mindvapors Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 .:Chiptune Music Thread:. So there's now an electronic music thread, and that has seemed to survive, so i thought i'd give this a try. Anyone else into chiptunes? I'm not too knowledgeable of the scene, so i would love to find some more artists from anyone else who digs these guys: RushJet1 Bit Shifter Random (can't find his homepage) Some of my current favorite tracks: RushJet1: -Overdrive! East Egg Mode -The Final Conflict -Society of Nonconformists -The Battle Continues Bit Shifter: -Activation Theme -Hexadecimal Genome -The Information Chase Random: -Sitges Savepoint -Spontaneous Devotion -------------------------------------------------------- Ok, i found myself basically linking to every track i have of each person, so i tried to limit it as best i could. Hope this thread stays alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furioussnake Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 I had no idea that this was big in anyways....Kinda cool I suppose....I once played a show with this dude. http://www.myspace.com/pdfmusic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sars.Saw.Chicago Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 sounds like music from an old gaming system... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 That's an interesting take on chiptunes. Kinda dark and weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 sounds like music from an old gaming system... Ya, that's the basis of it all. As i said, i'm not to knowledgeable in the subject, but i believe some use the actual hardware (actualy old school GameBoys and Commodore64s) to create the music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Sweet, i'm triple posting in my own thread.. But, you guys might like this: Chocolate Rain 8-Bit Remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caIBKOztlAo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sars.Saw.Chicago Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 well im open to new types of music i suppose i could give it a look up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 I have something like 36,000 chiptunes on my PC. They're awesome. I have all kinds- Atari, C64, and Amiga. I definitely like the .sid tunes better, they sound more raw. My favorite is called "Yellow Rain", but I have never found it anywhere else. The HVSC site seems to be down, but go to http://www.chiptunes.org and look around. A good player for PCs is the DeliPlayer (it plays almost ANY soundfile, but it's a memory hog)- http://www.deliplayer.com Good call, mindvapors. It's been a while since I messed with these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Great, i was beginning to think i was all alone. Thanks for the link, i'll check it out. And i've heard some good ones from keygens. I remember once hearing one that was a cover of a track i liked a lot from San Francisco Rush 2 for the N64, how random is that? I never did find it again though, =\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 think i have that one sitting on a spare hardrive.. i'll give it a look sometime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 The one i mentioned? Really?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 i should, there was a time when thats all i did and listened to my nintendo ds still has lsdj and milkytracker on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 i love them but i cant listen to them when i cant play videogames directly after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Google "demoscene" and see what comes up. That's where you'll find cracktros at. http://www.textfiles.com has some good links, as well. That's another good source for .sids as well. There was a .rar i got that had about 19,000 chiptunes in it. I think it was off of the HVSC archive, but that's down right now. Don't sleep on DeliPlayer, it plays everything. It also can play .sids in PAL format. I'm trying to remember the Atari file format...I think it was .asf. Those were okay, I think they were 16-bit so they sounded more like SNES. I want to get some MIDI files too. Or make them, then run them through some analog synth emulator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Something i've been meaning to do is research old PC game music. I heard something recently that reminded me of Wolfenstein 3D, and then i realized that all PC games back then had these same sounds, especially this certain synthesized gong-type wang. http://www.chiptune.com/ is pretty cool. Too bad i can't figure out how to find the tunes. http://plopbox.net/ is a neat little jukebox. And moogle, that sounds sweet if you could find that track, or at least the name so i could look for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avancier2 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Whoa, thats pretty cool. If I listened to that everyday I'd probably end up thinking I was living inside an NES game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreSixO Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 shits cool as a gimmick Im glad someone out there is doing this stuff Didnt you see my nintendo fun club thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De sign Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Yo it all comes from http://8bitpeoples.com/ oontz bwarrp tikatika Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCheadle Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 mega man 2 is a hell of a soundtrack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De sign Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 i always like F-Zero songs. they were so fucking rock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00t Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 i used to be really into the demo scene and reverse-engineering, i was down with a buncha cats but i mostly worked with keygen/cracking groups to produce rls's i wish i had all of my chipdisks i used to have but that hard drive is failed. im sure they are on the internet tho http://www.pouet.net is the biggest demo scene site, check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00t Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 p.s. look for zabutoms stuff... one of my favorites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 Whoa, thats pretty cool. If I listened to that everyday I'd probably end up thinking I was living inside an NES game. Haha, while driving to New York once, I had RushJet1 blasting, and these two motorcycles came from behind us and split to both sides of us, got in front, then cut through spaces between semi-trailers, and my friend who was driving was like "Ok, this is just fucking weird. I'm starting to see shit in like pixels." Those bikes did remind me of Road Rash. mega man 2 is a hell of a soundtrack Word to that! But if you think that is good, you should definitiely check out Megaman X's soundtrack. SO fucking metal. If you can't get your hands on it, let me know and i'll upload it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I almost made this thread once but I feared it was too obscure. Check out: The Animal Style http://www.myspace.com/animalstyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 mm it was no go on that mindvapors... my whole chiptune library is gone.. as well as my bhangra folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 p.s. look for zabutoms stuff... one of my favorites What's up r00t? Long time no see. BTW, if anyone stumbles across a .sid called "Yellow Rain" (I think I mentioned it somewhere in this thread) PM me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 mm it was no go on that mindvapors... my whole chiptune library is gone.. as well as my bhangra folder Aw, alright. Thanks though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Found this too- http://8bitcollective.com/ Upload site for chiptunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindvapors Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 Nice, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r00t Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 What's up r00t? Long time no see. BTW, if anyone stumbles across a .sid called "Yellow Rain" (I think I mentioned it somewhere in this thread) PM me. just chillin mang... you know how it goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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