had to verify this, so we wrote this to change the time of your saved games:

Code:


#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

FILE *fp;

unsigned char *rom;

int summer(uint8_t *buf, int len) {
 unsigned int ret, i;
 unsigned short word;
 ret = 0;
 for(i=0;i<len;i+=2) {
  word = buf[i] | (buf[i+1] << 8);
  ret+= word;
 }
 return 0xffff - (ret &0xffff);
}


int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 struct stat qstat;
 int sum;
 unsigned int min = 0, hour = 0;
 if(argc < 3) {
  printf("usage metriod_fix <hh:mm> <sram dump>\n");
  exit(0);
 }

 if(sscanf(argv[1], "%02d:%02d", &hour, &min)!=2) {
  printf("invalid time parameter, try hh:mm\n");
  exit(0);
 }
 if(min >= 60) {
  printf("invalid time parameter\n");
  exit(0);
 }

 if((fp = fopen(argv[2], "rb"))<=0) {
  perror(argv[2]);
  exit(0);
 }
 
 fstat(fileno(fp), &qstat);
 if(qstat.st_size < 0xfff) {
  printf("size not right for sram dump :(\n");
  exit(0);
 }
 
 rom = (unsigned char *)malloc( qstat.st_size);
 
 fread(rom, 1, qstat.st_size, fp);

 rom[0x4c] = min;
 rom[0x4e] = hour&0xff;

 sum = summer( &rom[0x10], 0x65c);
 fclose(fp);

 rom[0x1ff8] = sum&0xff; 
 rom[0x1ff9] = (sum>>8) &0xff;

 rom[0x1ff0] = (0xffff^sum)&0xff; 
 rom[0x1ff1] = ((0xffff^sum)>>8) &0xff;

 if((fp = fopen(argv[2], "w"))<=0) {
  perror(argv[2]);
  exit(0);
 }


 fwrite(rom, 1, qstat.st_size, fp);
 fclose(fp);
 printf("set to %d:%02d\n", hour, min);
}

and then played it to the end...
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... changed our game so we played it in ten minutes....
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So I guess it's true

added on the 2010-06-03 00:15:32 by sigflup

and now.
who does a menudisk with all that games in 64k?

added on the 2010-06-03 00:16:27 by wysiwtf

@sigflup
is that a notebook with a broken off screen? i lulz.

added on the 2010-06-03 00:18:17 by wysiwtf

@wysiwft

yeah there were too many missing vertical bars after a while at it was just better to hook it up to a monitor

added on the 2010-06-03 00:20:47 by sigflup

I had one of those myself.

added on the 2010-06-03 01:14:04 by xernobyl

Giants was the funniest game I've ever played. Maybe.

added on the 2010-06-03 01:15:41 by xernobyl

added on the 2010-06-03 01:16:31 by h4xor

Duke Nukem Forever
... I hope

added on the 2010-06-03 02:12:06 by whynot2000

Megarace 2 was a damn good game (and HARD!) - probably the first racing game I dropped my jaws at when I saw the gfx back then :D

added on the 2010-06-03 09:07:05 by -SP-

added on the 2010-06-03 11:40:56 by h4xor

Mom, why nobody told me back in the 80s people had red dicks! :(

added on the 2010-06-03 16:26:59 by decipher

kinda off topiv but for all you thief lovers
http://www.gameswelt.de/news/46763-Thief_4.html

added on the 2010-06-03 18:08:16 by wysiwtf

added on the 2010-06-03 19:25:29 by Shiranai

added on the 2010-06-03 20:20:52 by xernobyl

added on the 2010-06-03 20:36:39 by dq

ahh stunts. Very very nice game. First crack-screen I ever saw I saw when I started my copy

added on the 2010-06-03 20:43:02 by sigflup

fuck yeah Stunts.. I'd love to play that now.

added on the 2010-06-03 21:19:59 by jua

Quote:

For the love of $deity, why did you pick the WORST one of the Primes?

Yes, MP2 is hard (took me about 40 attempts to beat the »Alpha Blog«), but the overall style and atmosphere is great. Bytheway, MP1 is very hard too ... Meta Ridley just don't wanna die! ;o)

added on the 2010-06-06 12:20:13 by gaspode