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OH silly me, I was expecting some kind of pulse-like tone similar to the "periodic" mode of the SN76489 but of course the 2A03 merely moves the taps around where as the SN76489 makes the output bit the feedback bit as well as resetting the sequence any time the Noise mode/period register r...

Now another interesting thing to know would be if it's possible to reliably get the same timbre every time by immediately setting the mode flag when the NES is powered on, hopefully before the LFSR receives its first clock. Losing the static would not be an issue if there's an expansion chip present...

Yes, that's exactly what I want to do. It's not as harsh though because the DMC gets the level back to zero a lot more smoothly and not another $4011 write. I could even do this and have some control over the APU2 volume by selecting to play either $00 bytes all the time or $FF and writing $3F to $4...

Yes I'm mostly worried about problems that could arise due to these 1-frame delays, like things phasing through other objects. The background collision is handled very primitively (just a pair of Y coordinates for each stage the player is not allowed to cross) so I only need to do object vs. object ...

I've dug up this thread to avoid cluttering the forum more. I'm currently at the point where I need to run the AI of my objects. There are 32 slots for objects, and there is an automated system before this to spawn objects on a timer, with conditional spawns and other "effects" similar to ...

Hey, I have this little question, I would like to add a little extra punch to my percussion but since I'm already using the DMC for raster effects, the only thing I can think of is setting the level via $4011 and since I'm always playing 0 bits with the DMC, it would make a pop sound and then recove...

That's the kind of agony I feel when I read comments like "the NES has 8 bits of memory". But to actually contribute something to the topic, it's clear that CHR-ROM has a clear advantage when you need lots of tiles swapped quickly, or have multiple tilesets available per frame, but other t...

I'm trying to figure out what would be a good container format that compromises between quality and easy, realtively fast decompresson. From what I can tell it's a reoccurring thing in the sample data to have the same value multiple times in succession, so an RLE compression format could definitely ...

It looks wonderful as it is, but imagine the background tiles being bankswitched as you move to give a faux parallax scrolling effect... that would be costly (eight 1k banks), but even more spectacular looking!

At least if you played Lagrange Point it would mostly sound ok because it has it own on-board clock for the FM synth. I've tried it with a friend using an audio modded PAL NES and that worked like a charm. So if you can accept sped up crappy percussion that could work.

Oh I see, well of course I would be the last person trying to wave a flag and bitch about why something is not being developed further instantly, I've got a lot of time to do it as well from what I can tell so I don't depend on anything here, if necessary I'll go with the text version. If needed eve...

Is it possible to create a comprehensive guide that tells what can and cannot be when someone is composing music for Pently in Famitracker? (Also, I assume this is based on the current official stable build, though the 0CC fork has effects that equate Pently effects a lot better, like grace notes wi...

I only decided to bust out the FME-7 because it had everything I needed for a quick test, but for a complete sampled soundtrack a custom variant of either the FME-7 , the VRC3 or something similar would be the most optimal. The biggest issue is having enough space to do it, and giving up a lot of VB...

And this is exactly why I stick to pre-7th generation systems. At least it's slightly better when PC games lose online support because there might be easy ways to solve the problem with VPN software or something else.

I like the rapid palette changes to create in-between shades.
This sort of thing could also be useful to test movement code.