Experiment in writing background music for my live stream.

The Observation Deck

Up From Above

Background music for the first biome in Megabat.

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Megabat

Mechabat

Space Journey 3

Andrew from RetroIslandGaming on Twitch once joked that I should make a heavy metal version of Lufia II music, so this is my interpretation of the castle theme.

Wicked King

lamentations

Metal masters was a Game Boy port of the Atari ST and Amiga 500 game with the same name. It took years to produce because it went through several graphic changes and there were other games developed in between (mainly Asterix for the Game Boy and NES). It was released only in the USA, years later.

The game had only one track, but 3 versions of it with different starts.
I remember composing it close to the time when I programmed the sound driver and soundtrack of Asterix for the NES. At that time we were all working at the back of a swim-suit shop (long story). How to forget that! This was a short time before we founded Bit Managers and we were still known as New Frontier.

The long driving sound at the start is synchronized with the intro of the game, in which a pilot walks slowly and takes a lift up to the robot.
The "explosion" part sounds when a big arm is attached to the robot, and the subsequent noises and glitches previous to the melody (0:29) where inspired by something I listened in a Terminator 2 remix at the time (I think).
The random blips and notes came actually from setting one channel of the sound driver to play a random ROM address, and tweaked it until I found the sweet spot. I thought it was cool at the time.
The track intro and drums make use of the limited stereo capabilities of the console, so listening with headphones is recommended!

Recorded from AJGB, my own GB emulator ^^

Originally I composed another track for the game long time before, which can be found here along other details:

https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/vintage-8-bit-metal-masters

Metal Masters - Metal Beat (Game Boy, 1993)

Fractured Legacy (Fyda cover)

Made in FL Studio 2025 with the YMCK Magical 8bit plug2.
Time spent: 3h57m.

Haunted Fields V [loop]

Castlovania

PPPT

Part of Mega Man 3 Remade, check it out at rushjet1.bandcamp.com

Mega Man 3 Remade - Title

I mostly make NES-like chiptunes, but also dabble in other electronic music. I enjoy being able to hop between styles and genres while working within the limitations of the chip instrumentation.

I am very stubborn about imitating the 2A03's constraints while avoiding the DPCM channel entirely. Consider it a self-imposed challenge.

As a listener, I have a big soft spot for the OPL3 and the HuC6280.

Items posted here might be revised and released on Bandcamp at a later date.

Haunted Fields V [loop]

FydaTECH

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