8BC was closed, ostensibly for improper zoning usage. At the time, the event was widely rumored to have been prompted by the then-new nightclub the Palladium, whose owners had approached Conboy and Gattra about programming the Palladium's Michael Todd Room. The closure made the front page of the New York Times.
1,810 Feb 8, 2011 2:13 pm
Re: CURRENT STATE OF THE USB CART INDUSTRY? (102 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
stargazer wrote:
Thanks for that Nitro I was hoping you'd chime in. Also, it seems like Jose took credit for creating the bleepbloop carts completely. The smartboy guys just don't give proper credit. But maybe that's just my impression.
They actually never claimed anything in any direction, at all. However, as most people probably don't know, they came to 8bc long ago (2007-ish?) and asked for cartridge schematics. At the time they were not well received, IIRC.
stargazer wrote:
Do you know what the deal with Jose nuking everything about the smartboy carts is all about? Is it just because he didn't want anyone to find out he stole the design?
Either that, or he didn't want competition. Jose did say at the time that SB stole his design, and that he didn't want them to get ahold of the USB cart design, which in retrospect gives a bad taste in the mouth.
However, to be fair, leaving that whole conflict aside, from the perspective of 8bc moderation at the time, SB were spamming pretty obnoxiously, so in some way it made sense to nuke them. Even though that's no excuse for Jose's motives.
1,811 Feb 8, 2011 1:23 pm
Re: CURRENT STATE OF THE USB CART INDUSTRY? (102 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Theta_Frost wrote:
Awol wrote:Tell me more.
On the Everdrive support forums Krikzz said he was going to do a GB Everdrive. After the Game Gear and Master System ones are finished, I think we can expect one. He sounded really excited about it!
Don't forget this! 
I talked directly to him, and this indeed seems to be true. There are some joyous times ahead!
Theta_Frost wrote:
AFAIK aren't Smartboy Carts the same design by the Polish IT students? Doesn't that make them just a morally unacceptable? That is if you prefer them over bleep bloop just because smart boy has no Jose. Just saying you can't hate on bleep bloop and not hate on smart boy.
If you just look at the carts, you're absolutely right. But there's a bunch of other circumstances speaking for Jose's disadvantage. And you could argue that you should have higher expectations of the owner of 8bc than on some guy in the middle of nowhere in China. And also, Smartboy only ever produced small quantities of cartridges and they fucked up their distribution, so that problem sort of solved itself.
1,812 Feb 8, 2011 3:11 am
Re: CURRENT STATE OF THE USB CART INDUSTRY? (102 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Yes, it is based on battery-less RAM.
And to those who might be wondering, the person who'll be making these is Abrasive.
1,813 Feb 7, 2011 3:43 pm
Re: LSDJ Cart RIP in strange way ? (13 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I don't have answer to why it happened, but I can still take a look at the sav. I've recovered songs before...
1,814 Feb 7, 2011 12:07 pm
Re: CURRENT STATE OF THE USB CART INDUSTRY? (102 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Rei Yano wrote:
AW SHIT. see this is what we need. progress. why hasn't this had more attention?
btw any info on ETA? I want one of these puppies.
Probably because he knows his stuff is real and will sell once it hits the market, so he doesn't need to be a complete attention whore about it, until then at least.
No ETA available. It'll be done when it's done. Mafipulation is a delicate process.
1,815 Feb 7, 2011 11:41 am
Re: CURRENT STATE OF THE USB CART INDUSTRY? (102 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Josecart are still being produced in some quanttities. A bit overpriced for what it is.
http://www.nonelectronics.com/catalog/i … mp;cPath=2
EMS 64M.
http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/usb-64m-smart-card
Then there's this new kid n the block. Not done yet, but promises real drag'n'drop support.
http://mafipulation.org/cart/
1,816 Feb 7, 2011 11:34 am
Re: what happened to 8bc (265 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Jellica wrote:
Someone should go to pouet.net or csdb.c64.org and start a thread about this, just in case they know what is going on.
1,817 Feb 6, 2011 11:35 pm
Re: LSDJ Cart RIP in strange way ? (13 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
It's possible that the songs were salvageable, but you almost certainly killed them when you removed the battery. If you have a means of dumping the sav, I could take a look at it still.
1,818 Feb 6, 2011 11:30 pm
Re: what happened to 8bc (265 replies, posted in General Discussion)
pixls: Just go to http://chipmusic.org/404/
Or if you want to be fancy, (in firefox) right click, view page info, security, view cookies and then delete the no8bc404 cookie. If you do that, the page will show again when you try to visit anything on here with 8bc in the URL.
1,819 Feb 6, 2011 3:57 pm
Re: what happened to 8bc (265 replies, posted in General Discussion)
m0d, at least now you an disable the mom joke...
1,820 Feb 5, 2011 6:53 am
Re: what happened to 8bc (265 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Fun fact about 8bc's membership numbers: Before I got stripped of my admin rights on 8bc, I queried the database to see how many members were "dead", according to the following criteria: 0 forum posts, 0 image/music submissions, 0 comments and haven't been logged in for a month. I don't remember the exact ratio, but I think it was about 40%. A significant amount, at least. And I don't see any reason why that number would be lower today.
1,821 Feb 4, 2011 7:53 pm
Re: needed- small sd cards 64-256 ish mb (7 replies, posted in General Discussion)
How many do you need, exactly, and for what?
1,822 Feb 4, 2011 5:15 pm
Re: what happened to 8bc (265 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Completely random and off-topic (yeeeaaahh) but... Cityscape, what's the deal with the rightmost building in you avatar? Is it a guitar skyscraper?
1,823 Feb 4, 2011 4:40 am
Re: what happened to 8bc (265 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Reopened. Try to keep unnecessary blabbering at a minimum, OK?
1,824 Feb 4, 2011 12:33 am
Re: LSDJ FAQ (84 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
akira^8GB wrote:
Your volume progression is not being smooth, so those are the "clicks" I believe.
Try using a table, too.
That's no actually the problem. It's a hardware limitation. To change the volume, the phase of the waveform needs to be restarted, which causes a click. you can get away with using well E commands in a table, where one continues where the other left off, but the volume column is essentially useless, unless you actually want a static-ey sound.