Karaoke Dreamcast

Sonic-NKT · Post by **Sonic-NKT** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:32 pm

Hi,
what about a Kar (karaoke Midi files) player for dreamcast. shouldnt be too hard to get one working... now im intrested if there is any homebrew support for the Dreamcast karaoke addon... like if its possible to use the microphones in homebrew (or do the work all the time and just lay over the normal output? i dont know)... would be a nice thing for those having this addon to stil use it

neoak · Post by **neoak** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:51 pm

I think blackaura has the karaoke add-on, but hasn't done anything with it.

If he does something with it, ill get one

OneThirty8 · Post by **OneThirty8** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:52 pm

I thought BlueCrab had a working driver for the microphone, no?

As far as playing the files, I'm sure it's not that incredibly difficult. Reaper made a midi player with SDL and SDL_mixer, if I recall correctly. I think it would be more a matter of finding somebody who wants to spend the time on it.

emptythought · Post by **emptythought** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:44 am

@neoak
Quzar recently bought one not too long ago.

@138
Yeah, there's a OGG rip somewhere of his test, and Reaper's midi player required like a 15 MB timidy file to play them.

Post by **Quzar** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:52 am

Bluecrab and I each have one. The micropohone that blue wrote a driver for was the one that connects via the controller expansion (vmu/rumble) slot. The karaoke unit attaches via g2 bus.

It will be difficult to mess around with whenever I get to it because it's designed to work only with composite output, and i don't know if it will interfere with bba operation. Also, I got mine about a year ago =P.