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I got a new game working in touchHLE! This game is neither impressive nor famous, but it’s charming and I remember it fondly: Touch & Go, published by The Game Creators, a British company better known for stuff like DarkBASIC and The 3D Gamemaker, not making games!

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1632865721301581824/pu/vid/350x540/CSs1-18HU_4kd666.mp4

this is not fully working yet, e.g. I didn’t show you how messed up the “buy the full version” screen looks, and you have to convert the .mp3 in the game’s files to a .wav

I haven’t made a new release yet for those reasons.

but I wanted to show this off early :3

in case you’re wondering why it’s the lite version: that’s the one I have on my iTunes account!

I also have “App Pack 1” which, as its name suggests, bundles several apps into one, and that contains the full version of Touch & Go, but that’s a bit harder to get working.

here’s a nice article from back in the day which talks about this game https://www.pocketgamer.com/idare/from-darkbasic-to-idare-the-game-creators-explain-their-newfound-app-store-love/

omg so, i needed to get a game over for testing, so i just sat there, not touching the mouse or controller, letting the blocks fall

…and then a block fell and there was a match by coincidence

…and then it happened again

and again, and…

the easiest level can play itself!

reminds me of the classic “luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6PxRwgjzZw

@hikari I think it's in the mp3 spec to have a short silence at the start. This makes gapless loops impossible with this format.

@Tijn @hikari The LAME Tech FAQ explains it: https://lame.sourceforge.io/tech-FAQ.txt
Ie. it is a technical artifact of the encoding process. A proper decoder should be able to skip this using embedded metadata.

@Tijn @hikari Apple has a nice writeup of a similar issue with AAC: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/QuickTime/QTFF/QTFFAppenG/QTFFAppenG.html