Final Fantasy Hacktics

Lol, and the trolls come out of the woodworks.

@Voldemort, I already dropped it and you're basically trolling at this point too.  

You win.  

There...  Is that what you want?  

I really don't care about your opinion of me.  Some dude somewhere on some forum boards has a lower opinion of me?  What am I ever going to do?  

Okay, I guess all I'll conclude/summarize: While I agree with the guy about abortion (yes, the troll was wrong, I am definitely not a pro-lifer), I don't agree with his method of handling the problem.

But yeah, I agree to disagree and all that good stuff.

@Arch, I'm not feeding into it anymore.  I'm sure you're intelligent enough to understand it if you try, but I'm not going to reiterate the same point over and over.

Quote from: "Wizzy"

QuoteYeah he is. His feelings were hurt so he's going out of his way to try to hurt theirs (because we both know that it was more than simply asking why they were doing what they were doing).

You're right, there's more to this ever so uncomfortable confrontation; he videotaped idiots so the world could see the scene and HOW BAD and unreasonable it really was.

Quote... as if the ones who were excercising their right were the ones to blame if someone else gets violent at them. Do you also tell women rape victims that they SHOULDN'T have been wearing provocative clothing because it incites rape?

Yes to question. Fine girls who wear short-cut pants that are rather too short while showing their sexy buns and revealing top is the perfect signal for a rapist to pick her up in the middle of the night. There are A LOT of things which are PERMISSIBLE by law, but that doesn't mean you SHOULD do them.

1. You CAN do it w/o protection (condom, pill, toys) if both (possibly more) members are over 18, but a bad idea and you SHOULDN'T for the possibilities of STD's will greatly increase. Exception being prostitution because it has $$ pumped into business which government CAN'T take from you, so that's why it's illegal.

2. You CAN stick any inanimate object up your ass, but that DOESN'T mean you should do it.

spoiler: 1:20:99e6twpz

3. You CAN drink out of a sick person's bottle of coke, but that DOESN'T mean you should do it.

And the list is never-ending and just keeps growing.

Again for crystal-clearness:

There are A LOT of things which are PERMISSIBLE by law, but that doesn't mean you SHOULD do them.

Same goes with this ACT these women put on. The guy challenging their actions is not unreasonable and if you can't see that, then you're the one who needs to shove up an inanimate object out your ass.

P.S. Please be sensible from this point forward.

Be sensible?  Take your own advice?  You're talking about being hostile towards people who are excercising their rights.  You do not educate people by yelling at them.  Maybe just take a step back, realize that everyone is flawed, including yourself, and work to improve yourself, instead of trying to improve everyone else.  You'll realize that people will react better when you're not telling them what to do.  Friends will ask you for advice.  People will learn from you if you are a good example of what they want to be.  And to be honest, discussions like this will rarely ever lead to convincing others of your point of view, but I guess at least someone needs to say it so that you know it exists.  School can help somewhat, but the kind of learning we're talking about is largely not done in school.  A lot of it is common sense, but these days a child is just thrown in front of the TV-sitter and never really learns outside of school and TV screens.

I guess my point is: this guy did nothing to educate anyone, nor anyone who would be against abortion and see the video.  All he did was act as a child and show it to the world.  It didn't accomplish anything except maybe make himself(and I guess others who agree with him) feel better.  Retribution cannot create progress, it only fulfills justice.  If humanity ever wants to evolve we need to realize this.

Wizzy, there's not much for me to say except that I disagree with almost every point.

Quote from: "Wizzy"No they don't. They're just calling out bullshit as they see it.

TYT is "calling out bullshit as they see it." while painting everything they don't like red and everything they support as blue.  I guess I could say I'm just "calling out bullshit as I see it" too.

Quote from: "Wizzy"He's not getting even. He asked why they were doing what they did when he came out of the clinic.

Yeah he is.  His feelings were hurt so he's going out of his way to try to hurt theirs (because we both know that it was more than simply asking why they were doing what they were doing).

