33 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(12 replies, posted in General Discussion)

So what is your question exactly?

Are you wondering how to make brutal metal chipmusic?

My advice would be to get creative and forget about trying to fit into a specific genre.

The Zen of Screaming by Melissa Cross helped me with my vocals(or should I say helped me scream better without hurting myself) but I learned much more by just going to shows and spending time with other vocalists/metalheads/artists in Northern California.

I've also found that if you use an MXR Fullbore Metal pedal with something like a tube screamer or BOSS DS-1 or some other type of overdrive/distortion pedal in front of it along with a guitar with a bridge humbucker you can turn pretty much any amp with a clean channel into a brutal metal fire breathing monster.

The Carvin DC7X or DC800 is the guitar your going to want for everything from blues/jazz to the most brutal metal.

And I feel like the ultimate guitar pick for brutal metal is the Dunlop Ultex Sharp .73mm.

For chipmusic brutal metal I would recommend recording some samples from your LSDJ instruments into a computer and trigger them with a midi keyboard or drum pad to help you with odd time signatures and accents.

You can make some brutal sounding stuff if you use the WAV channel in LSDJ then mess around in the Instrument and Table screens while your phrases/chains are playing.

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34 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

^ what he said

I'm pretty sure the shield minimizes capacitively coupled noise from other electrical sources and reduces electromagnetic radiation that may interfere with other devices.

I wonder if putting copper shielding all around the inside of a GB would do anything. I'm guessing that it wouldn't do much but it made a huge difference when I copper shielded the inside of one of my Fender Stratocasters.

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35 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(4 replies, posted in Releases)

Rad

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36 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(9 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Timbob wrote:

I sometimes use wood glue.
Sticks like a charm, easy to remove, and no melting.

I do the same. I use to use white elmer's glue but it doesn't work as good as wood glue. If you use slow drying glues you have to tape the screen in place and/or use some type of clamps and/or stack books on top of it for at least 24-48 hours to get the best results.

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37 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(94 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Anagrams are fun -

Chipmusic - I'm chic pus!

Game Boy - Yo! Bag em'

Play it Loud! - Do it up, yall!

Eight bit - I Be Tight!

Green tea - Teenager

Castlevania - Satanic Vale

Nitropulse - Lone Purist

Materiaxmedica - I'm Eradicate Max

Video games - Evade Gismo,
Give me soda!,
God save me I...

Surface Dragon -
Arranged Focus,
Dance For Sugar,
Arcade For Guns,
Do Us Fragrance,
A Grander Focus

(Sorry for getting a little off topic, I just wanted to show you that messing around with anagrams might help you find a stage name.)

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38 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(94 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The name SurfaceDragon originally came from my brother yelling "Rock the Surface Dragon!" when we were playing Dig-Dug. At that time we were both hella into driving togue, drifting, and Initial D. So Team SurfaceDragon became the name of our "drift crew". I even made a SurfaceDragon sticker for the 240sx. Then my brother joined the military, gave me his 240sx, and I inherited the name SurfaceDragon.

Sexy Androids - my band name(I'm actually the only member in this "band" right now but it originally had another member, a cute female percussionist) is my stage name and the name that I release my music under. I got its name from watching Björk's music video for - All is Full of Love.

I was thinking of releasing the music that I've been working on recently under a different name because its so different than anything that was released under the name Sexy Andriods. But the stuff that I'm currently working on originally started with the intention of being the next Sexy Androids album that was supposed to be called - Sexdroid Automatica.

I've got a stage name for you. I put the name Lucas Noah into an online anagram generator and got - Ouch! Nasal

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39 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(15 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

(Sorry, Accidental double post)

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40 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(15 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I've had a similar problem on a car and I just applied super strong two-part epoxy to a screwdriver and stuck it on the screw. I had to sacrifice a screwdriver but it worked.

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41 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(21 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)

Show this to the old woman - My PM box is about to reach the limit break!

But seriously I'm having the same problems that many others are having. I've been sifting through my PMs trying to delete things but I keep finding important information that I want to keep. Its going to take me some serious time and effort to copy/paste all the important stuff to somewhere else and I really wish I could save it in its original format with all the time/date stamps and whatnot.

Would it be possible to give the members who have been on here a long time an archive function or maybe an archive folder so that we can keep our important PMs without clogging up the inbox/outbox?

And will there ever be a live chat function? I remember reading a long time ago that there will not be a live chat function and I understand that a live chat will more than likely just get flooded with nonsense but I still think it would be a nice function to have on this site.

