My TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine chiptune music...

[fragmare]

Hey, folks, I know a lot of you have probably already seen this stuff posted in the Development section, but I know a lot of people don't always visit that section of the forum.  Plus, rather than continue to clutter up the Development forum posting every time i drop a new chiptune, I'm going to just keep everything in this thread from now on.  Much more neat and organized that way.  So here are some of the TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine chiptune covers I've made thus far.  All were created using Deflemask.  Audio recorded with Mednafen:


Thunder Force V - Duel Of Top

Thunder Force V - Duel Of Top [TFIV Style] HES ROM


Star Fox - Corneria (NEC Avenue Style)



Gaiares - Mission 5 (PSG Drums)

Gaiares - Mission 5 (PSG Drums) HES ROM


Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone HES ROM


Gaiares - Mission 5 (Sampled Drums)

Gaiares - Mission 5 (Sampled Drums) HES ROM


Streets of Rage 2 - Go Straight (Normal Mix)

Streets Of Rage 2 - Go Straight (Normal Mix) HES ROM


Raiden II - Tragedy Flame

Raiden II - Tragedy Flame HES ROM


Streets Of Rage 2 - Go Straight Beatmix

Streets Of Rage 2 - Go Straight Beatmix HES ROM


Super Castlevania IV - Theme Of Simon Belmont (PSG Drums)

Super Castlevania IV - Theme Of Simon Belmont HES ROM


Streets Of Rage - Fighting In The Street

Streets Of Rage - Fighting In The Street HES ROM


Tempest 2000 - Mind's Eye

Tempest 2000 - Mind's Eye HES ROM


Raiden II - Flap Toward The Hope

Raiden II - Flap Toward The Hope HES ROM


Raiden II - Metal Storm

Raiden II - Metal Storm HES ROM

[_joshuaTurbo]

tears are flowing at the beauty!  Thank you so much!  These are spectacular!!

CAN YOU DO PLOK or TURRICAN!?!!??

[lukester]

Pretty phenomenal stuff fragmare, some nice proof of how powerful the soundchip is

Surprising how close the Simon's Theme remix is to the original

[roflmao]

If these forums had a "Like" button, I'd click it.

[seieienbu]

None of these use sampled instruments, correct?  Do you think you might try some tunes with sampled drums/etc in the future?

[Groover]

That is so much fun to listen to. I will have to check out the development section more often. Thanks for sharing.

[Michirin9801]

Good stuff Fragmare! ^^
Keep it up!

[fragmare]

Thanks, folks.  More stuff on the way.  Currently working on Tragedy Flame from the Raiden II OST, right now.

[Ex_Mosquito]

Very nice! I saw these on YouTube recently. Is it possible to play these on real hardware with an Everdrive?

[fragmare]

Very nice! I saw these on YouTube recently. Is it possible to play these on real hardware with an Everdrive?

Yea, for sure!  You guys want me to put up the links to the HES ROMs?

[elmer]

None of these use sampled instruments, correct?  Do you think you might try some tunes with sampled drums/etc in the future?

Some of them are PSG-only, and some include samples ... mostly (exclusively?) for drums.

If you go to the Deflemask forums, fragmare has been absolutely wonderful about posting the original .dmf files so that folks can load them up into Deflemask and see exactly how he's creating his magic.

Michirin9801 has been brilliant about posting her .dmf files, too ... for the last two+ years now.

If it wasn't for the passion of these two musicians to create new PCE music, we wouldn't be so close to having a Deflemask player for use in homebrew games. 

[Michirin9801]

Very nice! I saw these on YouTube recently. Is it possible to play these on real hardware with an Everdrive?

Very much so! Although the format you try it with might wield different results...
Deflemask's own .hes exports sound fine on Mednafen, but they have several problems running on Nezplug and on other emulators, I'm unsure what they'd sound like on the TED but I've heard somewhere that they're not advisable...

The other format is a .pce rom, which is only possible thanks to elmer's hard work on his Huzak sound driver and the DMF2PCE converter which he's been working on a little while back, I've included some PCE roms in my (not so) recent album and I have reason to believe that they'll play fine on your TED because they work wonders on all the emulators I tried them with (although of course, they sound best on Mednafen)
I don't remember whether or not elmer has made .pce roms of Fragmare's music though, the thing is that Huzak currently doesn't support samples...

[fragmare]

Ok, folks, here are all the ROM files.  These should work fine on Mednafen and Ootake.  They SHOULD work on real hardware too, assuming it fits on your EverDrive.  The Tempest 2000 cover has a lot of voice samples and longer drum samples, so it's kinda hefty (584kb?) and most of the tracks use fairly HQ samples (which i could downsample, if i wanted to).  The HES files Deflemask makes are notoriously un-optimized for any kind of game usage, and probably bigger than they need to be (148KB for the CV4 track?  really!?  there aren't even any samples!), but they *should* theoretically play fine on real hardware.  How about you all be my guinea pigs and let me know if they sound ok or not?     

>> Sendspace Link for TEH ROMZ  <<

[geise]

No problem being a guinea pig.  I will find time to test this weekend.  Thank you for all of these.  They are amazing! CV4 I like more than the original and I love the original.

[esteban]