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by bertrandom • 6 years ago

552 127 6 years ago

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bitxbitxbitcoin• 6 years ago

I wonder how the Noom Stonks are doing in ACNH?

navaati• 6 years ago

Weird flex, but OK. :)

taneq• 6 years ago

Pretty good flex IMO. :)

egypturnash• 6 years ago

Is this being served off of a Switch or something? Because it's sure not loading for me.

Koshkin• 6 years ago

Probably served off this simulated laptop.

kn0where• 6 years ago

Hug of death

jugg1es• 6 years ago

Is Noom Stonks different from the Turnip Stalkmarket?

Multicomp2• 6 years ago

This is why I visit HN, the little side projects like this are simply delightful.

This is however not rendering anything but the controls on mobile so I will have to take your word for it.

542458• 6 years ago

Hunh, that’s strange. Works fine on my iPhone. What are you running?

Multicomp2• 6 years ago

Firefox Fennec on Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Android 10

Desktop Firefox works fine.

lostgame2• 6 years ago

Works great on my iPhone 6S, even, here.

therobot24• 6 years ago

hug of death for me, will bookmark and see if it's up later

tobz1000• 6 years ago

Seems to be broken on Firefox.

prophesi• 6 years ago

Works for me, v75.0 (64-bit) on MacOS Catalina. You were probably experiencing the hug of death.

codys• 6 years ago

yep. opening in FF 75.0 on Linux shows a white blank page. Opening in chromium renders properly.

Looks like it's three.js failing to initialize webgl in firefox. Probably some firefox webgl issue.

nsilvestri• 6 years ago

Same here. Broken on FF 75, works on Chromium 81

modsWork4appl4• 6 years ago

Classic Nintendo fan. Not enough content to satisfy, make your own entertainment.

echelon2• 6 years ago

Quite the opposite. So enthralling one obsesses over it and incorporates it into their own dreams and fantasy.

Nintendo is quite special. The Studio Ghibli of gaming.

modsWork4appl4• 6 years ago

I'm pretty objective since I've beaten every Zelda and I can't agree. Their games just aren't at the same level as anything modern.

They use a big marketing budget to push their otherwise medicore platform.

Although I think n64 was decent.

bertrandom3• 6 years ago

Sorry for everyone who couldn't open this, I tuned some apache settings and the site should load much faster now!

dsl• 6 years ago

Just a heads up, OpenDNS blocks your domain for "Web Spam". You might want to poke around and make sure you don't have unprotected comment forms or open redirects.

https://domain.opendns.com/bert.org

bertrandom3• 6 years ago

Yikes, thanks, I'll submit that for re-review.

moioci• 6 years ago

At my work: This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers.

aasasd• 6 years ago

I don't mean to start a flame thread, but people moved away from Apache precisely because it's too heavy and slow. Nginx should work much more smoothly, unless there's some dynamic backend bottlenecking instead (and even then, Nginx' buffering frees up the backend faster).

xwdv• 6 years ago

What was the process for extracting the file?

lostgame2• 6 years ago

So much this. Is the Switch really that insecure that there are ROMs floating around of this already? o.o

stryan• 6 years ago

Yes, there's already emulators able to run the game (if barely and not really playable)[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdJ2dfL9S8

kop3162• 6 years ago

There was a hardware boot ROM exploit a while ago that enabled arbitrary code execution, and I am presuming that is allowing the ROM dump.

ddoolin• 6 years ago

Seconded. I'd really love to know more about how it's done.

Jasper_• 6 years ago

Judging by the output folder structure, it was likely done with KillzX's Switch Toolbox

https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Switch-Toolbox

vzidex• 6 years ago

Gave me a smile and a quiet chuckle, thanks for this little bit of fun OP.

drewzero13• 6 years ago

Ooh, it looks like the black MacBook from 2007! Definitely my favorite Apple laptop I've ever used. Less plasticky feeling than the iBook it replaced, more comfortable to use than the metal unibody machines that replaced it.

I had the plain old white version and stuck a bunch of blackbook replacement parts on it to make it look kind of like an oreo.

AgloeDreams• 6 years ago

Totally, something like a mix between that and the Sony TZ series.

