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Odds and Ends from Twitter 2009-08-08

  • 11hz Robot Video http://vimeo.com/5867446 #
  • MAGFest Registration now open http://bit.ly/IHMNH #
  • Stylish and Functional DMG Cases http://www.tonogb.com/ #
  • Intial site redesign is Live. Will be tweaking all weekend! http://truechiptilldeath.com/ #
  • I haz the 8BP100. Your knees will melt. #
  • China Pirates getting a piece of the usb gb flashcart pie? #
  • Noice Polish Chips #
  • Prevent Famitracker Pitchyness with this handy table from Bucky #
  • this is the first time i've heard it referred as gamewave http://tinyurl.com/lrtv2v #
  • Piggy Speakers for Piggy Tracking http://bit.ly/8xYya #
  • This is semi-relevent for chiptune performances as well: #
  • KeygenMusic July Update http://keygenmusic.net/?page=news #
  • RT: @TheTankNYC: The Tank is looking for a handful of people who could Dungeon Master a bunch of n00bs in a D&D event. Free beer if you can! #
  • RT: @glomag: glomag remote dinner DJ set from Linda's kitchen in Amsterdam begins! ? http://blip.fm/~b3e1z #
  • OP-1 Teases with great skill. #
  • Shots of the funky Blip Europe Stage http://bit.ly/oOhAF #
  • Animal Styles Rentals Cover, proves Matt Sharp is the best part of any weezers record. http://bit.ly/1PhuqU #
  • Hive Mind: Looking for a form up datable, moderated events calender that has support for ICS . Any suggestions? #
  • Interview with KIND OF BLOOP producer Andy Baio http://bit.ly/D86fU #
  • BBC Micro Tracker in the works? http://bit.ly/sl1D9 #
  • Please buy me these arcade glitch boot screens. Thanks! #
  • Boring Old Hippies think the Gooch are hot stuff: http://tinyurl.com/lpp6u2 #
  • RT: @daheardit: All Da ! Heard It Records Video's (ben et béné, sidabitball, xerak, etc) here : http://www.dailymotion.com/Bozoorak #
  • RT: @daheardit: A little review about Tom Woxom release in Lotek 64 (page 28). : #
  • Watch out: Rushjet1 has all your GameBoy #
  • Great Mention of TCTD's FMA Posts on the WFMU BLOG. http://tinyurl.com/lujycq Thanks Jason! #
  • Awesome Classic soundtracks in mp3 format http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks #
  • True Chip Till Pig http://bit.ly/KxYVm #
  • Hot Led Pixels http://bit.ly/65Yfh #
  • TCTD is tapped to blah blah about the US chip scene. Illusions shattered, agendas promoted: http://short.to/m27n #
Chipmusic

2A03.org – Forums / Mega Man 9 “Alternate Sountrack”

Came across this new release from the epic NSF’ery of Rushjet1.

I’ve been working on this for awhile… however, my HDD crashed and I lost all the MMLs of it, so instead of trying to reconstruct them, I’m just going to release them. This is not really an official release, as Plug Man, Jewel Man, Final Boss, and a few minor songs aren’t done yet, but I’m not sure I’ll do Plug/Jewel mans since 1) i can’t think of anything to do for them, and 2) I actually like the originals anyway.

This project is basically a “what if i wrote the music for Mega Man 9” idea.

These NSFs are all I have left of the project right now. Ones that are slightly older copies of songs that got lost will have an asterisk next to them.

Title
Boss Selected*
Magma Man*
Galaxy Man
Tornado Man
Splash Woman
Concrete Man*
Hornet Man
Boss
Wily Castle 1 (sounds familiar..with some new touches)
Wily Castle 2
Wily Castle 3 (may sound familiar to like 2 people)
Plug Man (very unfinished, includes some melody from the actual plug man song)

enjoy… i still plan on doing final boss, possibly finishing plug/jewel, and definitely finishing small themes (like stage select and wily castle intro).

via 2A03.org – Forums / Mega Man 9 “Alternate Sountrack”.

Chipmusic • Music Artists

This Week at the Collective IV – Back in the Habbit

Welcome to another edition of “This week at the collective IV – part 4”.  I have to say, based on listening to about 160 songs this week, about 150 of which were NL 1.3 and LSDJ 3.7.5 (update?) i have decided that after this week, i am not going to listen to any more gameboy songs, unless they were done in gameboy MML.

That being said, this week is set up based on audio technology lines.  Get on your lines, and insert your audio technology!  HERE — WE — GO!
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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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