KT is right! Lube is the key. I recommend alcohol (ethanol) for aluminum. Keep it wet at all times.
1,633 Aug 17, 2011 4:35 pm
Re: Monotribe is MIDI-controllable! (37 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
1,634 Aug 16, 2011 3:08 pm
Re: Have you heard? ZELDA-STEP. (64 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Spöka wrote:
nitro2k01 wrote:nerdcore (or whatever that is) =/= chip music
That is what they call 'Brostep' these days... It sucks, no matter what it's called.
Brostep?? Let's call in shawnphase for a rebuttal!
1,635 Aug 16, 2011 1:54 pm
Re: Have you heard? ZELDA-STEP. (64 replies, posted in General Discussion)
nerdcore (or whatever that is) =/= chip music
1,636 Aug 16, 2011 1:26 pm
Re: Inconsistent pitch behavior in LSDJ Kick (14 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
nordloef wrote:
And Gijs tutorial:
This is basically my method, but not as good. With Gijs' method you need a "dead" step before each kick to set the initial pitch. (What he calls pull up notes.) With my method you instead set the initial pitch and start the slide in the same step by using the P command.
1,637 Aug 16, 2011 2:10 am
Re: Monotribe is MIDI-controllable! (37 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
Note!: Special ROM is only for using MIDI, and then you're not wasting any channels. The method where you pan stuff is for a stock LSDj ROM and stock monotribe. Nano sync would work if you divide it down. Nano sync is 12 or 24 ppq, whereas monotribe expects only one pulse per step in its sequencer.
1,638 Aug 16, 2011 1:22 am
Re: Inconsistent pitch behavior in LSDJ Kick (14 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
So yeah, using the L command will solve the problem since you will "land" on the note you want. Another thing you can do is to switch the vibrato mode to one of the low frequency modes. (Anything but HF.) This also affects the pitch slides. The difference is that in HF mode, vibrato and pitch slides (P and L commands) are running freely, whereas in the LF modes, they are synced to the tempo. In other words, it's 100% consistent, and will also be stretched with any tempo changes. However, in the LF modes you need much bigger values in the P command to get the same effect. Maybe even P80 (the biggest negative value) to get a good kick.
Another thing, move the P command out of the table and place it in the phrase. It may seem like this makes no difference but any commands in tables are executed slightly later, which means you'll get a like a small "click" of the tone you're starting from, before the slide actually starts.
1,639 Aug 15, 2011 4:06 pm
Topic: Monotribe is MIDI-controllable! (37 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
Yep, read all about it here:
http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2011/08/14 … di-and-me/
I imagine it would be nice to use it as a companion to trash80's LSDj version with MIDI out.
Even so, you can actually sync it to LSDj using the sync sync input on the back, using a special instrument that just creates a single pulse. Then you can pan that instrument to the left and the actual sound to the right, and connect the left channel to the sync input, and the right channel to e.g. an audio mixer. This requires a prosounded 'boy, however, otherwise the level isn't high enough to actually trigger the monotron.
1,640 Aug 15, 2011 2:19 pm
Re: The Progress of Chipaedia (500 Albums) (36 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Chipaedia should now be up and running and pretty well spam-protected. This also means you have to have an account with a confirmed e-mail address in order to use edit pages without filling in a CAPTCHA each time.
The site has also moved to a new server, and it will take a little while before the DNS change reaches everyone, so it may take up to 8 hours before that happens. http://www.chipaedia.com/ probably works better than the one without www.
Also, I will go away on Thursday morning and be away for a month, and I'll have very limited time dealing computer stuff, so if you find anything weird, report it to me as soon as possible.
1,641 Aug 3, 2011 6:10 am
Re: DMG linkable with SP? (14 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
No. There's a clever system of plugs and sockets to enable different compatibility schemes.
This is a GBA link port (same on GBA and GBA SP). Notice the little notch. GBC doesn't have this but the port is otherwise identical.
