Mario Bros HSS Kit - Kills the Power-up Sound?

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Well not totally, but it seems to shorten and change it quite a bit. I never knew. Now instead of the swirly build-up/let down that goes from high to low and back again, I get the first part of the high to low tones followed by the 'begin stage' ditty. Is that right? Does this bother anyone else?
 
Whoa tough crowd. Maybe I woulda got a response if I said I died, or just sent money to Ram controls, or decided to sell all of my vids to buy pins, or got in a fistfight with McLemore (I did). Am I the only one to own this kit? If not, what does your power up sound sound like? Did it change after installing the kit? Where are all of these 'anal' collectors I keep hearing about? Visiting Fritz [makes sense I guess]?
 
I noticed a change after i put the kit in. It's probably the same as what you're hearing. It doesn't really bother me that much, since it's just the start-up sound.
 
I just purchased 3 new SW Cockpits from him. A cool $9K. Sent the cash today. Cant wait to get these puppies!

I predict good things for you! You can't lose!! Maybe you can find another 5K worth of stuff to add to your order whilst you wait for this one to ship! I'm sure it's on it's way as we speak!! LOLROTFSMOCAG!!!!
 
I predict good things for you! You can't lose!! Maybe you can find another 5K worth of stuff to add to your order whilst you wait for this one to ship! I'm sure it's on it's way as we speak!! LOLROTFSMOCAG!!!!

Was this a bad deal? He emailed me saying he'd give me $20K worth of credit for $10K. I spent the $9K, so I still owe him $1K, but Im gonna send that Monday when I get paid.
 
Was this a bad deal? He emailed me saying he'd give me $20K worth of credit for $10K. I spent the $9K, so I still owe him $1K, but Im gonna send that Monday when I get paid.

I'd send him 2K Monday. That's 4K in credit!!! You will be one lucky SOB!! It will be like winning $40,000 on the old Wheel of Fortune with Chuck Woollery and then being forced to spend it all on their showroom full of shit! You'll be the head in a circle going ah, ah, ah, Chuck, I'll take the Cleveland trip for $4,160 and the lips chair for $656. Then I'll grab the wood stove for $963 and the year's supply of ketchup for $711. Just don't buy the ceramic giraffe!!!! LOLROFLMOAWFM!!!!
 
I'd send him 2K Monday. That's 4K in credit!!! You will be one lucky SOB!! It will be like winning $40,000 on the old Wheel of Fortune with Chuck Woollery and then being forced to spend it all on their showroom full of shit! You'll be the head in a circle going ah, ah, ah, Chuck, I'll take the Cleveland trip for $4,160 and the lips chair for $656. Then I'll grab the wood stove for $963 and the year's supply of ketchup for $711. Just don't buy the ceramic giraffe!!!! LOLROFLMOAWFM!!!!

You mean Pat Sajak, silly! He's still on WOF

Speaking of Chuck Woollery - please watch this. EPIC!

 
You mean Pat Sajak, silly! He's still on WOF

Speaking of Chuck Woollery - please watch this. EPIC!


Good old Rob Fagot. I believe I later referred to him as 'Ole Hammer Head' if you recall. YES!! It's the same Rob Fagot!! Small world kid!! ROFSMWB!!!
 
Well not totally, but it seems to shorten and change it quite a bit. I never knew. Now instead of the swirly build-up/let down that goes from high to low and back again, I get the first part of the high to low tones followed by the 'begin stage' ditty. Is that right? Does this bother anyone else?

I will take a look at it next week, if so, it wasn't intentional. I might be a side effect
of my diagnostics initializing the sounds. This kit was released 10 years ago, but
I recently found a version of the software that I wrote many years ago that had
additional diagnostics that somehow never made it out, so I started shipping that
code recently as it contains extra powerup selftests. Let me take a look next
week. -Scott
 
Yeah, I never really noticed the difference as it's just a brief startup sound. Though, like you, mine goes from high to low and that's it. It will only play the start level track when I actually start a game. I don't really care either way though. As long as the game works and it saves high scores.
 
I will take a look at it next week, if so, it wasn't intentional. I might be a side effect
of my diagnostics initializing the sounds. This kit was released 10 years ago, but
I recently found a version of the software that I wrote many years ago that had
additional diagnostics that somehow never made it out, so I started shipping that
code recently as it contains extra powerup selftests. Let me take a look next
week. -Scott

Whoa, a Braze sighting. It really doesn't bother me that much, I just noticed it right away. I bought my Mario Bros with a switcher already installed, and it was having power up issues before your kit. I bought your kit to see if maybe the diagnostics might help me with the power up issue (in addition to the HSS feature). I installed your kit, then powered up. It came up with a different power up sound than I am used to, so I powered it down and tried again. Same thing. I then decided to check the voltages on the switcher. The 5V was set to 4.8. I finally figured out why I have had power up/boot problems for the last 2 years. I still love the kit, and will be installing my Popeye kit this weekend. Keep doing what you do.
 
I just got this e-mail!

Whoa tough crowd. Maybe I woulda got a response if I said I died, or just sent money to Ram controls, or decided to sell all of my vids to buy pins, or got in a fistfight with McLemore (I did). Am I the only one to own this kit? If not, what does your power up sound sound like? Did it change after installing the kit? Where are all of these 'anal' collectors I keep hearing about? Visiting Fritz [makes sense I guess]?

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Well not totally, but it seems to shorten and change it quite a bit. I never knew. Now instead of the swirly build-up/let down that goes from high to low and back again, I get the first part of the high to low tones followed by the 'begin stage' ditty. Is that right? Does this bother anyone else?

OMG in heaven. The boot up sounds are different. This is unacceptable. If it plays MB correctly and saves the HS I think you should be happy, sir.

:)
 
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