Planet Virtual Boy

The comment from Protoman85 made me think. Even though his comment is a little bit rude, he is right with highlighting of the buttons. I don't see what wrong with the quality of the music, though. In the end all of them are NES soundtracks and in my opinion they sound pretty much like the original.

What do you guys think of the music?

Also, do you guys think there is a game element that should be changed/improved?

I am just asking because I never got allot of feedback about the game itself.

Ok, here it is: A completely polished version of GameHero.
My original plan was to go on with an other project after the first version. However, I got pretty good and friendly feedback from most of you guys so I decided to invest some more time. Additionally to the previously posted changes the following things have been done:

- buttons are now highlighted when pressed (makes game easier)
- button detection is more forgiving
- reconverted old music (Kirby dance and SMB2 Theme had to be removed)
- added vbh file (new VBDE fromat)
- song menu displays overall score (easy and hard)
- sorted songs alphabetically (also turned out there have only been 21 songs, not 24)
- added 5 new game themes (now it actually contains 24 songs)
- added 8 unlockable songs (pretty cool stuff)
- music tested on hardware (results are ok for most of the songs)
- tested unlock of additinal songs during regular playthrough

There are some known issues I may fix in the future:
- Resullt screen sometimes displays no result (saw this two times)
- Garbage glimpse between screens (switching off the displays does not seem to fix it)
- Game does not detect old saveram content (Hit left end right trigger during start screen to clear saveram)
- a couple of songs are a tick to slow on hardware

I hope I removed all of my debug stuff from the ROM. I played though the whole game (easy and hard) and finished every song. So the game can be beaten. I did not manage to get 100% in every song though.

If you find a BUG or see something that can be improved, please let me know.

Cheers
thunder

I got this from my wife to our wedding anniversary. Looks like the brand finally establishes itself.

Awesome wife you got :)

And cool update, I'll be sure to try it out. Very nice to see we have another VB dev that continues his work beyond the first couple releases ;)

Nobody seems to have brought this up, so I guess I will. I can tell that the second girl who is unlocked is Amy Wong from Futurama, but who exactly is the first girl supposed to be? Is that a sexy Princess Peach?

I realize that making sound for the Virtual Boy is very difficult and not too many people have mastered it, but I have to agree that some of the songs just don't convert well. There are especially a good bit of extremely high pitches in some of the songs and even empty, silent spaces that detract from the enjoyment of listening to them, but still a good job though. I had fun getting perfects in all the songs on Easy and Hard. I usually can't get all perfects in all difficulty levels in such games, so it made me feel good about myself. ;-)

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It is. I copied her head from another image, but somehow I never got it look right.

Yeah, some of the songs are not perfect. Some of the high pitches can't be played by the VB. Also the converter does only allow to convert one track of the midi. That's why some nodes are missing. As the VB can play several tracks it would be possible to change this though. Also the nodes don't fade in and out. I tried to do that but somehow didn't get it to work. Finally some songs are played a little bit to slow. This is caused by the fact that the timing for the nodes is not done with interrupts.

I had allot of fun exploring the capabilities of the VB sound system. There is still allot of room for optimization but I'm somehow not in the mood for doing it. That's why I released all of the sources.

Oh, and thanks for playing through the game.

Hey thunderstruck,

I saw in another thread that you are going to design a sticker label for your GameHero game, which will be used for a reproduction cartridge to be made for you. Can you post the label here once you make it for all to see, and can others use the label for their own reproduction cartridges of the game?

Thanks.

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sure

So here is the label. It is pretty simple but I like it that way.

I also did this box some month ago. I pretty much copied the FlashBoy Box that's why it looks quite similar.