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Golden Fist

By Avrilcadabra on February 4, 2024 11:14 pm

This took a bit of research and learning to do, It's a Track (Obviously) , recorded from a VA6 Japanese Sega Megadrive. So most modern trackers are pretty similar I feel, So I got Furnace Tracker (Deflmask annoys me). Brushed up on some Ctrix videos, learned how to convert a vgm to a bin file, got a flashcart from China, put bin in cart and played on my various megadrives. Rinse repeat this about 30 times because the chip emulation in Furnace is pretty naff.

Didn't really notice the noise floor was this bad on my monitors but didn't have enough time this morning to try and reduce it.

Also got a subwoofer this week, and it has been fairly time consuming to set that up, hopefully is good now. So today onwards my tracks should be improved in the low frequency.

Thanks for listening SEEEEEEGAAAAAAAA

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Love the sound of the megadrive, great track!

This is tight, and on actual hardware. Perhaps you should tell the developers their chip emulation is busted.
- Devieus

Those snares sound like punches!
Also, the metallic Synth doing the main lead sounds SO perfect to the Genesis' ethos. Wonderfully groovy and funky!

I admire the dedication to actual chiptune purity. Confident forward motion in this one, sounds great, noise floor be damned!

mukti wrote:

Love the sound of the megadrive, great track!

Thank you!

Devieus wrote:

This is tight, and on actual hardware. Perhaps you should tell the developers their chip emulation is busted.
- Devieus


Thanks, feels like a lot of devs are like that meme "it's the same thing?"

jegasus wrote:

Those snares sound like punches!
Also, the metallic Synth doing the main lead sounds SO perfect to the Genesis' ethos. Wonderfully groovy and funky!

Cheers gotta have some metallic

rplktr wrote:

I admire the dedication to actual chiptune purity. Confident forward motion in this one, sounds great, noise floor be damned!

I'm not much of a purist, but if I have chips I use them, I can't really fathom though anyone that would write tonnes of megadrive songs and not want to hear them on a megadrive.

Oh yeah this is great. Awesome retro and nice tune.

sneak this one into a Golden Axe ROM!  pretty legit megadrive stylings all around

megacool—that lead really nails that era of Sega Sound.  It's crazy we live in times where it's possible to compile a flashable bin from a songs you made in a tracker and play it directly on hardware cool

sounds awesome, the noise is part of the charm! Even if it's not the same system it took me to back to the old days at the arcade

great to hear some pure megadrive chip here, nice work!

Extra kudos for the hardware dedication. I really love Deflemask and Furnace, though I respect your Path to The Real Sound. Respect, Sir!

Love that lead sound

Ohhhhhhhh!!!  Great to hear the FM rocking it!  Awesome use of stereo imaging.

>> the chip emulation in Furnace is pretty naff.

Hahaha... yeah, it's a bit naff in all of them.  Defle is probably the better, but it's still different once you put it in hardware.  Just the way it breaths and the quiet end of the envolope has that fluffy sound.

Awesome tune tho - glad the FM programming vids helped :-)

cTrix wrote:

Ohhhhhhhh!!!  Great to hear the FM rocking it!  Awesome use of stereo imaging.

>> the chip emulation in Furnace is pretty naff.

Hahaha... yeah, it's a bit naff in all of them.  Defle is probably the better, but it's still different once you put it in hardware.  Just the way it breaths and the quiet end of the envolope has that fluffy sound.

Awesome tune tho - glad the FM programming vids helped :-)

Cheers ctrix, played this one at TGX yesterday, (from the m8) will have to get the megadrive on stage though in future!

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