Archives for October 2004
Hello, programmers
25 October 2004 | Rants | No Responses
Hi, if you happen to be a programmer, I just wanted to make a small request: stop writing documentation.
No really, just save yourself the effort. I know you think you’re capable of speaking English–but you’re not. The only person on the planet who understands any of what’s coming out your brain, through the keyboard and into the text file is yourself.
You’re not smarter than anyone who cannot understand your ramble, because it came out of your brain. Of course you’ll understand it.
On the contrary, you’re incredibly stupid. Your communicative abilities are actually stunted beyond that of a small retarded child–meaning you are unable to communicate the thoughts in your head with any of the other 6 billion people on planet Earth.
Find a human volunteer to write your documentation for you, but never attempt to do it yourself.
Thanks.
Well, that didn’t take long…
15 October 2004 | Rants | No Responses
I just found this …
Uchuu no Kishi - Tekkaman Blade (J) [T+Eng1.0_D.&byuu].smc
If it did not come off the ROM chips in a cart, it is not a ROM, and should therefore not be included in a program that indexes ROMs. If you want to make a new program to index “SNES compatible binaries,” fine, but translations have no place in BadTools.
Annoyed with NJStar?
15 October 2004 | Jargon | 1 Response
NJStar seems to be the least cracked application on the planet. The last version cracked was 3.54 … which was around 1997 or so. We’re at 5.0 now.
One nice thing about NJStar is even though it expires after 30 days, you can use it forever. That doesn’t stop it from always loading that big bitchy document every time it starts though. For one reason or another, I never realized how easy that is to fix.
The file it loads is NJSTAR.NJS. All you have to do it make a new, blank document in NJStar, and save it as an NJX file. Rename this to NJSTAR.NJS and put it in the program directory, and now every time NJStar loads it will start with a blank document.
Since this is the program’s only way of bitching at you, it’s pretty much solved.
I tried hacking the EXE to make it use a blank document called Untitled, but the program checks itself to see if it’s been hacked. If it has been, it unloads 10 seconds after it starts. Oh well, if anyone thinks of a way to crack that, you could just delete all the unregistered lines from the dialog windows and really clean house.