The block stands tall and inviolate, not something you’d like to plow through.
It’s amazing how these pitfalls comprise a videogame shorthand – this is all familiar terrain. Besides setting the tempo, the music’s ups and downs are translated into a set of obstacles – a deep, V shaped pit, a tall rectangular block, a set of zig-zagging spikes, and a loop-de-loop. The gameplay follows Vibri as she leaps, loops, tumbles and stretches across a literal manifestation of the musical “track” – the “vib-ribbon” of the game’s title. The solution was to create a vector-graphics game small enough to load entirely into the system’s memory, freeing up the system’s disc slot for a CD of whatever tunes tickle your fancy. This graphical economy springs from a technical problem – Vib-Ribbon was designed to work with whatever musical CD you liked, a spot normally reserved for the game disc itself. This is a strong hint of where the game will take us – only ten seconds in, and already it’s into the shoobie doobie doobies. The style is Doo Wop, the only genre of music that speaks exactly as it sounds, and Vibri belts it out: A-ba-ba-dum-diddy-dum. Quickly, these lines converge to form Vibri, a sprightly, rabbity figure, who skips along and sings a chip-tunish ditty. The game is not so much turning on as tuning up. It begins by showing a series of hollow squares that stretch and squash to form thin, horizontal lines – then, there is the sound of a swelling orchestral score, and the lines twang and vibrate in turn. The game consists of thin, white lines on a black field. I had to replace almost every RAM IC on my boardset before fixing some weird intermittent gfx issues on mine.Vib-Ribbon was released in Japan and Europe on the PlayStation, but at first glance it would seem more at home on a beat up old Atari scavenged from your uncle’s garage. if you're having intermittent issues that don't respond to voltage correction, suspect bad RAM. Hole the PL1 start button during the power on cycle to enter self test, then press a button (i forget which) to cycle thru the tests. there is a poorly-documented self-test mode. There are seperate 2-wire power interconnects. There can be significant drop from the top board to the bottom. also related to the 3-board set, check voltage on ICs on the bottom board and bump up your voltage (not exceeding 5.25 on the top board). it's a 3-board set, so be cure to check to the ribbon cable interconnects remove and replace them, look for damage, jiggle them to see if problems change, etc. To get you started when you get your boards, here are a few IW tips: If I ever get a paper copy, I'll certainly scan them at work and submit to Nope, never saw that FS post, or I'm sure I would have taken a chance and paid $9.
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