{"author_name":"GreaseMonkey","cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"Billy Wenge-Murphy","time":"December 17, 2010 12:22 am","epoch":1292563320,"text":"Are any of the module formats easy to play? To my understanding, it’s notoriously hard to get timing and effects right. .xm looks like one of the most logical to process but they all have specific, exacting playback rules.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 17, 2010 7:33 am","epoch":1292589180,"text":"Seems you’re using linux. Which distro are you using?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Bock","time":"December 18, 2010 1:08 am","epoch":1292652480,"text":"Hello,
\n If your target is Sega 8-bit your best bet is to look the .psdmod format exported by MOD2PSG2 (which as its name NOT imply is a full featured tracker for the SN chip in SMS\/GG). Mod2Psg2 also allows importing VGM and MID to some extent, although your output .psgmod file won’t be as optimized as something made under proper constraints. There is a runtime playback library with Mod2Psg2 and its trivial to use.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1292547540,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"68780","p_author":"GreaseMonkey","p_authorkey":"2396","p_urlkey":"104583","p_title":"Apparently .it isn\u2019t the easiest format to make a player for","p_cat":"LD #19 - Discovery - 2010","p_event":"LD19","p_time":"1292547540","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2396","us_name":"GreaseMonkey","us_username":"greasemonkey","event_start":"1292544000","event_key":"5","event_name":"LD19"},"text":"

Hey guys, guess what? I have music!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately it doesn’t work very well. It uses patterns from the .it format, which is easier to load than I thought (yay for the BIT opcode \\o\/) but quite a pain to play. To be quite honest, I’d probably fare better just using LZSS-compressed VGM streams.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/pubacc.wilcox-tech.com\/~greaser\/stuff\/butt-02.sms<\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoy the slightly glitchy music. Also, when you die or win, the game resets!<\/p>\n

No source code, sorry – and here’s why:<\/p>\n

-rw-r–r– 1 ben ben\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 443 2010-12-17 15:45 bears.inc
\n -rw-r–r– 1 ben ben\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14 2010-12-17 15:45 bears.ord
\n -rw-r–r– 1 ben ben\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 580 2010-12-17 15:45 bears.pat0
\n -rw-r–r– 1 ben ben\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 758 2010-12-17 15:45 bears.pat1
\n -rw-r–r– 1 ben ben\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 705 2010-12-17 15:45 bears.pat2
\n -rw-r–r– 1 ben ben\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 720 2010-12-17 15:45 bears.pat3
\n -rw-r–r– 1 ben ben\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 762 2010-12-17 15:45 bears.pat4
\n -rw-r–r– 1 ben ben\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 707 2010-12-17 15:45 bears.pat5<\/p>\n

…yep, all those files (using a tool I made, of course). Anyways:<\/p>\n

wlalink -v link.wla butt.sms
\n Free space at $0037.
\n Free space at $005c-$0065.
\n Free space at $09ec-$09ff.
\n Free space at $0a0e-$3fff.
\n Free space at $53a4-$7fdf.
\n Free space at $7ff8-$7ff9.
\n Free space at $7ffc-$7ffe.
\n Bank 00 has 13841 bytes (84.48%) free.
\n Bank 01 has 11329 bytes (69.15%) free.
\n 25170 unused bytes of total 32768.<\/p>\n

But I might just sacrifice compactness for simplicity in the compo.<\/p>","time":"December 16th, 2010 7:59 pm","title":"Apparently .it isn\u2019t the easiest format to make a player for"}