Quote from: "Wizzy"OBVIOUSLY they have the right to do what they wish because the the 1st Amendment protects that right to protest, but that DOESN'T mean the hateful messages those idiots spewed are appropriate.

Pointing fingers at people and saying they're going to hell for aborting a baby who'd likely have a shitty life is just asking for confrontation.

QuoteSecond of all, they threaten to call the police for harassment, which is ironic indeed. BUT, Maybe HE should've called the police for feeling harassed.

You're being ridiculous. Whether HE chooses (it is ultimately a choice) to feel bad or not about the matter is irrelevant. Those women CAN protest AND hurt his feelings in the process as long as it's non-violent like you suggested (1st Amendment), but the consensus by most here is that they SHOULDN'T because their actions only incite violence.

The rest of your post in this quote is all really just saying the same thing.  The part I underlined is what disturbs me... as if the ones who were excercising their right were the ones to blame if someone else gets violent at them.  Do you also tell women rape victims that they SHOULDN'T have been wearing provocative clothing because it incites rape?

Quote from: "Voldemort"Actually, the results of scientific experiments are demonstrable and peer-reviewed. Meaning, other scientists must review your evidence and confirm that it is accurate before it is published. If a claim is found by your fellow scientists to be bullshit, your credibility and your career go down the drain, and the claim is rejected.

This is worlds apart from how religion functions - where there's 5,000 different belief systems, cults, and sects each claiming that their own particular view of the world is correct and everything else is wrong, and the claims made in ancient desert holy books are inmutable and cannot be changed in the face of modern evidence. WORLDS APART.

I don't disagree with you on any of this.  It just doesn't show me why one is more right to have faith in science than they are to have faith in a religion.  It shows why more people may believe in it, maybe, but not why it's more right.

Quote from: "Voldemort"You're right. I don't get to see it with my own eyes. But it's still 1000000x more trustworthy than every religious claim out there.

So it takes trust, which is another word for faith.  I'm not saying your wrong or right, I just understand that you're going to believe what you want to believe regardless, even if you think you know it for a fact.  Just as religious people... no different.

@Wizzy: I'm in a hurry and just saw your reply, so I'm typing kind of fast here.  I don't agree with your definition of conservative and liberal (and I dont have time atm for semantics).  But even by your definition, TYT doesn't follow that definition at all.  They're so closed minded because they have THEIR agenda and this is obvious if you watch any of their debates it's not even a debate.  It turns into a shouting match because Cenk Uygur knows he has no substance so all he can do is yell at his opponent like a kid.

Quote from: "Wizzy"The protesters that the guy and his wife had to face made their trip a living shit and you can't defend that they were there to make those "could've-been-parents" feel bad; They weren't at the clinic to spouse their take on the matter at all.

The fact that the there was a good chance the baby was going to die according to that video and the analysis of the clip suggests that you didn't even watch it all the way. And yeah, the guy was completely justified in what he was doing and completely civil when calling them out for what they did. Dude was agitated by those people and challenged their actions. Wouldn't you?

And "Dirt Slinging"... really?

"Baby-Killers... you will burn in hell!". The two ladies were completely fine with saying trash like this, BUT NO.... possible father confronts them on public property on messages like that and they threaten to call the police for harassment.

^ Double Standard at it's best.

Haha.  Well first of all, no one can help it if someone's feelings get hurt, especially when these people were just excercising their freedom.  I have no control over others' feelings.  Does that mean I should have to tip-toe around everywhere I go?  F that.  But that's just my opinion.  Second of all, they threaten to call the police for harassment, which is ironic indeed.  BUT, Maybe HE should've called the police for feeling harassed.  And yes, stooping to the level of your opponent is similar to slinging dirt.  It makes the guy no more honorable than the people he's opposed to.

Quote from: "Voldemort"Science changes based on what evidence proves is real. If tomorrow evidence surfaced that there's aliens out there, science will accept it. If tomorrow evidence surfaces which proves that Odin made us all, science will accept it.

