Alpha Denshi Jam
By Snyderman on July 9, 2026 5:29 am
Short week, had to submit by Wednesday. Started with a piano house thing and then eventually went into something else a little more heavier, maybe akin to the NES TMNT game, with a kind of off beat ending just because.
Furnace Tracker again, decided to dig deeper into the chips and stumbled on an arcade configuration for the arcade game Equites by Alpha Denshi which uses the MSM5232, AY-3-8910, and a really limited MSM 6258 sample channel.
The MSM5232 is a fairly interesting chip; it's from around 1983 and uses 8 channels of additive synthesis similar to an organ (combine up to 4 octaves of sound). Very limited volume controls, but a fairly unique method of sound generation for the time. Had fun playing around with it.
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