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If anyone can point me in direction of some useful N64 music software I will use it in every single song I make for the rest of time. My N64s have already taken up most of my life; they may as well take up the rest of it!

Musically, I think one of the reasons is that these consoles don't have a particular sound defined by the limitations of their soundchip, and in turn there isn't much of a nostalgic association one can make with it, or any logical reason to make music with such a console instead of a computer. According to Wikipedia, the N64 could play 'uncompressed PCM, MP3, MIDI, and tracker music' - if this is the case, then we may as well be making said music on Renoise or whatever. It could in theory be ''N64 music''.

As for the visuals, some people seem to genuinely believe late SNES pixel graphics actually look better than the muddy polygonated graphics I grew up with (I mean, I would argue the graphics in games like Earthbound have definitely aged better than, say, F Zero X, even though I adore both). I guess there's something tacky about polygonated graphics, in the same way that glossily produced 80s pop virtually always sounds a lot more dated than its 70s equivalent.

Like the quintessential flavour of 80s pop, however, only a fairly specific generation of consoles have that late 90s look. Therefore, I bet there's a lot of nostalgic N64/Playstation/Saturn (less of the latter ) fans who would dig it, and also that there is a useful visual flavour to these consoles that no generation of chip, earlier or later, could get just right.

Edit - I just looked through the viral vacuum lady's videos. I fucking swear I am going to get that person VJ'ing at a chip show one day. Something about the combination of cats, boobs, cheap computer animation and Australia reminds me of Lektrogirl.

Just noticed that no-one's posted any Ristar tunes yet...

'Lo-Biton' is fucking AMAZING.

YEEAAAHHH

Ant1 totally has to do a Metrodub release.

When I logged on earlier today, all I saw was Je Mappelle's post. Now I return to 7 pages that have quickly and efficiently reinstalled a hatred of chiptune stealers in my system, with aimless meme throwing replaced by cool ZX Spectrum name-calling. Fuck yeah chipmusic.org.

Haha! Well pointed out...Steve is the official one still - I should change it!

And Lazerbeat - I promise a slew of gigs backed up by new material with some kind of release is happening after A Levels!!

It begins.