Bregalad wrote:We the forum users help everyone for free, and you are probably making profit from this help, but you still complain and act relatively aggressively.
I don't complain about people who help me. But I can complain about snarky comments that don't help me.
I'm grateful for rainwarrior's and tokumaru's help because they told me exactly what the issue is.
You, on the other hand, merely told me "Please research before asking." And your link merely repeated what has already been answered by the ther two guys, so I didn't even need this link in that moment anymore. Hence, your help in this situation was exactly zero.
My gratefulness always depends on the actual contents of the posts. Just because person A helped me doesn't mean that I have to be grateful towards person B, you know?
Bregalad wrote:There's no point in discussing the same thing over and over again if a clear explanation is already there for free.
Linking to another thread is fine. Complaining that the poster should have found it himself isn't, especially when it's not even obvious that this specific thread is about this specific topic.
Bregalad wrote:Besides, you mentioned your game doesn't start but you didn't explain the efforts you made debugging with FCEU or Nintendulator in order to see where your game crashed, so not pointing to the reail problem.
And that's a problem why exactly?
Sure, if someone does some obscure things in his code, then you can ask him what exactly he did. But I merely added more banks and someone immediately recognized that MMC1 simply doesn't support this number of banks, period.
So, what exactly are you even complaining about? That I didn't list all the things that I've done that wouldn't have made a difference anyway?
Again: My problem's answer lies not in any code bugs that I accidentally made, but in the simple fact that the mapper isn't built for that size.
The wiki page says 512 KB and you write five bits to the mapper, but the 512 KB only refers to some hacky workaround of which I never even knew that it can be a thing in the first place. So, my confusion after trying to add more banks and the game not working anymore wasn't something that was easily avoidable, but it was something that's easily answerable by anybody who knows a bit about the MMC1.
Bregalad wrote:Do you seriously expect me to find a single post within a larger thread that is called "More MMC1 CHR bankswitching woes" when I have a question about increasing the number of PRG ROM banks of an MMC-1 ROM?
Yes, I expect people to follow the forums,
but I fully agree the thread title is irrelevant to the subject being discussed in this case; this happens regularly though and is unavoidable as discussions tends to derail.
Oh, so you're not only expecting people to read every MMC1 thread because one of the 50 threads where this word appears might have this very answer. You expect people to read
every thread because even a thread called "Scrolling issues" could have the desired MMC1 answer somewhere on page 17 of 25.
This premise is even more ridiculous.
And that's everything that I have to say about this.