I can’t get this to work 
I’m trying to make an improved version of vbTextOut() that takes a variable amount of parameters (like printf() with its format string, using %d, %s etc.).
I’m basically just making it a wrapper around dasi’s posprintf port (which in itself works great, btw 
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#include "posprintf.h" #includevoid vbTextOut(u16 bgmap, u16 col, u16 row, char *t_string, ...) /* The font must reside in Character segment 3 */ { u16 i = 0; u16 pos = row * 64 + col; char buf[49]; //(One line on screen is max 48 tiles + terminating null) va_list args; va_start(args, t_string); posprintf(buf, t_string, args); va_end(args); while(buf[i]) { BGMM[(0x1000 * bgmap) + pos + i] = (u16)buf[i] + 0x600; i++; } }
It complies, but just gives me a black screen…
I just switched to using the latest precompiled gccVB from 3/31/2010 by dasi, are the patches from this thread included in it?
I would like there to be a widely available flash cart with battery backed sram. Adding save support to homebrew would be more useful then
Any plans at all of a “flashboy 2” with that feature?
The only Genesis I believe in is the one made by Sega, and I don’t even like THAT one 
Maybe you could say that the system itself (the plastic) is red/black, but that it’s displays are black/red?
Just open them. If you really have such a severe irrational phobia about removing battery lids, then I really suggest seing a shrink about it, for your own sake.
This is one of those irrational posts again that almost makes me irritated , why would you throw away perfectly fine items without even checking first??
Anyways, battery acid is still a very real threat. I thought it was something of the past (like 10+ years ago), and that modern batteries nowadays are better and won’t leak, but I was wrong!
I took out my almost brand new japanese Game Boy Light some month ago that had been sitting in the closet for over a year, with batteries in it, and the whole battery compartment was all gooey
I was able to clean it all out, so it still works (just the springs are a little corroded), so you should definitly check them as soon as possible. The longer you wait the bigger chance that they have leaked.
But throwing them out without even checking is beyond silly, that’s just plain dumb.
If someone actually physically trashed your VB, I would call the police about it if I were you
I kept everything from the original stand assembly on it, except for the legs. Then I used the existing nut and bolt of the VB stand to fasten it to the lamp arm through the horizontal holes that held the actual lamp. (I had to bend them outwards a bit to fit the VB stand between them). The VB can be tilted up and down, but not rotated sideways.
I made no modifications to the actual VB stand, so it could be put back in its original form again if I’d want to one day.
I don’t have any links for it since this was just some random desk lamp I had laying around from the ’70s/’80s.
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I’ve been using my VB “Lamp-O-Tron” for years for playing comfortably while sitting on the couch. It works really well since you can just sit back and relax without any neck strain.
It’s made of a standard cheap desk lamp. Red or black would have been preferred, but orange is what I had handy
