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DistantMemory
11/07/17 12:13:31 AM
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...what would you call the kind of 8-bit sounding music that they used in the NES days?
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jramirez23
11/07/17 12:16:28 AM
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Maybe it's called chiptune?
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wah_wah_wah
11/07/17 12:17:43 AM
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Aren't they also midis?
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DistantMemory
11/07/17 12:17:44 AM
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jramirez23 posted...
Maybe it's called chiptune?


Ah, yes, thank you.
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DistantMemory
11/07/17 12:18:10 AM
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wah_wah_wah posted...
Aren't they also midis?


If they are, is there some better term for the N64-style music? It's definitely different from chiptune.
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Red_Frog
11/07/17 12:26:12 AM
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The N64 was capable of using PCM, it's just that even compressed audio takes a ton of storage space which was a huge premium for those cartridges.

Music on the stock NES had five channels available, a triangle wave generator, a noise generator, two pulse channels and a channel for digital samples.
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DistantMemory
11/07/17 12:27:06 AM
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Well what's the proper term to refer to the type of music OoT had?
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Yellow
11/07/17 12:34:02 AM
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DistantMemory posted...
...what would you call the kind of 8-bit sounding music that they used in the NES days?

DistantMemory posted...
8-bit
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DistantMemory
11/07/17 12:35:38 AM
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Yellow posted...
DistantMemory posted...
...what would you call the kind of 8-bit sounding music that they used in the NES days?

DistantMemory posted...
8-bit


I was looking for the proper term. 8-bit isn't that, it refers to the graphics. Chiptune is what I was looking for.
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Red_Frog
11/07/17 12:52:54 AM
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DistantMemory posted...
Well what's the proper term to refer to the type of music OoT had?

Sorry, I'm not really that familiar with the game. If I had to wager a guess based on the cartridge size and type of game I'd say it's probably either entirely something like MIDI, or mostly MIDI with maybe an occasional PCM recording.
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pigfish99
11/07/17 1:03:35 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Efvh8yVnJE

this was musical genius for the n64.
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Melon_Master
11/07/17 2:28:24 AM
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I think there were voices in Star Ocean for the Super Famicom.
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Mead
11/07/17 2:31:07 AM
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Banana songs
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Foppe
11/07/17 2:53:42 AM
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Melon_Master posted...
I think there were voices in Star Ocean for the Super Famicom.

Some Nes games had voices, like Ghostbusters.
Anyway, I think midi is the best term for N64 music. Nintendo kept using it for both the Gamecube and Wii hardware.
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