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I really should get around to watching this show on YouTube, before I get really far behind with these new episodes being released.

That, and chances are, once any DVD/Bluray sets start happening, they will all be taken down, and I'll miss out on the laughs for a long time. (Same thing happened to MLP, not that I could survive the theme song long enough to watch them anyway.) Or worse, Cartoon Network uploads them on YouTube themselves behind a $5 paywall.

Dark Sonic, on 13 July 2015 - 12:49 PM, said:

Completely unrelated to thread, but God I laughed so hard at that sentence, you have no idea.

I'm glad we're past the gritty stuff too. Sonic anything is much better when it doesn't take itself too seriously, like the Boom show.

DigitalDuck, on 19 July 2015 - 06:57 AM, said:

I feel like they addressed that fairly well in Sonic Rush. Holding onto the same set of rings is bad news, because after taking so many hits and recollecting them, the old rings fly farther away from you until the point where they soar off-screen forever. Collecting a fresh ring to reset that is the only way to survive in Rush's boss fights, so the tension of other games with health bars is plenty there; you're doomed if you collect all the rings in the arena in one go.

Funnily enough, my LG phone was $30, and its specs either match the 3DS, or does better. Dual-core 1.2GHz ARM7 CPUs, (Certainly not the ARM9/ARM7 combo the DS had.) 512MBs of RAM, a larger screen resolution, and emulates N64/GBA/GBC/SNES/Genesis/NES games REALLY well. I could have only dreamed of owning a tiny, pocketable device that plays 90% of my favorite games when I had an SP as a teen.

While there are far faster, better phones at higher price ranges, that's still amazing for such a cheap phone, and the build quality's not bad either. C'mon Nintendo, what's your excuse for no SNES VC on the go now?

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Also, if anyone needs a good laugh for all the negativity around Boom, Miiverse posts about it are breaking my sides.

That's a whopping big list of features you guys have over there! If GM:S's compile time wasn't a pain in the neck, I'd give the code a good look. I wanted to make a full-featured Sonic example myself once, so it's good to see that finally happen. I got preoccupied with a Shantae engine anyway.

Aerosol, on 15 April 2015 - 11:24 PM, said:

The extra scripts could be playing a role in streamlining the aforementioned customization in the features list, and wouldn't require you to mess with them much. I haven't looked at the code yet to know, so it's a wild guess as to why there's an illogical amount of them.

Anyway, I've noticed the same trend with a lot of Game Maker engines. Barely ANY comments in the code to explain what each block of code does, and tons of weird scripts that act as dummies to existing functions in GM for no real reason.

I had an easier time picking apart and studying Damizean's oldest Sonic 360 example than I did lots of text engines. (Most of them were so unergonomic and convoluted, I just wrote my own Zelda-like text box instead. It works great too!) Which is stupid considering Damizean used trigonometry and a little calculus in his GM stuff. I also had to write my own heart meter because of how badly explained and put together all the examples online are.

Honestly, GM gives you control of (almost) everything, so you don't need a hundred scripts to get something done. That's why I commented as much as possible in my Shantae engine, wrote a document that listed how the engine's structured, and mostly used scripts to cut down on multiple usages of the same code blocks. (All enemies can call one script for their ground physics, instead of each one carrying a duplicate in the Step event.) Damizean's original Sonic example did the same thing, so the way I learned to apply scripts was through his way of coding things.

(Damizean/RogueYoshi's last engine was a spaghetti mess of code, though. I found it faster to code features I wanted in myself from his basic, first example, than trying to understand what made that monster tick.)

It's really important to not only get a helpful example out there in the wild, it needs comprehensive comments and a readme or two. If the average intermediate can't learn how to do things with it, the only person who'd ever use it is the one who made it.

I had forgotten about that issue earlier in the thread. Is it even normal for a typical mobile game to make THAT many requests in a short amount of time?