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WordPress handles double-quotes and bullet-list spacing really strangely.

It also seems to use some weird JavaScript-based presentation layer that chokes on Firefox 1.5. (yes, yes, I know that’s an old version)

EDIT: The odd spacing seemed to just be something with the default theme. I think it used justified instead of left-align. Looked really weird. Single and double quotes still look like crap though.

If you’re like me and avoided Zero Mission for fear of either of the following, do yourself a favor and pick it up anyway:

• “It’ll be just like that Ultra-Hand-Holding Metroid Fusion garbage.”
• “It might be nothing more than a ‘Mario All-Stars’-style graphics-swap of the original.”

I recently got talked into trying Zero Mission, beat it, and happily found neither of those to be the case. Zero Mission is the true successor to Super Metroid.

Resource leaks are a cut, and garbage collection is a bandage. RAII is the safety gear that should have been worn in the first place.

EDIT: Umm, wait, no. RAII only works for objects on the stack. What the fuck was I thinking about? Well hey, I did say “useless rants”, didn’t I?

Back before DS homebrew, I made a GBA AppWizard for Visual Studio 6 called GBAForVS6. This was intended to replace VBMake and “WhatZdat D. Pimp”’s “GBA Project AppWizard”. The problem was, as much as I liked “GBA Project AppWizard” (in conjunction with VCMake), it had gathered dust, gone out-of-date, and had no publicly released source code I could use to bring it up-to-date.

Well, now I’m a hypocrite.

As the name implies, I haven’t touched GBAForVS6 since DS homebrew started, and I never got around to the Visual Studio .NET version I had been planning. I know it won’t work on VS.NET because the AppWizard system is completely different from VS6 (not to mention poorly documented). I *don’t* know if it will work for newer versions of devkitARM, or for DS development. Also, I never released the GBAForVS6 source (It’s based off of MS’s Custom AppWizard sample code, so I was unsure about licensing issues that might have been involved).

If I had the time, I would go fix those problems now. But unfortunately, I have no time right now, so I’m going to try redeeming myself by taking the lazy way out: having other people do the work ;).

So if anyone’s willing to check into any of the following, it would be greatly appreciated by both me, and (presumably) the GBA/DS homebrew community. Just drop in a comment to this post, or email me at user: nick1 domain: twistedpairgaming.com

What I’d like to find out:

• Can the latest version of devkitARM just be dropped in and work fine?
• Does DS dev work with this?
• Is there some magical (or better yet, non-magical) way to get a VS6 AppWizard to work on VS.NET?
• Find any *really good* documentation or a tutorial for writing VS.NET AppWizards?
• Have solutions to any of the “Known Issues” in the README?
• Any bugs/problems/comments/feature requests?
• Want to actually make any updates to GBAForVS? (<bill lumberg>yea, that would be greeeat</bill lumberg>)

Also, if you’d like the GBAForVS6 source, or the NSIS installer script, just email me, and I’ll dig it up.

First!

(I swear, that’s the ONLY time I will ever make one of those horrifically obnoxious “first” posts…)