I just can't understand how you can be blinded that way. It is a simple approach to accepting things as evidence allows. and rejecting them in the same way

You can be blinded by it because you don't know for sure.  Even if they showed live videos of aliens, I can't be sure it'd be enough to convince me.  We know that anything can be put on the screen and look real.

Quote from: "Voldemort"Unless you're simply not doing things scientifically and not going by evidence, that is. In which case, yes, I'm sure there's people who have started to believe in scientific principles without evidence behind them.

Regardless of if there's evidence or not, people are still going to trust that what they hear is true.  I know I do to an extent, because there's no way I can prove most of what I've learned in science myself.

Quote from: "Voldemort"But don't try to insinuate that science works on faith like religion does.

I'm not, but people will still put faith in it like others do with religion.  So how does religion come off as being more wrong than science?  Either way, you're still believing what some other dude is telling you.

Quote from: "Jaakl"Unfortunately, religious people are often blinded by the religion itself, is just too sad.

Scientific people are also often blinded by science itself.  The Green movement is a good contemporary example of this imo.  But it's amazing how self-righteous people can be even when they side with science, when most of these people have never tested any of the science they're fed.

Quote from: "Voldemort"I was in a car accident and my guts were spilling out of me. Then Allah came down from the sky and touched me and I saw my wounds heal and then I was fine. Do you believe me? Is my testimonial proof enough for you to believe me? Why don't you believe in Allah now? My miracle should be proof that He exists. How come you're not a Muslim!?! BELIEVE IN ME DAMMIT!

I love the argument that something must have evidence for it to be believed in.

There's thousands of people that claim the Earth is round, that doesn't make it true.
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/foru ... board=10.0

Damn it!  I said I wouldn't get into the religion argument, but it's sucks me in, man :\  And I'm not even religious, lol.

Oh wow, haha, this thread is worse than I realized.  I didn't notice it was at 8 pages, turned into a thread about religion, and the original post was from last month.  Well so much for bashing on TYT (they make it sooo easy).  And I'm definitely not getting involved in this dead-horse religion debate Dirt slinging.

And that's all it is.  He could've calmly said, "Ma'am, I know you're against abortion, but let me tell you my story..."  They probably could've had a more civil conversation than that and, who knows, he may have even convinced them that he was right.  No one can listen when everyone is busy yelling.[/spoiler]

Wow, The Young Turks videos are being posted here?  Oy, I may have to stop visiting here lol. TYT are just a group of confused, emotional, and extreme leftists.

Advocating the choice to having an abortion is conservative, not liberal.  Liberals are the people in the streets who probably want to outlaw the act of abortion.  They're the ones who say "We know what's right for everyone, so let's make it law."  All TYT does is confuse the two when it's convienient for them.

I'll have to rant on this later when I have time, if I think about it...

I know how to record, fortunately.  I know camstudio doesn't work for me with espxe, for some reason.  I get audio, but no video.  I know I can record with FRAPS though, and if recording audio happens to slow the game down, I'm sure it'd be just as good to record audio afterwards on Audacity.  I just gotta make sure I don't know (or am good at acting like I don't know) what's going to happen in the battle

Thanks though.

PS - And my EPSXE is version 1.7, so maybe that's why.  It wasn't the plugin at all though, since others I found were the same way.

And it seems I'm here to complicate these mysteries.  I'm guessing it's my video plugin, but it only lets me choose an FPS limit, which by default was at 200.  I've tried tinkering with all of the other options ("Use FPS limit", "Use Frame skipping", Auto-detect/Frame skipping limit"), but it's not changing from 58-62 FPS.

I think I have more video plugins than is listed, but I'll see what I can find.

Thanks a bunch for all the help.  You're awesome!


EDIT -  WOOOOOOW.  All I needed to do is push F4 to get rid of the FPS limit O_o

*facedesk* *facedesk* *facedesk*

EDIT 2 - Well, that ignores the limit, which makes the game retardedly fast.  Like at least 5x O_o  Looks like I got more tinkering to do.  When it's that fast all I can see is how it starts and ends, really, so I can't find where I need to change the fine details.

