[Polly]

I've posted about good ol' FamiTracker in the past. Great for making spot-on NES tunes. I've taken a bit of an interest over the last year or two in down-sizing tunes that would actually play on a real NES (not those poopy MIDI conversions), and this evening, I did a cover of Phantasy Star IV's title screen theme off the cuff since it's one of my favorite game tunes.

You can listen to said tune here:
http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/misc/...ium(final).mp3

You can have a look at the FamiTracker Module here: (you need FamiTracker to open it)
http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/misc/...Millennium.ftm

For this cover I made use of Konami's VRC6 expansion.

Since I tend to do all my cover tunes off-the-cuff, there's a bit of room for error, but I was really happy with how this one turned out. Has quite a bit more ass-end to it than the original Genesis/Mega Drive version, and the NES' square wave outputs aren't as "twangy" as the FM outputs of the Genesis.

I'm considering doing a few more Phantasy Star IV (or others in the series) in the future since this one turned out so well.

Hope you enjoy!

[Rock Eastwood]

AWESOME!!!!

Now you just need to make the quality as shitty as possible by uploading it to youtube and playing it on the lowest quality and it'll sound like it's coming from a gameboy!

Also I tried to use famitracker before... and it was like looking at a giant math problem... D:

Then again I don't even know how to use fruity loops (but my brother can throw a song together in like 5 minutes e_e )

Then again I don't even know how to play an instrument....

I'll just stick to drawing.

[Polly]

Originally Posted by Rock Eastwood

I'll just stick to drawing.

You're quite awesome at the drawing, so it works out just fine.

Glad you liked it. Actually, to GameBoy-ify it, all I'd have to do is mute a few tracks and change a duty cycle or two hehe. Wouldn't be EXACT GameBoy standards, but it'd be close enough. (Actually, http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/misc/gameboy_version.mp3 <--A pseudo GameBoy'ish version I slapped together. No way the GameBoy has that much low-end, but I think it's an alright idea of what a GameBoy arrange may sound like.)

FamiTracker can be a bit to get a handle on at first, but yeah, a musical background definitely helps.

[CelestialBlade]

Still love it babe, awesome stuff. Amazed how well it translated over to the NES chipset and it arguably sounds better. Would love to hear more!

[qoxolg]

Sounds pretty cool!

FamiTracker eh...? reminds me back of the ScreamTracker/ImpulseTracker/FastTracker days.. trackers are so easy to understand compared to those complicated sequencers these days..

I think I also had a tracker to make Sega Master System tunes. Forgot what it was called.

[ScottyMango]

This is awesome. Even though it sounds 8-bit, it still sounds really smooth and easy to listen to unlike most 'midi' music.

Plus it's so well put together and clean/polished sounding. I really dig it.