EXAPUNKS - Episode 10 - Region Unlocking

[@Slaign]

I just wanted to say thanks for these videos. I know they aren't as popular as your others, but when I saw the first one, I went and got the game. Since then, I've been beating a level and then immediately afterwards watching how you do it. I have very little experience writing scripts, and this is my first Zachtronics game so this has been really challenging. I'm always so proud when I finally figure it out, even though my solution is usually very inefficient. Then I get to watch you do it and learn different ways to handle those problems more cleanly. This often helps me figure out the next level. I spent much of the last couple evenings going through it and watching these videos. I'm glad you released them so quickly so I could have that experience. I hope you release more, though since I'm hooked already and all caught up, I'm probably going to get ahead of your videos. (Unless I get stuck!) By the way, at the end of the video where you hack your left hand, you were about to try to sync the signals before you realized you needed to end the video. I'd love to how see you'd do that!

[@tempname8263]

Aaaand now I feel guilty for watching these series purely for story, visuals and Ember's slight fan service.

[@dexter9313]

For syncing, I did it as my first solution (but honestly it's not worth the hassle ;) ). Basically you have to make each loop last six instructions with one COPY four NOOPs and the jump; then count instructions for each EXA before it enters the loop so that pairs of EXAs reach their "COPY" at the same time and each pair of EXA reach their COPY at least one NOOP before or after another pair. I tried making loops last three instructions but it didn't work, they overlapped a little. Not that hard actually, just too much counting instructions and tweaking with NOOPs.

[@vitorgas1]

the reason why you are not getting so many views is because these videos aren't getting to people's subscriber feeds. it surely hadn't got to mine, i had to go to your channel and see if you had uploaded more. It must have something to do with the way you are mass-uploading them

[@LA-MJ]

he said it's on purpose

[@TYKUHN2]

Oh thanks, I just realised this isn't the one I was supposed to be watching next.

[@ZeroTheHeroGOAT]

It came to my feed...

[@LegogodOfDaxia]

Just a heads up, most of the Exapunks vids are getting Algorithm'd out of sub feeds. Releases are a bit too frequent for the Overlords' liking.

[@kniggitz6166]

Just a heads up, i use my subscription feed as my main KZbin page and episode 6-9 didn't show up. I didn't know about them until this video appeared.

[@ecicce6749]

Use ingame footage as thumbnail to get more views. My eyes just skipped over that Text thumbnail until I accidently clicked and found out that there is an awesome game behind!

[@JoshuaGordon]

We're beating this game at roughly the same pace; whenever I'm done for the day, I come here to see you do it better than me.

[@Bakamoichigei]

Thanks to your videos I heard about this game in time to get one of the last 'limited edition' upgrade packs with the physical _TRASH WORLD NEWS_ 'zines and whatnot. (avoiding a repeat of _SHENZHEN I/O_ where I heard about it too late to score that sweet binder!) I was quite pleased to find that the 'zines are, appropriately enough, the same exact format as 2600...of which I just happened to have a 1997 issue to compare it against. ;)

[@Kanakotka]

Been studying japanese for most of this year, knew it'd come in handy. (long story short, the odd mine-like things are "portals" that you link with 2 separate strings of blocks of the type for massive score)

[@playingcasually]

17:10 Just how good is Japanese pattern recognition, if they can read these pixelated kanji in the few seconds before the arcade starts? ファイルをダウンロードするために、連続した４校以上のファイルを組み合わせましょう To download the files, let's combine 4 or more consecutive files. 2つの圧縮爆弾を並べて、同じ色の全てのファイルをダウンロードしましょう！ Let's line up two compression bombs and download all files of the same color!

[@vitorgas1]

casual it isn't "a few seconds before the game start", he clicked on "how to play"

[@playingcasually]

I was imagining it as an arcade, but sure

[@alameachan]

I just noticed that the graphic representation of the EXA changes when the code is faulty.

[@tempname8263]

Same

[@vitorgas1]

It also seems to get "bigger" when it gets more lines of code

[@danielschroder832]

it also gets a cannon when the code contains a kill instruction

[@kg4boj]

I think DJ szyzyg has a new favorate game!

[@zubmit700]

Love this series. I don't understand a lot of it but still interesting.

[@laelienriviere5735]

Always fun to see Scott try his hand at French :D

[@javirebeld]

Scott in your opinion, what game do you think is better: exapunks or shenzhen i/o?

[@TheErilaz]

This reminds me about the Jon Lech Johansen case.

[@justinnamilee]

I'm in love with this game! D: Moar plz!

[@MickyBlutube]

I love yer channel, but good Lord I have no idea what I'm watching right now. Gosh, how I get upset regarding my ignorance . .

[@DavidOfWhitehills]

I think it is a highly evolved form of Mornington Crescent.

[@MickyBlutube]

@@DavidOfWhitehillsOh good Lord, you're just making me feel further useless . . !

[@fogllama]

If only you had a stack with push, pop and peek.

