I recently got an alert from IRD saying I have some “debt” I need to pay. My first thought was odd since for the 2023-2024 FY I have just been working as a casual employee since I have gone back to Uni. After looking through my Income summary, it turns out this debt is from 2022-2023. At this point I realised exactly what was going on.
In 2022 I was employed fulltime by a company, but towards the end of the year they stopped paying their employees including me. However, the company kept “filing” salaries (as in the IRD records that we were getting paid even though we weren’t, and I can see it in my income tax records, too). I left at the end of that year but they kept “filing” my salary until Feb 2023 (I don’t know why).
When income taxes were assessed last year, IRD said I owed them money. I disputed this and explained the situation. They simply said the debt will remain in my account and I will have to go to the Employment Relations Authority. Now, the company I worked in has been put into liquidation. In fact, it was IRD that filed for its liquidation. I pointed this out to IRD last year (when the liquidation process was just beginning) but it led to nothing. The debt remained.
What are my options here? I’m a poor student who doesn’t have an extra $400. It stings twice because I would be paying tax on income I did not receive in the first place.

Hello everyone!
Rando'knights is a figurine collection game. You get money, buy figurines, expose your teasures, get more money. You can then upgrade/modify your figurines to create unique sets, worth even more! It's all about RNG and Collection so I think some of you may enjoy it!
I talked about it in this subreddit last year and got a lot of feedback and suggestions, so thank you very much! Because of that, I made a lot of changes and here is a summary:

• A new tutorial system to help players discover the game little by little
• New offline and idle features to collect figurines while doing something else
• Removed Advertisement! Now game can be played for free with 95% of content unlocked, a premium purchase to unlock everything, and more in-app purchases to buy tokens (pay to fast, not recommended for standard game experience)
• New game mechanic to get more and more tokens, daily
• New late game feature: figurine can have reverse parts (Color change), can you make a full reverse figurine?
• New figurine sets and pets, to collect even more!
• New filter system, to create and save custom filter settings and use them in different scenes
• And lot of quality of life and bug fixes!

For those who want to see some ingame footage, here is a trailer of the game:
Trailer of the game
Finally, the download links:
Google Play
App Store
I hope you'll enjoy the game and don't hesitate to give some feedback !

Hello everyone!
Rando'knights is a figurine collection game. You get money, buy figurines, expose your teasures, get more money. You can then upgrade/modify your figurines to create unique sets, worth even more! It's all about RNG and Collection so I think some of you may enjoy it!
I talked about it in this subreddit last year and got a lot of feedback and suggestions, so thank you very much! Because of that, I made a lot of changes and here is a summary:

• A new tutorial system to help players discover the game little by little
• New offline and idle features to collect figurines while doing something else
• Removed Advertisement! Now game can be played for free with 95% of content unlocked, a premium purchase to unlock everything, and more in-app purchases to buy tokens (pay to fast, not recommended for standard game experience)
• New game mechanic to get more and more tokens, daily
• New late game feature: figurine can have reverse parts (Color change), can you make a full reverse figurine?
• New figurine sets and pets, to collect even more!
• New filter system, to create and save custom filter settings and use them in different scenes
• And lot of quality of life and bug fixes!

For those who want to see some ingame footage, here is a trailer of the game:
Trailer of the game
Finally, the download links:
Google Play
App Store
I hope you'll enjoy the game and don't hesitate to give some feedback !

