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What's wrong with a tankstick? it looks like the easiest integration, combines all the inputs i'm interested in, and is turnkey ready.

Just wanted to brag and show off a bit My new toy. Still need to get an X-Arcade Tankstick for it and black the beige of the monitor behind the bezel, but it's fully serviceable at the moment. Here's a schematic if you wanted to build your own: http://brahmsbbs.servebbs.org/store/cabinet/19crt_Cabinet_iso.pdf

Posting from said computer; running at nominal temps. It died while an auto defrag had kicked in.. what a fun chkdsk session that was.

For the love of God make sure you plugged the heatsink fan back up. It's amazing how long a Phenom II will run without a fan before the thermal shutdown kicks in. Maybe when it's cool enough to touch I'll turn it back on and be greeted with a boot up sequance like nothing ever happened.

also if you're feeling like spending a bit more: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319 640Gb for $70 and free shipping. These drives are great. i've purchased several of them recently for various systems. very fast, very quiet, very big. Since you'll almost certainly be re-installing windows, might as well do it on a new fast drive. if you're not re-installing windows, however, swapping mobos on a windows installation is an adventure.. I had success recently swapping mobos on a totally dead system (going from an intel chipset to a via chipset) with some esoteric Recovery Console commands.. msg me if you want help with that.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157139 2x PCIe 2.0 3x PCI 4x DDR2 AM2+/3 $79.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231166 4Gb DDR2 $49.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103300 AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Kuma 2.7GHz $61.99 $192 + shipping on mobo. How big is your PSU?

I had a friend purchase me a copy of Phantasmagoria when he went to Japan for a few weeks back around 2000 or so. I was grossly underwhelmed by it It's not a horrible album or anything, it just seemed to me that from someone who regularly composes 60-100 tracks for any given game to release something with more like 12, those twelve should be breathtakingly beautiful, or just kick ass... and they just felt cheap and a little cheesy to me. The non-lyrics on it didn't help.

getting Non-RF out of Coleco/Atari is a whole other proposition. It can be done, but requires modding the physical console: http://benheck.com/04-03-2009/longhorn-engineers-atari-2600-video-mod The specific device you would be looking for is an 'RF Demodulator' http://www.cablewholesale.com/specs/rf-demodulator/40x3-30200.htm They are not cheap. http://www.markertek.com/CATV-Headend-Interface/RF-Demodulators/Net-Media/TUNER.xhtml That's the cheapest one I could find at 54$ Ebay would be my next bet.

Ghetto solution: Screen magnifier? Double ghetto solution: Run the window on Monitor 2 with that monitor's resolution set at 800x600. I've seen D2 at higher than 800x600 being called the 'holy grail' of widescreen gameing. Short of an Official blizzard fix, it probably isn't going to happen

ok maybe i'm missing the point.. but you mentioned Dreamcast. the thing outputs native VGA with the right cable.. Why not just get the right cable to hook up your system rather than trying to retrofit over a crappy connection in the first place?

someone did a pic one time for a bottle of "Ari Insulin". That'd be pretty close to injectable.

http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00316/ Someone will have to transcribe the lyrics though since I don't have an original source anymore, and moreover I haven't heard from Dani in probably 7 years, and she semi-adlibed parts of it.

I'm not totally up on it, but the last time I went mucking around with editing NSFs you needed a basic knowledge of 6502 ssembler. There is a plethora of information and tools here: http://nesdev.parodius.com/ Why exactly would you want to split it anyway? If I recall; since an NSF is a stripped down rom image of the original game; splitting them would make them larger (in aggregate) since you'd need a separate copy of the music engine for every instance of a song.

