Displaced Gamers

Sometimes you just have to make your own controller.

How does Luma relate to Chroma? How does RGB relate to Y'PbPr? How do B'-Y' and R'-Y' form PbPr?

A wonderful Star Wars game for PC that throws you into the cockpit of an X-Wing.

Crash course in the four generations of MSX computers with a focus on scrolling, sprites, media, sound, homebrew, and patches. Shed your assumptions. Know the machine.

Video game system classification needs an overhaul. What about computers and arcade games? What are your thoughts?

Examination of a small sample of games from the days before patching was such a frequent occurrence.

Some revisions, some bugs, and some code from Super Mario Bros 2. Featured cheat codes: Music Extension: XSXPZIAT Animation Fix: AXNYSZTX Birdo Head Change: (I wouldn't use these, myself) EEVNGZAA XEVNIZZE XEVYIZZE EEVYGZAA KLEYGLAX VLEYILZX EEVNAXGE EENYAXGE XEVNPXTE XENYPXTE EENNGXGE XENNIXTE EAENALAE XAENPLZE KUNNZXTX KUNNLXTX

The code behind the Konami code and some ROM editing for Contra. Featured cheat codes: Reduce Konami Code to a single "UP" press: PAKKPUZA 0:00 Intro 2:34 Konami Code Entry Explained 15:05 Assembly Post-Game Show 15:15 Intermission 15:49 Rapid Fire Explained 19:51 Can we change the rate of fire? 22:36 Outro #CONTRA #CODE #PROGRAMMING

Explanation of Fairy Warp Glitch, Objects, Elevators, and more Featured cheat codes: A smaller Great Palace: EIXATNGE Double Elevator Speed - Down: AUKIEEAP Up: ESKIOEET MAX Elevator Speed - Down: YNKIEEAO Up: EEKIOEET 0:00 Intro 1:02 Disk vs Cartridge Overworld 1:35 The Mystery of F-Attack 3:31 Zelda 2's Object System 10:24 The Fairy Warp Glitch and Sidescrolling World Design 19:53 The Zelda 2 Level-Up Softlock 23:37 Slow Elevators or Fast Elevators? 27:59 Outro #ZELDA2 #CODE #PROGRAMMING

Examination of one sound channel of the NES - the DMC. Analog to digital conversion, PCM, and DPCM are covered. #NES #SOUND #SPEECH 0:00 Intro 1:00 What is Sound? 3:08 From Analog to Digital 5:59 PCM Explanation 7:45 PCM on the NES 10:15 Raw PCM on Register $4011 11:21 DPCM on the NES 12:52 Dwouble Dwibble and Registers $4012 and $4013 18:37 NES DPCM Sample Rate Options 20:56 NES Speech Replacement 21:53 DPCM Instruments 23:26 Sample Length and the Off-by-one Error 26:06 Looping Samples 27:46 A DPCM ROM Modification... 28:33 Journey to Silius Bass Compare 29:56 Thoughts on Bass Change 30:46 Super C and Drums vs Orchestra Hits 32:07 DMC Shortcomings 33:10 Conclusion and Outro

Code walk through sword collision detection, sword/wand states, and the wand collision bug. Featured Game Genie Codes: (Take note that I have not tested these with a real cartridge) Sword Damage Boost: NNOLTIAO White Sword Damage Boost: NNOLYIAX Magic Sword Damage Boost:NNOUAIAK Fast Sword: ZAOEUTPA Sword Centering Mod (Vertical Sword): YAKUTTTA Sword Centering Mod (Horizontal Sword): PAVLYTTE Wand Melee Fix CMP: ZUSLIIAL Wand Melee Fix BNE: ESSLTIEP 0:00 Intro 1:42 Item Usage Conflict 3:27 Overview and Emulator Helpfulness 6:00 Begin Code Trace 9:40 Sword States and Comparing Values 14:50 Resume Code Walk 19:04 Execution Time? 20:35 Enemy Size and Hitboxes? 24:47 The Wand Melee Bug 28:05 An Abandoned Sword Animation? 29:03 Fix the Wand Melee Bug 31:42 Removing Sword Wind-Up 32:57 Outro #ZELDA #CODE #PROGRAMMING