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(58 replies, posted in Releases)

about

The long-awaited IDM chipmusic-on-chip album 'Today' is released as a physical 16-bit cartridge for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis video game console. The sound is generated at playtime by the Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesizer chip that is built into the console.

The concept is to do away with the conventional audio recording which is the standard format for practically all music now released.

Breathing new life into this obsolete Sega console in 2010, 'Today' aims to reinvigorate interest in old hardware and the idea of listening to music where the sound is generated each time you listen.

This is now available for FREE as an mp3 release on bandcamp!
http://freezedream.bandcamp.com/album/today

I am also now releasing the ROM for everyone with flash carts (or emulators) to enjoy!

http://www.milkcrate.com.au/freezedream … FINAL).zip

tracks

  1. Winter in July (menu music)

  2. Realtime Love

  3. See You Next Tuesday

  4. Luer

  5. Origami

  6. Iridescence

  7. Green

  8. Cardioid

  9. The Girl in the Moon


credits

Music, Artwork, PCB Design & Assembly: freezedream (Nathan Stanley)

Coding/Testing: Alex Cichowski - Thankyou so much for your long hours working out bugs and optimizing things. smile

Player Code: Shiru & Alone Coder

210

(34 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

Man, I'm checking out Renoise now.

211

(37 replies, posted in Sega)

Hi FuturNari, the problems may be caused by the player that you are using. I suggest you do as animalstyle suggested and use Michael Stamper's excellent 'VGM PLAY', which is now at version 3. You just need to export to a vgm file from TFM Music Maker and then follow animalstyle's instructions.

212

(23 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

sweet. going to try this out soon. smile thanks for the info, nitro2k01

213

(49 replies, posted in Sega)

@TmEE: They are flash memory.

214

(49 replies, posted in Sega)

Oh dear! Nicely spotted - it's a good thing I posted that pic so you guys with eyes that work can find my stupid mistakes! hmm

215

(49 replies, posted in Sega)

It's a beautiful thing.

216

(49 replies, posted in Sega)

Yes I do, celsius. I'll be contacting everyone on the pre-order list soon.

217

(49 replies, posted in Sega)

The first round of pre-orders is now closed.

The cartridge will be released in the next couple of days, at which point I'll contact everyone who has a pre-order to arrange payment and shipping.

Cheers!

P.S Moderators, can you please move this whole thread to the 'Sega' section. Thanks.

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(59 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Even if you're a collector, why would you need/want more than 2 or 3 of any kind of gameboy?! Share some of the love with others! big_smile

But why would anyone pay for it?

220

(18 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Now selling an LSDJ cart and an arduinoboy.

221

(16 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

Definitely awsome idea and build and massive chipmusic.organ playing skills!

222

(13 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Dial up modem sounds are awesome.

223

(7 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I'm pretty sure that electric drum uses the noise channel and not samples so no option to replace them.

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(7 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I'd love to hear of your results for replacing samples in pounder. I tried it and it didn't work properly. sad The replaced samples sounded corrupted. Not sure what happened.

Also, if anyone does have an edited pounder rom with some nice samples in it, I too would be very interested.