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2 questions regarding a music submission

A topic by Matt J Hart created Sep 04, 2021 Views: 226 Replies: 4
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Submitted (2 edits)

Hey!

I'm about ready to submit a music cartridge ROM and I have a couple questions.


What constitutes it being open source? I have created the ROM solely using Deflemask and I'll include the Deflemask project with the submission on itch - would this count as open source? There is no actual code that I have created for the ROM.


Also, my ROM has an error to it, but it doesn't occur in all circumstances. When opening the ROM in BGB, I get the error message: 

"ROM checksum fails. Rom size in header does not match actual rom size. A real gameboy wouldn't care."

It plays correctly in BGB, but in Virtual Boy the song cuts off after about 15 seconds. Is this likely to be an issue with the judging? I assume the error is caused by the Deflemask export process. If anyone happens to know a fix, I'm all ears!

Jam Host

Yes, as long as you include all the project files required to build it from Deflemask that would count as open source.

If it plays ok in BGB then your ROM is probably alright. You can post it to see if someone is able to test on actual hardware. It's probably possible to fix the header with RGBFIX from RGBDS if you want to look into that.

Submitted

Thanks, will look into this!

You will add more than one song  ?

Submitted

I don't currently plan to, but we'll see! I guess I meant to make one song that had a bunch of different styles instead