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And many others like Treasure Master, Pictionary, Silfer Surfer...

Dear NES music lovers, In case you still don't know, Tim Follin (yes, the legend himself) has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for his new and original interactive movie / game project, named "Contradiction" - A unique gaming concept that puts you in full control of a murder m...

Wouldn't it be possible to use something simpler to transfer data to the NES? I mean, the second Famicom controller has a microphone that can be used for input, so couldn't we just make a controller cable that connects to the audio output of a PC and transfer the data encoded as audio? This would m...

Thank you mic_. I had a look at that one but found it expensive. I suppose it's not for what it does, but since it's only for saving some sounds...

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Alberto

I'm planning on buying a NES console and some sort of development flash cart to put the binary files on it. Does anyone know of a good and cheap one (tested, no guessing please)? It should be compatible with Windows 7 64 bit. I would like to have some sounds recorded from the real console. Thanks! /...

Thank you very much KGN-004, I'm glad you liked the sountrack :O) [off topic mode on] Now that I've reached this thread again, please allow me to share some very old songs with you. Recently I have been uploading most of my ancient non commercial 8 bit tunes to a soundcloud page. There are tunes fro...

The technique for programming drums using the triangle channel is very simple. You use the triangle channel for very few frames (1 to 4, depending on the sound) with carefully chosen frequencies for each frame, along with the noise channel using also carefully chosen frequencies and volumes from a t...

To me is clearly noticeable and not necessarily on fast tempos. Specially on the drums and hats which are very periodic by nature.

Frame rate do quantize tempos, actually. The counter overflow does not produce proper stable tempo, it produce a swinging tempo that is flows like 2-2-2-3-2-2-2-3 frames per row, and it could be noticeable, with staccato parts for example, or with arpeggio parts (arpeggio restarts on a new note). E...

Most probably, but I'm a damn perfectionist! someone could get it for true. I'm glad you noticed it.

If you have absolute pitch, that is a wonderful gift! One of the things I liked more about making music for games is that it forces you to try and adapt yourself to different music styles and moods. Making "smurfy" music out of the game is not the same :D I read what I posted some pages ba...

Shao, those questions would be far off the topic and I don't want to hijack the thread.

Drop me a line to albertojgp @ gmail . com and I'll answer your questions in plain spanish

Well, I think it's normal to start with a melody and reach a point where you don't know how to follow it. Happens to me all the time. Just need to persevere, or try another idea if you're stuck and out of time. Fortunately game BGMs tend to be short :) I usually composed lots of ideas before selecti...

When I started making music I didn't know that a triplet, or a quarter note, or chord was called like that, I only knew that certain notes sounded good put together. I didn't even know about tempos or MIDI, I always named the time of the notes using frames-per-second. Of course now it's different bu...

@Drag That's a very interesting way of programming tunes. I couldn't do with so much HEX though, first I would do is define a bunch of macros to manage that driver :D I mean, I can understand Rob Hubbard doing it that way in 1983 because of not having proper compilers and editors, but not now! I was...