So I tried with fireworks ablaze last night, to make Frank the Fruit Fly move on Pokemon Mini, but I had to give up and go to sleep with a broken game. I finally woke up at about noon, after my daily 12 hours of sleep, and worked on it again. FINALLY got it working, but I don't know how or why, the code I wrote doesn't make any logical sense, but it works anyway. Right now the game is 12.1 k. Once I reach 64k, I have to start with bankswitching stuff again. Whoopee. I tried but failed on the Gam
I worked a whole lot on this last night. I went to sleep at midnight. Couldn't get to sleep until 1am. Then I slept for about 14 hours. It's kind of sad when you wake up and realize the day is almost over. Anyway, I have changed the name of the game from "Eating" to "Yum". I enjoy looking at my old Nintendo Power issues (circa 1993 or so). Finding games in the Pak Watch section that never got released ("Mario Vs. Wario", anyone?) The object of the game is simple: To open the guy's mouth to eat
I brought back the frog from level 1. Now he can hop across a pond. Frank tries to avoid the frog and get to the right side of the screen for a new encounter with something I haven't thought up of yet, and will probably be the end of level 2. I like the fact that there are no "boss battles" and the ultimate goal of Frank's is just to get to the end of the game.
I was having some interesting problems on the emulator again. But they haven't happened the last few times I perfected the fr
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
For my long song collection on vinyl. I have a whole bunch of songs over 15 minutes on vinyl, but there are two records I'm really looking for and can't find anywhere, despite the fact that I have them on CD. Why do I want these? Because I thought they'd be the easiest to find (I guess not!) I got Renaissance's "Scheherezade" last weekend, but forgot to look for my most wanted:
RUSH - Caress of Steel
GENESIS - Foxtrot
Of course, if you have these on vinyl and want to get rid of them, PM
Well, actually I did forget, but I remembered it once again. What am I talking about? That Odyssey game I was planning on making. I have an overlay being sent to me so I know what they look like and what they're made of so I can see if I can do this easily or not. And remember, if you are a good artist or so and want to help me out with the background overlay, contact me via PM and I'll send you info on what I'm looking for. Anyway, I'm pretty excited to see if I can start on getting this done o
Company: TDK
Size: 32 Megabits
NP's Rating: 4.5/5 (volume 149 p.123)
ESRB Rating: E (Mild Violence)
Where have I seen that TDK logo before? Ah yes, on old blank cardboard VHS tape covers! Well, anyway, TDK apparently hit a high note, at least in this GBA game-playing project I'm doing, with a fairly decent platform game. The editors at Nintendo Power think that the game is too easy. Suuuure it is. No, they're wrong. It's kinda difficult, especially when you need to attack enemies with not
So, I plugged in Super Mario Advance 4 (SMB3), where they put a place that has all the worlds (a world world map, you might say) to choose a world after you have beaten the game. I had tried to make a MIDI of the music that plays on that screen before, but I had left out a few things. The music sure does change once you put headphones into your Game Boy Micro, you hear instruments that you might have not heard before. Wonder why? Well, anyway, I had figured out all the notes and started making i
After seeing Hyper Fighting as well as the earlier Street Fighter 2 port, I still decided to restart work on my own Virtual Boy fighting game, although I kind of feel like I don't need to any more since that genre has been overrepresented in the Virtual Boy homebrew scene as of late. But to my credit, the life of Insecticide began several years ago, long before these other VB fighting games were made. So I had apparently run into a few problems with my Flash Boy acting strange. It was either tha
Here I was, I had completed a crossword. It has the word rigider in it. See, Word doesn't recognize it as a word. Neither does dictionary.com, nor my Scrabble dictionary. I was angry. In a last ditch effort to decide whether "rigider" was a word or not, I googled it. Up came the wiki dictionary. It had rigider in it. Just like I thought it should be a word, a comparative form of "rigid." So I'm keeping the word in the crossword (it's like people actually do them.) I think it should be a word. My
So I think I finished the game after working for a few hours putting a saving card option and redealing option in. You can opt to keep some or all of your cards. After pressing deal, it gives you new (random) cards and your final hand. I think I solved a few bugs because I had the card numbers in the redealing part of the code backwards. It would help immensely to have them in the correct order. Because they weren't, it kept missing pairs. Anyway, if you have Mednafen or a FlashBoy, please tes
Work on level 3 has begun.
As you can see, I finally managed to guess the correct combination to display black numbers. I need to apply this to the title screen as well. At first it displayed black, but then changed to blue for some mysterious reason. I had a horrible time trying to figure out why the onion rings weren't showing up. The answer: I never told them to. They would have if I started the game on level 2 and then beat it and went to level 3. Since I started the game on level
Sleeping all day and being awake all night again. Being like this you see stuff outside that you don't normally see during the day. A couple of hours ago around midnight, I saw a rat on the back patio. It was gray and disgusting. I needed to work on my Pokemon Mini game called "Frank the Fruit Fly." Inspired, I tried drawing a rat, but nothing looked good. So I attempted to turn it into a bird that flies from right to left dropping eggs. Frank wouldn't get injured if he touched the bird, just th
Yes, I did a little more DXing last night, and what a night it was. From Salem, Oregon, I got an AM station from Denver, Colorado (KOA), my farthest so far. Also got another station from Vancouver, BC (CKNW) which at the time was playing old radio shows from the 40s, even though it's a news-talk station. Weird. Well, that makes 11 stations so far I've taped from various parts of the western U.S. If anyone is interested in my DX log, I'll put it in a blog in the next few days.
