Toons from various consoles.
18th Juny. Majornas Aktivitetshus.
Game Boy evening with Sarofer Zertaga, Coloriffic and Chetreo. Will probably be awesome^__^.
Videogame competition in outrun on master system; with the price of a Sarofer Zertaga
CD.
Entry fee: 40 SEK.
Doors open at 21.00.
A conversation with Mr. Spastic about the upcoming release of the Lucid EP.
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Purchase (Bandcamp)
The Victory Rangers of Future City 20XX have worked together to vanquish every manner of threat to their beloved home planet – except each other! Now their super-star egos drive a feud that can only be settled with blood! Heavily influenced by NES music, and Mega Man games in specific, the soundtrack relies on simple waveforms and white-noise percussion to capture a retro feel with modern production. Written over the course of several months at the start of 2011.
Game Name: Ranger Wars
Developer: Nubbernaut Studios
Platform: XBLA (release date TBD)
Composer/Producer: Gavin Allen (monomer)
Ranger Wars OST by monomer
Artwork by Francis Coulombe
Music released with permission by authors of game and music.
Mon, 09 May 2011
Drag’n’Derp lives!
So, no update on this for a while; real life has been keeping me busy. Nonetheless, I have found some time recently to get another tranche of work done on the cart design, to the point of having a couple of working prototypes now in testing.
What is it? I’m building a new Gameboy cartridge. Not GBA, not DS, original Gameboy. Why? Because a lot of people still use them, in particular for creating music with software like Johan Kotlinski’s LSDj. And to do this, you need a flashable cartridge.
Why? Currently available carts need custom drivers to talk to a computer, and for many types, a cart reader device. This limits their compatibility, and the drivers tend to be poorly maintained after release, too.
Another issue is that all current carts use battery-backed RAM to save user data to – read: music that artists have spent many hours on. These batteries can last ten years in a well-designed system – from the date of manufacture, putting a lifespan on the cartridge and leading to scary reliability issues as they age.
Features:
24MBit (3MByte) flash ROM
1MBit (128KByte) Ferroelectric RAM
Instead of battery-backed SRAM, the cart uses F-RAM, which maintains its contents in the absence of power, and has a data retention span on the order of a hundred years.
USB mass storage emulation
The cart appears similar to a thumb drive, allowing ROM and RAM contents to be copied via drag and drop. No drivers are required, and supports all USB-capable platforms.