I haven't started watching Neon Genesis Evangelion yet, but I love this opening.

Quote from: yeongJIN_COOL on March 28, 2011, 07:32:27 pm

Well, this is TI-BASIC program, so no requirements are needed.
I didn't see any program like this in here, so I post it.
This nifty program lets you convert any base number to any base(2~36).
Posted screenshot also.

I think Deep Thought made one like that but homescreen (like you could do maths with it, I think), but this is very good, nice job Yeong.

DT's only did bases 2,8,10 and 16. Though I guess bases other than 2,10 and 16 are really for fun, since those three are often the bases programmers use (though I guess some might use octal...). Still, looks great Yeong!

CalcNet and gCn Axioms would be super-fantastic.

Quote from: pudecomp/ReadMe.txt

Q: When will you write a Pucrunch compression Axiom?
A: Short answer: I will not.
   Seriously. Decompression is worlds easier than compression. I'm *SO* not
   gonna write a compressor. And even if I do, it wouldn't do very well to
   make an Axiom out of it. In all seriousness, it would have to be a
   stand-alone utility. If you could just bone up on the theories used in
   the making of pucrunch (just Google that name), you'd find out all the
   information you could ever need. And once you find it out...
   You ought to understand why I don't want to write it...
   And DJ_O will be screaming at my as to why E:SoR isn't being updated.

It was already answered in the ReadME, but I understand the fact that many people might not even download the file and read it unless they're convinced that it's the right thing for them. Still, it was hard enough modifying the pucrunch decompresser to work as an Axiom. On the idea of compressors, there's probably a reason why the compressor is written in C (not assembly of any sort). If you could point me to a good C to Z80 cross-compiler, I might consider it only for writing a standalone compressor. If you tried to use it as an Axiom, I will guarantee you. The Axiom will end up eating more space than anything you could possibly code up.

Now... if I wanted a good exercise, I might just write a standalone compressor in Z80 ASM anyway. If DJ_O starts asking why E:SoR isn't getting anyone done, I'll start blaming everyone involved. Including the Nommer of Fishies.

Perhaps this could be a start? I think someone is using it over at Cemetech to make an OS for the 83+/84+ family...

They work great. I'd post a screenie, but I'm on my phone right now.
Now I have to work on the NPC stuff.... I can tell it'll be fun.

Suddenly, revival!

Anyway, I've been working on a better version of the map engine (thanks to yunhua's tutorial), as well as the dev kit. The more I think about it, I do believe that animated sprites would look better for the Shadowed Dimension, so that is what my request is for. Attached is the compilation of all the overworld sprites.

I was envisioning the animation scheme similar to that of Pokemon. It would go something like:
Stand - Stationary, facing whatever direction
Walk 1 - Put on foot forward
Stand
Walk 2 - Put the foot forward that wasn't in Walk 1

Please let me know if this isn't clear.

Right now, Roland's sprites should be first priority out of all of these, since that's what I'd need for the beginning of the game. Thanks in advance.

Here I'll be posting about characters I drafted for earlier versions of Nostalgia, but they never actually made the final cut.
I'll probably post more here when I don't have that much coding-related progress.

First cut character: Sera Alskry
I originally intended for Nostalgia to be based around time travel, rather than dimensional travel, so this was a drafted heroine from the future time period.
She was the daughter of the world's greatest scientist, and was gravely injured in a lab accident. To ensure her survival, her father grafted robotic technology into her body, replaced both of her legs and her right arm with robotic appendages, created to look like normal human appendages. He also ended up replacing most of her internal bone structure with robotic replacements. She was to wield a weapon I dubbed the 'Shift Blade', as it was able to shift back and forth between being a sword and a burst assault rifle (being normal military laser weaponry of the time period).

Second cut character: Edward Imperius
Edward comes from a slightly more modern dimension, sort of a stylized 19th century England, not unlike the DS game Nostalgia(hilarious coincidence, right?).
Edward dresses like a gentleman, wearing a suit and a dashing fedora, carrying a cane, though he doesn't need it to walk. His cane actually contains several mechanisms inside, that once activated, transform it into a lance. He fights fairly, and for justice, leading to his nickname, 'The Gentlemanly Reaper'. He wasn't always a gentleman, though. He used to be a frivolous playboy, living a life of partying and drinking. Until the fateful night he and his friend stumbled in to a back alley, both of them horribly drunk. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they stumbled upon a vicious group of vagabonds who had just murdered someone. As drunk as Edward was, he couldn't forget the memory of his best friend being brutally murdered in front of his eyes. The vagabonds then turned towards him, and he blacked out. Waking up the next morning, he found he some how disarmed one of the vagabonds and then used the stolen weapon to kill all of them. The incident caused him to open his eyes to all the wrongs he had committed, and how he had squandered his life, leading to his eventual transformation into 'The Gentlemanly Reaper'.

Third cut character: Cecil von Bromsten
Cecil comes from a dimension very similiar to the ones that made it into the game, though it drew more inspiration from Final Fantasy XII then anything else. Instead of a king ruling the land, there is a committee of 'Royal' judges. Cecil is one of the elder judges, being somewhere around 50-60 years old. He had grown tired of the corruption that the newer judges introduced into the system, but when he tried to say something, he was stripped of his title and jailed as a heretic. Although he is older, Cecil is still a formidable fighter. He excels with a sword, but his defensive power and unique trait are really what make him a force to contend with. His unique trait is the fact that he has a magically imbued right eye. His eye color is normally blue, but when he activates his ability, his right eye turns green and has the power to emit an ethereal shield to protect Cecil and his allies.
(This is where I got the idea for Illuzion, the character I submitted to JustCause's "Song".)