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@monsterblue oh yeah we also did one of a cover of a classical piece we really like that we played in high school string orchestra
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@starkatt ooh, i read that part but didn't put two and two together.
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@starkatt now i'm intensely curious why they aren't identical
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@monsterblue yeah it has real good music and aesthetics, i just don't think the gameplay is anything to write home about
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@monsterblue that just kinda seems to be a thing with these lesser-known great video game composers, most of the games their music ended up in are awful

it's like you don't buy a game and get a tim follin soundtrack, you buy a tim follin album and get a free game with it
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@monsterblue i don't know if we've ever seen a tim follin soundtrack on a game we would say is actually *good*

the music is always outstanding, of course, but the closest to good game we can think of is plok, which just gets Pretty Okay ranking
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@monsterblue in theory it'd probably be possible to also detect whether the console supports it and switch between two versions of the soundtrack too

oh, also just about every emulator will support sound chips too, by the way
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@monsterblue and i mean there's all the classics from castlevania and mario and stuff too, the ones you think of when you think good music on the NES (the link above is amazing music but pretty unknown because the game is hot garbage, they just got tim follin to do the soundtrack)
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@monsterblue well if you want them to run on an original NES you'd need to just not use any add-on sound chips, so you get the usual five NES channels and that's it, but you can do a lot of neat stuff with that, give this a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi7l8ZIrG8s
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@monsterblue oh and this one was where we first experimented with pitchbends, that was a neat one

wow there's more of these than i'd thought
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@monsterblue uhh i have no idea! if your famiclone plays the audio fine from Mr. Gimmick! or Akumajō Dracula III (the famicom versions, not the NES ones, hence the japanese titles) it'll play these too
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@monsterblue it would not, but it would play on a famicom

the NES doesn't support the additional sound chips that the famicom did, and this track makes use of the Konami VRC6, which adds two additional square waves and one sawtooth wave
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@monsterblue the part we were always best at was making the instruments
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@monsterblue here are a couple of the ones we're more proud of

...oh we can only do one at a time when it's audio, i'll put these in a couple posts then
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