Jay McGavren’s Journal

I’d always loved the music from Tetrisphere for the Nintendo 64 (no interest in the game, just the music), but the only copy I had was recorded from my PC’s line-in port (noisy). Tonight I discovered that I didn’t even have that any more.

Looks like the clever folks on the emulation scene have come to the rescue with the USF file format, which records N64 music from an emulator. And some kind soul ripped Tetrisphere!

http://www.zophar.net/usf

Here’s the Winamp player plugin:

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=146609

And though not directly related, here’s a plugin to encode to MP3 (also useful with MODs and other game audio):

http://out-lame.sourceforge.net/

Ah, that’s why I’ve been in such a blue mood lately! I forgot to listen to The Campfire Headphase for, like, a whole month! I feel much better now.

Either that, or I had my first productive day in a few weeks. It feels good to be out of programmer’s block.

As I passed a pay phone today, my first thought was: “Hmmm, a hard line. I’d better remember that’s there.” (I’ve been playing The Matrix: Path of Neo.)

As I may have mentioned to some of you, I’ve also caught myself considering what Tom Nook would pay for various items while walking through the produce section at the grocery.

If, like me, you haven’t played Animal Crossing: Wild World in 4 months (the critters all reminded me exactly how long I’d been gone), you may want to pay your town a brief visit. I found a ton of fish and insects that I’d never seen before. I also found a ton of weeds, but at least there was a four-leaf clover among them. I even found a ton of cockroaches in my house! (Actually, there’s no upside to that.)