So I learned how to make save states. This can be useful.
For example, I can now make an "unlockable" game. If a player scores a certain score, a game can be then unlocked and then it can save that it's been unlocked so you can go back to it even when you power the VB off and then turn it back on again. In order for this to work, the Virtual Boy cartridge would require a battery. I don't know how plentiful that would be or how feasible it would be to get cartridges made if they need batteri
Sisters (1972)
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Mr. De Palma's first appearance on this list, with one of my favorite films of his. One thing that will trend more and more as I get into the 1980s and 1990s, are certain beloved filmmakers showing up multiple times here. You can probably guess what some of those films will be.
This is a movie that I spent ten plus years waiting for an HD release. It (and
I have finished the Mouth game in my VB minigame collection:
I also went back and worked some more on Fruit Fly Fun, making the bees bigger:
Next I will work on a Doodle Jump clone.
All I need to do on my Odyssey game is go to the post office and mail them. I don't know how since I'm asleep all day and awake all night. If only the post office was open at 2 a.m.
My mouth I designed when closed looks like a clam. I guess it would since it is basically a clam.
The Birds (1963)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
This is one of the few horror movies my dad showed me when I was super little, and I was traumatized for quite a few years. I'd imagine birds coming for my eyeballs, pecking
faster than I could react. One day my mom brought home a pet parakeet of all birds, and I a
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
It's unbelievable that this came out all the way back in 1960. There are certain scenes that are so far beyond the pale as far as what society would have been used to at the time, I have a very hard time imagining an American audience sitting in the theater and watching this. At least, not without walking out. Probably why it didn't g
An update on Six². I began the tedious work of wrapping the tubes in brown paper. I have half of them done. After that's done, I will do the labels. All the addresses are in a document so I just print them out and tape them onto the tubes.
An update on Action 54. Since people were really thinking I was going to have 54 minigames, I decided to rename the game. It's now called "Minigame Mayhem."
Although I seem that's too close a title to this:
I don't know. What do you
So yesterday I worked on the graphics for Fruit Fly Fun some more, refining them and making them look better. I ended up with this:
And today, I worked on random number generating, trying to make it better. The game now uses SRAM to generate random numbers and to keep track of them so it doesn't do the same sequence of them every time you turn the VB on. I failed to do this on Supper Mario because I didn't know what was being done (I made it 6 years ago, so I forgot), but it should be
Worked on initial work on Fruit Fly Fun, the newest minigame for Action 54.
Unfortunately, I can't flip the flyswater sprite, so it will have to be like this. Stuff I need to do:
make fly move
introduce bee
make bee move
have game end if swatter touches bee.
I got it working on a real Virtual Boy so that's good. I also want to add a pause function to the games, so before I do anything else, I'll probably do that.
M (1931)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
The oldest film on the list (by a decent margin), and one that I wrestled with quite a bit as to whether or not I should include it in this list. Is it generally classified as "horror?" Not usually. Does it have enough horror elements that I think it can slip in? Absolutely. Child killers are horrifying. Child serial-killers are especially horrifying. And Pe
The Virtual Boy is a strange machine. Its "screen" is 384 x 244 pixels. Which is unfortunate since unsigned characters only go up to 255. Which means if I want to put a sprite, say, monsterx, at 364, I'd have to make monsterx an int which would make it a 16-bit number, and a lot of wasted space there. So in the effort to make Cranberry Capers a lot better, technically speaking, I limited the monsterx to an unsigned character. And then I put two more in there for good measure.
Speaking
OK, so I have been working on a Virtual Boy game. It's called "Action 54". It's like the NES game Action 52, because it's a collection of mini-games. But it won't have 54 games in it. I don't think I can think of 50 more game ideas. I have one that I will program when I am done with the current one I've been working on: a fly swatting game. Swatting flies in a video game seems to be fun. While I was working, a dumb ant came crawling on my arm. Oh well.
Here is a picture of the minigame I've
So I took some time to work on this some more. I had a tough time because it wasn't wokring right. I was doing everything correctly, but it decided to not obey me. But I finally got it to do something I wanted it to. Get to the screen with my history teacher on it.
There he is. He has a little 2-frame animation walk when you move him, much like the umpire in Ugly Uppity Umpire. I should mention that he is in color if you put the game in a GBC. Just three colors, though (red, yellow, a
Today I worked on music for the title screen of my new Game Boy game.