[@twocinc]

Since you don't need to destroy your EXAs for this one, you can just set one of them to broadcast the SSEA code continuously over the global M channel. Then do your copying over the local M channel inside the DISC host. But the way you did it--copying the T value over when replicating--is pretty elegant as well.

[@alandwells]

Well I for one liked this, possibly not as engaging as some other content but I genuinely am craving the next problem to solve.

[@tempname8263]

For some reason I can't see more than half of your EXAPUNKS series in my subscriptions. And at the same time I can see all of the Khan Academy's video upload avalanche. Weird.

[@RazorSkinned86]

Any thoughts on a trillion $$$ Apple Inc? Curious about an insider's perspective.

[@NotoriusBEN1]

haha! i got something over scotty. I'm loving this game by the way. I don't know if its from smashing myself against shenzhen i/o, but understanding the coding logic is easier in this game for me. the registers can hold up values from -9999 to 9999. so to bulk enter numbers into these single number authenticators, copy 4numbers into the X or T register and then use the SWIZ instruction copy 8032 x swiz x 4 #auth swiz x 3 #auth swiz x 2 #auth swiz x 1 #auth

[@twocinc]

That takes 25% more cycles and instructions than just doing them one by one. There's no advantage to doing it. If the registers could accept 6 (or more) digit values, it might be worth it to set up a swiz loop to save instructions (though it would still be more cycles.)

[@donwald3436]

Hey Scott, do you solve these blind or do you have some ideas prepared?

[@NikkyAI]

part 10 ? last one i have seen is part 5.. did all the others get lost or id youtube's sub feed just this trashy ? yep it seems like thats the case.. youtube decided this is not the series for me.. evne though i watched all episodes.. gg

[@DavidTriphon]

Scott, are you skimping on Month of You Know What to be working on these videos all day?

[@ShadowViewsOnly]

So the objective of this task is to replace all SSEC s with SSEA s, right? Too bad I have to watch a video where someone solves the puzzle for me, just because the task is not clearly explained in the game... Also, how does one grab the cubes?

[@Blowfeld20k]

Kinda surprised Scott has not even mention the latest BIG, EVE Online event the Battle for X47L-Q Keepstar.Rooks and Kings have even put a new video out ...... that was about as likely as the 2nd coming.

[@scottmanley]

I’m just not in touch with eve any more dues to lack of time

[@Blowfeld20k]

Yeah i get you scott ... it is a HUGE timesink. I Don't play never have .... just keep up with major events, as its like a ongoing space opera novel in real time :D

[@deadaccount4123]

why are you not verified?

[@PrivateHaggard]

Why do I just have episode 10 in my subscriber feed but not 6 to 9? Wtf

[@FoxDren]

because youtube doesn't like it when people dump multiple eisodes quickly

[@josephneider7332]

I had to come to your main header to see these videos. no idea m8. to be fair its not my interest, but i still think it should have mentioned that you posted something for having subscribed. I dont have the bell enabled.

[@alexblack6415]

Quiet around here in the comments now huh?

[@user-zy7lc6zw1m]

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[@misterx7898]

don't you think 10 episodes in 2 days is a little overboard...? Just checking

[@scottmanley]

I figure I’d get it out of the way

[@misterx7898]

Well, scott, if you don't like it, You shouldn't play it. you shouldn't play a game you don't like on youtube.

[@Slaign]

He's talking about getting it out of the way for the larger part of his audience that comes here for Kerbal and space stuff, not himself. He's dumping the episodes quickly so that people who want to watch can, and the people who don't will only have to "put up" with them in their feed for a few days. He's obviously enjoying the game.

[@ZeroTheHeroGOAT]

I used to love Uplink, Hacknet and even Hacker (c64), and I love the idea of the game but it feels a bit naked and, quite frankly, boring.

[@ShadowViewsOnly]

This is a programming game, not a hacking game.

[@enigman2789]

Hi

[@dewifrancis1299]

Wheres ksp?

[@aellis6692]

Wtf is this lol

[@scottmanley]

It’s a game

[@lardmanfilp2991]

First

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

So, like, gamers use the region unlocking tools that ARE PUBLISHED BY WHOEVER MADE THE SILLY GAME. Screw the T register, linking and grabbing and dog pooping. OH the stench of momma's basement. Like. Test if "F" = Effed Up.

[@fabiog801]

Scott please stop with videogames. For most people older than 12, they are boring and time consuming. We love when you speak to us about astronomy, really! But videogames.... come on!!

[@WolfTronix]

Yes... Please split your content. Space stuff. Gaming stuff. Thanks. :)

[@scottmanley]

I’ve taken polls in this several times and 90% of people don’t want a split.

[@scottmanley]

Suggest watching this if you think that games are just dumb things to distract kids kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3e6Ymiqacl7asU

[@vitorgas1]

There's a lot of people "older than 12" that likes his videogame videos (seriously, do you think the public for a game about coding is 11 year old?) and if you don't like them you can just not watch them and do something better

[@Ergzay]

I enjoy both. His taste in games is good. If he was playing bad games I'd agree with you. Kids couldn't even play this game, or they'd have a very hard time of it.

[@lilpanadol420]

Hello