1 Reply by Cipher_Punk

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Thanks for all the responses. I'll get to tossing up backlinks and downloading things tomorrow. You guys are great smile

I am going to have to stretch my bandwidth for this event to run the livestream in less than optimal conditions (seriously, convention internet is extortion) so I'll need local copies of anything. I am not opposed to buying albums from you all; I mostly just wanted to be sure I had permissions to use them. Of course, free is always better. tongue

SketchMan3 wrote:

So this is for charity, right? Not for profit?

Yes, this is for charity. The Extra-Life charity raises money for the Children's Miracle Hospitals Network, which is a group of hospitals who cover medical expenses for children without medical insurance. Extra-Life is a gaming community that works alongside the charity; they fundraise all year, with one major event at the beginning of the fiscal year they call the 'International Day of Play.'

I've been running events with this charity for four years now; all of the money raised is handled directly through their site, so it's not actually handled by anyone but the charity workers themselves. 

I tossed up as many links as I could think of to answer any questions you might have, but feel free to ask any more if you don't feel like going looking for answers.

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2 Reply by Cipher_Punk

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Cool, thanks. smile

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3 Topic by Cipher_Punk

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hey guys.

I'm organizing an upcoming video gaming related charity event soon, which involves a 25 hour livestream.  I had been thinking of playing from my own collection for background music during this stream, but then I realized it might be more fun to get you all involved as well.  I figure I'm going to need about 8 hours of music to cover the event without getting too repetitive (more is better, of course tongue).

As a developer for PlanetMinecraft.com, I'm in a position to make this event kinda big.  We're currently anticipating in the area of 300k viewers throughout this event, with a possibility for more depending on how many of the pending guest spot invitations confirm their appearances. I will be hosting our livestream from a booth at Minecon, Mojang's official convention for the game, where I will be running video feeds, bringing on guests from the showrooms & panels, and collecting donations.

Because this event will be reaching such a wide audience, and because several portions will be recorded for later upload, I do not want to step on any toes when it comes to copyright and distribution.  I came here to ask for direct permission to use material, and (hopefully) get some new material to play for this event.

I am willing to set up backlinks and graphics in our 'sponsors' section of our charity website, www.minecraftcharity.org, for anyone willing to send some material, whether it is actually used for the event or not.

If you're interested in helping out, or want to hear more details about what I'm organizing, get at me here, twitter, or skype @ Cipher_Punk

References & details:

Charity page::                                   www.extra-life.org/team/PMC
Livestream host site for the event::     www.minecraftcharity.org
Primary event sponsor::                    www.planetminecraft.com
Event date & details::                       minecon.mojang.com

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4 Reply by Cipher_Punk

(1 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Concept is pretty simple. Split wires, add more ports. There's probably someone on these forums better with the finer details than I am, but here's a little guide you should check out to making something workable.

http://littlesounddj.wikia.com/wiki/Syn … _Game_Boys

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5 Reply by Cipher_Punk

(705 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Windows 7 64-bit SP1.

It's not a significant issue, as long as the file name is different it works perfectly as intended. Just seemed weird for that to have happened.

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6 Reply by Cipher_Punk

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So just in case someone else runs into the same mess I did...

I'm in the practice of actually using 'current' as the name of my current working project when I back it up, then rename it to a name and datestamps when I store them permanently. I do this because of a mistake I made that cost me a few days worth of work a few months back.

I was super eager to copy over from my EMS cart onto the new cart I just got from ASM. When I did, Win7 asked me if I wanted to copy/replace the "current.sav" on the cart. Naturally, I said yes.  This is, apparently, A BAD THING to do.

My windows filesystem thought it had copied the file over. The cart, on the other hand, did not. When I ejected and turned on my DMG, it still had the demo songs on it. I spent the last hour and 20 minutes performing the same operation over and over, checking and re-checking my .sav file integrity with emulators and various ROM's, loading up the LSDSNG manager and was about to email saying I thought I had a broken cart.

Then I just tried copying over an older .sav with a different name than 'current.sav', and of course, it worked fine.

Let this be a warning to anyone who also uses the same naming schema or renames their files to 'current.sav' thinking they have to write over the cart in a traditional drag & drop sense.



My question, I suppose, is this...  what was happening when I was copying it initially, and what did Windows think it was replacing?

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7 Reply by Cipher_Punk

(3 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Saw one on ebay about two months ago, it went for around $70 - just to give you an idea.  Good luck.

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8 Reply by Cipher_Punk

(47 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

+1

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