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Did anyone else notice the title should say "Unofficial", not "Inofficial"?

I am planning on adding some pictures for the story (all were done in an iPad app called iDraw): This one will be used in a scene: This one is a very badly done poster: And I might use this one but then perhaps not: That is all...

It's easy enough to fraps the videos in-game but it'd be nice to get our hands on the original files, wouldn't it? I think it would. And afaik it hasn't been done yet. So I've had a look into the video files and made a little more progress than I have before. Using Riffpad I looked through INTRO.SI, which refers to the following videos and their corresponding wavs: legomed.smk mindscap.smk intro.smk outro.smk badend.smk goodend.smk I think the file names are pretty self-explanatory, apart from outro. I'm not sure what that one is, as goodend and badend are presumably the two Polkacide endings, and the credits video is contained in CREDITS.SI. For anyone who's not familiar with smk (Smacker) files, they are compressed videos designed to be used in games, similar to bik (Bink) files created by the same company. The are usually very easy to play and convert, but I'll get to that in a minute. After a bit of googling on the extraction of files from riffs, I found a little program called mediaextract (https://github.com/panzi/mediaextract). I wasn't expecting it to work at all, but to my surprise, when I asked it to spit out all the smk files contained in INTRO.SI, it instantly gave me 6 of them. As you can see above, there are 6 smk files in the SI file. The command I used was this, if you want to try it: mediaextract -f smk INTRO.SI You'll need mediaextract and the SI file to be in the same folder, I just copied it across. You can specify an output folder if you want, if you go to the link I posted above there's a list of all the options you can use. Now, I had already tried a couple of other commands with this and had ended up with hundreds of tiny mpg variations that seemed to be empty, so I wasn't too hopeful about these .smks to start with. But then I noticed that they had much larger filesizes and so must actually contain something. The original filenames did not survive the extraction though, and they were named as follows: INTRO.SI_01dc0be8.smk INTRO.SI_002a1846.smk INTRO.SI_023c2956.smk INTRO.SI_00000280.smk INTRO.SI_00381a50.smk INTRO.SI_01772eac.smk I can't find those codes in the SI file so I assume they were just generated by the extractor. I tried to play the files with the RAD program but didn't have any luck. I also tried to convert them into avis but either ended up with blank videos or errors. I did have a look into the files a bit more though, and I found their durations: INTRO.SI_01dc0be8.smk - 24 seconds INTRO.SI_002a1846.smk - 11 seconds INTRO.SI_023c2956.smk - 1 minute 44 seconds INTRO.SI_00000280.smk - 14 seconds INTRO.SI_00381a50.smk - 1 minute 22 seconds INTRO.SI_01772eac.smk - 30 seconds This suggests that: INTRO.SI_01dc0be8.smk = badend.smk INTRO.SI_002a1846.smk = mindscap.smk INTRO.SI_023c2956.smk = goodend.smk INTRO.SI_00000280.smk = legomed.smk INTRO.SI_00381a50.smk = intro.smk Which leaves INTRO.SI_01772eac.smk as outro.smk. It's only 30 seconds long so it can't be the credits, but just to check I had a look at CREDITS.SI and extracted CREDITS.SI_00002306.smk, which is 3 minutes 33 seconds and corresponds to credits.smk. Interestingly, it appears that only the text from the credits is in this video, and the pictures are separate bmps contained in CREDITS.SI. That's as far as I've gotten so far. I think the next step is to locate the other video files - the character profile videos etc - and see if any of those work with RAD. And to see if there are any other extra files that don't match up. I might also try hex editing INTRO.SI to see if I can swap outro.smk with legomed.smk or something to see what it is. UPDATE The character videos are in INFOMAIN.SI. I also found the underwater video from the lift but I've lost it now Also, it's not the most interesting video but I extracted the "You need to put the CD in your computer!" video as well. Still no luck playing anything though. UPDATE 2 It looks like the mysterious outro.smk is an unused video showing the power brick flying off the top of the information centre.

When the modding scene for LEGO Racers exploded, I found it appropriate to create a new, updated version of the original LEGO Racers logo (because we all know that the Drome-style logo isn't anywhere near as awesome). Anyway, here it is: I've created a Test Track and Main Menu texture from it, which you can PM me for if you're interested.

