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Takeshi Abo - Memories Off 8bit Arrange Anonymous
For those of you who are into 8-bit music. Picked this up at a private tracker and decided to share.

http://www.deadfrog.us/index.php?act=entry&id=7097
>> Anonymous
cheers mate, any more 8bit music.
I have YMCK already
>> Anonymous
thanks, and oh, YMCK is the best. <3
>> Anonymous
Awesome, I love 8-bit music.
>> Anonymous
www.dotmatrix.at - german gameboy music with about 100 free mp3s

Also check out 8-bit weapon. Their site has a few free mp3s. D/L Gameboy Rocker
>> Anonymous
thank you
>> Anonymous
Looks like my first torrent was a success :D You guys seed unlike other communities I've shared with. Thanks.
>> Anonymous
More 8-Bit!

http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography_gfx.php

Check out Anamanaguchi.
>> Anonymous
I take it this is music from the Memories Off games?
>> Anonymous
This is pretty dissapointing as far as 8-bit arrangments go, simply because I keep hearing FM instruments in alot of the songs.
>> Anonymous
>>128010
A lot of old, well, i should say 16-bit games used FM synthesis, such as SNES and Sega Genesis, so it isn't strange to hear a FM synth-sounding song. (i.e. Sonic the Hedgehog). Another thing--the SNES and Genesis was made around the late 80's to early 90s. This was when FM synthesis was the rage, and analog square and triangle wave synths (i.e. NES and Atari) were "obsolete".
>> Anonymous
Well this should be called 16-bit music then.
>> Anonymous
This album sounds like the guy just took midis of the songs and ran it through chip-sounding VSTs. I imagine he was going for a nintendo Famicom type of sound, so it doesn't sound quite right when you can hear more channels playing than the Famicom is able to play. Also, there isn't any interesting instrumentation, not like you would hear from many chiptune artists that program it all in MML. It just sounds like a bunch of presets. Also, the FM instruments are pretty out of place with the Famicom sound. It would not only be a stretch to call this 8-bit, it is kind of a stretch to catagorize this as "chiptune".

To sum it up: Lazy producer is LAZY
>> Anonymous
What the fuck is this shit.
>> Anonymous
I recall the Famicom Disk System had at least one FM channel, perhaps he was trying to emulate that?
>> Anonymous
Regarding what this may be attempting to sound like... The comments from a friend of mine might be enlightening:

friend: i dled an 8bit music collection torrent
friend: it sounds EXACTLY like a Sega GameGear o.O
friend: i played that thing for years, which is why i recognise it so well
friend: it was sega's answer to the GameBoy, a handheld console. technologically superior as it had a colour screen and stereo sound, but the massive battery consumption thanks to the color screen made it sell a lot less than the gameboy
friend: there was even a tv tuner for game gear
>> Anonymous
>>128188
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Gamegear
"The Game Gear was not very popular in Japan, where it was released to a generally apathetic audience, with build quality issues plaguing it early in its service life." ?
>> Anonymous
IIRC SNES only had FM synthesis.
>> Anonymous
whats the name of the private tracker? been looking for a video game music private tracker
>> emptythought !pxgvYor53.
>>128188
holy fuck he's right, i knew this sounded familiar.

one of the songs in particular reminded me of the music on sonic 2 for the gg
>> Anonymous
>>127715

Check out Bit Shifter, USK, Random, Paza, RushJet1, x|k(!), goto80(!) and Role Model & Nullsleep to start with.
>> Anonymous
thanks for this.
>> Anonymous
Made of win and awesome. I'm seeding.
>> NRS
This is really nice stuff. Much thanks for the torrent!
>> Anonymous
thanks for this, awesome stuff
personally i find true 8bit to be a little harsh on the ears... this is simplistic while still being rather entertaining.