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ForaBrokenEarth wrote:Arricat wrote:Next week marks 2 years since I placed my order....
I guess I just have to let it go 
P.S. please check out Aly James' FMDrive and SPSG plugins.
They sound great and are a great alternative to waiting years for a GenMDM
2 years? Jesus. It's a shame that in the end this all went the way of the Midines.
Yea and the really sh*tty part is I miss having Littlescale around here. Oh I'd love to have the interface in hand but seems like we lost a cool member too cause of all this. Miss seeing his posts with cool ideas and projects, and yea can follow his blog but it's just not the same as here.
Yogi
scannerboy wrote:Sorry for the late response
yogi wrote: While it is doable and have seen similar mods,
Can you post some links?
I'd have to dig a bit, but there were a few mods on I-Opener hack sites a while back (the I-Opener was a internet appliance, motherboard and LCD all-in-one with no expansion slots. not quite a laptop and not quite a PC). Some were for tapping the board's ISA signals to add a connector and card.
Here are a few I-Opener sites ( that still work) that have a little info about the YM 719 audio mods:
http://www.mtu.net/~bjcouche/I-O_Audio.htm
http://www.ghettohardware.com/articles/iopener/
http://www.evernex.com/iopener/#snd
yogi wrote:I have found that just the dis assembly and re assembly of most laptops is a major project in it's self,
I guess it depends on the laptop. I have a Toshiba Portege 300ct and opening this little beast isn't harder than opening a Game Boy.
True. I've only dealt with some old Thinkpads and a Dell. Working on lappys is a bit like doing origami 
yogi wrote: let alone soldering to the pins of the SMD chip. If the pins in question are not used there is little likely hood that there will be a trace or via on the PCB that you could use. So you would have to solder the connections directly to the chip, not for the faint of heart
Come on 
There are people who change their GB CPU for a SGB CPU.
Oh don't get me wrong, if there's a will there's a way. But I would have to really think hard to decide if I wanted to take a chance of trashing a an old FM laptop.
It''s just that for the most part the skill level is too high for most. I just wanted to point out that it may not be 'for everyone'.
Another option that's not invasive is a RS232 to Midi interface if there is a serial port. Back in the day they were common and can be had on ebay from time to time; there are also DIY solutions also that can built with Midibox hardware ( a Core8, LTC and a IIC slave Midi; happen to be working on a related project now, TK's midi router).
yogi wrote:If you do jump into this mod, best of luck and please do document it
As you can see from my GBC Bass mod, and GBC Noise filtering mod Im not the best at documenting stuff ;//
Yea I know the feeling
Yogi
zerolanding wrote:to round of this story, turns out if I press reset a few times it my INL cart boots clear, same thing with my everdrive after I put fresh os or files. Something with capacitor discharge...Science! Another note INL has cart shells!
Good to hear that you got it working.
I've seen a similar issue on some carts i've rechiped. A cart I made for Neil Baldwin's SMMM has a funky issue when I power cycle. Have to wait like a minute to let the CHR EPROM 'bleed off', otherwise the screen is messed up; kind of a monochrome green mess. I think it's an issue with the difference between the original mask PROM and the EPROM I used.
Yogi
stargazer wrote:If I want to order one for Super Bat Puncher, how do I tell which kind of board I need? Is there an easy way to see what board an NES rom needs?
It's in the ROM header, so you could read it from there but try opening the rom in like Nestopia and going to View -> Info. Should be reported there.
Yogi
CountSymphoniC wrote:yogi wrote:As long as the tracker reads a controller button for sync triggers, no midi decoding needed on the Sega side.
Yogi
There will be MIDI sync yes. But there's going to be more than cross console tracker synchronization. I'm also looking into MIDI controller input and more.
Oh that sounds great. Looking forward to this very much
Yogi
Jazzmarazz wrote:yogi wrote:Another question, I know there is a flash cart in the works but could this repo board be used? http://www.retrostage.net/
Provided that I flash a chip.
Yogi
Sure, for the demo ROM. The SRAM won't be enough and that is 'only if' it is mapped to a portion of the same location.
OK thanks, that's what I was wondering. I know it's kind of early but just excited!
Yogi
the mist toggles wrote:Nice to see this tracker evolving so fast!
If there is space for graphics, there must be space for programming MIDI sync.
It should be possible to build an interface after that.
There is GENMDM that already has reached MIDI communication, so, it should be relatively easy.
A+ Midi sync. Iv'e been working on a NES sync interface and VegaPlay/Fami Slayer Sync rom. When Prodigy is released to the wild, could adapt the PIC interface without too much effort. As long as the tracker reads a controller button for sync triggers, no midi decoding needed on the Sega side.
