Spritesmind WIP

UCON64 on DSL

KanedaFr — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:45:47 +0000

I’m so happy! ucon64 works on Damn Small Linux !
You’ll need to find the libusb to make it works : using the myDSL browser, you’ll be able to find a package which includes it.
I installed OWFS, because it’s the smallest one

I’m now looking for a thin client cheap but powerfull enougth to get a full SMD dedicated PC

JustifierS

KanedaFr — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:17:29 +0000

Do you remember the big box ?
It was full of MegaCD games for my collection and something I was looking for soooooooooo long (at an interesting price) : the Pink Justifier !

So many projects to finish before I use my screwdriver on it
The pink is so hard to find … I know it is possible to “convert” a blue justifier to 2P justifier…I need to find how !
Then I’ll need to find how to convert a Virtua Cop gun…Charles told me it is possible so, I have to try !

SMD disk drive PSU

KanedaFr — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:16:08 +0000

Thanks to Charles, I finished my PSU schematic

(greyed area isn’t available in my own disk drive)

I received the tools to fix it so I’ll be back on development soon … perhaps ?

Favorite music

KanedaFr — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:19:32 +0000

By chance, I just discovered the best electronic musician got back in service, after 7 years of (sort of) silence !

I downloaded it last (free) music and, like long times ago, I got thrilled !

So bad, he’s using iTunes to sell it last music, I just can’t even imagine to install this pure crap !

Big box from Japan

KanedaFr — Sun, 22 May 2011 07:03:04 +0000

oh oh… look what I received :

My order from Japan !
It’s the first time I bought to some much thing from Japan…but they were so cheap

Of course, everything is Genny related

Cart dumper/writer

KanedaFr — Tue, 17 May 2011 21:07:44 +0000

I’m still waiting for the parts I need so I finally wrote the write part on my dumper….
So I now have a virtually working cart dumper/writer

Yes, it uses a Teensy (only 5 pins! the others one are for debugging purpose only…I won’t use them on final product)

Since I can’t just wait, I jumped back to the Super Magic Drive : I really want to repair it !

Replacement for SMD battery ?

KanedaFr — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:34:45 +0000

While working on my own flash card, I found interesting chips : Non-Volatile RAM Controllers.
Basically, these chips detects if power drops down and automatically switch to the battery.
As soon as my SMD will be fixed, I’ll try to use one of them to replace the killer battery of the SMD.

LUFA inside

KanedaFr — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:54:23 +0000

I’m currently playing with LUFA

LUFA is a framework for AVR…like the one Teensy is based on!
I quickly found developping using Teensyduino wasn’t enought…so I switched to pure C using WinAVR under Eclipse.
I was able to reproduce the Teensy under Proteus ISIS and to test (almost) anything I want virtually…
I already made a (virtual) cart dumper just waiting for the real prototype.
Next goal is my so-wanted USB adapter for the Super Magic Drive.
Then I’ll made a low cost eeprom burner (waiting for the parts!)

The coming month will be very interesting…

Any algorithm can help you to develop a game

KanedaFr — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:00:19 +0000

I found an interesting one last week : Painter’s algorithm

I don’t know if it won’t be an overkill for the genny (draw different tiles at the same position) but it could give you something like

A link between Genny and Flash ?

KanedaFr — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:56:51 +0000

My main job is RIA/Flex/Flash/Actionscript specialist….

I made some games prototype on Flash (and released some) but developping for Flash (oop/vector) is very different from developping for Genny (no-oop/bitmap)

Last week, I found a interesting framework for Flash : FlashPunk

FlashPunk is targeted towards games with 2D bitmap graphics, as opposed to vector graphics

So basically FlashPunk fixes one of the differences : vector vs bitmap
I could now develop retro-style games using PNG file…If my PNG files are converted 16colors bitmap , I would be able to use the same (base) source to port it to Genny !

I’ll try to adjust my coding to make the sourcecode port easy (using SGDK functions name for ex)

We’ll see in the coming weeks (months?) if I succeed
If yes, I’ll be able to make games for Genny and Android…so goooooooood !
And so motivation at its max and some money to help my research (electronic stuff…)