Fatass
by Jeremy on April 15th, 2007
Many years ago I made a Fast Tracker II clone for the Gameboy Color called Fatass. It was coded in pure z80 assembly, and was used to create music for several videogames.
Download it here: Fatass
You will need a gameboy color or gameboy advance emulator, or a flash system to use this. I originally imagined myself writing entire albums with this thing on my travels.
Press select to get to the menu, from there you can access help, the file system, etc. Load some example tunes from rom to see what it can do. There’s even a version of a Big Brother song in there…
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on April 19th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I downloaded fatass and made a wicked 5 second sequence. Must have been hard to write symphonies with this, is there a way to edit the sequence info in the sav file?
on April 21st, 2007 at 6:34 pm
What I used to do was take data from the sav file, convert to arrays in a text file, edit them, and compile that back into the rom. It would be possible to hexedit the sav file as well. I will publish the file format for insane hacker types at some point in the future.
on April 26th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
hi,
your mini tracker is really cool. I’ve flashed it to gba cartidge and launched it using goombacolor emulator but It seems that goomba can’t emulate it properly(mostly gfx problems - cursor not gradient but one-color like ,no position bar in menu ,can’t save) ,as visual advance boy on my pc does.
Do u have any recommendations? I’d really like to make it work on my gba.
on April 26th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Thanks- I’ve never tried to run Fatass on a GBA cart, and I don’t know much about goomba. I always flashed it to a GBC cart.
That’s a real shame about the save problem. I think your best bet for issues with goomba would be to poke around somewhere like this: http://www.pocketheaven.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=29