Alright guys here's the deal. I work at Spencer's, some of you may not know what that is, but it's basically a cool store that sales a bunch of band shirts and random novelty items. Similar to HotTopic, FYE minus the CDs and DvDs, and Suncoast from back in the day. We have a radio station that plays all sorts of music over our PA system in the store. We usually have to be tuned into that station, but recently my Assistant manager and I decided to hook up our own music devices and play our own music over the stores sound system. I played a few of my groups chiptunes last night and got a lot of amazing feedback from people asking who it was and stuff. So I'm thinking I should play more chiptunes in the store. I'm shooting for doing a chiptune hour everyday I'm at work. So if any of you guys want your music played in a public place where a shit ton of people come in everyday let me know and send me some directly links to your music. Also if you do decide to let me play your music and want to get the word out about who you are and a way to get people to check out your stuff directly you can make some business cards or some fliers or something with your SouundCloud info Bandcamp info FaceBook page info or anything else you can think of that you would want to put on it so I can hand them to people when they ask about the music playing. Yesterday was a Sunday and I only played 3 songs back to back and had at least 10 people ask me about the music and the store was slow at that time.

Again if you agree to me playing you music just say YES and post some links below. And if you want to send me fliers contact me and I will send you my address so you can mail some to me.

My overall goal is to spark an interest with the locals around here and talk to my District Manager about actually getting a chiptune hour on the Official Spencer's Radio, which would consist of the DJ saying your groups name followed by the song title and then the song played. They already do Dubstep, Techno, and Dance/trance segments. I'd love to add chiptunes to the mix and by the reactions of the public they want it too.

Let me know and thanks guys,

Vex

You should post that image to ASMs facebook page. I remember awhile back he was asking people to post pics of them installed. It looks very clean. Awesome job dude!!! Its making me want one even more now. And Nex is a bad ass. I follow his stuff like crazy. I'm friends with him on facebook and check in on him from time to time and I run ideas by him sometimes too. I wish he would honestly do more. He's a freaking genius and has some badass ideas I'd love to see him do.

Haha thanks guys. And no the Green Boy is not prosounds yet. I'm going to install one of Apeshits board mounted prosounds. Mainly I want it cause i really want to try one out and it's green lol. Thanks for the comment on the Clockboy, it was fun to make it.

Just a note I'm taking commissions for custom paint jobs or case mods like the Clockboy.

I was just thinking AcidBoy cause the screen is an old acid wash screen. If I was younger I might call it the Weed Boy lol. But those days are far behind me. Hell I might just call it the VexBoy lol. I'm never going to sell it and my favorite color is green.

Haha thanks man. And naw it will remain the GreenBoy maybe AcidBoy. I actually have plans for a TMNT themed gameboy. Well actually 7 of them. Lol I want to do all the ninja turtles, well all four boys, Shredder, Splinter, and paint one to look like a slice of pizza.  All te turtles will be painted on the back of theyre own gameboy and buttons and backlight to match their bandana color. Shredder I'm going to do cobalt grey with black detailing and black buttons with a red backlight. Splinter will be brown probably. Not sure about his backlight color yet. I'll figure that out later. Ad te pizza will obviously be a pizza probably a yellow backlight. And do a mix of brown, yellow and red buttons to look like pepperoni cheese and sausage. I've been wanting to do this for awhile just haven't taken the time to do it yet. I'll be more inclined to do it if I had buyers for atleast 2-3 of them. But I'd want to paint then all before i sent any of them out because I want a pic of them as a set.

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(16 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Okay guys, I am currently painting a gameboy for a customer and I should be receiving another customers case soon. I am only taking on two commissions at a time. If you want to grab the slot let me know and we can work something out. Depending on what you want prices start at around 45$ and up. All depends on how detail of a paint job you want. If you want the lettering painted a different color or what. Throw me ideas about what you are wanting and I'll hook you up. Cases I paint will be added to this page and saved to my photobucket. Slowly getting a gallery built up of all my work. Repeat customers get a 10$ of next paint job and I will cover return shipping costs.

New pics of the GreenBoy with its new backlight.

rygD wrote:

To clarify, I meant nut (not bolt) in the dpad, with a screw, head exposed, at the top of the joystick.  I figured this would remove the risk of a screw embedded in the joystick coming loose due to overtightening, but requires the use of a screwdriver.  I was considering trying it like this myself, but I don't want to destroy a controller.  I wasn't trying to buy the prototype.  Maybe an extra one from the test batch, so I will keep an eye out.

