Flash Boy woes

Entry posted by atari2600land August 1, 2011

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So I finally got a Flash Boy (Flash drive for the Virtual Boy) in the mail today. After getting my dorky computer to recognize it, I tried installing a game on it, accidentally leaving it in the VB slot. (Oops.) Didn't seem to affect it any, although the computer did want to stop responding. After realizing my mistake and got the cart out of the VB slot, I tried to make it work again. This time it quit uploading my game at 5% finished. So I unplugged it in disgust and plugged it back in. Same result. So I unplugged the cart and plugged it back in again, and this time it actually got to 100% (the game had been successfully installed on the Flash Boy. Eager with anticipation, I put the Flash Boy in my VB and lo and behold, I heard "Insect Combat!" in my voice emanating from my VB. Unfortunately, the music I had programmed wasn't. Although everything did look fine. So basically, the speech samples work, but the music doesn't, although it works just fine in Mednafen. So now I (read: someone else) has to figure out why the music wasn't working. I'm too stupid to look through my code to actually understand the parts I didn't program (It's all gibberish to me.) So all in all, after getting acquainted with it and how it works, I think I'm going to like it, that is, if it keeps on working. And here i was, expecting to have everything working fine since it did in Mednafen. This is my first flash drive for any system, so I wasn't sure on how to operate the thing. What made it especially more difficult is the way my POS computer kept on quitting to respond after my game was 5% downloaded.

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