Rocks'n'Diamonds

BONUS: The level can be solved with the starting step count set to 33. SUPER RIDICULOUS: The level can still be solved if any one of the fuel containers is replaced by a spent fuel container, or a rock. (If the bottom left fuel is the one that becomes the rock, you can even make both the rock-replac...

I have an old tape that demonstrates, perhaps, an interesting corollary to this. This is far more hectic than anyone can ever reasonably expect to play the level, and following along with what's happening is a nightmare, but basically the last of the amoeba cells in the top right dies off at an extr...

Did Alan even get the memo that the site came back from that 3-year downtime?

That's a phenomenon I've long noticed, to the point where I hex-edited all the mid-step waiting moves out of my tapes simply to compact the file sizes. Different branches of the game engine treat snaps differently: the BD and EM engines effectively only poll at 8-frame intervals, so anything you do-...

I reported it here, where I mentioned it was still erratic on 3.3.1.2. I haven't been keeping up with Git much.

No matter where the file is physically stored, the binary data in the tape file contains an INFO block which is supposed to tell RnD what levelset and level number it's supposed to play, and copying the file obviously doesn't change the contents there. I'm not aware of any mechanism for playing back...

I don't remember when it started, but recently Snake Bite level 30 (and no other level in the set) has been displaying graphical issues in most of its rooms, always one row at a time and always in the same places. I've noted another bug before that applies in a wider range of levels, but only when p...

We do have F1 and F2 keys. What those do is save and load replay data accounting for all the level progress so far, to be picked up when you want to resume trying

I suspect it's the same bug as this, but in that case I was actually looking through the specific contents of the tape file.

It looks like you can rename the .sp file to "levels.dat" and it will work as a one-level set in RnD.

I get one cookie on the domain, labeled AWSUSER_ID which appears to be related to Advanced Web Stats, not the forum.

Even in the SDL version, this bug sometimes occurs by putting a tape in "Warp Forward" mode then switching to paused.

There is insufficient time to complete the first level (or rather, the 0th). Did you even test these to completion?

Level 8 is indeed unsolvable in 2-player mode--even by handcrafting a tape to ensure both players attempt to make their first move simultaneously, P2 is not allowed to walk over P1, and as soon as P1 moves out of the way, the rock (by virtue of its position higher up, thus earlier in the reading ord...

The problem arises in libgame/setup.c: there are two similar functions that attempt to get the file name of a solution tape from a level number. getTapeFilename() only checks for the ".tape" extension, while getSolutionTapeFilename() also looks for .tape but considers .sln files if they ex...