{
  "milestone": null,
  "body": "Need a way to extract cutscene information.  If it proves difficult I can always eyeball it.  But I might be able to record pixel positions and sprite frames of each actor using mame debugger's trace and tracelog commands.",
  "user": {
    "login": "shaunew",
    "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png",
    "gravatar_id": "0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639",
    "id": 116838,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/shaunew"
  },
  "closed_at": null,
  "created_at": "2012-07-31T16:00:51Z",
  "comments": 4,
  "assignee": null,
  "closed_by": null,
  "title": "Cutscenes",
  "number": 40,
  "state": "open",
  "pull_request": {
    "patch_url": null,
    "diff_url": null,
    "html_url": null
  },
  "html_url": "https://github.com/shaunew/Pac-Man/issues/40",
  "updated_at": "2012-09-13T06:48:34Z",
  "id": 5946847,
  "labels": [

  ],
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/shaunew/Pac-Man/issues/40"
}
[
  {
    "body": "Cutscene code for Ms. Pac-Man starts out at address 8456 in [Bart Grantham's annotated disassembly](http://www.bartgrantham.com/_projects/mspacman/16K-memblock.asm).",
    "user": {
      "login": "shaunew",
      "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png",
      "gravatar_id": "0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639",
      "id": 116838,
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/shaunew"
    },
    "created_at": "2012-09-06T04:32:20Z",
    "updated_at": "2012-09-06T04:32:20Z",
    "id": 8322247,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/shaunew/Pac-Man/issues/comments/8322247"
  },
  {
    "body": "I'm not very patient with studying disassembly, so I opted to do a tedious but easy task of recording video and studying the frames.\n\nMAME seems to be able to record all 60 frames per second of video using an MNG format.  So I recorded six cutscenes from Pac-Man/Ms.Pac-Man into their MNG files and dumped the PNG frames using `convert movie.mng %03d.png`.  I'm now slowly going through and piecing together actor speeds and positions.",
    "user": {
      "login": "shaunew",
      "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png",
      "gravatar_id": "0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639",
      "id": 116838,
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/shaunew"
    },
    "created_at": "2012-09-11T14:35:06Z",
    "updated_at": "2012-09-11T14:36:42Z",
    "id": 8461821,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/shaunew/Pac-Man/issues/comments/8461821"
  },
  {
    "body": "The first pac-man cutscene is implemented.  The actor speeds are accurate, but the starting positions are estimated at the moment.",
    "user": {
      "login": "shaunew",
      "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png",
      "gravatar_id": "0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639",
      "id": 116838,
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/shaunew"
    },
    "created_at": "2012-09-12T07:26:29Z",
    "updated_at": "2012-09-12T07:26:29Z",
    "id": 8484426,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/shaunew/Pac-Man/issues/comments/8484426"
  },
  {
    "body": "Pac-Man scene 1: Giant pac-man is drawn correctly now, and the starting positions are calculated accurately from the original scene.",
    "user": {
      "login": "shaunew",
      "avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-user-420.png",
      "gravatar_id": "0bdd2d6d5051b610660baf5c22016639",
      "id": 116838,
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/shaunew"
    },
    "created_at": "2012-09-13T06:48:34Z",
    "updated_at": "2012-09-13T06:48:34Z",
    "id": 8519628,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/shaunew/Pac-Man/issues/comments/8519628"
  }
]
