Hey guys, Im lookin to buy one of those eprom carts on kitsch-bent. i want to get nanovoice so i downloaded the public domain rom (is that the free version?) and i cant seem to make any music with it. it just loops the programed sounds. I hit select and the screen goes blank. I also tried out Musictech and it was horribly laggy. have you guys gotten any of these carts? are they good? Just wanna know before i buy.
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The carts are great, but I think it's worth getting to know the program you're going to commit to having in a dedicated cart before you buy one. Have you played with MuddyGB? That program's fun and pretty self-explanatory; I have a couple of EPROM carts (DMG Test ROM and PushPin) and still find myself wanting a dedicated MuddyGB cart from time to time… it could be fun to just have one around if a friend or audience member wants to jam, for example.
For the record, I have no idea how to use nanovoice or MusicBox either. I don't think I've found the documentation for nanovoice, but the one for MusicBox is around if you look.
Anyway, play around with all of the programs you can find; when you find one you like, but don't want to keep on your flash carts, that could be the one for you. 
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I've got got Deathray on one of those and its great!
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Deathray and most of the PIXELH8 programs are actually special cases, because the original version of those didn't work on flash carts--the only way to use them was on a PROM cart.
Just recently, nitro2k01 patched them to work on flash carts for a task other than corrupting your cart.
EDIT: Oh snap, you're the bomb jrasor!
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jrasor wrote:
Is this the version on the eprom? if so im so buying it!
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Telerophon wrote:
Deathray and most of the PIXELH8 programs are actually special cases, because the original version of those didn't work on flash carts--the only way to use them was on a PROM cart.
Just recently, nitro2k01 patched them to work on flash carts for a task other than corrupting your cart.
True if not necessarily relevant to the topic.
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the eprom carts have no memory built in, afaik the only carts that will actually save with nanovoice are the official ones oliver put out. tbh, i don't know if the free ROM (the public one you mention, which is on the prom carts) has the saving part of the code in it, was commented out, its a hardware thing, or what. there is some nanovoice c source out there, but its an earlier version of the ROM altogether. i'm guessing it was just commented out, or the ram was accessed in a non-traditional way in the code but doesn't work unless your cart is laid out in a certain way. if that makes sense.
long story short, the carts are great if you want a (much cheaper) cart devoted to non-memory ROMs, like deathray, muddyGB, musictech, drumtech, etcetcetc...
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the eprom carts have no memory built in, afaik the only carts that will actually save with nanovoice are the official ones oliver put out. tbh, i don't know if the free ROM (the public one you mention, which is on the prom carts) has the saving part of the code in it, was commented out, its a hardware thing, or what. there is some nanovoice c source out there, but its an earlier version of the ROM altogether. i'm guessing it was just commented out, or the ram was accessed in a non-traditional way in the code but doesn't work unless your cart is laid out in a certain way. if that makes sense.
long story short, the carts are great if you want a (much cheaper) cart devoted to non-memory ROMs, like deathray, muddyGB, musictech, drumtech, etcetcetc...
Now let me get something straight, i downloaded 2 roms of nanovoice, 1 worked (it was 32 kb) and 1 didnt (it was in a 7 kb zip folder). which one is on the cart? also I assumed that it wouldn't save and im fine with that, i have lsdj for that.
EDIT: lol, just tried the "non working" one and i figured out how to use it so both work and i feel dumb
Last edited by Spaceman (Sep 1, 2012 2:25 am)