33 Reply by Batsly Adams

(105 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Yeah man - I've been testing back and forth with bleo on skype whenever we're both available, but the project was (obviously) put on the backburner for a bit. What happened was I ended up chasing down that sample problem which required an entire rewrite of the communication routine of both parts. It ended up taking a lot of work and I burned out.

As it stands:
VRC6 is working perfectly (sawtooth table was a little sour, but that's fixed)
Note offsets / channel reassignment work great, controllable a gamepad, 6 note chords are fun (2pulse + triangle + 2 Vpulse + sawtooth)
Samples do work, but it's a bit of a kludge and I haven't tested how it affects performance. Not sure if I'd call it a success yet.

I'll gladly send the current ROM / arduino sketch to anyone who'd like to test it, just PM me.

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34 Reply by Batsly Adams

(20 replies, posted in Releases)

Outstanding!

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35 Reply by Batsly Adams

(21 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

Crazy! I'd like to see more video of this.

RB drum kit run through a USB-midi converter to the WTPA2.

I fixed a bunch of bugs with the sample code, I had the DAC return to zero immediately after the sample was done playing which caused a nasty click/pop. Now it gracefully levels out any inactive channels.

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36 Reply by Batsly Adams

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Rewrote some software for the kit to play NES DPCM samples from an SD-card!

Dragged the first 128 files out of bucky's amazing sample pack and voila!

It's playing true 1-bit samples the same way the NES would (no cheating and converting to wave). I think it would make for an awesome drum brain if I threw MIDI in. I coded it so that that up to 4 samples can play simultaneously. The source was seriously well commented.

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37 Reply by Batsly Adams

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Yep! FCEUX - use it all the time to figure out exactly what's going on with some of the crazier effects. Don't know the default but I hit Q to pause and \ to advance every frame.

Love the recent GIFs by the way - the Magician goat's milk one had me laughing for a while!

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38 Reply by Batsly Adams

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AdamGetsAwesome wrote:

Jesus, that was quick! I thought maybe we'd have a build party ='(.

I was in the zone! There is still your kit to do!

egr wrote:

I've been looking at the ordering options... did you source your own parts?  It's not clear what you get for the $85 basic kit.

The $85 kit came with all components except for clock switch/power/audio/midi jacks. Jack board kit contains all of those parts + a nice black PCB to mount them on. The sd-card daughterboard is also separate from the kit.

Personally I think getting the jack board is a no-brainer - they are nice components and it makes the hookup really neat. Same goes for the enclosure if you plan on having one - everything assembled together beautifully without having to force anything. The sd-card is up in the air depending on if you'll use storage - but it's priced so that you probably should get it just in case.

Check out this thread for info on the new stuff. Bounce around the forum a bit too - there is some great stuff on there.
http://www.narrat1ve.com/forum/comments … e=1#Item_0

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39 Reply by Batsly Adams

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I built mine just last night!

I can't say enough great things about the kit - the silkscreen / layout / hardware is top notch. The new version of the board (WTPA2) has some new options (microSD-card storage / additional board to mount jacks / acrylic enclosures). I've seen both enclosure colors and they both positively glow when lit.

I'm waiting on some ribbon cable before I hook up the audio jacks - I'll post a demo when that's done.

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40 Reply by Batsly Adams

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41 Reply by Batsly Adams

(52 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

I'm completely stunned by how amazing it plays/looks/sounds - seriously outstanding work man. Going to replay it on my powerpak now!

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42 Reply by Batsly Adams

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Sorry dude - things have been super busy! All of the source was up there at first but the SVN wasn't working the way I was hoping it would and I ended up trashing it. I have some more stuff to post but I need to handle a bunch of things first!

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43 Reply by Batsly Adams

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new wallpaper

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44 Reply by Batsly Adams

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Krubbz:
I chose an Arduino for the simplicity of the platform. You won't need to know how to program to run any of this stuff - although the circuit assembly might take a little work. If you're using USB-MIDI you won't need to solder anything (just plug the wires into the Arduino). Is your current setup MIDI-based? I sent out boards for people to test last week so things are moving along.

Also updates:
Implemented VRC6 (for powerpak users) - Both square channels + sawtooth working perfectly
Channel remapping - MIDI channels can now be reassigned on the fly with a controller in P1. They can even overlap! So you can assign a single MIDI channel to multiple channels on the NES and they will play simultaneously. A detune / transpose option was added so you can create multi-channel leads if you are using this as a live instrument.


Video once I make a decent demo song.

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45 Reply by Batsly Adams

(86 replies, posted in Past Events)

WOAH

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46 Reply by Batsly Adams

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47 Reply by Batsly Adams

(49 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

+1
I can't say enough about how great KeFF is - he went through several designs/sketches and even after I thought the job was done he continued to improve it!

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48 Reply by Batsly Adams

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Party Time! Hexcellent! wrote:

Say, could the PC-->NES transfer work the other way, too (NES-->PC)? Being able to send and receive network data could be interesting...


Yep! The code is written but I haven't really used it yet. I have done some network stuff one way before for an NES twitter client -


OT:
Congratulations on Blip! / Faxie is way cool! smile

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