My first attempt at doing something original with the VRC7 expansion chip. May or may not have been inspired by Ghouls n' Ghosts on the C64.

Spoopy V

The Restless Mansion Owner

The Restless Mansion Owner [NES + VRC7]

For my first foray into Battle of the Bits' seasonal competitions, I made a dive into sound design for the SN7 chip found in the Sega Master System and Game Gear. Featuring stacking channels together for different waveforms and the periodic noise for that sweet bass.

Winter Chip XVII

Fool Around

Fool Around [Sega Master System]

This one was made with a hardware tracker for the Commodore VIC-20 called Baby-K, made by the creator who also made Battle of the Bits! Even by VIC-20 standards, this is a very limited tracker to work with, so making anything half decent in it is quite the challenge.

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This Game Ain't For Babies

This Game Ain't For Babies [VIC-20, Baby-K]

The TED chip from the Commodore Plus/4 finds itself back on the menu in Summer Chip XII, so I had to take a crack at it yet again. Since my last TED track, I've learned to use the Multi-framespeed feature of TEDzakker to create those cool effects found in hardware refresh hacks.

Summer Chip XII

A Titan Emerges

A Titan Emerges [Commodore Plus/4]

This was part of Battle of the Bits' Advent Calendar series, where each day had a different format to write songs for. Day 4 was actually a choice between two systems: Game Boy and Sega Master System. Both required the use of Deflemask though, but I was able to learn the quirks of that program enough to make a silly Kirby-like tune.

BotB Advent Calendar 2022

Sega's Dream Land

Sega's Dream Land [Sega Master System]

This was part of Battle of the Bits' Advent Calendar series, where each day had a different format to write songs for. Day 5 was dedicated to the ZX Spectrum Beeper, a format I'm quite fond of, but never written anything for it before. The thin and rough sound of the beeper made me end up with a sorta magical metal type tune.

Winter Warriors of the Past

Winter Warriors of the Past [ZX Beeper, Special FX]

This is the first notable cover I've made after getting into Clone Hero and hearing about FamiStudio. FamiStudio really revitalized my desire to make covers again, so I thought it would be fitting to cover songs that I found out through Clone Hero.

Perpetual Motion

Perpetual Motion (Sound Struggle cover)

Perpetual Motion (Sound Struggle Cover) [NES 2A03]

This is similar in vein to the Perpetual Motion cover I did. I had just played through the CSC Hard Songs 2 pack, and this song stuck out to me the most.

Viking Kong

Viking Kong (Racer X cover)

Viking Kong (Racer X cover) [NES 2A03]

This one has a bit of a funny story behind it. I originally charted the original version of this song for the CSC Extreme Metal 3 pack, but I found out that someone else had already charted it for another pack. So rather than leaving my chart to waste, I decided to just do a cover of it.

The Heaviest Matter of the Universe

The Heaviest Matter of the Universe (Gojira cover)

The Heaviest Matter of the Universe (Gojira cover) [NES 2A03]

This was around the time Furnace Tracker started making the rounds, which allows you to make music for a ton of sound chips. I wanted to experiment using the Sunsoft 5B expansion chip, because I thought it would fit well with making heavier NES tracks, and Famitracker's implementation of it doesn't take advantage of the envelope waveforms all that well.

The vocals were converted using RDPCM. There isn't any tracker that can store all that data yet, but it's theoretically possible on real hardware... provided your cartridge can hold MBs worth of data.

Tempest

Tempest (Defecto cover)

Tempest (Defecto cover) [NES + Sunsoft 5B + DPCM Vocals]

Continuing the trend of covering songs I like from Clone Hero, here's my favorite song of the CSC Horrorthon pack. This time I actually took the time to synthesize the vocals myself (excluding the growly parts).

The End Of Heartache

The End Of Heartache (Killswitch Engage cover)

The End Of Heartache (Killswitch Engage cover) [NES + MMC5 + Sunsoft 5B]

I make the Clone Hero charts and occasionally dabble with whatever soundchip I come across.

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