The Voice of Odyssey rides again
This week’s game review is the awesome new Odyssey2 homebrew, Mr. Roboto! (with many, many thanks to Jarett at Packrat for the “review copy” of the cart – seriously, I just started out asking him for a couple of JPEGs of the thing running on an emulator!). The first video piece I did – thanks in no small part to the AmpSwap (described in a pair of previous entries) – had no sound. Au contraire – this game has sound out the wazoo, from both the console itself and, if you’ve got one plugged in, the add-on Voice of Odyssey speech synthesizer module. Once I did some more work with the amp situation, I decided to have another go at it , and thought I’d see if I could record the Voice, which has its own speaker and doesn’t transmit its audio through the RF modulator, as with the console sound. Basically, this means you have to stick a microphone on the Voice and mix that in with the game sound.
Only one problem: I can’t seem to find my microphone anywhere. But here’s how I stubbornly proceeded to record it anyway. … Read more
