This is what happens when you go out of bounds with noclip without game crashing.

I'm not sure if it needs further research since all it seems to do is lead you to glitch city (when walking to out of bounds horizontally or sometimes vertically) or to duplicate versions of the pokecenter/indoor maps with no objects, NPCs, triggers (when walking to out of bounds vertically).

Do you remember when you try to walk out of bounds with noclip cheat on, the game crashes? (I do) well I modified the code that makes the game ignore transitioning to map 255 (the one that causes the crash) and added enhanced noclip (tile collision is disabled but you can still interact with everything normally). This can't be achieved using regular cheat codes.

But I don't know what those tiles are that makes the player disappear when you walk into them and then re-appear when you walk out of them (not to mention that they also locks player's facing direction too) like you saw in the video. (Maybe they're holes?)

I made these patches which makes "walking out of bounds without game crashing" possible (non-debug mode and debug mode):

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ko5zIwbmU_FLpzh9iQ1CGROoXrxdJ_2i?usp=sharing

u/windowssandbox — 8 days ago

Showcase of my ARG romhack (ALTERED_FIRERED.ips) [unfinished]

(The video won't fit in reddit so I uploaded to youtube instead)

This is my very first romhack that I'm developing. I'll release it when it's finished. The video is for demo only. (It's also my first time developing a pokemon creepypasta too)

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u/windowssandbox — 1 month ago

All of levels/sub-levels/zones of my backrooms mod in minecraft.

The generation is infinite meaning infinite backrooms :D, I don't want to add entities because this is for exploration only, but as you saw in captions some levels/sub-levels/zones will be hazardous or dangerous.

My opinions on my own mod: floor 3 in level 1 and level 1.2 (concrete garden) are by far the best, and sector 3 in level 1.1 is the most eerie.

u/windowssandbox — 2 months ago
▲ 148 r/OpenAI

WTF, okay I've never seen gemini break like this.

Somebody tell me how it broke the LLM completely, it has something to do with LLM reading the file and converting the bytes to tokens.

Edit: Why I posted this in openai subreddit cause i tried posting in google gemini subreddit and it got removed by reddit's filters.

u/windowssandbox — 3 months ago

Abandoned village at spawn (-3093487565349747956, version 1.21.8)

(rewriting in post body cause "post may break rule" warning)

Abandoned village at spawn right in front of you.

Seed: -3093487565349747956

Version: 1.21.8

u/windowssandbox — 3 months ago
▲ 73 r/EmuDev

Finally my NES emulator on python can run some NES games after 5 days of fixing stuff. (~50 FPS)

I've found some insane optimization tricks that makes it possible for standard Python 3.11.9 to run NES CPU at PAL speed.

The project here: https://github.com/windowssandbox/NESemupy

I'll make more mappers and APU and fix PPU acting weird later. (It currently has NROM and ""broken"" MMC3 mappers)

Also can someone tell me why SMB2 crashes like that? because I've been trying to find a way to fix it but it won't go away. It must be a problem with how PRG rom is mapped for MMC3 ROMs or PRG bank switching for MMC3 ROMs is not working properly.

u/windowssandbox — 3 months ago
▲ 95 r/EmuDev

I was developing an NES emulator on Python, but Python is just too slow for NES CPU.

Yes you've heard the title AND watched the video.

You saw what was being printed in the logs.

I kept hearing people saying "Python is very fast, it will never be slow since it runs on your CPU's speed", oh but in this project, Python's speed is the problem.

The reason why it's the problem because when it's executing emulated 6502 assembly opcodes in emulated, it actually takes thousands of my CPU's cycles to execute a SINGLE opcode.

Your first response might be: "Just optimize the code to make it run faster". Yeah that might be helpful but the code is optimized to the maximum. I tried everything, and every optimization I could think of, it won't speed up.

Let me share you what my CPU actually is, it is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU running clock speed at 3.40GHz to 3.75GHz (overclocked speed).

But the most frustrating about Python is that it is slower at emulating NES CPU than SNES does. If you've never seen an NES CPU being emulated inside SNES, then do google search "ACE super mario bros on super mario world" and see for yourself.

My guess is that Python's pre-compiled C code is truly unoptimized.

