Question about "*Trippolette"

**mcy919** · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 9

Does anyone know why the title of the song has a star in it? It isn't a big deal by any means, but I'm still curious.

**dd3mon** · Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 68

I think whoever wrote the code decided what it would show up as and also what the text is during the loading screen.

I suspect the star was included simply to make the title stand out, I could be wrong however.
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**quackadilly** · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1078 Location: Colorado

Just for the hell of it.

Like on Graveyard Shift, I wrote something special for the loading screen.

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

or to indicate its a bonus bonus track?
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**mcy919** · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 9

Thanks for the info, Quackadilly.

**mcy919** · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 9

Is there a way to remove the star from "Trippolette"?

If not, is there a way to add a star to the beginning of "Graveyard Shift"?

I would like for the two titles to match if possible!

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Im sure you can

Quack could also make it so theres a star too, but then hell have to change the song for the number of letters.

Speaking of which, that could be why the stars there?
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**krimsunmunkeys** · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:19 am Post subject:

**ES942** · Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 3445 Location: Snalbans

now that you mention it, Trippolette and Guitar Hero don't even have the same amount of characters. Trippolette has 11 and Guitar Hero has 10. And in Graveyard Shift and Sail Your Ship By, spaces didn't count as characters either

**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

**quackadilly** · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1078 Location: Colorado

ok, heres the in depth explanation:

The name of the song was actually ADVHARMONY (10), stands for Advanced Harmonics, it was a project for Andrew Buch's Advanced Harmonics class. The creator of the code, Andrew Buch? wanted to make the name Trippolette official, so he put that in the title screen that you see.
ADVHARMONY has the same number of letters as the song GUITARHERO (10). If you didn't notice, the filenames don't include spaces at all.
The loading screen and the other extra stuff for the unlock songs in the unlock shop have a fixed amount of space to put descriptions in. You don't have to use it all, if you want to use less you have to put what is called a NULL character at the end of what you want to display. It should work the same way for the filename and all, but I didn't want to experiment, it takes a while to do that.
If I remember correctly, there is a little extra space where the name of the song is located.(I'll double check soon, my main computer broke and I'm building a new one)

So, the * in the name *Trippolette.....

It does not have to be there, its completely up to who writes the code.

P.S.

69th post!!!!

**mcy919** · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 9

When I tried to modify the title myself, it appeared as " Trippolette" (with the space at the beginning) after I changed the star character in the code ("2A") to "20." I know that character is used for a space, but it is also the NULL character? At first I thought it was "00," but changing it to that made the title disappear!

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

hey 69 ;)

does that mean we can change the loading screen message to what we like?

"Quackadillys message was too long..."
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**mcy919** · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 9

Even though I started this topic, I was able to answer my own question. I changed the last three lines of the code and was able to take the star out of the title. I didn't even know if it would actually work, but it works perfectly!

Here is the original part of the code:

205459D0 6972542A
205459D4 6C6F7070
205459D8 65747465

I changed it to this:

205459D0 70697254
205459D4 656C6F70
205459D8 00657474

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

3 lines for one character?
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