Program for raw score tracking

[Fission]

Originally Posted by popsicle_3000

although would it be flash based, or .exe based? cuz i can't run exe files on mac

with files in general, extensions are entirely irrelevant except for one thing: to give the operating system a hint on how to open the file (i.e. what program to open the file with).

the distinction being that it isn't a matter of being ".exe based", it's how the file itself is structured. i could rename a mac program to have a .exe extension and open it inside the terminal on a mac and nothing would be different about it.

in the case of the OP, all he would have to do is compile his program on a mac (or inside a mac VM) and you would be able to run it.

on topic: what programming language do you plan to write this in? which 3rd party libraries are you using?

EDIT:

Originally Posted by shenjoku

I have almost zero experience programming for Mac

just use cross platform libraries and don't use any of the windows api and you'll be fine.

[HalfStep]

Awesome idea! Would be good if it had an import levelranks to get a basis for scores, instead of having to replay everything again.

[arcnmx]

Oh come on, what he meant to ask was clear enough - and the question is relevant. It's quite likely that the hooking method will make it difficult to simply compile and expect it to work on other platforms unless it's using something portable like libpcap.

[Fission]

importing levelranks wouldn't be that complicated -- just parse http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/levelrank.php. i think the tricky part would be fetching this if you aren't logged in.

Originally Posted by arcnmx

Oh come on, what he meant to ask was clear enough

no, it really isn't. it's ambiguous the way the question was worded. what should have been asked was "will this program run on different platforms or is it windows specific?"

Originally Posted by arcnmx

It's quite likely that the hooking method will make it difficult to simply compile and expect it to work on other platforms unless it's using something portable like libpcap.

i haven't done any research on networking libraries to accomplish something like this, but i would be very surprised if a portable solution didn't already exist.

[popsicle_3000]

Originally Posted by foxfire667

Also in regards to combo scoring, when FFR first came out, boos actually broke your combo. In order to get a good score, you had to be extremely accurate (1 frame perfect window), have a high combo, and not get any boos. So at least then if you had a high combo / score, you were most likely really good at the song.

remember last year when the original engine was opened up for a ffr event?? i think you ran it actually. man was it tough playing some of the originals at 1x...

[shenjoku]

Originally Posted by HalfStep

Awesome idea! Would be good if it had an import levelranks to get a basis for scores, instead of having to replay everything again.

It'll automatically import everything into the database the first time you login to FFR once it gets the level ranks packet

Originally Posted by arcnmx

Oh come on, what he meant to ask was clear enough - and the question is relevant. It's quite likely that the hooking method will make it difficult to simply compile and expect it to work on other platforms unless it's using something portable like libpcap.

Pretty much this. I'm using WinPcap, and as the name suggests, it's Windows only. It's the simplest thing I could find to use and I don't really feel like spending days researching things so I'm just going with that :P

[shenjoku]

Man, talk about a huge pain in the ass. Had major problems getting WinPcap to capture all of the outbound traffic from Flash to the FFR website, which I still haven't figured out, so I just gave up and ended up implementing a simple proxy server similar to Fiddler (a sniffing application that gave me the idea of using a proxy). The part that sucks about this is that now I have to manually filter all of the traffic since WinPcap used to be doing it for me. Oh well, one step at a time...I already have the structure of the database designed, so once I manage to get the traffic filtered correctly I can start parsing and saving stuff, then it's just a matter of implementing the UI. Still probably going to be quite a while before I have anything beta worthy.