177

(3 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Technically, yes. Realistically, no.

If you find a really good deal on a replacement LCD PCB, the swap would be easy, but you'll almost never see them for sale and replacing the LCD alone is very difficult (and you're even less likely to find the replacement part).

That said, game Boys are dirt cheap on the used market, so it'll be cheaper and easier to just buy a new one and, if you're really attached to the housing of the one you've got, swap the LCD PCB in.

178

(19 replies, posted in General Discussion)

While I thoroughly understand, this is the worst.

That said, thank you all for the rad releases over the years.

garvalf wrote:

I'm trying this, but it acts rather strangely:

./pcm2pwm piano8bit.wav

all I get is:
.byte $00,$FF,$FF

My file should be legit I guess:
piano8bit.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 44100 Hz

it's 45 kb big

(I exported as 8bit unsigned in audacity)

Is it only that file that is having trouble? What version of the tool are you running and on what OS? If it's just the one file can you email me the file in question?

180

(14 replies, posted in General Discussion)

VCR5 wrote:
jefftheworld wrote:

Marijuana is not good for your focus. Staying hydrated is actually important to staying focused, so ensure you drink enough wayer, and of course caffeine - in a reasonable dose - is also very good for your focus. Save the bud for after the match.

Cool, u bronze right? jk wink

Obviously you're wood league because you've got that gosu green thumb.  ^__~

181

(14 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Marijuana is not good for your focus. Staying hydrated is actually important to staying focused, so ensure you drink enough wayer, and of course caffeine - in a reasonable dose - is also very good for your focus. Save the bud for after the match.

Got myself a dirt cheap TI-83+ and I must say I'm really quite enjoying this.


EDIT: Holy shit!

I just realized there is a user defined sample playback that uses 1-bit PWM! That's a super rad addition, what a great way of adding custom samples! Everyone, grab the latest version of [pcm2pwm] and you can easily convert samples to the exact format that HT2 uses.

I'll make a promise here, if irrlicht ever adds the capability to import pwm sample data into HT2, I'll add a matching binary output feature to pcm2pwm so that you can easy create files to send to HT2.

EDIT 2: Actually, HT2 uses an inversion of pcm2pwm, so I'll be adding a feature this weekend for outputting the inverted format it uses. Is the minimum period 0x80?

183

(28 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

catskull wrote:

OHHHh sorry. I thought you meant remap memory location 0x104 to memory location 0x133. What you meant was remap memory location 0x104 through 0x133 to somewhere else unspecified.

Sorry for the confusion.

Yeah, sorry I wasn't clear. That's how some unlicensed games got their own logo to scroll without locking up the Game Boy but as far as I can tell there's no way to do it without special mapper hardware on the cartridge.

184

(28 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

The title sits in 0x134 to 0x143.

185

(28 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Now we just need someone to produce a cart that can use the classic logo swap trick and quickly remap 0x104-0x133.

186

(7 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

powersupply wrote:
djhaka wrote:

It might depend on what chip you're using (NES vs. Atari, etc.), what the software can extract... I don't know of any oscilloscopes, but I have seen NSFplug used as a background for Youtube videos (for NES chiptunes, of course). No waveforms, but it shows note values, velocities, a piano roll, and stuff like that.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uKhgzXYj7Y

That's a neat program, but not quite what I'm looking for.
I'm using a game boy. I was just planning on playing each track separately and feeding each into a program, recording it, then putting it all together.

In that case, any oscilloscope software (or hardware) will fit the bill. Just record a video of each channel of audio being played through the scope and throw them together in your video editing software.

187

(21 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

herr_prof wrote:

You should just support hooking a link cable to the pi gpio directly. Will try to find time to pay with this!

Yeah, they stated that as a future goal and that would make it rather exciting. Particularly if support for a few pushbuttons were added to control some of the settings.

188

(18 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

The NeoMagic sound controllers seem to support Soundblaser through emulation but I'd be interested to hear what it sounds like. If you happen to record an audio sample I'd love to hear it.

[BOTH ITEMS HAVE BEEN SOLD]

FS: Two neat things!

Both are in great condition and perfect working order but I've just never had a chance to use them.

1. Ongaku Tsukuru ($15 CAD)
~This Super Famicom cartridge lets you compose music for the SuFami/SNES.

2. Currah Speech 64 ($25 CAD)
~This reasonably rare Commodore 64 cartridge adds a really neat synthesized voice to your C64.

(Shipping varies, ships from Toronto, just ask. )

190

(10 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

The Kerberos is what I use. It can emulate two floppies on top of all it's other features.

http://www.frank-buss.de/kerberos/buy.html

Bump.

https://github.com/JeffAlyanak/pcm2pwm

Just made a few small changes to the pcm2pwm tool and I've also thrown the source up for anyone who wants to muck about with it. The only really visible change is the ability to set your own high and low crossover values, making it unnecessary to amplify your input wav file to near clipping. That said, you'll still want to sound to be relatively heavily compressed and setting these crossovers might be a hit or miss process in terms of getting a decent representation of the original sound's timbre.

192

(11 replies, posted in General Discussion)

kvee wrote:
jefftheworld wrote:

Here's the song I didn't complete on time. tongue

http://chipmusic.org/jefftheworld/music … -sun-cover

At some point I'll probably still finish it and do something neat with it.

I like the 50% duty echo lead!

The lead does a quick 12 5 0 arp and 2 0 2 duty to try to add a 'pluck' sort of sound to the beginning of each note.