something fishy about "kitten canno

[NickTravers]

Im sure everyone has seen kitten cannon on the front page. its a good game. People have also likened it to a japanese game and thougth that he ripped it off. I came across something fishy. I opened up the .swf file that I got from newgrounds with notepad and got the typical gibberish that you get from opening random crap with notepad. However, the gibberish was in all japanese characters. This isn't true of most flash works, usually theyre in english characters with english gibberish ascii characters thrown in. Does anyone else find this a bit fishy?

[Miles]

You could be totaly bullshiting this entire story, so no, there is nothing fishy about it.

[Indian-Wrestler]

Japanese Mafia are coming after you, you learned there secret and they are going to put a bullet up your ass!

[KingOfTheKill]

Mmm. . . yes. . . quite.

[That-Is-Bull]

Did you recently install a Japanese character viewer? Those questionmarks are usually Japanese letters, but you can't see them without a certain thing...

I think anyway...

[NickTravers]

if you open an swf with notpad, it will be gibberish. if you remember the Apple IIe that your schools might have had if your old enough to remember, if you yanked a disk out of it while it was reading from it, you would get these gibberish cobalt characters. This is simmilar to the shit you get from an swf with notpad. Im just saying that maybe the swf ahs a japanese origin and really is ripped off. PLus i think its kinda interesting if an american version of flash in english is encoding in japanese.

[BurstStudio]

That's jibberish. Nothing more. SWF files aren't meant to be opened in Notepad. It tries to read the raw data as text, but it can't. It gets character codes that aren't in the character set for most fonts. Most people should see some weird characters, a lot of line breaks, and a lot of rectangular boxes. For people that have extra character sets installed for that font (chinese, japanese, korean, and even arabic) will see those characters. You'll see tht if you open ANY flash file in notepad. I hate that people are giving me such extreme criticism over this and this is the biggest chunk of bullshit that I've heard yet.

[Cronoze]

i dont see anything fish

[GoldenToe]

At 4/10/05 10:12 PM, Cronoze wrote: i dont see anything fish

Now I'm hungry.

[BurstStudio]

This is not japanese. These are accented characters, punctuation, and other symbols. Random gibberish created by notepad trying to read the SWF as if it were text.

[Nail]

it's a game engine you moron

i see 18 post.....i wonder why

[mystro]

Care bear

[DarkArchon]

At 4/10/05 10:18 PM, -Nail- wrote: it's a game engine you moron

Thank you.

[Fendi]

something does sound fishy.....too fishy......., oh wait, thats just my mom cooking fish. :)

[NickTravers]

At 4/10/05 10:16 PM, BurstFilms wrote: This is not japanese. These are accented characters, punctuation, and other symbols. Random gibberish created by notepad trying to read the SWF as if it were text.

I understand all of that, trust me I know how this shit works. I simply notice how the gibberish in kitten cannon, at least on my computer, was CLEARLY japanese characters. It differed from every other swf I looked at in comparison.

[TigerMaiden]

Screen shot?

[NickTravers]

sure, heres a comparison between it and another game. The fact that its a game engine has NOTHING to do with it.
the comparison is right here .

[Pillullis]

At 4/10/05 11:28 PM, NickTravers wrote: sure, heres a comparison between it and another game. The fact that its a game engine has NOTHING to do with it.
the comparison is right here .

You have a Pope pic on your desktop!

[NickTravers]

i do. The full filename of that is Angry pope

[Smurf-Slayer]

At 4/10/05 11:31 PM, Pillullis wrote: You have a Pope pic on your desktop!

well aren't you observant

[NickTravers]

i mean maybe its nothing and its just random, but its a valid observation of roman character gibberish and japanese character jibberish

[AmazeKing]

japanese, what are those. are they slang for aliens. i'm not too sure. maybe your an alien. but why were you doing that anyway

[Zune]

he might have made the game with the japanese version of flash mx. however strange that might sound.

[Wardawn]

At 4/10/05 09:25 PM, _IAMCanadian_ wrote: Mmm. . . yes. . . quite.

Crazy game.