Wumperdinkle Sniy

Worked on Minigame Mayhem: Mouthing Off some more. Added some food for the mouth to get. But avoid the puple pickle, it is deadly. There is more stuff to add, like: game progression: game throws more purple pickles at you as you advance. game progression: food speeds up perhaps add another food or two to the game. I'd like to show a picture but apparently I can't upload pictures any more. I tried twice and it said "upload failed." Fine then, be that way. Went to sleep at 5 a.m. and woke up at abour 5 p.m. So I spent most of the day sleeping. I don't know how I'm going to be awake to go to the post office to send those copies of that Odyssey homebrew game I made and people paid for.

Work resumes on Minigame Mayhem. I am beginning work on a new game for it. It is like "Fast Food" for the Atari 2600. So I designed a mouth and put it in the game. But then I thought it was too small. So I made it bigger. The mouth has a four frame animation with two frames being the same (this one). It is able to be moved around in 8 directions. And, most importantly, it works on a real Virtual Boy. I could make a background image, but I don't know if it would be easy to see the food when I put it in the game. I woke up at about 4p.m. after falling asleep at about midnight. I just couldn't get out of bed. I woke up at 2p.m. and tried to get out of bed but I couldn't move. So I just went back to sleep. I really hate going to sleep. But I have to do it every single day. It's stupid.

meow.

My favorite spacecraft is the Satellite of Love from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I thought one bee was too easy. So I added two more bees. The bees and the fly all move randomly around the screen. I also changed the game's name. People were thinking that I was going to make 54 minigames. So I changed it to "Minigame Mayhem." If you swat the fly, another one comes on the screen from one of the edges. The game ends if you touch a bee. Now after looking at this, I'm wondering if I should make the bees bigger. This is kind of what I was imagining with my Atari 2600 game. I couldn't make the scanline steady, so I had to drop it. And soon after, Atari bought AtariAge and it wouldn't have mattered anyway. I didn't get to sleep until 3 a.m. I thought it was earlier when I was working on something. Last time I checked on the time it was about 8 p.m. Next thing I knew it was after 2 a.m.

Birds are evil.

Today I worked on my VB game again. I put in pause functions in the games and began work on a fifth game about flyswatting. So now what I need to do is make the fly move and add a bee to avoid. I woke up at about 12:30pm. It's about 8:45pm and I am struggling to stay awake. I guess I don't really need to be awake, but it would be nice to be awake all day and sleep all night. Right now I go to sleep around midnight and wake up at about noon or 1 pm. I found Gogurt yogurt to be good. I like the cotton candy and strawberry flavors, which is good because there's a box of 10 of both flavors in it. I don't know what people like grape flavored anything. I guess it's all that Dimetapp I took as a kid. Or lemon flavored stuff. Who would like that? Do you eat Starburst or is it a gum? I read that it takes about 7 years for gum to digest if you swallow it. And then read another thing debunking it. It's been more than 7 years since I last ate Starburst.

I resumed work on a Virtual Boy game I last worked on in 2016. It's a collection of mini games. I worked today on finishing one of them. I have a new minigame idea all lined up to begin work on the next time I work on this. In the game "Cranberry Capers," Craig the Cranberry must rescue his fellow fruit from evil monsters. Here, Craig is about to rescue two cherries. Other fruit include watermelon, strawberry, and tomato. While working on this, I accidentally made it so Craig must move in order for a fruit to appear. I liked that idea, so I kept it in. I had to modify the code I had to make it work on a real Virtual Boy. So I did that. I have no idea why it does what it does. Perhaps the minigame code loop is too small? I don't know. I have a game in here called "Supper Mario." I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to attempt to put in the SMB theme in it. I like my results. Then I went to bed at about 2:30a.m. and woke up at about 2 p.m. I don't know, I guess I sleep too much. It's about 5:30p.m. and I just yawned. In "Supper Mario," spinies come falling from the sky and land and you must not touch them. If Mario goes off screen, he reappears at the other end, to avoid the spinies. Mario can move only left and right and he can't jump. But I don't know if I should keep the Mario sprites and music in. I really hate C&D orders and I haven't gotten one yet. It's so dumb. I should be able to use this if I want to. What are copyright holders afraid of? Losing money? Like they'd lose a lot with this even if it does get released. If someone uses my stuff I made, I'd be impressed, not angry. I also have a sort of medical problem: A sort of disc-shaped bump up my butt. It doesn't hurt except when I poop. I have been putting Preparation H on it but it doesn't seem to be helping any. I really don't want to go to the doctor, but I'm getting really sick of it and I may have to if it keeps up.

For the first time in a million years I can finally say that. Yesterday I worked on my GB game. I added the first things of the actual game: The history teacher. He can move around. He has a little animation for moving around. He's in color. All lovely things. I also got around to cataloging my PSX games. I thought I had Crash Racing but I can't find it anywhere. And also of note, I am going to update my apples crosswords site again starting October 1. You see, in 2019 I had a dream where i was making crosswords about apples. So I woke up and did. And kept going at it. And I forget the actual dream, but I just remember it was about crosswords about apples.

I'll make a list.

I am using GBDK-2020, so C. I use HugeTracker for the music.

I have for testing my Game Boy creations a Game Boy Color, a Game Boy Pocket, a brick Game Boy (in case I need one), and Super Game Boy. I decided to mess around with Game Boy Color programming. I found a way to change the light gray color to yellow on GBC while still making it work on the GB pocket, with the lemon displaying as light gray. Now that I have this, I don't know what to do with it. Perhaps I could make a Fast Food type game with food coming in all directions. I'd like to make something that doesn't use a battery. I also put in a Super Game Boy border. I think tomorrow I'll add some music to this screen.

