Sweep It Under the Rug

Hello humans! We’re back with the DAILY DEVLOG!!!!! I need to go to bed and feed my geck, so let’s dive right in!

No Sweeping for You!

Today, I finished up last night’s work of finishing channel 2. All that was left was adding an output to u8 fn that’s just sitting there as dead code rn and wiring it up to read_byte(). relatively uneventful, except for when I forgot how bitwise operations work.

WeeeWoooWeeeWooo

After channel 2, the obvious next step was channel 1. Channel 1 is just channel 2 with an extra feature: sweep. Sweep is kinda funky. I thought it changes envelope, but it actually changes pitch. It does some weird funky shenanigans to change the pitch and also on note trigger. A lot of building channel 1 was just making echo fns for proper layering of structs. Pan docs was once again confusing.

Notes

A side note on documentation. While working, I decided to read the forword of pan docs, and lo and behold, its built for game developers, but there’s also a Complete GB Technical Reference which was supposedly built for emulator builders. I decided to check it out and see if it would be more useful than pan docs. BUT GUESS WHAT?? It had EVRYTHING EXCEPT AUDIO in there!! The word “audio” was used exactly once!! Apu wasn’t even mentioned!!! SO I have to continue with pan docs, which does have decentish detail for audio.

Music

I ended up listening to a lot of Chappell Roan, Cavetown, CITY LIMITS, and MAFUMAFU this session. Y’all should listen to the PEAK music of Sorry Ghost as well. See y’all next time!