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Atlantic Beach Atlantic Beach welcomes new visitors and vacationers back with a hot sun and a wealth of activities. Enjoy the beautiful beaches and major attractions, while enjoying the historic beauty, heritage and amazing the area is known for. They say there are at least 101 things to do on the coast of crystal, and we say with certainty that it is true. Atlantic Ocean and the

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Michelangelo History was a painter, sculptor, architect and poet and one of the great Italian Renaissance artists. Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese near Florence (Italy), where his father was a local magistrate. A few weeks after birth the family moved to Florence. In 1488, Michelangelo was learning painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. Then in the household of Lorenzo de '

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It's that time again. With another Ubuntu release looming on the horizon, I decided to upgrade my netbook to the latest daily build (8/12/11) of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, which is still in alpha stage. Installation Installation was unchanged from 11.04, so much so, in fact, that it even says "Welcome to Natty Narwhal" :P As with Natty, installation was quick and easy, with the option to

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Over the past 6 months or so, I've been researching and ultimately building a pair of backloaded horns. At the time of this writing, I've only actually finished one of them, but I decided to go ahead and make a post about it.My Phase Technology Teatro 7.5s sound great, but they're pretty weak on the low-end. I've been supplementing with a shitty powered subwoofer scavenged from a boxed 5.1

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This tutorial covers how to create *.col.emb files from scratch using Kensou's Tools. These files can contain any number or variety of DDS textures of any size/resolution or compression type (DXT*). The most common usage for this is to create textures that are higher resolution than the default textures, but it can be used for other purposes, as well.Sensibeat's tutorial for making

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cmn.emz file size editing tutorialSo now we want to copy some file in our cmn.emz.We need the Length of the file.Calculate it or easier, just open the file in the hexadecimal editor, the last offset number is our Length.I want to "inject" an edited HWK.fce.emaLast offset is 7BA97 so our Length will be 97 BA 07 00Note that it's smaller than ZGF.fce.ema but it works the same with bigger files.Now

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Updated Version:Swapping objects (SSF4AE)piecemonteeSF4explorerV0.37b: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sf4viewer/files/0.37 (Console files format support - SuperSF4)/piecemonteeSF4explorerV0.37b.exe/downloadhexadecimal editor HxD (free): http://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxDI'll swap cammy's first costume hat with the 2nd one.In sf4explorer I open CMY_02.obj.emo and I "raw dump" (not "

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From RYU_03.cos.emz I dump the face emg file that I rename as RYU_03.face.emg (included in swap obj.rar):Notice that the emg is composed of 4 objects sharing 1 name..emg file referencesLet's take a look at RYU_03.face.emg in HxD:offset 04 to 07: Code: 00 01 01 43 number of this emg, former is 00 01 01 42, next is 00 01 01 44offset 10 to 13: Code: 00 00 02 C7 appears on every emg, may be

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cmn.emz file structureI extracted ZGF.cmn.emz in piecemontee's SF4 AE and opened it in my hexadecimal editor:I highlighted the references for each data, in bright colors the Relative Location and in faded color, the Length.So the 16 characters in red are references for #EMO, the 16 in orange are references for #EMM ... etcYou have to know that those values are read backwards (2 characters at a

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So, as many people are asking, and because it may be difficult to find every informations in the SF4 modding thread (31 pages already), I translated a tutorial I made some time ago on a french forum.I used Sakura as an example.To make transparency only using col.emz file, 2 steps are required:- editing the col.emz file with a hexadecimal editor- editing the Alpha layer of the dds where the

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Thanks to Capcom's decision to forego emz containers and their associated headaches, moveset swaps are extremely easy to do now and they're not plagued by the "monkeyface" problem we all know so well.Here's how you do it:Step 1: Make a backup of your AE installation. If you mess something up, this will save you a lot of time, I promise.Step 2: Pick 2 characters: 1 whose moveset we'll be taking (

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I actually performed this mod about a year ago on my own stick, but never published the pictures or process until now because I didn't think anyone would be interested. However, I've noticed a few threads on the Shoryuken forums with individuals asking for "clickier" alternatives to the sensitive-yet-mushy Sanwa and Seimitsu buttons that are currently preferred by most players, and Happ's

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Note: these instructions were written pre-release and are subject to change. They're based on the file structure used in the Xbox 360 version of Super Street Fighter 4 - Arcade Edition but will hopefully apply to the PC version, as well.The biggest, most obvious difference between vanilla and AE is the fact that AE no longer uses the formerly ubiquitous *.emz bundles--*.cos.emz, *.col.emz and *.