This is all I'll do today because I don't feel like working very hard on things. There's all these projects I start. And I finish like 25% of them. And I work really hard on them and I still don't get much done.
I want to take a minute to talk about hemmorhoids. There's this disc-shaped bump up my butt. Or at least I think it's disc-shaped. It feels like it anyway. Sometimes I'd have bloody stools. But those we
I finally got around to dabbling in Game Boy Color coding. My goal was to see if I could make a lemon yellow when it was on a GBC, and light gray on a normal GB. Mission accomplished:
I also put in a red color. There's also a third, which is brown. The goal of the game I want to make is make it like Fast Food only have the food go from left to right AND right to left, AND up and down as well. The history teacher is only wanting to eat lemons while avoiding the hamburgers. I want the
A Homebrew Draws Near!
A blog series by @Scrobins
Episode 36: Red Moon Lost Days
Introduction:
While each generation of video games and the consoles that defined them touch on nearly every major genre, there are some specific associations that endured. For instance, the Sega CD conjures memories of the brief trend of full motion video (FMV) games, and the 16-bit era, between the SNES and the Sega Genesis, was perhaps the pinnacle of console beat-‘em-ups. The early disc
So I found some bugs with that last version. I took an attempt to try to fix them. It took about 20 minutes of playing to find one, and another one popped up after only a few minutes. I noticed both the bugs had something in common (I think), it was placing an X when I should have been placing an O. Or at least I think so. My brain turns to mush and I stop thinking rationally when I work on stuff for too long.
I took yet another look at the code and discovered that when the X was placed, it
Well, it took a LOT longer than I anticipated but I finally got win detection in. I had to sacrifice the words "CEDAR GAMES" during the intro, though, so now it just looks like this:
X is green and O is blue. If X wins, the grid turns green, and if O wins the grid turns blue. The grid turns red if there's a tie.
I had to spend all my waking hours Sunday on this stupid thing without getting it done. So I had to go to sleep at some point. So I did. I woke up today and began w
So I finally got it working after 6 hours. You can now input letters in the tic-tac-toe minigame. I have about 300 bytes left to check for wins. I had to move an awful lot of codes all over the place. I think I must have spent 4 hours moving around code in desparation trying to make the thing work.
The left controller enters the X's and the right one does O's. Since the controlers have 8 directions to move the joystick and a button, that makes 9 possible inputs, which works perfectly
From tic-tac-toe to the gridiron, x's and o's have always hated each other. Now you can step inside an X's shoes and experience what it's like to be an o hating x. Well, not NOW, I just started with the game. Yep, it's a new game I started work on for the Odyssey 2. I don't know what the game will be like, I just created this since I was really bored.
What I want is an 8k game. In bank 3 (the first bank), I plan to put in an Easter egg - a tic-tac-toe game. In banks 2-0 will be the game its
So a major milestone has been hit in me and this project: the mailing tubes came. They are 2" wide and 13" tall, just perfect for all the stuff to fit in there. So now what's left to do is this:
Pack up the games,
get peoples' addresses and money
post instruction manual on line
mail them out.
Don't know when I'll go to the post office, I'll try for next week sometime.
The doctors' office called. Remember that ultrasound I had last month sometime? They FIN
It's the Halloween season. I have been on an Odyssey kick since I announced my game and taking preorders for it here at the Video Game Sage. So I needed to find an avatar that combined the two. I found it.
This is a card from the Haunted House game for the Magnavox Odyssey. I scanned it, cleaned it up, and shrank it down. Unfortunately, I wanted the word "cat" to be visible, but I guess I can't. So say goodbye to Uncle Sam holding a bowl of corn flakes for now. He'll return in Novembe
I am one of the few people on the entire planet that owns a working Magnavox Odyssey from 1972. I guess when they built these things, they were built to last! About 50 years later and the thing still works like a champ!
I have been making off and on for the past year or so, a new Magnavox Odyssey homebrew game. I was planning it for the 50th anniversary, but I kept holding it off and putting it on the back burner so to speak. Well, today I finally got my rump in gear and bought the tubes to
This whole AtariAge selling out thing stinks to high heaven. And I don't want to be a part of it one bit. Not one reply to the question "What if the iteration of Atari folds or goes bankrupt?" I really hate drama. I go out of my way to create or be a part of drama. So I have decided to excuse myself out of the AtariAge forums. I guess Al is a business man, and sure, it gets him a lot of money, but if I was in the same situation, I would have turned any offer from Atari down, even if they offered
