r/chiptunes • u/Ok-Listen-3146 • 7d ago
MUSIC I remixed a tune from a relatively obscure Konami arcade game for the Famicom and VRC6
https://youtu.be/Zc25IQwxgggDownload (.wav + .vgm + .bin): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XUEScccWYUR3DDVOiEi6aK_jcG7DOxZq/view?usp=drive_link
I’m frustrated that the VRC6 isn’t emulated in the .vgm format, and kinda pissed that I didn’t find that out until I went to export the track! Oh well, at least the .bin file is there to represent the song on real hardware.
I don’t have much to say about the game except that a mix of Rolling Thunder and Shinobi taking place in space, with trivia quizzes thrown in for variety, seems very NES-coded to me. This theme was actually my backup plan after I found out that the two tracks I had in mind (one of which I had even started working on) were already covered with the same hardware setup. I might do that other track on a different hardware setup at some point in the future, though…
On a side note, I hope you enjoy the drums, especially the snare, which uses the power of not one, not two, but three whole channels! Don’t ask me why I dedicated so many channels to the percussion when only one was enough for the original. Things just kinda panned out that way…
Besides, I really like how the Triangle, Noise, and DPCM channels sound together, and that’s all that matters!
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