Erik the Viking - Neil Baldwin, Unreleased NES game.
226 Apr 18, 2010 12:38 pm
Re: Amazing NES game soundtracks (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
New Ghostbusters II. Composer - Jun Ishikawa (kirby series).
^Love the triangle melody that kicks in. Also how's there's 2 bass lines for most of the song.
228 Apr 15, 2010 3:00 am
Re: NES VRC6/VRC7 on real hardware? (52 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
The NES itself can't support expansion audio without a modification. You need to reroute the audio by connecting two pins with a 47k resistor-
Watch from 2:30 - 3:00. That's pretty much all you need to see, the rest is extra because he puts in a couple other things that aren't required to simply get it working.
229 Apr 14, 2010 11:44 pm
Re: NES VRC6/VRC7 on real hardware? (52 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
ant1 wrote:
Ok, FDS I guess... can you honestly tell the difference between that and powerpak?
Oh yes, actually. The powerpak mapper, last I'm aware of, doesn't emulate the FDS audio very well. I was playing Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa and the notes were very clearly out of tune. Anyone else have the same issue?
No clue how spot-on other expansions are or aren't with the powerpak since I don't own any expansion carts to compare with, but the FDS audio was the most problematic from what I've heard. I'll have to double check all this though, maybe I missed an update somewhere...
230 Apr 3, 2010 4:54 am
Re: » Newest NES game ever!!!! ~~~> Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril released (22 replies, posted in General Discussion)
This looks rad! And $29 is not expensive at all. Heck just seeing all the work that went into making the Teletime carts, I'm majorly impressed with the price.
231 Apr 1, 2010 10:10 pm
Re: famitracker 0.3.5 beta out (7 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
I love the FDS instrument editor! This is great.
Last time I tried FDS audio on my US NES (with a powerpak and the expansion mod), it wasn't emulated very well. It was pretty out of tune. Does anyone know if that's something that's been improved upon sometime in the last several months or so?
232 Mar 31, 2010 6:53 pm
Re: Amazing NES game soundtracks (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
Battle Lava wrote:
(I was going to figure out how to embed the youtube video for The Untouchables on the NES 'cause the soundtrack is wicked, but the gameplay video really wasn't doing it justice.)
The Untouchables - NES
Check out the .nsf, it's pretty good.
I like it! I was getting started on tagging an NSFE for it though, and realized there are some errors with the nsf. The triangle is messed up in several (or all?) tracks. Quickest comparison to make is track 5 in the nsf vs when you press start at the title menu. Or track 6 vs. how level 1 sounds in the rom-- it's much more staccato and percussive in-game. I'll mention this on nesdev and see if we can get a fix!
233 Mar 31, 2010 5:10 pm
Re: Amazing NES game soundtracks (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
Geoff Follin, Wolverine-
Jeroen Tel, Robocop 3-
^The overall soundtrack is very minimal (mostly one-channel tracks?!), but the port of the title theme is great.
234 Mar 19, 2010 10:51 am
Topic: [Austin, TX] SXSW - 3/20 Depreciation Guild + a bunch of indie bands (0 replies, posted in Past Events)
3/20/2010 12:00 PM at WATERLOO CYCLES with A SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW, DEPRECIATION GUILD, BROWN RECLUSE, ALLO DARLIN and more
2815 fruth, austin, Texas
Sorry for the CAPS, that was copy /pasted of course. :) This isn't a chip themed show, however depreciation guild is playing as well as my pop band Brown Recluse, so you should come if you're still down here. That and I didn't make it here in time for Data Pop, so I'm lonely and you should come hang out with me!
235 Mar 19, 2010 10:37 am
Re: new gorrillaz and broken bells (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The Stylo music video is awesome. I saw CDK post it on facebook, otherwise, I might not have seen it!
236 Mar 19, 2010 10:35 am
Re: CHIPMUSIC IN THE PRESS (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently wrote a pretty good article-
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine … =1&c=y
237 Mar 8, 2010 9:56 am
Re: Amazing NES game soundtracks (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
lol sorry for the spamming, I promise this is all for right now.
I've been uploading a bunch of Follin stuff, it's my goal to make it so that every NES Follin track is immediately accessible on youtube. And we're almost there...!
238 Mar 8, 2010 9:49 am
Re: Amazing NES game soundtracks (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
Snake's Revenge - One of my favorite Konami-style soundtracks.
239 Mar 8, 2010 9:42 am
Re: Amazing NES game soundtracks (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
Gremlins 2 - Another one of the crucial DPCM bass soundtracks from Sunsoft. (Gimmick, Hebereke, Batman RotJ, Journey to Silius, Super Spy Hunter, Pescatore... all so good!)
240 Mar 8, 2010 9:30 am
Re: Amazing NES game soundtracks (93 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
Great thread!
Lazerbeat wrote:
Yah. I'm a bit suspect due to the lack of Lagrange and the Silver Surfer at 27 thing
For the skeptics of the Shizz Top 30, there's a review of the list itself there that talks about the pros + cons of how the voting / consensus worked. It's not meant to be definitive in any way (not possible!), but hopefully a fairly well balanced list of classics with a respectable amount of surface digging in there too. Believe me, I wrote all the reviews and hosted the thing, and lots of my favorites didn't make it. But if you've got some time to kill, I encourage giving it a read, I'd like to think I provided some interesting information on some.
Here's some of my favorite stuff-
Overlord. Composed by Jeroen Tel- has one of the best NES title screen songs ever!
Pretty awesome game over theme too-