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[wierd]

Ghosting is not burn-in though.  I have seen ghosting, but not burn-in.  They are vastly different things.

[Reelya]

Well sorry, but it's easy to see how I could get the terminology confused, especially since the manual for my Philips screen mentions the term burn-in as being the primary phrase for this.

[King Zultan]

I've been downloading flash games recently and I've come across a few that no matter what won't work after I download them, some say I have to play on the website I got them from and others won't load past a point.

So is there a way to lie to the game and make it think its being played on the website it wants to get them to work?

[Reelya]

Well that's a thing. New bill came out and i only got charged my normal rate for about a zillion GB of data. To put that in perspective, my total uncapped data for the month was supposed to be 20 GB, but I was download 35GB+ on some days.

[wierd]

I've been downloading flash games recently and I've come across a few that no matter what won't work after I download them, some say I have to play on the website I got them from and others won't load past a point.

So is there a way to lie to the game and make it think its being played on the website it wants to get them to work?

A few choices;

1) Local HTTP server + HOSTS file entry, with assets in the right spots.
2) Hex edit the files looking for hard coded paths; alter as appropriate with local ones.
3) Decompile the .swf file, then recompile it again.

[King Zultan]

Which is easier for someone that knows nothing about this kind of thing Hex editing or Decompiling?

[Iduno]

Which is easier for someone that knows nothing about this kind of thing Hex editing or Decompiling?

I've done hex editing before, and I suck at computer. You point the editor at the file, and hope you can find the strings of words you're looking for with the search tool, then carefully change what needs changing.

[Mephisto]

If you have any cmd experience (or hell, some console apps support dragging a file onto the executable), you might run something like strings on your file first and then scan its output to see if you should even bother with a hex editor.

[Lord Shonus]

This is only computer-adjacent, but I'm looking for a 1/8" to Bluetooth adapter to use headphones with an older TV. All the ones I can find online seem to be intended to act as inputs for stereos instead of outputs. Which should work because of the nature of Blutooth, but it pays to get a second opinion.

[wierd]

So, you are looking for something like this thing then?

https://www.ebay.com/i/303257921544?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=303257921544&targetid=884576819208&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9024386&poi=&campaignid=9250096047&mkgroupid=97486619641&rlsatarget=pla-884576819208&abcId=1145977&merchantid=101650994&gclid=Cj0KCQjwu6fzBRC6ARIsAJUwa2Stx5qc6fT5woopuul04CUgjfvnEMWn-sVw5QvzYmNcHbRo8mvEh3waAkGJEALw_wcB

[King Zultan]

So I've looked at the Hex editors and there seem to be a bunch of them, can anyone recommend one it doesn't need to be super fancy as I'm not going to be making a habit of messing with it.

[Reelya]

Hex Editors are pretty much all the same in my experience. They're a very basic tool.

Just try HxD if on Windows.

But, generally you want to try and avoid needing to do this.

First, check thoroughly for anyone who already did the work, and see if there are downloadable already-hacked copies. Get them if possible.

Next, read thoroughly through any tutorials or forum discussions, guides from anyone who's already done this kind of stuff.

Then do the advised thing before, and just do a string-dump from the swf file, see what if any plaint-text urls you can see.

Fourth, is you can point those urls at a local files. This is only going to work if you can get copies of any resources it loads. You may still need to set up a webhost on your box to make it run (with a localhost path), and that's going to be a PITA just to run a couple of games. So you want to find ways to avoid that. Somebody online may have suggestions.

And finally, this might not even work. It's still possible that the game needs to access some remote database or some web technology we haven't mentioned, and you're not going to be able to just stick some files somewhere and make it work.

[Lord Shonus]

So, you are looking for something like this thing then?

https://www.ebay.com/i/303257921544?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=303257921544&targetid=884576819208&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9024386&poi=&campaignid=9250096047&mkgroupid=97486619641&rlsatarget=pla-884576819208&abcId=1145977&merchantid=101650994&gclid=Cj0KCQjwu6fzBRC6ARIsAJUwa2Stx5qc6fT5woopuul04CUgjfvnEMWn-sVw5QvzYmNcHbRo8mvEh3waAkGJEALw_wcB

That looks exactly what I need.

[methylatedspirit]

Does running dual-channel RAM make DF run faster compared to a system running single-channel RAM, all else being equal?

[wierd]

In most cases I have seen, there is a mild to moderate performance increase, but it depends a great deal on the system in question, and the kind of load contributing to the FPS loss. (path finding is a different beast than sorting data structures from a large item vector- etc)