Godfather's Programs

[G0dfather]

Hi, I'm the Godfather. I have recently gotten into programming and wanted to release some programs to the FFR community. I will update this list whenever I make a new program so check it once in a while for updates.

Note: This post and my program will be fixed soon (if there are any problems). I had to release it fairly quickly and write this post quickly because I have a bunch of chemistry homework to do by tomorrow. I should have some problems fixed by tomorrow so check back then for the updated version.

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FFR Notebook (Beta) *Temporarily Fixed*
This is a quick little program I made to make FFR a bit easier. It has a place to input Level Rank scores in (making it easier to figure out what scores you need to improve and by how much) and a regular notebook area to write down notes, save them, and load them up again. This is only the beta version so I will add a lot more features in the future. Check the About section in the program for a list of what might be on the next update. If anything violates any rules of FFR just let me know and I will do something about it.

Right now this program is kind of plain because I just started making it the other day and I'm not the best coder in the world (I'm making this in Delphi), and it's only in beta stage (I just finished it like an hour ago). If you have any suggestions, or want to help, or help me with anything, just let me know. It would be cool to have someone help me out, especially someone with knowledge of Delphi or just post some ideas here on the forum for me to read (I am just a beginner in programming so there are limits to what I can do, so just say your idea and I will tell you if I have even the most remote idea on how to do it).

Zip: http://www.mediafire.com/?02aez7e41by
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(If you do not have a virus scanner then use the free http://virusscan.jotti.org/ to scan the files.)

Things to be fixed:
- The columns in the level ranks section needs to be fixed.
- Sometimes, with long song names, the score is cut off (can be fixed fairly quickly and will be fixed tomorrow probably since I have homework to do).
- The ability to add multiple items in the level ranks area.

Screen Shots:




There really isn't a need to take a screen shot of the instructions and about screen because not many people are that worried about either.

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[Zageron]

I have a suggestion:
1. Copy your level ranks into a text file
2. Click browse, locate and insert your text file.

Program then scans level ranks and finds songs that are SDGs, SDMs, Blackflags, Missflags etc... and posts up a list of the lowest ones.
For ex.
In level ranks...
Uber Rave: 32.4.1.2
Excite Bike: 0.31.1.0

the program would spit out
You should attempt to Full combo the following songs:
Uber Rave (1 Miss)
Excite Bike (1 Miss)
You should attempt to improve the PA of the following songs:
Excite Bike

and so on. :3

[G0dfather]

Hmmm... that actually sounds like a great idea. I'll see what I can do about it. I was going to attempt to do something like this but I could not figure out how to exactly because the way that the columns are set up is that the labels Rank, Difficulty, Song, and Score are the only thing that's actually in a column. When you enter a score into the program it just looks like it's in columns because of the spacing when you copy and paste it into the edit box. I wanted to make it so when a score was entered it could divide the numbers into different categories and do some sort of a sort from highest to lowest or lowest to highest for each category. I think I might have an idea about how to do this and some of what you said. But thank you so much for the suggestion (I will try to find some information on how to do this).

[heyitsmee]

screenshots?

[Zageron]

Your going to want to make the interface screen bigger. :3

[Kekeb]

Perhaps you could make it open source, though I don't think the majority of people program in Delphi.

[G0dfather]

@heyitsme
Alright, just give me a second or two to fix a problem with inputting the scores.

@Zageron
Yeah. I was going to maybe make it so the FFR swf loads directly into the notebook, that way the user won't have to switch through a bunch of windows.

And I was just doing some looking around on some Delphi websites and I found some things that might be useful for your idea. I'll examine them better when I have more time.

@Kekeb
I'll probably make it open source once it is a bit more... made. This is just because it is a little bit too simple for a real Delphi coder to care enough to download it and modify it when they could just make one themselves. Once I get some sort of sorting thing and a couple other features in then I'll probably release the source.

EDIT: I just made a quick fix to the program to help with the scores of songs not being cut off.

[Zageron]

Also keep in mind that if your going to load up the swf in the window you will have to make the ffr_the_game.php page itself load up, and then have the program lock the screen in place around the swf.
OTHERWISE it wouldn't be allowed.

[G0dfather]

Alright. I'll try to do that. Or I might just have to use a TWebBrowser component to automatically load FFR's website and let the user get to the game and let them fix the screen however they want; either way I'll make sure to stay by the rules.

[Kekeb]

Originally Posted by Zageron

I have a suggestion:
1. Copy your level ranks into a text file
2. Click browse, locate and insert your text file.
Program then scans level ranks and finds songs that are SDGs, SDMs, Blackflags, Missflags etc... and posts up a list of the lowest ones.
For ex.
In level ranks...
Uber Rave: 32.4.1.2
Excite Bike: 0.31.1.0
the program would spit out
You should attempt to Full combo the following songs:
Uber Rave (1 Miss)
Excite Bike (1 Miss)
You should attempt to improve the PA of the following songs:
Excite Bike

The main problem with this is that you cannot derive someones exact results from the level rank alone (like how many goods, misses etc). The only thing you can get is the song name-difficulty-rank and if it's full combo'd or not.

