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Reminds me of a particularly awesome candy we got here in Sweden (and other places I'm sure http://tinyurl.com/kuumqfv ). Really cool, looks great!

apple and oranges sir

just go with whatever program is best at making the song you want to create.  you need pitched samples? milkytracker it up.  need an NES/famicom-specific aesthetic or accuracy?  i don't see why you'd pick milkytracker over famitracker in that case.

here is mysteria's submission in case anyone was curious:

mysteria wrote:

About 15 years ago, a little girl asked Santa for a Game Boy Color. I remember turning it on and leaving it on the menu screen on Link's Awakening just to listen to the music while I watched TV. By the time second grade rolled around, everyone was listening to N*Sync, while I had an obsession with Zelda and The Beach Boys. As I got older, I realized that these games weren't revolutionary and there were many like them, with even better music. My older sister had an NES (that she never told me about! *ugh*), that I discovered in the attic. I began playing her games and I was infatuated with them.

Quite a few years later I looked up where to find the music I loved as a child, I then found the realm of chip music. People still make this? I obviously wasn't around to see the glory days, but who knew that there was a community out there that enjoyed the stuff I enjoyed. I began exploring 8bitpeoples, and found that there was a documentary on all of this. So, I watched Reformat The Planet and almost cried from excitement! I had no idea that there were *others* out there. I guess living in Macon (nowherenearanythingexciting) Georgia didn't help either. I heard about this festival, Blip Festival, in NYC. Unfortunately I never made it up there, but I'm hoping one day it'll happen again. There isn't that big of a chiptune scene here in Georgia. So having this online community was so exciting.

When I started exploring, I first found Smiletron, Nullsleep, Covox, Bit Shifter, and you. I grabbed up 2 Le Chip 2 Quit, and a handful of singles from other artists. They reminded me of the excitement and clarity of being a child. They brought me back to a place in life where nothing else mattered except begin able to come home from school and crank up the Game Boy. Now, I've come to a deeper appreciation for the music and those who write it. Over the years, I have begun to write music, with chiptunes as my foundation.

I began making music on Ableton (I guess as most "producers" do nowadays). I had no idea what i was doing and I spent most of my time with my head buried in the Ableton Live x Power, and my face glued to YouTube tutorials. 3 years later decided I wanted to DJ. Nowhere in Atlanta would book me if I played chiptunes, so I pulled a not-so-fast one and played dubstep (the only thing Atlanta could enjoy at the time) while integrating chiptunes into my sets. But then DJing got lame and I felt empty inside from playing out other people's music. It wasn't fair how I could be having all of the fun on stage while these other people were busy making the music and I knew how much work went into it. So now, I'm back to square one and producing again.

/*My apologies, I totally went over on words, so I'll wrap it up.*/

If I were to receive this prize, it would help me to expand my horizons with producing music. This is a technology I have longed to learn for years, but I have never gotten the chance to simply because I have no idea where to start. If I were to learn this, I believe I could have an opportunity to bring the joy of chiptunes to a part of the United States it hasn't quite reached yet. I want future generations to have the opportunity to experience and enjoy this music as I did. I want this music to live on.

Long live Lo-Fi.
Long live MS-DOS.
Long live the OPL3.