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    Life lessons

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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.

    Mobo issue (probably need new Mobo+CPU)

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    Posted

    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.

    New Uematsu Solo Album

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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.

    Coaxial/RCA issues

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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.

    Coaxial/RCA issues

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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?

    Nintendo Sound Format (nsf) help

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    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.

    The Quasi-Obscure Music Thread

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    Ulver - Started as a black metal band, changed into neofolk, went back to black metal, and now kinda floats around the electronica, ambient and experimental genres. The posted one is a later work, and its kinda electornica-classical-experimental.

    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.

    I miss arcades

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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.

    VG SFX In Real Life

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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.

    OCR01821 - Castlevania III "Demon Seed (Corrupted Infatuation)"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

    Posted

    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.

    Hooking up a ps2 with component cables

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This little tidbit will likely also be helpful:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Progressive_Scan_PS2_Games

    Generally, progressive scan mode is activated by holding the Triangle and Cross buttons down after the PlayStation 2 logo appears as the game loads or by enabling the progressive scan display mode in the game's options menu. Both methods work on a PlayStation 3 as well. Component video cables are required for progressive scan mode.

    DTS, DD, 5.1, 4.1 surround sound mixing??

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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.

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