81 Reply by Saskrotch

(1 replies, posted in Trading Post)

thank you duality micro

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82 Reply by Saskrotch

(10 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

Yeah every one kind of recently lost their shit about this program when the news got out that Aphex Twin used it a lot on Druqks (and was the most common feature requester for the programmer)

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83 Reply by Saskrotch

(13 replies, posted in Collaborations)

You get what you pay for

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84 Reply by Saskrotch

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

Damn this is real good

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85 Reply by Saskrotch

(9 replies, posted in Releases)

Thanks y'all!
If you missed the mix it's on the datafruits soundcloud

Zones 1 is also streaming on soundcloud and available as a youtube playlist!

When it was newly finished I was bummed out and just wanted to post it around and be done with it but here's a little more info:

I used:

A bank of FM8 patches from Sonic 3 & Knuckles, never having more than 5 channels playing at a time
A bunch of percussion samples ripped out of various Sonic games (Mostly Sonic 2)
No EQing (except some Sonic 3 samples because they're super bassy)
Chipsounds for PSG emulation (3 squares and a noise channel)

Other tidbits:
Mystic Mines Zone started off as "Ballistic Factory Zone" and then I was like "that's dumb" and "that doesn't even sound right". The record scratch is from
Metropolis Zone from Sonic 2, it was really hard not to use it on every single track

Dusk Metropolis started off as Metropolis Dusk but then I was like "If I switch those it's an Anamanaguchi reference" I also remade the drums line from Chemical Plant Zone but this one turned out completely different. Half way through I was like "that's fine, I need sort of a happy, Green Hill Zone style track anyway"

Lava Palace Zone started off as Lava Factory, based on Lava Powerhouse from Sonic Spinball. I extracted the groove from another track (I'm not sure which, probably the bonus stage) in Ableton and toned it down a bit.


(Sonic Spinball has some of my favorite tracks because they have such severe, janky shuffles to them)

Egg Gadget Zone is sort of halfway between Death Egg and Flying Battery from Sonic & Knuckles. It's the only track that exclusively uses S3 samples. They're all sort of muddy and hang out in the lower end of the frequency range, I'm assuming because there's about 20 samples in S3 and usually about 5 in S1+2. I think the main thing going into this track was knowing I wanted to use the clap section from the hook of Flying Battery 1+2

Twilight Hill Zone was a poorly executed attempt at doing something that sounded like the Knuckles Chaotix music. The name was sort of a conceptual combination of Midnight Greenhouse from Chaotix and Green Hill Zone. The Chaotix soundtrack is another favorite, because it goes between being incredible and extremely weak. But pretty much any of the slower tracks with a nice groove to it are amazing.

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86 Reply by Saskrotch

(58 replies, posted in General Discussion)

[sad chiptunes playing]

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87 Reply by Saskrotch

(9 replies, posted in Releases)

Also, tonight (about 4 hours from this post) on http://datafruits.fm

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88 Topic by Saskrotch

(9 replies, posted in Releases)

So hey I wrote some tracks because I was excited about sonic mania. I pre-ordered the PC version though so I can't play it. Whatever. Pay what you want.

https://saskrotch.bandcamp.com/album/zones-act-1

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89 Reply by Saskrotch

(89 replies, posted in General Discussion)

actualsaskrotch

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90 Reply by Saskrotch

(1 replies, posted in Past Events)

Bring your swim suit for the hot tub (this is not a joke)

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91 Topic by Saskrotch

(1 replies, posted in Past Events)


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92 Reply by Saskrotch

(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Arc-Demon wrote:
SketchMan3 wrote:

Lazy cheapskates
Edit: Or... Maybe there is no lossless source available?

In the case of Shantae (GBC): no, there isn't--unless someone's willing to download the GBS files (assuming they're accurate rips), put them on a flashcart, and record them off a GameBoy.

I've done that a couple times, it's pretty easy. There's a tool somewhere that converts a gbs file to a rom

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93 Reply by Saskrotch

(8 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Loads up with GameYob, haven't tested it much but did a little bass in the wav channel and it doesn't sound like garbage the way it will on a lot of portable emulators.

it also automatically maps a secondary select/start to X/Y which is handy as the dickens

tested on o3DS with the 3ds.guide CFW method

update: the wave channel is a LITTLE garbage but its good for sketching

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94 Reply by Saskrotch

(9 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)

I would highly doubt it runs on 10.3. It's intel/ppc which I don't think really kicked in til 10.4

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95 Reply by Saskrotch

(55 replies, posted in Sega)

catskull wrote:
freezedream wrote:

That cart looks amazing! The clear case works really well. Nice!

Thanks! I'm super stoked about it. There will be a very good reason for the clear-ness as well wink

oh fuck is there gonna be seamonkeys inside

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96 Reply by Saskrotch

(55 replies, posted in Sega)

:cool guy with sunglasses emoji:

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