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Looks potentially to be a pretty sweet deal if one can take proper care of it and not misplace parts of it.
But this is unleashed to the same mankind that managed to put the wii-mote through a flat-screen, managed to crush the Dreamcast VMU in their back-pocket and recently darted into the wall wearing a VR headset.

It's gonna be disaster, isn't it?

But that aside. It looks ok. Not sure if I'd get one personally, really depends on the games. I'm not a big spender for Nintendo's consoles, except the Game Boy.

Got nothing of the sort uploaded on the internet-tubes right NOW but yes I've worked with gameboys to make vaporwave before. And retrowave... And ambient. Gameboy is freaking great for everything.

LSDJ though, I've not worked with Nanoloop yet at all tbh. But seems like NL can make really impressive stuff so I think I'm destined to get a cart at some point.

I used a Korg monotron delay with a peak-mod, microkorg and some pedals to really make some crunchy drones and made pitched melodies tuning the delay time knob and sampling that on cassette. So much fun!

Yes exactly, everyone freaking denies it but has Vektroid's "Neo Cali" and pictures of Ancient roman statues on their computer/browsing history. Enough with the shaming of vaporwave culture! it's a rich culture with even richer dank aesthetics.

Because, again, actually listening to something and giving some kind of informed feedback is a lot more "hard work" than just sharing random thoughts.

It does suck, however I admit and it's also, in addition to what I already said earlier in this thread, something I'm not really fond of. But as much as I hate being locked away in obscurity, being randomly discovered every once in a blue moon and someone goes "hey man your music is cool". I kind of hate communities that kind of enforce a false "kindness" where people get rewarded with arbitrary pointsystems for making posts.
The discussions on those kinds of sites, like DA, never fucking stop because someone has to be the last person to say something.
"Your work is great!"
"Thank you very much!"
"You're welcome!"
"Thanks!"
"You're welcome"
ad nauseam.

So it's a love/hate relationship there. LOL

1) Renoise "supports" none of those. Becuase that's not necessarily what it's designed for. Like, you don't pick a soundchip you want to work against and then make tunes for it, that's not what Renoise "does" AFAIK, not out of the box, at least.

That does however really sound more like something Chipsounds VST does. It lets you choose what soundchip to work with and then you write melodies and stuff that get played by the VST. So the sounds you get out of it are modeled very accurately to the soundchip of your choosing and they have quite a few of them available. I use it a ton, then I work in Ableton Live as well, not a tracker anymore (aside from LSDJ).

2) There's a very big difference between Renoise and "hardware trackers". Renoise is freaking HUGE and expandable and will get you into territories of very modern dance music if you want it to. It's still built on top of tracker layout and is very familiar to other trackers built for specific soundchips but aside from that it's very very vast compared to a SID chip, for example.

3) No, generally, if you want to make authentic sounds, make them on authentic chips or something that emulates them intimately. Yes you can make stuff that sounds "authentic" on basically any synth and in any tracker generally they very often work on the same principles. But no, people with trained ears will be able to tell them apart more often than not, I'm afraid. There will always be differences to some degree.

Oh man this is complicated stuff to explain and I never was a teacher. Just figured I'd take a stab at demystifying this to some degree. Sorry if I come across harsh or whatever, it's really NOT my intention. I'm just trying to explain this stuff as best I know how.

Start off in Renoise if you're still unsure and check out Plogue and what they've done with Chipsounds. Try the demo or something of either.

And just to round up and circle back: these are my recommendations anyhow: get the hardware and the tracker for it, or get something that emulates the sound. Or just pick a tracker like famitracker, milkytracker or something like that and work with that.
You'll get the "chiptune sound" easily because the tools available for shaping the sound are limited in resolution/features. Again, this depends on the tracker. Milkytracker, for example, is less "limited" than Famitracker and Renoise in comparison is brimming with features, there's practically no limits.

Sorry if this sounds confusing. Good luck!

Disclaimer: When I say that something is "limited" in "features" I strictly mean the possibilities that are exposed to the user of the soundchip. I am not berating one chip in favor of another. Cool? cool.

This let's me appreciate the ephemeral nature of music in a strange way. Soothing.

Anyway:

My least favorite thing about producing chiptune is not being able to do it consistently/easily. That's definitely not tied entirely to chiptune itself, but I find it harder and harder to be creative with it specifically. I can't make stuff sound *fresh* easily. I still try, obviously. To varying effect.

Yeah and I guess hardware is a bit of a pain. It can be a very therapeutic process of untangling all the wires, cleaning/checking contacts, loading up cartridges/projects and making sure the signal chain is as clear as possible but there are days where that sounds like the LAST thing you want to do.