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I think this is a phase that chiptune is going through right now. A lot of new people are listening to chiptune each day and because of how easy and cheap it is to start with a DMG and LSDJ, a lot of these people who would never try actually playing an instrument or composing electronic music start tinkering with their DMG. A thing that most chiptuners that are in the chip scene for a couple of years now don't seem to understand is that most of these newer artists don't want to sit through the hours and hours of tinkering with their software and hardware like they did and at the end only have a short but awesome beat. I remember one of my earlier posts, asking for some LSDJ instruments and most of the responses were: "just figure it out yourself ya stupid idiot" (of course I'm paraphrasing and I don't mean to offend anyone). We want to progress and evolve to a basic framework and then start creating new sounds and experimenting. The building of this basic framework consists of making silly songs with the same instruments and because we have an easy output medium (this site along with others) we just post the worst stuff.

You can compare this to the crappy cover bands. Most bands who want to start writing music, start with covering their favourite bands. It's a perfect excercise and the band members start to get a feel for the rest of the band. After about a year or so of playing some small gigs covering ACDC, they start writing their own songs and after a couple of years they might have become a great jazz band. With this wave of new chiptuners there comes a wave of crappy chiptune covers dubstep and covers of popular chiptune with the same instruments. Maybe this will pass away if chiptune becomes less mainstream again and the waves of crappy chiptunes will stop, or they will keep coming and crappy chiptuners will be up there with today's Adele, Skrillex or Justin Bieber. Maybe the chiptune community used to be one happy family, but now it might be time to start splitting up into chip subgernes so that you can easily find the kind of chip you like. I don't want it this way, because staying in your own subgerne doesn't get you listening to new and experimental music, but it could be the only way out.

Another big problem may be the fact that there really is only one big chiptune program. LSDJ is commonly seen as the best chiptune program. I'm currently searching for a GBC and a good USB cart, but only because it's the cheapest and well documented program. I really like the Genesis, C64 and NES sound more, but there are no tutorials and guides out there and if they are, they are burried under a layer of LSDJ tutorials. Also, I'm starting out with LSDJ because it's a simple tracker that could teach me the basics of tracking that I could use on NTRQ, Famitracker or goattracker and then there is the fact that finding a Gameboy is way easier than finding a C64 or Genesis. Any gameboy from a DMG to a Micro or even your Android phone will run LSDJ while other consoles are less available and with old PC's like the C64 you also have different specifications.

I hope that I, as one of the terrible chiptuners, could have shown you why the problem exists and maybe I have helped you with the "cure" for this wave of chiptune that has risen. Also, if I make blatantly obvious mistakes, I'm sorry