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Braaaazzzziiiilll!

HATS.
BIG FUCKIN' HATS.
LOTS OF BIG MOTHERFUCKING HAATTTSSSSSSS.

Keep in mind that lot of small devices employ a faux-surround effect to make their tiny speakers sound bigger than they actually are. They achieve this by using a type of phase inversion that pushes the mix out wider with science. THIS WILL FUCK YOUR MIX if you use a similar effect in production (It will invert your inversion, undoing it entirely), or if you have a lot of phase-able duplicate material overlapping itself (It will sound ghostly and out of place). I first noticed this on my macbook.

Thanks to 8-bit music's channel restrictions, if you have, say, a pulse drum interrupting some square wave arps on the same channel, those two things aren't overlapping, so you don't have to worry about panning them to different places. In fact, I've found that doing so leaves a noticeable hole in that section of panorama where the arps are. I'd leave any channel interrupts like that in the same place as the rest of that channel, to help cover those channel interrupt tricks.
I've been working on a vocal album which requires me to mix everything independently to make room. I'm panning one square full left, one square full right, and the others to taste. I'd recommend the triangle for the center to fill up that bassy element. It sounds simple, but it really cleared up a lot of space and made everything pop.
I do also use a lot of very brief panning switches to act as fill for arps or delay in the noise channel, but I'm doing that through LSDJ, and not in post.

YES. My god, yes it does. I just finished recording my new album with this here lil' nugget of joy... I'll be making a demo to show off its usefulness soon... As I have recorded LCR's of each channel, some songs are 12 tracks deep- fully independent of one another for further panning/processing. And when nothing's playing its 12 tracks of SILENCE.
An addendum to the recording process for interested parties: Active KITS will cause noise on all channels when triggered, not just the WAV channel. Record the WAV channel first, then turn the KIT instruments into Pulse instruments to prevent quadrupling that sound.

Oh.
Well then. That explains that.
I hadn't updated my version since I first got it about 6 years ago.
Kinda don't feel like re-programming noise tables on songs I've already finished and just want to play live.....