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Chiptunes
- Thread starter Balrog
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I'm a big fan of the Lagrange Point soundtrack. It's one of only two Famicom games that used Konami's VRC7 chip, with the result that it only barely sounds like a Famicom game.
Phantoon
I cuss you bad
Here's a fun one - Mega Man X as done via the Mega Drive soundchip:
In the interest of fairness here's Sonic on the SNES soundchip (not a chiptune, I know)
Edit: We can have Shovel Knight, it was legitimately composed on the VRC6 so it would play on the Famicom:
In the interest of fairness here's Sonic on the SNES soundchip (not a chiptune, I know)
Edit: We can have Shovel Knight, it was legitimately composed on the VRC6 so it would play on the Famicom:
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Caps On, Hats Off is a chiptunes album by Bossfight that I recently discovered. The album's pretty old by this point (and unfortunately I don't like Bossfight's more recent stuff nearly as much), but I think it's gold from beginning to end.
Another great chiptune song that I love that inspired me to go looking for chiptune music in the first place is the theme song to the What's Good Games podcast. *Mwah*
Another great chiptune song that I love that inspired me to go looking for chiptune music in the first place is the theme song to the What's Good Games podcast. *Mwah*
Balrog
(He/Him)
This is really cool sounding! It's almost got a reggae feeling to it.
I was looking for something on Youtube the other day, and by chance happened to find a chiptune arrangement of Beethoven's "Pathétique" sonata:
It's simultaneously pretty faithful to the original piece and much more bombastic (thanks to the newly-added percussion). Give it a listen!
It's simultaneously pretty faithful to the original piece and much more bombastic (thanks to the newly-added percussion). Give it a listen!
Vidfamne
Banned
Yeah, she single-handedly created the soundtrack for Terry Cavanagh's two most recent games, Dicey Dungeons (link goes to her Bandcamp), a good game imho, and Super Hexagon.
I don't like "Tokyo Skies" at all, but I thought DD had a decent, fitting soundtrack for the "hokey game show hosted by the spectacular Lady Luck" surface, and one where the boss themes (tracks 10-12, to wit) weren't as overbearing as in too many other RPGs. On the contrary, I found that they cast the competition as more sympathetic -- more "agonal" than "fatal". I like that a lot.
The ambient music (e.g. "The Grotto", "The Crystal Mountain", "The Ice Stage") was good as well.
I don't like "Tokyo Skies" at all, but I thought DD had a decent, fitting soundtrack for the "hokey game show hosted by the spectacular Lady Luck" surface, and one where the boss themes (tracks 10-12, to wit) weren't as overbearing as in too many other RPGs. On the contrary, I found that they cast the competition as more sympathetic -- more "agonal" than "fatal". I like that a lot.
The ambient music (e.g. "The Grotto", "The Crystal Mountain", "The Ice Stage") was good as well.
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If you have not yet checked out Brother Android, you probably should. Evolving and liesurely paced, there's a lot more depth here than you you'd expect on the surface. Very rewarding for multiple listens.
This is one of my favorite albums, but his Bandcamp, linked above, has much more.
This is one of my favorite albums, but his Bandcamp, linked above, has much more.
Vaguely related to my previous post in this thread, Classic Chips by Brad Smith is a whole album of chiptune-ified classical pieces. It's pretty good!
I find I like Inverse Phase a lot. Pretty Eight Machine is a very cool cover of the whole of Pretty Hate Machine.
This is a very solid collaboration of tributes/covers to Devo - Crack That Chip!
This is a very solid collaboration of tributes/covers to Devo - Crack That Chip!
Johnny Unusual
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Definitely must remember to check this out later.