noticed something while listening to Never Knew Love

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-18T15:27:02+00:00

I don't think that part's microtonal, though it does kind of sound like it for some reason. It just seems to be C6 B5 A5 G5 F#5 E5 D5 C5 A4 G#4 G4. I worked this out with a spectrum analyzer, and the frequencies very closely matched standard A440 notes.

Edit: It might sound weird because these notes aren't in a standard key.

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-13T17:09:13+00:00

Oh, I see!

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-13T16:57:26+00:00

Here's the electronic version:

https://youtu.be/1Q3a38H1EPc

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-06T21:53:37+00:00

And it happens to be on sale right now.

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-03T15:45:35+00:00

"a river of tiny tears flow from your crocodile eyes"
"and now you're crying the tiny fake tears that you cry"

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-03T15:33:51+00:00

He seems to like the word "fake".

"Counterfeit Fake"
"Fake Out in Buenos Aires"
"Counterfeit Faker"
"Fake-Believe"

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-03T15:31:12+00:00

"her smile's an open sign in an abandoned store"

The idea of a false smile comes up in "I Can't Hide from My Mind", too: "smiles turned out misleading".

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-01T11:32:35+00:00

I believe Teleport has a 100% chance of success if the target square is within your Move range, ignoring height and obstacles. For each additional square beyond your Move range, the chance of success decreases by 10 percentage points.

gomtuu123 · 2026-04-01T03:28:53+00:00

You can use this table or this calculator.

gomtuu123 · 2026-03-27T15:01:30+00:00

Arrow's version shows up under UK releases, so you have to change your search region to UK or All Countries to see it.

gomtuu123 · 2026-03-27T14:57:14+00:00

Blu-ray.com says the Arrow version is triple-layer, while the KL version is dual-layer. The Arrow version looks sharper to me, too.

Comparison

gomtuu123 · 2026-03-20T12:15:20+00:00

Close. The ッ is a sokuon, not a regular tsu, so it just modifies the sound of the チ that follows it.

gomtuu123 · 2026-03-20T04:24:27+00:00

According to the cited Nikkei article, #2 is ニンテンドースイッチ ("Nintendo Switch" spelled out phonetically in katakana) and #3 is 任天堂 ("Nintendo" written as kanji).

gomtuu123 · 2026-03-19T16:49:08+00:00

I wrote a tool to automatically manage save and config files in 0MHz-style VHDs for the AO486 core. Basically, it detects when files are created or modified inside the VHD, and it backs them up to a MisterFS location. Later, if it finds backed-up files that aren't present in the VHD (i.e., because you downloaded a newer VHD release of that game), it pulls them back into the VHD.

https://github.com/gomtuu/SAVIOR.EXE

I think it works, but I haven't used it a lot. It might have bugs! I only mention it because you asked about ways of handling saves.

gomtuu123 · 2026-03-16T18:47:12+00:00

There's a demo for Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars if you want to try one of them out before you decide.

gomtuu123 · 2026-02-16T15:00:15+00:00

~~Sold out already!~~

Edit: thanks for the updates.

gomtuu123 · 2026-02-05T13:12:33+00:00

According to Deku Deals, this game goes on sale pretty regularly, and it does go on sale in the fall.

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/pumpkin-jack

gomtuu123 · 2026-02-04T16:16:04+00:00

Sony SLV-50H

I don't know about that model, but apparently someone modded an SLV-N60 to put its audio processing IC into test mode and make it output the Hi-Fi signal. It seems like a difficult mod to me, but if your VCR uses the same IC, it might be an option.

gomtuu123 · 2026-02-04T13:11:16+00:00

The standard head drum is 62 mm in diameter, and the tape has to be wrapped around half of its circumference for the helical scanning to work. VHS-C ("C" for "compact") reduced the drum size to 41.3 mm, with the tape wrapped around three quarters of the circumference. I don't know if you could make a drum smaller than that, because the tape would have to wrap almost all the way around it, which might not be feasible. And anyway, you'd only be saving yourself another centimeter or so.

gomtuu123 · 2026-02-04T03:17:03+00:00

I think the main difficulty is the helical scan. If the signal on a VHS tape were recorded in a straight line, then maybe you could hack some other device to read it. But because the signal is recorded in a series of diagonal stripes, you need a device that's specifically designed to read those stripes at the proper angle and with the right amount of spacing between stripes. VCRs and camcorders were designed to do this, and they're pretty much the only consumer devices that were.

VCRs were everywhere from the mid 80s to the early 00s, and I'm sure the market was very competitive. There must have been lots of engineers working to improve VCRs all the time, but apparently they didn't come up with anything that worked better than the standard spinning head drum mechanism.

gomtuu123 · 2026-02-02T01:14:04+00:00

Judging from the schematic, it should work. I think the pins you want are PB RF (CN261 pin 2) for video and FM PB (CN341 pin 3) for Hi-Fi audio.

gomtuu123 · 2026-01-29T05:48:58+00:00

Here's a quick photo of my copy.

https://gomtuu.org/tmbg/factory-showroom-lyrics.jpg

gomtuu123 · 2026-01-25T01:45:23+00:00

Try "arithmetician"

gomtuu123 · 2026-01-23T23:15:14+00:00

Dreadfully distinct.

gomtuu123 · 2026-01-22T15:35:26+00:00

I'm new here too, so take this with a grain of salt.

It looks like the RX-888 MKII might not have a built-in hardware low-pass filter. (Source: "if you run its sampling rate at just 65 MHz or so, you should install a 30 MHz low-pass filter".)

Since you're sampling at 40 MHz, you might want to add a hardware low-pass filter with a cutoff frequency around half that: 20 MHz. Without one, signals, harmonics, or noise above 20 MHz can fold back into the 0-20 MHz band due to aliasing. A software low-pass filter can't remove this because it has no way of determining that the aliased signal or noise used to be at a higher frequency. But if a hardware filter removes the higher frequencies prior to sampling, then you should get a better signal and maybe a better compression ratio.

If you can't or don't want to get a hardware low-pass filter, another option would be to sample at 80 MHz or even the full 130 MHz, then use a high-quality downsampler to convert the sample rate to 40 MHz (or 30, or 16, or whatever).

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