Planet Virtual Boy

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Well, then, good work reinventing DogP's wheel

He did this waaaay back in 2008. I thought it was on the site somewhere, but I guess he only shared it via IRC. And then there's HorvatM's 8-bit wav player he just posted a few days ago which I assume must use the same idea.

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Well, yes, I did understand that part (having seen DogP's implementation) but I thought you came up with some kind of filtering/dithering trick to make it sound better. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Great work building on the groundwork laid by DogP and HorvatM! This whole thread has been an entertaining and informative read. It would be nice to take a peek at your code, though

Although, given your final analysis, it seems as though, if we want to upgrade the sound hardware on the VB (which I still think hasn't been taken anywhere near its true potential), we'll have to take advantage of the cartridge port audio pass-through system the designers built in.

On that note, since you seem to like OGG Vorbis (and who doesn't?) you (and/or others) might be interested in this thing.

It's a ~$10 chip designed to decode OGG Vorbis audio. There might be better products and/or prices; it's the first one I found with a quick search (I actually found it quite a while ago with this very idea in mind).

No harm intended; no harm done.

I just wanted to point out a more effective means of using the marketplace to locate a stand. In hindsight, maybe the sarcasm wasn't the best way to get my point across.

If you do find a stand in need of some parts, come on back!

Hey, I have an idea! Why not post a "[WTB]" thread in the Marketplace instead of spamming existing threads? It's so crazy it just might work!

Also, FYI, "cheep" is onomatopoeia for the sound a baby bird makes. I believe the word you want is "cheap" as in "low-cost".

Well, I'd love to try this, but PVB isn't letting me download it... Maybe it would work if you ZIPped it.

As for the speed thing: release the source and maybe someone can figure out the problem (it might also help make Mednafen and other emulators more accurate).

Ah... so maybe it's a dirty switch, then. Try tapping and wiggling the switch while it's on and see if you can get it to turn off. If it's not the switch, maybe it's corrosion in some other part of the power circuit. It could be the controller connector, a break in the controller cable, the contacts where the battery pack connects, the contacts on the pack itself, the battery contacts inside the pack, or even something going haywire in the "low battery" detector in the controller.

I still think it might be capacitor- or regulator-related, though...

Hey, welcome to the site! (love the completely random user name )

That's a real head-scratcher... If I had to guess, I'd say it was a problem with the voltage regulator, or maybe a dry capacitor on the power rail.

Are you running from batteries or an AC adapter? If the latter, what kind?

Is it possible you're just bumping the power cord/battery box?

When you say it "shuts off" you mean it just goes dead, no sounds, no vibration, no nothing, or does it just reboot?

Does it come right back on if you cycle the power switch?

Try turning it on with no game in and see if it stays on longer (it won't make a picture or any sounds, but if you listen closely you can hear the hum of the mirrors vibrating).

Lookee what I got in the mail today!

Thanks again, bigmak! You rock!

The label art looks great, morintari!

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lol... It's either the fact that I'm a coder, or that I used to be a quartermaster in the Army

(Actually, I made that second one up, but I had you fooled for a second! )

Also, for the record, I never use a shopping list

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What you see is what I've got. Sorry...