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setds 1.01 and an annoying yet oddly fitting bug

cearn — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:09:21 +0000

It seems that a bug in the hiscore entry code that I thought I’d fixed over a month ago got resurrected in setds v1.0. So I fixed it – refixed it – today and we’re now at setds v1.01.

Sigh. Gaddammit >_<

setds 1.0

cearn — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:57:34 +0000

I’ve finally taken the time to add proper saving that works on hardware
(at least on my R4, which is the only card I have right now). I’ve also fixed a
very annoying game-hanging bug and did some tweaking here and there, like
correcting the decay constant so that I can finally get the scores that I was used to on tatset (2300+, wooo!).

This is pretty much where I wanted to go with this game, so it’s now version 1.0. I may add some other things later, but for now I guess it’s done.

Changes

new: FAT saving enabled :D. It’s intended for
argv-capable
cards, though. You can still save without one of those, but you’ll have to
put in a little work.
new: Reset/Back buttons for high-score screen.
fix: Bug in shuffle code. Fixes the occasional hang at start of a new game.
tweak: I’ve altered the decay constant slightly; it should be closer to
the original tatset now. The upshot is that scores will be a little higher.
tweak: Slightly bigger buttons.

I maek game :D

cearn — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:12:00 +0000

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Okay, so it’s only a card game; but a game nonetheless.

The game in question is an NDS implementation of
SET. Set is a card-matching game
with 81 cards (see below). The figures on the cards have four
properties and 3 possibilities for each property. The key is to find
three cards for which the values of each property are either all
equal or all different. Looking at the color property,
for example, a “Red Red Red” combination could (yes “could”; there
are still three other properties to consider) form a set.
“Red Green Blue” would also work, but “Red Green Green” would not.

Further details can be found in the readme and the game itself.

The game is mostly finished. There may be some tweaking to do
here and there, but right now I don’t want to get bogged down in a
massive fine-tuning-fest – especially since I’m not sure what
parts need fine-tuning … and because there’s
other stuff I really should get
back to.

That said, all important aspects work … with one
exception: hiscore saving. Yes, that. I’ve seen the
multitude of threads on the subject but sofar I’m unsure of what would
work on both hardware and emulator, so I’m leaving it as is for now.
If anyone has a tidy hw+emu solution, please do tell.