I'm using this in the outro of the podcast im workin on so thx.

merry new year!!

Song name: Sonic Robo Blast 2 - Greenflower Zone Act 1 (YM2612 + SN76489 Arrangement)
Written by Dave "DemonTomatoDave" Bulmer, Clairebun, Alexander "DrTapeworm" Moench-Ford, Shane Mychal Sexton
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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Greenflower Zone Act 1 [YM2612 + SN76489]

what if it could get darker than dark

Song name: Black Knife (YM2612 + SN76489 Arrangement)
Written by Toby Fox;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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Black Knife [YM2612 + SN76489]

Song name: The Third Sanctuary (YM2612 + SN76489 Arrangement)
Written by Toby Fox;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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The Third Sanctuary [YM2612 + SN76489]

i have found my calling

Song name: Deltarune - MIKE, the BOARD, please! (Beta Mix)
Written by Toby Fox;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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MIKE, the BOARD, please! (Beta Mix)

who up climbing they tower

Song name: Deltarune - Ever Higher (YM2608 Arrangement)
Written by Toby Fox;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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Ever Higher [YM2608]

As performed by the Blood Crushers! i think.

only wanted to give this video a simple oscilloscope view and visualizer since i don't have much in particular to say about this track. other than the fact that the samples are all from the snes game uniracers

Gameplay footage by  @ndrew_B  https://youtu.be/MJ9yRObJtjc

Song name: Deltarune - Raise Up Your Bat (S-SMP Arrangement)
Written by Toby Fox;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Inspired by Colin Anderson;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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Raise Up Your Bat [S-SMP]

needed a song to test these instruments with

Song name: Daytona URA - Let's Go Away (Advertisement)
Written by Takenobu Mistuyoshi, Shun Aratame;
Performed by Azumi Waki, Marika Kohno, Machico, Ayaka Ohashi, Chisa Kimura, Hitomi Ueda, Saori Onishi, Takenobu Mistuyoshi;
Lyrics by Shun Aratame;
Arranged by Yuya Hirosawa, John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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Daytona URA - Let's Go Away (Advertisement)

either you're helplessly swept away by it,
or let it take you places you've never imagined before

Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

disclaimer: this specific song uses puNES emulation for the fds' wavetable synth, so it doesn't sound muffled (and thus not hardware accurate)

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then came the wind [2a03 + fds]

this will be my last public release in a while. i have been very addicted to work and have been sleeping very late the past few weeks. burnout is also getting to me from having no sense of direction, so i will not be posting in a month.

anyways,

if you haven't caught on already, i have been dipping my toes into umamusume pretty derby. that gacha game/ anime series with anthropomorphized horse girls. i found out about it around a month ago when the global release of the gacha game released. it gained traction very quickly upon release and was picked up by big gaming streamers.

personally i found out through my friends playing the game (one who doesn't typically even enjoy anime, let alone gacha games, which surprised me). i passively played the game and thought it was pretty neat. i liked the characters; i knew of the "communal daughter" haru urara, redeemed tokai teio with my ssr voucher for her title [peak joy], i got lucky and pulled a 3-star oguri cap who is my favorite uma to date! ^_^ with super creek and silence suzuka close behind.

what i didn't think i would get into was the irl history of the horses themselves. though only passively gaining information from yt shorts (with all kinds of misinformation, but i managed to figure out which was real and which wasn't), i started having genuine interest in the actual horses, their jockeys, their groomers... and how much their lives, their achievements, and their failures have impacted japanese peoples' lives. the supplementary media engages the viewer so well with its drama and character-focused-stories, which not only kept me guessing, but got me more invested into the series as well. i've only watched season 1 of the anime but i hope that season 2 blows me away (aside from the admittedly lifeless mixed cgi animation). s2 ep1 seems to be setting up amazing things for future arcs.

i was upset knowing about grass wonder, who was an american-born stallion that passed away from old age and organ failure (on the 8th of aug 2025, at 30 y/o). a lot of people (incl. uma fans) were mourning his passing. i didn't know much about the horse but i understood his impact in his 4-year-long racing career, and figured i could write a piano piece as a tribute. grass wonder in the umamusume anime is known to be a soft-spoken, yet aggressively competitive runner of team sirius, and notably one of special week's rivals (which afaik is true irl as well). she notably sings chatsumi in a yt short - a japanese folk song from 1912 (with an unknown composer), so i used it towards the end of the song and reharmonized it with a pop progression. i haven't fully verified if it is actually playable or not and only written initially impossible hand movements and key presses, so please do inform me if there are any weird movements that will be removed in rearranging this song for an 88-key piano.

it's certainly not my best song up to date, but i think it's a good enough sendoff to the legendary grass wonder. a goodbye to an era. forever living in horse racing lovers' hearts, and immortalized with umamusume.

as much as both things are designed to make our money (and as much as i don't like the typical anime culture surrounding umamusume)... i think even in the most unexpected pieces of media or recreational activities are we able to find meaning and fundamental values that we all can potentially live by.

soar high, grass wonder.
soar high.

Song name: grass wonder
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Chatsumi (Tea-picking song, 1912) borrowed from the Japanese Ministry of Education
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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grass wonder [s-smp]

not lazy, just power saving

An original song dedicated to my grandmother who passed away a year earlier. I made it for my submission to the Beepbox Server-wide album, releasing later in 2018. Here's to hoping it makes it in!

EDIT: It made it in! :D
EDIT 2: If you want to listen to the album, it has just released! (in 2020....) Check it out here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOWe7TA-Nzc&t=3529s



-Made using original Beepbox 2.3-

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game dev, 2d/3d/pixel art, and music! i love it all. here you will find one of those things, mainly in the chiptune flavor.

hope you like!

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