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RibShark

@RibShark

1 year

Here are some other places you can find me: (Fediverse/Calckey/Mastodon) (Bluesky)

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RibShark

@RibShark

3 years

HOLY SHIT THE SOURCE CODE FOR RAYMAN 2'S ENGINE JUST LEAKED

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A new cheat in the PS2 version of Rayman 3 was discovered today by Droolie! By using the profile name "PSONE", the game will switch to a low-resolution mode and disable texture filtering. For unknown reasons, in the game's internals, this mode is known as "Christian Slater mode".

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so apparently, in certain countries, ubisoft released a version of Rayman 2 that is identical to the normal version of the game, aside from the complete removal of the French language:

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Finally, after years of searching, I have obtained a GBA cart with a Mega Drive/Genesis emulator on it (thanks to Ankos!). I have been wanting to research this for some time after seeing it on YouTube, and it turns out it is far more interesting than I anticipated. 🧵(1/x)

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7 months

Introducing the first beta release of SafeDiscShim, a tool that allows SafeDisc protected games of all versions to run on modern versions of Windows without the driver! See the repository and download the release at !

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2 years

@RaymanForSmash NO THIS IS LEGIT

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Someone found and dumped a Rayman 2 Box Art assets disc, meaning we now have the full PSD, *with layers* of the original Rayman 2 PC Big Box art, alongside EPS and QXP files with all the region dependent assets such as text and age ratings!

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3 years

RAYMAN 2'S PROTECTION WAS NAMED CRAPFILE

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3 years

Like, ALL OF IT, this is like every module

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8 months

I've been working on a tool to be able to run SafeDisc protected games on modern Windows without the blacklisted driver, and I'm happy to say I have been able to get a game running, without any kernel mode driver! Only got SafeDisc v1 so far, but all versions are planned to work.

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1 year

interesting, this is either some internal build of the PC version that runs in widescreen, or it was recorded with Better Rayman 3 which would mean ubisoft have used something I made!

Ubisoft

@Ubisoft

1 year

Did you know? 🎮 In Rayman 3, you can find Tribelles throughout the game that, if you approach them slowly, will give you bonus points.

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Good news! They finally revealed more information about the upcoming Rayman Animated TV show ()! Bad news: this is his design

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@FuturHebdo

2 years

Rayman et les Moldies | Ubisoft présente par Hoho Revon #lecrandapres

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RibShark

@RibShark

3 years

Crash 4 on PC has always online DRM. This is unacceptable, and only ends up harming legitimate consumers.

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@RibShark

3 years

THE EDITOR IS THERE

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3 years

It actually seems to be an early development environment for RRR DS, but like the entire Rayman 2 engine is there

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3 years

I GOT THE EXE WORKING (needs some Microsoft debug DLLs and Windows XP compat mode, graphics being blurry is likely due to a VRAM measuring bug that also exists on the released Rayman 2)

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3 months

There seems to be code for handling 4K resolutions in the new Paper Mario TTYD remake. No idea if this is normal for Switch games or not but I thought it was interesting.

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@RibShark

3 years

There's like tools and help files and everything too

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@RibShark

3 years

oh wow there's music samples in here too, midis and a soundfont

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@RibShark

1 year

One of my longest sought-after Rayman titles finally came up on ebay for a decent price. This is probably the most obscure Rayman game in existence, only coming built-in to 2 phones, and not being emulatable at all. Definitely happy to be able to play this one for the first time.

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@RibShark

3 years

To clarify: this is the source code for the engine, with asset files for an early version of Rayman Raving Rabbids DS. To actually build Rayman 2 out of this, we would need to get the engine to load the compiled asset files from Rayman 2, or (ideally) decompile the asset files.

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@RibShark

8 months

don't feel bad for French though, the Polish release equalizes things by removing all of the original languages *aside* from French.

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@RibShark

3 years

Got it working! Needs the Debug 8MB and Ensata options turned on in DeSmuME

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@RibShark

2 years

This Rayman art in the Ubisoft Connect launcher is in a suspiciously similar pose to a render made by @nibrocrock . (thanks to hogsy for posting the ubisoft connect screenshot and miles for making the connection to the render).

