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@paktc.bsky.social

Fun and unexpected stuff related to 2000s retro games and computing. All content is in English. YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PAKTC Website: https://paktc.markusmaal.ee

Button config showing everything set to the circle button

CAIT (the cat) from Viewfinder (video game)

Texture files from the original PlayStation BIOS ROM (some don't load, because XnView MP be weird with TIM files)

Screenshot of Windows 3.11, which is running Program Manager, Windows Setup, Telnet client connected to telehack.com with the stegosaurus cowsay displayed, plus a Creative MIDI player. In addition, there are two minimized icons, which include Control Panel and a Clock.

Jukebox containing PAL songs, while the game speed is at 60 fps and the window title is "Gran Turismo 4 [Online Public Beta]"

Optics non-stop area, specifically the part with ramps and a lane. The screenshot shows "LANE COUNTS 7" with a lit yellow MISSION hexagon.

Stage status screen showing the perfect bumper village with both started and completed mission lamps, but the normal bumper village has no lamps lit

Optics stage in Flipnic, but instead of red/blue rings both are cyan now

Bad apple music video playing inside Flipnic

a menu artwork from Flipnic, which has this hard to read text on it:
"FLIPNIC is new experience from
which, an ordinary flipper is completely different.
Because, the field is very large.
It is because those who are full of the whole with surprise
and the mechanism and who play become crazy.
[unintelligible]
You will also surely become FLIPNIC poisoning 100%
Be careful of playing too much"

Standard Flipnic pause screen with some differences. The differences are "STEAGE STATUS" instead of "STAGE STATUS", "OPTION" instead of "OPTIONS" and "EXIT" instead of "QUIT".

Original game
RANKING
1 0000700000 EASY KAN 05
Password
N3K1SPRV8JAQCUQ6Z51

some of the extracted 3D models from Biology A LP4 files

BANANA_A02.LP4 from Flipnic fully extracted (incl. model, UVs and normals)

List of files with thumbnails enabled showing the various 3D models extracted from a PlayStation 2 BIOS ROM image

$JUNGLE1\BANANA_A02.LP4 A banana bundle from hungry monkey mini-game$

Zero gravity mission in Flipnic, but it's in outer space

Screenshot of Ghidra with a Flipnic executable's decompilation

The relevant section of the event script shown in a hex editor with highlighting. The 08 07 00 00 bytes represent the timer itself, 2C 01 00 00 bytes represent the grace period

COL_03_03
really low-polygon model, which is used as a hitbox for Evolution A/B/C/D stages

SoundScope save icon in memory card manager

Screenshot of the new version of freecam mod being used on the PAL version of the game on the Biology 2P stage

$# # Respawn # func REBIRTH_BALL () @ 0x3820 nop wait until (value == 1) then goto THIS { case (HasExtraBall == 0) SequenceEvent (GuideSfxEvent, Filename: EF56C.SVAG) case (HasExtraBall == 1) SequenceEvent (GuideSfxEvent, Filename: EF43C.SVAG) 0x5 (0, 0, 0, 0) SequenceEvent (ScreenFade, FadeOut: false, Ticks: 60) SequenceEvent (CameraSequence, Filename: CAM_BOSS_02.FPC) SequenceEvent (8, ???: 0, ???: 0) THIS() loop }$

Preview of big ball mode and hiding the on-screen display

Biology A junction point between waterfall area and the butterfly area, but the shining coins are rotated.

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Flipnic loading screen displaying "Fun hacking" instead of "Now loading"

BOSS_JELLYFISH_R.LP4
displays a jellyfish creature from Evolution stages

Flipnic File Tools 2.1
Usage ./FlipnicFileTool [filename] [options]

--input File to open
--output File to write to
--help Display help
--simple Use output that is easy to parse for computer programs
--low-memory Reduces performance to save on memory usage
--magick-path Path to ImageMagick executable (may not be needed dep. on what you're trying to do)
--ffmpeg-path Path to FFmpeg (for audio/video conversion operations)
--msg-path Path to JA.MSG file (optional)
--png Use PNG instead of BMP (for transparency and smaller file sizes)
--version Displays the version number for FlipnicLib

⏵ Flipnic Camera sequences (*.FPC)

--show-fpc* Display data from .FPC file as human-readable text
--convert-fpc-to-xml Convert .FPC file to .XML

⏵ Stage information files (*.SST)

--show-sst-resources Display all resources referenced by SST file
--show-sst-toc* Display table of contents of the SST file
--show-gimmick [name] Display a gimmick (name from TOC)
--get-pseudo-code Transform stage event into something that's somewhat human-readable

⏵ Message file (JA.MSG)

--show-messages* Display all strings stored in the file

⏵ Interleaved audio/video stream (*.PSS)

--list-pss-streams* List all available streams in a .PSS file
--extract-pss-streams Demux a .PSS file to .IPU and .INT files (output = folder)
--convert-int Convert .INT file to .WAV
--convert-pss-mov Convert .PSS file directly to .MOV file with audio streams
--pal Force 25/50 frames per second when converting video files

⏵ Video files (*.IPU)

--show-ipu Display basic information about the IPU file
--convert-ipu Uses FFmpeg to convert .IPU file to .MOV

⏵ Blob files (*.BIN)

--list-files* List a…

Graphical version with multiple windows displaying various file formats that the software can work with, show here are INT (Stereo Sony Compressed ADPCM)/MSG (Message table)/PSS (interleaved audio/video)/TM2 (Textures)/BIN (Blob files)/SST (Stage information)/MLB (Menu files)

$func START () @ 0x7530 nop func GAME_EVENT (Balls: [5, 3, 3], Credits: [4, 1, 0]) @ 0x7570 GameEvent (SetMission, MASTER, Status::Started) SequenceEvent (VideoEvent, Filename: SILVER_DROP.PSS, Randomize: false, RandomizerSeed: 0) SequenceEvent (BgmEvent, Filename: SOUNDDATA\NATURE_0.MID) 0xD (0, 0, 0, 0) GameEvent (5, ???: 0, ???: 0) GameEvent (SetSpawn, AreaCode: 12160) SequenceEvent (ScreenFade, FadeOut: false, Ticks: 60) end func RESET_EVENT () @ 0x77B0 nop BallEvent (13, ???: 26, ???: 10)$