Ben, a long time ago a user who shall remain nameless attempted to copy the work of another nameless member who was well-respected within the community. It didn't end well. The short of it is that the well-respected member became infuriated, and it became one of the reasons he used to leave. I tell you this because I want you to listen carefully and respect this; This is Fushigisaur's Intellectual Property (IP). If he says that you're not allowed to use it, you're not allowed to use it. Furthermore, I IMPLORE you not to go through with this. Creativity keeps the world spinning. Copying a FF which is already essentially a copy of a bigger work (which is probably based off other works if you wanted to go even deeper) only creates a stale piece of bread that nobody will have interest in. I want you to do your own work which you can be proud of, not take something that somebody else has done and slip up the opportunity to prove you have potential.

So inofficial is unofficial? Seriously though, "unofficial" is the preferred word, "inofficial" is an awkward variant that's only used very rarely for no real reason (I've never even seen it before), a quick Google search confirms it's pretty much depreciated - heck, even spell check doesn't recognize it here. "inofficial" is not legal in Scrabble, so I wouldn't use it.

So inofficial is unofficial? Seriously though, "unofficial" is the preferred word, "inofficial" is an awkward variant that's only used very rarely for no real reason (I've never even seen it before), a quick Google search confirms it's pretty much depreciated - heck, even spell check doesn't recognize it here.

Inofficial: "Not official; not having official sanction or authority; unofficial; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence" Unofficial: "Not official; not official or formal" The word is not in my physical dictionary.

Inofficial: "Not official; not having official sanction or authority; unofficial; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence" Unofficial: "Not official; not official or formal"

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Thanks to McJobless, my topic 'Should've introduced myself.. shouldn've I?' got removed due to what may have been a fight in the topic. Lets start again and if people think they can get away with things that shut the topic down I might as well put it up again and again. Again, pleease ask questions and DON'T STRAY OFF TOPIC

All we asked is for you to apply our feedback and re-write at least the first chapter so we can see the difference. No need to change the storyline or get angry, you should be happy.

Alright, I've only read through the first chapter and I have some constructive criticism for you to improve your story writing skills. Spell checking. There was a lot of misspelled words in this story. Make sure you run it through a spell checker before posting. You don't have to do it now though, I have already run it through MS Word and fixed many words for you. Grammar. Some sentences are constructed incorrectly or use the wrong words to describe things. You wrote this: "His left was blocked by a forest and he would've easily been lost in it, his left was a deep embankment which ended up in a deep moat." You don't need to say the 'left was blocked' as a forest is not a brick wall. By describing the general surroundings like you tried to do, you can assume the reader will understand Fred's circumstances and why he might walk in a particular direction. Writing it the way you did makes it sound like it's a command/response game. "ground like a zit sticking out the skin" I don't think using a 'zit' to describe a hill makes for good reading. Besides, zits vary in shapes and sizes. Visualize your story to avoid saying things that are obvious. "He looked to his left at which he say what looked like a battlefield. He couldn't tell who was winning or losing ... before he could properly see what the soldiers looked like" Is this battle happening before his eyes? If not, he obviously won't know who is winning/losing. If it is, why does Fred seem invisible to the soldiers so that they just ignore his existence(Yet a bird notices him)? No Commentary. Don't add commentary to your stories "(the text in the brackets)", it should explain itself. The first paragraph shouldn't be in the first chapter at all. It ruins the flow of the story. Chapter Transition. Each chapter should flow on to each other. Chapter 1 to 2 in your story reads like this: "He could just see over the wall and was about to climb over the wall when the wall broke down" to "The wall crumbled and Fred with it. He ripped through a tent-like roof and landed in a pool of water." Wasn't Fred climbing the vine to look over the wall? Was this vine growing out of the wall or from a tree? Somehow the wall broke down itself and Fred managed to teleport inside the fortress in order to fall on a roof. It would be good, if you get a chance, to re-write each chapter with these things in mind. The story sounds interesting, but these things make the story hard to understand. PS. Your post had some bad text formatting which I assume is from copying and pasting from LMB's. I fixed it for you. PPS. Give this story a title.

you scare me you really do the base could be something like the central point and the players hub off of it? I don't know I'm confused as to how this would work.