I'm not gonna continue until I figure out how to make it run NES CPU NTSC speed. Does anyone have ideas? Tell me. I've spent 2 days on this project.

Here is my github repo if you want to look at code I wrote: https://github.com/windowssandbox/NESemupy

I'm guessing that experienced C developers will understand Python code.

Edit: I did lookup table trick and it sped up to 16 FPS.

Edit 2: The profiler is right here: https://github.com/windowssandbox/NESemupy/blob/main/profiler.log (it updates overtime once i optimize the code)

Edit 3: I'll post when the emulator is finished, but right now I'm dealing with invisible CPU opcode bugs. (also it's now ~36 FPS)

Edit 4: It runs at ~57 FPS now, so no need to profile it.

u/windowssandbox — 4 months ago

Showcase of my horror mod (endishere.jar)

(Warning: one scene contains loud noise which is the "Jumpscare warning here." part)

I'll release the horror mod when I hit version 1.0.0, currently I'm at 0.7.0

u/windowssandbox — 4 months ago

Flower pot under the villager house's entrance?? That is weird.

Saw this while testing my horror mod.

Here seed: 2901880604700650010 (for minecraft 1.21.8)

(My horror mod does not alter world generation)

u/windowssandbox — 4 months ago

My local minecraft server is just acting weird.

Let me start by providing what version my minecraft server runs on and my computer specs:
Version: Latest Release (server runs on Java 25 + my friend connects to my server through server address that i hosted on playit tunnel , I'm connected to my server through localhost)
RAM: 16GB.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz (overclocked to ~3.71GHz).
GPU: Intel(R) HD Graphics 630, DirectX version: 12 (FL 12.1) , can run OpenGL.

Okay so, right in the beginning of after server booted up, the server experienced multiple entity tick lags, for a while before it stops lagging.

So after 1 hour, the weirdest thing happened that I've never seen before in minecraft.

When i placed a chest on 2nd floor of "our" house, i realized that i placed it in wrong position, so i tried breaking it but it disappeared (i didn't even finish breaking it), Then i went outside to get more wood, and right after i broke one log block and picked it up, the chest block appeared next to me out of nowhere on the ground facing me. Like where did it come from?

After that shortly, I tested /tick rate 100 and it works just fine without lagging.

So, is this normal? If not then do I have to tweak server settings?

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u/windowssandbox — 4 months ago

I just had the worst nightmare today (Arachnophobia 2.0)

In first part:
I had to survive fnaf amatronics, the amatronics are glowing their own color, while in the Rooms (DOORS) and they just act like Rooms entities. oh and theres only 4 bros from shiloh&bros. i had to survive WITH them.

After multiple rooms, we reached a restroom where it's safe in there, there are 2 double-tall-beds on left and on the right. so we had to take a rest.

After we took a rest, we proceeded to continue the Rooms.

and then suddenly all fnaf amatronics rush right to the current room, but as soon as we reached there, they ran out of power.

this is weird, but me and 4 bros ended up helping them.

then i proceeded to continue the Rooms myself, since they told me they're gonna find a way for the amatronics to charge back.

Here comes the second part:

multiple very few rooms later, theres my real life living room with lights turned on, but on the wall next to the frame to the hallway, theres a big black hair that flew to that wall.

After it landed on the wall, it started transforming... into the most tallest spider in the world (measuring ~1 meter tall), it had 4 thick legs with only a ball on top that 4 thick legs are connected to, the 4 legs extend diagonally just few centimeters then curves down shortly and then extend down to few centimeters just before the wall, it then curve back up for few centimeters, which made it look like it's standing on and sticking to the wall at same time.

Trust me, the arachnophobia i had when i was young was already gone forever, but the sight of that spider literally terrified me to the maximum. now i have fear of tall spiders.

It just stood there on the wall and did nothing, while i just kept freaking out, until the dream ended and gave me 10-second heart attack.

Dude that spider literally looks like a backrooms entity.

If someone with arachnophobia sees that spider in their dream, they are going to wake up with 1-minute heart attack.

