NTRQ Quest!

I thought I’d have a go at transcribing a track from Hero Quest to NTRQ.

Thought it might serve to illustrate how you might layout a whole track complete with arpeggios, duty mod, pitch slide, vibrato, auto-echo, tempo changes, different time signatures.

I don’t think I’ve done a proper song on NTRQ since it [...]

NTRQ Tools Updated (V1.2)

After I’d uploaded the ROM patcher I saw a clearer and better way to handle to patching of the NSF exporter (or more specifically, I saw a way to avoid having to patch it!) so here’s the new versions of both “NTRQ2NSF” and “DCM2NTRQ”.

One other nice improvement is you now can (have to) specify text [...]

Some news….some good news!

Wow, I didn’t realise it has been almost a month since I last posted on the blog. I have been super busy though with all manner of stuff and I seriously needed a break from NTRQ. Seriously.

Anyway, I decided to fire up the assembler at the weekend and just re-familiarise myself with NTRQ – didn’t [...]

NTRQDOH!

I don’t think this is worth another new release but I thought I’d make you aware of a bug spotted by Thomas Horton.

Somehow, I managed to get the two Song Commands, “Set Master Volume” and “Fade Volume” the wrong way about in the on-screen hint text and in the manual. The text and manual stated [...]

Tutorial #4: Arpeggios, Duty Modulation & Auto Echo!

This will be the last one for a little while – I don’t have time to do any more at the moment. This one is a juicy one though so should keep you busy.

Same setup as before, here’s a .sav file of where you should end up when you’ve done the tutorial (depending on how [...]