oh hai i has music as part of my bio

Speaking of which... If this was 8bc, you could just have written...

...with the same effect.

... such an intricate rick roll!

Replace all the 12 songs with a version of Rick Astleys Never Gonna Give You Up and sell the Vectrex on ebay

Would be pretty funny.

Great point! I hadn't considered this possibility ;D

Well, it is true that the Vectrex tunes can be used in game and called from the onboard ROM of the Vectrex, which I though was what was being sought after. But yes, the FDS does have a built in tune, though no games I know of play it in-game. In fact, I suspect the Vectrex may be the only one I have heard of to do this sort of thing. So, I apologise if I bashed you.

So, if the Vectrex has these hardcoded tunes inside which games can make use of, what's to prevent a ROM rewrite and actually change them? That could be quite neat, though Vectrex hardware is kinda rare and spendy in my experience.

I don't know anything like it, but the YM2608 chip has built in rhythm samples, and then there's the YM2413 of course.

The Super game boy has a hand full of internal sound effects. No music though afaik:

http://nocash.emubase.de/pandocs.htm

not sure that was the point, and why are you saying it like i just gave an incorrect answer? i'm just contributing to a thread and joining in with a discussion lol

i thought little-scale was asking other examples of music hardcoded on a system and AFAIK this is true with the famicom disk system!

I think of the Mac OS bings, bongs, and sosumis...  and the Sega Master System/Mark III jingle which turned into "Seee-gaaa"...

But, the FDS bios can't have its tunes used in-game. Sorry.

http://www.zophar.net/music/nsf/famicom … -bios.html

I'm sure that some of the GCE games would have used at least some of the hardcoded tunes - and yeah you're right, it's probably also for saving space, good call. I guess there is only so much you can fit into a 4KB ROM...

Hmm, maybe it's also for saving space on the cadriges. Do you know which games used the hardcoded tunes?

Aside from those handheld cheapo LCD games I never heard anything like that.

Yeah, it's an interesting thing, eh.

Care to elaborate?

PS > Thanks for your helpful input, Saskrotch, you know how much I appreciate it