EDIT 3 - Okay, FINALLY got it.  I set 120 as the max frame.  Have the options showing at the top, though I'm not sure if I NEED them, but it allows me to see what I'm doing.  I hit F4 ignore the 60 frame limit, and then it'll speed up REALLY fast, then I hit End button until it stops at 120 FPS.  What an annoying process!

Alright, after a few hours of testing, I already know what I'd change my current team to if I could.  Unfortunately it's much too late for that.  But, I think I've come up with a pretty good team. ).[/quote]Are you saying I can get those maps on to play with the AI the tourney uses?  If not I'd probably not bother.

I know there's some way, because people who are hosting tourneys are doing it, but if they don't wanna share their haxor secrets with me, that's okay  I do think it'd be fun to host a tourney or help out with them, if it makes them come and go quicker.  

The only thing I really want now is to find out how to make the game go at 2x speed.

Alright.  So far you two have been a huge help!  Thank you!

It's good to know a lot of this stuff I don't even need to deal with.

Pokeytax, your method does work, however there is the problem Wizzy pointed out.  Only 6 maps to work with, and I didn't notice anything too weird with the AI yet, but I only tried a small map, so it might not have been noticable.  But at least I'm making progress.  And that is the easiest 3-step process to get teams set up for fighting each other, so thanks for that

Alright.  Next goal: Get more maps (and apparently the AI) working!

Thanks, you guys! <3

Alright, I'm going to try to be more specific here:

So far the only sources of information I'm working on are:
A.)  Attachment at the end of the first post in the S4 Thread
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5888

B.) The sticky at the top of this forum.
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2651

From here on, I'm going to refer to the two above as their respective letters.

In A, there is a readme file that has most of the information I'm trying to figure out.  I've downloaded the programs that A and B require me to, but I stumble into problems on some of them.  I'm going to narrow down my problems to the two below for now.

CD Mage - I don't know what I'm trying to do here.  A's readme file says to import "FULL_ENTD3.ENT" or 'EMPTY_ENTD3.ENT", but I can only OPEN a file, and when I try to open one of those two I get an error.  I tried opening random things, but haven't had any real success.  I opened the .bin file for the game and didn't get an error, but it wants me to choose an image, and if I choose one that doesn't result in an error it wants me to save things?  I really don't know what I'm doing with this program overall.

Creating Memory Card - I've gone through the excel sheet and created one team and another team for them to face each other.  In A's readme file, it said to "select the whole red rectangle [from the excel sheet], copy and paste into a new file.  Save as a .gme file." Brackets mine.  I can't simply save as .gme though.  I can only save it as some variety of excel sheet.

I'm not even sure if I'm doing the right steps at all, as I'm just trying to complete ANY of the steps I can find.  Most of them I get stuck with, but if someone could maybe just help me with the two above problems, that would be amazing.

Okay, first I'm really new to all of this.  I thought it was difficult enough just getting the emulator to work and then patching 1.3 to it.  Now I'm trying to see if I can test different teams in a tournament fashion.

I've read the thread above about getting the World Debug and FFTastics to work, but I know there's more to it than these.  I downloaded the files that were attached to the S4 thread, and have tried to understand the readme, but it seems to be specific information.

So far the best I can do is make my game play some memory card that was in the files I dl'd in the S4 thread (AI_Tourney_Beta_1).  I could load the save files, choose a place for the teams to fight, and when the fight would start it wasn't even the units in the formation screen.  Each map had some random units on it fighting each other.  I don't know if I need to generate my own memory card files, and if I do, how do I go about doing this?  I got the excel sheets from the link in the S4 thread, but how do I turn that into a memory card file?  Would that even be all I need to know?  The memory card file I loaded before didn't even work, so I think there must be more to it.

Every time I look for information for dummies I really can't find anything.  I'll keep trying to figure it out.  It's a pretty difficult task for a newbie like me to figure out, but I've been at it for days now, and I'm not about to give up!

Thanks for any help you can offer.