Totally meaningless finding on NCAA 2005 for PS2

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:46 pm

Cannot recognize scores of more than 255 points.

That's the result of some research on being in a bad mood and really wanting to whack someone. Thanks to Florida International for participating in my little project.

bruejam · Post by **bruejam** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:55 pm

That's awesome... I played the other night and beat Ball State 98-17. I always play with 5 minute quarters.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:12 pm

I don't think I've ever scored more than 77 in 5:00 quarters, myself. 98 is impressive!

255 you must've had longer quarters and easy difficulty, no?

Metz · Post by **Metz** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:31 pm

255 is an EA standard. For NBA Live games, I've never been able to get over 255. In Triple Play all the stats for players (HR, RBIs, etc.) stop at 255. For some reason every game they make has that as the max number. I couldn't find anything online about why but I did notice a few people who work for them have the number 255 for the 3 digits of their phone numbers after the area code. Maybe all the programmers are the 255 people and just decided that was a good number to stop things at.

rc_ziggy84 · Post by **rc_ziggy84** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:01 pm

I bet it has something to do with memory. 256 would be 2 to the 8th power. I bet they only have 8 bits allowed for score and there for limits the score from 2 to the 0 to 2 to 7th, plus some representation for zero.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:30 am

rc_ziggy84 wrote:I bet it has something to do with memory. 256 would be 2 to the 8th power. I bet they only have 8 bits allowed for score and there for limits the score from 2 to the 0 to 2 to 7th, plus some representation for zero.

Bingo. There are eight bits in a byte, meaning one byte can store 256 values, like this:

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  0 = 00000000
  1 = 00000001
  2 = 00000010
   ...
254 = 11111110
255 = 11111111

I like to think of bytes in terms of text. In a standard .txt file, each letter is one byte.

If you open a Microsoft Word document, type "Bowling Green," save it as a .txt file, close it, then look at the document in the file menu, you will see it contains 13 bytes. (The space counts as a byte).

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:48 pm

rc_ziggy84 wrote:I bet it has something to do with memory. 256 would be 2 to the 8th power. I bet they only have 8 bits allowed for score and there for limits the score from 2 to the 0 to 2 to 7th, plus some representation for zero.

Damn you guys! I was hoping I could come on in here and answer that question, thereby actually USING my BGSU CS degree!

pardonfan · Post by **pardonfan** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:58 pm

Sorry, but you need to get a life if you took the time to score 255 points in a playstation game.

Metz · Post by **Metz** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:55 pm

pardonfan wrote:Sorry, but you need to get a life if you took the time to score 255 points in a playstation game.

I disagree and only because I have accomplished the 255 score many times! Maybe the people with no lives are the ones talking about binary coding

(Does knowing what binary coding is make me someone with no life? If so, I take back my previous statements

)

rc_ziggy84 · Post by **rc_ziggy84** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:01 pm

I gotta put that OU education to use somehow... Hamm you were a CS major?

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:40 am

rc_ziggy84 wrote:I gotta put that OU education to use somehow... Hamm you were a CS major?

yup

Graduated in '02 with a CS degree. Work in the IT department of a medical equipment company in Toledo. Its a good gig until we decided to roll out a new billing software and I've been here all freaking weekend...which is why I'm on here right now. It is intensely difficult to be even remotely productive at 8:30 AM on a Sunday.