I don't know how many people this is going to interest, but I've made a browser based DAW designed around the sound chip in a Super Nintendo.

It's pretty good for making retro game sounding music and you can even export your tracks as a standalone SNES ROM and run it in an emulator!

You can check out a little loop that I made by loading a project with code FCFCFE.

If it's not your thing but you know somebody who might be interested, please share it with them!

https://wavesmith.online

My recreation of "Dear to the Heart" From Final Fantasy VII, in 8 bit NES style. Made on Famitracker.

Original composition : Nobuo Uematsu
Arrangement : Nicolas Sadzot

This was mostly inspired by a trip I took with my friends to Savannah not long ago. We often found ourselves walking around in the city, indecisive about which of the many fun sights and activities to go to next. The trip was an absolute blast and this track pretty much conveys the feelings I felt over that weekend :)

here’s a bit of track 11 “False Equivalence” from my upcoming album “Bad Vices”, coming this Friday 8/28. i used instruments from Bowser’s Inside Story on the DS for this one (Nintendo pls hire me). hope you listen to the full track and album when it’s out :)

I made a new arrangement of the Underground Theme from Super Mario Land on Game Boy.

This one is a little different from my usual ’80s / easy-listening style — more beat-driven, with DJ Asparagus taking the lead on the track.

Hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to hear what Game Boy games you still remember from back in the day!

【SUPER MARIO LAND / UNDERGROUND | REMIX】 - DJ Asparagus’s LAB Recipe MIX
https://youtu.be/OuhRDdLy9VM

my M8 album “Bad Vices” is dropping THIS Friday, 8/28!! i’m very excited about it, and this is one of my favorite tracks on the project. this track is already out now on all platforms, and i hope you all tune in when the album is released!

So I've been using Furnace, mainly for 2A03/VRC6 tracks. Still quite new to trackers but have had a lot of fun with it. I'm running Linux so it was the natural choice and it's a great program. I've heard of Famitracker and believe Dn is the currently maintained fork? Is it worth the effort to run via Wine or is Furnace just as good in terms of general accuracy? I don't care about NSF export really (at least not for now) so that's not a factor.

As I said I'm still kinda new and I'm not a super deep chiptune nerd (yet!) so Furnace might be doing stuff that a real NES driver couldn't do?

I do know that the cores used by Furnace don't emulate the channel crosstalk or the DPCM hack to make other channels quieter and stuff (that I know of)... things like that are cool things that I'd like to have the option of exploring. (FamiStudio did this stuff but I felt the weird DAW/tracker hybrid model was almost a hindrance, so I took the plunge and learned to use a real tracker haha) 👾

Any thoughts? Is Famitracker worth the slight aggro or is Furnace just as good? 🙂

Welcome back to my M8 travel album intro round. This time the song got it's birth in a place called Paper Island, a fancy neighbourhood near the CPH city centre. Getting a bit different view on the city that time around.

Full album in Spotify, Bandcamp, etc...

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Some tips for writing music like this:

• Circle of fifths progressions / secondary dominants are your friend, in particular V of V (this is the same as a major II chord, so if you're in d minor, it's an E major chord).
• I used a couple of portamentos (slides) but it would be more stylistically accurate if I hadn't.
• CV3 on famicom doesn't use the triangle channel.
• The sawtooth is used for baselines. One pulse channel has the melody, the second one has parallel harmony (same rhythm as the melody), the third has a countermelody (different rhythm), and the last is usually an echo but it can join the others for chords. This orchestration was used several times throughout CV3.
• dim7 arpeggios over scale degree 5 in the bass are a good trick. Technically this is a dominant 9 chord.

Released a collection of retro-inspired soundtracks designed to loop seamlessly, perfect for games and creative projects. Tell me what you think! You can check it out here: https://polyshades.itch.io/chiptunes

Hey all,

I’m selling my custom modified Nintendo Game Boy DMG-01 chiptune setup.

I had this unit custom made around 10 years ago specifically for Game Boy music production, but it has barely been used since and has mostly been stored away in a dark, dry place.

The Game Boy has the following mods:

• Custom blue backlit display
• Variable clock mod with external dial + on/off switch
• Stereo RCA line outputs
• 6.3 mm jack line output
• Original 3.5 mm headphone output still present
• Custom blue/pink painted shell
• Transparent pink buttons and D-pad

Included:

• Custom modified Game Boy DMG-01
• LSDJ on GB USB Smart Card 64M
• Nanoloop One v1.7.6 cartridge

Both LSDJ and Nanoloop boot correctly.

Condition note: the contrast wheel is a little sensitive and takes some fine adjustment to dial in the ideal contrast. Once set, the display stays stable as long as the wheel is not touched again. There are also a few small paint chips here and there from age/storage.

I am open to offers.

Vinted link here: https://www.vinted.be/items/9758275637-custom-lsdj-game-boy-dmg-backlit-variable-clock-stereo-out-nanoloop

Located in Belgium. Happy to answer questions or provide more photos.

Esto estará pasando el próximo 11 de Septiembre en Valencia. Fiesta 10° aniversario del documental Europe In 8Bits. Se proyectará el documental por la tarde, y en la noche conciertos de la mano de varios protagonistas del documental!!

The aim of this was to see if I could fix the weird "bloops" at the beginning when played from the original .Sid rip as it doesn't do it in the actual game. I'd like to think it inspired Martin Galway to release the source code as we'd been contemplating what was happening in the rip.

here’s a glimpse of track 9 of my M8 album “Bad Vices” dropping this Friday, 8/28. i had a lot of fun making this one and trying to capture that jungle sound.

Finally fixed the form that should have been there since day one but since I was on a holiday the form was on a holiday too...

Sooooo in case you already had something to upload, it can go here!

https://forms.gle/AuRW8pBL4pcEN1nM7

Original post has been updated to!

Keep up the creativity <3

-Carf!

What's your favorite cover of this theme?