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Looks like I finally need to pick up a 3DS.

I was hoping there would be some new samples on this or ways to load samples (like via the 3DS SD card input). Or MIDI over Wi-Fi sync, like Nitrotracker. That'd be cool. Either way, it's still a great deal, and that polyphony increase will help a toooooon. Oh wow, and MIDI export too! That'll make recording song ideas way easier.

Buy a Rock Band 3 Keyboard controller; it's keytar shaped and has built-in MIDI functionality.

It would be possible to mod a Guitar Hero controller for these purposes but it would be ridiculously, ridiculously inconvenient in comparison.

The biggest issue with this idea of chiptune equivalent exchange is that prices on systems fluctuate a lot with their condition and their location. I'm not sure what the deal with that $300 for a PCE auction is, but after a quick google search I see a bunch of results in the $100 range? Maybe if you're in a place where that thing had no market penetration (like most of Europe) it'd be closer to that.

For a Genesis it'd need different values if it's a good Model 1, a really shitty sounding Model 1 VA7, a modded system that fixes these issues, etc. All the values of these things are incredibly subjective.

Also CHIPTUNE EUROZONE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE GET YOUR BUG-OUT BAGS WITH BOOTLEG LSDJ CARTS

Rad! Thanks for clarifying.

Noisewaves are another pretty great example of this style.

The secret to shoegazey guitar sounds is loads of delay and reverb, but it's hard to get the right balance. As c-h-u-n-t-e-r said, it's all about experimentation; screw around with it enough and you'll get something that sounds nice.

EDIT: Oh boy, referencing names that are set to "someone" changes those names to "someone" afterwards. That's clever.

Thanks! I've always felt that if I ever wanted to understand games on any kind of academic level it'd be important to know what they were like before my time. I grew up playing Super Mario World on my dad's SNES and getting CD-ROMs of Genesis games from book fairs so I've always been into older games, and writing about the medium has helped me gain more interest in them on an academic level. I'm in the middle of writing a long piece on the original Shin Megami Tensei for the SNES, after spending fifty or sixty hours grinding it out in front of an old CRT with a modded Wii. There's an atmosphere in those games you just don't get anymore, especially if you're running them in an emulator on a computer. Twine games are the only modern thing I'd say gets anywhere close to it. Also how can you not love this? Outside of the indie scene and Twine games you don't see much beauty rising out of a need for utilitarianism in games these days. I'll always enjoy old games and old game soundtracks where they did the best with what they got and were able to push their narrative, mechanical, and aesthetic limitations far past the hardware itself.

Another high schooler here. I've written about games for various publications for the past two years but I've yet to be paid for anything I've done. I'm planning on going to UT Austin for accounting mostly so I can get a stable job. I've enjoyed what I've done in that field (UIL Accounting state champion over here), but I'm mostly in it so I'll have money to support my other interests, like music and writing.

Right now I'm the managing editor (and primary contributor) for this small site I run with a few friends. I figured if I'm never gonna get paid for this shit I'd might as well do it on my own terms. So far the only claim to fame I have is getting featured on Gamasutra once for a thing I wrote about a campaign to boycott Atlus and their North American publishing branch.