Now that I'm working on a platform game, I thought it'd be fun to make a Nintendo Power-style map for it. Nintendo Power doesn't do maps any more because all the games are 3D.(well, they could still do them for games like Mario Kart Wii, but I bet they'll choose not to), but back in the day I remember these maps for 2D side-scrolling platform games, so I've been making this map, which I'll add on to as I think of more levels.
I thought of what i think is a good idea: If you don't have any mail on a particular day, the mail carrier should put a little piece of paper in your mailbox that says something to the effect of "You didn't get any mail today." That way, people wouldn't have to check over and over again to see if the mailman came, because sometimes they're super duper late, and sometimes they're early. This way, you would know and not have to care any more about checking for the mail that day.
I got a used CD.
So, I was going to go to Best Buy to get a DVD-VCR combo, when my mom said that i should probably wait and see if it goes on sale first and if it doesn't, then buy it. So instead, we went to the used video game store (called Game Crazy, but it's not the national chain, it's a local outfit with two locations: S. Salem and Lancaster. There used to be a Keizer one, but it sadly closed.) Well, anyway, I ended up reigniting my N64 love and bought Space Invaders. I also have planned ahead and I want t
I actually had Bank Heist, so I don't need to look for it. I just forgot to put it on the list. Jawbreaker arrived today. It was in kind of bad shape. The end label was missing, and the game didn't want to work at first. So I cleaned it a little bit. Got the title screen, but once I pressed the reset switch the game zonked out on me. I finally got it working another cleaning later. This is another case of a game being easier using buttons on a keyboard in an emulator than by using a joystick and
I love me a stupid movie. This time, though there was a deal I couldn't pass up: a 100-movie pack at Best Buy for $30. Some of the titles I recognize from MST3K (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Ring of Terror, The Phantom Creeps.) Some sound very stupid (which I like. Stuff like The Day the Sky Exploded, and Purple Death From Outer Space.) I just got finished watching Robot Pilot. That link takes you to a movie called Emergency Landing. I think it's the same movie, though. One thing I hate ab
This is quite possibly the dumbest game I have played for this blog. Yes, kids, it's even worse than the Castlevania debacle I experienced. I think there are two main problems I had with this game. #1 - I never watched the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers so I had no idea who anyone was. #2 - the game is just so damned hard. I mean, there is this mine in a level where there there is a hole. While you are supposed to fall down some holes to progress in the level, once you fall down this particular on
I have made a page for my in-development Odyssey homebrew game. You can find it here. I have also found a local box company that I think could make custom boxes for me. Once I get everything done, I'll ask for a quote. But the thing is they're cardboard boxes so they'll be brown, instead of the usual black boxes that Odyssey boxes are. I have designed a sticker to put over part of the box if that comes to fruition. I wonder if Avery makes 8.5x11 labels to print this on. So yeah, it looks like it
It took me two and a half hours to make a what would seem to be simple change to one of the new secret programs I'm making. Well, there's only one secret program I'm making. After a few failed attempts, I told myself "I am going to get this stupid thing fixed." After two hours, I got it fixed, but only on O2EM and Homer. When I went to test it on real hardware, it wouldn't work. About a half hour later, I got it working on real hardware. It shouldn't have to be this hard. Or am I just stupid? I
I was thrilled when I read Sunday's newspaper (yes, I still read the newspaper.) I saw that Sue Grafton was going to eschew her naming of alphabet novels (i.e. R is for Ricochet), and just name the latest one "X". Why do I care? It's not because the series is the same age I am, it's because I have a little library of one-letter book titles. Believe it or not, they are actually somewhat easy to find. Going by a list I found on the internet and going to various area book stores, I was able to find
Yesterday after I posted my blog entry, I got bored. So I decided to continue work on Frank. After a few hours, I finally got it so pressing a button makes the game start. What's more is I finally got it to make a second song play. I went to sleep for 11 hours (couldn't get to sleep until 1 a.m.) and woke up and changed the second song from a test to an actual second song. It isn't a very long song, though. I want to have as much space available as possible for the game elements. Right now the g
So I've been tinkering with the bird design a little bit. It now looks like this:
I have been having tons of problem with the screen and the collision detection. If it detects the bird collision and the egg collision at the same time, the game crashes. So it's been a big fight trying to make it so when the bird's y collision area ends, the egg's y collision begins. Which is especially difficult when you have no idea what you're doing.
I finally fell asleep at about 4a.m. a
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