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@RibShark

3 months

Globber, a frogger-clone featuring Globox from the Rayman games, has finally been found by @Lucoshi after years of being lost to time! Game itself is very primitive but it does have Globox being run over and splatting blood everywhere so that's cool.

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@RibShark

3 years

There's a compiled rom, but it crashes on both emulator and on an actual DS with a flashcart :/

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@RibShark

6 months

Not enough people talk about how Old-School Runescape totally plagiarized Rayman 2 in 2018 and then silently updated the songs two years later before anyone made a big deal of it. Songs here are "Meanwhile, in the Prison Ship" from Rayman 2 and "Dance of the Nylocas" from OSRS.

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3 years

omg the music sounds so good

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@RibShark

3 months

Here are some pictures of the PCB; the clone chip is the glob top under the battery. Incredibly impressive that this was possible with such a bare-bones design. (14/14)

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@RibShark

2 years

@ca_dmv_bot they'll accept a plate with "SS" but god forbid someone loves their pet cat

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@RibShark

2 years

@M3KAI5ER44 oh shit what map is this it looks sick

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@RibShark

3 months

At this point I finally realised what was going on. The GBA was indeed just running a small amount of code from RAM in a loop. That code though, was interfacing with the cartridge to receive audio and video from *A GENESIS ON A CHIP IN THE CART*. (10/x)

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@RibShark

3 months

Turns out this wasn't a software emulator at all, but a hardware clone packed into a tiny chip. I have never seen such a tiny chip for this before, but it is the only reasonable explanation. I'm honestly incredibly impressed that they could pull this off. (12/x)

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RibShark

@RibShark

8 months

French was removed from the readme, the installer, and disabled in-game. The CD has a mastering date of one day later than the standard release, so it can't have been a localisation issue. Super curious why this was a thing.

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@RibShark

2 months

huh, the Beyond Good & Evil remaster trailer has a picture of Rayman (in his Rabbids design) in an unknown environment shown in the "Anniversary Gallery" section, with no date attached (where most of the other shown images have a year shown next to them)

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@RibShark

4 years

Time for a new Sintax GBA bootleg release! This time it's Mario Cart (with a C), which suprisingly isn't just another recycle of their 2D platform engine but is in fact a racing game!

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@RibShark

3 months

@LimitedRunGames "collectable box" my brother in christ it's literally just a white label cheapo alibaba item

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@RibShark

3 months

While I was analysing the code, I had the game on in the background when I accidentally jostled the cart a little bit. Suddenly the screen and audio were completely filled with static. I reinserted the cart, and the game immediately started working again. (7/x)

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@RibShark

2 years

@dril ugh like who does he think he is, just sticking a feather in his cap and trying to gaslight us into thinking its actually macaroni

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@RibShark

3 months

The first thing I did was attempt to dump the cart via actual hardware with a link cable. This was partially successful: the resulting ROM booted on emulator and showed a splash screen, but then crashed upon trying to boot the game. (2/x)

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@RibShark

3 months

Unfortunately this means it isn't really possible to experiment with the emulator as I had hoped. Still incredible to see though, and I hope that maybe it might be possible to flash other ROMs on there. (13/14).

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@RibShark

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When the cart was disconnected, the audio+video was just reading off an open bus instead, which caused the static to appear. Meanwhile the game itself continued to run on the cartridge hardware. (11/x)

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@RibShark

3 months

What I found was that the main ROM (internally named GASA_MENU), after showing the splash, actually copied a secondary, multi-boot (link cable boot) ROM (GASA_ENG) into the memory of the GBA and then executed that ROM. (4/x)

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2 years

I mean I get that they probably don't want people selling the original but like... is it really going to cut into profits that much? Is the market for a collection that isn't even complete that high that it will make any difference to their bottom line?

