VGM Mix Of Mine + Others That I Like 2

So a little backstory: I found out near last minute MAGFest had these chiptune "open mics" and so I speedran making something for that. This was the result lol.

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7tDd2zpS5HV08lKFDHkF5T?si=c1756027e1d04143
Listen on Youtube Music: https://youtu.be/9F1wZFPRU5U
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/any/1664688527?i=1664688528

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DarkForest

​An original piece written for the Weekly Note Composing Jam #27 with the theme ‘Dark Forest’. For this, I pictured the dark forest being the backdrop for a spooky level in a 16 bit indie game where the level oozes cheesey eeriness. To fit this vibe, I kept the amount of instruments fairly minimal and used some retro sounding synths that reminded my of the themes from Halloween and Stranger Things.

Dark Forest - Weekly Note Composing Jam #27

Looming Crisis

The text prompt for this was just "Fishing Hole"

I went with more of an ambient pad idea for the peacefulness of the activity of fishing like we were doing an early 90's PC game around it as a sport or something.  I remembered the fishing holes in Iceland that Sergeant Smith was smirking and describing as 200 USD a day to get a permit during Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy and that influenced my track art choice.

a streaming link has been provided below:

the art square attribution is Pixabay user: "renegossner"

main website:

https://exedexes1.com/

Jökulhlaup Whisper at the Basalt Brink submission for WNCJ #29 hosted by emscottish

submission for Composer Weekend Jam #4 hosted by JoeChris of ScoringTech.NET for Itch.IO August 2025

This was begun starting at 5:20pm on the submission day and it was due at 9pm including formatting all the output lol, it probably bears that fact in the quality level but I gave it what I could.

Pensive Alternate Metroid 1 In a Hurry - End Fight

Pensive Alternate Metroid 1 In a Hurry - Brinstar

Pensive Alternate Metroid 1 In a Hurry - Tourian

Pensive Alternate Metroid 1 In a Hurry - Ridley's Hideout

Pensive Alternate Metroid 1 In a Hurry - Title Screen

Pensive Alternate Metroid 1 In a Hurry - Kraid's Hideout

Pensive Alternate Metroid 1 In a Hurry - Norfair

9 track album for the OST game jam 8 on itch.io. 

A neighboring planet, called Hestenia by humans, exhausted all of their resources, and in an act of desperation, is launching an attack on Earth to extract its natural 
resources. Their ships cause the Earth to spin faster, causing rapid and 
unpredictable cycles between night and day. During night, Hestenia sends down troops to attack.  You have to enter their ship to destroy it, and you can only enter during 
night while the troops are getting sent out, meaning you will have to fight them.

1. Title

2. The Attack (Prologue)

My entry for the OST Composing Jam 8, held by Lone Rabbit.
As the Pocketfiller, it's your job to find pickpockets and fight them, bringing the people back their bags and wallets.
Enjoy a warm soundtrack as you pursue those thieves on a summer night !

The saviour nobody thanked

Ma'am, he got your purse !

Shady Business

Happy Birthday to our keyboard wizard Mauro AKA Maux! 🎉
For his special day, he came up with a brand-new Chiptune rearrangement of one of our earliest tracks, Birthday Bash (https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/birthday-bash). A retro, pixel-party twist on one of our first songs, reimagined through his creativity to celebrate the moment.
Big cheers to him, and turn up the 8-bit vibes! 🕹️🎂✨
And stay tuned!! Tomorrow we’re dropping a brand new track, the last one of this summer with a summery, playful vibe! 🌞🎶

All our Chiptune tracks are here: soundcloud.com/beatingedge/sets/8-bit-vibes.
©2025 Beating Edge

Birthday Bash - Chiptune Edition (Instrumental - Chiptune)

Assembly Opcode March submission for Tiny Music Jam #2 hosted by Aurora595 for Itch.IO September 2025

"Assembly Opcode March" x86 opcodes (like how MOV=1011 binary as high/low) for a simple loop, played as binary tones. 

As the basis of my tune i used the x86 assembly code for a simple infinite loop. It performs a futile operation: adding 1 to the EAX register and then immediately subtracting 1, resulting in no net change, before jumping back to repeat indefinitely. Basically it's performative of computer science concepts like wasted cycles, undecidability in halting, or inefficient code in low-level programming history (nodding to early assembly optimization challenges). Decoding the binary tone sequence back to hex opcodes reveals a "pointless eternal march," symbolizing programs that run forever without progress.

loop:

    add eax, 1      ; 83 C0 01  (add 1 to EAX)

    sub eax, 1      ; 83 E8 01  (subtract 1 from EAX)

    jmp loop        ; EB F8     (short jump back to 'loop' label; disp8 = -8)

This is a decent assortment of opcodes: 83 (modR/M for ADD/SUB with immediate)

C0 (modR/M byte for ADD to EAX)

01 (immediate value 1)

E8 (modR/M byte for SUB from EAX)

EB (opcode for short JMP)

F8 (displacement for JMP, -8 in two's complement)

These cover common categories: arithmetic (ADD, SUB), control flow (JMP), and operand encoding (modR/M, immediates). 

The full machine code in hex is: 83 C0 01 83 E8 01 EB F8.

Detailed Melody Notation

Notes are listed in order, grouped by byte for readability (8 tones per group). 

Each tone is a 16th note. Played monophonically on the synth with Step-Recording.
I say that liberally, they -were- 16th notes before compression to 20seconds

Byte 1 (83 hex = 10000011): G4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, G4, G4

Byte 2 (C0 hex = 11000000): G4, G4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4

Byte 3 (01 hex = 00000001): C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, G4

Byte 4 (83 hex = 10000011): G4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, G4, G4

Byte 5 (E8 hex = 11101000): G4, G4, G4, C4, G4, C4, C4, C4

Byte 6 (01 hex = 00000001): C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, G4

Byte 7 (EB hex = 11101011): G4, G4, G4, C4, G4, C4, G4, G4

Byte 8 (F8 hex = 11111000): G4, G4, G4, G4, G4, C4, C4, C4

For Pass 2, I replaced C4 with C5 (523 Hz) and G4 with G5 (784 Hz) throughout the same sequence.

Assembly OpCodes March (60sec)

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #33 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO September 2025

Firenewts were fishing in my first MUD area brought over to SlothMUD in August of 2008, Herbalist Isle 1. This is an ambient piece with some wssh noises for the waterfall in the background and one global effect used on MixCraft instead of from the synthesizer cast-over the whole composition for a little more flair.

after manually performing and layering on the Roland FA-08 this got one good global effect from MixCraft 10.6 to give it some fun delay-feel to it

the instruments in the MuseScore PDF are kind of way off from the synthesizer because this one was difficult to model in the more limited instrument selection, on the synth they are all pretty abstract tone choices

River Qix Waterfall

A therapeutic journey into a mix of jazz, classical, and a blend of types of electronica.  And a wry, gradual observation that promotion tends to only go as far as you push it.  At least I make my fellow musicians laugh a little.

VGM Mix Of Mine + Others That I Like 2

Doug Stoothoff