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back when i wrote gameboy music, i recall always preferring actually writing on an MGB (gameboy pocket) for the sake of portability/feel, and then bouncing the finished track to my computer from a DMG since it obviously sounds much better.

sounds like a fun little script to write to generate them

chipmusic will categorically never see mainstream success. mainstream music consumers will never have the stomach for the sound of chipmusic in the first place, let alone the image. i think when it comes to mainstream acceptance, the music itself is just as important as image and brand. ariana grande? cool, hip, neat -- oh, and her music is okay. 4mat? coda? c-jeff? not gonna fly. even chipmusicians with more outspoken personalities will have a hard time getting mainstream popularity. i think people generally think of chipmusic as a weird, geeky subculture, and are taken aback when someone who makes chipmusic takes themselves too seriously, or is too committed to the technicalities of it. look at anamanaguchi -- they've kind of become an exercise in self-parody since they've become more popular: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3JWo2iiGc ). people think of chipmusic as kind of a joke, so if you want to become popular, either brand yourself as a joke, or don't predicate yourself and your music on the fact that it's chipmusic.

on that note, one of my personal biggest gripes with chipmusic is how so many people present themselves as if their music being "chipmusic" proper is the coolest(!) and sickest(!) thing ever, and pigeonhole themselves into being accepted/listened to by the tiniest subculture imaginable, before they ever had a chance to present themselves to a broader audience. don't get me wrong, i love chipmusic, and i love it for a whole lot of different reasons, but when i go to listen to music (generally), i don't care how it's made. i happen to have an aesthetic preference for music that incorporates chip-like sounds, and a technical appreciation for how chipmusic is created, but my enjoyment of music and my technical appreciation exist entirely separately. if you make a very technically impressive song, but the song sucks, the song just sucks -- i don't care if it's chipmusic or not. i've never (or extremely rarely) seen an artist outside of this scene predicate their entire musical existence on the kinds of instruments or process they use in creating their music. look at artists like venetian snares or autechre or any of the early IDM guys. their music is super super process intensive, but they don't make a fuss of it.

as far as keeping the scene itself alive, there are a bunch of things to do. i'm definitely guilty of falling out of touch with a lot of friends and subcommunities in the scene over the years. there are so many little things you can do to help the scene grow though. hang out in irc more. post on the forums more. do that project you've been wanting to do for a super long time. get involved in botb (seriously, if you haven't heard of it!). meetup in real life, organize events. keeping the scene itself alive really depends on the individuals in the scene -- scene growth doesn't really just "happen", it takes a concerted effort on behalf of those already a part of it.

okay sorry about my rambling, i'm on a long bus ride so i've got nothing better to do.

am i the only one who misses 8bc

Renoise hands down.

aaaah! I loved your Haunty project, it was straight up awsome. Sad to hear there'll be no more of it. Stoked for your new things though.

This is going way, way, way back, but does anyone remember Falco Lombardi? He used to post stuff on 8bc in like 2008-2009 I believe, I haven't heard of him active in a long time. He did fantastic dancy DMG stuff.

EDIT: This is him, under a different name, but apparently inactive.

http://www.myspace.com/lylatcore

So many memories. ;~;