i love it when games running on limited soundchips somehow manage to emulate shredding into their soundtracks because they can - ThreadSky

existingkirb.bsky.social • 6 days ago

i love it when games running on limited soundchips somehow manage to emulate shredding into their soundtracks because they can

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concordantly.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fun fact: the GBA outright didn't have a sound chip, that's all being run off the CPU.
This is also the reason why the ill advised games that attempted rudimentary 3D on that console had so little music or sound in them.

existingkirb.bsky.social•6 days ago

if you have any more examples of this (or just older games pushing their soundchip’s limits) do share please i’m really into this topic

brunobeaw.bsky.social•6 days ago

Plok for snes
X for gameboy

armormodekeeg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Atari Games's 720° in the arcades goes for a rock sound in general and has some grimy FM synth shredding. goes hard IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC4QJe9FBUE&t=397s

wowowood.bsky.social•6 days ago

The entirety of Sunstar’s theme for Mega Man V Gameboy

https://youtu.be/qeaxTwhY1W0?si=wP18yrxKg-YNVyJI

wowowood.bsky.social•6 days ago

Also Heart of Enker from Mega Man 10, technically a newer game, but of course with NES sound design

https://youtu.be/n6TE-qkgMSA?si=j3sv_7Sz-YhRFkvi

wowowood.bsky.social•6 days ago

To round out the Mega Man series, here are a couple songs from the X and Zero series, though I felt like SNES and GBA might’ve been cheating. (There are definitely even more examples in these two series)

https://youtu.be/uI2R7DDadIY?si=50a48yEraekHZGpx

https://youtu.be/hEZnFHFeUSc?si=MXk4u4-KwGm5Nc0K

https://youtu.be/8NswzBEf8I4?si=bx3IevxyddV2WCG0

kyriepage.bsky.social•6 days ago

Definitely check out the works of Tim Follin, but I'd be remiss to not mention the incredible work the Konami Sound Team did on the Famicom version of Castlevania 3, which expanded the Famicom sound hardware to add extra channels and it's incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptgaCJSF7j8

boobachu.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://youtu.be/4_gObHt1uZA

laughingcorvus.bsky.social•5 days ago

SNES MMX games and iirc Zoids Legacy/Saga2 on GBA both did really good at it too

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