Month: April 2009

  • One Thousand Stars by The Black Comets

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    Nice Final Fantasy tribute (a game i’ve never gotten into) that gives me an thin excuse to post some garage rock on the blog.

  • EtherNES Might Appear

    bOOdaw writes:

    EtherNES is a NES networking project that Wookie is currently designing the schematics and working with the NESdev community to connect your NES to your LAN.  Fortunately a solution has been found for the difficult male expansion connector at the bottom of the NES.  A female connector has been found to work from the company Sullins Connectors (more information within the thread).

    Some of the current development application ideas for EtherNES once completed:

    * An NES BBS
    * An MMORPG
    * Synching NESes together for audio playback
    * Launching remote code
    * A MIDINES alternative
    * A text-based web browser…
    * Etc…

    Serial Communication + Powerpak might be a great dev enviroment, think compiling your song and sending it directly to hardware! Or the midi alternative would be cool as well, Will keep an eye on things.

  • MDX Player for the PSP appeared

    p9220003Thanks to the following tip from kami68k:

    An MDX Player for the PSP appeared, its made by BouKiCHi:
    http://clogging.web.fc2.com/

    more about MDX:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000%27s_MDX

    And on a sidenote, Naruto has announced a new Sound Driver for the Sharp X1 (why is everyone doing new Soundrivers lately?)

    There is nothing to see yet though:
    http://www.rootnyanplus.com/user/naruto/

  • Cringe in Horror Theater

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    HEY NINTENDO!

    Thanks for :

    • Continuing to be associated with kitschy mario jump sounds.
    • By ignoring all the cool stuff being done without your help (homebrew) and with it (ds-10) and focusing on gimmicky things that no one will use after owning the DSi for more than 18 seconds.
    • For making me learn who Jamie Liddel is.

    That being said I do appreciate the cat sounds.

  • Filing under “Odder Chip Style Instruments”

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    Noah Vawter Writes:

    It is played on two instruments, a bass and tenor ‘eel.’  Based on the Medieval instrument called the serpent, sliding gestures from the body power a microcontroller-based synthesizer and allow the performers to inflect some of the traditional expressive affordances on electronic music.

    Looks more fun than Muddy Gb.. also check out his ONE BIT GROOVEBOX