Wow

http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=8917

I didn't thought this was possible. Now if only sound quality was better. I think it could be tho, on newer models. Now I hope that guy releases a song converter so I can convert you-know-what to GH calc format

Now we need DDR with sound

hehe, I don't have an adapter, so I had to use 3 alligator clips to hook it up to my stereo.

Its got great sound for the file size, but the difficulty is way to high for me (on easy!)

Hey I got spotted from across the forums!

If you read the end of the topic in unitedti, you would have seen that I was working on rewriting the code with support for 2-bit sound and compression (on average lowering the size by 24%). I finally managed to find the time to complete the new version of the game (attached below). This uses the 15 mHz processor and so does not work on the regular Ti-83+. I still have not gone around to syncing the sound to the notes (I have timestamps for all the notes of the songs in GH1 & GH2, but I don't have any references to real time (such as in seconds). 1 "tick" in that timestamp is equivilant to somewhere between 15.1 and 15.2 milliseconds, but I haven't quite figured out where it lies exactly).

The 3 attached files are the ones I have converted using my new sound format (Sweet Child o' Mine sounds incredibly good). If you happen to find any other older files on unitedti in my thread before compression & 2-bit sound, the notes will work fine but the sound will be gibberish.

Full details on how to play are on my unitedti thread.

You expressed interest in making your own song for Guitar Calculator. I also attached a sample excel file I use to create my songs. I modified it a bit to provide a more user-friendly verison (SampleExcel).

On the left will be the information you need to submit to create the file. Do not modify the values here. On the right, under "Raw" (each set of rows corressponds to a different difficulty-leave it blank if you don't was to use them all), you type in at what time you are supposed to press the note in milliseconds (1000 = 1 second, 2000 = 2 seconds, 5600 = 5.6 seconds). Beside, you put a "0" on the notes you want the user to press when he hits your note/chord. I have an example provided.

Notice that the last note has a "-4" instead of a 0. This is a special case - it is a "note" which tells the program to quit the song (in other words, this represents the time at which the song ends). Don't forget to put it at the end, or else your player will have to manually quit the song themselves using DEL.

The song you would like to use for Guitar Calculator must be presented in a 8.000 kHz, 8-bit, Mono .wav file. You can use your Sound Recorder accessory in Windows XP to convert the wav type if you have it (File>Properties). It also shows you the current form if you need to check the format. Any other form will produce incorrect results, or be refused.

Once you have your notes all prepared in your Excel file, it is time to input the data. Each double-column set on the left of the excel file corresponding to a difficulty must be converted into the following format:

From (this is the Easy version of the sample song I put in randomly)
1000   253
1500   253
etc.

to

1000;253;2000;251;3000;251;4000;247;5000;247;30000;245;50000;243;4464;247;24464;127;
(note that the last number must end with a semicolon)

A simple way of doing this is to copy all the values, and paste them into word. After you paste, in the bottom-right corner, there should be a little briefcase. Click on it and choose to conserve only the text of what you pasted (so that you don't have the information in form of a table).

After that, press Ctrl+F and select "Replace". Search for "^p" and replace all occurences with ";". Now replace all occurences of "^t" with ";". Your information should now be converted into the proper form (a very long line of numbers seperated by semi-colons).

Once that is done, run the attached program (GuitarCalculatorSongMaker3.zip). Choose your wav file (make sure it is in the right format!), and then type in the information it asks for. Note that if your title/artist is too long, it might not fit on the screen. After that the program will start to create AppVars in the same folder as your wav file. Given the fact that the program I made is highly inefficient, you will have to wait a while. Suddenly, when it is done converting the song, it will present a pop-up asking you to paste the information for Easy. Paste the information in the form of the semi-colon-separated list. Do the same for Medium, Hard, and Expert. If you did not include a certain difficulty, leave the input box completely blank. If your input is incorrect, the program will likely crash.

You will now have your AppVars. Test it on your calculator, adjust, then zip it and upload it here.

What was the song you wanted to put on your calculator? One of your own?

Haha, thanks. I'm kind of proud that my first game is receiving such notice. Of course, I chose to make this game because I saw nothing of the kind anywhere on ticalc.org (in fact, I hadn't even known that DDR existed), and it didn't seem particularly hard to make for me.

Welcome Seren
Really nice work with the game ^^
I only tried it in an emulator right now, but I'm soo going to put it on my calc when It connects again to my PC
2.5mm headphone jacks for the win!

Actually nvm the can't access Omni comment. Later that night, I e-mailed 1and1 (the hosting provider for Omnimaga and TIMGUL websites, as well as the xlib.mtv-music-generator.com file folder) and it turned out that for some reason, my IP got banned from their server. I got them to unban it and when I returned from work an hour ago, they had it fixed. I hope this doesn't happen again, though, because proxies are very slow sometimes and not very secure (when logged in).

Some other people has reported some downtimes last afternoon too, though. Maybe I just tried too many attempts at accessing the site during that time, as I was editing forum files at that time.

Back on the topic, the TI-Nspire, when you swap its keyboard with the TI-84+ keyboard, has the same keypad layout as a regular TI-83+/84+. The speed is practically the same as a regular TI-84+SE, even during ASM games. The only problem is that programs using undocumented ASM instructions and stuff like that usually doesn't work on it. MirageOs, for example, requires a patch, else it crashes. Zelda Dark Link Quest, Illusiat 2004 and Reuben Quest series earthquake effects won't display (they're done using a small ASM program to shift the screen (Z-Adress)). Also, TI-Connect will not detect your TI-Nspire in 84+ mode. Basically, I must send a bunch of song files to my regular 83+, send to Nspire, reset 83+ Mem, and repeat the process until everything is sent.

wow awsome got to try this hmm question what is the song converter written in (language wise?

I wish my 1 GB RAM PC would run it fine (the song maker)

(I liked VB, did some in comp science intro classes in my two last years of hi school. Had I got a PC at home back then, the teacher was gladly giving students copies of VB6 burned on CDs and I think I would have went into a massive RPG production rampage. Unfortunately, it has been over 6 years since I last touched to VB that I would probably not even be able to help. This is not to mention many things must have changed in VB since the days of VB6)