So I just finished up level 3 of Frank the Fruit Fly. I think with help I finally conquered the fact that I had to put all the screens in the first bank. This helps a bunch because my original plan was to make a massive game out of this, with like at least 8 levels, or as many as I can fit in. And with the game at 97KB and all the retail Pokemon Mini games having 512KB, I have a loooong ways to go. Which, while good, it also means tons of work for me. And seeing as how I've been working on this
I don't know why or how, but getting rid of the ".orgfill 0x10000" statement made me able to fit in another screen. So I'll be working on Frank the Fruit Fly until I can't any more. It is odd though that I can. But I don't know how much longer it will let me. I've finished level 3 and will get to work on level 4 now. Hard to believe that tomorrow is Thanksgiving. And then Christmas and then... the roaring twenties. Help me. I'm old. But I shouldn't feel all that old because I'm only in my late 3
Worked on the game again today. Life seems to be just speeding by lately. I guess it's because I've been sleeping a lot. Anyway, I now have the game like I want it for now. I changed an image and learned that choosing scaled might get rid of the lower pixel row if your image is 24 pixels tall. So I set it to unscaled and it worked. Now I would love some feedback on how I'm doing with this so far. I ate some onion rings today and didn't choke.
I named it "Greedy Zyx" because it plays a lot like the game "Alien Greed." I had a ton of trouble trying to make multiple lists, but I think I have the hang of it now. I have been working a lot on it today. Like, almost all day. And now I'm tired of it. But I'll go to sleep and want to work on it tomorrow, making some sound effects for the game.
Right now it technically is a game, where you can die if the eggplant touches you. I don't know whether more enemies should come as time goe
So I thought to myself "Hey, why not just make my proposed game using the uDraw from yesterday's blog entry for the Jaguar? At least I have the software needed to make a working Jaguar game." So that's what I was going to do. I had a horrible problem though that I got help on. And then I added some music to the title screen.
I'll work on this some more Monday. I thought of another game I could put in the collection: So now I have 3.
Classic Zyx - Zyx is in a well and you need
I can't find my Wii anywhere, so I guess I'll have to get a used one at the game store. So I found my uDraw games. I wanted to play them, but I need my Wii. I looked around, I found my Wii-U, but no Wii anywhere. And I can't use the Wii-U because I have no cord to plug it into the TV anywhere. What I basically want to do is make a Wii game. But not just an ordinary Wii game, but one that uses the uDraw. I found the uDraw, I found the games for it, but I have no Wii and I have no controller.
I still don't get why people think I have acid reflux. It wasn't like I got acid in my throat all the time. I very rarely got heartburn and stuff like that. I just got to a point where all I could swallow was liquidy stuff like ice cream. Although the pills he prescribed I got today. WTF? They're big huge squares. How do they expect people with a problem like mine to swallow huge squares like that? So I cut the thing in half and took it, just to see if I could take it without choking. It went do
I tried to take one of my pills and choked on it. Thankfully it ended after a few minutes. But that's it. No more big huge pills I have to take every day for some other stupid thing I have wrong with me. This after I went to see the doctor about it. He prescribed me some stuff that may help and proceeded to make an appointment with the gastrointestinal people, which will knock me out and stick a camera down my throat to see what is wrong with me. Which I am afraid I may have to do if this medici
I have been living with throat problems which had escalated to a point where I couldn't take it any more. It all came to a head on Saturday night where I spent ten hours not being able to swallow anything. So I made a doctor appointment for tomorrow. Since yesterday all I had to eat is mashed potatoes and ice cream. I was adventurous and had a bag of peanut M&Ms yesterday but I doubt I'll do that again. Taking the pills I need to take has been an adventure since I need to take 2 big ones, bu
Had another one of my choking fits. This one was the worst one I've ever had. I tried to eat a burger at 1pm. It got stuck in my throat. I tried all sorts of things: trying to eat more food, cough syrup, water, bubbles from soft drinks, induced burps, all sorts of stuff. Nothing worked. I tried sleep but I couldn't sleep because I realized I couldn't swallow my own saliva without choking on it. Finally, at 11:30pm (yes, it was 10.5 hours of suffering), I vomited up the offending piece of food, n
I lived in a small city called Keizer, Oregon which neighbors the much bigger town of Salem. Keizer actually broke off from Salem and made its own city. They voted to do that on the day I was born. I spent my first 10 years of life there. And while we lived there, my parents and sister were coming home from the fair (I don't know why I didn't go), when they decided to break out the camcorder and film our drive down the road. That was in 1988. Fast forward 31 years later to today. I put the video
I finally got the sound back on. I was using Pinnacle Studio 19 a few months ago when all of a sudden, the sound got muted for no reason. Yesterday, I decided I might as well sign up to the stupid Pinnacle forum to see if I could get any answers. The one I got didn't make much sense, but it did lead me to something called B & O Play. One of the options, the one for allowing sound from more than one program running at a time, had been turned off, but not by me. Because I didn't know it existe
Just another rant about the forced switch over to digital TV and how I have to live with subpar television. I know it was years ago, but I WANT ANALOG TV BACK! I highly doubt that the channels the FCC claimed were needed for stuff other than TV are being utilized in any way, anyway. With my stupid indoor antenna, it has to be just right or else I get black squares and no sound and even when it is perfect, the sound drops out some time. Instead of getting "NO SIGNAL", I actually got a snowy pictu
So I just ordered a copy of Warhammer for N-Gage off eBay. And if everything goes well, all I'd need for a complete boxed US collection is Civilization. I'm not going to even try to get Sega Rally (a CIB copy is on eBay now...for $500). But I do wonder a few things. #1 - Why wasn't the N-Gage successful? I remember hearing about it back when it was new and thought it seemed pretty cool, but the one thing that put me off was I thought I needed a cell phone plan to play the games. Now I know that
So I got out my spare, backup Atari 2600 out of the garage to see if it would give me an improved picture quality. No, in fact no picture. The thing was broken. It would light up for a tenth of a second and then nothing. I thought to myself "It's dead. I can't harm it any more," so I laid the thing down on the dining room table and attempted an operation.
