Official BlackBox News Thread

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:57 pm

using a computer with the bb makes it lose it appeal for me, the idea of a complete homebrew system appeals to me, but if im usng a computer i might as well be playing computer games, you know new ones

just stick with the carts

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:09 pm

but I think that the pc is only for developers not for every time that you want to play, like for testing code and stuff, then put it on a cart when it works correctly

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:48 pm

That is one way to use it. Another could be for ANY unofficial ROM, or using an exsting connection in your PC for online play. The base console should be stand-alone.

Sword_Gun · Post by **Sword_Gun** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:56 pm

Heh I beat you all at this.. (I think)

Im gonna make a Black Box portable.

MINE!..lol

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:04 pm

Damn, that was my plan.

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:03 pm

Look at where you are...Who WASN'T going to?

Of course, there's always the chance the development group may want to make a portable version later. They'll know the circuitry best, after all.

Post by **Skyone** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:38 pm

I was giving this thought, actually. I'll chat with iam7805 about it.

Javabrain · Post by **Javabrain** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:01 pm

how big are the cartridges going to be?

Post by **Skyone** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:26 pm

Physical or Memory-wise?

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:28 am

The size of a cinder block and hold one yottabyte.

Post by **Skyone** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:34 pm

NES_fanatic wrote:The size of a cinder block and hold one yottabyte.

Yotta! Yotta! Hooflanayna!

It should be able to hold from 256KB to 4000KB (.25MB to 4MB)

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:30 pm

Skyone wrote:Yotta! Yotta! Hooflanayna!

It should be able to hold from 256KB to 4000KB (.25MB to 4MB)

The above is a figure given by iam7805 on the Black Box dev forums, and was 256KB(Kilobytes) to 4096KB. For those of you who are into the Kbit/Mbit system sometimes used with ROM, that is 2Mb(Megabits) to 32Mb.

For those of you who aren't aware of what this compares to, 1 Megabit/256 Kilobytes is equal to a common Mapper 3-era NES cartridge (128K + 128K) from the late 1980s, early 90s. 32 Megabits/4 Megabytes is equivalent to a fairly large capacity/later model SNES cartridge, and half the capacity of the early 64 Megabit/8 Megabyte N64 cartridges from the mid 1990s.

Javabrain · Post by **Javabrain** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:16 pm

is it okay to still post controller ideas?
Anyway, my controller, which i really want to use for my own game system, has two analog sticks, ps2 style, three genesis style buttons on each side, and three shoulder buttons, a first for any game controller for a system.

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:58 pm

Javabrain wrote:is it okay to still post controller ideas?
Anyway, my controller, which i really want to use for my own game system, has two analog sticks, ps2 style, three genesis style buttons on each side, and three shoulder buttons, a first for any game controller for a system.

No, the controller is my department and it is already finalized, also have you ever played a gamecube, n64, upcoming wii with the analog attachment, they all have 3 shoulder buttons, 3 shoulder buttons =/= a first

Post by **Skyone** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:44 pm

XPC, you can't not let the guy post his ideas.

Java: If you have any drawings, sure, post 'em. We'll take them into consideration.