Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • Flashygoodness – Tower of Heaven

    Join Eid, a tenacious silent protagonist, on his adventure within the Tower of Heaven, a mysterious monolith that promises glory to those who scale it and death to those who cannot. Collect secrets and conquer obstacles under the jurisdiction of God, rumored to inhabit the tower, and his ever-growing list of rules, which directly govern gameplay and make progress increasingly difficult. Tower of Heaven has spawned a revamped retro graphic style (only 3 colors are ever used) and an epic soundtrack that pays homage to the classic tunes of the Game Boy era.

    Get it here via II.

  • 100: Happy 21st Birthday, Game Boy!

    100: Happy 21st Birthday, Game Boy! | Bytejacker.

  • [LA] Aug 14th – So Simple: Otto Von Schirach, Venetian Snares, Baseck, Wet Mango, WMX + more! in: Spectacular Spectacular

    SATURDAY AUGUST, 14TH 2010

    So Simple Presents: Spectacular Spectacular

    “A night of ridiculousness in honor of Baseck’s birthday”

    Featuring:

    OTTO VON SCHIRACH – ipecac, subconscious communications / miami florida
    http://www.myspace.com/ottovonschirach

    ALL LEATHER – dim mak / san diego
    http://www.myspace.com/allleather

    WE ARE THE WORLD – manimal vinyl
    http://www.myspace.com/watwla

    BASECK / SONIC DEATH RABBIT – subconscious communications, darkmatter
    http://www.baseck.net/ http://www.myspace.com/sonicdeathrabbit

    DEREK MICHAEL – friendly integration, detroit underground
    http://www.myspace.com/derekmichaelmusic

    WMX – so simple
    http://www.myspace.com/wmx667

    TED NAVA – so simple
    http://www.sosimplerecords.com/

    WET MANGO – so simple / darkmatter
    http://www.gameboybeats.com/

    & our very special guest!

    VENETIAN SNARES – planet mu, timesig / winnepeg canada
    http://www.myspace.com/venetiansnares

    real time cinema by:

    NABOA
    http://www.naboamusic.com/

    TIMEBOY – institute for cinema studies
    http://www.myspace.com/timeboyticktock

    18+
    $15
    $13 w/ rsvp to: rsvpbaseck@gmail.com
    (only one name per email address. cut off is 3pm the day of the event)

    Thesex – 816 S. Santa Fe Ave. Downtown LA, 90021

    EARLY ARRIVAL IS SUGGESTED!

    thanks for the continued support ;)

  • Prof. Sakamoto – Insert

    PROF. SAKAMOTO’S CONCEPT ALBUM TELLS THE TALE OF A DISTANT FUTURE WHO’S INHABITANTS ARE ABLE TO TRANSPLANT SLOTS INTO THE TOP OF THEIR HEADS. INTO THESE SLOTS, GAME CARTRIDGES ARE INSERTED, GIVING THE BEARER SPECIAL ABILITIES. ‘INSERT’ IS THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE BATTLE BETWEEN THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO USE THESE POWERS FOR GOOD; AND WHO MUST SAVE THE WORLD FROM EVIL SCIENTISTS THAT USE THESE ABILITIES IN AN ATTEMPT TO RULE THE WORLD.

    via Pause

  • PC->NES Transfer Tool + FaMI – Family MIDI Appeared

    Batsly Adams announces two new NES projects using Arduino:

    I’ve been working at a serial connection to the NES for a few months now. At first I came up with a board to try and establish a serial line to the NES through the controller port – I only made 2. They worked – but I figured that it was possible to do it without the board if I did some tricky stuff with the ATMega interrupts on the Arduino. After a few days of debugging (and cycle counting) it’s working flawlessly. The advantage of this over a software serial based approach is that the Arduino acts as a buffer that’ll hold incoming messages (up to 128 bytes) until the NES is ready to get the next one. This means that the NES is free to do other things and doesn’t need to spend time polling the controller port! The latency is extremely low – about as fast as the NES could handle – faster than the MIDI standard. The serial code is compact and easily relocatable – it works great as a replacement to any controller code. Working on a new name for this since it really just acts like a bridge between your PC and the NES. Both the ROMs and the Arduino stuff will be open source so if you have the hardware you’re ready to go!

    Right now channels 1-4 are working with no issues – MIDI files play perfectly (i just need to find the right song for a good demo)! There aren’t any effects yet – but it’s completely stable / performance worthy in the state that it’s in. I’ll be working on pitch bends / cc control in the next couple of weeks – but it’s open source so hopefully people will develop beyond that! The samples work but they are fixed- I’m working on a mapper for powerpak right now that may allow sample uploading.

    What’s great about using this Arduino setup is that you can use VBlanks MIDI->serial processing app so you don’t even need to build a MIDI circuit – just use the USB cable!

    PC->NES Transfer Tool + FaMI – Family MIDI