577 Reply by Telerophon

(1,206 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I ended up getting it all together. Turns out I tried to panel mount a switch somewhere stupid, and I'll have to redo some of the case routing, or find smaller slide switches. hmm

Anyway, here's the finished product!

Everything works, although I keep tweaking the screw tensions to try to take pressure off the screen… I'm not sure if it's that specific backlight or what, but I can't get it in there without a significant amount of pressure being on the screen.

Final Specs:

  • kitsch case with custom paint and custom buttons.

  • Panel Mount 1/8" Pro-Sound, wired pre-pot.

  • Nonfinite V3 Ultra white backlight, switched

  • Diffused white Power LED

  • Internal PS/2 port, prototype kitsch hardware.

  • A heart full of love.

  • RadioShack speaker replacement, OEM hardware failed.

  • Actually is the game boy I have had since childhood. big_smile

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578 Reply by Telerophon

(1,206 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

kitsch wrote:

have you tested it yet?  it work ok?

IT WORKS!

Soldering it with the nut on the backside wasn't nearly as hard as it seemed it would be.

Despite inexperience and and my earnest efforts at failure, this project was a success. The Easy_PS2 is simply too easy. wink

That said, the only major problem I've had with completing this DMG has been putting the front board back in place and closing the case with the backlight I've installed (Nonfinite V3). I feel stupid, for all the things I didn't screw up in this mod, I just can't close the case now. tongue

I don't feel like that deserves a thread. Any tips, guys?

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579 Reply by Telerophon

(60 replies, posted in General Discussion)

whoa

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580 Reply by Telerophon

(119 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Dot.AY wrote:

but here




have a unicorn

I like that this is obviously a stallion unicorn. wink

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581 Reply by Telerophon

(1,206 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

kitsch wrote:

did the ps/2 jack mount ok the way you have it?  that way i don't think you need to dremel down the case

in stalling it with the nut on the outside you've got to dremel a little bit.

have you tested it yet?  it work ok?

It mounted fine, but it took some clever thinking. The thread on the outside is too short to extend through the case at its normal thickness.

The issues with installing it the way I have chosen to do it is that you have to solder the board to the backside of the jack with it mounted in place. I haven't done that yet, but I'm sure it'll take some cleverness on my part. On the upside, I really only have to solder four points…

I'm going to do that all tonight, so I'll update you when I get it working.

That case is also in the middle of getting a cool Van Halen paint job. big_smile

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582 Reply by Telerophon

(54 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Yeah, I didn't even realize that a single phrase/block with sixteen steps in LSDj wasn't equivalent to a 4/4 measure with 16th note subdivision until I started playing with groove settings to create swing, and I wasn't hearing it swing on my most syncopated bits.

Then, I was like "oh each step is an eighth note, whaaaat." neutral

Haha, "percussionists." I was always known for both being terrible, and being that one guy who played Keiko Abe traditional four-mallet grip instead of Burton or Musser grip. I miss Marimba now. Oh well.

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583 Reply by Telerophon

(19 replies, posted in Trading Post)

I love that, but I don't think I'm metal enough to wear it.

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584 Reply by Telerophon

(54 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I hope I didn't just pull that out of my ass.

At the end of the day, though, using a tracker within a traditional music notation framework is trying to use apples like oranges.

If a traditional groove setting is 6/6, and most people treat a 16 step phrase like they are using two measures with eighth note subdivisions, then halving the groove halves the amount of time the computer spends on each step, meaning that you are now functionally using a phrase with sixteenth note subdivisions instead of eighth note subdivisions.

This is confusing to me too, so I hope it's making sense on some level, and I always encourage people to correct me if they think I'm wrong.

I just started playing with this the other day and habitually turning my groove down to 3/3, because I prefer to think about each phrase like one 4/4 measure with sixteenth note subdivisions when I'm tracking.

(I was a drummer first. Can you tell?)

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585 Reply by Telerophon

(60 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Solarbear wrote:

A nifty way to reach truly atonal sounds in LSDJ is with the PU FINE detune! I like to call the areas between sharp and natural 'narps'

This is actually called a "quarter-tone," and playing music with tones between those defined in equal temperment is called "Microtonality" or "Microtonal Music." Composers like Krzysztof Penderecki are particularly well known for this.

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586 Reply by Telerophon

(1,485 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Yeah, I'm hoping that whenever the Mk.II silicone button backlight system is revealed, it'll have a way to integrate controls with a RGB backlight so that you can change the colors of every light with the same three potentiometers.

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587 Reply by Telerophon

(11 replies, posted in Releases)

Why "Bitches Don't Know 'Bout My Beeps" instead of "Bitches Don't Know 'Bout My Chip(s)"

Not being critical, just curious.

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588 Reply by Telerophon

(60 replies, posted in General Discussion)

You guys are gonna make me crack music theory textbooks again…

I am terrible at this stuff, but I've always found musictheory.net to be a particularly helpful little primer.

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589 Reply by Telerophon

(54 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

You can also mess with the groove to create something like 8/8 time instead of 4/4 time.

If you turned the groove down to 3/3 and then used H on row C, you'd have created 6/8 time.

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590 Reply by Telerophon

(54 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

It's all good, bro.

Showing each other cool shit is what the Internet is all about. smile

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591 Reply by Telerophon

(8 replies, posted in General Discussion)

hey dude welcome 2 tha forum

If u wanna make chip music get a program called flstudio n then import a midi file for a cool song (like the yugioh theme!) and then change the sounds

itll be great!

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592 Reply by Telerophon

(72 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Garfield Without Garfield might be the best thing to ever happen on the Internet.

George wrote:

I love you e.s.c. even if this is the wrong thread for love.

There is just too much love on CM.O for one thread to hold it all. smile

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