Tough to sync the 2600 unless you already have the Highly-Liquid midi adapter.
It will be impossible to buy anymore of these adapters from Highly-Liquid as I bought the last
6 today that John had and he is not restocking this item anymore.
He did hint that he might release the code and make it open source, but I don't know when.

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herr_prof wrote:

Neil and Trash should sell badges that say ABOY/NTRQ INSIDE ala intel, and then oems can buy them direct for their commercial use big_smile

Yes, I agree.  It would simplify things.  Oliver (nanoloop) has it figured out. Mssiah and cynthcart are straight forward.  I plan to donate $10 or more to LSDJ for every copy we buy.
Frustrating.

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I understand the confusion based on our prototype. 

The next prototype we are working on has removable carts slots.  The nes cart can be removed by opening the bonnet and changing out the cart.   WE ARE SELLING HARDWARE ONLY.  We have acquired a developer and will write and use our own arduino code to power the gameboys.
WE ARE NOT SELLING SOFTWARE!  We are encouraging our customers to acquire their own software.  We will offer them information on
how to obtain it and in some cases purchase it for them, but these are separate transactions outside of the sales of our units in WHICH WE WILL NOT PROFIT ANYTHING!!!  Similar as to what is being done by Non-electronics.  If we obtain proof of purchase, we will flash a cart for them.
We have a customer who purchased a NTRQ cart from you and requested it to be installed into his Ninstrument.  He provided his cart and we are installing it for him.  His transaction was with you and that is the way we prefer it.  Just like it was done before.  Nintendo sold the units and other game developers sold their games.  We are selling heavily modified units and we encourage our customers to search out and find the various programs to run and use on their Ninstruments.

Sorry for the confusion.

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Done,
On every page and every post. From now on.

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I would be more than willing to give him all the credit, I just need to hear it from him, as to not piss him off more than I already have.
Please tell me what credit you want, and how you would like it to read and I will post it immediately.
You don't see my name or Josh's name anywhere in the reviews.  Do you really think this is the direction I wanted for this project?

I thought we all could have benefited and be well on our way by now.

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AdamGetsAwesome wrote:
DSC wrote:

If he is insulted by it, why would I attach his name to it.
I think he is being generous even to allow me to post it here.

I guess just because someone is insulted means they deserve 0 credit for the effort they put in.

Before this gets carried away, I emailed Trash80 two weeks before launching this thread.  I asked him then about credit, compensation and the works.  I received no response.  Then I released it and of course now we know how it was received.  If he wants credit, trash80, please let me know, since we have never had any direct communication.  I assumed since you were insulted by it, you would not want to be associated with it.

Again this is for trash80 to respond to.

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nickmaynard wrote:

it seems like everyone on other sites are assuming this is something you "invented" which I think makes it weird that you don't link to or reference trash80 anywhere on your site or in the video. I mean, right now it's just an arduinoboy in a rack, so I think he deserves a little credit, no?

It's a cool packaging and I dig a lot of the more recent ideas in this thread ( ext. controller + video out ) but the fact that trash80 isn't referenced anywhere is kind of weird to me, to be honest.

If he is insulted by it, why would I attach his name to it.
I think he is being generous even to allow me to post it here.

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Thanks InactiveX,  I haven't had this much fun with these old sounds since the Mssiah Ctrl!
http://www.prophet64-forum.com/viewtopic.php?id=1665

Snes is a great idea as well as a Super Game Boy.  We are working on a screen-less 1U rack with removable carts right now too!

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Prototype I Video now on homepage.
www.absolutextemes.com/ninstrument

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Vile wrote:
Krubbz wrote:

Yet if you think how low racks can be at a studio, it wouldn't be good if the screen was at a permanent tilt downward.  Maybe there could be a tilt option to tilt up or down.  Or even a video out for a breakout screen?

Actually this was more of what I meant since most travelling racks are in a rolling unit but the option to tilt both up and down would be a great idea. Not to mention I think NeX already figured out a way to get a video out for Gameboys as it is, so that option could be totally feasible.

I missed this, NeX, did you really figure out a video out?
That would be a must feature, if it's not to crazy.

Tilting the screen might be cool, but I just measured and the best you would get is 10 degrees either way.  Would require considerable more expense too.  Is 10 degrees worth the extra cost?

Maybe video out is a better option?

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Trackball does sound interesting.  I will have to burn some brain cells on it.

On a side note I wanted to let everybody know the next prototype will have access to the cart slots, so you can use your own carts and run whatever you want to.  The back panel will be labeled as DMG 1,  DMG 2, etc.

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NeX told me he had a way to control these with the trackball on his smart phone.  Maybe a cheap tablet with a wireless option, or is that too much.
Maybe a nes controller with a switch for each unit in the rack like Vile mentions, but then you still can't be too far away to see what you are doing.
It's a tough one.

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m30w wrote:

this is AWESOME! i like the way youve put the dmg-01's in the rack,

beats my bulky and lazier approach of "bolt the fronts on the front of the rack approach"


maybe a port for a nes controller to control the gameboys from sitting down, because i always find with racks a bit of a pain in the ass pushing buttons.
would be cool... or even a snes controller and use the spare buttons to shift which gameboy your controlling!?

I'm glad you posted m30w,
I actually have a couple of questions for you.  I like what you did by the way.  It makes more sense than a bunch of systems tossed here and there and all over the place. One spot, better efficiency.

I measured today and I think I could mount the top PCB flush against the front of a 3U panel.  This might be a diy kit option that we could offer to people who don't want, or don't have the tools to modify their top PCB's.  This would be a bit more expensive, because it would be a 3U case.  What do you think?

Did you have trouble using the d-pads real time, or during a performance?

Again, thanks for posting.  Any info or experience you have using your mod would help us learn from what you have already done.

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Response has been overwhelming!

Richard Devine tweeted this last night.

K emailed with this to say:

thanks!
i will definitely check back, but please also email me when they are available for purchase!
i am running 5 nintendos side by side right now, and have been looking for a way to de-clutter. i have been wishing for a while that someone would build what you are!
have you considered including sid?

P emailed with this to say:

Hi, i saw this on a synth forum, and i am so utterly excited at the sheer existence of such a thing. I am a producer, synth programmer, touring keyboardist, and enjoy using analog and vintage synths. How much does one of your machines cost?

This has been great. About 3000 hits in less than 12 hours.  NeX whatever concept you are working on, dust that baby off cause there is definitely interest for this concept!

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Theta_Frost wrote:

- Breakout ports for controllers
- 4x pitch with the LTC1799 controlled by MIDI
- 4x MIDI controlled lowpass filters

These are great ideas.  Midi control over the LTC1799 sounds cool.
Always open to more suggestions as far as a name.  I wanted it to be identifiable without to much effort.
I've received several emails through my site in the last 24 hours too.
One of them is very, very cool.
I hope to incorporate it into the next prototype build, which will start in 4 weeks.
I will update the blog, so stay tuned.

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NeX, I think that you are headed in the right direction.  The raw sounds could use some effects.
If we added that chip, do you think we would still need to add the LTC 1799, or a crystal mod?
I noticed it had 'pitch' as one of it's effects.

I guess the next logical thing would be a switchable mixer to select what sound you want affected?
Maybe just a on/off/thru switch for each DMG or NES?