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3 months

I had already expected the cart to have some sort of mapper though, so I went to take a look at the code with a disassembler. (3/x)

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The trouble was, on analysing this second ROM, it seemed to only have around 0x8000 bytes of code. This is far less than would be needed to implement a full blown Genesis emulator. Furthermore, the code seemed to loop infinitely and never return execution back to the cart. (5/x)

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RibShark

@RibShark

1 year

@OutOfContxtDubs as someone who grew up enjoying the UK version of this god I'm so glad we never got the US version

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@RibShark

3 months

So I tried it again, deliberately this time, and found that not only did the game not crash, it actually continued running the entire time the cart was partially disconnected! (9/x)

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This took me by surprise, as usually if the data lines of the cart are disconnected at all the game should completely crash, but instead it seemed to be working as if nothing had happened! (8/x)

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This means that there was no way it could, for instance, be loading a new bank onto the cart to jump back to the code there. At this point I was stumped, I had no idea how this could be working, and I figured there must be something I was missing in the code. (6/x)

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@RibShark

4 months

@ca_dmv_bot2 checks out

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@RibShark

3 years

New discovery! Apparently the Game Boy Color version of Rayman 2 was originally to be titled simply "Rayman Forever" (the final title is Rayman 2 Forever, presumably to avoid confusion with the PC bundle with the same name). Here is a image of the box art before the change!

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@RibShark

2 years

@code_and_beer @Kalyoshika There's a lot of program specific shims. You can use "Compatibility Administrator" in the Windows ADK to view them all, it's really quite something.

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2 years

The Korean version of Rayman 3 on the Xbox is probably the last of the classic Rayman games on console that has yet to be preserved in any way. This was published by Microsoft and likely has a different dub to the Capcom-published PS2 version:

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@RibShark

2 years

@sadtheropod Watched this film again recently and was still as great as I remembered it being. Never see anyone talking about it though, which always surprises me.

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3 years

muting this convo because I miss having readable notifications

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@RibShark

2 years

LOL, the 2010 "DRM-free" rerelease of Sonic Heroes tries to disguise the fact that they just used a cracked version by the scene group "RELOADED", but they just replaced the signature with a bunch of dots rather than actually properly blanking it 😂

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5 years

@artur @frankcifaldi Can I just say: fuck hoarders. This is a piece of gaming history that has now been made impossible for anyone except for this one person to play. Game preservation is more important than how much your collection is worth; buying it to prevent dumping is nothing short of selfish.

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2 years

@eevee Subtly tinker with the algorithm's training data to make it boost things that are known to get on Musk's nerves, make the new training data an A/B test, and enroll Musk's accounts into the test.

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Does anyone know if Ubisoft developed any true 3D games for the Game Boy Advance? Asking because @RayCarrot discovered that there is code for a full 3D renderer in Rayman 3 GBA, but the only place it's used is this moving wheel in the credits screen.

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@RibShark

4 years

The source code for Windows XP SP1 leaked yesterday and... no one is talking about it? Am I wrong to think that this is newsworthy?

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@RibShark

4 years

Finally got one of my most wanted Rayman items, the Rayman 3 promotional Rubik's Cube! Apparently this was only ever given away with some competitions on RaymanZone. Currently debating whether to unseal it or not.

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@RibShark

3 months

why the fuck is the VMWare installer using the Rayman Raving Rabbids font on my pc for its EULA???

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@RibShark

2 years

this is worth noting. Still, incredibly wasteful and I can't imagine many people would be comfortable doing it.

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@RibShark I believe it's Bethesda enforcing these conditions, not LRG. Bethesda are also responsible for the problem in the first place with their over-integrated online DRM. The ire should probably be directed in their direction.

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4 years

Dumped another Sintax GBA bootleg, Crash Advance IV!

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@RibShark

1 year

So the new Zelda game has an issue on Ryujinx where it runs at 20fps for a lot of people until they reboot their PC. Immediately I remembered older games that also had such issues, and put @__silent_ 's wonderful UptimeFaker to work!

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@RibShark

8 months

@OneFordyBoiv2 Unfortunately no, so far this has been seen on a German release and a release bought in (but with unknown origins) Sweden.

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@RibShark

4 years

@GreatGonzales just bought this, now i just need to make a site explaining all the anti-consumer practices Nintendo does.