Also gives me flashbacks to the Google CR-48, which itself looked like a Blackbook but a bit sexy-fied.

wayneftw2• 6 years ago

Looks to me like a Windows UI or one that was influenced by Windows.

schwap• 6 years ago

The UI looks linux-y to me. Windows never really had a large "dock".

drewzero13• 6 years ago

Maybe the icons, but the background and dock are straight out of OSX Tiger.

Talanes2• 6 years ago

Was that the model that introduced the magnetic power cables? I got one of those right out of high school and it was the first laptop I'd owned that wasn't a 3+ year old hand me down. It was magic.

Wowfunhappy3• 6 years ago

The desktop background also reminds me of Tiger.

exikyut• 6 years ago

That sounds like it'd look awesome, do you have any photos of it? :>

drewzero13• 6 years ago

I'll check when I get home-- I probably still have most of that computer. It's similar to this[1] but the non-letter keys are also swapped for black keys like this[2]. I was super into chessboard pattern at the time so I wanted everything to be black and white.

[1] https://osxdaily.com/2010/10/30/mac-setups-oreo-macbook/ [2] https://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372

yjftsjthsd-h• 6 years ago

Okay, I have to ask - are the app names from the game, or your addition?

bertrandom3• 6 years ago

I took some creative liberties there.

jameshush• 6 years ago

You did an excellent job naming these. This made my day.

ebg13• 6 years ago

The app labeled "noom" looks like Skype, not Zoom.

caleb-allen• 6 years ago

"Weird flex but okay" I love it!

geoah• 6 years ago

You can actually get this as an item in the game and customizing it will give you the option to chose one of those backgrounds.

I'm not sure how you can acquire it by normal/elgit means, but if you are able to extract your save file from Animal Crossing New Horizons you can use a save editor (google kwsch/NHSE) to add this item to your inventory.

ps. Don't cheat, it's a nice game.

companyhen• 6 years ago

I saw it for sale in the shop for 70k bells

Pfhreak2• 6 years ago

Don't cheat, it's a nice game.

Cheat if you want to, or need to, or whatever. If it makes the game more enjoyable for you or if you need an accessbility assist for any reason or just because you like to see content that might be locked behind arbitrary gates.

Not everyone approaches games with the same intent, and not everyone can approach games with the same abilities. Cheating is a way to both experience games differently (e.g. speedrunning) or at all.

Waterluvian• 6 years ago

Some people believe that if you cheat, even in a single player game, it lessens the reward for them.

FWIW: I've experienced "cheating" both utterly ruining and enhancing a game.

Wowfunhappy3• 6 years ago

I didn't read the GP's comment the same way you did.

Cheating in a single player game is like looking up a spoiler for the end of a movie. There's nothing wrong with it, but you should be aware the game may not be as much fun afterwards.

burgerrito• 6 years ago

That sounds more like modding than "cheating"

sturmeh3• 6 years ago

Cool, just stay offline if you do though.

I don't want people dropping hacked in items on my island, it kind of defeats the purpose of progression for those who aren't cheating.

blankface• 6 years ago

I just bought this game for the family.

When I was younger, there was a game called Animal Crossing Wild World for the Nintendo DS that is still one of my favorite games of all time. For all of the things that Nintendo gets wrong, Animal Crossing Wild World was very advanced for a game that came out in 2005.

You mentioned extracting save data from Animal Crossing for Switch and a smirk ran across my face. I have a very intimate and detailed history about the online community surrounding this game, script kiddies, Action Replay, and damaged game carts.

Does anyone remember Carlos and Nintendo-Play.com?

https://www.google.com/search?&q=acww+brick+seed

selimthegrim• 6 years ago

Can someone write a song about this to the tune of John Brown's Body?

delecti• 6 years ago

It's odd that the logo is "PC" instead of the typical Nook leaf which is pretty reminiscent of the Apple logo.

sonofgod2• 6 years ago

I parsed it as AC, for Animal Crossing, the left part of the C being also the right leg of the A.

mfkp• 6 years ago

I initially read it as a stylized "AC" for Animal Crossing.

sonofgod2• 6 years ago

So it looks like they use ethernet and SD cards in the Animal Crossing universe too (right hand side) (the middle is probably USB but rectangles aren't very diagnostic)

