Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2008 June 11

= June 11 =

Pro Sport Judo
I read that Mike Swain produced something called "Pro Sport Judo" - but, I can't find any info on it. What were the rules, how many competitions did they have, and most important is there anyway to see them; ware the matches recorded and if so are they ever re-aired or can I get them on VHS or DVD? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.71.223.87 (talk) 03:19, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Sound in NES Games
In NES games, why do sound effects make the music sound different? Interactive Fiction Expert/Talk to me 07:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that I've ever noticed the effect that you're describing.  To be clear, are you playing these games on classic hardware, or are you emulating them on modern hardware? APL (talk) 13:51, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * From Nintendo Entertainment System:

The NES board supported a total of five sound channels. These included two pulse wave channels of variable duty cycle (12.5%, 25%, 50%, and 75%), with a volume control of sixteen levels, and hardware pitch bending supporting frequencies ranging from 54 Hz to 28 kHz. Additional channels included one fixed-volume triangle wave channel supporting frequencies from 27 Hz to 56 kHz, one sixteen-volume level white noise channel supporting two modes (by adjusting inputs on a linear feedback shift register) at sixteen preprogrammed frequencies, and one delta pulse-width modulation channel with six bits of range, using 1-bit delta encoding at sixteen preprogrammed sample rates from 4.2 kHz to 33.5 kHz. This final channel was also capable of playing standard pulse-code modulation (PCM) sound by writing individual 7-bit values at timed intervals.

--Russoc4 (talk) 23:16, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * In other words, the NES has a limited number of voices for producing different notes at the same time. If a game's music normally uses all the voices of the NES, then a sound effect played at the same time will steal one or more of the voices. This would cause the music to be missing some of its parts during the duration of the sound effect. --Bavi H (talk) 03:41, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Trying to fund Russian animated clip back on youtube
Hello,

some time ago I saw this Russian clip on youtube. It was animated (and it was pretty well done). It was also quite nationalist : it depicted the artists as warriors who would defend the Kremlin from invaders like the UN, NATO,... Can anyone help? Thanks!Evilbu (talk) 19:23, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I know you're fond of this clip, but do you really want to fund it or just find it ? (If you do mean to fund it, don't think me a fiend if I suggest that it can fend for itself.) StuRat (talk) 13:47, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Looking for a music video
Its a music video that I think debuted sometime between 2000 and 2003. Its entirely animated in a style similar to South Park though more expressive and fluid. It's the story of a high schooler who is hanging out with his friends when his father yells at him for doing poorly in school/slacking off/whatever. At some point there is a scene with the father giving the son an Army/Marines brochure, and another scene where the son skateboards to a garage to play with his band.

He joins the Army/Marines and is deployed (to Iraq?), and I distinctly recall a scene with him sitting in a transport plane with his head bobbing up and down rhythmically to the chorus of the song. There is at least one scene of him on the ground and he gets injured, I think by a car bomb. He is sent home and receives a medal and you see his mom and dad in the crowd watching and applauding.

The video ends with him back playing with his band again, and standing with his girlfriend looking at the stars. And then the final shot includes fireflys dancing around some sort of logo or the copyright notice or something

Sorry for all the verbiage without giving you a whole lot to go on...

JazzX (talk) 23:23, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * In the event someone sees this sometime down the road (before I posted here I found people asking about the same some on Yahoo Answers and a few message boards) I finally found it. It's called "Time And Time Again" and it's by Chronic Future. It's from their 2004 album Lines in My Face and my description above of the video was pretty close (though the style of the song wasn't even close to what I remembered).JazzX (talk) 03:01, 29 June 2008 (UTC)