I finished level 2 of Quest of the Cranberry for the Channel F this morning. It was hard. But I finally got it working okay after a few hours of coding. I still don't know what the problem is (I think it might have something to do with code page boundaries, but I'm not sure.) I spent almost all day asleep. I went to sleep at about noon and woke up at 3 a.m. after a horrible nightmare. So I got up and solved the problem I was having earlier. Once you get to the end of level 2, it freezes for a bi
This is actually a followup to a previous repair log I did on a previously repaired Donkey Kong boardset. Reason being is that last night I decided to run the game overnight to verify that the game will be reliable. Unfortunately when I ran the game this morning, the thumping sound that Donkey Kong was very high pitched, almost like a beep. When I power cycled the game, it was no longer a higher pitched tone, but rather a low distorted tone (closer to the actual thumping noise).
First thing
So I worked some more on Uncle Hairy's Nosehair tonight. I went to sleep at about 11 a.m. and woke up at 10 p.m. because my leg hurt. I saw someone found a bug, so I was off to fix that. And then the stupid scanline wasn't being steady. Most of my work on this game has been attempting to make the scan line count be a steady 262. I did find a way however to add back the color changes and have music at the same time. But now I have 0 bytes left. That is, if I want to make it a 2k game (which I do.
Music has returned to Uncle Hairy's Nosehair. The colors don't change any more though (unless you flip the switch to b&w). I also made some more changes. For instance, if the demon gets the box, you lose 10 points. And I also made the nosehair's beginning growing speed slower. And then I had to get the scanline count a steady 262 so it doesn't jitter on real hardware. That is the hardest part of the projects I do in Atari 2600 assembly. The machine is what? 45 years old? It shouldn't be stup
I want to finish Uncle Hairy's Nosehair. I returned to work on it. I made it so when the box pops up, the demon stops chasing you and goes after it. Nothing special if he gets it, although you lose all the points lost while the scissors weren't going after the nosehair, and you do have to wait a little bit for another box to pop up. There's no more music, but there is color cycling when the game isn't running (think "Combat"). So now I have 10 bytes left. And I spent hours and hours working on t
It has been a while since I posted one of these. Let’s just say my life got very crazy for a while there but I think things have calmed down a bit now. I feel inspired to continue with my series of Kijiji Tales. This one is a classic and I loved re reading it almost 10 years later. Enjoy…
Please note that this story takes place in about 2012 and I wrote it in about 2014…
Sometimes on Kijiji, you actually meet someone that turns out to be pretty cool. Like in this classi
I'm still working on this whenever I get a desire to. Added a boss level, much like the one in the Virtual Boy version.
There's a giant eggplant shooting giant peas at you. Shoot him twenty times to get past the level. I only have two levels done: Meat Meadow and Mayonnaise Mountains. Soon I will work on Sesame Seed Sea. I worked on the boss for a couple hours because the computer was being a jerk and wouldn't do what I told it to. But eventually it worked.
The guys discuss the best TV shows of 1985. Turns out, Jason is really into cartoons aimed at young girls, Luke talks about watching G.I. Joe while sitting on a warm vent, Jason talks about the weird ritual he had when his ex-girlfriend was in the bathroom and Matt Mr. Belvedere's himself.
The guys discuss the best TV shows of 1985. Turns out, Jason is really into cartoons aimed at young girls, Luke talks about watching G.I. Joe while sitting on a warm vent, Jason talks about the weird ritual he had when his ex-girlfriend was in the bathroom and Matt Mr. Belvedere's himself.
I decided to make a version of Hamburgers En Route To Switzerland for the Intellivision. I finished the Virtual Boy version on Christmas, and started this on January 10. Here is the title screen for it.
I've been working on this each morning and it is technically a game. You can die in it and there's a score. But there is much work to do. Instead of the milkshakes in the Virtual Boy version, the enemies in the Intellivision version will be different forms of vegetables. This may change
Homebrews in Focus 003 - The Assembly Line Podcast
In this episode we will be covering The Assembly Line Podcast, a podcast series that looks at the homebrew community, current events, and features a homebrew game each episode with the addition of interview(s) with the development team.
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Contents: 1. Intro 2. Origins (NESdev, ROM Hacks, and Homebrew
A Homebrew Draws Near!
