as a follow up to a bit on the main page of nesworld, Alex Mauer' Vegavox cart-album is for sale now. $17 plus $5 for shipping. I ordered one and am pretty excited to get it.

http://music.headlessbarbie.com

scroll down to the black and grey table and its the only thing with a "buy now" button beside.

That thing seems pretty cool.  Wasn't there a YouTube video or something?

I ordered mine as well.
Al

Is it possible to make one of these things with, like hundreds of songs?  Like 256 or something? ;D

Not trying to bring down the Vegavox or anything.

Yes, a full cart could be made with 256 songs on it.
But a full cart could be also be made with only 1 song on it.
there are a lot of factors affecting how much data a song takes.

I can only relate my own simplistic case (the music for sudoku which I still havent finished)
I plan on using only 1 sound register, playing at a fixed rate, and having a relatively small number of notes (lets say 16.  Since I havent done it yet)

I'll need 16 notes (4 bytes each) = 64 bytes for my note table.
I play back at a fixed rate (1 note per 1/5 second)  so 256 notes (stored as an index to the note table) is another 256 bytes (128 bytes if I use 4 bits instead of 8)  and that would give me 51 seconds of audio for my music before it loops.   Thats tiny,  but its also not going to be very good music.


I would imagine Vegavox uses all 4 main sound channels and possibly the DMC channel.
If his song was longer than 51 seconds, it would need more data.
If he used all 4 sound channels, you are looking at at laest 4 times the data I listed above.
If you dont use fixed spacing (I was usign 1/5 of a second) , additional data is required.
If more than 16 notes are being used, you can use the simple byte paking I mentioned above, although compression would still be possible.
I know that if the DMC channel is used, enormous amounts of space can be required)



Al

Thanks for the link, I ordered one as well :)

Very cool item, I picked up one as well.  We have had lots of new NES projects lately with this, NWC repros, and the newly released PowerPaks.  Very exciting time for NES right now.  Thanks for the link.
~~NGD

NationalGameDepot wrote on 11. Jun 2007 at 21:30:

Very cool item, I picked up one as well.  We have had lots of new NES projects lately with this, NWC repros, and the newly released PowerPaks.  Very exciting time for NES right now.  Thanks for the link. ~~NGD

That's exactly what I was just thinking.  I can't wait to get paid.  So many cool things to buy.

6/11/07 should go down in Nintendo history for all the homebrew releases:

Vegavox
Powerpak
and the 2nd batch of NWC 1990 repro carts

Very good day to be a nintendo fan!

Albailey, are you going to be doing the music yourself?

wrote on 12. Jun 2007 at 05:23:

Albailey, are you going to be doing the music yourself?

Yes.  But keep in mind that I have no musical talent.  So all I am doing writing audio playback code and an audio composing tool so I can play "Feur Elise" by Beethoven.  Its a public domain song, my version will suck, and I'm pretty sure no other NES games have it.  I havent worked on it in over a week.

Al

Quote:

I havent worked on it in over a week.

Get busy Al, I want to see this in a nice blue case and have or first newly released game in 15 years :D  Man so much cool NESness going on....
~~NGD

xtremegamer wrote on 12. Jun 2007 at 01:22:

6/11/07 should go down in Nintendo history for all the homebrew releases: Vegavox Powerpak and the 2nd batch of NWC 1990 repro carts Very good day to be a nintendo fan!

not to mention the amazing selection that's starting to build up over at gamereproductions.com . He just got more chips for the snes dragon quest 5, plus he's got cocoron up for sale now.

definately a great time to be a nes fanatic.

Hello!

I receive Vegabox today in the mail. I'm just waiting to my USA TopLoader to play it :D

Anyone have received yet? Any reviews?

Regards!

I got mine yesterday.  Very cool little item.  I listened to all the tracks once over, not bad. I doubt I will just be sitting and listing to it all the time or anything, but very cool.
~~NGD

Does anyone know what the numbers on the back mean?  Mine says #001-29

I was wondering the same thing.  Mine says #001-03.  If they were # for collecting purposes that would rock, but I don't have a clue what they mean. :-?
~~NGD

NationalGameDepot wrote on 20. Jun 2007 at 17:13:

I was wondering the same thing.  Mine says #001-03.  If they were # for collecting purposes that would rock, but I don't have a clue what they mean. :-? ~~NGD

Of course they are!!! I suggest Alex to do it when he asks for pre-orders!!!

First 001 means -> First Batch/Edition
Second "03" numbers means -> Cartridge number 3!!!

Regards from Spain!

ZiKuTa

Freaking awesome.  #3 is a super early number too :D  Thanks for telling us, I was wondering.
~~NGD

I got 001-06 this week.  Thanks for the heads up NGD when these went up for sale.  

Mine is  001-02  :)

Al

I got number 25 & 26! (Orderd 2 cause they where quite cheap!)

So I guess this is selling quite well... Does anyone know how many where made?

Mine's #001-07