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Several Topics Enter, One Topic Leaves: The Thunderdome Nomination Thread

RT-55J

space hero for hire
(He/Him + RT/artee)
No. Songs from games and not from games would both be eligible.

As dome runner I'll try not to be pedantic about the definition of chiptune, but if everybody just nominates like, idk, a bunch of prerecorded rock music that happens to have an over-reverbed square wave overlaid on top of it I might be a bit miffed.
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
...but if everybody is willing to wait that long, I am willing to run a thunderdome for Modern Original Chiptunes. For a more precise definition of what I mean (subject to change/elaboration):
Since there are no other nominees, it looks like this is set for late June/early July if @RT-55J wishes it to be.
 

Torzelbaum

????? LV 13 HP 292/ 292
(he, him, his)
Chiptune: If the song can't actually be played on old hardware, it at least makes a good faith effort to sound the part. Tracker music (.mod, .it, etc.) is also permitted (though I'm not sure how the date cutoff should work there).
So then you're OK with what they call "fakebit" tunes in this dome?
 

ShakeWell

Slam Master
(he, etc.)
No. Songs from games and not from games would both be eligible.

As dome runner I'll try not to be pedantic about the definition of chiptune, but if everybody just nominates like, idk, a bunch of prerecorded rock music that happens to have an over-reverbed square wave overlaid on top of it I might be a bit miffed.

What about bands that use a Famicom soundchip in their instrumentation, but other instruments are included? Thinking most of Pains of Being Pure at Heart sideproject The Depreciation Guild.
 

RT-55J

space hero for hire
(He/Him + RT/artee)
I personally am tempted to say no, but ultimately I think it'll be best to have democracy decide.

Also, purely on the basis of technicality, every vintage console of eligible for this thunderdome has a way of using the soundchip to play raw PCM audio, which is another argument for being inclusionist here. I've seen plenty of people over the years be weirdly stuck-up about chiptune puritanism in its various forms, and I don't want to encourage that. If it sounds like a chiptune to you, then it's a chiptune for the sake of the dome.

This approach also helps avoid a bunch of weird, pedantic rules-lawyering over edge cases: e.g. one could be a prick and argue the Game Boy songs from Tetrisphere aren't chiptunes because there's evidence of a soundchip being emulated, but that would be obnoxious (these songs would be eligible btw, though I'll have to adjust my definition of "modern" to include throwbacks like this, even if the system was still technically active at the time). Likewise, one could argue that this song from the PC-Engine CD port of The Manhole it not a chiptune because it's technically redbook audio, even though common sense tells us it was composed using the NES sound chip (note: this song would be ineligible though for being a remix of the PC-Engine Batman stage 1 theme (though I guess it would qualify as "modern" since it's acting as a stylistic throwback in this case)).

"Original" is probably the criteria I'll be the most fussy about, though if you believed the song was original but it turns out to be a remix of some obscure Japanese-only doujin STG or something I'll let it fly.

tl;dr listen to your heart
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
@RT-55J let me know he'll be a bit busy to host his list so we can come back to that one later. Until then, we are opening up for nominations for a new list until the end of the week! Get yours in if you want to do one!

I'm trying to think of a better, more clever name but I want to do another TV dome, albeit a slightly different one. This time, it's no openings or endings. I'll accept singing in it if they are meant to be, like, a bed for the action (which is to say not a big centerpiece performance or musical number but is meant to work as a score does). It's the score that happens during an episode (or movie if it's a TV movie). Background music, character themes, incidental tunes.

I was kind of inspired by a few things, such as the classic music of the 60s Spider-Man cartoon...


Revisiting Simpsons incidental music cues that set the scene...

(I feel like I used to have access to a far more complete and bigger video.)

Some awesome character themes.



Because a lot of this music is intended to go while the plot is happening, sometimes some of this music goes unappreciated, though there are definitely ones designed to make a moment much bigger.

So I'm throwing in a much more specific TV Dome.

Anyone have a good name for it?
 
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Kirin

Summon for hire
(he/him)
Man I’ve already nom’d so many Zeldo tunes for other domes because I love ‘em so. But I could nom ‘em again!
 
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