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Yes, keep the broken ones. Then if you want to perform a SID2SID installation you'll have more SIDs to populate it with. Also if anything else breaks later you can use parts from the broken to fix the main unit. Also you can potentially swap the working c64 guts into the best looking enclosure.

that megadrive was killer

Forgive me for thinking out loud here, but I can't help but imagine what a modified version of Nitro's "Rez" would be like in an implementation such as this.

Yours is a fantastic product! Truly something many people have been wanting.

Woah! never knew about the Yamaha YMU762.. Its awesome sounding

Fun Fact
Most of the NES expantion chips are actually modified versions of the previously mentioned chips...

For example:
Konami VRC7 is actually a YM2413 except with 6 phase modulation channels instead of 9
Sunsoft 5B is a subset of the AY38910
Konami VRC6 has two squares very similar to the existing 2A03 and added a saw..
MMC5 contains two pulse channels identical to the existing 2A03 minus the hardware sweep. Along with a very much underused extra PCM channnel

I like solid core so I can bend it onto the most efficient rout point to point and it will retain it's shape.

Some folks don't mind for organic time lines like your attempt. The notes being absolutely perfect timing could help as it's a cover, but for the same reasons if thats what you were going for theres no reason you can't have a cover that contains "timing issues"

It's all down to what you're trying to achieve.

If you're really worried about timing, grab some midis, load them up in your favorite daw, take a peek at what the real notes look like, and transcribe that to the gameboy. There no point in reinventing the wheel if someones done the work for you.

As for my personal tastes, I feel you could fill up the silence but not allowing the notes to cut off so soon and so suddenly... Sometimes I like to let my notes ring out at like volume 1 as sort of a filler reverb (not exactly a reverb) it helps fill the dead air so to speak. Volume automations can turn an otherwise bland mix into a dynamic wonderment if done right.

All in all I'd say you're off to a great start. I'd be cool to hear some drums accompaning this song. For cover songs that don't originally have percussion, I take that as my opportunity to throw in my personal creative touch. It will give it more of a personal identity as your creation.