657 Reply by Lazerbeat

(9 replies, posted in Collaborations)

Hi Peter. A lot of chipmusic is released under Creative Commons which may be compatible with what you want to do already! If you look on this site or search for "chipmusic" on archive.org or the FMA there is probably more stuff than you would ever need!

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658 Reply by Lazerbeat

(9 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Im already pretty comfortable with YYCHR and Shirus nes tool thing and you dont need to convert the frames. Also if you do something with an animated gif I assume you will get little imperfections and distortions if the gif isnt PERFECT nes graphic spec. Animations with logones should be really crisp.

Mosre optjons are always good!

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659 Reply by Lazerbeat

(9 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Le wow! That was fast. I'm away from my pc for a bit but when I get back on in a few days I will open yychr and have a play!

Is it possible to use more than ten .nam "frames"?

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660 Topic by Lazerbeat

(9 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

I just had a bit of a brainwave which might be useful for logones users. 2 questions

Basically logones is a set of ten "screens" is this extendable or is it a hard limit? could logones use 20 or 30 or 40 screens if I created extra .nam files?

Second, at the moment A and B cycle through the screens. Is there a little code modification to make logones automatically cycle through the screens, either as a loop or ping pong?

Reason for asking is this would effectively make logones into a simple NES animation tool. You could make one .nam. load it into, YYCHR or whatever, alter it slightly, save the new one, load it, alter it etc, to create "frames" of animation rather than static screens.

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661 Reply by Lazerbeat

(55 replies, posted in General Discussion)

This is literally the first question in the "new to chipmusic please read this FAQ" sticky at the top of the general discussion forum where this is posted.

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/3988/ … read-this/

However, conversation seems fairly sensible at the moment, lets see if any new insight can be gained, but keep it on topic and play nice please!

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662 Reply by Lazerbeat

(143 replies, posted in Sega)

CountSymphoniC wrote:

Not everyone is going to use this tracker with a Nomad, and not everyone is going to use it with a 3 or 6 button either/or. I believe that the needs of nearly everyone should be taken into consideration with the development of this tracker.

If this gets finished, I am willing to bet 95 percent of users are nomad users!

CountSymphoniC wrote:

Either way, I've learned from the mistakes of many app and game developers... it's unreasonably inconvenient to not allow user customization of the program's control scheme. So this is a feature I would like to implement.

Awesome, piggy tracker does this rather well through a nice little .xml file

CountSymphoniC wrote:

Lazerbeat, could you point me to YM2612 docs that are accurate?

Im not 100 percent sure there is accurate documentation. If memory serves, the issue is the algorithms shown in the documentation switch operators 2 and 3. So algo 0 is listed as

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

but its actually

1 - 3 - 2 - 4

This doesnt really make any difference for algo 7 or algo 5 but for the others its a major issue. I THINK that is correct, once you get that far into development I will dig out some of my old notes and fire up my megadrive and check!

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663 Reply by Lazerbeat

(143 replies, posted in Sega)

I would be all over this. I shall ramble on the topic for a while!

- Johan let Marc nostromo use the LSDJ interface for Piggy Tracker, may well do it for another project.

- I assume this would be fairly Nomad focussed? The nomad button lay out is a bit strange, Dpad on the left, mode, start and 6 other buttons on the right. Might be a bit of a challenge for an LSDJ type interface?

- The nomad battery life is horrrrrrid.

- FM instruments have a huge number of parameters, im guessing about 50 or so, would probably need a multipage instrument screen. Maybe one for envelopes, one for multipliers, feedback, algos etc

- Live mode would be fanTASTic!

- Be careful with the documentation for the YM2612 a lot of the documentation labels the algorithms incorrectly!

- A flashcart with a SD card might make loading custom samples easier?

- Keff WINS as pretty GUIs

- LSDJ style tables with YM2612 would be simply wonderful

Basically I am totally down for this!

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664 Topic by Lazerbeat

(3 replies, posted in Sega)

In the light of interesting things happening with the sega hardware happening recently I did a bit of a google regarding Nomad battery life and found an interesting post

http://bibin.gg8.se/blog/projects-and-g … tery-life/

The basic idea seems to be to replace the nomads original lighting system with one which uses about 1/10th of the power ergo in theory increasing the battery life. The page isnt particularly detailed (no disrespect to the modder!) so I wondered if anyone can confirm this works or provide any more details?

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665 Reply by Lazerbeat

(33 replies, posted in General Discussion)

herr_prof wrote:

Don't really care. Impersonation only applies to a real person afaict.

Probably worth contacting them, you basically were tctd and this person is clearly trying to either trade on your good reputation or outright impersonate you. Also worth bearing in mind he is tweeting people who are not in the cmo scene who are not particularly high level English speakers. Confusion likely to ensue.

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666 Reply by Lazerbeat

(33 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Look like this is fairly straight forward to deal with. Impersonation policy is very clear

Impersonation is a violation of the Twitter Rules. Twitter accounts portraying another person in a confusing or deceptive manner may be permanently suspended under the Twitter Impersonation Policy.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/18 … ion-policy

However, it looks like Peter would have to make the report himself, assuming he hasn`t already :

Twitter's policies require that impersonation reports come from the individual being impersonated or someone legally authorized to act on his or her behalf.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170142#Who

Report can be made here

@tctdofficial is clearly a bit of a halfwit if not actually malicious.

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667 Reply by Lazerbeat

(148 replies, posted in General Discussion)

herr_prof wrote:

I'm really getting sick of that bullshit. If you are well liked, people will help promote your shit. If its good, people will help promote your shit. If its good and you are well liked, you are probably Chibi-tech.

This made me snork milk out of my nose.

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668 Reply by Lazerbeat

(3 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Clarified title, moved thread.

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669 Reply by Lazerbeat

(8 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Jellica wrote:

Before you invest money, you should try and figure out what the fuck is going in goattracker on your mac. Or use Vice emulator and one of the many music programs available for free.

I'd second this, tracking on c64 / c128 is far from easy, especially if you are new to tracking. Goattracker is a perfectly acceptable way to give it a try and see if you like it or not. Don't buy hardware unless you are sure you need it!

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670 Reply by Lazerbeat

(8 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Probably this way.

http://www.sidmusic.org/goattracker/mac/

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671 Reply by Lazerbeat

(47 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

If you could provide a detailed list of potential features and functionality I will let you know what I would pay!

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672 Reply by Lazerbeat

(47 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Clarified title

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