Month: November 2008

  • Chibi-tech starring in Fantasy Force: 2nd Impact

    In a world gone pink, how can mankind hope to win?

    Chibi-tech writes about the new PS2 Shmup featuring original NES music:

    And yes… just like the previous Fantasy Force, the “8-bit” music makes a return once again! My chiptune technique had refined itself ever since, so I vowed to outdo the previous venture — both quality-wise & quantity-wise. With the addition of symphonic passages and much more overdriven rawkouts, hopefully you’ll enjoy the soundtrack’s more intense pace!

    He has provided us a nice sample mix of the soundtrack, and a demo video of gameplay is available on the website.

    zero3_stg_preview FF:SI MEGAMIXXX

  • Video for Stu’s “MEGAblaST”

    While not an offical video (apparently) I found it pretty cute and fun. More info on the animator here (in russian).

  • Vorc Records Appeared

    VORC Records looks great. And a Saitone record is approaching!

  • Mega Man 9 Alt Soundtrack

    yea I dont know why the dude look like a charecter from Aqua Teens either...
    yea I don't know why the dude look like a character from Aqua Teens either…

    By now many of you have seen of played Mega Man 9. The game, an incredibly hard and frustrating affair also has a surprisingly accurate sounding soundtrack.  The Games composer, Ippo Yamda discussed how the game was composed in a recent article:

    Strictly speaking the soundtrack of Mega Man 9 is not NES music, but to its very core it has been created in the spirit of NES music. We made use of a program that closely resembles the console’s sound source, producing very similar waveforms, and thereby were able to make music tracks that sound just like the original. In the days of Mega Man 1-6, you were challenged to manipulate the audio signals produced by the sound card within the range designated by the restrictions of the hardware. Naturally in making this game we had no hardware restrictions, but we stuck to the formula of three pulse wave channels and one noise channel. Within this framework we freely went about composing music.

    Helpful, but still pretty vague. The gang over at the Famitracker forums debated it further.
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  • Videovalvontaa – Got Brains?

    Videovalvontaa‘s video for their track “Got Brains” is up for an Aniboom award. You can register and support their video here.

    Download the video here: