r/chiptunes

Hi all! I just released 4TRK-DS

check it out :)

Hey guys! If you are already a subscriber to my YT channel you may have checked out my recent (and officialy first) OPL2 chiptune "Low Lights" that I released some weeks ago. Since then Daniel Illgen (Insane), a great coder from the C64 demogroup Rabenauge reached out to me with the will to make a C64 conversion of the track using the 9 channel polyphony of the SFX Sound Expander. By that time I wasn't even sure this was possible. Since I am SID musician when it comes to C64 music I must have missed out on the OPL possibilities that this FM cartridge offers. The result really blew my mind! Enjoy!!

Not made with FamiTracker but I did my best to make it NES accurate. To cite my sources properly this is based off the version of Beach Life-In-Death on Songsterr so don't like get mad at me because I see it says no plagiarism in the rules so yeah I used something as a starting point.

I remade the first-stage theme of Bloody Wolf, originally from the PC Engine, on the Sega Genesis, using the FM sounds used by Hitoshi Sakimoto for Midnight Resistance. I really wanted to know how it would sound. I think it came out okay, but hindsight might be a bitch.

This track and Flood of Power from Midnight Resistance have some pretty interesting parallels: both are songs featured in the first stages of military action games starring two buff dudes in tank tops, all made by Japan’s premium jank masters, Data East. The most important commonality, of course, is that the music from the console ports just crushes their arcade originals.

I've been really interested in making chiptune music lately, specifically inspired by artists like Crystal Castles and Aphex Twin. However, I'm finding through my research that this stuff seems kind of difficult to access physically. I actually own a couple of GBA SPs, but I have no idea which flash cartridge to buy, and way less of an idea of how I'm supposed to burn one with LSD. From there, I have no idea how I'd get sounds from the gameboy into my computer or other device, like a mixer or amplifer. This whole thing seems like it would take a lot of money and time. Is physical hardware considered to be the very best way to make chiptune, or are digital emulators accepted as being almost identical?

Gentleman, start your engines!

As the theme for this month is:

Racing!

https://preview.redd.it/ee805wmi68ah1.jpg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=822a04370a90192c84e9ebeb9cd889ec1de1a11c

Time to hit the road, bring me the most epic song to race, drift, cruise, no matter what, as long as it helps setting a better lap time or enhance the road trip it's vibe!

We're riding with the following rules:

• Two weeks for each contest (14 days)
• This contest runs from June 29th until the 12th of July.
• Followed by Lap 2 with 6 days to bring out your vote so I can announce the contest winner on Sunday 19th of July
• The submission has to be chiptune but like before that is vaguely defined, I don't care what you use and how you use it*, as long as it makes me want to dust off that good ol' classic system because your epic music is giving me an urge to kill something pixelated!!
• Only one submission per artist name.

Submissions can be dropped here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLm4Piuydl_ll0RtCFv2E5wTm8pPPC7vCJh1aIpKQ8VEhuIw/viewform?usp=publish-editor

This contest is just for fun only, besides a badge of honor there are no other prizes to win, but ending up with a fresh track with your name on it is always an achievement in itself!

And to end this announcement I just drop the most amazing arcade driving game ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELUl-cAtUIE

*We're not a fan of AI over here, if in doubt I WILL ask you for proof that the song truly has been created with any of the known tools to create those good ol' vibes the good ol' ways.

Hello!

I tried searching but nothing promising turned out, I wonder, what do you all use?

Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!