Attempting to put the thing back together was the hardest part. I think it's a "Vader", if it has 4 switches. It kept forcing the
Finally tried Frank the Fruit Fly with sound. Discovered that the game cuts off the level intro ditty. Must have been because I got rid of a little bit of code during it. So since the two variables that control it were maxed out at 255, I decided to speed up the song a little. I don't think it's too noticeable. I was working on trying to get the frog jumping on the oasis screen when I discovered the music thing, and it sidetracked me for a little bit.
A large part of time was spent t
Yesterday I scanned some comics I drew and I wanted to color them the way they appear in the newspaper, to give a sense of actuality to it. You know, the pattern of dots that gives white places a sense of a shade of gray (I assume by tricking the eye). It took a while, but I finally found the shade of gray I wanted to change actual gray to those dots in Photoshop. So I colored it gray, then went to Image > Mode and then changed the number of available colors to 2 under "Indexed color". I chan
Remember those coding competitions for the 2600 (or any other console you wished) where the main goal was to have a complete game in a very small amount of space? Like 1k or 2k or 4k or something (I don't remember what the sizes were.) The games one year were all featured on one cartridge (The 2005 Minigame Multicart). Looking back now, it looks like the contest was called the "[year] minigame contest".
Well, I want to have a similar thing. So I want all of you to get some ideas for
Since I eliminated the bug in Frank the Fruit Fly about the title screen, I noticed a few weird things happening in-game. Since what I did to the title screen seems to have solved whatever was wrong with it, I decided to do the same thing to the in-game code. Actually, I was going to do so earlier but I forgot to. But now I did. I don't know why the game gets all weird whenever the flapping timer gets above the flapping limit. Common sense would indicate that Frank just would stop flapping his w
I am a lover of crosswords, especially weird-looking ones. So I was delighted to see one in the paper on my birthday last Saturday. It was shaped like a swiss roll (in other words, swirled.) After a few minutes, I thought "this is hard, even for a Saturday!" But I persisted. Gave up, and went back to it later. I think I have done it. Although I don't see how "legislators" are ones on a diet. I thought it was a really cool crossword idea, so I thought I'd take a stab at making one in the same gri
I had a good birthday. I got a couple of Switch games I need to try to get to. And some other stuff. And I decided to attempt to recode the part of Frank the Fruit Fly that has been giving me problems ever since I started on it. And I tested it for five minutes. Resetting the game over and over again and pressing B to get to the password screen. Not once did it do its stupid problem it's been doing about freezing and music going crazy and needing to reset.
But I am so sleepy now that
Well, I should hope so. I don't want to type when I'm sleeping. But what's unusual is the time I'm awake. It's 1 pm. Earlier I thought I'd go to the store and get that game I wanted. But apparently some guy bought it, which is really annoying because it was Cliffhanger for the NES. I mean, who would buy that besides me? So I settled on Shining Force for Game Gear. They wanted $50 for it. I know, I've seen it for cheaper on eBay, but then there's the shipping, and then a hassle if the thing doesn
I've tried contacting Albert. I tried to PM him, but I guess he's so busy making other games, and apparently mine aren't good enough. I thought MidSpace was good enough for a 2k game about shooting food in space, but I guess not. I've tried another thing with the 2600 with the 50-foot-tall stalk of celery, but to no avail. I remember long ago how pleased I was to have GoSub be in there. I just wanted to have another game be in there for people to buy.
I don't want money, I just make
So I went back to working on MidSpace. This time around, the goal was to put the original title screen music in. I put in the code and compiled. I had 89 bytes to get rid of. A monumental task for a game that I wanted to be 2k, but I began working on it, chipping away unnecessary code and other crap I didn't need. That was at about 8pm. Three hours later, I think I have finally done it. I had to do some weird stuff, but I had to to make it fit in the 2k I wanted.
I really like that t
A while back, I lamented about some songs I had made, a few MIDIs that when I converted to MP3s, showed their incorrect playing time. Well, one of them showed the correct playing time, so I compared it to the rest of them. The bit rate on it was 112kbps. The rest were 124kbps. So I went to the site I used to convert the files from MIDI to MP3 and, under options, chose 114. When it completed it and I downloaded it, it showed the correct playing time. I don't know what kbps is, and why it mattered
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