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Jayenkai

Created : 14 April 2016
Edited : 31 December 1969

#260 - Chain "Melody"

; Chain "Melody"

#260 - Friday 15th April, 2016

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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Print -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ; It's all your fault, Nintendo. I've barely coded anything, this week. I've also not really written much, in preparation for this week's Newsletter, either. You know what I have done? Fucking Miitomo. Every damn day. Reading, commenting, choosing clothes, taking pictures. What have I become!? What has Nintendo done to me!!? AGameAWeek is ruined because of stupid chatting animated avatars. GAH!!	-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SoCoder -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ; Rumbling? Spinal's hit a bit of a brick wall. He can't quite fathom how to get Rumble to work on his PS->N64 controller hack. socoder.net/?topic=5465 ; JoltyBoy GameJolt now apparently let you upload Gameboy roms of your games. Rychan's taken advantage of this, and has posted some of his recent GB offerings. I've yet to see any of them running on it, though, as the GameJolt site (as much as I love it) is falling to pieces! socoder.net/?topic=5463 ; Game "Removal" Aaah, the age old digital dilemma. If a company stops "Selling" a game, does that mean you no longer get to reinstall your copy, should you happen to lose the current version? Ever since this topic was posted, I've been trawling through all my various accounts and things, downloading installers and sticking them on my NAS drive!!! If anyone could see the contents of my NAS drive, it'd look like a piracy warehouse, with tons of .rars, containing serial numbers and installers!! socoder.net/?topic=5470
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Making Videos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I normally create ALChoon videos in the following way. 1. Blitz3D program to create 6,000 frames of background animation, in 1920x1080, 30fps. 2. Save as .bmps 'cos that's all B3D can do. 3. Use ffmpeg to input the bmps and a choon, and output a video. Yesterday I tried something a little different, and tried to get BlitzMax involved. After a lot (a LOT!) of faffing about, I managed to whittle it down to... 1. BlitzMax program to create 6,000 frames of background animation, in 1920x1080, 30fps. 2. Save as .pngs 'cos that's all I can get BMax to do. 3. Use ffmpeg to input the bmps and a choon, and output a video. So.. Um.. Yeah, that was a waste of a day, really. It's not much quicker, and the output images aren't 100,000 times better. They're slightly nicer, since BMax has alphas and rotation and stuff, but ... shrugs And to top it all off, the resulting 2 minute video is a whopping 521Mb.... ..I wish I was joking!!! I may have to look into compression settings!	-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SoOffTopic -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ; Dabz's Date Dabz gets off his holey arse, and jumps right back into full gear. socoder.net/?topic=5457 ; GfK's Dad GfK's Dad's in for heart surgery. We wish him well. socoder.net/?topic=5472 ; Vivaldi Chrome finally has a fight on it's hands, as new browser Vivaldi actually seems to be a rather decent browser. Especially for a first-release. As with most new Browsers, Vivaldi will be kept installed for the purpose of testing that my various sites work. Whether none-devs will make the transition is currently unknown. https://socoder.net/?topic=5467
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tweetage -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Twitter Linkage Twitter Linkage Twitter Linkage Twitter Linkage	-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tubage -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ; Buying Spectrum ChinnyVision discusses Amstrad's purchase of Spectrum. View on YouTube ; Cooking Cookies Cookie Monster Cooks Cookies. You've probably already seen these, as they pretty much went viral since I added them to this txt file about a week ago!!! youtu.be/CCbWyYr82BM youtu.be/Wk5qT_814xM ; Coaster Lamp Mist8k makes a lamp. youtu.be/5fjsRq7U5M8 ; Giant Food Phoebe makes a giant chicken nugget! youtu.be/vGbW9WvcRxg ; Uncle Sam A special treat, for breakfast! youtu.be/KGnwgnmlN9E ; NSFW Ebichu answers the phone. youtu.be/O5y9x6m4MY0
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Musical Interlude -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ; The Absolute Essentials A song about having the things that are necessary to survive. View on YouTube ; Strawberry Pie Pretty sure I've posted this in the newsletter before. Got it stuck in my head about an hour ago, and it won't go away! youtu.be/u8J5i_zkWmQ And just in case you don't like cutesy JPop, here it is again with more guitars. youtu.be/ZMihKT-X9hc	-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Miitomo Remix Corner -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GameChops are currently midway through releasing a series of Miitomo "mixes", but I'm not too happy with their output so far. They're very much of the "original track with added drumbeat" variety of mixing. Meh.. View on YouTube youtu.be/pEkeB-qORvI youtu.be/2t8i83I39X0 youtu.be/Wybt3VHPhDk youtu.be/-__QUGz-l3Y ------------------- Load, Next List!

#260 - Chain "Melody"

; Chain "Melody"

; It's all your fault, Nintendo.

; Rumbling?

; JoltyBoy

; Game "Removal"

; Dabz's Date

; GfK's Dad

; Vivaldi

; Buying Spectrum

; Cooking Cookies

; Coaster Lamp

; Giant Food

; Uncle Sam

; NSFW

; The Absolute Essentials

; Strawberry Pie

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