Seconded. Ulver is something special. A few of my recent indulgences in obscure music: Nurse with Wound http://www.last.fm/music/Nurse+With+Wound/Sugar+Fish+Drink+(A+layman%27s+guide+to+Cod+Surrealism) Unrelenting experimental... noise.. stuff.. Abashedly unashamed. Pentemple http://www.last.fm/music/Pentemple One-off improve drone doom. Kind of like the Pink Floyd album Ummagumma, performed by Type-O-Negative, or something. Atrium Carceri http://www.last.fm/music/Atrium+Carceri Swedish dark ambient fitting of untold horror movies. Coil http://www.last.fm/music/Coil/Musick+to+Play+in+the+Dark%2C+Volume+1 http://www.last.fm/music/Coil/Musick+to+Play+in+the+Dark%2C+Volume+2 Hard to describe.. very (mostly) melodic experimental. Soothing and disturbing at the same time. Sephiroth http://www.last.fm/music/Sephiroth/Draconian+Poetry Totally unrelated to FF7. Powerful dark ambient/tribal ambient. If John Williams was a shaman in the rain forest, writing songs to please Cthulhu, this is what it would sound like.

They're loopable waves. What WOULDN'T they work with?

A VGA box is an absolute must. The Dreamcast can output a native VGA signal on most games and it looks utterly fantastic. Here's an old pic of my workstation circa 2001 showing a DC hooked up to a PC monitor:

In college a few years back, I got a major itch to play Marvel vs Capcom 2 on a real cabinet, as did a friend of mine so we made the following journey: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=University+of+South+Carolina+(Columbia+Hall)&daddr=Jessamine+Mall,+Sumter,+Sumter,+South+Carolina+29150&hl=en&geocode=FXrRBgIdzLIr-yFIVB5gCs5SeQ%3BFWkHBgIdEJo1-yn3qWwUqWj_iDGE5Sl0YM24ww&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=33.975402,-80.697739&sspn=0.338236,0.727844&ie=UTF8&ll=33.972976,-80.6987&spn=0.338245,0.727844&t=h&z=11 With about $20 worth of quarters. When we arrived we discovered that our local arcade, Aladdin's Castle, had been closed about a month. We went back to his parent's house and settled for the DC version. It just wasn't the same.

Not exactly SFX.. but there is apparently a truck that drive around town here selling various southern foods like boiled peanuts. they play music like an icecream truck. I was unaware of it at the time and exited my grandmothers house a year or so ago only to hear the Super Mario Bros. underworld theme echoing through the trees, complete with in-game sound effects. I was bewildered.

Thanks for all the kind words everyone. I'm glad you've enjoyed it! This track wouldn't be what it is without the synth lines Beatdrop provided, along with his original lyrics and vocal lines. As a special treat here are some MP3 renders produced along and along as this track came together: http://brahmsbbs.servebbs.org/ocr/demon_seed/ Also included is a FLAC lossess copy of the track and a (partial, zoomed out) out screenshot of the final multitrack layout.

This little tidbit will likely also be helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Progressive_Scan_PS2_Games

We've got an entire subforum dedicated to helping people learn/refine/expand their musical writing and remixing skills, including a sub-subforum for Reason. You'll probably find a lot of helpful information there.

I had the same issue when playing SH2 again my 1080p a while back. Looks like we're all going to just have to wait another year or two until PS2 emulation gets to the state that PS1 emulation is at so we can just scale everything up to native res on the monitor and get hardware FSAA.

You would probably be best served getting something like the PS2 harddrive loader; that allows you to dump essentially ISOs to the internal harddrive, boot of a disc, and then load them as though they were mounted.

Though I doubt music creating in anything higher than maybe 3.1 will catch on anytime soon, here is a concept track I cranked out a few years ago mixed in 5.1: http://brahmsbbs.servebbs.org/ocr/CotMM-Korbeiniki-BattleofChernobyl.ac3 This is a 34 minute long ambient treatment of Korbeiniki from Tetris inspired by the Chernobyl disaster and resulting folklore. It includes a disaster sequence which should sound rather impressive on a properly set up system.

I've got an original copy, unopened, still in the envelope it was mailed in.. one day it'll be worth millions! thanks Mustin!