Wow. I loved your paragraphs it was honestly so touching. I’m glad your happy in your relationship and hopefully this might boost your ego but your one of my favorite composers that’s probably ever graced this planet you make me push my limits. Thank you.

You can tell this chip came after YM2151 because it can play a 25% pulse

I know this is kind of late, but I 100% agree! I haven't really released a lot of my own original art yet ( I'm saving it for something ;) ), but even when I just share it with my friends I always look forward to seeing what they pick out of it, and what they don't! I always learn a lot from it! Also yeah, I think games as an art form should definitely be taken more seriously. I think most people who would dismiss them as an artform out of hand are usually just dismissing what they perceive as the objective opinions of "tHe GaMeRs", and of course as previously mentioned, art is subjective. I just think that if people saw past the social stigma around games being solely a time wasting source of entertainment (Kind of like movies or novels? 🤨), they would see how unique and effective the medium is for story telling, and really conveying anything else you could think of as art. Games don't HAVE to tell a story! Really the only limitations are the developer's abilities and imaginations!

Study Playlist

a lot of personal attachment to this song. especially the plague of shadows section. this song was a blast to write tho :)

yt link: https://youtu.be/C9xSWOjlAFA
.fur link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/zpj7gmdo4zfpju0/m_kk_troupple_pond.fur/file

The Buzz In The Grotto (FM)

Iwatodai Dorm -Reload-- Persona 3 Reload OST [D1]

Paulownia Mall -Reload- -Persona 3 Reload OST

mario paint 2 baby!!!!!!!!!

ok ik abt the cancelled sequel for n64 but still

also finally got to use the snes/ sfc chip for the first time yayyyyyyy!!!!!! expect a little more in the future

Song name: Mario Paint 2!!!
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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Mario Paint 2!!! (SPC700/ S-SMP)

Sonic Mania - Stardust Speedway Zone Act 1[4-N163]

yk, one thing i've slowly come to internalize is that, once you share your art with the world, it's no longer just yours; it's for everyone.

sounds a bit stupid because realistically speaking i still am responsible for arranging and/or writing the songs that i release... but i think people should be free to interpret art however they like, bad or not. you can obviously tell whether or not people interpret a piece of art in bad faith, but i don't think that stops the fact that people are allowed to think what they do.

there have been times where i've tried to change people's minds on why i make specific stylistic choices, but i really should acknowledge that people will interpret it based on their own knowledge and experiences. i feel like i should bring this up because sometimes people don't necessarily see the true intent i want to convey or deliver in a song or my other artistic works, and that's probably for the best. maybe there simply isn't a definitive answer as to what something would truly mean, especially for something so abstract.

people should be allowed to create their own meaning out of the feelings they get from something, though obviously it would be much more appreciated if subjects were handled with more nuance and maturity. people can find their own happiness in their own ways. it's a hard concept to fully grasp, but when you actually slow down and look around... you'll realize that, _that_ minor form of self-expression is a very beautiful thing.

i wrote all that down because this song really just, reminded me about how a song as beautifully written as this one exists in our reality. i personally have never fully played through any pokemon game, so playing gold/ silver/ crystal is out of the question. gameplay just never clicked with me, sorry.

but the thing about this song... or , well, the heartgold/ soulsilver arrange of this song just reminded me of a lot of the beauty in life, despite my suffering.

it's hard for me to have a long-distance relationship, but i am just about as happy as my boyfriend is for us forming a meaningful bond together. his opinions may come off as wacky and kooky and he may be a bit absent-minded; but deep down, i know he really cares a lot about the things he talks about. i've told him many times how unbearable it was watching him squabble with other people about their own opinions, but i still love him regardless. there are times when we respectfully disagree on things so it isn't so grim as i've written it out to be.

i just wished that people would take video games as an art form much more seriously, and when i came to talk to him about it, he agrees with me but simply says he can't do a lot to help the situation; i very much understand that. sometimes we all just have different opinions on things and while that may warrant unwanted conflicts, that's _entirely fine_ .

i like to imagine national park as like, a place that people regularly go to in this universe (no i do not know what part of the pokemon world this is). i like to believe that we'd see different kinds of people here, thus the arrangement reflecting that fact added up with the commentary. you'd never know what you'd learn from other people. the more i appreciate people's perspectives, maybe the more happier i am. like with my boyfriend.

