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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #105 on: April 08, 2013, 04:54:18 AM »
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You should be alright from flu-jive.  There are worse things coming from our post office.   It's America!
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #106 on: April 15, 2013, 06:44:52 AM »
crazy moose riding health inspectors.


You should be alright from flu-jive.  There are worse things coming from our post office.   It's America!

No flu-jive symptoms (yet), but Canada Post decided to bust up one of the jewel cases.  No biggie as I have a crapload of spares.





Question for you about Insanity, I have never played it before.  The title screen seems to linger for quite a while.  Is that normal, or is my CD-ROM starting to die?  I'm using a TG-CD unit with SS 3.0 (USA) card.
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #107 on: April 15, 2013, 07:08:00 AM »
Dang that sucks about the jewel case.   It's so hit or miss with that crap.


How long does Insanity linger for?  It shouldn't be too long of a wait.

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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #108 on: April 15, 2013, 09:52:26 AM »
Dang that sucks about the jewel case.   It's so hit or miss with that crap.


How long does Insanity linger for?  It shouldn't be too long of a wait.


I'll record it with my camera and post it later tonight.
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #109 on: April 15, 2013, 09:57:57 AM »
sweeeeet.

I'm kind of disappointed, people don't seem to understand the awesomeness of it being 100% chiptunes.
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #110 on: April 15, 2013, 10:36:04 AM »
sweeeeet.

I'm kind of disappointed, people don't seem to understand the awesomeness of it being 100% chiptunes.

100% chiptunes - I love this even more now.  To be  honest at first I hated the music, now I am humming it all day long.  Idk how you you got it to sound like that, but it's freaking amazing.
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #111 on: April 15, 2013, 10:53:00 AM »
amazing how? Like the way the instruments sound?
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #112 on: April 15, 2013, 10:59:04 AM »
not only the instrument sounds the egyptian sound, just feels like something outside of the normal PCE range.  Maybe becuase no other game is similar?  I t just fits the game so well.  maybe not amazing just really good? fitting? ummmm...  idk what i'm going for here, but I like it.

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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #113 on: April 15, 2013, 11:22:59 AM »
Yeah.  It was a frustrating experience to get Egyptian sounding music, since it's out of my normal range of 80s dance music sounding stuff.   I'm happy with how the instruments and echo turned out.


Wait til you hear the end-game music.   It's not Egyptian at all, lol.
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #114 on: April 15, 2013, 03:24:59 PM »
Okay, I didn't record it.  Some slacker forgot to charge the battery in the camera.  :roll:

I did time it.  I started the clock as soon as the AETHERBYTE logo came up on the screen.  It's stays there for 19 seconds before fading out.  If I compare it with Pyramid Plunder the logo disappears much more quickly.

I put PP (you said P-P  :lol: ) in tonight and played it.  What an awesomely fun game.  I love the boost feature.  Makes getting that one block you missed so much easier.  Made it up to 3-1 (I think).  Only saw one cut-screen so far, but it was awesome!  Anyway, the next thing I know I've blow 2 hours of my life.  My score was approximately 68,000+/- so I have a long way to go!

Thank you!  Just thinking about playing it is making me smile.  :D
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #115 on: April 15, 2013, 04:37:08 PM »
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I put PP (you said P-P ) in tonight and played it.  What an awesomely fun game.

Glad to hear you liked it. (And yes, PP is what we called it during development).
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I think Insanity has to run through the wave effect at least once before it starts. You might be able to press a button or run to skip it, though. Been too long, I don't remember all the details.....

(fwiw: the long load times seem to be connected to an interrupt problem in homebrew games. It seems you can't have an active VSync interrupt going while loading an overlay from CD. Makes sense, sorta. Though reading data from a CD doesn't seem to pose the same problem.)

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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #116 on: April 15, 2013, 04:58:36 PM »
That seems a little bit slow, actually.   19 seconds is a long time.  It only takes ~8 for me.
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #117 on: April 22, 2013, 04:23:55 PM »
I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER!  :D

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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #118 on: April 22, 2013, 04:58:38 PM »
That seems a little bit slow, actually.   19 seconds is a long time.  It only takes ~8 for me.
I'll charge up the battery in my camera and record it.  I'm not in any rush to do this though.  :)

You can't skip it by pressing RUN.
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Re: The "I've got my PYRAMID PLUNDER" Thread
« Reply #119 on: April 23, 2013, 03:58:27 AM »
Hahha I liked the skeletons chasing you near the end.   The skeletons are hilarious.
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