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TWO MORE TUNES today.

 

Also thought I'd show a little progression in the development of a tune.

Here's the 2600-ization of the title screen song from Wizards & Warriors:

Tommy whipped that up for me a few weeks ago on a whim, I guess.

 

Here's the first draft of that: WnW20060925a.bin That's just the notes.

 

Here's the 2nd draft: WnW20060925b.bin For this one, I made the lower notes (in the first measure, the 2nd, 4th, etc.) a little softer, I made the countermelody articulated, and I tweaked the articulation a bunch until the notes "rang" a little. After listening to the original (NES) I also cut one note out of the countermelody. If I was going to use this for anything I'd probably do more polishing, starting with slightly fading out the last measure.

 

Aaaand: I also added another song to the "tunes" collection: Tunes20060925.binI also redid some of the incidental code for that ROM: now the newest song is the song that plays by default (the trigger still will cycle through to the older songs) plus RESET no longer just restarts the binary - now it restarts the current song. I'm also trying to think of a good "music kernel" for this and similar binaries. Any ideas? The current one is a little chaotic.

 

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