Nice work! Can we see more pictures?

http://www.planetvb.com/modules/tech/?sec=utils&pid=gccvb

The latest release doesn’t even have to be compiled.

According to Kitaro it was a switch statement that… didn’t switch. 😀 It got messed up by the code optimization routine of VUCC. To fix that, he wrote an equivalent replacement which did the same, but was not affected by the code optimization.

But Arremer, you’re not going to use VUCC, but gccVB, or are you?

P.S. 300th news posting, yay! 😀

And shortly after, a new member with the User ID 1337 releases the first entry for the coding competition. It’s a conspiracy! ;D

Wow, that was fast! Pretty good game as well, what a great idea to combine those two games.

OK, I created and uploaded the splash screen. I did not yet have time to test it, though, so it’d be great to hear some feedback whether it’s working for you guys. 🙂

Hey Usch, welcome to our community! It’s always great to see a new face interested in development for the VB.

About your question: I did not yet have time to upload the splash screen, but I will do it asap, promised!

DogP got it right. It was great to see all those projects released for the last competition, but in the end it was many projects which never got finished. And since we did only see source code for one third of the submitted projects, there was no big didactic effect. IMHO, it’s for the best of all of us, when new programmers have a lot of code to learn from, can help improve existing code or even finish unfinished projects. This competition is mainly about helping the VB homebrew scene grow and get new people on board, rather than seeing who can code best. 😉

You’re free to pick any license you want. So if people really want to stop others from “stealing”/copy&pasting their code, they can just do it through the included license I guess.

The first 10 entries, maybe more, if I can afford it, just wanted to be on the safe side. 😉

VirtualChris wrote:
I’m already at work on something! 🙂 What does “open source” mean?

Means that you have to include the full source code in your entry.

User ranks depend on the post count and can not be set individually, sorry. But you could post like crazy to reach 250 posts and the “(VU)Expert” rank. 😉

Amazing auction! But… $50,000? Paha. It’s worth maybe 1/20th of that. But it will be interesting to see for how much it goes, if it’s anywhere near a fraction of the asking price, I really need to put up my VUE Debugger. 😛

I am attaching the photos from the auction to preserve them and remind me to add them to PVB. 😀

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Too bad, disabled the autologin again. :/

RunnerPack: IIRC, there’s some security issues with letting sessions open for long times. Still, cookies were actually set to last 12 hours, but I have expanded that to 72 hours now. We’ll see how well that works for the user experience. 🙂

Does not seem to work for me. :/

Are these suggestions for other blocks to add or for a new name for the existing one? What’s wrong with “Recently Replied Topics”? Does it sound bad to a native english speaking person?

Should be fixed now!

That’s because I did not fix it yet. 😉

You guys are totally right about the badges. Looks like I forgot to include a check for screenshots in the badges script, oops! Will add that asap. Thanks for pointing this out, Dan!

The other thing are the unproven highscores, those without screenshots. As TheForce81 guessed correctly, it has historical reasons that they are there. When I began having highscore lists on PVB, it was not necessary to submit screenshots to get included. One reason was, that many people did simply not have the equipment to take screenshots. Since I made the highscore submission form with its screenshot option, 99% (or 100%? not sure) of the submitted scores had one. I don’t want to simply erase all highscores without screens, but it’s only a matter of time, until those are overtaken by proven highscores. Also there might be people, who still have no way of taking screenshots, and we don’t want to exclude them. Since unproven highscores get no Top10 points and no badges (at least now ;D), they don’t play a big role anyway.

The bottom line is that the whole highscore thing is based on honesty anway, since screenshots could be easily faked with Photoshop, using hacked ROMs or whatever.

It’s a simple script: