Remade the entire table with almost exclusively Linear A glyphs, which are undeciphered. I chose the vowels, q (the "lh" sound", and a couple of other.glyphs manually, but the rest I just randomized for my sanity. Also many a google sheets converter. A few words:

TriteHexagon@tritehexagon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

And so I wasted a morning. This is an alternative way to write Jolasin aka the angel language from AWWG. Mariko – 𐀔𐀪𐀃 Shiina – 𐁖𐀂𐀙 (sounds are Xiina) Hikari – 𐁁𐀏𐀪 Jolasin – 𐀍𐁈𐀯𐄸 The syllabary sounds are fairly arbitrary, but a good chunk are based on the real Linear B sounds.

And so I wasted a morning. This is an alternative way to write Jolasin aka the angel language from AWWG. Mariko – 𐀔𐀪𐀃 Shiina – 𐁖𐀂𐀙 (sounds are Xiina) Hikari – 𐁁𐀏𐀪 Jolasin – 𐀍𐁈𐀯𐄸 The syllabary sounds are fairly arbitrary, but a good chunk are based on the real Linear B sounds.

TriteHexagon@tritehexagon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Oh no. I discovered Linear B.

Oh no. I discovered Linear B.

I've noticed I've been watching YouTube less and less. Maybe I'm just saturated, but I dunno, it feels just kinda like every channel is the same and that I can't trust them to not have an agenda.

I was wondering to myself what other songs from the GBA I could work on for Project Atlantis other than Pokémon and Mario Kart... But then I remembered the *perfect* song I have arranged before and always regretted not doing more because of the GB limitations. The hint is GS (not Gold/Silver) 🤭

I haven't talked about Project Galatea here, but I'm ready to publish it now. 𝗠𝘆 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝘂𝗽, my entry for the Honeyfeed Novelous contest, is now available to read! I'll publish a new chapter every day. honeyfeed.fm/novels/30264

mythra cosplay (xenoblade chronicles 2)

It's incredibly frustrating how much louder the VSU noise channel is compared to the DMG. I'm running the VSU at volume *3* and it's still about the same loudness as the DMG on max (15). This is mostly because the sound is way more "grating" so it stands out way more than the DMG's.

✨Everlasting Blue💙 Here’s a closer look at the cover of my new fanart book featuring new and old art of Rissa! Preorders for it close at the end of the day on Monday April 20, 2026 so check it out! I’ll have the book at all cons this year but preordering gets you 2 bonus items💙 #RavenCrafts

I'm starting to realize that I haven't played enough GBA games that aren't Pokémon for showcasing Project Atlantis. Oops.

Just noticed that the bedroom of the Phenac Mayor's house has a stupid amount bottles. That much drinking can't be healthy, dude...

Timpani, tho. The bane of my existence. Aye aye.

TriteHexagon@tritehexagon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In other words, I'm deriving instruments from first principles.

In other words, I'm deriving instruments from first principles.

TriteHexagon@tritehexagon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Something I've noticed with chiptune is that it tends to sound better and more vibrant with artificial waves, rather than waves directly sampled from real instruments. It's also the reason why pulse channels are so iconic and "neutral". Problem is, I'm still very much a noob when it comes to this 😅

This is a pretty interesting question that I had to ponder a lot for my stories involving magic. In Project Dungeon magic comes from physical mana crystals and I wanted it to be feel like an alien substance, so I chose blue. In Hellspawn, there are 7 magic elements and each has its own color!

birdko 💌@birdko.art · 5mo ago

i'm curious, which colour do you default to for magic / spell effects?

Here twiddling my thumbs waiting for this week's WLLB to purge Orbán from the board 🥹 @tldrnews.bsky.social

New theory for what causes my migraines: they are triggered whenever my brain requires more energy. When I'm working a lot, playing games (seeing images flashing around), or simply because I haven't eaten in a while. And I have some metabolic issue that prevents me from tapping into energy reserves.

I was struggling with the wave volume on Project Atlantis' VSU and decided to manually measure the ratio between a pulse at max volume in the VSU vs DMG. A constant that pops out, even by roughly measuring pixel values in a screenshot—about 2.678. But this can't be random, right? So I dug deeper.

A bunch of my online friends around my age or younger seem to be going through this sort of nihilism where the world feels so shitty that no one really has any motivation to do anything productive. How long will it take until someone in power to notice and do anything about this? Probably never.

Something I've discovered from testing: the VSU waves don't have 4 times the resolution; they are literally 4 times as tall and thus 4 times as loud. This means that they completely drown out the GB waves if I'm not careful. In a real system, it's likely there would be some master audio switch tho.

The instrument I'm talking about is this one on the wave channel during the main part of this song, for example.

Cipher Peon Battle [8-bit GameBoy] | Pokémon Colosseum

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TriteHexagon@tritehexagon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For example, it was impossible to sample a distortion guitar for Burning Colosseum that sounded convincing. So I designed my own wave and it sounds damn great. Pretty much any BC song with that guitar instrument shines because I avoided using a sampled wave.

Something I've noticed with chiptune is that it tends to sound better and more vibrant with artificial waves, rather than waves directly sampled from real instruments. It's also the reason why pulse channels are so iconic and "neutral". Problem is, I'm still very much a noob when it comes to this 😅

This indeed the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. I could just make up—sorry, silicon sample—a study that 100% of people surveyed think I should be King of the World, and it has as much validity as this utter nonsense.

The ones who walk away from omelettes@dfeldman.org · 5mo ago

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

Okay, I was slightly wrong. FM synthesis is done *per* wavecycle instead of being an effect done per note. The difference is the scale—vibrato is "macro-scale" while FM is "micro-scale". In other news, foobar's VB plugin does not accurately reproduce the VSU's FM modulation 😖

TriteHexagon@tritehexagon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wait a fricking second. So FM synthesis is basically just the same thing as applying a looping frequency macro? I thought this was some highbrow technique, but you can *technically* just do this on any old system. All this talk about carrier waves and modulation and you can just do this in software.

Wait a fricking second. So FM synthesis is basically just the same thing as applying a looping frequency macro? I thought this was some highbrow technique, but you can *technically* just do this on any old system. All this talk about carrier waves and modulation and you can just do this in software.

Aww, darn it. I can't actually do it without going through some hoops. I only have 5 waves on the VSU and I'm using all of them. That said, I could maybe go the ORAS route and just reuse the main lead instrument for the final Part instead of doing the organ (I don't like how it sounds atm anyways).

TriteHexagon@tritehexagon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This isn't even that funny lol

This isn't even that funny lol

Happy Easter have a bunny timelapse 🐇 (16h) #oc #art

The brainworms... won't leave me... There's still a lot of work left on this, but as a proof of concept, I think it's pretty decent!

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No matter how much I try to avoid it... ...Go Ichinose finds a way to Ichynose me 😭

I've discovered that the Virtual Boy waves' metallic tinge can be effectively masked after all channels are mixed together. Meaning that it's way better to do the bass, harmony, and percussion first, and only then touch on the melody.