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81 Reply by Telerophon Nov 7, 2012 7:33 am

Re: Gameboy Pocket Prices (19 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Jake Allison wrote:

Man, why do you want a pocket?

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82 Reply by Telerophon Nov 7, 2012 7:30 am

Re: f2a Ultra 2GB Cartridge Backup Batter Replacement (1 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

As a point of note, if you look around, you can find lithium cell batteries with solder tabs.

These make the ideal replacement, as you can desolder the original battery at the tabs and then resolder the new one in place, at which point you will have a cartridge that is literally good as new.

I've lost count of how many times I've tried to talk the local game shops into hiring me to do this on contracts for a nominal fee.

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83 Reply by Telerophon Nov 7, 2012 7:24 am

Re: Gameboy Color or DMG (95 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

DotMatrix wrote:

Making jazz chiptunes would be fucking amazing.

If I ever make anything good enough to release, I'll be trying to do something like this.

Note, also, that "jazz" as a concept is a philosophical thing. Ergo, making "jazz" chiptunes is difficult since the musical approaches involved are very different. Jazz relies heavily on improvisation and group dynamics in a live setting, and chipmusic is typically done solo and sequenced fully for scene release in a demo or what have you. It's only with the advent of many more modern musical tools that chip musicians are able to "play live" with the flexibility of a modern DJ and bring improvisational dynamics into their sound.

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84 Reply by Telerophon Nov 7, 2012 7:20 am

Re: How to swap the red LED next the to the screen on a gameboy color? (9 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

He specifically asked about the Game Boy Color, but as I recall it's not very different at all.

As I said though, I'll have to crack a CGB open to check it.

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85 Reply by Telerophon Nov 7, 2012 7:19 am

Re: know any chip hiphop artists? (64 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Saskrotch wrote:

have you heard of timbaland

lol

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86 Reply by Telerophon Nov 7, 2012 3:44 am

Re: How to swap the red LED next the to the screen on a gameboy color? (9 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I'd have to open one of mine up and look at the PCB again, but I'd planned to do this to a couple of my lime green ones…

It should be pretty straightforward, it's just a through-hole mounted component. The stuff is just packed a bit tighter than the DMG internals, and you have to be careful not to cook off any of the SMT components.

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87 Reply by Telerophon Nov 7, 2012 3:40 am

Re: Gameboy Color or DMG (95 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I wish we had a good jazz scene in Austin anymore.

San Antonio had a decent-ish one back in the day, but it's running on fumes now. All of the best jazz musicians in Texas float around DFW these days, seeing as most of them are students, faculty, or staff at UNT.

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88 Reply by Telerophon Nov 7, 2012 3:35 am

Re: mastering advice?? (22 replies, posted in Audio Production)

That's such a hard question to answer because there are a billion ways to master, and none of them are "wrong."

This is generic and debatably useless advice, but I think it might be a useful guiding principle: Your mastering has to suit your aesthetic needs, sonically speaking. If it sounds right to you, it's right; if it sounds wrong, it's wrong. Keep experimenting with new tools and you'll find ones that leave you with a master that reflects the record you wanted to produce.

(As qualification, most of my mastering experience is more towards archival audio, such as cleaning up noisy or poorly recorded audio or converting degraded analog media recordings to digital formats. I learned a lot from that, but the skills may not directly lend themselves to recording that begins digitally or as output from a tracker's WAV export.)

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89 Reply by Telerophon Nov 6, 2012 11:36 pm

Re: Gameboy Advance (Classic) - Prosound Mod (26 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

plc268 wrote:

Telerophon wrote:
Also, you can apparently still get Afterburner kits. I remember those being a thing circa 2002; that was a custom frontlighting system for the original GBA.
I'm not sure how well it worked, but it's another way to frontlight a classic AGB-001.
The problem is, is that they're nearly impossible to find now. Besides, if you're going the frontlight route, you're better off ripping the light guide out of a gbasp instead, which would be significantly easier to source than an Afterburner kit.
Because trust me, I tried. It was actually how I stumbled on the backlighting, was by searching how to find an afterburner kit, and someone linked a chinese youtube link of the guy testing out his backlit gba.

Ah, I didn't realize you were specifically referring to a backlit screen from the AGS-101 SP. My bad.

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