SurfaceDragon: If you have something that's not available on my file hub, feel free to hook me up with it.
1,761 Apr 15, 2011 7:52 pm
Re: Usb cartridges for Game Boy (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
1,762 Apr 15, 2011 6:18 pm
Re: LSDj music keyboard? (14 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
2PLAYER wrote:
Is it really that hard to wire a link cable to a ps2 keyboard? It is a great introduction to soldering and modding. Plus if you want to mod your gameboy later on you can save a few bucks rather than paying someone to do it for you. IMO just useful knowledge to have
Well, yes, a little. Normally, the link cable doesn't carry the extra +5V line. You have ta open up the link cable connector and swap a pin.
See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trash80/se … 967984405/
This is difficult to do on some of the cheaper link cables since it's hard to do without wrecking the pin.
That's also why that adapter can't work well. There is no power supply line in the unmodified link cables. (And you're supposed to be able to use an unmodified link cable...)
However, if anyone actually has one of these adapters and have a success story, feel free to tell me.
1,763 Apr 15, 2011 4:56 pm
Re: LSDj music keyboard? (14 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
That adapter wont work, or it will work badly. Don't bother.
Besides, it's sold out.
1,764 Apr 14, 2011 12:42 pm
Re: Usb cartridges for Game Boy (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Try this: http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/usb-64m-smart-card
You also need to buy a LSDj license from http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/ (Costs $2)
I'm also going to move this thread to the right section.
1,765 Apr 11, 2011 12:08 pm
Re: DMG Motherboard Development (82 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Well, here's some sort of really old news on this. Months ago Rolf sent me the Eagle files for the project, after which I started to reroute the whole thing. I basically got stuck after rerouting the RAM chip between the CPU and the cartridge slot. Even though it took a dirty trick of rearranging the address lines a bit (which doesn't affect the functionality in the slightest) I'm pretty proud of how much space I managed to save. I even managed to get back the ground copper plate on the back (which connects to the "arm" on the display board).
Right now, I'm stalled too, however.
Before:
After:
1,766 Apr 11, 2011 11:45 am
Topic: Thread titles must now be descriptive... (21 replies, posted in Rules & Announcements)
Staff has just decided to add a rule that thread titles must describe the contents of the thread. Something like "Have you seen this?" or "How would you feel if..." or "If this is any indication..." ( 
) doesn't cut it anymore. Such titles might/will be edited to something better.
1,767 Apr 11, 2011 11:40 am
Re: Rules & Announcements Change Log (2 replies, posted in Rules & Announcements)
2011-04-11
Added
12. Thread titles should describe the topic of the thread. Please avoid titles like "Help!" or "Have you seen this...". Something like "How can I do a beefy bassdrum with Midines?" or "I just saw a chip music reference at the bus stop" is good. Staff reserves the right to edit unclear thread titles to something more descriptive.
Removed the number from the last rule ("we reserve the right to amend...") so we don't have to increase its number every time we add a rule. 
1,768 Apr 9, 2011 12:38 am
Re: bypass the "whoosh" sfx when you use the super gameboy. (5 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Yeah, basic stuff. I had a bit of a revelation, though. I realized that's actually you in your avatar. I somehow always thought it was some random image from somewhere.
1,769 Mar 28, 2011 3:14 pm
Re: Best Pants to customize my gameboy with? (34 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Get a hairc... I mean backlight, put on a shirt and go get a job!
1,770 Mar 26, 2011 11:46 pm
Re: Best Pants to customize my gameboy with? (34 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Infradead, you must be tired from taking care of the young un. Your wife/girlfriend won't be happy when she realizes you've also prosounded the baby...
1,771 Mar 26, 2011 6:11 am
Re: Left my DMG on for 10 hours... (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
infradead wrote:
i've left shitwave feedback loops playing for 8 or 9 hours at a time with no issues..
Duly noted.
1,772 Mar 21, 2011 9:49 pm
Re: EMS 64MB USB Cart in Linux? (52 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
nordloef wrote:
arfink wrote:Ok, maybe 4. Contact HKEMS and make them write Linux driver. Highly unlikely to ever work, since they don't even seem to understand English properly.
You do know that not everyone on this planet has english as their first language. Write to them in chinese instead
I'm sure EMS's English is better than Arfink's Chinese, though...
1,773 Mar 21, 2011 12:31 am
Re: GB ROMS WITH ALTERED GRAPHICS (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
So this is what I've done so far for NeX:
The ROM comes in two flavours: One with a fixed background and one with a scrolling background. The one with the scrolling background isn't completed yet; it needs a lot more manual tweaking because I'm using a hack to simulate the effect a big moving background plane, something that isn't possible using only the hardware functionality. Right now that version has blocky gaps where I haven't fixed the effect.
Admittedly, I "cheated" by using Photoshop to create the initial text, but that doesn't mean it was effortless. Still a lot of tweaking and fixing, not to mention the assembly language coding.
ROMs for those who want to check it out: http://www.gg8.se/temp/nex-roms.zip
1,774 Mar 20, 2011 8:30 pm
Re: GB ROMS WITH ALTERED GRAPHICS (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
SD, you don't know this, but after I saw this thread, I offered to do some graphics for NeX, too, which I've been working on throughout the day today.
Also, if you just want to display the Nintendo logo as it is, all you have to do is to make an endless loop (in asm) without clearing the screen. At least on a DMG. Things are a bit different on GBC, though.
1,775 Mar 19, 2011 9:46 am
Re: usb cart modded to work as a programmer (9 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
My preliminary analysis indicates that this is not possible with the EMS carts. The USB chip doesn't seem to use the cartridge slot to access the memory, but has its way of accessing the chip through the logic chip.
1,776 Mar 18, 2011 12:17 am
Re: GB ROMS WITH ALTERED GRAPHICS (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
You could still distribute IPS patches for LSDj/nanoloop...