I've been eager to reach this point; when I can say that I have met my original goals when I started working with this firmware approx 2 weeks ago. Customizable controls, savegames, no memory limitations save for the cost in performance. A slew of other features I couldn't help but implement along the way too. v0.5 is now live on m5burner.
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I've spent the time avoiding the user interface work I finally did yesterday, instead optimizing the rendering and memory subsystem to get more than twice the performance of my last announced release(v0.48). Super Mario Land 2 and Donkey Kong Land show more than a 100% improvement in frame rates (17fps -> 53fps in the overworld for super mario land 2)
The next steps planned:
Audio
Save States
Some more options; custom palette, performance related things
debug w/ Pokemon, figure out why it restarts the firmware
about information screen crediting Matteo Forlani for concept implementation; any one else who ends up contributing.
And in the would be nice category:
Wifi link-cable; I doubt it would get much use but the hooks for it all appear to be present in peanut_gb.
Custom borders (I wont sacrifice ram for this, but I could stream it from the sdcard, it is not redrawn during normal gameplay)
Any other ideas? If there are any pixel artist out there, there is room in the ROM for a cardputer themed border and I'm more than willing to entertain submissions in that area as well, with full credit of course going to the author(s).
Changelog since I started:
20.05.2024:v0.5
* added bottom menu bar with instructions to the main rom selection menu, pres ESC or ' key (same thing) to enter the settings menu either from the main menu or while playing a game
* added options menu, can be entered from the menu or from within a game; displays the 8 main controls with their current setting, saves settings when closed
* added restore defaults for config menu
* settings are saved to gbconfig.dat; delete this if you are having any issues
19.05.2024:v0.492
* Reimplemented memory subsystem to use progressive partial page seeking/pruning; the original memory management code was the first I had typed in 14 years; after some thought I devised something much more suitable for a real time environment. This resulted in the average page seek time being much lower, and distributes maintenance of the paging system across successive calls. The results are the largest improvement to speed to date. Over double the frame rates from before; less stutter, smoother page transitions in memory. Donkey Kong Land averages around 45fps now; Super Mario land 2 gets an average 53fps on the overworld.
18.05.2024:v0.491
* Reduced rendering workload 6.25% by modifying peanut_gb to inherently skip lines that aren't visible due to scaling.
This prevents the engine from having to process the layer and sprite data for these lines all together. Why 6.25%? because 9 lines are skipped which is 6.25% of the lines that were rendered previously.
17.05.2024:v0.49
* Refactored graphics code; ~120,000 less operations a frame
* Scrolling behaviour and screen content differences no longer effect rendering performance Titles such as final fantasy or even super mario land 2 show a huge improvement in overworld movement speed.
17.05.2024: v0.483 Pushing this now as a BUG FIX RELEASE
* Fixed bug in main menu causing selection to only move upward; you can now navigate properly again.
* added FPS display while Fn button is held, causes slow down which is subtracted from the FPS display. This is so I can evaluate performance improvements more than anything else, but it doesn't hurt to have so I'm leaving it in.
* new borders are on hold while I make decisions about the internal format (leaning towards argb1555,presently 565)
16.05.2024: v0.482
* Added Analogue Pocket 12color palette category with 44 palettes
* Automatic 12color(AP) palettes mapped as per Analogue Pocket suggested mappings for:
Mario 1/2/Wario Land/Balloon Kid/F1 Race/Tetris
* added Cottage Daytime SGB border
* Fixed 12colours not being assigned until palette select bug
* regularly mapped controller up/down/a now functions in addition to arrow/enter keys in main menu to allow a single hand posture for the entire interface if desired.
15.05.2024: v0.481
* proper gameboy startup sequence, may help compatibility with some games.
* Message boxes now will display any emulation errors reported by peanut_gb
* Attempts to access ROM address outside of the available cartridge ROM will display an appropriate message
14.05.2024 v0.48 Added 12 colour mode, with the 12 palettes the game boy colour could apply to old game boy games as the first of this mode, but more to come in this area.
*Super gameboy support added for screen borders with gameboy skin set as default, followed by 1 (for now) of the official borders from the hardware itself. Activate by holding Fn and pressing '[' and cycle borders by holding Fn and pressing ']'. Because these are the same keys used for other visual modifications, I hope using the combination of Fn and these keys is intuitive.
* Super gameboy palette support added for balloon kid, the legend of zelda links awakening and kirbys pinball land
* Various other small tweaks you probably wont notice.
12.06.2025 V0.47 Added first iteration of Super Gameboy Mode with all 32 official palettes that were included with the original hardware. Nintendo included a table on the device to map certain games to certain palettes, and that functionality is partially implemented. Mario 1/2/Wario Land, F1 Racer and Tetris all autodetect and assign their colour scheme. This mode can be toggled on and off at any time during play with the '[' button, and the current cycle palette button will cycle through the 32 included palettes. Games with defined profiles with start with that palette selected automatically when Super Gameboy Mode is engaged for the first time each session.
*Lots of user interface changes; message boxes will appear to describe your palette selections, among other things - no console style debug remains in normal operation.
*Another 4k of memory allocated to ROM storage, may smooth out some edge cases of stuttering.
*Improved readability in the main menu; and made highlighted selection more apparent.
*Added smooth transitions to splash screen.
*Disabled unused (for the moment) configuration file
11,05.2024:: 0.44 squished a bug, added palette control, press ']' to cycle between presets.
b/w, gameboy(original), gameboy pocket and gameboy light (in that order).
Huge performance improvements for larger ROMs with over 110k more ram available to the memory sub-system. Palette values are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_palettes for accuracy.
10.05.2024:: 0.41 added savegame support. if a game uses it's onboard ram constantly though, use the manual backup button (=). The save feature will only automatically engage after the cartridge ram has been left untouched for a second.
08.05.2024: v0.4 forked from gb_cardputer, added memory management subsystem (paging) to manage random access to roms of any size the filesystem supports.
Yellow bars on either side of the display momentarily indicate that the cartridge ram has been backed up. The savegame format will not be changing, its a simple binary dump.
Have fun!

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