So I got a haircut. After I got my hair cut, I stopped by my local game store and walked out with three Plyaystation games, knowing full well I would need to find it when I came home. I also stopped at Subway and got a salad. One of the first things I was asked was "Do you want lettuce in your salad?" I'm wondering what would happen if I said "no." Isn't a salad just a bunch of lettuce with some other stuff thrown in? Well, on the car ride home I ate the salad. I usually didn't like salads, but I like Subway's. I got home, miraculously found the AC adapter for the PSOne, tried out the four games I needed to (I bought one a few months ago but I didn't feel like searching for it. I guess it was hot that day.) They all work. I got a Lynx game in the mail today (Switchblade II), and that worked okay. I think I might as well give up on X vs. O, though, I got the win detection, I got the selecting spaces working ok, but one time it restarted a game without me pressing the o key on the keyboard. I keep playing the game for fifteen minutes without any bug happening and then one does. It's stupid. But back to the Playstation. I have all these games but I don't know what to play. I guess I'll play solo Scrabble. I just wish it would save my high scores with the memory card. And perhaps some pinball as well. I have to be careful about which PS games to buy since I don't have a Game Genie device for it. I just wish games continued to be on cartridges. You'd think it would be easier to pirate games if they were on a CD, which was why the Gamecube discs were small.

I really wanted Cedar Games to show up, so I played around with the room I had and got this: Looks kinda crappy, I know, but it's better than nothing.

It took a couple of days but I think I have the game working with win detection. It was really stubborn for some reason. During the madness, my computer crapped out on me, so I had to force a shutdown and turn it back on again. After I turned it back on again, I decided I should really get some sleep. I awoke at about 9 a.m. I was really hot. Whenever the furnace is on, it gets really hot in my room and not elsewhere in the entire house. It's stupid, but oh well. So I went back to programming in the hotness. A few hours later, I think I have it now. One thing I must note is apparently I didn't have enough space in the bank I thought I had, so in order for this to work, I had to remove the words "CEDAR GAMES" from the intro. I thought "Which would be better, a working game without CEDAR GAMES showing or not?"

So it took 6 hours, but I finally got x and o input working. Use the left controller for x and the right one for o. Next up is win checking. I have about 300 bytes left to do that in. I'll do that later sometime. It works just like I intended it to: pressing up makes a letter in the upper middle, etc. Diagonals work well too. Press ACTION to put a letter in the center part. Now I will test it on a real Odyssey 2. I just took my pills this morning. One tried to escape. I could feel the capsule going around my mouth, so I drank some more water.

I'm making a new game for the Odyssey 2. This because I got real bored. The title screens switch between a screen with x's and a screen with o's. First I plan to make a simple tic-tac-toe game as an Easter egg. You'll move the joystick to the desired space, and press ACTION to use the center square. I'm imagining something like the Tic-Tac-Toe game on the Channel F. If you click on the link above and download the zip file, I've also included the code for the game. Which shows a lot of code crammed into less than 500 lines. I have about 1,300 bytes left in the starting bank for the tic-tac-toe game. I think I can pull it off (keep it all in the bank) if I make it a 2 player game. So if a tic-tac-toe game is an Easter egg, what is the actual game? I don't know yet. But that's okay. I often start Odyssey 2 games without knowing what I want to do. One thing I learned by attempting a Legend of Zelda-type game using the letter Q (and another adventure game starring a lowercase i) is that it's not going to be terribly long. I need to think of something to engage the player for a while.

I find it easier to work on Game Boy projects since I can use C on them. Well, I guess I could use C for Game Gear as well, but since I learned how to program the Game Gear in assembly before I learned the Game Boy in C, I just decided to keep using assembly for Game Gear. So here is a Game Gear program I have been working on. It's called Yum! It's a very simple game, yet I was having quite the trouble programming it. I thought I had made it random, but someone pointed out it wasn't. So I went to work this morning trying to make it random. I think I succeeded. The goal of the game is to close the mouth for the icky green vegetables and open it for the cookie and pizza. If you're interested in trying it out, you can download it on the website I posted a link to. I woke up at about 11:30p.m. I tried to sleep all day AND all night to get back on track and live like a normal person, but my leg hurt (from being in bed too long I presume), so I had to get up. I guess I could try to go back to sleep now, but I don't think I would be able to.

Hello. I decided to make a blog for all my stuff I get busy working on. I have made lots of projects. I completed a lot, but I continue to make more. I live here in Oregon, which, while having a reputation for being rainy all the time, I don't find it so. It's supposed to be in the 90s this weekend. I maintain the Atari 2600 Land, which used to be a project of mine, but I don't care about it much any more. Even so, I will NOT entertain offers from Atari about buying it. I also periodically make a periodical, an e-zine about my computer-related musings, called the Big Belch Computer News. I have quite the menagerie of consoles, ranging from a Maganvox Odyssey to a Nintendo Switch. Sometimes I am awake all night and sleep all day, and other times I'm asleep all night and awake all day. Right now I'm awake a little after midnight here. I used to play my Atari 2600 a lot, but not as much since i got the other retro consoles. Now I have about 350 Atari 2600 games in the pantry just sitting there collecting dust. Perhaps I should sell them.

Hello. My name is Wumperdinkle Sniy (I wish!) For 17 years, I was known as "atari2600land" over on AtariAge. I am also "GameGearGuy" on VideoGameSage as well. I decided to not appear as atari2600land again because I hardly ever update my website any more.