little UPDATE
- fixed some RAM corruption that could happen if you went to the VAT browser then came back to the main menu

Thanks, that helped me to make my game so that may be useful to others ^^
Also, thanks for posting, I am now able to give you your well-deserved +1

UPDATE
Nothing really interesting. I just added labels and a Z-Test so that the various options don't all lead to the song browser.
I also made the menu a little bit faster
And now there are Credits
Haven't tested on real calc though, there might be a lot of blur

Great main menu!

It looks great, though

Thanks

Another option for the key layout which would be a little easier to hold would be to use the first column (with "clear" to "-") as the frets and Enter or some other key to strum. That way you could hold it like a guitar, though the keys wouldn't necessarily line up. I think you would adapt to it pretty easily though.

Yeah, I thought about it but aren't they a bit too close each one from each other ?
But I admit I'd prefer to code this solution because I don't have to invert the screen

so how did you make the appvar browser?

You should ask Matrefeytontias for that. First of all, I don't really get how everything works in his code but just how to use it (). Secondly, he asked me to not put the source everywhere, don't know if that meant "don't give to anyone" or "don't give to everybody"

Sorry if I'm going to the wrong place for this, but when I tried this, my calculator went blank and wouldn't respond to any button I pressed. I fixed it by taking out all the batteries and replacing them, but I'd still love to try this game. I have a Ti-83+ and I ran it on Mirage. Other than Mirage, the game files were the only files on the calculator and all files were archived. At first I did have a few other games, but Topaze wouldn't start, so I deleted them figuring I needed more RAM. I also tried installing Ion instead, but was unsuccessful. Anything I did wrong?

It is not the wrong place at all

Could you be more precise on the moment when the blank screen appeared ?
Was it when launching the game or after ?
If it was when launching the game with MirageOS, this may be "normal". In fact this game is huge and MirageOS needs to copy it somewhere to launch it and it takes some time. And you'll see, it is even worse when quitting the game
Would you mind retrying launching the game and wait a bit after the blank screen appears to see if the game launches properly after some time ?

Also, welcome to Omnimaga, you can introduce yourself here

UPDATE
- Now score is calculated like this:
(notes you got)-3*(notes you missed+overstrummed)
Note that the score starts at zero, which is not a good idea
- Added the support for notes that don't need to be strummed.
Beware, it was coded GH III-style, not like in next versions. Which means that the note will be counted as good if you are holding the right key when it reaches the bottom, even if you started to press that key 10 seconds ago. So don't release the key too soon
(and don't try to hammer-on/pull-off, that won't work, you need to be holding only the right key )

Here is what they look like

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Also, I got an idea, thinking about Guitar Hero on a DS
What about this keymap (in spoiler) ?
The problems I see is that keys are not aligned on a 84+ and that there might be problems with the ON key
The ON key is getKey(41) but is it a real getKey() or a special command "getKey(41)" ? I must try (moreover, zTrumpet's KEYGROUP program doesn't allow me to test the ON key)
I don't know if this is doable but I think that could be a way of playing that looks more like the real Guitar Hero

Also, as usual, the download is below, with a screenshot of me sucking at my own game (I found an excuse: my keyboard doesn't support 4 keys at the same time )

It worked too on my Windows 7 32 bits, with CGP3, converting a mp4
It works but in black and white. Could it be possible to add color support to the converters ?

edit: also, the compression seems a bit too much

Quote from: Hayleia on August 21, 2012, 11:28:14 am

Or "strumming in alternatively upwards and downwards" ?

This.

I could put two mediator keys so you can strum alternatively with two fingers, maybe ?

Quote from: Hayleia on August 21, 2012, 11:28:14 am

But yeah, that is what I thought. The problem is not even alt-strumming but also how to take the calcs in hands to press frets and strum ?

Yeah, that could also be tricky. I just imagined that the strum button would be pressed like a normal calc button instead of holding it like a guitar (controller).

For now, I've put F1 to F5 as frets and Enter as strum so it is impossible to hold it as a guitar.

You can just put the calc on a table or your knees

And personally I haven't any problem on pressing [enter] or [clear] at a high speed level (I think that [clear] can be a good strum).

You won't say that when there will be One from Metallica

So, here is a test version, in attachement. I compiled it as an app for two reasons:
 - It needs a lot of RAM to uncompress data to run fast enough to be playable
 - In the end, when the editor will be here, I guess it will not be far from 16384 bytes

I mentionned uncompressing data
In fact, to put the beginning of Monsters in it, here is what I wrote, in the spoiler:
Then, using NotePad, I just replaced the space of the beginning of each line by a "Data(pi", all the "-" became "0" and "O" became "1". This makes song creating very easy
You can try to make songs already, if you don't want to wait for the editor ^^

edit: Also, the number in the top left corner is:
(number of notes you managed to get)-(number of overstrumming)
The notes you miss still don't appear in the calculation of the score.