#thatloufella

[bumblequinn]

same hat comic, but with Kingdom Hearts being a fundamental game when growing up.

bless Yoko's music

would be interesting to know if she's an inspiration to how you make music yourself!

i actually did name KH as one of my fundamental games, too!! yoko shimomura's soundtracks for those games were absolutely a HUGE reason they stuck with me, and having tried to revisit them in more recent years i personally wonder whether that franchise would have seen the same level of success were it not for her and utada's music (shots fired lol)

she's definitely an enormous inspiration to me, and some of my best and favorite tracks in SLARPG absolutely take after her style. (this one especially comes to mind.)

i can't wait to share the rest!! so soon 💓

[thankskenpenders]

We know Ian loves the Freedom Fighters and has fought for their inclusion in the IDW series, and in the newest issue Starline said something that I feel IF Ian was allowed to bring them back, that's how it would happen. Not to say it would ever happen, but it feels like he still subtly set up the story element for it.

Ooh, I hadn’t thought of that! Using the Warp Topaz to literally bring them in from another timeline could be really clever. Honestly, my assumption was that, if it ever happened, the IDW Freedom Fighters would just kinda be this other team that had been off doing their own thing in some other part of the world, like the Diamond Cutters. Sonic would meet them for some plot reason, and then they’d become another team of allies that could come and go as the story needed

[wunkolo]

That sai 2 crack is literally like 5MB how the heckie do they even pull that off

I originally wanted to make a keygen for personal use(or with my art friends) but upon my reverse engineering I found out that Sai2 uses RSA-1024 for its licensing system. Basically the .slc license file that you use gets treated as one big 1024 bit integer which it then decrypts using exponent 65537 and a modulo(public key) of

134253338579985758434354346644728982417984355481465479927643932767699794455080865491192522468625641081335276383451220698802640864396087390820637585868211804837831586743242868734318332559297827029891551260851699314268048137171013363814531335490548583132714625207971613142321621827195106531033763128568861995139

which is prime. I have a legal license that I got it to decrypt just to see what a valid license looks like and it basically just has a few 32-bit integers in it that are set to 1 to enable certain features like saving and such as well as a machine ID identifying the proper license owner and a bunch of garbage data to ensure random entropy. Without explaining the details of RSA encryption it is basically impossible to generate these keys so what I ended up doing was basically patching the executable in specific places that would bypass the licensing system and just enabling the features regardless of a license existing or not. So basically I modified the machine code of the .exe file to just force it to be fully functional as if an entire licensing system never existed. Here’s all the patches made to the original .exe

The bytes themselves are just new machine code instructions replacing the old ones that “reprogram” it into doing something else. You see “90″ a lot since hexadecimal “90″ is the machine code for the “no operation” instruction which basically tells the processor to do absolutely nothing. The “EB” is the JMP instruction which is mostly just me forcing any conditional jumps(like going to a certain location if the license is invalid) to be normal jumps(forcing it to go to the “valid license” parts no matter what) along with some other additional residue cleanups that have to be done. Ex: here’s a bit of one of the many license-checking routines. This is one of the checks it does for detecting if you’re allowed to copy-paste pixel data out from your Sai2 Canvas

Once the license has been decrypted and put into memory this checks if one of the integers in the license data is zero or not and “jumps” around the actual licensed-only code. If it is valid(not-zero), then it keeps going on, if it is invalid(zero), then it totally detours and goes on into the “your license isn’t valid!” path and proceeds to disable the functionality. So what I do is totally overwrite the opcodes that make it care for invalid possibilities and basically snip away all the little “detours”. Note to two “nop”s(two of them because the original “jz” instruction takes two 74 29 bytes), so to properly overwrite it we use two “90″ bytes and snip that little part away from the program’s logic so now it looks like this.

And now the clipboard is fully functional regardless of if you have a valid license or not. Do this stuff enough and you have a fully “cracked” program.

Sai2 was a very simple case though and there are much much more complicated methods out there in which people protect against this kind of stuff but Sai2 was pretty much a totally unprotected executable straight out of the MSVC compiler. Hell I even see the structure of the development/build environment on SYSTEMAX’s own computer just from little bits of debug info from the executable.

[thankskenpenders]

I can't tell if it's the fact that their color choice for Chaos is so close to Sonic or just the composition but those fight pages feel painfully busy from an artistic standpoint

I think it’s that and the rain which makes the panels noisier than they would be otherwise

[bumblequinn]

thatloufella replied to your post “neutralnewt -> bumblequinn”

finally.... ur tumblr name matches ur whole aesthetic

i am become Bee, destroyer of WASPs

[wunkolo]

Wow that is actually way more interesting and informative than the question I was actually asking haha. Really I was just in aww at just how small the whole SAI2 zip is, especially compared to the first SAI. Thank you though for taking the time to write up all these programming posts, they're really great!

Ye!

That goes for anyone feel free to dump my ask with comp sci questions and one night when I have an open moment or so I can write a huge thing explaining it and stuff

[bumblequinn]

thatloufella replied to your post “IT’S YA GIRL MARCO”

I don't watch Star vs. but Im def excited for the day trans marco becomes 100% canon.

me too!!! honestly we’re like 90% there already so even if it doesn’t happen because Disney, i’m p satisfied and thrilled at everything they’ve done. c:

also besides Marco the show is really fun and bizarre and has built up a pretty good story since late season 1 so i def recommend it if yr at all interested!

[weepycat]

thatloufella replied to your post: imagine how good the eragon books could have been...

i remember reading the first book and thinking “this shit reads like it was written by a 13 year old” and then finding out it basically was

it was christopher paolini’s self-insert fanfiction where he gets friendzoned by a princess and turns into an elf. 

it fuckin sucks because truthfully? it had an okay premise. and some of the best stories are built upon “okay” premises, BUT! they have to be combined with compelling characters, an interesting plot, and a moral lesson. 

but uhhh. the inheritance cycle had none of those things, because chris has no idea how to fucking write. instead, we got this hot mess of a cast:

eragon, the least interesting and enjoyable boy on planet earth. 

saphira, a GREAT main character who is used for support 90% of the time.

arya, a 2-dimensional character that COULD have been compelling, but instead they dont.... do anything... with her.... 

murtagh, who is generic but could have been elevated to greatness -- but the only interesting thing about him is his relationship with nasuada 

nasuada, the best character, who is ignored for 95% of the series and undergoes massive amounts of pain for the other 5%