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copyright Hans-Kristian "Themaister" Arntzen04.06.2011 (reposted with permission)IntroductionThis document is for a (fresh) shader developer that wants to develop shader programs for use in various emulators. Shader programs run on your GPU, and thus enables very sophisticated effects to be performed on the picture which might not be possible in real-time on the CPU. Some introduction to shader

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So, I've been running into an issue on my Lenovo Thinkpad X120e when booted into Windows 7 where programs won't launch from the taskbar when I click on them. The little transparent box shows up around it, it sits for a second, then fades away.I found, however, that I could run things from the command line, though that was not a good fix. After futzing around with the startup applications in

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I've been playing around with mingw, doing cross-compiles of libsnes with profile-guided optimizations (PGO) for use with SSNES in Windows and I think I've gotten it down pretty well.I used the following C-flags at compile time:-msse2 -fmerge-all-constants -fmodulo-sched -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -funsafe-loop-optimizations -fsched-spec-load -fsched-spec-load-dangerous -fsched-stalled-insns=0

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I'm just going to dive right in with the pictures in this post. If you want/need some backstory, read my previous CRT shader post. These shaders are all available in Screwtape's bsnes git repo, except for Beam4, which can be downloaded here, and NTSC, which can be downloaded here (both mirrored in my mediafire in case the pastebins expire before Screwtape adds them to his repo).UPDATE (5/30/11):

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I don't normally do this sort of post on my blog, but I figured people might find it useful, so...Barkeeper's Friend is an abrasive cleaning powder, similar to Comet, that is renowned for its ability to clean stainless steel pots and pans. I've always heard that it can clean stains you would think were there forever, so I figured I'd give it a shot with my well-worn tea kettle:As you can see,

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I have a Lenovo X120e and have grown accustomed to using the once-loathed TrackPoint (also known as the nubbin, the navigation nipple, the eraserhead, and others) for scrolling through Web pages, windows, etc. as I would with a mousewheel. Here is how you would do it in Ubuntu (in this case 11.04 Natty Narwhal, but it should apply to anything Maverick or later:Open up a terminal and

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If you've read my earlier post regarding Maverick on this machine, you'll know I ran into a few annoying issues.The biggest problem was that my Broadcom wireless driver kept getting deactivated with every reboot, so I decided to try installing Natty instead.The first issue I ran into with Natty was that the installer kept crapping out before the partitioning phase with an error about ubi-partman

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I've spent a lot of time on audiophile forums reading about the advantages of horns over purely cone-based speakers, including crisp sound reproduction, consistency, "realism" and extremely high sensitivity. The drawbacks, of course, being high cost (sometimes ridiculously so), a dearth of non-vintage models to choose from, few places to demo products before buying and, perhaps most importantly,

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UPDATE 3/23/11: Natty seems to work much better with these systems, so I recommend skipping Maverick and going straight for 11.04, even thought it's still in Alpha stage at the time of this writing. Check out my post about it here.Original Post:Due to a wonderful pricing error at Lenovo, I got a really sweet deal on a Thinkpad X120e laptop, featuring AMD's new Zacate Fusion chipset.When trying to

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Themaister just added support for multipass shader application--a.k.a. shader stacking--to SSNES, his excellent (and recently GUI-fied) frontend for libsnes. His implementation includes some interesting and fancy options, including configurable scale factors for the first pass (i.e., the first shader). This allows hq2x to be scaled to its expected scale factor during the first pass and then

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Themaister, author of the excellent libsnes interface SSNES, has been working on some really fantastic GLSL pixel shaders for use with compatible emulators, such as bsnes and SNES9x.First, we'll take a look at the waterpaint shader, which has an effect similar to smoothing filters, such as SuperSaI, but with a little extra fattening that gives it the appearance of a watercolor painting:This looks

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If you've experimented with moveswapping across characters, you've certainly seen the horrible deformation that occurs to their faces, commonly known as "monkeyface."This tutorial is going to show you how to swap movesets (we're actually swapping models, but it comes out to the same thing) without the monkeyface problem (except in cinematics, such as intro/outro and during ultras).

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