8bit style 40

[2a03] Acidtu.be Tremulous - Grangerhub Botscamfe Extended again

Another throwback this time from 2008, this was originally written for an album I wanted to do called trinity, but I abandoned the album and it got released on a iimusic compilation called "heartcode" instead.

Heartcode

Get Pumped (SNES + FM + NES)

On Sunday

ENOSHIMA EXPRESS

This was my second entry for the Forever 2018 Atari 8-bit Music Compo. It ended up 4th. Uses stereo POKEY, with double-speed player.

Atari Goes On!

Matching Mug

Television

Shrimp Butter

Bon Voyage

Tetrapod

I covered the song "Don't Call" (Denwa Shinai de) by Keiko Kimura from her 1988 album "Style." I used 0CC FamiTracker 0.3.15.3 with the N163, FDS, and VRC7 expansion chips. Grab the FTM here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=122jNEY9H7wED1p2RCbtDb7MdZQZlupnb

Denwa Shinai de

Keiko Kimura - Don't Call [FamiTracker multi-chip cover]

Shanghai Yum Cha

｢光のチップチューンVS闇のチップチューン 対決コンピレーション｣
-Light Side- → novtos.bandcamp.com/album/vs-light-side
-DarkSide- →novtos.bandcamp.com/album/vs-dark-side

Surviving Child 【光のチップチューンvs闇のチップチューン対決コンピレーション -Dark Side-】

Mappy already had a Famicom/NES port, but its music was a lot more basic because it was made in the nacent days of that platform where developers generally tended to think that sound effects cutting off was undesirable, or otherwise lacked the knowledge/capability to sort priority for sound effects vs. music. For the unaware, the NES stock chip (2A03) has 5 channels of audio, 4 of which would have seen heavy use in those days. The developers of that port of Mappy opted to reserve 2 of them for sound effects so that they would never cut into the music. The result of this is that the harmony/countermelody stuff is just totally absent from the arcade.

Now that's not to say they did a bad job and mine is so much better--I didn't have to fight with strict memory budgets and game logic and graphics or deadlines when constructing my covers nor likely have to build everything in assembly.

But I did feel that there was something to be gained by "re-covering" it basically. I figured I'd try my hand at adding in some percussion while I was at it, and leveraging that addition to undo the swing beat for a few measures where I felt it fitting. I hope any Mappy purists aren't upset by this.

Visual Aid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAnSDmA3_iI
(This lacks the ending btw)

Mappy Stage Themes (2A03 NES Cover)

Lemon Grass

Secret Room [VGMA 21 Days - Day 21]

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

Mappy Stage Themes (2A03 NES Cover)

Licentious Howler

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