People on New Year's Eve be like: youtu.be/zNQqdeEyFiI?...

Did you know that if you press SELECT while on the PSX "CD PLAYER" menu, you can see a visualizer (SoundScope)? You can also cycle between visualizations (DPad Left/Right). You can even record macros! X + L1 = Toggle macro X + L2 = Load from MC X + R1 = Start/Stop recording X + R2 = Save to MC

I have made some very needed updates for Flipnic Freecam! Link: gist.github.com/MarkusMaal/b... What's new? + Auto-detect region and offsets + Hide OSD option + Import and generate (non-animated) .FPC files * QOL and UI improvements * FOV trackbar now auto-syncs with the in-game value

In case you're wondering where the next video is, it's taking a ridiculous time to render (will probably finish tomorrow?), because it's a longplay video that's 9.4 hours long (it's been half a month in the making) So it'll probably be uploaded some time on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day.

Fun fact: Evolution/Theology stages check if you have an extra ball when respawning (this is normally done so that the voice can say "Ball saved" instead of "Ready"), even though it's not possible to hit a blue UFO on those stages. This is not the case for 2P stages or Geometry.

I've been having fun finding some new cheat codes for Flipnic. It's a bit easier for me, since I have some understanding of how the game works internally. They are PCSX2 .pnach files, I will release these eventually.

s p i n www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA34...

In Flipnic, FPD files are all sorts of fun (they define fixed paths for various things, e.g. enemy movement/coins/UFOs/etc.) For example, you can do something like this:

LOAD_0.MID

This is a really early version of Pak, the official mascot of PAKTC! It's a vector image made in Inkscape and looks kind of uncanny right now. And he's got no nose, because you don't need to breathe if you live inside a computer program (yes, there is lore).

he's watching you

I changed my profile picture! Here's a comparison between the two (left = before, right = after):

I made a tool to extract the PlayStation 1 startup sound (including the .VAB soundbank and a custom MIDI-like sequence) github.com/MarkusMaal/p...

I found this is a cool project to restore the 2013-2016 YouTube UI called Rehike: github.com/Rehike/Rehike It's basically a server you set up and route all YouTube trafiic through. It's still in development, but most stuff already works, except for live streams, which break in a funny way.

what have i done www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-_...

flipnic main menu with dark buttons

In case you were wondering: yes, it's possible to change the loading text Flipnic, but you are limited to 11 characters of text in UTF-8 encoding (stored inside the data section of the game executable).

I made a website for my YT channel It has some links to my stuff, contact info and there are also a few guides here: paktc.markusmaal.ee

Something nostalgic for TrackMania² players (that is if you've even heard this obscure soundtrack) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y775...

The growth of my YouTube channel has been insane this year. I've gotten a total of 75k more views, 1k hours of watch time and 156 new subscribers. This is more than any previous year my YT channel has existed and there are still 3 whole months left of this year.

I've managed to decode some 3D models from Flipnic's LP4 files. It isn't perfect yet (I have yet to figure out how texture coordinates are stored), but some models already look kind of accurate.

Flipnic File Tools - a command-line tool for working with various files used by the game (with a GUI front-end available). Here's what it can now v.s. what it could originally do 1 month ago when I started developing it: The plan is to eventually support all file formats. github.com/MarkusMaal/F...

Flipnic - Ultimate Pinball - Any% in 1:25:47 by PressAnyKeyToContinue

In late 2019 I made my first Flipnic video in a video series called "Bad Luck", where I tried to figure out if getting bad luck would affect gameplay. It was bad, please do not watch it!

it's kind of fun to see the Flipnic soundtrack deconstructed like this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTtT...

This is my best attempt so far at converting Flipnic's HD/BD (a.k.a. JAM) files to a standard soundfont (.SF2). The best sounding one currently I think is SERIOUS.MID (especially the start/end is basically identical to direct rip, probably because it's a really simple track).

Here are some screenshots of a wip open-source software program I've been working on - Flipnic file tools (supports Mac, Windows and Linux). It does some of the same stuff as FlipnicBinExtractor, but it allows opening way more file formats used by the game and there's also a GUI front-end for it.

my bluesky

hand reveal www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5o9...

Here are some events of a specific stage in Flipnic (guess which one) partially translated to (somewhat) human-readable format. This gives you an idea of some of the stuff you can change in this game by just patching some bytes in .SST files, without touching the game code itself

this sure is an interesting file format... key: cyan = volume/pan magenta = notes/pitch dark red = program chunk header

only OGs remember this profile picture...

More Flipnic stuff: I made a tool to create a BMP preview of menu files (*.MLB), it isn't perfect, but you can see the general layout. It appears they intended to have a "New!!" text on the menu. There are also 12 of them, while the final game had 11 stages:

Did you know that in Flipnic, Optics was originally supposed to have a sound effect when you travel through a lane? Here's what it would have sounded like, if they kept it in the game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be8u...

So, an interesting fact about Flipnic. There is actually a cut mission called "Total EXP Counts", which would have been like "Total Lane Counts", except you had to get 1000 EXP points. Instructions still exist in the stage status files, but untranslated. Here's what it looks like hacked in-game:

Hello, Bluesky!