What's up with Froggie?

[+Defender_2600]

 

I'm happy to send the unlabeled cart to people if they want to install a POKEY themselves and then label the cart. I do put a socket on the board for the POKEY.

 

..Al

 

 

This is a good option, especially for international orders. Thanks Al, now I have to do the shopping list...

[Mayhem]

Yeah, this is why I was asking, makes a lot more sense for non-US buyers who can put their own POKEY in it heh.

[Trebor]

I'm typically a pretty big advocate for POKEY being utilized if available for 7800 games. However, it is hard pressing to hear the difference between the POKEY music and TIA music with this title. TIA music is exceptionally executed throughout the entire game. To help emphasize that point, below is a TIA only playthrough of several levels.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgqRr-CaZhc

 

The decision to spare the Ballblazer cart and/or save that POKEY for another time may very well be in order here.

[+save2600]

Yep, that's the decision I made this morning. Will save my Ballblazer carts for something else down the road. Like D2K.

[+sixersfan105]

I've got about 10 spare Ballblazers, all for homebrew purposes, so when a new one pops up with a POKEY option, I'm all over it, Froggie included!

[tep392]

I ordered mine. A non-Pokey version to give me extra incentive to get the XM working.

[+sixersfan105]

I ordered mine. A non-Pokey version to give me extra incentive to get the XM working.

Rumor on the street is the XM will be finished in 2047.

[Andromeda Stardust]

Beef Drop and Froggie are good enough with TIA sound imo plus they will work with xm.

 

I'm cashing in my Poke for Pacman Collection.

[iesposta]

I can hear the off notes. It annoys some more than others.

One low note is off, but not “way off”.

It is just like an instrument with some out-of-tune notes - which the TIA is.

 

HOWEVER,

I never noticed until this video that the game sounds are playing with 2-channel music!

Wow!

That has to be the best 3-channel sound using the stock 2-channel chip!

What sorcery is this?

 

No, I didn’t do the music for this, but I offered to & showed a quick example that it could be nicer than it was.

Before it sounded like the same Pokey data was used for the TIA playing, not dropping out way-off notes or finding a complimentary higher or lower note.

I can’t hear one channel stopping for the sound effects.

It must be some great trick like alternating the third channel every other frame, or??

 

Kudos! I can’t do that on the TIA chip.

 

I'm typically a pretty big advocate for POKEY being utilized if available for 7800 games. However, it is hard pressing to hear the difference between the POKEY music and TIA music with this title. TIA music is exceptionally executed throughout the entire game. To help emphasize that point, below is a TIA only playthrough of several levels.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgqRr-CaZhc

 

The decision to spare the Ballblazer cart and/or save that POKEY for another time may very well be in order here.