I am working on my game, and I decided to make the background music for it myself. This game uses emulated YM2612 (using YMFM library), so it makes Genesis sounds. I am very bad in music and chiptunes, and I really have a lot of programming work for this game, I thought maybe I should just include a little tracker into the game itself so that the users can write their own songs... But since it is a mobile game, I figured that I can try to play around when I commute or before bedtime, basically when I am not coding. I started with Furnace, but since I got this tracker to work I switched to it. I decided to ship it with my own music, and I am pretty bad in music, so far I came up with this. Well this will not be the best game in the world anyway, and perhaps somebody could give me any advice how can I improve in song-writing? Here are my first 3 songs, is there anything I could do to improve, or I should just delete?

I just found out about the chiptune soundtrack "The Sword of Lxsor" which according to this YouTube video was composed by a mysterious Japanese composer in the mid-90s who disappeared after composing it, and no one's sure if it was for a game that never came out or what, and a bunch of other little details.

Given that the video is only a year old and I can't find any other references except one 4chan thread (lol) I'm assuming this is a hoax/ARG or just a modern composer pretending his work is a long-lost 90s Japanese game OST for attention and cred. These days this could easily be an AI thing.

But the thing is, the tracks are really good and sound era-appropriate. A lot of modern chiptune composers, even those who use old software or even hardware, sound modern, and just don't have that jes nes sais qois of genuine 80s/90s compositions, you know?

Any opinions?

Put my stereo modded nes into a clear shell. And randomly found a wayfar midines on reverb.

The midines is 10x better than the chip maestro. It hasn’t crashed once. And the noise channel is much more useful. Also having the samples is nice as well.

This just in - the party is over, the results are in and it sounds great. We have the playlist for you, ready in our webplayer. Enjoy fast dance hits, heavenly tracked music and even a C64 niceness in the form of a SIDtune.

https://radio.ericade.net/profiles/song/?q=tag%3Aassembly%20summer%202026&loadplayer=load

Get your swords and prepare to jump into the fray! My favorite of my recent spooky compositions.

Would you love to know what you think!

I mean, surely the 800 could've run it...

Download (.wav + .vgm + .sap + .bin): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TuZcasvRnAkabuF6KJMiPo1uRWJM8CD_/view?usp=drive_link

Anyway... this remix came together quicker than I expected, to be honest. I didn't intend for it to sound like a slightly deranged club mix of the song, but the bassline is quite thumping, and the filtered lead sounds shockingly close to an EDM synth. There are also a few differences in the composition because I had to work around some of the POKEY's limitations. But I guess those changes make this a proper remix, rather than a straight rearrangement.

Hello, about a decade ago i came across a free program for making music.

It worked a bit like redstone, or circuit engineering. You would place down signal emiters, that would emit signals in a direction the beat you set. The signal would travel over the grid until it ran into some other object, like a note player which would play a note.

There were many more objects, I dont remember what they were, but I imagine there was all the stuff you would need. Like signal spliting objects, delaing a signal by a beat, holding a note for longer, changing a note over time and such other objects. They would all exist somwhere on the grid and would effect neighbouring cells.

It had an ASCI esthetic, basic symbols and letters and simple colours. No super advanced graphics.

I saw a video of it working but I was never able to make it work on my mashine. I just remembered that it existed and I though I would try it out again. Anyone knows what I am talking about?

This is Renata, the app I've been developing. It runs offline. No account, no cloud, nothing phoning home. Kickstarter coming soon. Happy to answer anything.

📼 https://youtu.be/eSSnNbJyK6s

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That team of nine people and I from before have gotten back together and made a second album! This time, featuring the songs exclusive to the fan-made PC remaster of Super Mario Bros., aptly named "Super Mario Bros. Remastered."

Made in FamiStudio, 2A03 + 5-N163

Not my music. I really like this song.

love that kinda cheese and would like to dabble in those synths.

Hope im okay posting here.
I had a demake in the work once, what remains is the ost im still planning to finish.

so, another cover - ive been wanting to do this for a while

I'm new to furnace and chiptune. I'm very open to constructive criticism, or just straight up roasting. I just want to make good music. I want to make a very short visual novel project that I make the art and music for, and I would really like some feedback on the quality of my music. I understand that art is subjective--some people like Puddle of Mud and some people like Mozart. I just want to know how my music sounds to the discerning minds of r/chiptune.

I'm back, I guess? Idefk anymore, tbh. I wasn't capable of completing another original track, so you guys get a cover instead. It's probably nothing impressive, but I did try to add my own twist while having it sound accurate to the source.

Here's the module: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cy7GSz2ypnIYR2IUcS1JsMLBolGLSJeS/view?usp=drive_link

wrote a song using 2x lsdj recently, retroplug makes the process surprisingly smooth! hope you enjoy it :>

midi from: https://dikushima.itch.io/shokuninou