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Apr 30, 2020 • 19:18

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

Both looking really good!

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Apr 30, 2020 • 17:34

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

Mumphy wrote:
@Kevin: Super nice of you to give away two carts. Thanks again for the great work you do.

Here is another one from me. I’m a bit slow 🙂

Edit: I’ll most likely create my own thread for these labels and update in that one whenever I’m done with a new design.

Nice! I like your designs for sure. I’ll try this one soon as I get a chance.

Apr 28, 2020 • 18:41

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

Nice. Here are the updates. The contrast on some of these has improved a lot. I still prefer the ones with outlined text.

Apr 28, 2020 • 02:34

mellott124 • Topic: TheRedMenace e-ink art

The Red Menace wrote:

mellott124 wrote:
You certainly have the most labels! Nice job.

Hopefully for the most part I managed to capture both quantity and quality heh heh. I think I definitely improved after getting used to it with the first one, which you can probably see by comparing the it to what came after, especially with Virtual Bowling coming from the batch directly after.

Also see the comparison below to the original & redone versions without the text (the redone versions with text are included, along with, again, another one for Red Alarm, with all my other images in the folder attached to the first post).

I see the improved whites. That will make them look much better.
Let me know which ones I should reconsider. Might help you with the contest…

Apr 27, 2020 • 19:10

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

TheRedMenace latest batch.

I think if you spent some time on the Mario Tennis one to clean up the graphics, it would really stand out. Just my opinion of course.

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Apr 27, 2020 • 18:57

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

TheRedMenace patent ones. Very interesting idea.

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Apr 27, 2020 • 18:20

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

Few more. Very cool.

TheRedMenance, I’m getting to your latest batch next.

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Apr 27, 2020 • 18:02

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

Down selection this Friday! It’s going to be hard to choose for sure.

I’ll take entries until the morning of the 1st. Once I wake up, I’ll have to close entries. Just FYI, that’s usually about 6am Pacific Standard time.

🙂

Apr 27, 2020 • 17:43

mellott124 • Topic: TheRedMenace e-ink art

You certainly have the most labels! Nice job.

Apr 26, 2020 • 17:59

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

A little behind on these and going out of order. Here are a few from KR155E. Very nice designs. Really like the Spong one.

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Apr 26, 2020 • 04:15

mellott124 • Topic: Evercade

Glover wrote:
An interesting run-down by the folks over at Digital Foundry. Sounds like quite a lot of care went into the various emulation methods on offer – worth a read/watch if you’re curious.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-blaze-evercade-df-retro-hardware-review

Looks pretty nice. Watching the video made me want to buy one.

Apr 24, 2020 • 14:50

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

Wow, everyone has been doing such a great job. The labels are even more impressive than I hoped.

There’s a week left. I’ll down select on May 1st, as I mentioned at the beginning. I have decided to give away 2 free HyperFlash32 carts. There are just too many good ones to choose from. I will also give a link cable and a VB USB controller adapter away as secondary prizes. So 4 prizes in total. I’ll let the secondary prize winners choose which one they want (link cable or controller USB adapter).

I’m going to put the art into two major categories. Original art, and labels that look more like physical VB cart labels. More or less most of the labels fall into these two categories. I know some can qualify for both but I’ll place them in the category that I think gives you the better chance. The top pick from each category will get a free cart each. And if you’ve already purchased, I’ll refund you but hold your place in line.

I’m thrilled that there will be so much great art available for the community to share and load onto their HyperFlash displays. It’s very motivating to see the effort everyone is putting into these. Keep up the great work!

Apr 24, 2020 • 00:54

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

KR155E wrote:
Tried to come up with something as well. The black text on the bottom is meant to be printed by the firmware, filename probably?

Awesome. I’ll give it a go to replace the text at the bottom with the on screen font.

Apr 24, 2020 • 00:52

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

The Red Menace wrote:

mellott124 wrote:

The Red Menace wrote:
Second to last batch from me. 36 and counting.

Just a reminder to use 24bit BMPs. My scripts look for 24bit and I have to manually convert otherwise. Thanks.

Oh sorry, sometimes it only gives me the option to save as 8 or 16 bits bmps, I’ll see if I can convert all the ones I’ve done.

No need. Moving forward it would be great if they’re 24bit. I’ve already converted all of yours.

The file format needed on the SD card with be a highly compressed binary file. I’ll eventually post all of those and probably a Matlab .m file that shows how its done.

Apr 23, 2020 • 20:32

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

The Red Menace wrote:
Second to last batch from me. 36 and counting.

Just a reminder to use 24bit BMPs. My scripts look for 24bit and I have to manually convert otherwise. Thanks.

Apr 23, 2020 • 07:00

mellott124 • Topic: MultiBoy 32

keeerrrttt1 wrote:
I have been watching this thread for a long time hoping that someday there would be a link to buy…still waiting, but ever hopeful that someday I can get my own VB multicart.

Any closer to a timeline for when/if it might be available? I mean, now that the world is shutdown from COVID-19 maybe that’s given some time while stuck at home to refine those prototypes you teased last year.

Whenever it is ready count me in for 1.

All my efforts are in HyperFlash right now. It’s likely to keep me busy the rest of the year. Multiboy will eventually come. Many of the features and lessons learned on HyperFlash are likely to move forward into Multiboy. Especially the eInk display. I’m loving that feature and the community labels that are being generated. I’ll likely scrap my current Multiboy design and do a new one when the time comes.

Apr 22, 2020 • 23:08

mellott124 • Topic: HyperFlash eInk Label Art Contest

Swore I posted this previously but I don’t see it in the message thread. A very nice label on the eInk display from RMZK.

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Apr 22, 2020 • 19:30

mellott124 • Topic: Colored Molded Cases

Latest and greatest. These are not as stiff as the original cases but the semi transparent look is killer. I think these would be usable despite being more flexible. Definitely better than the 3D printed versions.

Mockup shown in the images with my 16Mbit and 32Mbit PCBs. Top cover only.