Contents Introduction This is a near-complete analysis and tear-down of the Casio ROM Pack code. By the end of the document, you should be able to create your own, fully playable Casio ROM files. All the examples in this document are either from RO-551 “World Songs” or RO-270 “Christmas”. RO-551 is by far the most…
Introduction Greetings retro Casio keyboard fans! Late one night, in December of 2020, I found myself wondering how the ROM packs from my beloved old Casio PT-80 worked. It seemed no one knew–and at the time, apparently only one ROM had been dumped. I had just started vacation and decided it would be excellent vacation…
I play through my Rom Hack of the original Final Fantasy, one of my all-time favorite games! This hack fixes several bugs (the game was rather famous for them), and adds quite a bit of polish, as well. Though a beta test, I figured I may as well achieve a long-time goal with it: beat the game with Four White Mages, a traditional rite of passage for fans of the game.
I built a Raspberry Pi-powered Arcade Cabinet. This was an easy two week project that I whipped up over Christmas break. …Or at least that was the plan. It took more like 12 months and it still isn’t technically done.
I have a lot of favorite video games, but this is my all-time favorite. A fairly obscure game, Military Madness came out in 1989 for the TurboGrafx-16 (which squarely lost that round of the console wars to both the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis). Military Madness is a turn-based strategy game played on a…
I created a template and directions for Demotivational posters so you can make your own. Build it yourself or use my Illustrator Template to get started. Create a 30 x 24″ poster in Illustrator and create a 30 x 24″ black border. Cut a frame out of your border, 22.5 x 15.5″ and offset it…
I built a siege machine. Well, a portable one anyway. Enough to lay siege to maybe a cardboard box. Full details here