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wow, good reads!

For anyone else interested, this link was posted on that NesDev forum: http://theshizz.org/forum/index.php?/to … -was-made/

+1 for internet communities.

Dolphin was the code name of the GameCube project before it had a real name, as Wii was Revolution, Sega Dreamcast was Duval, etc.

ah, that explains it then.  the gamecube devices are a bit big, just remembered them saying dolphin on them.

thanks for the new info!

  i *think* Dolphin might have been the name of the company that did a popular gamecube one, but maybe thats the devices model name...  i dunno, been a while i thought about that stuff.

Dolphin was the code name of the GameCube project before it had a real name, as Wii was Revolution, Sega Dreamcast was Duval, etc.

All that is quite correct, though. I remember a photo showing midi gear used to create the SMB 3 music, it was ported in with a development tool. I expect the classic Pokemon soundtracks to have been done like that, considering the GB platform was already ten years old by then

I recall that Jim Cuomo (Defender Of The Crown OST among many, many others) used straight code for a lot of his soundtracks.

Oh man, that game had some great music. So much more impressive knowing that.

these devkits often have a GUI element, i suppose that would be their 'chipmusic software' in a way...  or whatever the mechanical means of 'composing' or adding music you have... 

'intelligent devices', for example, was a company which made a lot of the development hardware for nintendo consoles, and was licensed by Nintendo to do so.  i *think* Dolphin might have been the name of the company that did a popular gamecube one, but maybe thats the devices model name...  i dunno, been a while i thought about that stuff.

EDIT:  Meaning trackers or anything we would recognize today.