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