Cannon Fodder GBC intro (with audio reconstructed from ROM rip) 

GodZpeed X7 No, roast beef

@@RTMonitor Cow

But, WHERES THE CAVEMEN???

Ok buzz killington

This is literally on the cartridge. The video and audio driver were reverse engineered and it revealed a bug in the audio driver. It was supposed to sound like in this video.

@GodZpeed X7 It's actually essentually gif-ifying it plus a looot of palet-shift wizardry

@@ZeldaTheSwordsman yeah, but even many high budget GBA games had choppy framerate FMV compared to this.

@@The-Zer0th-Law A lot of those might actually _be_ straight compressed video, as opposed to the wizardry done here. Doing this is a *lot* of work, after all, and inherently kinda slow. You can of course smooth out compressed video, but that's _also_ a lot of slow work.

Agreed

Yeah but someone screwed up the frequency on the wave channel for that streamed sample of audio. So OG copies are stuck with an intro that sounds like rubbing Styrofoam while scratching a plate with your fork.

It worked, though, they certainly made a lasting impression. Most of the people who know about this game know about it because of how famous the intro is.

Shut up, kid. This may be the greatest thing on the GBC.

Most of the FULL 4MiB ROM was the intro in uncompressed form.

The game was horrible due to lack of space, which can be said about other fmv gbc games

@DejaVoodooDoll I'm aware this comment is a bit old, but the original version had sprites that small, and the maps were much bigger. The GBC version is actually pretty difficult to play in comparison because the sprites are still too big.

you lost money on that trade, js

Looks to me like they got full dumps in their trousers?

Thanks for the comment. You might enjoy V/Vm's remix of Forever Young, as used in an unaired commercial for Playstation. (And by extension, you might also enjoy V/Vm's other work and his work under other aliases like The Caretaker.) I have this personal theory that the above mentioned song was inspired by this intro although that theory is most likely wrong.

It is black comedy, the game is actually a statement 'against' war, if I recall the history of this game correctly.

Surprisingly good IIRC. I seem to recall it looking better on the GBC, both in colour and detail (which is understandable, because of differences in resolution and watching this on a screen it was not tailor-made for etc)

It didn't. It sounded like a complete mess in the game due to a bug. This reproduced from the raw data in the ROM and the GBC could have produced something very close to this with the right code.

@@Gameboygenius From what I heard, the sample rate for the GBC waveform channel was not set correctly for the fmv audio, causing it to come out all glitchy. I wonder if someone could make a patch for the rom fixing this issue...

@@Gameboygenius I thought it was fine when running on actual hardware, but buggy on most emulators. Many other games were, or are still like that, on some emulators. Such as Earthworm Jim, and Clay Fighters on the SNES. It'd often do to the developers using clever "non-SDK" tricks to get more out of a particular system. I have the cart and don't recall it being as bad as some of the other videos showing it (obviously running via emulation). I guess I should dig out a GBC and run it someday.

@@videogameobsession I've analyzed the code and also acquired a real cartridge running on real hardware to make sure there wasn't something I was missing, but it really is that bad. The issue is that the code for reloading the wave buffer is mistimed, so some parts of the waveform are shifted, creating this unique type of distortion. What might come into play psychologically is that the crappy little speaker on a GBC does wonders to lower your expectations of what it should sound like. I'm hoping to do a video/article at some point explaining this in more technical detail.

Lord Tony The gbc compressed this heavily. It did not play it like this

The Shadowgunner: No, the GBC didn't compress. There's a bug in the audio playback routine. The audio in this video is reconstructed from what's actually in the ROM. It should have been possible for them to fix the issue.

The graphics in the intro are INCREDIBLE for the gbc The audio had an pretty low quality. If you look at the other gbc games then its not hard to say this game aged pretty well.

Or, they can do a(n audio-only) recording from a real Gameboy Colour or Advance through a wire that connects the headphone port with the microphone port on any computer that has that.

I finally got around to testing this on hardware and, no, the audio is still distorted. There really isn't anything about a flashcart that should be able to create this issue, but I ordered a genuine cart on eBay as well just to settle it for certain. Btw, GBA (The GB Player is a GBA inside) would be bad for doing the recording. Apart from the audio problem in Cannon Fodder, almost all games with wave playback will sound distorted on GBA due to how GBA hardware works.

@@Gameboygenius There seems to be a misunderstanding. Nobody says flash carts have anything to do with the horrible audio. I was talking about emulators. Those seem to be responsible for the extremely bad audio of the intro. Of course on a real GBA it will not sound as good as in your ripped version. But (this is the claim) much better than on emulators. Someone on video by minimme actually uploaded a microphone recording of an GBA playing the intro and it sounded much better than on emulators. I try to find the comment.

Argh. I can't find it anymore. Someone said it could also be a difference between GBA and real GBC hardware...

@@cube2fox the flashcart remark was just a caveat emptor because I don't have a real cart to test with (yet). Though my preliminary verdict is that it actually sounds the same on hardware and that it's not just an emulation bug.

Pff~

The Amiga version is the 1993 original. It had ports on DOS, Atari Jaguar, and 3DO, and was downgraded to fit on Sega Mega Drive and SNES in 1994 and 1995. The GBC version is like a demake/remake.

hell is only where the devil lives

Hell is just a place.

this is an amiga game

​@@ftguy8329 well it's also a GBC game.

It's extracted from the ROM. The data is all there in this quality. It's 4 bit audio and I don't remember the sample rate off the top of my head. Yes, it's a synch problem. It could definitely be played back with more or less the same quality on real hardware if there's no video playback that competes for CPU power.

Wow now that’s something really interesting,but check tarzan wich does have good pcm audio while running the main game at the same time, Now about that extracted audio sample,i suppose those audio samples in the genesis version suffered the same fate of sounding bad,not because of it’s recirding quality but because of a poor sound engine wich did had synch problems i suppose???

Well... Far better than that

No, I haven't managed to make such a thing yet. What you hear in the video is reconstructed audio overlaid on top of the video from the intro sequence.

I used BGB to record the video and wrote a script to extract the audio directly from the ROM.

@@Gameboygenius cool

Incorrect. It can do sample playback very well, but the code in this game is buggy, which is causing the issue.

@@l1305 I've tried but only briefly. It would take a deeper understanding of how the audio code interplays with the video code.

Likely "catch"

"oi, here" "alright, Mate." "Here!" "Go on,Catch!". Are some of the phrases I can make out?

It would be very easy to make something that _just_ plays the audio. Making it work together with the FMV would require some deep analysis of the code and might even be impossible depending on how the FMV code is designed.

Oh come on the was not that bad!

I for one loved this game.