Well crap, who would've ever thought spam was useful?
I got a notification that this thread got a reply about a week or so ago. Figuring I'd read the post in its original context, I clicked on the link without reading the email. And guess what? The last post was made a year ago. Wtf?
Seems like the thread was hit by a spambot. The spam post was sent to me as a notification, the post was deleted, and I end up wondering wtf. Or at least I guess that's what happened. And now I'm sitting here and trying to remember why I never got around to finishing that hack anyway.
Well, damn it, I hate unfinished projects. On the other hand, I have less spare time than ever, so it may not be for a little while before I pick this thing up again. I guess I can answer questions on the boards in the meantime, while I get back into this thing and remember where the heck I was taking the hack. Last thing I saw in there after replaying it were some grenades I had started to hammer into the game and a broken algorithm that caused them to get eaten up by the walls and explode off of the map instead of bouncing around...
So if anyone wants a link to the hack (I figure that's gone by now) or has any technical questions about hacking Cave Story, I suppose I can set aside a bit of time until I can get back to work on The Original Sin.
You can thank that rogue spambot later.