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Uneven ground

I went and worked on my Channel F game again this morning. Today's goal was to make the lettuce heads shootable. This required more time than usual. Once I thought I had it, but then realized that just because I made the bullet blue didn't necessarily mean it was off the screen. So more work had to be done. At one point, the ground was uneven. It had a grassy feel to it. Odd because I didn't do anything to make that happen. I figured it might be because I was using too much code. Eventually th

February 7, 2018

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Keep it simple

So I had some long convoluted code in order to keep the bits in $d010 under control. Then it occurred to me that I could probably just turn the bits on and off instead of changing the whole value at once. One Google search later led me to how to do this. I added the vegetable in, a lovely piece of broccoli. Thus leading me to only have 34 lines of code expanded instead of a lot more. My day began at 6am. While sleeping, I figured that Nine Inch Nails is never going to release a follow-up to the

December 9, 2018

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New title screen

I changed the title screen of Frank the Fruit Fly. I explained you can press the B button to put in a password (passnumber?) or press A to start anew. I also made the title screen song a little longer (it's now about 25 seconds long.) So the picture to the left is what I have for a title screen. And now I'm bored. What do you think about the new title screen?

May 4, 2019

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Frank the Fruit Fly update - second one of July 2019

I have been so busy working on Golf for the Channel F that I decided for a change of pace to work on something else. I decided for a challenge, to make the numbers in the password letters, so it resembles an actual passWORD (instead of passnumber). The part I had forgotten was before I actually used to write the word on level 2's intro screen instead of making it the entered entry. Which I guess doesn't make much sense. How would you know it if you got to level 2 and didn't know it before? I'm s

July 18, 2019

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Flying Hamburger - May 17, 2021

Fell asleep at about 8 a.m. yesterday morning. Woke up at about noon to get my haircut. After going to the store and getting food, I didn't get home until about 3:30 or so and didn't get to sleep until about 4p.m. So I slept a long time. It was really hot yesterday. Before I went to sleep, I checked the temperature. It was 82 degrees outside. It felt like about 100. Woke up at around 2 a.m. and continued work on my Flying Hamburger game. Today's focus was trying to make the onion rin

May 17

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Game Gear Games I Have

A small list, but here goes: Bearenstain Bears Camping Adventure Caesar's Palace Mortal Kombat NBA Jam Pac-Man Poker Face Paul's Blackjack Poker Face Paul's Gin Ren & Stimpy: Quest for the Shaven Yak Ristar Sonic 2 Super Columns Taz-Mania Tesserae Woody Pop Would anyone else like to share their Game Gear collection list?

May 3, 2007

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iii

That's the title of my next "album." So I don't get totally bored, I used to make up songs and sing them on a tape recorder. I did two albums in 2002, and I thought I'd do one since I haven't in 5 years, and it took about 10 months to finish this one. If you thought the parody "There's a kind of flush" was bad, then you definitely don't want to hear this one. Some of the more interesting titles of the songs I've sung/instrumentals include: Fun With Salt Atomic Feast Samanaranarapeli Notor

October 22, 2007

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The downside of a big collection

...in case you have to move! I only got A-I of my Atari 2600 collection moved yesterday. Tomorrow, I'm gonna go back and get J-Z. I'll probably have to put it in 2 boxes, but I hope to have all my 2600 collection at my new home tomorrow. I got 3 games in the mail the past 2 days (Coconuts, Gangster Alley and BMX Airmaster), so that brings my total to 223. Since I don't have to move my TV and my 2600 console (I did that yesterday), I think I can get the rest in one trip. And then, sometime else,

July 12, 2008

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High Heat MLB 2002

I am not a big fan of baseball. I expected to go through this for a minute or two before saying "It sucks" and never playing again. Well, that is true, but not for the reason I had expected: Three batters later in the top of the first inning, I was down 3-0. That's right, a home run each and every time for the computer. (If only the Mariners were that good in real life!) I knew then that this was exactly like the Game Boy Baseball debacle I had earlier. Why isn't there a FAIR baseball game for a

May 5, 2011

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Another 3DS review (10/27/11)

Well, I couldn't wait until next Monday. I put up another 3DS review. This one is of Tetris: Axis, and it's a follow up to Monday's review of Bust-A-Move Universe. You can find it, along with all future reviews here: http://www.atari2600land.com/3ds/ I love this machine, it's too bad there's not any wonderful games for it yet. I'm also amped up for the return of Beavis & Butthead tonight at 10. By the time I just got into it, the final episode was airing. I plan to tape this and all other B&

October 27, 2011

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Channel F

So I went to the game store after my hair cut and I walk out with a boxed Fairchild Channel F. It's a System II. I don't know what that means exactly, but I never saw one anyway, so I bought it. Hooking it up was easy, but I discovered that the game is selecting #2 automatically. I tried to unscrew the system, but only saw two screws. I unscrewed them but the thing didn't want to come apart. Hidden screws? Well, at least I have this thing. I can select different games if I act quickly, but the G

March 1, 2016

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Finish Mr. Ultra 2

So I thought I'd go ahead and finish Mr. Ultra 2 since I got a message on the SMS Power forums saying I can make a 48k game without bankswitching. I was up to 32k and thought that was the biggest game I could make. So I put in a level 6. What I plan to do is add a simple seventh level. Why simple? Because it needs to be in order to fit into 48k. Even with the ending already in the game, I still only have a tiny bit of room left. So after the seventh level, all I'd need to do is make the levels a

December 17, 2016

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Orange testing

So I was being absent-minded again. Yesterday I mentioned that there was a big windstorm which could knock out power. I just today realized I could have played it on my GBA or GBC. Well, not my GBC because the battery is getting low. But I saw my GBA laying on the desk and I said "Why not test Oranges on that?" So I loaded up the game. I just today realized after 5 months of owning it that my GB Everdrive has a light on it. I don't see why that's necessary, but whatever. I played Oranges. It too

April 8, 2017

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Wavy lettuce

It took me a few hours but I made it so the lettuce moves up and down in a sinus wave. I did it but then the rocket stopped working so I had to work on making it work again, which took more extra time. I think I'm using too much code though. Perhaps that's the reason why the ground was uneven and looked like it was grass. But it's a good look though, so if it happens again I may keep it. Then out of curiosity I wanted to know if the score would work if someone got 100 points or more. It took m

February 8, 2018

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No more Upmonster updates for today.

