ChipMusic.org - Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2013-05-19T13:15:58Z

Monotron wrote:

Je Mappelle wrote:
somewhat relevant. this thread made me find some amazing music... check this ost out.
edit: 4got 2 embeb
damn, this is good shit

DAT SNARE

I want

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2013-05-19T07:30:57Z

Je Mappelle wrote:

somewhat relevant. this thread made me find some amazing music... check this ost out.
edit: 4got 2 embeb

damn, this is good shit

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2013-05-19T00:30:49Z

Necrobump, I still think is an interesting thread.

Just played Peekan, on a huge "120 games" cart. and Peekan still had the chicks chirping sample.
You're a chicken and have to resue chicks by laying eggs, I had never heard of it.

EDIT: And Boxxle 2 AKA Sokoban 2. There is a victory "yeah". I've only heard it once because I got my ass handed to me in level 2.

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-15T18:22:24Z

Saskrotch wrote:

I just uploaded the Worms Armageddon soundtrack to my retro gaming / OST blog. It uses the WAV channel in a way that makes it sound like a C64
http://latenightswithoutfriends.blogspo … -game.html

I love this ost. Is really amazing.

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-15T02:52:19Z

Sweet! I'm going to check it out right now . I've been wanting to try that myself for awhile, actually. Made a VERY feeble attempt at a C64ish wave sound in a cover I did awhile ago...

...very feeble.

Ooh, cool. And you ran it through a DMG, too awesome!

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-15T02:44:36Z

I just uploaded the Worms Armageddon soundtrack to my retro gaming / OST blog. It uses the WAV channel in a way that makes it sound like a C64
http://latenightswithoutfriends.blogspo … -game.html

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-15T00:03:00Z

Bionic Commando: Elite Force has a bunch of vocal samples in it. Just played it and thought of this thread.

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-01T03:27:09Z

Right... so, back to the OP, there's a library of something like 20,000 games and I have a hard time of thinking of many that used sound beyond the basic...

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-01T02:35:49Z

chunter wrote:

For me, it was simply that I didn't have C64/Amiga gear in the 90s. I was given a synth for my birthday, a drum machine, and a PC, so those were my instruments...

I think you missed the discussion. This time it wasn't the oh-so-popular "how did you start composing chip" but "why does European game music seem to favor chip arpeggios".

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-01T02:32:38Z

nitro2k01 wrote:

It was just a quick hypothesis I blurted out. Another one for public dissemination: American and Japanese composers were more likely to be musicians with a traditional background who felt that chip arps were not completely kosher. European composers were more likely to have some form of connection to the demo scene and tolerate them better. (Of course, I'm over generalizing a bit here.)

For me, it was simply that I didn't have C64/Amiga gear in the 90s. I was given a synth for my birthday, a drum machine, and a PC, so those were my instruments...

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-01T01:07:23Z

It was just a quick hypothesis I blurted out. Another one for public dissemination: American and Japanese composers were more likely to be musicians with a traditional background who felt that chip arps were not completely kosher. European composers were more likely to have some form of connection to the demo scene and tolerate them better. (Of course, I'm over generalizing a bit here.)

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-08-01T00:52:49Z

boomlinde wrote:

The culture around game development in Japan and Europe was entirely different in the mid-80s (and culture in general (still is)), though, and I think it makes sense for traditions and techniques to have evolved in different directions.

I considered mentioning this:

Summary is that he expected something more like YMCK.

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-07-31T22:07:22Z

Worms Armageddon soundtrack sounds like straight up C64 music

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-07-31T21:19:22Z

But arps do sound good in 60 Hz! A preference of 50 Hz arps over 60 Hz ones can't have been that universal, can it? The culture around game development in Japan and Europe was entirely different in the mid-80s (and culture in general (still is)), though, and I think it makes sense for traditions and techniques to have evolved in different directions.

Re: Any Game Boy games that use wav samples for music & sfx, like LSDJ?

2012-07-31T18:39:01Z

boomlinde wrote:

SketchMan3 wrote:
Hm, that explains the lack of arps alot of the 8bit video game music.
Not really. Arps are pretty (CPU) cheap. As far as I know, per-tick arpeggios are mostly a European thing for some reason not related to technical limitations.

Theory: Europe is using PAL (50 Hz) and US of A NTSC (Never The Same Color, also 60 Hz). If we go by the theory that most per tick arps are using the VSync as a reference, it may be that European composers found that arps sounded better because of the lower frequency. Lower frequency = more time for each individual note to play, so you can hear better which note it is (without raising the chord an octave).