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Your composition skills are really dynamic. Much better than "pop" music for sure. This is just a really well done and polished album! I reposted on Google +.

I have not heard of any such methods other than what "e.s.c." has already described. But why would you want to do that???

Analog distortion of the original game system is part of the charm.

However, you should look up a bloke named Tiido Priimägi. He has cleaned up the audio with his own special circuit mod on the Sega Genesis Model 2. He might know how to do something for the NES... or might know who does.

Look at the bottom of this page: http://www.tmeeco.eu/ABOUT.HTM

My apologies, Princedmorn.

No, you don't need a copy of the game. I will provide what you need below.

Here is the ".SPC" file for Chrono Trigger: http://chronofan.com/Black/Music%20(Chr … r)/cts.rar

And here is the ".SPC" file for Final Fantasy VI: http://ocremix.org/chip/6384

Just so you know, an .SPC file is the music data that is actually extracted from the original SNES game. It's in a small portable format which is good for playing on special media players that can read the format. The sound you get is always at highest quality and only takes a few KB! But if you use an .mp3 version, it takes much more space and may not sound as good.

For NES files, the format is ".NSF".
For Sega Genesis, it is most often a ".VGM" file.

Various old video game console and computer systems have their own specialized Sound Data file formats.

By the way, that OCR Remix website is a huge source of extracted music data from a variety of old games.

Have a great day now! ^-^

True, but you gotta start somewhere. Sometimes using something that's already there and making a cover song, or your own tune with premade samples is a good way to "learn the ropes" or "get your hands dirty" with designing for a particular chip set.

I started Genesis music making by using preset samples. Eventually, I learned how to design my own FM and PSG instruments and inserting samples that don't come from Sonic games.

Yes, VRC 6 and 7 expansion chips would definitely allow for those 7ths and 9th chords you want. (By the way, I really like music that deals with more complex chords like that

These are special expansion chips that were only available in only a few Japanese NES (Famicom) cartridges.

VRC 6 - this expansion adds 2 additional square wave channels, and 1 Saw wave channel. There is a little more variety of sound from the 2 new square channels for the Pulse Width.

VRC 7 - this expansion, as stated above adds 6 channels of FM sound. The FM is only 2OP and has 15 presets, and 1 setting that allows you to make custom FM sound.

Other chips you might be interested in are the Turbo Grafx (PC-Engine). It has 6 channels of Wave Table modulated sound. The sounds can sound as much like an NES as you want, or beyond!

Sega Genesis has 6 channels of 4OP FM sound, and 3 additional channels of PSG (square wave/blip bleep) sound. Combining all 9 of these melodic channels can really expand your polyphony and chord structures quite a bit. And that's not even mentioning special tricks to get chords from a single FM channel!

Hope this helps to answer you question.

Wow! Thank you for that offer! I really feel like I owe you so much. See ya around!

(P.S. How can I send you a donation? I did not see a PayPal link on your Bandcamp page.)

Hi Tomy!

You know, part of the bass not being as loud with your Master System recording, is probably because when you record it off of the MegaDrive, you are using Tiido's Crystal Clear Audio Mod. That would make the sound quality much better than an original Sega Master System. Those are my thoughts. Also, volume fade-in's and fade-out's are very good for masking those clicks and pops. Which I see you do a lot... which I also enjoy alot! So keep it up, hehe!

In the back of my mind, I was aware about the lower than normal note when using PAL, but since you mentioned it, I want to play around with that a little more. And, wow! That's a lot of work to transpose every note like that. I know how tedious it can be. Your recording on real SMS hardware sounds fantastic though!

Here's another example I made of the square modulation stuff: https://ucollective.org/audio/marcb0t/m … rpsg+test/

This time, I basically took the vgm file from a GameGear Sonic game and converted it to MIDI data. Then I played it using Super PSG, which emulates ALL the features of Sega Master System, even the weird modulation. So what you will hear is very close to how that music would sound through an actual GameGear with Stereo! Just without the analog distortion.

Here is how the song sounds without square modulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT6XJN3BTn0

I have a request, though. Could you record Tarzan Boy playing through Sega Master System hardware? :3  The ROM download on the description of the song should be in PAL format! Here it is again: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2C160 … sp=sharing

Thank you, and have a good week!