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there are development packages/hardware (official and officially-licensed) released for a lot of these consoles (if not all the relevant ones, if you follow rumors on some).  depending on the console and how music on that platform actually works, the end-user of the devkit would have different options.

these devkits often have a GUI element, i suppose that would be their 'chipmusic software' in a way...  or whatever the mechanical means of 'composing' or adding music you have... 

'intelligent devices', for example, was a company which made a lot of the development hardware for nintendo consoles, and was licensed by Nintendo to do so.  i *think* Dolphin might have been the name of the company that did a popular gamecube one, but maybe thats the devices model name...  i dunno, been a while i thought about that stuff.

there is a big difference between internet people, and real people.

chip people in the for-real are pretty spectacular. 

the internet is always pretty disappointing if you're looking for manners.  or for anything with some real world expectation like that.

i guess at least we aren't all just yes-men.  as far as criticism goes, being negative seems like a pretty good approach.  if its constructive after all.  rewarding people positively all the time results in a world of fatties (no offense anyone, i've dun-lopped myself)

did you use rit brand? 

and, just for curiosities sake, what type of vessel do you use?  perhaps my aluminum pie plates react some how differently...

^ did the little-scale write-up help with your issues?

i get asked this a bit and usually send people there too, just curious...

cool!

wear a mask (even outside).  its pretty noxious stuff...

also (just to warn you now)....

you may accidentally breath in a tiny bit of the rit powder.  its really easy to do this, especially when messing with it in the beginning. 

and....  your snot will turn a radical color if this happens.  it'll freak you out.  for sure.

i've done quite a bit of this, maybe this will help...

i doubt you'll be able to pull off a dark smoke black color.  the black dye tends to leave a purple tint.  i'm not sure how to direct you to get that color, its really a difficult dye to get to set like this.  usually blacks aren't pure black anyways, just so dark its negligible,

but, yeah, your ingredient list is right.  you'll use VERY hot water, add the rit dye to this, then add your acetone to the hot water (so you splash water, not acetone).  the acetone will lower the boiling temp of the water, so most likely it will boil up a bit so be prepared for this.

DO NOT use a container that the acetone could weaken.  any type of plastic.  i've found cheap pie plates from the grocery store work really well. 

the ratio depends on the few things, i personally used a stronger acetone solution than what a lot of people seem to do but I was doing a bit of these so felt comfortable with doing that.  the more acetone, the quicker the plastic is weakened.  which means the color takes better, but it also eats at the plastic more.

if you google "rit dye yo-yo" you'll find a bunch of people who colro their yo-yos.  use their tutorials, its basically the same process.

you'll get the hang of it after a couple of them. 

beware of rit dye clumps.  make sure its dissolved well before adding the plastic to the mix.

don't breath in the fumes, they're carcinogenic i believe.

and, this works a lot better if you're able to keep your water temp high for the whole thing.  doing it outside is best, but right now its so cold in a lot of places the water cools really quickly.  if you do it inside make sure you ventilate like crazy.  its really quite unpleasant...

hope that helps!  i'm probably leaving something out...  i'll chime in if i think of anything important.

yeah.  thats a goooood release