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Yeah, That NES I own has the opposite problem. It will flash blue if I DO push the cart down.

So, an update on my progress. I've found that ppmck puts all samples into bank 2 and I don't no if theres even a way to force it not to do that. since all my song data is in bank 0, it leaves a bank in between the 2 that is completely blank. I say this cause when trying to add 14 frames of NAM animation my current NSF doesn't allow practically any memory left.

I get 32k total for everything cause I use NROM boards. My song data is 5235 bytes. My samples are 2129 bytes but stuck in bank 2. So since my NSF is 3 banks total that makes it 24k. My 14 frames of animation is 14k. That is way over the limit even without the 2k or so amount of sound driver and code I need.

So Unless anyone can tell me if and how to make ppmck merge my banks into one or even just move bank 2 to 1, I am all ears.

That being said, I'm sorry this release didn't meet many of your high expectations. But There are alot of difficult challenges preventing all these things.

I stress again... I'm a musician, I make music. If you want a cart, I think it's at an acceptable price for what it is now. I'm still proud of the work I accomplished to make this, despite all the negativity.  Thank you to those of you that are encouraging and thank you to those just attempting to help.

Thank you for the encouragement.
I've desoldered enough NROMs and bought enough labels to produce 25 of these carts. though I don't burn the EPROMs or assemble the carts till I've sold it. So, it's ok if I don't sell as many as expected. I'll be using the remainder for a different cart release. (lol I can already hear you. That one will be full length I assure you)

no. my entire chr rom is blank apart from 4 completely filled values representing the 4 possible color pallets.

Take a look at my CHR. I only use 4 locations and draw the image at the nam level.
The problem lays in the color and pallet limitation of the NES

There are many rules the NES will force upon you regarding number of colors and regions of colors.
For instance the background color must be present in the first slot of all 4 of your pallets. Only 1 color pallet (4 colors total) may be used per 8x8 square of CHR. In the NAM table clusters of 2x2 must all use the same color pallet (this is why you see a pink pixel inside the cat's face) I actually used a sprite to cover that up in the final rom

This all means I get 13 colors total on screen allowed amongst all these various rules to work around. It's a bit depressing to here such rejection when I've worked very hard to produce this to the best of my ability on my own. Sure, I get the price is too much. But essentially hearing that without all these animation and unrealisting color criteria that my work is completely undesired and worthless. My main efforts was the music, and I added the graphic to the best of my abilities.

Again, if you have a suggestion on a more realistic price point, I am happy to oblige. I'll work on getting the nam tables to animate, but seriously guys, the rainbow is a far tougher fix than you think it is.

Difinitely not a ploy. Forgive me if it looks like that on the surface. I'm just ignorant I suppose

Now, my initial intention was to merely find an existing NES cover that would play natively on the NES, but sadly I was unable to find a quality rendition that would also play on real hardware. I then made it a goal to make one myself. Then figured more people might want one too, hence the cart release.

Teletime and vegavox were $50+ and BitPuritans is prolly a special case cause they rolled their own circuit boards.

And yeah, 6502 assembly code is pretty damn tough. I fall really short in that regard. Some major tricks would have to be pulled out in order to get more colors and animation to be displayed on screen, especially using Mapper 0

Correct.

Refreshing to hear someone actually dropping in their own custom midi into that software. Not a fan of the polyphony it allows, I'd rather be listening to an arp chord then to something like 4 channels playing one chord together. But thats just my preference. I'm diggin' your style.

I'm sad for no triangle

But seriously that was a fun cover! I was boogying throughout the whole tune.