273 Reply by Lazerbeat

(1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)

thebitman wrote:

Tempted to say you should use an Advantage controller so all you have to do is flip a switch to change controller ports (controller port 1 on Advantage out to Toploader #1, controller port 2 on Advantage out to Toploader #2). Not sure what graphics software you are using, but the variable-pot turbo on the Advantage may be cool to... take advantage of.  How are you choosing to drive video out from the Toploaders? It's rare seeing them use something other than coax.

Very cool rig, btw smile

Thanks! I wouldn't use the Advantage for a few reasons, its big and heavy and the box for my rig is small and hopefully light, also the advantage takes up a fair chunk of table space and you cant control 2 units at the same time which is handy for VJing. Also the advantage is tricky to use one handed without a table!

The toploaders are AV famicoms which all output composite from the Nintendo proprietary cable.

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274 Reply by Lazerbeat

(41 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Men of Mega wrote:
Lazerbeat wrote:

I had very similar issues with klys on mac. I actually gave up and switched to win 7 with that as a bit factor

So the mac version is not worth the hassle? sad

no no, it is totally good, just pretty old. The Mac version is I think from July 2011 and it is revision 1004, the current windows build is I think r1234 and it has had some pretty significant improvements in the last couple of years.

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275 Reply by Lazerbeat

(41 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

is the osx version still from like 2009 or something?

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276 Reply by Lazerbeat

(41 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

I had very similar issues with klys on mac. I actually gave up and switched to win 7 with that as a bit factor

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277 Reply by Lazerbeat

(1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)

It seems dead cheap too! I am still thinking about the best way to mount the screens.

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278 Reply by Lazerbeat

(1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I am really starting to enjoy VJing. I just bought a little 30 usd guitar pedal case which perfectly fits all my stuff. I still want to do a few things

- Replace the power pack with a 2nd N8 (smaller, more reliable with AV famicoms) and have the powerpack as a backup.
- Get 2 of these so I can see the previewscreen more clearly and have a permanant "output" monitor
- make a little stand for the monitors to mount them at the back of the V4
- get a fader style controller for the V4, i know im going to snap the handle my accident some day.
- organize the power cable birds nest a bit more neatly.

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279 Reply by Lazerbeat

(45 replies, posted in Releases)

Its finally out!

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280 Reply by Lazerbeat

(15 replies, posted in Past Events)

Also listening!

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281 Topic by Lazerbeat

(45 replies, posted in Releases)

1.Disco Text
2.Pegasus Four
3.Famous Last Birds
4.Dans Le Beurre
5.Racer Hex
6.A Long Time Ago Tomorrow Morning
7.I Come in Peas
8.Twisty Little Passages
9.Born, Dancing

Roboctopus shows us what can be done with 2 synced gameboys running LSDJ, strap in, it is amazing...

CD: $8 (plus $3 postage)
Digital download : $4

EXTRAS:  CD front cover artwork by LxTxCx, Custom kits, Save data for the track "Disco Text"

Music by Roboctopus bandcamp / soundcloud / twitter / facebook
Art by lxtxcx website / tumblr / facebook

Download Now!

› Cheapbeats Records Catalogue

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282 Reply by Lazerbeat

(13 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Just arrived!

6/6 - Placed order
6/10 - Order shipped
6/22 - order arrived in Tokyo.

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283 Reply by Lazerbeat

(24 replies, posted in General Discussion)

So is the diving helmet talking to the penguin about 8 bit chiptunes? Is the penguin claiming to use the guitar and the drum kit to make glorious 8 bit chiptunes?

Context people!

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284 Reply by Lazerbeat

(17 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Have you tried googling "Nes mods"? There are 100s of links

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285 Topic by Lazerbeat

(6 replies, posted in General Discussion)

As of this morning the Facebook page cheapshot and had for cheapbeats has been deleted. It just shows a generic "page not available screen" when we logged into our accounts this morning we both got a brief message saying something along the lines of

"Your page has been suspended due to reports of copyright infringement"

Which is totally weird as we only posted content from Cheapbeats releases and shows or share links for friends events and releases. Also we don't have any emails from Facebook that we can fine nor does there seem to be any method we can find to dispute the deletion. The page is just gone. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any possible solutions?

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286 Topic by Lazerbeat

(17 replies, posted in Atari)

Purely out of interest, I was watching a few videos on Buckys excellent http://retrogameaudio.tumblr.com/ and found this video

And wondered if anyone knew of Atari tunes which use 4mat style "chipped" 1 cycle wave forms on a sample channel to generate non square waves?

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287 Reply by Lazerbeat

(28 replies, posted in Past Events)

defPREMIUM wrote:

if cheap beats is putting it on, why no holy konni?! pretty sick lineup tho

We actually started planning this before we were talking to HK. I would very much like to see him out here though...

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288 Topic by Lazerbeat

(28 replies, posted in Past Events)

Tickets available now!
Day 1 - $35.50
Day 2 - $35.50

Very proud to announce the full line up and details for Squaresounds Tokyo 2013!

Amazingly excited for this....

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9/27 – Pre Party - Doors 18:00

18:00 – Omodaka
18:30 – Sparkyboy
19:00 – Men of Mega
19:30 – Harley Likes Music
20:00 – Hige Driver
20:30 – Abortifacient
21:00 – BryFace



9/30 – After Party - Doors 18:00

18:00 – Kenobit
18:30 – Superboy
19:00 – Little scale
19:30 – Tappy
20:00 – Aliceffekt
20:30 – Kunio
21:00 – Toriena
21:30 – NNNNNNNNNN

Venue – Sabako
Access – Tokyo Metro Tozai Line, Waseda Station Exit 2
Time – open 18:00, close 22:00
Door – 1500 yen w/1 free drink

More details here http://squaresounds.cheapbeats.net/other-events/

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