First off, I was wondering if anyone could weigh in on what are some of the most accurate .gbs players. Is there a consensus on this?
Without having the hardware to compare, I've been especially in the dark. For a while I was using in_gbs (Meridian GBS Player v0.3.1). Asides from freezing on some tracks, I've since been informed of the wave channel being practically half volume of where it should be (at least in some .gbs files), and I believe there's another issue with noise being too loud at higher pitches?
I've tried out the standalone version of nezplay (same thing as nezplug++?). Using a couple reference tracks that I've been able to come across, I can hear that it sounds like its much more accurate. Just thought I'd ask incase there's anything else out there I should be aware of.
Second question, is there a possibility of seeing a .gbs player for the game boy? Is there one already? Some sort of equivalent to playing nsfs off the NES powerpak would be ace. :)
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http://www.angelfire.com/nc/ugetab/
I'd like to get the flash stuff to put these into a real GBA(the part I have) with a Flash cart and a voltage modifier(which I don't). If you ever manage to test the converted .GB files, tell me about the results.
I'll report back when I get to try this out, thanks ugetab!
However, I have found quite a couple of GBS files that just won't be converted into working GB roms, no matter what. Those games include SML2, Wario Land, TMNT Fall of the Foot Clan and maybe some more. Trying to run those always results in an error. I'd love to know what's wrong with those GBS files.
Hard to test for something like that without some actual hardware to test it with, or other settings and stuff.
You may want to Goomba the set or something, so it would be in the GBA emulator. Not the ideal solution, but it should be passably decent like that.
edited 2:38 AM EST November 22, 2009
I've converted a little over 20 gbs files without encountering any yet that don't work too. Hopefully the ones mentioned above are very much in the minority.
Thanks again! This is great. I've now got plenty of soundtracks to rip...
I've updated the ASM file to reflect that the new coding has been tested and works.
I'm down to:
Nonfinite's BleepBloop cartridge
or the basic EMS USB cartridge.
I think that EMS cartridge and the 64M Smart Card from other websites are the same thing, but I'm not positive.
If all I want is the simple ability to transfer converted .gbs ROMs to a cart, I could probably skip the BleepBloop cart, save some money, and go with the EMS cartridge, right?
Anybody have any reliability stories or other anecdotes about these carts?
edited 4:16 AM EST February 23, 2010
Are you negative?
EDIT: Smart ass pot roast.
EDIT EDIT: :P
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There are just a couple that haven't worked out of the dozens I've ran so far, but they also didn't work on the older serial-port-transfer gb cart, so it's not a flaw of the EMS cart. (a couple of the Turok soundtracks crash for me)
Ugetab, would you be interested in adding a start/stop feature to gbs2gb? If the start button was able to stop a track, and start it back over from the beginning when pressed again, that would be handy for a couple things. :)
The only thing keeping me from making some truly great recordings is my sound card's exceptionally low (even at maximum) recording volume. :/
edited 4:14 PM EDT August 8, 2010
http://gshi.org/vb/threads/4262-ugetab-is-no-longer-with-us...
HOW THE FUCK could you post shit like this?
Thanks a lot also for ruining my week some more. I already got 150 bucks in debt thanks to Paypal and now this?????
Here's some links leading to flash carts for the Game Boy.
http://www.gameboycarts.com/
Bung is another alternative
http://www.devrs.com/gb/files/faqs.html#BungDist
In some way I think I failed to thank him enough for all the help he's given me. He was an invaluable member of the community. I barely even knew him, for pete's sake (don't even know his real name), but I thought highly of him. He will be missed.
worst news :/
wtf is your damn problem?
Would you like it if people took a shit when your feeling shit, in your face?
Thought not >.>
I'm not even sure the phrase "A candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long" applies to how capable his mind and hands were.
edited 5:39 AM EDT August 11, 2010
NEZplug is to 'clicky' for my tastes and NotSoFatso has just been giving me a ton of trouble.
Really.
So as a result, the multitude of options in NotSoFatso are a little perplexing, if not daunting.
edited 1:20 AM EDT September 17, 2010
Also, if all you want is to hear Akumajo Densetsu on the real deal, I still have my recordings and I'm sure the site with the NES mod details is still up if you want to do it yourself. Otherwise, NEZplug is the way to go.
The NES was from a time of analog inputs and RF switches. In 1988, Castlevania on your 14" Zenith might have sounded way different than it did on your neighbor's 20" Trinitron. With NotSoFatso you can recreate the NES sound as YOU remember it, considering you trust your own memories. It's good for a personalized sound.
But yeah, if you're after accuracy, try to get past NEZplug's "clickyness"
both of them have issues with the mixing levels of expansion chips that VirtuaNSF copes better with. not huge issues like NSFplug though :B.
So you can't hear it, anyway? Then how do you know it's not emulated in GEP?
I prefer the VRC6 emulation in GEP. Seems more balanced.
this is how I know it isn't emulated in GEP: 1, 2. trivol in GEP will be a steady tone. on other players, the volume of the triangle will audibly decrease. as for trivol2, in GEP you'll just hear a bunch of clicks getting faster, while in other players you'll hear the volume going up and down constantly.
So one passes and one fails?
understand?
EDIT: turns out nsften, nosefart and nintendulator have the same problem for anyone who uses those, though those are pretty bad in plenty of other ways as well. i've tried every other winamp plugin and standalone nsf player I can remember.
edited 9:10 AM EDT September 27, 2010
thought it was nsf :D lawl
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