I wonder when the site for MuddyGB and Stepgirl vanished.  I thought it was there a few months ago.  I was unaware the creator didn't want it shared.  nitro2k01 has it here: gbdev.gg8.se/files/musictools/Japanese/MuddyGB/

Yes the nut is an idea we are planning on implementing for the same reason you just said lol. Over screwing would cause plastic the strip. The bolt will be embedded into te joystick so there won't be any reason for a screw driver. Also thanks for the link I'll check it out once I get to my computer.

rygD wrote:

This would be great for MuddyGB.  With your prototype can you accurately hit diagonal notes?

Out of curiosity, how difficult is it to slide the single piece in/out of place?  I would love to buy either the final product, or one of the test models.

You could try placing a bolt or something in the dpad and just drilling straight through the joystick, using a screw to easily install and remove.

Sad to say I don't have MuddyGB I've been trying I get my hands on it but all download locations are gone from what I've found. He does t want it shared unless its by him and he doesn't have it available anymore.

The single piece prototype room a little pushing but it went it just fine. Nothing broke or snapped at all. Had to take the case apart of course and install or from the inside out.

As for buying the prototype I have there is only one ATM and it will not be sold. We will not be selling the first cast ones either. They will be only about 10 made and sent to people for free. The only thing we are asking for is opinions on the product. How the joystick feels and stuff, whatever feedback we can get to make the final product worth selling.

As for the final product there will be a hole in the dpad and a screw in the joystick. We want to make it so people can easily unscrew it and have a normal dpad if they wish for certain things. A screw in the dpad would hurt due to in patruding out. It would be very uncomfortable. We might make two versions. One solid piece on which will have a smaller joystick head so it will be able to install easily and one in two pieces. We know for sure we want the two piece one.

Glad to seer you are interested though. Check beach here for updates. Ive only confirmed 3 people to test the first ones beside myself and my partner. So there will be openings for about 5-10 more people depending on how many we make. I will probably post a sign up sheet or something for people interesting in testing then for us.

We are going to do some hand cast ones first that are one solid piece before we go into working on the screw mechanism so the joystick can be removed. But yes we are probably going to do a silicone mold. Not 100% sure yet. My partner and I live about 900 miles from each other so we are going to be sending pieces back and forth to each other for approval. We've agreed once the first test set gets made we will be sending them to select members of the community for testing and input suggestions. People included on this list are that I've spoken to so far are Kitsch, and Nex. I've been meaning to ask Justin at ThursdayCustom and yourself, Apeshit, actually just havent gotten around to it yet. We are still in the beginning stages at this moment. I've been caught up doing custom paint jobs for people at the moment, trying to save a little to help fund the project further.

IanFlux wrote:

Oh goodness this looks so good even as is without like matching paint or anything the n64 joystick just seamlessly fits imo. Such a great idea I love it.

haha thanks. But we will be making molds and making different colors and there will be slight alterations to the joystick.

Thanks for the support guys.

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(23 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Gotcha still kinda cool lol.

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(23 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

That's pretty wicked actually but how the hell does the phone feature work? To my knowledge a gameboy pocket and colors do not have a
Mic port or built in mic so how do you talk to someone? Lol

Kris k wrote:

It might be that you're pushing the processor too hard- I remember trying to run some Chromix songs on my DMG which were originally written for SP and it caused me to lose control of the cursor.  Try optimizing your tables if you have them and maybe simplifying some stuff. You may also want to try it on a newer model game boy and see if that alleviates the problem.

I second this notion. Sometimes even swapping to a gameboy color helps. It's weird. And you might have to hange a few of your instruments if you do swap to a newer gameboy to make them sound right. DMG has a very particular sound to it and if a song programmed for a DMG is put into a newer gameboy or even a super gameboy cart it makes it sound kinda funny in certain parts especially if you use glitchy sounds in your pulse 1-2 channels they will be very high pitched and funky but easily fixed with a few alterations to the table. Wav channel won't be as awesome either and your noise channel might need a little tweaking also if you use the drum kits that are built in. I'm saying all this assuming youre using lsdj. But yes this is an issue I bet a lot of us have come across especially te people tha write really complex stuff. I've also noticed that updating to a newer more stable version of lsdj helps also. I had a song I wrote on a 1.3 or 3.1 something version and it lagged my screen but I eventually updated my cart to a newer version 1.4 or 4.1 something and it actually played through smoothly. Hope something helps or you figure out man. Best of luck, and let us know if anything helped.

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(23 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Haha don't you mean 5318008 on a calculator upside down? I mean it's all a out the tits right?

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May I inquire as to why you want such a rom?