A blog series by @Scrobins
Episode 10: Space Raft
Introduction:
Followers of this series have frequently read about brewers developing games inspired by the classics of their youth, such as Mega Man, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda. But we have yet to dip into our guiltier pleasures: the games lovingly inspired by the likes of LJN, with just as much heart poured in as any other homebrew I’ve covered. What if a homebrew emulated licensed
Genre: Action Adventure RPG
Publisher: Culture Brain
Total time played: 10 Hours
Short review: An ambitious game that fits snuggly in the action, adventure and RPG genre
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It’s funny how a single memory about a game can stick out so strongly in your mind. A memory about a game I never played that really isn’t even a large
This has been a project I've had for a while. Basically, I had aquired a g07 arcade monitor had it's necked, killing the tube. Being the nature of it, I really wanted to bring this thing back to life. For reference, I've had this project since the end of october, and I just now finally finished it, shows how behind I am...
So the first step here, find a donor CRT. Compatible 19" tubes are starting to get harder to find. Fortunately, I had a broken tv set with a tube that had high life
This was a quick one that I did. I recently got another DK Jr boardset as part of a trade for a working one. To make the long story short, the game wasn't running.
The first step whenever you get a game that isn't booting is to check all the control signals such as reset, clock, NMI, Interupt, ect. If any of these are not functioning properly, then you are going to have issues with the game not booting.
So I checked all the control signals, everything checked out perfectly, ever
Latest Xybort news: Now you can move your ship and make it shoot out laser beams.
But most of my waking hours I've been super busy working on my Quiz Wiz game. What I'm doing is making my own trivia questions, but making sure the answers match the ones on cartridge #1 (the most common Quiz Wiz cartridge.) So when I'm done, I will put new labels on #1 cartridges. I have a long way to go to finish. Each cartridge has 1,001 questions. I'm betting a team of writers wrote the questions, but
I have decided to make a new Odyssey 2 game. It will be called Xybort. I have been playing around with the title screen trying to get it just right. That's all I've done so far, though. Perhaps tomorrow I will actually work on the in-game stuff now that the title screen is completed.
In case you're wondering, that white x above the big X is a sparkle. It switches between an multiply sign and a plus sign very fast, creating an illusion of a sparkle. In case you're wondering what Xybort
As we ring in the new year I can only think "wow what a year".
Some people will say this is the worst year, other will say it the best year, and then you have people who say "WTF".
Reflect back at the used game market at the start of the year when we were able to get games for a nominal cost. Then March 21 hit like a ton of bricks. Everyone was locked down; all cargo was stopped. The world looked on as the second pandemic of the 21th century hit.
Since March the "Second hand gam
List of DMG NFR games. this list only list the label variant for example DIS-DMG-EE-USA. Other NFR DMG game have been identified with a Sticker on the back however that is not what this post/list is about.
DIS-DMG-AKLE-USA Killer Instinct (NFR)
DIS-DMG-AKLE-USA Donkey Kong Land (NFR)
DIS-DMG-AKLE-USA Donkey Kong Land 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (NFR)
DIS-DMG-AKLE-USA Ken Griffey Jr. Presents: Major League Baseball (NFR)
DIS-DMG-AKLE-USA Kirby's Block Ball (NFR)
DIS-DMG
Today was looking for a Game Boy North America Time line. Was unable to find a usable one so i started to go over what i could find here is what i have composed. let me know if this is not correct or you have more data to support the time line.
Game Boy July 21, 1989
Game Boy "Play It Loud" March 20, 1995
Vibrant yellow
radiant red
gorgeous green
deep black
"high-tech" transparent.
Game Boy Pocket (MGB-001)
Silver September 3, 1996
Here's a quick one. I wasn't going to do any repairs tonite, but I was pretty bored so I figured I'd start testing a pile of arcade boards. On the bench is a galaga. After cleaning the chip legs of the customs (they are always corroded), I fired up the game. To my suprise it booted up just fine!
The problem was that some sprite colors were off, specifically any of them that move such as the ship and the bugs.
Thinking about the issue, it dawned upon me that the sprites ar
Here was a quick repair I did last night. It was on a G07 arcade monitor that came out of a centipede cabinet. When tested on the bench, I got no picture whatsoever. Looking closely, I heard no high voltage and saw no neck glow. What's nice about the G07, is that it is one of the easiest monitors to work on, it is as simple as unplugging thing the yoke, degauss coil, and anode cup, then remove two screws. Afterwords the chassis will slide right out! This monitor was in pretty good shape, it seem
The guys sit down to talk about their favorite Christmas TV specials. Matt talks about hooking up the internet for a rich lady and talks about all of the celebrities that died right after he watched their movies.
