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How strange. The link above from 2 years ago, spo...

2012-01-05T21:43:21.621-08:00

How strange. The link above from 2 years ago, sporeswap.appspot.com, now redirects to the one I gave.

Well, it doesn't seem like anybody has done much on figuring out the workings of Spore in the last 3 years. I guess I came late to the party. :)

@Jerry W Barrington Actually, sporedecoder.appspo...

2012-01-03T21:23:17.184-08:00

@Jerry W Barrington
Actually, sporedecoder.appspot.com copied MY post, without even contacting me first. You can see in their last paragraph that they accidentally copied my name. I wasn't aware of that site till today!
wtf ...

It's been quite a while since this post got an...

2012-01-03T19:59:21.667-08:00

It's been quite a while since this post got any comments, but what the heck:

Rouli copied this post to sporedecoder.appspot.com and added some postscripts.

It is noted that a blank image always works.
It is ambiguously stated whether using another Spore-created image is reliable.
It is clear that any other image is unreliable.

So my questions:
1a. Is using other Spore-created images reliable?
1b. If not, how often do they fail?
2. And how often do user-supplied images fail?

If either failure rate is about 50%, that would seem to indicate a simple parity check.

Now, the data in the LSB is calculated from the rest of the image plus the XML DNA info. We know this part works, and comes after the main image is generated, so it can't be changing the image to include the LSBs' parity.

I took 4 of my own recent creations, plus 4 recent creations downloaded thru Sporistics.com. After slicing and dicing, the end result was that no single bitplane had the same parity in all 8 files. Adding up *all* the bits other than the LSBs, or all bits other than the bottom 3 LSBs, still no parity in common. No single channel's bits (excluding the LSBs).

In short, if it's a parity check, I don't know what bits are going in...

I want to make some mosaics to place around my hou...

2011-10-15T11:29:21.428-07:00

I want to make some mosaics to place around my house beacuse I really like how it looks. I don't mind if the code is messy, maybe we can make it better.

Hi Eduardo, It's really an ensemble of code-bi...

2011-10-13T11:53:31.648-07:00

Hi Eduardo,
It's really an ensemble of code-bits, one for scanning the magnets, another for composing the mosaic. What are you trying to do?

Can you share your code? I would like to see it an...

2011-10-13T11:40:19.552-07:00

Can you share your code? I would like to see it and maybe make some mosaics myself

Cute & funny idea. In our neck of the woods...

2011-09-16T08:13:49.535-07:00

Cute & funny idea.

In our neck of the woods, all the magnets are from law firms... lawyers lawyers lawyers... & a pizza parlor or two.

(Also liked your Chimp-is-Darwin photo generator. A picture is worth a thousand words.)

Spore needs to be more secured with the email of i...

2011-04-27T02:27:52.517-07:00

Spore needs to be more secured with the email of its users.

yeah, it was a cutterpede, probably this model: ht...

2011-04-23T14:53:28.879-07:00

yeah, it was a cutterpede, probably this model:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=cutterpede&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=4161544703684989124&sa=X&ei=GkmzTcqxMMOZOtPg2J8J&ved=0CB8Q8gIwAA#

however, I wasn't very satisfied with it. It was very hard for me to cut pieces of the same dimensions, probably because it was made for paper, not for magnets.

Can you describe the "toy guillotine" yo...

2011-04-23T14:20:23.579-07:00

Can you describe the "toy guillotine" you used in more detail? I think I could use something similar on a project of mine...

Awesome :) And funny as always.

2010-11-24T12:51:52.022-08:00

Awesome :)
And funny as always.

Cool!!! I liked step 5... Maybe writing numbers o...

2010-10-11T03:50:50.388-07:00

Cool!!!
I liked step 5... Maybe writing numbers on the back of the tiles would have helped.

Who is Tamar ?

2010-09-29T08:46:53.724-07:00

Who is Tamar ?

http://sporeswap.appspot.com/scc.txt

2010-05-19T17:25:57.478-07:00

http://sporeswap.appspot.com/scc.txt

Can someone PLEASE re-upload the python script. I...

2010-05-19T07:06:39.472-07:00

Can someone PLEASE re-upload the python script. I've been searching for it for hours...

First of all: Thank you! Second: PNGs which were ...

2010-04-02T03:21:16.463-07:00

First of all: Thank you!

Second: PNGs which were created in Patchlevel 1.03 and which are just copied into "MyCreation" folder are recognized as "existing" ("you have 190 creatures") but in GA (Patchlevel 1.04) are not shown ("no creatures in this folder") and can not be used, therefore.

Third: please, a copy of the python script. I will see what I can do to make it work again.

Regards ...

http://sporeswap.appspot.com If spore won't re...

2010-02-16T12:53:55.434-08:00

http://sporeswap.appspot.com
If spore won't recognize the result (happens ONLY with pictures you draw yourself and never with spore images), add few extra pixels before encoding. Looks like it's checking for parity (3 LSB's?) of the original image.

I just want to say thank for illustrating how the ...

2009-11-03T03:48:30.109-08:00

I just want to say thank for illustrating how the Spore's .png format work. This is really broadening my knowledge. Anyway, if you have time, take a visit to my Free Games website.

Spore is awesome the game lets you travel the gala...

2009-11-02T22:33:32.028-08:00

Spore is awesome the game lets you travel the galaxy. There are over 500,000 unique planets to explore! That's just unbelievable! Also you can create any type of creature and all the creatures you run into are from other players. No other game can claim this.. The best part of this game is the space phase, you could spend a lifetime exploring all the planets and meeting new creatures.. This game is limitless, there is no other game that comes close to this one.
Anyway, if you have time, take a visit to my Download Games website.

Just a note to the author, I have started on Galac...

2009-09-17T10:32:53.292-07:00

Just a note to the author, I have started on Galactic Adventures. I think that this article should get an update with information on the mission files. The original python program from sa doesn't even want to touch the adventure files. It hangs at the zlib decompression from what I can see. Get back with me, I am looking up as much info as I can.

I found the original code from SA lurking in a hid...

2009-09-01T13:17:30.716-07:00

I found the original code from SA lurking in a hidden folder in my documents (hmmm, I wonder how it got there?). I think its a bit long to post the full code in a comment with it being 597 lines. I can email it to whoever requests it from me through email.

I'm with these guys. Anybody still have a copy...

2009-07-17T01:03:41.300-07:00

I'm with these guys.
Anybody still have a copy? Or, could anyone with a Something Awful subscription help us out?

Hi, Could you please repost the python scrypt? Th...

2009-07-15T16:15:46.253-07:00

Hi,

Could you please repost the python scrypt? The link is dead. Thanks !

I really don't like necroposting, but I see no...

2009-07-01T15:21:11.498-07:00

I really don't like necroposting, but I see no other way to get the info I need. Do you, by any chance, happen to have the python script for decoding Spore .png files anywhere? The link you posted is now dead, and Google is no help -.- Anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

~ Michael

Testing 1,2,3

2009-02-16T12:00:00.000-08:00

Testing 1,2,3