I wasn't sure what the LSDJBuilder.exe was for, and it seems to only take a patched file...question is which one?!

What I get when adding the LSDJ rom in the menu builder is that it's 32k, where I was expecting something larger. I know that when I used the dumps of the banks from before (when there were 3 LSDJs with full save capabilities) it shows up as 256 etc. as you say, so I kind of knew that it wasn't going to work, but had a go anyway.

Thanks for your help. When I get this sorted I'll write a readme.txt/blog post on how to patch lsdj and get it working so that someone can learn from my pain! Kind of surprised that that hasn't been done already though....

Ah, didn't know about the LSDJ buffering thing.

I'm going to go through a few other ways of doing things this afternoon and let you know how I get on.

Thanks for help so far.

**Later Edit:**

Have tried flashing LSDJ 4.7.3 vanilla, and 4.7.3 with either of the 2 patches that are in the setup.rar from ninstruments.com.

All flashed with Menu256_LSDJ_Fix.exe and all I get is LSDJ 'one song' version.
Re: patching - have downloaded and installed ips XP 1.11.2600 and used to try flashing 4.7.3 with LSDJ_Patch_1_001.ips and LSDJ_SRAM_MOD_Linker.ips, but no luck. Just end up with LSDJ 4.7.3 with no save capability (this is on a DMG).

Am flashing to a 256M with latest (3.18c) joey software, using the python script (having faffed about with getting Tcl installed and pyUSB).

Am on Windows 10, although operating system shouldn't make a difference really.

**Later Later Edit**

Patched 4.7.3 with both patch files - same result (can only work on one song).

Am using 4.7.3 because the date of all the files in the setup.rar predate 4.8.0.

Ah yes - I had that when I got this gear second hand. I dumped those four banks and can write them back with no problem.

It's just that I'd like to have some control over what goes on my flash cart. I can flash back 3 copies of 4.7.3 with 128K ram because I dumped all 4 of the banks before I did anything else. But I wanted to put just 1/2 copies of lsdj plus some games on there.

I can't just add 'Dump1' to the menu builder program (it doesn't build properly) and I've tried adding lsdj is various permutations, with or without patches. None of it comes out right.

I'd also like to know so I can write an up to date guide on this to help others!

Will experiment with that. There are a ton of files in all these downloads, and I get the impression that some of them are just there because they *used* to be useful, but aren't now.

But no idea which is which!

Update: LSDJ 4.8.0 and the file you named above doesn't work. You have no ability to save your song AT ALL!
Update 2: Okay, so now I get it - I didn't *need* to save. I turned off the cart and turned it on later with no change in my song. So whilst it was pretty cool that I didn't have to explicitly save, obviously that means I only have 32K save and therefore only 1 song.

Has no-one ever tried to use the files in the setup.rar from ninstrument.com to patch lsdj.gb?

I understand there's a patched version of 4.7.3 floating around somewhere, but try as I might I can't find it.

Help? I'm sure a more-knowledgeable-person-than-I will have the answer.

Yeah, I have. But I think he's very busy at the moment with a load of new products coming in and being shipped out. Thought someone else would know.

It feels like an up-to-date set of instructions needs to be written!

Hi there,

Got a newly acquired joey joebags linker, and a 256M cart.

I know there are some files to use in the setup.rar from ninstruments, but I'm not sure how to use them.

I know that LSDJ by default only gets a 32K save on the 256M when you add it to the menu, but I've heard of a workaround to expand that to 128K.

Anyone know how to do this?

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Will this ever be available as a gameboy rom?

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(13 replies, posted in Trading Post)

I received my stuff from rebb in good time and all present and correct with 1/2 things that they threw in for good will. Recommended trader!

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(8 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Are you interested more in the authentic sounds, or using authentic hardware?

I'm also a total noob here as well (kind of 'discovered' it all just before Christmas), and have equally had lots of fun learning about history and usage etc. (which to an older male here feels kind of bizarre that I didn't get into it at the time!).

I'm going down the gameboy and LSDJ tracker route - purely because it's watching a Chipzel set that inspired me, because I like the idea of making full-blown composition with a 26 year old toy, and because I'm enjoying fixing and modding 'retired' gameboys!

Good luck and I hope you find something that really suits you and inspires you! Thanks to others for software suggestions here - I'd never heard of Deflemask!

EDIT: Wow, how does one end up being quoted at the top of the website?! lol

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

This is nice to read.

From a newbie's perspective (i.e. mine) it seems though that chiptune's heydey was about 2010-13. From then it's just died out. The number of broken links that are 'go-to sources' is insane and most forum posts seem from that time (across all boards). So some 're-cultivation' might be needed in order for the jungle to not creep back in (nice and poignant analogy OP).

Is it just me or is that a fair account? interested to hear other's viewpoints.

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(2 replies, posted in Trading Post)

BennVenn has got a run of SD carts coming in - they are the best carts bar none to get.

DJ Transformer has some EMS carts in.

Don't buy an Everdrive - doesn't work with LSDJ properly.

Re: supply - from what I can tell there are only 1/2 people who make flashcarts that work with LSDJ, and other people just sell them.

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If you flash it to a gba cart you'll need to faff around with emulators to get it to run.

If you flash it to a gbc or gb cart then the gba will treat it as a 'native' go/gbc cart and it will run on all systems (incl. gb/gbc). Hope that helps.

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(13 replies, posted in Trading Post)

PMed also.

How do you get those lovely string sounds?

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Thanks, didn't see reply till now.

Hasn't been happening after the first couple of days or so, so I can't really say what's happened, or what changed!

But I'll keep that in mind. Maybe I need to tape up my contacts a bit next time to avoid shorts.

Cheers