Raffle: Kato chan & Ken chan (カトちゃんケンちゃん) and Youkaidouchuuki (妖怪道中記)

[grache]

I still get very intimidated by code samples, especially those which use mathematical-style expressions

What probably threw you off this time was the ceil and min functions, everyone understands them if they know what they are. A lot of times not knowing a convention or simple concept makes something seem much more intimidating / difficult than it really is.

Even though math intimidates me greatly, I still kinda love it at the theoretical level

I didn't care for Math growing up. It wasn't until I was in college I started to like it. I'm not good at it, but I appreciate it.

[tangential_diatribe]
I think the problem for me was the way Math is taught in grade school (and even sometimes in college). The K-12 classes I had put 90% plus focus on the mechanic, 10% to even 0% focus on what's actually going on. There was no intuition or creativity. The exams had cookie cutter problems that required a small amount of pattern recognition, then performing the steps we'd been shown a thousand times; not too different from a parrot saying "Polly want a cracker."
[/tangential_diatribe]

*Real* programming, not just linking functions together from high level APIs, is applied Math. If you're interested in learning more about Math that will help you with programming "Discrete Math" by Kenneth Rosen is a great book. You can get a used copy for ~$5 shipped: http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780072899061?matches=15&ework=1747943&browse=1&mtype=B

It did hurt the atmosphere a little, and did make some directional stuff a little more confusing. That said, there are great maps and FAQs out there for the game, and most of the gameplay really is just smacking enemies in the face. If you don't mind a little loss of atmosphere and the need to occasionally check on-line resources when you get stuck, it's not so bad, really.

Thanks for the insight. US copies are going for more than I can currently justify paying. I think I'll just wait until my Everdrive gets here. I'm sure one day I'll get the JP copy and it will be easier to navigate once I've already finished the US version.

[grache]

I'm not understanding this fully.
It says I have "tickets 0 - 0"...does that mean I'm not eligible for the raffle?

Correct. In mathematical terms, you are not "3.145698762345789" (in other words, you are never going to get a piece of the pie).

esteban: 

Supergrafx: Don't worry, you're entered and eligible. I started numbering from 0, you've got ticket #0.

[thesteve]

im in

[clackattack]

Room for one more in that there raffle? I keep getting ridiculed by my Turbo-buddies for not owning JJ and Jeff or at least admitting to playing it before... Ive heard from more than one fellow PCEFX member that the PCe version is the better of the two

[esteban]

Room for one more in that there raffle? I keep getting ridiculed by my Turbo-buddies for not owning JJ and Jeff or at least admitting to playing it before... Ive heard from more than one fellow PCEFX member that the PCe version is the better of the two

Both versions are great. Personally, I prefer the "can of spray paint attack" to the "fart". But that's just me.

[clackattack]

Fart is in PCE or TG16? I cant help but feel that a really nasty fart may subdue an evil-doer moreso than a can of paint... but then again i have no experience with either of the 2, this game or real life crime fighting

[_joshuaTurbo]

This is a raffle for teh shadowlands.

[ahuffman]

Can I get in on this as well?

[esteban]

Goverrats in Shadowlands.

Fart is in PCE or TG16? I cant help but feel that a really nasty fart may subdue an evil-doer moreso than a can of paint... but then again i have no experience with either of the 2, this game or real life crime fighting

Aggrofart is in the PCE version.

[grache]

This is a raffle for teh shadowlands.

I'm not only new to this forum but to the PC Engine as well. Shadowlands is considered an incorrect translation?

[Necromancer]

Shadowlands is considered an incorrect translation?

Yep, but it's also a running joke 'round here, originating from some facebook nazi moron.

[bob]

so according to your formula, if i read it correct, i have done 19 raffles?

[esteban]

so according to your formula, if i read it correct, i have done 19 raffles?

You forgot to divide by pi.

19/3.14568972378566273=no raffle tickets for you.

[grache]

Shadowlands is considered an incorrect translation?

Yep, but it's also a running joke 'round here, originating from some facebook nazi moron.

Yea I saw that post after I'd started the raffle, I wasn't sure which translation was incorrect though.

[grache]

so according to your formula, if i read it correct, i have done 19 raffles?

I'm doing this by hand. I go into people's posts and select topic and look for each raffle topic they've started. I saw your thread with 19 caption comments (https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=14108.0). I stopped looking then because the cap is 100 tickets.

So even if you've done 1900 raffles it doesn't really matter because you've already got max tickets.

So if anyone else feels that I've misrepresented the amount of raffles they've done, let me know before Saturday morning because the games are shipping then.