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>> Святослав 101620 Pico's School Goth kids have shot up your school and it's up to Pico to save the day! I made this game in 1999, before I grew out of my edgy teen phase... or did I? It was posted on Newgrounds before the Portal system launched in 2000; I eventually uploaded it to the Portal in 2006 so people could vote on it and leave reviews. This story has since been re-told with Pico's School: Love Conquers All. Pico was made in Flash 3, before the introduction of variables (or just about any code, for that matter). To simulate stored data, I weaved a complex web of movie clips that gave orders to the main game. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of frame labels, so all the commands referred to frame numbers, making things difficult to edit afterwards. [IMG] Pico's School.swf (1.97 MiB) 550x350, Uncompressed. 23 frames, 24 fps (00:01). Ver8, AS1/AS2. Network access: Text: Yes. Bitmaps: Yes. Audio: Yes. Video: [find in archive]

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>> Anon 83286 There are several versions of Pico's School. This is the one currently up on https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/3 10349 and I'm not sure if it's on swfchan yet. There may have been a minor tweak in the past two years. Or the filesize is just different somehow. The earliest version was made in 1999 and have less audio bitrate than this one. That swf file was just 375 KiB or 379 KiB (two old releases because there was some text changes). I think the 375 KiB version is the oldest because there's no play button in the beginning and there's some text with a spelling error saying "The remainding soundtrack is by HIVE... I pray that he doesn't mind." This new version (from 2016) has a lot higher bitrate and different music without copyright infringement. In the original it was "Ultrasonic Sound" by Hive and in this new version the music was custom made by Johnny Guy (aka Real Faction). Found this interview with him: https://youtu.be/Rbfm6Y70Xw0 Soundtrack: https://thatjohnnyguy.bandcamp.com/album /picos-school-original-soundtrack Listening to the original song by Hive can be quite nostalgic: https://hive.bandcamp.com/track/ultrason ic-sound [IMG] Pico's School.swf (1.97 MiB) 550x350, Uncompressed. 23 frames, 24 fps (00:01). Ver8, AS1/AS2. Network access: Text: Yes. Bitmaps: Yes. Audio: Yes. Video: [find in archive]
>> Anon 83287 Something had indeed changed inside the flash: 2018 version: http://swfchan.com/44/215346/?310349_pic o_20060910.swf This version: http://swfchan.com/48/239391/?Pico%27s+S chool.swf Not sure exactly what, something minor no doubt.
>> Anon 83288 If anybody is wondering what "Kein mehrheit für die mitleid!" means it's a reference to the German band "KMFDM". From some random places online: >The name is an initialism for the nonsensical and grammatically incorrect German phrase "Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid", which literally translates as "no majority for the pity" but is typically given the loose translation of "no pity for the majority" or "no mercy for the masses". >The most common account of the origin of the name involves frontman Sascha Konietzko cutting headlines from German newspapers and shuffling around the words to produce the now infamous expression. The name was shortened to "KMFDM" in 1985 in order to simplify the long phrase. >When the band first toured the US in 1989-1990, band members and their associates began using alternate English meanings for their name to tease journalists who did not understand German. The most prominent and most widely repeated was "Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode". >Confusion often arises regarding the correct German expansion of the acronym, primarily stemming from the aforementioned language issues. In German, nouns possess genders that require proper declension of any preceding articles or adjectives. In the true phrase, the articles preceding the nouns "Mehrheit" and "Mitleid" are inflected for the wrong gender. However, swapping the two nouns yields the grammatically correct "Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit", which additionally translates directly as "no pity for the majority". Adding to the confusion is the fact that this "correct" phrase appears within the lyrics to the song "Megalomaniac", which Konietzko revealed was done in order to confuse people who were always telling the band their name was wrong. >The name has more rumored meanings than they have hit songs, but officially it's German, and it means "Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid." In English that translates to "No Pity for the Majority." It's a sort of anti-society protest thing, you see. The music that plays in the original Pico's School flash (not the version I posted today) when the kid at the start gets out of his chair is "Godlike" by KMFDM: https://youtu.be/gPuTqmcs16E
>> Anon 83332 nice post some real historian shit OP