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The main idea of this project is to collect and popularize precise but completely useless technical details about elma and across, kinda elma popular science. The most part of them haven't been published yet, so I think it would be interesting for you. There're 5 pilot "facts" for now but about 20 more are in queue, so stay tuned.
http://trivia.idiaths.ru/
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There're is nice word =D

edit: Sick facts =D=D=D
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I love it!
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Very cool, looking forward to more useful facts. :beer:

EDIT: Something about the randomness of bike movement could be interesting and useful.
then again i don't know anything
maybe easier not to think abouut alöl things thought than not things thought ... or something..=?
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Fucking awesome! Ez publish this as a downloadable version when it's finished! :)
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Thanks. 3 more facts added.
Anyone needs RSS? I've made one but not sure it's correct: http://trivia.idiaths.ru/rss.xml
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Domovoy wrote:Thanks. 3 more facts added.
nat yet 8O

edit: oh, works now. F5 helped
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F5, such an awesome fella :)

Those facts are awesome :o
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I'm just wondering. Where the f' do you find those facts? xD
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ez super-imagination :)
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Lol Elmameters!! :mrgreen:
This is awesome, fun to read those sick facts!
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Nice.
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Very awesome endeavour, it's amazing how you got all this.
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amazing. keep the fuckeds coming. cheers.
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3 more facts.
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I just read everything. It's nice facts :D though I would like to know more about the physics in game. Like gravity, acceleration etc. I also wonders if there is any air-resistance? if not then it's a little unrealistic that the wheel will move up/down in air when you spin it, isn't it? And how do the brakes suck to the ground like that? These kind of facts could actually improve kuski skills I think :)
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Thumbs up!

And yeah I'd definetly like to see physics facts too.
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Luv it! I vote for physics too.
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Dudes you didn't really get the point :)
The main idea of this project is to collect and popularize precise but completely useless technical details about elma and across
"Compeletely useless" is what it is all about. I plan several facts on elma mechanics but the project is more about history, about how the things came to where they are, about what was abandoned, and what was kept from the very beginning. That is what I'm writing in the first place.
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but it would be great to the scene :( pleeease
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Where can I DONATE for the Elma Facts?! I'm not joking!
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abruzzi wrote:Where can I DONATE for the Elma Facts?! I'm not joking!
money? no thanks
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What about donating fingernails?
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Well, I think knowing something about the physics would be very interesting and not like max useful. But if you think it wouldn't suit this project of yours, then maybe do a separate release of those facts xD
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Nice stuff, Domy! Some facts were really interesting to read)
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really interesting facts, can't wait for more =)
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I really enjoyed this! Keep updating!
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A.K.B. wrote:I really enjoyed this! Keep updating!
will post it once for 2 or 3 days
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3 more.
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Sweet. How big is the book gonna be? :D
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Educated guess says around 25 facts :wink:
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very many sick and interesting!!!! great job! thanks :)
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Phlaim wrote:How big is the book gonna be? :D
I have 45 drafts in my design document. After filtering out facts that violate Balazs rights or disclose some information relevant to cheating, and combining the rest, there would stay about 10-15 facts, I guess.
Also I am learning some new information and recalling some nuances not listed in the design document in the course of time, so there can be about 5 facts extra.

Thus there would be about 30-35 facts in total. After that I will probably hold some special researches on demand, like abovementioned physics details.
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By the way, to get actual error messages instead of “Sorry, internal error”, you should create file message.inf of arbitrary content (empty will do as well) in elma directory.
This is really cool, I got some interesting error message like "strlen error <= ...". =)
How do you find out all this stuff?
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Is the Elasto Mania background editable? Or Balazs made picture in pattern? And what about the characters, are they images or something in the game generate textured characters?
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Xiphias wrote:I'm just wondering. Where the f' do you find those facts? xD
teajay wrote:it's amazing how you got all this.
DaFred wrote:How do you find out all this stuff?
I just have a lot of spare time :). And some skills in reverse engineering, but time is determinative.
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You are my new God, Domi, really. Please, please, do not resign from any Facts apart from the ones that obviously help to cheat! Please!
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DaFred wrote:I got some interesting error message like "strlen error <= ...".
I never saw that kind of error. You can retrieve the exact text of last error message from the file error.txt in elma directory, and then we will find out what it is about.
Mawane wrote:Is the Elasto Mania background editable? Or Balazs made picture in pattern? And what about the characters, are they images or something in the game generate textured characters?
Menu background is filled with picture in pattern; font is a bunch of pictures.
I will publish more about menu backgrounds and fonts the day after tomorrow.
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cool, look what i made with photoshop with your informations :D
http://up.k10x.net/nhztruzyzucxz/elma_menu.png
and editable file :) http://up.k10x.net/jrcbpavwgyqan/elma_menu.psd
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Mawane wrote:cool, look what i made with photoshop with your informations :D
I can't see something oO?
Domovoy wrote:I never saw that kind of error. You can retrieve the exact text of last error message from the file error.txt in elma directory, and then we will find out what it is about.
Ah cool, here it is...
<<message.inf accessed>>
floadlevel_p-ben strlen( nev ) > 12 || !nev[0]!:
hangmaster.lev
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DaFred wrote:floadlevel_p-ben strlen( nev ) > 12 || !nev[0]!:
hangmaster.lev
The most possible way of getting that error is to open in ordinary elma replay, created in belma.
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Someone could tell how to have fancy error messages? Like: "Sorry, you lost the game." or "rofl fail" or "PWNED" :D
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There were some program to change the different texts in elma, didn't find it on zworqy's site thought.
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Bismuth wrote:Someone could tell how to have fancy error messages? Like: "Sorry, you lost the game." or "rofl fail" or "PWNED" :D
ez.. just edit the strings with some hex editor or a dissasembler
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then again i don't know anything
maybe easier not to think abouut alöl things thought than not things thought ... or something..=?
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I am about to switch to unhurried silent mode. That means I'm going to publish 1-2 facts per week (instead of current 7 facts per week) and I'm not going to post bumping junk like "3 more facts" in this topic anymore. Use http://trivia.idiaths.ru/rss.xml to keep yourself tuned.

However any suggestions about new facts or discussions about existing facts are greatly appreciated.
That program works fine only on elma 1.0. Ez patch it to work on 1.11a, but until anyone actually does that, the only way to have fancy error messages is to hexedit elma.
The program itself is really weird, written in Basic and packed with lame packer, no wish to patch it.
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Domovoy wrote:I am about to switch to unhurried silent mode. That means I'm going to publish 1-2 facts per week (instead of current 7 facts per week) and I'm not going to post bumping junk like "3 more facts" in this topic anymore. Use http://trivia.idiaths.ru/rss.xml to keep yourself tuned.

Seems like you switched to void mode:) Come on, pull off one a week, you can make it:)
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Hey domi, nice Book you have, over there! ;)

I suppose you have stopped updating the page because of lack of "question ideas," which is quite understandable. However, if you ever feel like adding more posts in the future, here is a thing I've always been curious towards:

What is alovolt? How has it come about? Why louder sound, why right and not left, why, why, and why.

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why did you say my name?
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HHAHAHHAHHAH


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