http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress Explore, modify, create (This is the blog of Gameboy musician nitro2k01) Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:53:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Top left: EMS 32M cartridge, rev 2. Top right: EMS 32M cartridge, rev 1. Bottom: EMS 64M USB cartridge. The HKEMS company is probably the oldest manufacturer of Gameboy flash cartridges still in business. Among the original era companies, the most famous was probably Bung, but it eventually collapsed under the ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/03/04/gameboy-project-week-9-the-ems-cartridges-something-old-and-something-new-something-black-and-something-blue-and-how-sloppy-cartridge-design-affects-you/ This week's project concerns this cartridge, the official Nintendo Power flash cartridge. It used to actually be sold by Nintendo for 2500 yen and you could by games from a special kiosk starting at 800 yen at the Lawson department store. (About US$27 and US$9 respectively at today's exchange rate.) ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/02/25/gameboy-project-week-8-the-white-nintendo-power-official-flash-cartridge-a-tale-of-reverse-engineering-sweat-and-tears/ As per usual, this week's project is fashionably late. This week's project is an image viewer ROM which you can use to show custom graphics on the screen. This is for example useful for modders who want to display a logo on the screen when doing a photoshoot. I've been ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/02/19/gameboy-project-week-7-a-rom-for-showing-custom-graphics/ Fixed the download link at the bottom of the post. I'm tired. I need a break. What better choice than the amen? Probably a dozen, but nevermind that. This week's ROM is a sample masher that lets you apply live effects and rearrangement to a loop. As such, it's using the ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/02/11/gameboy-project-week-6-can-i-have-an-a-men/ This week's project is (again) slightly late, but hopefully worth the wait. This is the latest and greatest version of LittleFM, and alternative file manager for LSD. Here are the key features in this version: Key features LittleFM now comes with a Java based patcher application for easy application to any unpatched ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/02/04/gameboy-project-week-5-littlefm-05-finally-released/ This week's was supposed to be a MIDI controllable version of Shitwave, and while that's done, I found out it was a bit less exciting than I was hoping for, so I want to try to come up with some new ideas for that. However, I found a new project ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/01/28/gameboy-project-week-4-a-testwelcome-rom/ nitromidi1 is a very simple Gameboy MIDI ROM. It can be used with an Arduinoboy or Nanoloop USB MIDI adapter. It's not meant to be all that practically useful atm. Rather, I created it to have all the plumbing in place for future MIDI software. It currently responds to the following ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/01/20/gameboy-project-week-3-a-simple-midi-rom/ ^ The ROM in action. So, what about the mystery ROM? If you try to run the ROM in an emulator, it will do nothing. If you try to run the ROM on actual hardware, preferably a DMG, you might hear the faint sound of the first couple of bars of ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/01/16/mystery-rom-explanation/ This week's project is a mystery ROM. It's a ROM that does nothing. Or maybe it does something, but it's so subtle that you may not be able to detect it. Or if you think you do, maybe it's you imagination? Download the mystery ROM and see if you can figure ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/01/13/gameboy-project-week-2-mystery-rom/ I'm hereby announcing 2013 as the "one Gameboy project per week" year. This an idea I came up with during a discussion with Seb (little-scale) where I jokingly suggested it as an alternative to the usual "one song per week" type challenges. So, my challenge is to try to do ... http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2013/01/06/gameboy-project-week-1-more-than-four-shades-of-green/