Thank you so much!

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42 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(45 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I like what everyone is doing in this thread. Flappy bird is totally rad!

I am always excited to see new stuff for the GB.

kitsch wrote:

also my PM box here is completely clogged up, and is essentially a pointless feature of this site for me.  if anyone is wondering why i haven't replied.  i don't even get new messages anymore, the ones in my box are ones I need to keep.

Kitsch - I've been having similar problems with the PM box. I've deleted enough to get/keep it working but pretty soon I think I'm going to run out of space again then I'll have to do a serious amount of copy/pasting to keep all the important stuff. I wonder if the moderators can do something about it and maybe give senior members a little more space to work with?

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43 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(16 replies, posted in General Discussion)

How can you have too many retro gaming consoles?

And for the how many hours a week do you game question I answered 4-6 hours because thats about how much I've been gaming recently(not including time spent on LSDJ) but I sometimes game 10+ hours a week if I'm really into a certain game, can't sleep, or if I feel like my brain is melting from practicing guitar and/or some other artform or working for too long.

I don't consider LSDJ(as well as a bunch of other programs that I use on gaming consoles/computers) to be a game, I think of it as a musical instrument.

I feel like if you spent a little more effort on your questions that you would get a lot more useful data out of the survey.

If you put together another survey maybe you should ask the chipmusic community to help you come up with a few of the questions.

And I apologize for sounding so negative. I just feel like if you ask the wrong questions you will do nothing but get a bunch of unusable answers/information and make the people who are taking the survey feel like they are wasting their time for no reason.

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44 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(17 replies, posted in Releases)

Rad

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45 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(676 replies, posted in General Discussion)

MotionRide wrote:

If by any chance you would like me to provide you (is this even grammatically correct? big_smile ) with some custom art for your music, don't hesitate and ask! I'll gladly do it for free (provided that I'm not super busy with real life jobs, fighting dragons and rescuing princesses at the moment) smile.

Welcome Pete,

I think its rad how you put it out there that you support other artists by offering free artwork. I do the same thing whenever possible.

I also modify the graphics in some ROMs for other atrists -
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4249/custom-graphics/

Hit me up if you want me to make you something.

It must be tons of fun fighting dragons and rescuing princesses for a living. (If you used the word slaying instead of fighting I might have something to worry about.)

I also love how you use parentheses in your online speech.(I use parentheses all the time!)

Play it Loud!

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46 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(4 replies, posted in Motion Graphics)

Don't put your projector where anyone can spill their drink on it, knock it over, or steal it.

And a cheap AV switch box makes it much easier to plug a bunch of different things into your projector.

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47 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(4 replies, posted in Motion Graphics)

If you have a decent projector and a dark enough venue I feel like you don't really need a screen just point the projector at the stage and let you/your band be the screen. White flat bed sheets also work but I think tyvek type material would probably work pretty good as well and be much more durable. And if you use sheets I would recommend bringing an iron and a towel(to use as an ironing board) with you to iron out any wrinkles from transporting the screen. Projecting on 3D objects is also pretty cool for live shows. I've seen people preject onto weater balloons and it looked awesome.

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48 Reply by SurfaceDragon

(19 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

nitro pulse wrote:

the cusom graphics you made looks incredible and you did it all in yy-chr and lunar ips? how long did it take?

Thanks,

I pretty much used YY-CHR exclusively(along with GIMP and mspaint depending on the scope of the project) to modify the graphics then I just use Lunar IPS to make patches out of the modified ROMs to do my best to avoid copyright issues. I rarely use a hex editor but I have used it to change words and such in a few ROMs.

At first it took me a really long time and it still does take quite a bit of time to do certain things. But I have worked out a system that I use to change the fonts in LSDJ that seems to work well and goes pretty quickly if I don't waste too much time actually drawing each letter individually. And there are a few other ROMs that I can modify extremely quickly if I have have a set idea of what I'm trying to achieve and maybe a little material to work off of like an image or specific font.

I have a few more LSDJ+ patches that I haven't released(and probably never will) because I don't think they are anything special or any more interesting than the ones that I've already released. But I've really been slacking on making some cool ones, maybe I'll sit down tonight and try to put some more together.

I could make you something if you want. Just send me a request of what you want and I'll see what I can do.

I hate to say this but its usually faster and easier for my to just do the work myself than to teach you and try to explain what it is I'm doing.

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