During our productive discussion I felt the urge to ask about a topic that I had the impression it was almost like a taboo regarding authenticity in chipmusic: Fakebit. The response was immediately unenthusiastic, and as the organiser informed me, this was one of the main reasons he decided to quit ‘the scene’[2].

Oh god I don't know if i can read more of this

Famitracker stuff to be fakebit because it's not a native tool

choking on my own hypocrisy rite now

And as far as I remember, Micromusic was founded in 97, but the site went online in April '99.

Being the critical motherfucker I am (and because I'm bored) -

"but the founder, Jose Torres, told me that there were more than 50,000 registered members by the time 8bc was shut down"

Proof?

"After the emergence of micromusic.net in 1997"

Source?

Both Wayback and Chipflip have it listed as 1999.

*EDIT* - spelling and no one cares whether or not I remember the years 1999 and earlier

jose had a thing about not wanting to purge any of the spam/fake accounts, so there were probably 50,000 accounts at the end, but at least half were bots, people who signed up to boost their friends in the charts and bullshit like that. its great that the only people who seem to be named in the article as having actually spoken to the author are Jose and the chip-con dude, cause of course theyre really what the scene's all about, right?

Nope.

"but the founder, Jose Torres, told me that there were more than 50,000 registered members by the time 8bc was shut down"

Proof?

"After the emergence of micromusic.net in 1997"

Source?

Both Wayback and Chipflip have it listed as 1999.

*EDIT* - spelling and no one cares whether or not I remember the years 1999 and earlier