[Wineandbread]

No minimize? =(
I'm sorry, but I don't really understand the point of this application. How is it easier/more efficient to use than the Level Ranks page?

[G0dfather]

Originally Posted by Kekeb

The main problem with this is that you cannot derive someones exact results from the level rank alone (like how many goods, misses etc). The only thing you can get is the song name-difficulty-rank and if it's full combo'd or not.

This is sort of true (I don't know why they can't really do this since Replays are able to record this kind of data), but I might be able to determine what perfects, goods, averages, etc... posibilities there are and maybe even guess the probablity of each posibility.

Originally Posted by Wineandbread

No minimize? =(
I'm sorry, but I don't really understand the point of this application. How is it easier/more efficient to use than the Level Ranks page?

lol Sorry. I'm not exactly sure what I did to make it so there isn't a minimize button. I'll try to figure out what went wrong. Anyways, this is not really more useful than the level ranks page currently. I'm still trying to add stuff to it to make it better, like sorting methods and such. That is kind of why I released the beta version to you all, so people can give suggestions and maybe even help out a little (or a lot).

[Kekeb]

Originally Posted by G0dfather

This is sort of true (I don't know why they can't really do this since Replays are able to record this kind of data), but I might be able to determine what perfects, goods, averages, etc... posibilities there are and maybe even guess the probablity of each posibility.

The server holds the data, and if you are a subscriber you get this type of feature (beta level reader).

[G0dfather]

Originally Posted by Kekeb

The server holds the data, and if you are a subscriber you get this type of feature (beta level reader).

Well... that sucks for us non subscribers. I doubt that I could get this idea to work anytime soon (the whole probability and possibility idea).



This program might actually take a turn and just become a whole FFR program with the FFR game, teir point retrieval, level rank retrieval, and other features maybe. Whatever though, my first reason to make this was to just practice some coding and I thought it might be helpful for some people. I can see that this might take a while though so I'm going to probably release the source code tomorrow of the next day after school so people can make addons to it and whatnot and share them with the community on here. I'll also have to tidy up the code though and make some changes to make it easier to view.

[tha Guardians]

You should be able to play R1 in the window and have it update recent scores, if possible. However, doing that might violate the rules, seeing how it kinda tampers with the flash by retrieving data :/

This is a good idea. Please stick with this and be attentive to requests. I can see this being really useful.

Edit: Owait, nvm. You can retrieve recent scores from the replay page

[G0dfather]

Originally Posted by tha Guardians

You should be able to play R1 in the window and have it update recent scores, if possible. However, doing that might violate the rules, seeing how it kinda tampers with the flash by retrieving data :/

This is a good idea. Please stick with this and be attentive to requests. I can see this being really useful.

Thanks .
I am a little bit confused about what your suggesting though. Do you mean have the person play the game in the window and then scores on a list refresh after the song is done, thus updating recent scores? If you mean this then you are probably right about violating the rules (since you would probably have to retrieve the data from variables or something and it would probably be considered hacking), but there might actually be another way such as scanning a the pixels on a certain part of the screen to make out the name of something of the song and the score you got for it. Sadly I don't know how to scan a certain area for pixels at all and you would probably need to scan A LOT of pixels to do something like this and pre-program a lot of coordinates for different song names. In the end, I'm not sure if it would be worth it. Maybe Tass would know how to do something like this.


EDIT: Come on! 116 views and only 15 posts? Come on people! Give me some feedback or support or something. Or even just post to say hi.

[Zageron]

Whaaaaat o.O
Level rank by default shows everything about the song
Ex.
1 1 Free Space (FFR Edit) 91,450* 59 0 0 0 0 59 37

being: Rank, Difficulty, Name, Score, Perfects, Goods, Averages, Misses, boos, Combo, Plays

Don't tell me that's subscriber only! D:

[Kekeb]

yes it's subscriber only

[G0dfather]

That sucks. Anyways, I'm sorry guys for not posting for a couple of days. I was actually planning on making some changes on the program yesterday but my teachers stuck me with so much homework that I only got about 4 hours of sleep that last night because I usually get home from my soccer practice at 7pm or so and I had to work straight from I got home to the time I went to bed (and I still didn't finish all of my work). It's pretty much the same deals tonight as well since my teachers just don't know when to quit, so I'm going to try to do some stuff on it tomorrow. I would love to hear some more suggestions of what people in the community might want to see in the program.

[boondocks77]

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