EarthBound Battle Screensaver

BAWWWW i have a mac D:

This is awesome. I found a good combination of one of the Giygas backgrounds with one of the Onett backgrounds :3

Well, this might be possible to replicate on a mac with Quartz. How, I’m not sure – i’ve never worked with it before. Are there any Quartz Composer guys out there that want to give it a try?

Holy moly, now I’m switching back to “5 Minute wait” for a screen saver to appear, thanks! 😀

It was a 30 minute wait before. Though the screen just turns off. O:

Nice. I’ve been looking for a good screensaver for some time now.
Is Mr. Accident still working on this? It’d be great if it randomly cycled through the different background combinations. (…not to say that it isn’t already great.)

I love this thing. It’s been my screensaver for awhile now. Kind of related, does anybody remember that really old screensaver that cycles through about five or so backgrounds? That’s a relic of the past.

This screensaver is cool because you can even find a few unused backgrounds. Some don’t even move!

gfdjhdf mac

jmr: i agree, it would be awesome if it randomized them, and 100x more awesome if it played the actual battle music for each battle background. 😛

This thing is excellent. My screensaver has been the coffee break background for a few months now.

Wouldn’t be hard to do the randomization and music for someone who knows how to handle these things…

Sadly I’m on a mac, and not a programmer by trade.

Mac as well here, but that’s still pretty cool!

Gah, I have a Mac, too. It’s awesome, though.

Hahaha…. Sorry, but I use a Mac. I can never go back unless I’m forced by a single program! Still, I’ve got boot camp. In either case, that’s quite nice!

Site stats say that only 10% of the visitors here use Macs… but man that 10% sure is vocal 😛

Well, I mean, if it worked great, then why complain?

It seems that this program doesn’t work if you use two monitors (or more, I’d imagine). Dang.

This program keeps giving me an error message about DirectX, even though I have the latest version.

And now the error message is popping up every 15 minutes even though I haven’t touched the program.

Gotta say, this is amazing.

I tried this a couple of months ago. Whenever my computer was on the screensaver too long, it would freeze; forcing me to restart it. Did anyone else have this problem?

This goes great with my Giygas wallpaper.

Giygas’ defenses became unstable!

Too bad its not open source. If it were, then considering it was written in .NET, I may know the language it was written in, and therefore may be able to add very cumbersome sound support….

Anyway, this is awesome. Am I alone in seeing what I think are mother 3 backgrounds?

Oh man, this is the perfect compliment to my Earthbound-themed system sounds… It makes me feel like a creepy, obsessed fan person, though, like my love of Earthbound has just progressed to a greater, more sinister level.

It’s still fantastic, though!

Apparently my computer doesn’t have the Managed DirectX, which this Screensaver may require.
I downloaded the MSI from http://sims.ambertation.de/en/kb/entry/1/ and it seemed to work fine.

Kinda slow, sticks up my PC a bit. :/

Welp, I’ve been wanting something like this for a while so it’s great…

but…

I’m on a mac.

I immediately was able to play with it on my girlfriend’s laptop, and agree with the several people who say a randomization option would be extra keen.

I put 231 and 232 up (coffee break?)

Also if we had some sort of guide to what backgrounds appeared with what other backgrounds and what backgrounds appeared alone that would help people really live the dream (especially if a random option knew what goes to what).

Oh, i’m downloading this baby right now 😀 I can’t wait to see what this looks like!

Haha, brilliant! I might actually look at some of these for my Graphics project!

Hey, has anyone come up with some good combinations? I rather like the Giygas backgrounds, myself

Boo. The graphics are messed up when they actually appear. Seems so neat on the setup screen blarg

Is this safe? I have a Vista is it safe?

MAKE ONE FOR MAC!

I CAN’T HEAR YOU TYPE LOUDER

if only you could put in enemy sprites…

Heh, holy crap, I remember this thing.

To be fair, I didn’t actually study EB’s code per se to write this. It was an entirely empirical process; I basically studied the background distortion patterns, guessed at the formulas it was using, and then tweaked the parameters until I got an exact match. It’s not quite perfect yet; some of the higher-level behaviors of EB’s backgrounds I haven’t completely figured out yet. Most of them transition between several sets of sinewave parameters, for example. There’s also palette rotation, which would need to be factored in for a completely authentic experience.

If there’s interest, I guess I might pick this up again some time and see about finishing it out. I’ve got a lot of other stuff on my plate though, so we’ll see. 😛

Jotokun: while I often don’t bother packaging source with many of my random side projects, I’ll gladly hand it out to anyone on request. I actually did upload the source a while ago. You can find it here:

http://starmen.net/pkhack/projects/mra/kraken_source.zip

Kraken was written in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The code is a bit on the messy side; it was a rush job, frankly. 😀

(I probably should just put together a site sometime that I can put all my stuff/code on though, heh.)

Bawww, I get several errors and then a still image overlaying my screen. Maybe it’s Vista, or maybe it’s because I use two monitors, or both.. 🙁

Holy crap, what were the odds that Mr. A would post right above me just seconds before.

Anyway, I encourage you to do more work on this whenever you get some free time for it. I’m sure it would be appreciated by many.

Yeah, it’s worth pointing out that the current version has a lot of bugs in it, too. I’ve had reports of issues with multiple monitor setups; it also seems to completely ignore the settings for some people, but only when actually activated as a screensaver by Windows. So it’ll work just fine if you use the “Test” option, but when it comes up normally it reverts to the default layers. XD

It’s the first time I’ve tried writing a screensaver, so obviously some quirks to work out, heh.

Can’t really have battle music on – that would be kinda creepy if you didn’t know it was about to happen.

I’ve been thinking about it, and maybe the issue is related to either version 4.0 of .Net framework or the 64-bit version it. Maybe that could help fix it.

Sweet I got a Mani Mani statue backround going wall going really fast 😀

I wish there was a version of this for linux.

I wish there was a linux version of this (preferably for either KDE or GNOME) 🙁 I know we’re in the minority, but this is just way too cool for me to not get butthurt about!

Very cool to mix and match with

Also, for the e-mail I sent you, Mato I was gonna use Contact, but it didn’t work(although i shouldn’t have used it anyway, as it wasn’t news or anything important). However, sometimes when similar stuff happens to me, sometimes it actually works, I just don’t know it. So in case your e-mail got flooded with similar messages, that must’ve been the case

Does this work on Mother 3 too? I REALLY love that final battle background with the masked man

Ok And im awsome i do have a Windows 7