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Tetris' Spheres and TechnoMas '97!

(Note: I've edited the pics to clean it up and just for fun to mess around with fun effects.)

So I went to the thrift store today (December 6th 2024) and got myself a bunch of cheap cds and lookie here!

A 70 odd minutes 90's EDM/techno from 1997! So I thought as soon as I get home to pop it into my CD player

And pop in Tetrisphere on Le N64 to get some sureal christmas themed micro planet blasting to retrofuturize

My Holidays up! (Got a bunch of other christmas and non christmas CDs too. mostly orchestral stuff.)

The CD was more relaxing than dancing vibed "Dance Party Christmas Mix" is kinda misleading when

When some blokes probs want to take some LSD and have strobe lights burn a hole into his eyes with a BPM

atlease 120 or more. the bpm was more like 90-110. But still good techno stuff just not gonna make you pumping

your fists and high on energy to dance. more like a cozy Amiga Christmas shareware music disk

You would pop in while under blankets sipping on hot cocoa.

I would rate the disc a 7/10 maybe 6.8/10 on a snowless day. Pretty good and humbly nice to play and get

into a more late 90's vibe with the album being released in 1997. Tbh 1996-2010 was probs the most iconic

era for me for media and tech culture on an aesthetics standpoint so this combo was up my alley.

Give this type of thing a try. Era appropriate music with a video game from an Era.

Especially with christmas, the time of year of getting tech goodies. It'll warm the heart up!

Really felt like a late 90's college student on holidays break listening to indie techno while playing

late 90's vidya. (Even though I wasn't either born or able to be aware of my own existence in the late 90s!)

Any ways merry Christmas and

and Happy New Year, if I don't post again until next year and hope you all a fun December! Groovy!

Ridge Glitcher!

warning: Audio's slightly painful.

please lower volume if needed.

Here I am testing out the new free file repository service by posting a video.

THE video might have AN ugly aspect ratio and black borders,

due to having to compressed the original video,

I'm sorry, the service only allows up to 200mb but it's a sub 300p game

(I also ended up using windows movie maker

because adobe Premiere was being a vinager sniffer not exporting properly

and I've already spent an hour or two on this stoopid project. so here wii are!)

so at lease it's enough to display all of this glitchery

and a cacophony of a late 80's Casio keyboard having an aneurysm

every time it tries to simulate a bag pipe.

The color palette is that of a broken ps1's gpu getting an organ transplant of it's texture

processing-addresses from an 80's c64 computer

whom also had a generous donation from a zx spectrum computer that

has more eye crunching pallets, every time that the textures are not loaded in

they are replaced with high contrasted colors and garbage pixels.

And the video above shows the results.

Looooovely pitch processing going on

where everyone is on the verge of overdosing on helium.

I feel like my burned CD gave my ps1 just enough readable data to load the engine

then all hope is lost when anything of artistic and musical value was loaded in because

it went to a modern arts college in Paris.

at lease the cars was loaded in 80% fine except for some of the wheels.

The funny thing is that if I use a 2000s era CD-R it loads perfectly,

and after I looked around the internet I have found out indeed that

the ps1 does not play nicely with modern cds so do go on the hunt for those retro cd-r’s.

at your local thrift stores with all that luxurious sticky unsanitary goodness

so you too can play “backups” on your ps1 with that freepsxboot unirom goodness,

Without the stench of the computer science equivalent

of puke and the stomach flu.

Random Updates of "up to now" from Septempber 21 2023:

Mario 64, the looks.

Mario 64, can be such a pretty sight.

The game really affected the taste in art and music I currently have.

The Corny yet melodic and fun music and the jumpy happy A e S t H eT i C s

and colors really can give SSRIs a run

for their money. This angle is one of the best sights I've ever seen in the game.

so much so that I've tried making it a background for

one of my handheld computers that I use to browse the net and listen to tunes.

I'm a big fan of looking at the scale, scope and arciteture of a level and

this view gives you a good chunk of a idea of what this level is all about,

such a fun sight seeing how chaotic and fun the level has for you, and how busy it can get too.

An Amiga demo, with MECHA PANDA!!!!

(I forgot the demo's name but it's just a weird panda icon that floats

around a bit

I snapped this in time to make it look like it's attatching to the mech bot ready to blow

a set of polygons to bits...)

Sorry for the darkness, but hey, atlease there's some neat looking glows!

Here are some pictures of me messing around with a

PC hooked up via an A/V to HDMI converter with a modern OS

displaying on a CRT,

sadly you need a older GPU to scale things propperly

so overscaning isn't such a bore, but eh,

it was fun and I got another semi modern PC hook up

that scales nicely to a CRT in another room for retro

gaming purposes.

(The bottom screen is my living room style Crt and the top is a boring

flatscreen used to watch Online videos about the Philips CDI.)

Hey were you reading my mind inside of those funny ()'s??

Ah, speaking of the Philips CDI...

I was able to get a working philips CDI emulator to work through Mame. Let me tell you... It was a pain.

the system is not much stronger than a snes

(Most of the tech though was just aimed for video processing and CD music,

I feel like the gpu was a second thought due to it being more geared towards

a media device but eh,

atlease we got corny zelda memes that aged like fine wine and cheesey puns.) Even with all the pains,

atlease I was able to try out the CDI...

I was even able to use a 2001 "Duke" xbox controller to play some Tetris

(CDI style that is!!!) with all that Yani inspired 90's easy listening glory!!