Song name: Pokémon Gold/ Silver/ Crystal - National Park [YM2608 Arrangement]
Written by Go Ichinose;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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National Park [YM2608}

Commingle Funk

original by @leavesretro. I accidentally selected a genre and it wouldn't let me unselect it (thanks new SoundCloud upload system) so that's why it's tagged like that.

Silicon Forest

Cover of a song by Igorsantusa @casserole12345 for his and @the-guy-355814516's Undertale fangame SwApFell: I Hate You. Its first demo released recently and I liked it a lot, I would highly recommend it if you like Undertale or games in its niche.
gamejolt.com/games/Swapfeller/778349
Inspired by Igor's general body of work. more off-kilter inspirations include Chrono Trigger, Jim Andron, and trap music

06 Ancient Kingdom

an original sonic track i was writing for sonic frenzy's 'special areas' back in 2023, which were intended to be sonic jam esque 3d levels you could unlock and play inbetween the main game, collecting unnamed shards that would unlock you 'frenzy sonic' in subsequent replays of frenzy

i could never really flesh out the idea flat enough to a point where i felt it was valid tho, so i scrapped it. this specific track was meant for the very first level, which i wanted to represent the scrapped level 'blue lake' from sonic 2, similar to how they put mirage saloon in mania to represent dust hill/sand shower (and also desert dazzle lol)

created using syxg50, massive, the grandeur and m1. sharing as it's technically a demo lol

blue lake zone

Composed by RRThiel
Programmers/Arrangers: A M 4 N 音楽, Kawashin

RRThiel - Dr. Wily「狂った老人」[YM2151, SEGAPCM]

this song strangely slaps for a bad ending

Song name: Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Game Gear) - Bad Ending [renoise arrangement]
Written by Masafumi Ogata;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with renoise

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Bad Ending [renoise]

written by rrthiel, arranged by BlastoiseVeteran

Made with Furnace 0.6.7.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7fJU6ZdKgc
Bandcamp: https://blastoiseveteran.bandcamp.com/track/2xym2612-sn76489-athletic-what-a-mario-world
VGM, WAV: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BlRI4-pIdKpAHQUqg07pGR_xmW7xm7R4?usp=sharing

this was inspired by both rrthiel’s original and especially joy’s cover as you might can tell! this is my first time using furnace and it’s fantastic. the only tracker ive used is LSDJ before now... i just get this weird paralysis whenever i try to learn a pc-based tracker, so that’s been a big roadblock for me.

however, ive been growing more and more unsatisfied with fl studio for chiptune now. im continuing to become more ambitious with what i want to do and accomplish with my chiptune, things that are really difficult in fl. (which, last month i was working on a cover that really abused the hell out of Genny’s controls lol. maybe ill transcribe it over to furnace and finish it one day) this has unfortunately caused me a lot of burnout, if you couldn’t tell by my soundcloud page. i talked about a lot of this in the soundcloud description for [MMC5] Mixed Match - Tetris & Dr. Mario, so i’m not going to copy and paste all of it here. if you’re curious to read, feel free.

on the bright side, this is also doubling as my first time really doing anything with 2xYM2612! im really excited to see what the other chips here have in store for me, now that im no longer limited to just whatever vsts exist

also i need to reclaim my role of ginger root superfan chiptunist so that was also a factor

[2xYM2612+SN76489] athletic - what a mario world

for sonic's epic adventure https://x.com/sonicepiventure

art by blingus https://x.com/blingusdlingus

en fuego [YM2612 + SPC700]

Contradictory Dream

Kaimaku Gishiki

this was fun to make, esp because i really like this theme

also i do not care that it's inaccurate because i pitch bended the bass a single time mainly because it sounds better with it, i tried to find some way to have it sound good without the pitch bend but nothing i tried worked (now that i think about it... i guess it could technically be accurate if it was a separate sample? let's just say that's how i did it.)

Battle Against a Clueless Foe (S5B Cover) - Mother 4 Soundtraaaack!!

Stinky clown boy who likes to make music.

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National Park [YM2608}

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