Well, I got really far on the Upmonster game. Most of today was spent on the 2-player version, while on Sunday, I just started on the game. I kept on updating and posting, and it looks like I've spammed the Intv forums with my Upmonster updates. So I'm calling it quits for today on working on Upmonster. Work will resume tomorrow. I can't help it, I just enjoy adding little feature after little feature and pretty soon I've got a different version of the game with new stuff added in. Or, in the ca

June 25, 2018

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Return of the burgers

Return of the burgers

So someone on SMSPower forums was kind enough to help me and discovered my problem. So I was able to fix it. That's great. Now I can continue work on it. I worked on it for a few hours this morning. The light bulb in my room burned out, and it's a special one, so we have to go to Lowe's, which their website surprisingly said was open. Now we just need to find a time to go, which is hard since it's nephew sitting time since school is out. I fear though that I may have made the game to

March 26, 2020

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Bert's head (part 2)

So I slept a lot yesterday. I went to sleep on the couch at about 11 a.m. Woke up at about 2 p.m. and moved myself to my bedroom. I didn't think I'd sleep a lot, but I slept a good 11 hours on my bed. Woke up at 1:30 a.m. After having a bizarre dream about going back to the video game store and buying something else and having the car disappear when I got out, I thought "I don't want to continue this nightmare," I woke up and went back to work on Bert's head. I made Bert's unibrow a pixel wider,

August 5, 2020

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Ow, that ringing!

I've had it with the constant ringing noise, so I put in an option at the title screen. If you don't want it, press Up at the title screen. If you pressed up and decide you want it back again, press Down. Simple, huh?

December 12, 2006

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DS Rarity list updated

I've updated the DS Rarity list again. Put a few more 5s on: Pac N Roll, Sudoku Mania and Trioncube. Here are the places I've looked for Trioncube and never found it: Toys 'R Us, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, GameStop, Electronics Botique, Sam Goody. And if you can't find a game there, well, geez. I bought some of what I think are rare games at K-Mart and Sam Goody (I got Dig Dug DS at Sam Goody and Lionel Trains at K-Mart, two games I've never seen anywhere else), but no Trioncube. Still lookin'...

March 15, 2007

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Project time.

I'm in the process of burning my Beck CDs to the computer in case I get an iPod. I have 8 albums and 2 singles left, so I'm guessing it'll take about half an hour to do all those. By the way, the Volcanoes have been winning, 7-1 on Tuesday, 4-1 on Wednesday and 7-1 yesterday. They just started playing tonight. And it's going to be worse, the Weather Channel now says 99 on Tuesday and 101 on Wednesday, and the local news stations say all say mid-90's both days, so I don't know what to expect. So

July 7, 2007

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Contests!

I called "Virtual Dieter" done and entered it in the 2008 Minigame Compo. I think it's a pretty neat game and I want it on a cart. But there's one problem: It has no label. That's where you come in. If you design a label that I like enough, you can win! Win what, you might ask? Either a copy of the game, or $25 in cold hard cash that you can spend at the AA Store (or anywhere else, for that matter, but why would you? ) The cash is coming out of my own pocket. This contest ends Monday, March 31.

February 24, 2008

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World Coins

Well, today I got some coins in the mail from Bahrain. That makes a total of 73 different countries I have coins from. I'm going to a coin store tomorrow (if it's open when i get there) to see if i can get any more. I'll have my list handy so i don't spend unneccessary money on duplicate countries. You can view my list at the bottom there. Notice that Germany is not on my list. I know that most of Europe has switched to using the Euro, but if any Germans have any deutschmarks laying around, even

February 28, 2009

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I played Atari today

I played Pengo for the Atari 2600. It's fun, but it's also very frustrating. Those little suckers have IMO good AI. I think it's kind of unfair when a new monster hatches right next to you and you have no time to move. The music kind of gets repetitive, too, playing the same thing over and over again. It's hot in my room. It's getting to be that time of year again where things get hot. Luckily, we have an air conditioner this summer (that is, if mom will let me turn it on ) And it's going to get

May 17, 2009

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Konami Krazy Racers

Company: KonamiRelease Date: June 2001 (launch)Size: 32 MegabitsNP's rating: 3.5/5 (v.145 p.117)ESRB rating: EA bunch of Japanese video game characters take to their go-karts and emulate Mario Kart. That is the basis, and it does what it's supposed to pretty well. Since I didn't want to go through all the rigamarole of unlocking new courses with what sounds like a stupid license-earning thing, I just had someone else do it for me (I cheated and used one of the save slots that had every track unl

March 1, 2010

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New record player: day 2

So this is day 2 of having my record player and I've noticed that every single sleeve has been lying about its length, the length seems to be longer by about 20-40 seconds for songs that take up a whole side. It makes me wonder if maybe this record player is going at 34 RPM or something. Case in point: I got a record in the mail today. It says side two is 30:22, it turned out to be 29:32. It seems like the longer the track, the more off the said time is. I guess it's better than my old piece of

June 12, 2010

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