BrokenBlog

One thing’s for sure, it’s way better than the original. Attesting to my l33t-status, I procured a copy around 8 hours ago and I’ve already unlocked all but the final section on Expert. No, I haven’t been playing non-stop either.

Playing is far more fluid, as the guitar equivalent of slurs, or rapidly played notes (that don’t use the same fret buttons) only require a single strum. While playing a tough solo in Guitar Hero 1 you’d need to strum for every note, in Guitar Hero 2 you need only strum once and let your fingers do the work. It’s basically perfect for the way I play the game. I can’t strum very well, but I’ve got dexterity. If you don’t own Guitar Hero 2, you should purchase it as soon as possible.

Andre Michelle is my personal Flash hero, I find I’m always interested in the things he’s doing. Anyway, his steady obsession with making audio on-the-fly from within Flash has come to fruition and it’s just plain cool. He uses mod files with ByteArray and has managed to hack together a capable audio player. I experimented with mod files but favored midi files instead in a downright weird project I had going a while back. People seem to be slowly realizing how much ByteArray is going to change how people do advanced techniques in Flash.

I’m in the midst of an effort to work out some way to decompress files from within Flash with some help from the people at Flashcoders, although it’s going to be tricky. Basically, you have zip (or gzip) files and Flash, they both use the same compression techniques, but a minor difference makes them completely incompatible normally. But I’ll be damned if that stops me.

I made a poor attempt at a blog on another site a while back, it failed when I lost several drafts in a row to my twitchy browser-closing finger. Plus it was slow as hell. I’m bringing an article over that I always liked about emulated music, which is music taken directly from a video game in its original format. Ironically I rarely listen to video game music, I just like the fact that I can when I feel like it.

This post covers all these formats and more.

• NES
• SNES
• Genesis
• Gameboy
• Gameboy Advance
• Nintendo 64
• Playstation
• Playstation 2
• why Gamecube and Xbox aren’t on this list