Apparently 2009-08-17 was never loaded into the MySQL database behind ranking.pl. I blame the likely event of server downtime. I noticed because of an entry into calibrate.pl that resulted in a negative first-game index. Suffice to say, th…

Tsuno (C-EGG CEO) emailed me saying he used my ranking.pl tool: http://arcturus.su/tenhou/ranking/. Ironically, he also pointed out a bug! I came across a swell guy named enecre who owns a rather productive blog: http://enecre.blog86.fc2.c…

I have been collecting these for ages now but nobody really knows about them: http://arcturus.su/tenhou/gamelogs/houou/It's all the game logs of all the houou games ever played (including the very frist two, played by me, almost a month be…

This idea has floated around for quite a long time and I have said 324723 times that I will test it. I did so yesterday, and this is how it goes.When a game begins, players get a message from the server along these lines: (taken from mitte…

Seriously. There are only two bots that are run consistently, and none run in 7447. Sometimes they are tested in 7447, but it is incredibly unlikely that you will see or play them. You should not mistake fast/good players in 7447 (however …

The tournament went really well. The results can be seen at http://blog.tenhou.net/article/32101991.html. Overall 114 people played, and 115 registered to actually play. It would have done better had it not disconnected in the middle of a …

It seems the modification I made backfired. I'm fairly sure it was a result of the lazy way I implemented it. Tiles like 1,9 were considered much better to throw than honour tiles when, actually, they weren't. I should probably separate th…

mittens' greatest weakness is dealing in a lot I think. Here is a sample of the deal in rates of each tile: (note: 1~4z = ESWN; 5~7z = haku, hatsu, chun) 1m 98 2m 100 3m 130 4m 146 5m 187 6m 158 7m 181 8m 126 9m 99 1p 80 2p 149 3p 143 4p 1…

I just registered LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL (24 Ls) but it won't let me log in. What is weird is that I get error 1001, which means bad name. Normally an invalid ID gets 1003 - bad ID. How strange.

I knew I could do try this months ago but I only just tried.Names on Tenhou have a maximum length of 8 characters *1. Registering IDs is done over http by http://b.mjv.jp/regid?uname=# where # is the desired name. There isn't the 8 charact…

I bought 2 months of credit and then registered mittens for the upcoming tournament. I got the following message: res=1027&expire=20090905 E1027 like the CSREG FAILED error E1026 I haven't seen before, but I can guess what they both mean. …

The CS command is as follows: players - number of registered players *1 title - tournament title (this one is 第４回 はこパラ！まー娘カップ) rule - rules, format: starttime,endtime,gametype,minrank,maxrank,minrate,maxrate (0 means no limit…