Yogi
Another question, I know there is a flash cart in the works but could this repo board be used? http://www.retrostage.net/
Provided that I flash a chip.
Yogi
scannerboy wrote:finally somebody answered
I'm asking because I think it's a totally doable thing at least on laptops with the opl3-sax.
You can check in the ymf715e datasheet that the chip has all the gameport signal pins including rxd for receiving midi signals.
So it basically just comes down to connecting a optocoupler and a din socket. I'm quite baffled that no one thought about it.
While it is doable and have seen similar mods, it is far from simple. I have found that just the dis assembly and re assembly of most laptops is a major project in it's self, let alone soldering to the pins of the SMD chip. If the pins in question are not used there is little likely hood that there will be a trace or via on the PCB that you could use. So you would have to solder the connections directly to the chip, not for the faint of heart
If you do jump into this mod, best of luck and please do document it
Yogi
CountSymphoniC wrote:JaffaCakeMexica wrote:Will it have true BPM like LGPT or framerate based "speed"?
Only if I can get it to work. Even if I do get it to work, the fact of the matter is that BPM calculations on consoles like this aren't 100% accurate. There's a chance that the BPM on the tracker would be ever so slightly mismatched with the BPM of your favorite DAW or other trackers. There's little that can be done about it if this is the case. But we'll see very soon, I might be able to find a way to avoid the accuracy issue that plagues other retro trackers.
How about a slave sync mode? Just 24 ppqn in one of the controller buttons could lock play back to a ext master clock.
Yogi
This is gonna be sweet! Nice demo
Yogi
Imaginary wrote:It always amazes me that when the general public is faced with the use of older technology, nine times out of ten people can't find anything to say other than "Didn't they stop making that like 20 years ago!?" There's this implication that somehow any technology more than ten years old is no longer useful or interesting, but has instead become WACKY AND HILARIOUS! Is it consumerism that drives this attitude, or do people really just lack an imagination when it comes to this sort of thing? I guess these questions are more or less rhetorical, but sometimes I gotta wonder. Don't get me wrong, Salad Shooters are wacky and hilarious... It must be a perspective thing.
Haha, dumb musings aside, this looks pretty rad. It's cool to see you (guys) posting, 8 Bit Weapon was some of the first chiptune I ever listened to and has always been a favorite. Thanks for the music!
Ditto, well said. For me also, 8 Bit Weapon was my first exposure to chip music and really opened my eyes to what can be done on these old, loved machines! Glad to see more main stream interest.
Yogi
Interesting AVR project. Here is a thread on the MidiBox MIDIO128 code (which has midi player function built in). LPC ARM, SD card socket, and midi ports.
http://midibox.org/forums/topic/17417-q … +%2Bplayer
Yogi
Balloon Ranch wrote:Thanks!
I guess mounting it to the NES would be similar to putting it on a PSOne?
Well, the mounting would be a bit of a hack. On mine, there is a hinge part that has thumb screws and a PSone AV plug. It screws to mounting holes on the PS1; for the NES you won't be able to do the same. SO how creative you want to be? I mean, with enough duct tape all things are possible
Yogi
Jazzmarazz wrote:yogi wrote:Hi Ctrix. Can you say what kind of SNES cart/mapper? Not really up on SNES mappers and such, but INL over at Nesdev.org has flash carts and a programmer, kind of like the Retrode edge programmer.
I already have the programmer for NES dev and getting a $20 SNES flash cart would be great. I know the release is still awhile out but if you have the target HW pinned down I can at least stare at the cart and drool
Yogi
Haha, stare and drool... I saw those carts too. $20 for a non-chinese dev cart? Hawt damn!
Yea I like it alot. Guess after getting 4 or 5 carts its about the same cost as a Everdrive or PowerPak but I like having separate carts Plus the Burner can do NES, Famicom and (INL's) SNES flash carts.
yogi
Arricat wrote:From facebook:
little-scale Just letting you know that the PCBs have arrived yesterday - should have your unit out by end of tomorrow. I will PM you a tracking number etc.
19 August at 05:12 ·
Yea I got the same answer also in Aug, but never a follow up. The real bummer is I Want to have faith in him, he seems like a cool guy. But... still waiting.
I don't feel like it's the 'MidiNES' situation; that guy gladly accepted payments with little or no thought to sending the carts. And he appears to still be selling on Ebay under a different user name. Hell, he may still be on this board. Lesson learned.
As much as I would like to have a dump of the firmware, as mentioned, I say still respect his copyrights. I mean I already paid for the product, so seems like I should have some rights to a digital backup; BUT once the rom is passed around on the net there is no control as to who had paid or not, only Littlescale can/should do that.
Just my 2 cents,
Yogi
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