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NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:13 pm

thats gotta be the quickest change ever lol

sameguy · Post by **sameguy** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:37 am

Hmmm guess im on my own again ...

Gump-in-space · Post by **Gump-in-space** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:31 pm

What? That's total bull. There are too many homebrew handhelds as it is, but you're actually sugesting we build a portable version of an in-development homebrew console??? If that's the case then I'm out.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:39 pm

Gump-in-space wrote:What? That's total bull. There are too many homebrew handhelds as it is, but you're actually sugesting we build a portable version of an in-development homebrew console??? If that's the case then I'm out.

What would you have us do then, do all the work blackbox has already done when you could just borrow their design? Talk about it on the WEST Games forum.

josh · Post by **josh** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:52 pm

jeroen wrote:
josh wrote:
iam7805 wrote:So, basically your just copying the Blackbox except using USB controllers instead of SNES controllers?
Blackbox can use SNES controlers!?
ya. it has been that way for a while now.

Holy Crap In A Hat!

Post by **Skyone** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:14 pm

vskid wrote:
Gump-in-space wrote:What? That's total bull. There are too many homebrew handhelds as it is, but you're actually sugesting we build a portable version of an in-development homebrew console??? If that's the case then I'm out.
What would you have us do then, do all the work blackbox has already done when you could just borrow their design? Talk about it on the WEST Games forum.

Borrow? What about the Hydra? There are other consoles using the propeller, you don't need to steal our hard work because you're too lazy.

And for your guy's content, if you do not give full credit to Black Box Incorporated, there is no 'WEST.'

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:24 pm

Skyone wrote:
vskid wrote:
Gump-in-space wrote:What? That's total bull. There are too many homebrew handhelds as it is, but you're actually sugesting we build a portable version of an in-development homebrew console??? If that's the case then I'm out.
What would you have us do then, do all the work blackbox has already done when you could just borrow their design? Talk about it on the WEST Games forum.
Borrow? What about the Hydra? There are other consoles using the propeller, you don't need to steal our hard work because you're too lazy.

And for your guy's content, if you do not give full credit to Black Box Incorporated, there is no 'WEST.'

What??? I meant we should ask you guys if we could, because then we could have compatible games and that.

Rototiller · Post by **Rototiller** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:52 pm

Thread hijack about physics!

typamc95 wrote:
Online may be possible, but so is making a atomic explosion by shrinking to a subatomic size and splitting a atom with a ax.

Well, you can split it with an axe. you just would be basically be pushing atoms with smaller atoms.

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:35 pm

A) Yes, the Blackbox has used SNES compatible controllers for a while now. While they don't use the same connector (can't source the parts), they use the same encoding (two 4021 chips in serial to make a 16-bit signal). For this reason, if you cut the end off of a SNES controller and attached it to a Blackbox controller, it would work with the SNES, and if you connected the Blackbox's connector to a SNES controller it would work with the Blackbox.

B) Nobody ever talked to me, and quite frankly I don't want to merge with anything, or be associated with this. If you make a portable Blackbox, it's a portable Blackbox. Not a WEST or whatever.

C) Just if your wondering, I found out about Hydra about a month after I started experimenting with the Propeller chip. The Blackbox is more of an easy to use, open source system with the capability to play homebrew games, while the Hydra is an educational system marketed towards hobbyists who want to learn how to write multiprocessing apps and games with the Propeller.

dman762000 · Post by **dman762000** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:48 pm

am I the only one still dedicated to producing a portable hombrew machine? If so i will start my own forum and such and invite anyone who wants to work on this with me to come and work on it I have some good ideas and am going to try to impliment them.

typamc95 · Post by **typamc95** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:47 pm

I want to!
It's just time! And money!
This month I have three finals, three birthdays, a holiday and and a wedding!

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:20 am

So basically you guys want to rip off the hard work of others and give them no credit? Why not call yourselves "Microsquash"? The only work you would have to do yourselves is design a case and get some composite screens.

dman762000 wrote:am I the only one still dedicated to producing a portable hombrew machine? If so i will start my own forum and such and invite anyone who wants to work on this with me to come and work on it I have some good ideas and am going to try to impliment them.

The GP2X is a portable homebrew machine... Why reinvent the wheel?

Sorry but this post really reminds me of that episode of Futurama that took place on the moon...

Bender wrote:Fine! I'm gonna go buid my own lunar lander! With blackjack! And women! In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack! Eh, screw the whole thing.

Nothing kills a good project like splitting it off into a million branches. "Too many cooks spoil the broth."

Why don't you guys work with the BlackBox team, if you're so focused on using their hardware?

EDIT: *reads post below this one* Oooh, ok. I get it now.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:42 am

bicostp wrote:So basically you guys want to rip off the hard work of others and give them no credit? Why not call yourselves "Microsquash"? The only work you would have to do yourselves is design a case and get some composite screens.

Ok, let me set this straight (again

).
WEST Games was started, the idea was to make a portable system using a Propeller. I thought "Why not just merge with Blackbox since we are also wanting to use a Propeller, and be a portable division? Then we could have the same software and that." I was thinking the same as you, "Why reinvent the wheel?". If we did use the Blackbox hardware, we would have likely moved to their forums or at least changed our name and given them credit.
The whole time I said we would ask them if we could use their hardware, not that we should go and steal their designs.

dman762000 · Post by **dman762000** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:00 pm

my plans at this point don't involve black box tech I am planning on going a totally diffrent route so screw it I am starting my own system thing

Post by **Skyone** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:00 pm

iam7805 wrote:B) Nobody ever talked to me, and quite frankly I don't want to merge with anything, or be associated with this. If you make a portable Blackbox, it's a portable Blackbox. Not a WEST or whatever.

Just keep that quote in mind, guys.

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