Untitled Chiptune Suite

This is a short (just over 2 minutes) chiptune piece with three distinct moods and melodies arranged into four segments played on a Sega Master System. It's got a nice bop when required, and the melancholy section was a little bit inspired by the theme to Metroid II.

The Sega Master System can be to work with, and this was, in part, an exercise in getting a handle on one of the odd oscillator modes.

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posted by The Great Big Mulp (4 comments total)

Not Sega, yet that singing triangle wave reminds of the Zelda II tone. This is great! I should check out some Master System music, which I missed back in the day.
posted by ignignokt at 8:18 AM on November 18 [1 favorite]

One of my favorite Master System osts is the Quartet soundtrack. The songs themselves are from the Quartet arcade cabinet, but the Master System renditions of them are just fantastic. They're all bangers, but my favorites among them are the songs for level 2 (that b-section has really stuck with me since childhood -- it's part of the reason I own a Master System today) and level 4 (for the audacity of including the breakdown and drum solo).
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 10:18 AM on November 18

Won me over as it went on. Not sure if if would work as a level song. Not sure if now is the time to throw out an unofficial mefimu challenge, but it would be fun to do some chiptune covers. Obv, I'd do "then she begins," or "A very tiny house."
posted by es_de_bah at 10:30 PM on November 21 [1 favorite]

I don't think it'd work as level music -- I mostly had three different 4 to 8 bar phrases I didn't know how to develop further, so I just stuck them together. Individually, I think each of the themes sounds like music for:
Theme 1, 4: an rpg town*
Theme 2: a mythical backstory
Theme 3: some kind of upgrade shop/menu

* I feel like most of the songs I've been working on the Master System sound like rpg town music
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 10:30 AM on November 22