your in a bathroom looking in a mirror looking back? is a SKELETON!
December 13, 2022 3:22 PM Subscribe
You Are a Skeleton & That Is a Problem, a Gameboy homebrew game made by Nicky Flowers. There is a Good Ending, and there is a BEST ENDING!!!, and there are a whole lot of bad endings. It's short though! It was made for Bad Game Jam, and you might like these other entries.
Also, if you find the Wizard of Lies, you'll have to reset the game to try again. Or just look at the cute pictures for awhile!
posted by JHarris at 3:32 PM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 3:32 PM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
This reminds me of the games we used to write on our TI calculators in math class, and share with the little mini jack network connectors when the teacher was distracted.
By which I mean, it’s great.
posted by q*ben at 4:13 PM on December 13, 2022 [7 favorites]
By which I mean, it’s great.
posted by q*ben at 4:13 PM on December 13, 2022 [7 favorites]
Bob!
posted by pipeski at 5:06 PM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by pipeski at 5:06 PM on December 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
hey cutie, you wanna fuck a skeleton? this one's even got meat on it
posted by seanmpuckett at 5:17 PM on December 13, 2022
posted by seanmpuckett at 5:17 PM on December 13, 2022
enables WASD but not HJKL.
you get 1 point
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 6:02 PM on December 13, 2022
you get 1 point
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 6:02 PM on December 13, 2022
"U own hell now
that's good for 2 points"
Take THAT Elon.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 7:34 PM on December 13, 2022 [3 favorites]
that's good for 2 points"
Take THAT Elon.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 7:34 PM on December 13, 2022 [3 favorites]
I own heaven, hell, and a pair of sexy shades. Now what? AHHHHH FUCK well I got 16 pts and the points don't matter!
posted by not_on_display at 8:02 PM on December 13, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by not_on_display at 8:02 PM on December 13, 2022 [2 favorites]
This was great. It takes a lot of talent and/or laziness to write a terrible game of this quality.
I was curious about whether the Wizard of Lies ending and forced reset introduced new behavior on the next playthrough, but I guess not? Do Game Boy games have any way of persisting data across resets without a battery backup?
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:35 AM on December 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
I was curious about whether the Wizard of Lies ending and forced reset introduced new behavior on the next playthrough, but I guess not? Do Game Boy games have any way of persisting data across resets without a battery backup?
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:35 AM on December 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
I love the humor it is very Dinosaur Comics and that is highest praise
posted by BlunderingArtist at 9:06 AM on December 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by BlunderingArtist at 9:06 AM on December 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
On Gameboy games persisting data across reset: not only is it possible, but it would be the default state if devs didn't account for it.
Usually, when a computer is reset, as opposed to hard powered-off, memory persists. The contents of RAM remain from the prior session. Execution restarts from the reset vector, but the startup routine could check to see if data remains from a previous session.
Two implications of this (on the 6502, which admittedly is not the same processor that the Gameboy runs):
- The classic NES game ZANAC (one of the best shooters ever made BTW) has a level select code that is activated by resetting 13 times.
- When you lose at Super Mario Bros., at the title screen you can hold A and start a new game beginning at the world you were just on. This state persists even if you reset the game, until you turn the system off. This is behavior made possible by memory persistence. There is a known trick (demonstrated, explained and examined closely in this video) where you can put in SMB, then take the cart out while the machine is running, put in NES Tennis and reset, move your player to a certain position, then take the game out and put SMB back in and reset, then hold A and hit Start to begin on potentially any world from 1 to 255, many of which are piles of glitches and some crash the machine.
posted by JHarris at 12:59 PM on December 14, 2022 [3 favorites]
Usually, when a computer is reset, as opposed to hard powered-off, memory persists. The contents of RAM remain from the prior session. Execution restarts from the reset vector, but the startup routine could check to see if data remains from a previous session.
Two implications of this (on the 6502, which admittedly is not the same processor that the Gameboy runs):
- The classic NES game ZANAC (one of the best shooters ever made BTW) has a level select code that is activated by resetting 13 times.
- When you lose at Super Mario Bros., at the title screen you can hold A and start a new game beginning at the world you were just on. This state persists even if you reset the game, until you turn the system off. This is behavior made possible by memory persistence. There is a known trick (demonstrated, explained and examined closely in this video) where you can put in SMB, then take the cart out while the machine is running, put in NES Tennis and reset, move your player to a certain position, then take the game out and put SMB back in and reset, then hold A and hit Start to begin on potentially any world from 1 to 255, many of which are piles of glitches and some crash the machine.
posted by JHarris at 12:59 PM on December 14, 2022 [3 favorites]
I got the good ending, the BEST ending, and also had a timeout.
I was prepared to be annoyed by the controls, but they actually felt kind of right. I like that people make stuff like this and I can just try it for 5 minutes. It feels civilized.
posted by Acari at 2:21 PM on December 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
I was prepared to be annoyed by the controls, but they actually felt kind of right. I like that people make stuff like this and I can just try it for 5 minutes. It feels civilized.
posted by Acari at 2:21 PM on December 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
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