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JUST sent in a new Glowing Stars track.

So glad to be a part of this!

Thanks yo! We'll meet up some day. You guys sound great - I'd love for us to play together! For now we'll have to settle on being on this comp together.

What model are the delay pedal and mixer? Are the flash carts USB?

awesome

I agree, just offering my vote. Safer is probably better.

Yeah, the midines situation is a nightmare still. Essays could be written on the subject.

Here's rough information on all the consoles you have - I'm not hunting down a ton of links, but all these names are googleable and should get you started.

There are a few different ways to write music on the NES, but other than using a midines, they mostly involve getting a powerpak flash cart to put them on. An alternative carts is currently in beta being made by arfink (there are threads about it on this board) which is going to be awesome, but the powerpak is a great product that is available now.

From there you're basically going to be working with trackers. NTRQ and Pulsar are native to the NES, and famitracker runs on your computer and outputs .nsf files that you can run from the powerpak.

There's a few cool programs for just playing the NES using the NES controllers themselves.

The game boys you have are going to be very useful. They can all run LSDJ (a tracker), Nanoloop (1.x for the classic gameboys or 2.x for the advance or later) or mGB (which is similar in function to midines) but they will all sound somewhat different. There's a lot written about the differences already, but you're best off experimenting.

All of these pieces of software also need flashcarts. There's a lot of drama behind the history of the production of these carts, but the EMS 64MB USB carts are the steady workhorses that everyone has. You'll need a windows computer to transfer to/from. There are other types of carts worth checking out.

If you want to get MIDI into the gameboys, your best bet is through an arduinoboy, an interface designed by trash80 (who also wrote mGB). Your keytar will be able to plug into one directly, or you can control it straight through USB on the arduino. The arduinoboy is very easy to build (with an arduino, obviously), and people occasionally sell them.

There's also software called Pro Performer - a few different versions - which is harder to find and doesn't work on flash carts. It focuses on playing music with the game boy's own buttons. There's also a japanese rom called muddyGB which works similarly but is super noisy.

The SP needs a headphone adapter to get audio out.

Your N64 is basically useless, nothing really exists on it for making music.

The gamecube can run all the gameboy stuff with a gameboy adapter.

You should be able to buy all the stuff you need between these three websites, which are all US based. My understanding is that it's hard to get some of this stuff new in the UK, so if you're getting a lot, you're probably best off just having it shipped in as big of a pile as possible. Maybe I'm wrong and someone else in the UK will correct me? But I think that's the case.
http://store.kitsch-bent.com/
http://nonelectronics.com/
http://www.retrousb.com/index.php (ONLY place to get the powerpak cart)

One chip cover of a non-chip japanese artist in progress, another on my mind.