more 8bit style music

Mega Man X - Sting Chameleon (OPL3 + PCM Remix)

This soundtrack was the last one I composed in what it's known today as "chiptune" style, using the 4 Game Boy channels (3 tone + noise) + 2 digital channels.

It was also the last soundtrack where I used my trusty Compact Editor, which had served me well for over 10 years: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0018925

The sound driver was written entirely from scratch in C, using a gnu compiler. It could run on the GBA but also on a PC using a cycle exact emulation of the GBA sound chip I also wrote to avoid using a hardware development system.

The cartridge actually contained 2 different games, making a total of 31 tunes for the entire soundtrack. Many of the tunes were re-arranged from of my Obelix soundtrack for the SNES.

This music was directly recorded from the PC emulation back in the year 2002.

Asterix & Cleopatra - The Palace (GBA, 2002)

original song by yuzo koshiro

been meaning to do another supersponge cover for a while now

Dreamer (SuperSponge Cover)

Rapid Ascent - Shovel Knight Dig

gonna upload this wip somewhere before i accidentally wipe my hard drive and lose everything again

Wacky Workbench Remix WIP from 2020

Finally a new song!

I've been busy with life and things, but I want you to know that I still making music and preparing new song for the future.

Also, I realised that there's a limit to how much music I can upload to soundcloud, and my account is at limit. I really can't afford to have a pro account, so I will start to delete some songs :'3 On the good side I will start to upload all of my music to bandcamp, It will take time but I think is worth it. 

Thank you for all the great comments and good vibes you send, I will keep making music so please stay in tune!

If you have any questions, suggest or request write me in the comments or to  setonessvgm@gmail.com

Have a great time listening!

www.instagram.com/setoness_vgm/

Mother 3 - Fun Naming

Play the KIPIDON Demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/2578160/KIPIDON/

ClascyJitto - Tear In My Eye

you know the drill: https://jcportals.neocities.org/portals/games/kipidon/

ClascyJitto - Space Breakers

Heavily inspired by the remix of the SMB2USA boss music in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Original composition by Naofumi Hataya/Masafumi Ogata

(C) 1992 Sega Enterprises Ltd.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Game Gear) - Boss (DiC-style Arrange)

This small soundtrack was composed for a promotional game named "The Morning Adventure", also know as "Mañanitos Bollycao" in 2003. It was available only in Spain and only a few copies exist. It was the last Game Boy Advance game I composed music for.

At that time I programmed a synthesizer on PC which faithfully emulated the Nintendo sound system used for the GBA games, except that it sounded better because of the higher resolution and sample rate mixing. With that program I was able to sequence GBA soundtracks without using the actual console or the expensive official MIDI cartridge.

The music is recorded from that synthesizer at a sample rate of 44k instead of 15k. All instrument sounds were sampled from my tiny Korg X5DR sound module.

The Morning Adventure - complete soundtrack (GBA, 2003)

Soundtrack for an unreleased Game Boy Color game, composed in the year 2000. It was one of my latests soundtracks for Game Boy Color. Unfortunately the game was never published, though it was one of the most amazing racing games ever made for the console!

Radikal Bikers - complete soundtrack (GBC, ~2000, unreleased)

Short tune composed and dedicated to friends Hannah and Robin, NES style.

First chiptune in many years! Using the sound set I created for Music On - Retro Keyboard, with sounds of my NES soundtracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rb3YwU5dM

Hannah & Robin (NES style)

In the late nineties I did several soundtracks for the games of Velez & Dubail, published by Infogrames. At first I would also do the sountrack for Wacky Races, but they needed a really fast sound driver, as the game would be some of the most advanced ever for the console (just check it, it's amazing). Unfortunately my driver was too slow for what they needed, and writing a new and faster one was far out of schedule and budget.

The tracks you hear are the first test, just to check if the game could deal with the sound driver CPU consumption. The tunes only use 2 channels (+ noise), as one entire channel had to be reserved for the sound of the car engine. They use many stereo effects, so be sure to put your headphones on.

In the end the job went to Manfred Linzner who did a wonderful work.

Wacky Races - test tracks (GBC, 1999, unreleased)

Soundtrack for Ronaldo V-Football and UEFA 2000 soccer games for the Game Boy.

UEFA 2000 shares some sound flavour to my soundtrack for V-Rally. For Ronaldo I tried to compose something more festive, with some inspiration from my favourite game musician :-)

Ronaldo V-Football + UEFA 2000 (Game Boy, 1999~2000)

Sky's The Limit!

My first commercial tune for the Game Boy, released in the US as Cool Ball.

The game was only 32k in size (just like Bomb Jack) but very entertaining. It only had this tune and a small jingle for the game over. I was doing the mandatory military service and composed this tune in a weekend off.

I remember how amazed I was about the new possibilities of the Game Boy sound (specially the noise channel and the pseudo stereo), compared to the 8 bit computers I used until then!

Pop Up / Cool Ball (Game Boy, 1991)

Hi! I've been working in the video game industry since the late 80's, be it as a graphic artist, musician, programmer, designer, or any weird combination of these. Most of my work is known as musician and specially for 8 bit game consoles. If you ever had a gray brick, probably you already listened some of my music!

I used to sign my earlier works as "Joe McAlby" because my name is just plain boring and ordinary. But then the nickname is also ridiculous... too late to change that I suppose!

I rarely compose music nowadays, so I use this account to share some of my past works, and hopefully new experiments too.

Be my guest, enjoy the music, and leave a message if you like it. It'll be appreciated!

Please note that all music here is copyrighted.

most of the music is straight from tiktok.  the other music is from a friend

The Morning Adventure - complete soundtrack (GBA, 2003)

Alberto J. González (McAlby)

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