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5 months

Working on a new game fix, hopefully will be ready soon! Tonic Trouble is pretty notorious for its compatibility issues and CD requirements so I decided to fix it properly.

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3 years

@BackKao it's not an error, Kao is just a trans icon

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@RibShark

7 months

@NightMargin unironically this. It's sad that people are afraid to communicate with each other. When I was growing up there were plenty of people older than me who I looked up to and who I got a lot out of talking to. people should focus on whether or not anything actually bad is going on

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@ca_dmv_bot2 ah yes, "cat" is the bad word here

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3 years

Prototype Rayman 3 cutscenes - featuring his Rayman 2 model (thanks Droolie for the YouTube upload!)

Rayman 3 PS2 Prototype (2002/05/17) - Videos

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@RibShark

2 years

@KinoFabino oh my god it's Joe Hoops

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@gosokkyu

3 years

today's discovery: Piko owns Charles Barkley Shut Up and Jam! 1&2 and has reissued them as "Hoops Shut Up and Jam!"—Barkley's now "Joe Hoops" & every digitised image of Barkley has received a sloppy face-swap using this one photo of some random dude from shutterstock or whatever

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@LeSharkoiste @TheBobPony

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5 years

@_Lizstar_ Rayman 3 has a trick called "Gate Skip Skip", because it skips the previous skip we had found.

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@RibShark

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Does anyone have the "Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Community Preview" archived! I'm specifically looking for the community preview version, which comes with Windows Mobile 2003 images rather than WM5. Trying to emulate an obscure Rayman version (Rayman Ultimate).

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@RibShark

4 years

mario cart on the gba sp is my favourite in the series

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@RibShark

2 years

@RaymanFacts Personally I prefer standing on the front of the box, the sides are too thin to be comfortable

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@RibShark

4 years

Michel Ancel has retired from making video games: "After more than 30 years, I’ve decided to stop working on video games and fully focus on my second passion : Wild Life"

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@RibShark

2 years

The skin tone above the yellow of Rayman's shoes implies he has legs.

Ubisoft

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Can you guess who they are?

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@MarioBrothBlog Happens on anything that isn't the DS Phat.

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Dumped another Sintax GBA bootleg! This time it's Disney Cart (though the title screen says Disney Speed), which is another racing game like the previously dumped Mario Cart. Download at !

Disney Cart (Disney Speed) (Unl) (Eng) [YJ Restored] : Sintax : Free Download, Borrow, and Stream...

Disney Cart (known as Disney Speed on the title screen) is an unlicensed racing game created by Sintax for the GBA.This cart, like most by Sintax, is heavily...

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RibShark

@RibShark

1 year

Just received a DMCA claim from a ubisoft employee (strangely a game tester) for the Rayman 4 leak thread I made (on one specific image). I have removed the thread to avoid risking suspension if they decide to flag the other tweets in that thread as well.

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@RibShark

2 years

Since this thread popped off I want to clarify, I don't really care all that much, they would have likely destroyed the games on returns anyway. All I really wanted to do was to bring attention to the flash narrative of LRG being preservation focused.

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@RibShark

3 years

so we may have just found (thanks to Miss-Cerasus on Discord for bring this to our attention) a lost unreleased Rayman game for the PS1 named "Rayman 2: Back to School". The game has an IGN page, & is listed on numerous PS1 release date catalogs and magazines from back in the day

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What happened to will happen to if nothing changes, the situation is incredibly similar except in this case there would be no full archive of the data

ROMhacking.net News

Classic video game modifications, fan translations, homebrew, utilities, and learning resources.

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2 years

To whoever needs to hear this (I know I do sometimes): having "bad" thoughts or feelings does not make you an inherently bad person. All that matters is that you are able to recognise what actions may be harmful, and avoid them.

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3 years

@FallGuysGame somehow it's even more broken for me

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@Reecee_yt yeah this was a thing at some nintendo event a while back, someone had made a fake "Twilight Princess 3D" game and a bunch of people got it through streetpass and thought it was a leak

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oh my god it's like that isEven() meme where they just do if(i == 0 || i == 2 || i == 4) etc except this is actually real source code from Rayman 2 to "calculate" if a number is a power of two

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