And I think there's HDMI and a 3.5 mm headphone jack on the left? :P

jchw4• 6 years ago

3 full size USB ports, a USB-C port (could it be Thunderbolt?), a 3.5mm headphone jack, and an SD card reader. All in all, Tom Nook’s laptop appears to have pretty decent connectivity options for a modern laptop, while still remaining relatively thin.

oneplane• 6 years ago

Maybe the inside is bigger than the outside to fit all of that stuff in ;-)

zimpenfish• 6 years ago

Given the apparent prevalence of Time Lords and Tardises in the Animal Crossing universe (looking at you, Blathers), it wouldn't surprise me.

jml7c5• 6 years ago

And is that an ethernet port on the right?

jchw4• 6 years ago

Ohh, good call: I wasn’t able to readily identify it. Now all I wonder is what the other 3.5mm looking hole is... maybe power?

hombre_fatal• 6 years ago

Look again. It's an absolute tank of a laptop with dimension proportions you'd only see in gaming laptops.

jchw4• 6 years ago

Well, I was using the USB port as a frame of reference, since obviously external size references in the game are unlikely to be consistent... to me it looks somewhere along the lines of X1 Carbon size based on that. Maybe smaller. It’d be easy to derive more from the texture.

Rotten194• 6 years ago

Using one of the USB-A ports for scale, the base seems to be 1.2 centimeters thick-- which I guess is more than a Macbook Air, but certainly not "a tank", IMO. For reference, my 2014 Thinkpad 440p has a base thats slightly more than 2 centimeters thick, and my Minecraft FPS can corroborate that it was never much of a gaming laptop ;)

Niccizero• 6 years ago

Connectivity like that is common outside the Apple world. See Lenovo Thinkpads, HP Elitebooks, most gaming laptops. It's the fashion statement computers like Macbooks that have remoted ports for no good reason.

jchw4• 6 years ago

I was mostly being silly, because I personally use mostly thinkpads, and honestly mostly pretty thick ones. However just to add: my current perception of thin laptops is mostly based off of Microsoft Surface devices rather than Apple devices. (I dropped out of that market after the 2015 Macbook Pro or so.)

Karliss• 6 years ago

I would say it's 2 full size USB ports and 1 HDMI.

wintorez• 6 years ago

Weird flex, but OK.

throwanem2• 6 years ago

Wild that it's "noom" and not "nyoom", tbh.

Apocryphon• 6 years ago

Tom Nook's Chromebook

pkamb• 6 years ago

Has Mario Broth seen this?

https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog

soperj2• 6 years ago

Small space bar, weird enter key. Other than that only thing I'd really want is a trackpoint.

tjohns• 6 years ago

That style of enter key is common on European and Japanese keyboard layouts.

Similarly, the small spacebar is common on some Japanese keyboards to accomodate for extra language input keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_input_keys

soperj2• 6 years ago

Ask and ye shall receive. I love how the answers are always provided :)

LeoPanthera• 6 years ago

It's extremely similar to the Japanese MacBook layout:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Japanese_Mac_-_Apple_K...

gorgoiler• 6 years ago

Very fun :) ...weird flex, but ok!

There’s a slight reflectivity to the laptop. At certain angles I can see a white light reflection but I can’t quite make out if there’s any shape to it.

I’m sure it’s nothing, but perhaps you could embed an Easter egg of your own?

avipars• 6 years ago

Just why?

musicale• 6 years ago

Can anyone translate the text?

johnnyAghands• 6 years ago

That spacebar.

jackhalford• 6 years ago

So I extracted the model resources for his laptop from the game binary and rendered it here. Weird flex but ok.

Best faq ever

winrid• 6 years ago

Runs great on my 2017 One Plus, good job!

throwaway180118• 6 years ago

Very nice work! How did you narrow down your search to extract the laptop model specifically, among what must be thousands of 3D assets. I'd love a breakdown of your process!

rashidujang• 6 years ago

Seconding this! It'd be great if you could include the extraction process from the beginning too for those of us who are unfamiliar.

buffin• 6 years ago

I don't play this game, but I have heard of it. Took me way too long to figure out what the discussion was about. It's from Animal Crossing game on Nintendo Switch.

Noxmiles2• 6 years ago

thumb up for doing this.

Also, nootube is great. Cat video is going on ;)

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