google has totally failed me on this one, I am ashamed

[luciazephyr]

OKAY, VERY WEIRD GAMING QUESTION THAT I NEED ANSWERED FOR A FIC

In old RPGs, there was a very common max stat for ATK, DEF, INT, et cetera, right? Something to do with it being the biggest integer the engine could recognize or something.

It was 266, wasn't it? Or something like that?

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

-Lucy

Comments

[thene]

I think you're looking for 255. 256 is 2^10 so 255 is the biggest binary number you can get with....howeverthehellmany digits it is.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

YES THAT'S IT, THANK YOU.

I've been scoring old NES FF GameFAQs trying to find that. Thankyousomuch.

[thene]

Except for the bit where I can't count in my head and so miss the obvious - 256 is 2^9 and we're talking eight-bit so 255 aka 11111111 is the largest possible number. /fails at math, like a boss

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Even trying to understand binary hurts my head. Maths are my kryptonite.

Finally added to the fic again, yey. The 255 thing might not even come into play, but I wanted to know it, just in case.

[thene]

:O yesss. I also hope that means you're feeling a bit calmer now in general <3 Nerdy details are love.

I cannot think and need to go to sleep RIGHT THIS MINUTE NO REALLY but I will be all over that asap.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Well... as much as I can be. Things are either gonna be fine or they're not. Won't know for a another week or so. vOv I'm better though, yeah.


ffff, same here, I have work, aaaaaah. :goes to bed oh god:

[thene]

omg I love this fic and I left another few notes at the top <3

[silver11016.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was 255. It was the max stat for Pokemon for the longest time too. Might still be, come to think of it.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

ffff, that's right, why didn't I remember it from that? D8