Hello everyone. This will be a little introduction to who I am until I actually get started in recording my own music, which is the point of this thread because I do need someone to show me the ropes on what I am doing since I have no idea myself.
My name is Clif, twenty-five year old musician from the Detroit-ish area of Michigan. Mostly a jazz guitarist, I fiddle around with piano and violin picking up on classical works as well (the works of Erik Satie should be listened by everyone. Seriously; listen to Gymnopedie No.1). About two years ago, after being depressed that no games have came out that caught my interest like the genius works of Final Fantasy VI, I decided to write my own game. A friend of mine who was moving to Maine gave me his computer that had RPGMaker VX, and I worked day and night learning how to use the program. Hard Drive failed, so all of my work was lost except for the pages of written staff-music that were used for ideas. A friend had showed me chiptunes, and how musicians are using gameboys and other video game consoles to make these songs. Now I am interested in transcribing my scores and recreating that feeling of hearing the wonderfully composed music that was so limited by what they could do.
Problem is, I have no idea what I am really doing and I hope there might be some of you who stumble upon this and would like to point me in the right direction. Any help would be greatly appreciated! What equipment I should get. How much stuff costs. Where to get everything. How to do mods. Literally, I am lost!
Here is what I have:
A teal gameboy color, that I tore apart because I found an Instrucable guide on mods. I also un-soldered the headphone jack, power plug and speaker. Why you might ask? Because I was hoping to install a 1/4" jack to plug directly into an amp (jokes on me because the jack doesn't fit /sadface) and also install a rechargeable DS battery so I don't have to worry about buying AA. Yeah... I messed up.
I also have a purple/clear gameboy color as well, that I didn't do anything to.
So yeah... any help would be very very much appreciated. And now I am having second thoughts on if I am posting this in the right forum category... ALSO; because I am a few years late to the party and didn't catch the burst of chiptune culture around my neighborhood from Piko Piko Detroit, are there any fellow musicians from the area that wouldn't mind showing me the ropes? Again, kinda new and would love to become a part of the community.