Official BlackBox News Thread
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Took me long enough to get this thread into the public, but here goes!
May 20, 2006
The International BlackBox Team includes:
■ iam7805
■ Triton
■ Jeroen
■ XPCPortables
■ Skyone
And theirs some other less important people (but still important) too:
■ Fanboy
■ Harshboy
■ joevennix
■ Codeman
■ NES_Fanatic
This is my logo for the BlackBox:
(Reminds me of Tux for some reason)
And Triton made one also:
Controller design will be posted soon, just waiting for Triton to approve the changes I made to it.
Specifications that are known as of right now:
■ 8-bit processor running at 40mHZ
■ Uses cartridges
The disc format is a proprietary format called "GameTrax". The data is stored on the disc using audio tracks. The cartridge interface is a very simple serial interface (serial EEPROMS).
May 20, 2006
The International BlackBox Team includes:
■ iam7805
■ Triton
■ Jeroen
■ XPCPortables
■ Skyone
And theirs some other less important people (but still important) too:
■ Fanboy
■ Harshboy
■ joevennix
■ Codeman
■ NES_Fanatic
This is my logo for the BlackBox:
(Reminds me of Tux for some reason)
And Triton made one also:
Controller design will be posted soon, just waiting for Triton to approve the changes I made to it.
Specifications that are known as of right now:
■ 8-bit processor running at 40mHZ
■ Uses cartridges
The disc format is a proprietary format called "GameTrax". The data is stored on the disc using audio tracks. The cartridge interface is a very simple serial interface (serial EEPROMS).
Last edited by blackbox_dev on Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:49 pm, edited 6 times in total.
I'd imagine right now you wish you were a cuttlefish...
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So is the system done? Or is it all theoretical right now and you decided to name it and give it a logo first?
Surely you must have SOME part of it done before naming it, right?
So what do you have done? Do tell!
(Sorry if I seem to be lacking in knowledge, I haven't had internet for 2 weeks!)
Surely you must have SOME part of it done before naming it, right?
So what do you have done? Do tell!
(Sorry if I seem to be lacking in knowledge, I haven't had internet for 2 weeks!)
Hey, sup?
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here are some very prelimanary sketches of the appearance of the system and the controller. these are not final but dont look to bad in my opinion, i also say we should vote which logo is better! lol
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the controller is pretty good but i dont dig the console too much, i will revise mine some more but yours is too...crowded lol
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woah! thats friggin awesome. I hate it when people beg and i had hoped that I would never find myself doing so but can I pleeeeeeeeeeeeease help in the design dept. I have got many Ideas as I have been trying to design my own console using x86 hardware and a linux distro. no luck with that so far but i would like to help out.
EDIT: here is a quick video I made in my early days of CG animation, that shows off my console design. http://www.freewebs.com/xpcportables/xpcom.AVI
EDIT: here is a quick video I made in my early days of CG animation, that shows off my console design. http://www.freewebs.com/xpcportables/xpcom.AVI
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My idea for the controller... No, it's not upside down, but that's where I got the idea... An upside-down Gamecube controller... Just shrink the little circle things, add a trigger next to one and move the L-&-R buttons... It also has a little paddle thingy! There's a rather large switch on it that moves it from Reg. Controller to lightgun, for different gameplay or mini-games... Hope you like it... The only thing I'd need help with is the lightgun area, y'know, pinnouts and response and stuff...
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Like the name, reminds me of the Redbox from the 90s that people used to dial out of pay phones for free.
I have a picture of a controller I designed in anger after finding out that the Controller S felt so damn uncomfortable, I'll try to find it. Thank god for 3rd party accesories.
EDIT: Whipped up another one. The controller can actually pivot on itself. I guess you could interface this with a pot for in-game control, or you could just throw it in there to meke the controller more comfortable, which was my original idea.
Also, notice my post count. 404 ERROR
I have a picture of a controller I designed in anger after finding out that the Controller S felt so damn uncomfortable, I'll try to find it. Thank god for 3rd party accesories.
EDIT: Whipped up another one. The controller can actually pivot on itself. I guess you could interface this with a pot for in-game control, or you could just throw it in there to meke the controller more comfortable, which was my original idea.
Also, notice my post count. 404 ERROR