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Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T17:29:34 -05.00

Memblers, if you can come up with something that might be compatible with Famitracker, let mein on it too.

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T17:05:43 -05.00

Up to 21 bytes with DPCM, 17 bytes without it. Could cut it down a bit for any unused registers.

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T16:56:25 -05.00

sivak: not really, i usally just stick to the forums.

buffering the data is a much more elegant way of doing it then what i was thinking. how large would this buffer have to be?

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T16:45:49 -05.00

I made a messed-up Pitfall 2 cover in nerdtracker2, it'd be fun to redo it.

I also am in need of a working sound-fx system, so that is what I will be writing. Unless my work calls me, it will be done soon. The easy way to make it work is to reserve RAM as a buffer for writes to the sound registers, change the music engine so it only writes to the buffer, overwrite any sfx into the buffer, then output your sound update.

But I don't have any code to do the actual sound effects separately yet, I need to write that also.

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T11:39:41 -05.00

Just wondering: Do you go to the #nesdev room on IRC? JSR, the author, hangs out there. Maybe if another person talks to him, he'll be more willing to help. It kinda seems I was the lone game developer using his program. Heh.

There's also an official #famitracker on Espernet.

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T11:27:09 -05.00

i meant the latter and that is a bummer.

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T11:03:10 -05.00

Well, if by "interrupt" you mean stop the entire song and treat the sound effect like a new song, that is easy (as that's what I did for both my games). But if you mean to play sounds while the song is playing, I really don't know. The author said he'd "look into it", though I don't know if he'll be successful. I've not looked at the code myself.

It's a shame, because I've gotten some pretty good sound effects out of that thing and I think it really would make a good sound tool for any game developer if it weren't for that problem.

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T10:17:06 -05.00

i've used famitracker and nt2 before, but never got more then a few blips and bleeps out of them.

how difficult would it be to modify the sound code to allow soundfx to interrupt the song?

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-21T02:18:16 -05.00

I could probably recreate some of the Atari sound effects, although I use Famitracker for my sound engines and it's limited in terms of having multiple tracks of one NSF play together (i.e. music + sound effects...). I REALLY need to find a way around this for my third game. I don't know if you know anything about the Famitracker program.

Pitfall, musician needed

never-obsolete — 2008-05-20T17:58:23 -05.00

I can help you out. Send me a pm.