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Topic: Smack the Penguin
Kama
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posted January 22, 2004 01:46 PM
The very same one. There's a trick
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Da_Goat
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posted January 22, 2004 02:11 PM
Now I'm getting a 404. Anybody know anywhere else this game is?
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Tristan
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posted January 22, 2004 02:13 PM
You'd better not be kidding, Kama, 'cause now I'm going to spend an obsessive amount of time trying to figure the trick out.
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closeyourmind
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Member # 5916
posted January 22, 2004 05:02 PM
the game can be found at http://junk.dawnshadow.se/yp010.swf or you can go straight to the source at http://www.e-medien.com/ The first version is the same version that we have been obsessing about and the second version is a downloadable version from the designers and their website is really cool looking (but I don't speak a lick of german). P.S. Kama, if you are not pulling our leg, please let us know the secret
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Kama
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posted January 22, 2004 05:14 PM
hee hee Okay, try this one and see if your results are any different.
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closeyourmind
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posted January 22, 2004 05:25 PM
haha...I guess you weren't kidding about there being a trick of course, now I'm trying to beat your 522.6 [ January 22, 2004, 05:27 PM: Message edited by: closeyourmind ]
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Maethoriell
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posted January 22, 2004 05:30 PM
487.1..I'm getting there Kama.
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closeyourmind
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posted January 22, 2004 05:40 PM
wow, I just got 578.1 I don't know how to capture the screen, so y'all will just have to take my word for it. P.S. if anyone wants to tell me how to do the screen capture thing, it would be greatly appreciated
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Hobbes
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posted January 22, 2004 05:42 PM
Press "PrntScrn", the image of the screen will now be saved on the clipboard. Go into an image editor (like Paint) and click "Paste", the image should appear. Hobbes
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Farmgirl
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posted January 22, 2004 10:06 PM
We got 593.5 here, on Kama's link. (yes, did screen shot). What's your furthest head plant on this one? I know we got at least 491 on a head plant. FG
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fugu13
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posted January 22, 2004 11:29 PM
Just to make it clear, no image manipulation had any influence whatsoever on my score, nor did I manipulate the program itself in some way by decompiling then recompiling -- the url is where i was.
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Mr.Funny
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posted January 23, 2004 01:28 AM
How does that work then? Bug in the program?
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fugu13
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posted January 23, 2004 01:36 AM
Yep. The score is actually 2^31. Their integer underflowed when the program tried to subtract (which happens in a certain situation), so it rolled over to the highest possible number. So I have the highest possible score (without significantly altering the program itself).
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Frisco
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posted January 23, 2004 01:56 AM
593.5 If yours went so far, fugu, then why is the flag coming from the yeti's crotch? Perhaps it was 2^-31.
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Frisco
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posted January 23, 2004 02:04 AM
And 493.4 on the faceplant.
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fugu13
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posted January 23, 2004 02:17 AM
Its clearly not 2^-31, that's a very different number. And its not -2^31, its definitely positive. I didn't say I had sent the penguin the furthest, I said I had the highest score [ January 23, 2004, 02:18 AM: Message edited by: fugu13 ]
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Kama
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posted January 23, 2004 08:52 AM
Looks like 593,5 is the most you can get.
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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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posted January 31, 2004 06:18 PM
I felt like resurrecting this thread because I just got exactly 200.
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Koga
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posted January 31, 2004 06:24 PM
Someone linked a version of it last night in chat where I managed to get 1205.6
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advice for robots
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posted February 01, 2004 01:57 AM
Geez, people, that game was like sooooo last week. You're still playing it?
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ae
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posted February 01, 2004 03:21 AM
My high score: 21596.9.
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Taalcon
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posted March 05, 2004 01:48 AM
I am in awe. Those mines RAWK.
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