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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2011, 09:09:11 pm »
You know, if you get Dj's permission, you might be able to do some of the omnimaga songs.
Quest for the Legendary Axe would work if it's possible to hold notes, for example.
And something like Epic Journey Through the Galaxy (and/or 08 remix) would probably be in whatever the hardest tier is (listen through it and you'll know why :P)

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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2011, 01:46:06 pm »
You know, if you get Dj's permission, you might be able to do some of the omnimaga songs.
Quest for the Legendary Axe would work if it's possible to hold notes, for example.
And something like Epic Journey Through the Galaxy (and/or 08 remix) would probably be in whatever the hardest tier is (listen through it and you'll know why :P)

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What about Hardcore Overkill?


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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2011, 01:15:30 am »
A release would be nice ^^ Also you should add note streaks and possibly that blue glowy mode forgot what its called.
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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #18 on: June 13, 2011, 02:40:49 am »
Also you should add note streaks and possibly that blue glowy mode forgot what its called.
Star Power.

I don't want my calc screen to become blue, though D:

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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #19 on: June 13, 2011, 09:32:30 am »
I don't want my calc screen to become blue, though D:
lol
That could be arranged, but it's probably not the best idea in the world. ;)

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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #20 on: June 13, 2011, 10:40:18 am »
Okay. This is really cool!

This project has a lot of great potential. I hope you go far with it. Be sure to add Star Power!

With regards to sound, I think that having a two player battle mode is far better than simply adding sound, because people could just be asked to play the MP3 at the same time.
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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2011, 10:04:33 am »
Hmm, what about holding the calc upside down, using [On] through [Enter] to change the notes, and [Y=] to strum? :D
I've tried many things already, though one of the big downsides is that your screen is attached to the controller in this case. Holding it in any comfortable way results in you not being able to see the screen anymore.  :P Secondly, the buttend are really to densly packed to use the calc as a guitar-like controller... I've tried.  :(

A release would be nice ^^ Also you should add note streaks and possibly that blue glowy mode forgot what its called.
Notestreak... is possible to add I guess, though not really necessary. Also Star power won't be included, lol. Perhaps when the whole thing's done I'll make a 2.0 with the suggestions posted here implemented. ;)

With regards to sound, I think that having a two player battle mode is far better than simply adding sound, because people could just be asked to play the MP3 at the same time.
No sound, and no 2 player mode, sorry. It's... 'something funny for a calculator', not some hardcore console release.  :P Plus, I'm really a noob in programming; never done anything with informatics whatsoever, it's just that on a random blue monday back on highschool I decided it'd be fun to have a guitar-hero like thingy on the TI calc, and wondered if intewebs could teach how to do so... so there. :)


On a sidenote, my laptop crashed and the last backup sets me back many weeks. On top of that, I'm réally buissy at the university at the moment, so a playable download thingy will have to wait for some more weeks... sorry. :'(


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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #22 on: June 23, 2011, 12:21:41 pm »
D'Holy... That is amazing! Everything -- title screen, tier menu, songs, gameplay -- incredible!

As thepenguin77 suggested, holding down notes seems to be that one thing that's missing. And I'd also suggest remaking that score screen -- it's really underwhelming when you compare it to the brilliant graphics in every other part of the game. Maybe you could use that sprite font you used in the tier selection menu?

Anyway, awesome awesome.




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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #23 on: June 23, 2011, 01:42:42 pm »
This. Is. AMAZING!!!

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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #24 on: June 24, 2011, 07:16:01 pm »
You know, if you get Dj's permission, you might be able to do some of the omnimaga songs.
Quest for the Legendary Axe would work if it's possible to hold notes, for example.
And something like Epic Journey Through the Galaxy (and/or 08 remix) would probably be in whatever the hardest tier is (listen through it and you'll know why :P)

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What about Hardcore Overkill?
You mean 1000 BPM to kill them all? O.O

But yeah he can use my songs if he ever added sound or wanted to sync levels with my music tempo/melodies or made chiptunes renditions of them. Since it's a GH game it might be best to have songs like La Porte du Soleil or Quest, though.
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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #25 on: June 27, 2011, 08:23:06 am »
As thepenguin77 suggested, holding down notes seems to be that one thing that's missing. And I'd also suggest remaking that score screen -- it's really underwhelming when you compare it to the brilliant graphics in every other part of the game.
The holding-down-notes thingy is being worked on, thanks to a brilliant piece of script ThePenguin gave me. Still waiting for PC to get fixed though, and I guess some spare time to actually work on a releaseable version 'd be nice too. >< And you're right, the score-screen is kind of basic and to the point, lol. Though pimping it a bit can't hurt.
Maybe you could use that sprite font you used in the tier selection menu?
You... can change fonts? I just displayed pictures of letters there, and no 'font' lol. >.> Shows how big o' noob I actually am.

Thanks for all reactions btw.  :) (and yeey, this is the first hit on google for CalcHero, rofl!)


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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #26 on: June 27, 2011, 01:20:42 pm »
Maybe you could use that sprite font you used in the tier selection menu?
You... can change fonts? I just displayed pictures of letters there, and no 'font' lol. >.> Shows how big o' noob I actually am.

Nope, that's exactly what I meant :) Sprite fonts.




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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #27 on: November 01, 2011, 02:09:31 pm »
Bad news; I just can't find the time to work on this anymore, I'm very sorry.  :-[
On the bright side, attached are all the .z80 files that make up for this game, plus the app itself. It's glitchy, and far from done (also, don't touch the achievement menu lol, it's only a rought sketch of the convept, and glitchy as hell). Feel free to either continue this, or rip it apart and create something else. Hopefully all the coding doesn't go to waste this way! Oh, and I know it's probably the worst scripting ever, but I kind of learned it only with the kind help of people on this forum, so... yeah.

Oh, the 5 attached .z80 files are the 5 pages of the APP; depending on your assembler you might need to add them to one file, or idk. I used "AppDev" for assebling it into an App.

Also, you can't fail the game yet (dieing is horrable when wanting to test things out  ;) ) but everything else kind of works...

So... yeah, sorry guys. :'C


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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2011, 02:33:45 pm »
Sorry to hear you could not finish it. Does it mean you are done with calculator programming completely? It would suck to see you go completely.

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Re: CalcHero: Guitar Hero for the Ti!
« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2011, 03:37:51 pm »
Cmon music is the core of the guitar hero series! Use a second calc for music playback!
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