Playlist containing all my works primarily focusing on FM Synth chiptune - Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, PC SoundBlaster/AdLib, Arcade Yamaha FM and more

FM Works

A few days ago I held a poll on Twitter on which song to remix next - Pandora Palace ended up winning. Queen's legit THE BEST PART OF CHAPTER 2, bar none.

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Pandora Palace (ARCADE 16-BIT 'MIX) - Deltarune Chapter 2

* not an actual shmup song
made in 1 hour, theme was an arcade style bike chase theme if i'm remembering right (this was months ago)

Battle of the Bits

Roadmowers' Revenge

YOU ARE ON A DIFFUSE MISSION TO STOP THE EXPLOSIVE TRAIN FROM BLOWING UP THE "STARSYLVANIA" CITY. YOU HAVE TWO HOURS BEFORE THE TRAIN IS DETONATE. GOOD LUCK!!

Art by myself, I might release it standalone later. Heavily inspired by Yousuke Yasui's works (check their music out, if you haven't already! It's great stuff), as well as late 80s-90s KONAMI arcade music.

WICKED EXPRESS

did in 2 hours for this comp https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Battle/7115/MainScreen/Level+Music+33+-+S2

Bones Visits The Jungle

yeah
made in like an hour or two i dont remember

Culmination Of Soul

one hour songa
sort of arcade-y tunage for some sort of hypothetical shooting practice song

Shooting Practice

(aka YM2151 + SegaPCM)

inspired by the many works of Yousuke Yasui, AM4N, and the sound of many Capcom CPS2/Qsound soundtracks. (you should check these people/soundtracks out when you can, they're  all great)

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ENIGMATIC NEBULA (FM Original)

Folks, the chicken has been cooked.
YM2151 + 2xK053260
Original by RRThiel: https://soundcloud.com/rrthielnc/derelictvessel

The Derelict Vessel (FM Arrangement)

This was painful to convert to, Loops not being properly looped, FM not working, and just a lot of problems in general; However, I've got it working today, and it was probably the greatest thing today so far.

Mid2SMPS was used for this.

Special thanks to Valleybell for helping me out with wrapping my head around how VGM and Mid2SMPS works.

Mega Man 2 - Metal Man (16-bit Genesis arr.)

DOWNLOADS:
.mp3: https://goo.gl/jqX7X6
.flac: https://goo.gl/3EWIVu

I always really liked this song. I have a dozen of unfinished covers of this one, but through the power of... well, determination, I finished this one. I hope you enjoy!

Art by Pixelated-Dude. http://pixelated-dude.deviantart.com/

Undertale - Bergentrückung / ASGORE (Soundblaster FM arr.)

ORIGINAL BY @redngreenmusic : https://soundcloud.com/redngreenmusic/mechanical-hazard

This is a really good song, so I decided to remake it for the Genesis, to see how it would sound.
Made with Mid2SMPS.

Quest on Full Moon Island 2 - Mechanical Hazard (Genesis arr.)

Another Genesis cover using SMPS.
Most of the instruments are original and made with GennyVST. While it is somewhat buggy, it worked nicely here.

Mega Man 9 - Splash Woman (16-bit Genesis arr.)

There was an official PC port a while ago, but it was a very poor conversion, with clumsy graphics, ear-grating music and awful controls.

This is to show that the AdLib can actually sound really good if you know what you're doing, and even then I finished this in about a day.

Original song by Kinuyo Yamashita & Satoe Terashima.
CHANNEL SETUP
Ch1 & 2 - Percussion (The snare drum is 2 different instruments layered, the hi-hats are also 2 layered instruments but not all the time)
Ch3 - Bass
Ch4 & 5 - BG Strings (to play chords)
Ch6 & 7 - Melody & Backing melody
Ch8 & 9 - Unused

Vampire Killer (Adlib arrange)

Original song by Kinuyo Yamashita & Satoe Terashima.

Wicked Child (Adlib arrange)

U.N. Squadron - Forest Stronghold (16-bit Genesis arr.)

Tries to mimic Konami's later arcade setup (YM2151 + K053260), but because Deflemask doesn't support the latter, I used Sega PCM limited to 4 channels.

Haunted Castle - Cross Your Heart (AC Remix)

Did this on a whim, I got inspired by the newly revealed OP-Z -- it looks really cool, btw.

Bulk of this is VST2413, with only one instance of Dexed (even then limited to 2op, I needed modwheel).

MOTIONLESS HARDWARE

Also known as that one song from Rockman 4 Minus Infinity
I posted this a while ago on Twitter, decided to up it here too for the heck of it.

Uses many instances of Dexed and ripped samples from arcade boards, within FL studio.

Gradius 2 FC - Over heat (Arcade Style)

Simply put I love this thing. Please consider supporting chipsynth if you want to make music with retro sounds like the ones used here, it's worth every penny and they're running a sale right now (until Dec 1st)

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Gradius 3 - Cosmo Plant (chipsynth MD test)

Another Chipsynth MD test really.
Trying to go for Hitoshi Sakamoto feels, so I've taken a few instrument for Gauntlet 4 here.

I just love this thing a lot. I tried to go for a more dynamic arrangement here, and I think it's worked out beautifully. All within spec, too.

DARK GOLDEN LAND (YM2612 arr.)

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