Recent content by Alexander Nicholi

Hello from 2024, everyone! I’m posting here after years to announce the final edition commemorative release of my beloved fan hack. The opening post has been completely overhauled with full explanations and new media and is honestly looking better than ever. Naturally, I’d like to give you all...

Hello from the year 2024! I’m posting after nearly ten years to announce the release of a commemorative, doubly-archived final edition of my beloved fan hack, the very first video game I ever made. The opening post has been completely overhauled with full explanations about this, and new...

The patches are available on the releases page, in two formats: BPS and XDelta. Other formats are not made as they proved incredibly large (over 10 MB). This happens because SwowS is a decompilation-based fanhack, so a great deal of data gets relocated without modification. The algorithms in the...

Hello everyone! I am very excited to finally finish up and publish this first beta of my ROM hack, Pokémon SwowS!This is a 2-gym beta. I hope you will be enticed to give it a try with this release. As linked in the OP, the releases can be obtained in source and patch form from GitHub.Thank you...

Project Status Update #2Affairs have been quiet, but mightily active! The past two weeks have seen massive strides made in work on unilib. What’s unilib? Well, in a nutshell, it is a support library like GLib, but with greater embedded portability. It’s designed to play nice on desktops and Game...

Project Status Update #1This is the first of hopefully many status updates regarding what I’ve been up to with nichruby and the FHTK. It’s also a post to outline my thinking with this in-depth.First of all, mangledeggs is complete, after a week and a half of work. I realised I needed a more...

You can browse this project’s development on GitHub.Introductionpret’s decompilations of the core series games has made ROM hacking easier than ever. As game source code, however, it leaves a lot to be desired for modders and fanhacking. The constraint of matching the code to the ROM...

well, that’s why what the police do has worked for so long. they’re directed and controlled. but for the rest of us, getting organised is anything but easy, and people will find both natural and artificial impediments aplenty along the way. it’s called a state monopoly on violence, and monopoly...

after finishing my spring semester, I went into a business partnership with my landlord to open a computer repair shop out of the side of our house. he’s making an exit from the home repair business himself, and we’re about 70% of the way to a fully functioning shop. we’ve spent the last two...

Here in Raleigh. They canceled curfew for the protests after a few days. Lots of embarrassing LARPing from our totally overfunded, paranoid police department. Some really passionate stuff from protestors. My friend Matt got trampled there by a cop while protesting. As for COVID, it’s the status...

Meh, it’s what it’s always been. Tribal warfare in words only. It’s an unbecoming thing for anyone to do IMO. I get how lots of people are finding the world to not be how they thought it was, and I know this drives fear into irrational decision-making. But at the same time, it’s a natural...

These days eating out has really picked up for me. Often enough I’ll pick up some Chinese my husband ordered on the way. Unfortunately we’ve lost Ashley Christensen’s whole restaurant chain, they closed for COVID and are apparently staying that way with no delivery option. Their plywood had some...

New update just in as of a little while ago: a new wild Pokémon system! See the seminal commit on the Git repository.Here’s how it works: Wild Pokémon encounters use a completely new series of tablesDepending on how many badges you have, every place will have different encounters in level...

Nex got some spritework made today for an extended part of Rusturf Tunnel. You can see it in-game: I also slightly modified the in-battle HUD to look more consistent and legible: From here I have a lot of scripting to catch up on around Rustboro, Route 116, and the like. I wanna put the...

Hey everyone! I’m posting back to let everyone know a couple points, as outlined in the updated OP. Firstly, in case it wasn’t clear from time, this project is discontinued. What’s new is what exactly happened to this project, because I can tell you it was never abandoned at all :) Second...