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u/windowssandbox — 4 months ago

New number pattern I created (it's just 2^n exponent but special one)

Let me try to describe what the sequence is:
1- starting from 1, normally put 1-digit numbers of 2^n, until just before you meet 2-digit numbers of 2^n.
2- in the 2nd digit of 2-digit numbers of 2^n, do <step 1> for each of them, until just before you meet 3-digit numbers of 2^n (and include normal 2-digit numbers of 2^n).
3- in the 2nd/3rd digits of 3-digit numbers of 2^n, do <step 1> with base digit of <step 1> increased by 1 for all of them (and include normal 3-digit numbers of 2^n).
4- in the ones/tens/hundreds places of 4/5/6-digit numbers of 2^n, start from <step 1> to end of <step 3> for all of them (and include normal 4/5/6-digit numbers of 2^n).
5- starting from 1st 7-digit number of 2^n.. start from the very beginning of <step 1> all the way to the end of step 4, do that for all 7/8/9-digit numbers of 2^n (and include normal 7/8/9-digit numbers of 2^n).
6- well this patterns goes on forever, 10/11/12-digit numbers of 2^n, 13/14/15-digit numbers of 2^n, and so on...

Here is the actual sequence (starting from 1 to 2000001): https://pastebin.com/B6BSpA9r

(Upon analyzing the numbers in the list I created, I noticed that there are multiple patterns created in the process)

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u/windowssandbox — 4 months ago
▲ 13 r/nes

I beat this game without knowing Japanese. (Aa Yakyuu Jinsei Icchokusen)

u/windowssandbox — 4 months ago

Youtube somehow still consumes 5GB of my limited internet at 360p quality daily.

(PS: 360p quality is fine for me (my internet speed is ~20 Mbps) cause I want to save my limited internet data) (Wishing there will be unlimited internet in my country one day)

It wasn't even spending THAT MUCH during early days, is there a leak of internet usage in the background?

This causes problems with my relationship between me and my family, my dad just said that I'm spending 15GB everyday, but all I do is watch some videos (at 360p quality) and be active on reddit just a little.

And according to my calculations of usage in 2nd screenshot (last 24 hours), you need to watch yt videos (strictly at 360p quality) for ~20.5 hours in order to waste 5GB of internet (i watch only 3 hours of yt videos daily).
Did youtube just increase bitrate or something?

If i compare daily usage of my internet between early days and now, we get a very big difference:
early days: ~1.5GB daily
now: ~5-15GB daily

I have quota internet of 140GB, and charging it now costs 300 EGP (wtf?? that's like ~2.142 EGP per 1GB,, NORMALLY in early days it was like ~0.5 or ~1 EGP per 1GB)

How come other countries get unlimited internet except for country that I live in?

If you read this post to the end, then you'll realize that I'm probably ranting.
If you don't know what "early days" I'm talking about, it's about days/months/years before year 2024.

Edit: my dad just told me to use 144p quality (bruh)

Edit 2: The auto setting doesnt set quality higher than 360p

u/windowssandbox — 4 months ago

Ace Attorney, but The Judge has dementia.

(Recommended to turn on sounds when watching this)

Created on objection.lol

u/windowssandbox — 5 months ago

Apparently this is what happens when a program creates a file inside Recycle Bin. (HOW)

(The .bak file is created by HxD once I opened "test.txt" inside HxD)

It shows that the .bak file has been deleted ~126 years ago.

(In 2nd screenshot, I added 00 00 then saved the file)

u/windowssandbox — 5 months ago

I somehow noclipped out of the map in Hall of Tortured Souls inside MS Excel 95.

Imagine if this is ARG lol.

Anyway it looks kinda creepy there, im wondering if there's gonna be farlands out there.

If you're asking how I noclipped out of map, well i just noclipped through the big red wall inside hidden passage when i fell down at the end.

u/windowssandbox — 5 months ago
▲ 57 r/windows

I somehow noclipped out of the map in Hall of Tortured Souls inside MS Excel 95.

Imagine if this is ARG lol.

Anyway it looks kinda creepy there, im wondering if there's gonna be farlands out there.

If you're asking how I noclipped out of map, well i just noclipped through the big red wall inside hidden passage when i fell down at the end.

u/windowssandbox — 5 months ago