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Nice work James and others. :mrgreen: I also agree that some of the mapper docs are a bit of a maze with copy paste and scattered information (looked at MMC2 and MMC4 today for exmaple, and imo those should be on the same page, just pointing out the slight differences between them). Judging from htt...

thefox wrote:I think the FF7 vs Metallica is too short (and too typical of a riff) to be called borrowed.

Possible, but I've never heard that exact riff anywhere else.

Here's an example from the same song of Uematsu borrowing from himself (with some slight modification).

FF VI - Overture (Pt. 3)
FFVII - Still more fighting

Here's one I made that I think shows it clearer: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20047039/same.mp3. Edit: It has both songs overlapped, in case that wasn't clear. It's one case where it seems obvious to me, but without music theory I can't back it up with anything besides "those seem to hav...

Final Fantasy 7 vs. Metallica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnGnJWKyBak, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg92QpjRcJk&t=1m52s

Two more:

Elecman vs. Journey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjnnxsWIA_0, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj__jhmPMgI
Wizards & Warriors vs. Handel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ9xwkMr3e4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV1uXsWdJHk

Stole those from the comments.

So I've gotten the background part of my ppu written and I'm trying to test it, but I'm failing miserably. I'm just trying to get one frame rendered at the very least. Right now, I'm not even reaching any of my PPU functions because $2000 stays 0x00 and $2001 stays 0x10. I know my CPU works because...

I wonder if there's some even/odd cycle thing going on with when the sample is restarted when the DPCM is drained and $4015 is written, like for OAM DMA. Would make sense if they use shared circuitry...

Heh, yeah, that explains it.

It's amazing how fast you forget about stuff you've already implemented.

Ah, I see what's going on in sync_dmc_fast now. The first write to $4015 immediately loads the final sample byte (since there's only one and the DPCM is drained). The second write to $4015 then starts a new sample before the old one has finished, meaning its final sample byte will be loaded at the n...

Got another DMC question. Looking at blargg's apu_tests and 8-dmc_rates.nes, sync_dmc_fast writes $4015 twice for some reason (see https://github.com/christopherpow/nes-test-roms/blob/master/apu_test/source/common/sync_dmc.s, SNDCHN is $4015). Is this related to the note below from the DMC article ?...

I think that's a confusing way to put it. I'd suggest something more like: If the DMC bit is set, the DMC sample will be restarted only if its bytes remaining is 0. If there are bits remaining in the 1-byte sample buffer, these will finish playing before the next sample is fetched. Yeah, that's cle...

Hop aboard the OT train! Both & and # actually work, but have slightly different purposes. & sends a query string back to the server, whereas # is using an HTML "anchor" as a means to store page state without reloading the page, which is popular among the "web 2.0" crowd...

Jedi QuestMaster wrote:...

Ah, didn't know about that. Saves a bit of loading.

sleepy9090 wrote:nice job

Thanks!