Blog entries by Archerite
In my last few posts i already talked about the arcade. How i was saving up tickets for Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom. Well, i got that game now. And within a week after that...i had Zelda Echo's of Wisdom too! Both games were 14.000 tickets at my arcade. The way i got those tickets was not from...
Going to the arcade is a lot of fun. sure. i often go with my nieces and god kids. i like the games where you have to do something...not rely on chance or a random number in the computer. you know...throw balls at clowns....bags in a spinning wheel with holes...ping pong balls in a cup...sort of...
About 3 years ago my cat named Zelda passed away. One of the hardest parts was letting her go...she was in a lot of pain and could barely breath in the end. The result was....ANYTHING....reminding me of her...made me cry, tear up...or just said for years! It still does...writing this...but I...
While watching a video of AI 3D model generation tools...from images....using ChatGPT! So...i started thinking....is it really that good now? Well see for yourself!
I asked it too translate the buttons. It could do it no issue, but it also completly seems to "forget" the pose of batteryman and...
I have been away for a while...again. sorry.
We all know we should make backups...but 95% of us are to lazy to actually do it. Or...just lack the knowledge to do it correctly. I have been digging into it lately and starting to look at how to make good offsite backups of my NAS. I have 32TB in...
It's been a while...far too long....since I have last posted anything devblog related to batterycheck. While I have nothing really new or exciting to tell...I have found some regained intterest to continue. And with continue...I basically mean start over from scratch! The main reason to start...
I was doing some 2D pixel art / CRT research again, and I came across this post on a neogeo forum:
I almost fell of my chair, hahaha :rofl2:
Since 2018 I have been working on a homebrew remake of an old PC platform game called BatteryCheck. At first it was more a proof of concept style level browser. Then I added a "player" and movement, show objects, implement very primitive collision detection, a point system that had bugs, and a...
The joy of programming....searching and debugging for nearly 3 hours...not getting a clear error...just a stupid crash! Then tracing the script causing the error...and noticing error reporting was disabled all this time! Know what it was? A STUPID SEMI COLON!!!! ";" :gun:
After that fix, it...
For my tiny youtube channel with only a handful of video's....I now have over 1000 views. :toot:
I should really add more video's, but I had nothing to post since I did nearly nothing with my homebrew game for the past 4-6 month. going through some stuff work related...it's going better now...
I do not have as much time to work on it as I would like but I have something cool to show! The PS1 has quite a slow CPU compared to the other consoles I have worked on which means it needs a few more optimizations. Rewriting this from scratch helps...and also that this is still in the...
All this time I was under the impression that the level and tilemap would be to big to fit in the PS1's RAM all at once. Just because the first BatteryCheck level is so immensely big! I really had it stuck in my head that the level was about 1MB or more in memory. And this added with the...
It's taking me a while to get used to the PlayStation 1 hardware and SDK (psn00bsdk). I am starting to see the bigger picture of how things work. Last time I showed a few screenshots with funky colors. I had a demo that showed all the splashscreens of batterycheck one after another with a 2-3...
After many hours of studying the examples included with PSn00bSDK I had an idea of how to load image data into VRAM. I confirmed the conclusions on the PSX.DEV discord to make sure I got it right. Then it still took me a few days to find the time to actually try it out....because before anything...
I did not have any hardware PlayStation 1 until just 3-4 weeks ago! Now I have 5 of them! :D Three "phat's" and two PSOne's. Why five consoles???? Well...I first bought a regular Phat for the serial and parallel ports they have that make homebrew development A LOT easier! Then I wanted to add a...
A week ago I received my first even PlayStation 1 with a couple of games. I already talked about it a little in the comments of my previous blog post. The main goal of my homebrew project has been learning about new consoles and how to write homebrew for them. And the PlayStation 1 will require...
Everybody can agree....if you look at how many gameconsole's I've worked on to get my homebrew gameengine running on them! The list is quite long...I need a trip down memory lane so...here we go. I'll keep it short. I promise...to at least try keep it short. Really! :D
With that enormous...
Because I got myself a GameBoy Color a few weeks ago I have been interested in also getting a couple of games for it, obviously. I do have a flash cart but it's not ideal to "Get to know" the games. I did not count but I have about 12 GB/GBC games now. Some are fun...some not so much. :rofl2...
In my last post I talked about getting a yellow "block of cheese" (GameBoy Color). I never had one growing up...and I discovered why that might have been. When it came out I was in high school so had basically no money, and I was more into CD-I and spending my allowance on that. I think. Then...