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I dig it. You may want to experiment with a "break" pattern in the drums, to me the drums are too spacey, and I was expecting a buildup in the drums leading to 1:50. The current drum part isn't shabby at all, and the rest of the song is catchy. Check your PM's.

When I am walking to class, trying to put off schoolwork, or pooping.

Fun fact - most of the Sonic the Hedgehog hacking community does this not because tools don't exist, but because almost everyone is stupid and elitist. It's painful to watch, I used to do music this way. If you haven't pushed Deflemask at www.sonicretro.org, you should. They need to "see the light."

If you can call using piano transcriptions you can find on Youtube "legit," sure. I have made some pretty lame covers in my time, but I at least try to be true to the original song and make it recognizable. Given, I transcribed my covers by ear and often tried to add a lot of creative substance. Sometimes I feel like I excelled, othertimes I feel like I failed. Your album does not have a single cover that is remotely close to being "a good cover." It is one thing to release a covertune, and if it sounds like a kid at a piano trying to play The Beatles, it's whatever. It is a very big deal what you have done wrong.

You uploaded some tracks on here, noteably Face to Face, amd your description clearly indicates a lack of confidence. This is a big deal, because the following track has that same sort of text like "i tried" or whatver. I'm on a phone, copy-paste isn't fun. But you have been on these forums for just over a week. In your profile you tell us you use the Magial8bit plugin and garage band. The issue is that it feels like you did not spend a ton of time on this release, and to a point some would call it insulting due to the lack of detail. It has nothing to do with what you use, but HOW you use it. Check out "Da Chip" compilations I and II. Amazing chip Daft Punk covers, and they are the ruler which we seem to measure all other Daft Punk covers by.

My advice - don't pump out a release like this in a week. Original content is one thing, but a cross-genre masterpiece like Discovery is hard to cover well at all. Learn how to use your plugin, it's damn powerful. Find a style that fits you - it doesn't have to be super simple stuff, or only six channels or whatever. If you want, make a pseudo-chip symphony.

I don't want to be too harsh on you, but this release is a slap in the face to those of us who work hard to make good cover tunes, the Da Chip crew, as well as Daft Punk. It's just like all of those "8bit cover of xxxxx song by yyyyyyyy artist" on Youtube. If you transcribed all of this by yourself, good for you. Try harder music to transcribe. Study it. Write your own. If you feel like it sucks, don't release it. We don't have petty release agendas. We shouldn't feel the need for them. Take time to learn your software, establish a workflow. Then practice writing songs originals or covers. Write stuff that will make you want to see people's eyes light up in wonder. Take them somewhere in their mind, to a memory or feeling. Everyone has the potential to do this, to write music and express SOMETHING. Don't be like the DAW using kiddies on Youtube, they choose not to be so much more. If I were you, I would take a 2 week break and focus on establishing what music YOU want to make, and how to make it enjoyable for you and your audience.

Best of luck, hope I don't watch this post drown in a flame war.

You know, you might be able to harvest some link ports off of the DMG mobos you will soon be obtaining (I am shipping you mine tomorrow). Good for prototyping.

Yup.

Some carts are a bit wonky, and after being used get locked into page 2. This typically happens if you try and plug the EMS cart into your computer while hte cart is still inserted into the Gameboy. Not quite sure what happens, but that is how 2 of my 4 EMS carts have lost their page 2's.