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I'd like to give special thanks to Lexi Cross for making the general selection of players and if they're AI controlled "Living" and "Robot" instead of "Human" and "Computer".
Not everyone wants to be a human these days.
Not everyone wants to be a human these days.
also this background has the same colors as the trans flag.
COINCIDENCE?!
COINCIDENCE?!
yes. it's definitely a coincidence.
The commonly used Trans Flag was created in 1999, and this game is from 1991.
The commonly used Trans Flag was created in 1999, and this game is from 1991.
help, the future-80s cyborg lady is demanding I look up what shows are on at certain times in my copy of TV Guide.
I always knew this day would come
I always knew this day would come
This is the copy protection. The manual comes with a couple pages of "HV Guide" which lists all the shows you can watch in the far-off future year of 2091.
If you wanna know more about the game, @itstheshadsy wrote about it for The Obscuritory: https://obscuritory.com/board/lexi-cross/
look, there's only 9 genders, it's simple astrobiology.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
(This was 1991, Pluto was still a planet back then)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
(This was 1991, Pluto was still a planet back then)
Nice, I can pick gender: other!
oooh, another screen that might be good for the generator
the game is some kind of weird 2 player version of minesweeper/scrabble/wheel of fortune.
it's also playing WAY TOO FAST so I can't really play it
it's also playing WAY TOO FAST so I can't really play it
I revealed two Ls! that's about as far as I'm going to be able to get in this madness
my TOTALLY LEGITIMATE COPY seems to have been pirated using a TSR to copy the state of the game in RAM, and I bet they ended up making a copy after the game did a timing calibration loop, so the game no longer properly matches your CPU speed
oh hey, Cyborg Lady (Ms Mint, as she's apparently called) has multiple hairstyles!
I wonder how many there are?
I wonder how many there are?
the datafile "pof" has a list of sub-files right at the top, things like HOST0.TLK, HOST1.TLK, HOST3.TLK, HOST4.TLK, GSTRIPR.POF.
first of all, what happened to HOST2.TLK?
secondly, G-STRIPPER? WHAT KIND OF GAME IS THIS
first of all, what happened to HOST2.TLK?
secondly, G-STRIPPER? WHAT KIND OF GAME IS THIS
the ESRB didn't exist yet (it was founded in 1994) so this is like the pre-hayes-code hollywood, anything goes!
figured out text injection already. editing RAM is fun and profitable.
many games elegantly handle trying to render characters that don't exist in the font.
this is apparently NOT one of those games.
this is apparently NOT one of those games.
the weird thing? after showing that nonsense for like 30 seconds, it... finishes glitching and comes back to a functional (if glitched) screen.
it's only redrawing sprites that change, so you see just her head floating in glitchtown
and here we have the redhead version of Ms Mint.
apparently the name entry screen has the same font glitch but a different palette.
huh.
huh.
Her name varies too.
I've gotten "Ms Mint", "Pristine", and "Pristine Mint".
I've gotten "Ms Mint", "Pristine", and "Pristine Mint".
whoops. I accidentally entered a lowercase letter into memory, and this game goes into 30-seconds-of-glitch for lowercase letters too.
VERY PICKY RENDERER, YOU HAVE HERE
VERY PICKY RENDERER, YOU HAVE HERE
man, this game really loves randomizing responses.
I thought I'd inject into the text field and way until it says "we can't find that name, are you sure?" which lets you loop back around.
but it shows it different ways different times!
I thought I'd inject into the text field and way until it says "we can't find that name, are you sure?" which lets you loop back around.
but it shows it different ways different times!
here's an example of extracting A-Z.
I'm gonna have to just make my script check all the locations it can be and pull the glyph from the right place
I'm gonna have to just make my script check all the locations it can be and pull the glyph from the right place
no, I'm pretty sure that's not my name, Ms Mint
I made it a dynamic memory-and-screen scraping injector.
So here it tries inserting the string "ABC|D" a character at a time.
when it hits | it glitches, but the inserter knows how to wait it out and then resume extracting
So here it tries inserting the string "ABC|D" a character at a time.
when it hits | it glitches, but the inserter knows how to wait it out and then resume extracting
X(lose)X12 is definitely my name.
HEY UNICODE CONSORTIUM, WHEN ARE WE GETTING THE LOSE EMOJI?
HEY UNICODE CONSORTIUM, WHEN ARE WE GETTING THE LOSE EMOJI?
on the plus side, I extracted all the characters
on the negative side, they all are X
on the negative side, they all are X
I think this little symbol is supposed to mean the vowels? all 5 of them, in a 8x10 symbol?
