Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

@Robinhase built this little house on Tilemap Town while learning how to use my (not great) UI

Shoutout to SQLite for being really good and really small.

My Miuchuz memory explorer revealed that the reverse engineering effort's OTP dump was actually shifted a little bit, so I fixed the shifting and now it actually makes a lot more sense (the values in the vector area look like vectors now). I also worked out the logic behind what external addresses map in what devices.

I love that the program that's been helping answer questions about the handheld still boots up to a drawing of me hehe.

I wrote a program for the Miuchiz handheld to let me type in and read or write arbitrary addresses. Now I can actually start diving into the mystery of how the LCD controller works.

I kinda wanna get this thing understood enough to emulate it for preservation.

Here's one with better contrast, at least. I used the version of my avatar I did for the nesdev forums where I traced over it and used NES colors, so the lines are a lot blacker.

Helped by some existing tools and reverse engineering work, I got my Miuchiz handheld from like 2006 to display my character. The plastic in front of the screen is really bad though. If I can replace that it'd be cool as a little portable 6502 computer.

Ah yeah, first time making pudding pops

I'm really looking forward to A Hat in Time's DLC tomorrow and it'll provide a much needed distraction.

Just realized it'd be a really good idea to add a "login with Mastodon" feature to Tilemap Town, so I'll look into figuring out how I should do that. I hope people aren't tired of seeing me tweet about it?

Because I have a friend whose character is both named and designed after dragonfruit and I'd never tried one, I bought one.

They're not unpleasant but there isn't a lot of flavor going on, so that would explain why I usually see it paired with something else flavor-wise.

It took a day but I updated Tilemap Town to use a real database to store users and maps. I still have a lot of loose ends to tie up and some regressions but it'll be really worth it.

For some reason I'm still playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. My camp is, of course, full of squirrels.

Tilemap Town now finally has an actual config file, and you can specify the port, admins, MOTD, and other stuff. Guess my next task is to design the database schema, and then I can tackle all the features I want that require a database as a prerequisite.

Actually tried running MongoDB on my server, and either I need to upgrade past a $15/year VPS or I need to find something smaller. Maybe SQLite? It's got Python bindings already in the standard library.

I think the biggest improvement I'd want to make over LSL would be much better support for data structures. Even just actually having sets would go a long way to being a lot more usable.

Back to thinking more about how I want the scripting for Tilemap Town to work. Doing something custom is probably unfortunately required since "per-user resource limits" isn't a design goal for most languages, but if I do make my own thing I want it to be less messy than LSL.

I'm trying to go for maximum green with this house. Or lime, I suppose.

This is some concept art I doodled for Nova the Squirrel box art, since the burger surfing stuff is pretty iconic. Not sure if I'd want to do a background or not (SMB3 didn't do one), but if I do then I'd go for the glassy theme of world 2.

Finding an artist to commission and getting some better box art drawn (either this or a better idea) is one of the must-do tasks before the cartridge release.

I went on a little bike ride and got to hang out with a few local furs. Was a nice way to get out of the house.

https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/User:NovaSquirrel/Level_Compression I added Micro Mages' symmetric level idea to my list of level compression techniques. #nesdev