New Calculator DDR!

neomang5 · Basic Member Joined: 17 Jul 2004

Hey hey hey now, Relax
Let him finish the game before we go onto mods.
I mean its just as good without them, so you dont need them.
Theyre an extra that we might get if he can figure it out.
Quit pressurin the man.
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Kongisstan wrote:

aw dame. you made me buy all this material for notthing! du ma! o well. im rich. i could afford ne thing. mayb i shoould js buy the machine. tearz ;(
ne wais it was fun buying. peace outside durty poopz.

!~NORTHNORTH SIDE~!

^DDR Moron

[ES] GARYsurvivor · Trick Member Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Location: Lakewood, CO

I know how to make speed changes and stops just by altering the frame rate, resulting in the funky perfect window. (A stop is just changing it to like 1 frame per second for one frame) Freezes are still hassling me, I just want them to look nice. Right now they look weird when they appear at the bottom, but I guess that doesn't matter too much.

gameboyguy13 · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject:

FoxFireX · Trick Member Joined: 07 Dec 2003

Haven't really been following this much, but if you wanted to try to get the perfect et al windows a bit closer, do you think it might be worthwhile to base your number of frames per window on the current frame rate? Picking random numbers, say that if the frame rate is 4-8 fps, perfect is within 2 frames, great 4, etc., but if the frame rate is 9-12, perfect is within 3, great 6, and so forth? Set it up so your frame windows are global variables which get set any time the frame rate is adjusted? A little bit of added complexity, but I don't think it would be too horrible to contemplate, and would make the game play just that much closer to those knock-offs Konami puts out.

Just a thought from a random bystander.

[ES] GARYsurvivor · Trick Member Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Location: Lakewood, CO

This isn't some easy to control frame rate things here. This is written in low-level language, meaning that I might as well be programming in 1s and 0s. The frame rate isn't something that you set, it's something that you control. It doesn't automatically set itself with a simple command. I have to control every single frame. Also, my window has to be fixed for simplicity. The judging is based of 1 byte and a carry, so basically 9 bits. I use bit shifting to represent moving arrows. A set bit (1) would represent an arrow. So depending on where this set bit is when the correct key is pressed, you get a grading. The bits are graded like this:

AgGPPGgA M

P=Perfect
G=Great
g=Good
A=Almost
M=Miss

The bits move every frame and the arrows move every frame, so everything works harmoniously and without being too complicated. That's why it's best to keep everything in sync that way and changing the clockwork speed, making everything speed up or slow down, including the perfect window.

I hope that didn't hurt your brains somehow. It's my own system that I thought up just for this game, so it's unique!

tac-tics · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:33 am Post subject:

Isn't it possible to output sound to the TI-83? The external data port is nothing more than a headphone jack.

(Imagines Gameboy DDR-style MIDI music X-D
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[ES] GARYsurvivor · Trick Member Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Location: Lakewood, CO

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

That's not what I call "music".

It barely qualifies as "sound".

This kinda falls in line with using the internal potentiometers in the PowerBook G4 as a 3D input device.

You can use a sound card's input jacks as a oscilloscope, sure, but it's a rather roundabout way of doing it, and it doesn't work so well.

Some hacks just aren't meant to be.
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stickfigureman3 · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Location: Redmond, WA

Headphones don't fit into a TI-83 link port...however, cell phone headsets fit in (no clue if they work or not). There have been some games that did claim they have sound though (I think there was a pong game like that on ticalc.org), so if you can find the programmers for those games, you could possibly ask about that.

I'm really looking fowards to this though...it's looks like it's shaping up to be better than the ubercrappy version from some other person last year.
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[ES] GARYsurvivor · Trick Member Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Location: Lakewood, CO

maxx freak · Trick Member Joined: 09 Aug 2005

dont make all the arrows the same black. it'll be hard to read the 1/8 and 1/16 beats if all the arrows are black.

[ES] GARYsurvivor · Trick Member Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Location: Lakewood, CO

Oh yeah, I really want to make a complicated interrupt that controls the shading of the arrows so that it can screw up button reading so that you can't hold freeze arrows correctly without your calculator crashing! It's not worth the effort, seriously.

gameboyguy13 · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:33 am Post subject:

Nightime · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Location: anywhere else

Well, you could always go the Solo route, if it supports shading. Just make 1/2 and 2/3 beats an outline, and 1/4 and 1/3 beats a middle shade.

[ES] GARYsurvivor · Trick Member Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Location: Lakewood, CO

jamygabb · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jul 2005

good luck Gary and don't try to make it a rush, people, if u rush him he will make it not as good as he intended to.

runwithscizzors9 · Trick Member Joined: 06 Feb 2005

will it be ready by the end of the month? cause thats when school starts