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This was kinda entertaining. Considering that it only plays the first 3 levels and a bonus level it should probably be considered a Playaround.
Yes vote.
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Just done reading the entire book and it's great, many loose ends though so I cannot wait for the second book.
Someone should translate this book to English so that the majority of the world can read it.
A big thumbs up to Walker Boh!
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The things I've seen, experienced or heard of when it comes to Windows security is amazing.... I am surprised that I am dumb enough to use Windows.
The most commonly used operating system in the world is as trustworthy as a 2.95 US dollar bill when it's right out of the box.
Before you can even dare to connect to the internet you must have updated everything... installed a good anti-virus and a registry guardian.
First: Norton and McAfee are probably 2 of the unsafest anti-virus programs on the planet. I've worked as a PC repair technician and some of my friends work at call centers for PC support. On several occasions we have all seen and heard about Norton finding itself as the virus Norton! McAfee is worse... if that is possible... I've never seen any PC this has happened to but some of my friends have gotten calls about McAfee removing their system files after update and their PCs wont boot... Probably a virus infection you think? Not every time... about 50/50 actually... 50% of the times this has happened there had been a false positive on a windows kernel file! McAfee have posted about this on their site/wiki every time it has happened saying they're sorry and telling you how to fix it... how can you trust an anti-virus that might remove system files due to false positives?
For an anti-virus I've had the least problems with AntiVir and NOD32. No anti-virus is perfect but these do a good enough job... but you cannot put your life in their hands, you need to use common sense as well. Never open shady links or attachments and so on...
When it comes to registry guardians there are surprisingly few... but they will be needed, anti-virus programs rarely guard you against malicious lines of code in a script, and reg-adds can be done too silent on any windows machine. A good registry guardian forces you to approve or deny every change that will be made to the registry, giving you complete control. So far I have not found one that forces this... but the best one I used is the TeaTimer that comes with Spybot S&D. No matter what browser you are using you should really use Spybot S&D, because the immunization function is one of the greatest innovation I ever encountered.
Now you are free to think of connecting the PC to the internet. And whatever you do... never browse the internet with Internet Explorer. The browser protects you against nothing. The security has been improved since version 6 but it is still really low compared to the others on the market like Opera and FireFox.
And never use Windows Firewall... it is not safe either... Several times it has completely disabled the network of PCs I've looked at... mostly for no reason... to unlock the network you need to kill the service and you cannot start it again or the lock will be back. I do not find software firewalls really necessary, if you have a brain and a hardware firewall, today these are almost always included in your router, you will probably never experience any problems.
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Everything has already been mentioned.
Looks good but doesn't entertain much nor does it seem like anything "special" was achieved by TASing the game compared to playing it normally.
Meh vote.
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Just took the time to read the free prologue and the first 3 chapters that you have up. I have to say that I am very impressed. When I get my next pay-check I am ordering the whole book.
Do I get it for free if I find a spelling error ? :P
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Brushy wrote:
Den här TASen var jätte bra och det var en improvenmant på en pubblar TASen, så jag ska våta Ja. Fint jobba, Aglar!
Din svenska behöver bättras på :P
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It's like they say "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.", Nothing really happened, yet you defeated the evil king. Also it's an improvement.
Yes vote.
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arflech wrote:
Warepire wrote:
This game is even more broken than I thought.
This game, Spyro 2, and FFVII make the PSX sound like (worse than) the NES of 3D gaming; note that I never had a PlayStation as a kid (and have never had a Sony console or handheld) and only recently got into trying out these games when I learned that PCSX could run bzipped ISOs, so I'm encountering this stuff for the first time and finding out what I haven't been missing.
This isn't meant to disparage the PS2, PS3, or PSP, or the 2D games on the PSX, however.
I've been playing Crash Bandicoot 2 since it hit the market. I discovered lots of stuff (the pit skips for example) pretty quick. But the stuff demonstrated in this video (Entering the hidden area of Turtle Woods through the ground for example), it just shocked me. Naughty Dog especially from all the PSX game developers took some really interesting shortcuts when they wrote the code for the games. As demonstrated by pirohiko's glitched any%.
[Sorry for the off topic jabbering]
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The pace of this TAS is a bit too slow but it was quite entertaining anyway. The route through the levels seemed well planned and everything looked nicely executed.
Weak yes. (Blame the games' speed for the weakness in the yes vote)
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This game is even more broken than I thought.
I loved how you accessed the "hidden" area of Turtle Woods through the ground. And then how you defied physics in that area.
In Hang Eight the timer should cancel when you access the bonus area. You broke it! Good work.
This WIP has to be one of the best thing's I've seen in a long while. Keep it up!!
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If I do remember correctly from my hardware tech courses a full format writes 0s to all the blocks on the drive... Some very deep scanning will be required to find those files if they still can be found.
