Your favorite chiptune music

Dream of Omnimaga · July 06, 2015, 03:48:40 AM

Yeah I agree, especially Morphine.

Also this song is kinda cool

Unicorn · July 14, 2015, 11:51:46 PM

Oooo I like that beat

utz · July 15, 2015, 12:02:42 AM

One of my favourite chip musicians, Vince Kaichan, just released a new album: https://cheapbeatsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/power-tricks

Dream of Omnimaga · July 18, 2015, 04:28:06 PM

Cool, I'll check it out soon utz

Also I found a SMB3 hack called Super Mario Bros 3 Mix which seems good, but I like the remixed tracks in it

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMFv2HcEaYn0ESjeyik1WqJVxyp5_B_J0

Dream of Omnimaga · September 18, 2015, 05:53:51 AM

By the way, has anyone ever played Demon's Crest for the SNES? https://youtube.com/watch?v=PsCPOJA8MCg Because while it might not be everyone's music genre, I felt the music was still really great and it really fit the game's dark themes.

Also, despite being on the SNES they still managed to make the music sound close to stuff you could hear in modern games.

utz · January 15, 2016, 01:50:31 PM

Rad new Konami/Capcom style fake NES game OST by Norrin Radd:
https://mattcreameraudio.bandcamp.com/album/venture-kid

Dream of Omnimaga · January 16, 2016, 07:08:05 AM

Someone did PICO-8 covers of Double Dragon music and I thought it sounded cool. It reminds me a bit of the Japanese Sega Master System: https://soundcloud.com/gruber99/sets/double-dragon-pico8-edition

By the way, anyone ever listened to Lagrange Point soundtrack for the Famicom? This game uses a special sound chip that produces sound more advanced than what you normally hear on the NES, but the game was expensive and never came out outside Japan since the NES lacked the hardware to play such music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2fiA-IvNw&list=PL2917FA48A56DB74C

Quote from: utz on January 15, 2016, 01:50:31 PM
Rad new Konami/Capcom style fake NES game OST by Norrin Radd:
https://mattcreameraudio.bandcamp.com/album/venture-kid

I didn't have time to listen to all of this album, but so far it sounds really great utz. Imagine if some NES games had those songs

Travis · January 20, 2016, 05:23:50 PM

Oh yeah, I remember coming across the Lagrange Point soundtrack. I was trying out Famicom NSFs with expanded audio years ago, and when I opened this one, I was like, "Whoa, this is way different. Imagine buying an NES/Famicom game, turning it on, and having it sound like that." It's pretty awesome and one of my favorites. About the only thing that disappointed me a bit is that many of the loops are a bit on the short side.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 20, 2016, 05:38:47 PM

Yeah true, also I heard the story isn't as great as some other NES RPGs or SNES releases of the time. But Konami wasn't known for making JRPGs so that has to be expected.

What I wonder, though, is how the game would sound like without the special soundchip?

Travis · January 20, 2016, 06:31:04 PM

You mean if they rewrote the music for the internal channels? That would be interesting, though it'd likely be a lot simpler. There were games like Castlevania III and Gimmick! that were ported from the Famicom to the NES and therefore had to have the music cut back and reworked.

Lagrange Point makes very little use of the console channels for its music (mostly just for percussion, which the Yamaha chip they used lacked), so if you simply disabled the chip (or modified the cartridge to plug directly into an NES), you wouldn't hear much besides that. This can be observed in an NSF player that allows you to individually turn off the sound channels.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 22, 2016, 07:32:22 AM

Yeah that's what I was wondering, if it would have required reworking or not. I remember on the Sega Master System games sounded very different in North America compared to Japan.

Also I like this:

I think those SNES soundfonts used in the second video are from Mario RPG, right?

DarkestEx · January 22, 2016, 03:05:56 PM

- Soundtrack of the C64 Game "Suicide express"
- Soundtrack of the (C64/PC/Android) game "Canabalt"

Also several 8 bit versions of recent songs.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 23, 2016, 02:41:43 AM

You should post some videos of your favorite tracks in those soundtracks and the 8 bit versions of recent songs

Also I wish there were more 16-bit remakes of power metal music. There were F-Zero remakes of Nightwish music a few years ago on Youtube, but the guy removed them.

EDIT: Wait, it seems like someone re-used one of his tracks in his F-Zero video (but it's an actual gameplay video rather than just a picture so you hear the game noises):

The only thing I dislike in the song is that one of the tracks seems a little out of tune.

DarkestEx · January 23, 2016, 03:23:18 AM

Sure

Suicide Express:
SID: Download
Video:

Canabalt RUN soundtrack:
MP3 (original):

MP3 (C64):
Video:

Dream of Omnimaga · February 22, 2016, 02:07:11 AM

@utz might recognize a few of those old computers or the music style on them:

Ys series is an action RPG series which has most of my favorite chiptune songs ever and the instrumental remakes are often very great too. Note that the PC Engine/Turbografx 16 version is actually a Turbo CD game so the music comes from CD recordings rather than chiptune. In the chiptune versions my favorites are the Sega Genesis versions (which are often similar to the original, but has more bass)