This is a GBC link cable. Notice that both sides are flat and that there are two angled corners.
This is a GBA only link cable. Notice that there's a bump matching the notch, and that all four corners are angled.
As you can see, a GBA link cable plug doesn't fit into a GBC socket, because there's no notch. a GBC link cable plug fits into both kinds of sockets.
If Nintendo had wanted, they could have made a GBA only socket, with four angled corners and a notch, in which the old GBC plugs would not have fit. Instead, history went down in such a way that GB micro, the first GBA-only (*) Gameboy had a completely different connector.
(*) Actually there are ways to go into GBC mode on GB micro, but that's very hacky and not useful.
1,642 Aug 1, 2011 5:49 pm
Re: Thread titles must now be descriptive... (21 replies, posted in Rules & Announcements)
platforma wrote:
Zan-zan-zawa-butt wrote:is there a chipchan yet
Someone should make one...
http://iiichan.net/boards/music/
1,643 Jul 31, 2011 3:38 pm
Re: WTB - Crystal Castles Vinyl (72 replies, posted in Trading Post)
*buuuuurp*
1,644 Jul 30, 2011 2:48 am
Re: What Cartridge Do You Use? (19 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Finally an ETA!
1,645 Jul 28, 2011 9:26 pm
Re: Why can't I log into 8bc!?!?!?!?!?!? (4 replies, posted in General Discussion)
It's actually [email protected]. Also, CM.org isn't the 8bc helpdesk.
1,646 Jul 25, 2011 10:17 pm
Re: $1,000 gameboy micro? (7 replies, posted in General Discussion)
herr_prof wrote:
Money laundering?
More like shill bidding/stat raising is my bet. Look at the bid history. First 11 bets where g***s raises the bid about $100 at a time. This does not even include auto-bidding, so it's not even that he set a maximum auto-bid and then someone kept bidding higher and higher. These are actual bids made by that mo-fo. And then a final bid by 8***p. (Names are hidden as you can see.) I'll bet that someone whose name starts with 8 and ends with p will start making a scam auctions within days.
Seriously, someone should report this to their customer service. I don't have an eBay account, but feel free...
1,647 Jul 24, 2011 3:40 am
Re: EMS cart holding a save without a battery present (7 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Chainsaw Police wrote:
^ Makes total sense.
Now, find out why my XBOX controller was working without being connected to the console
Because it's a wireless control with a battery and radio communication? 
1,648 Jul 24, 2011 12:39 am
Re: EMS cart holding a save without a battery present (7 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I can tell you exactly what's going on.
There are two red boxes in the image.
The upper right one is a diode array with two diodes in the same package. They both have the cathode connected to the bottom pin. The two upper pins are the anodes, ie where the voltage "enters" to speak simply. The right one of those is connected to the positive terminal of the battery and the right one to the 5V on the cartridge slot and USB supply. This way both the sources can power the SRAM chip without interfering. Otherwise, the +5V from the Gameboy/USB would destroy the battery and the battery would discharge through the other circuits on the board when there was no external power.
The chip marked ISSI is the SRAM chip. It's a really low power RAM module that will draw almost no current.
The other part of the magic secret sauce is the capacitor C12. It's there mainly to smooth out the power supply when turning on or off the external power. A capacitor is commonly compared to a bucket that can hold an electrical charge. When you turn on the external power, instead of going directly from ~3V from the battery to 5V, the power goes (relatively) slowly from one voltage level to the other. Same thing if you turn off the power. Instead of going right down to ~3V, the voltage slowly drops as the capacitor gets discharged.
Same thing applies even if there's no battery: the charge drops slowly from 5V to 0V as the SRAM circuit consumes current. Until the voltage goes below the threshold of what the SRAM circuit needs to hold the data, the data is retained.
This reminds me of something that happened to my mother. She discovered that the remote control to her TV worked for a short while after she had pulled out the batteries, and it also has a capacitor for similar reasons. She thought the remote control was magical/haunted.