When I pondered getting into chiptune this is the first thing I saw, over 2 years later and I regret nothing. Thanks for helping introduce me to some fine music. hehe I converted these to .wav and burned them.
@PerpetualMindDump I use a Commodore 64 emulator on Fruityloops but would like to do it other ways too as I'm not sure if my way is "authentic" to the style.
beautiful. could anyone recommend what I should read in order to learn more about audio? How could I listen to this at the highest quality? I can hear the muffling youtube adds and just want to understand why this sort of thing happens. I'm a complete audio noob
@halfaheartbongobongo hey, you seem to know the exact difference between "chiptune" and "8-bit", but unfortunately i never were able to explain how these two are divided, even though I knew they are different... so, would you mind to give some kind of a definition of it? thanks in advance^^
@axelasdf no I am correct. Look at the registers your using and unless your using a Math Co Processor, the registers are as I listed. Math Co processor is for converting if they floating point unit was not check suming with these registers.
I always try making my own music with whatever program but it always fails..... can someone recommend a chiptune song that I can use for my school project ? (will be mentioned in credits)
@axelasdf 8 bits would be the size of the individual data points. In this application the tunes are generated with a precision of 8bits. Basically the output can range from 0 - 255 or if they are using PWM it would be 256 different possible frequencies.
@binbashLinuxAhole ermm... Hi, I noticed you seem to know alot about this kind of thing and since I´m a rising chip tune artist noob, Could you, maybe, be so kind as to tell me if the MilkyTracker software is good or bad... and where I could research to find out how to be the best chiptune artist i can be? please.
These chiptunes were made in formats that could be played on ex. an Amiga a long time ago, which is why they qualify as chiptunes. I know that I've written songs that have been called chiptunes because they could be losslessly converted to a module format.
Absolutely Brilliant! @ICrusherRiderI In the description are the download links for them. They're saved in the Extended Module Format. You can play these using many programs. My favorite is the VLC Player. It's open-source, so it's absolutely free.
@PokeFreakOfTheYear that's because they're not mp3 files, they can not be played by an mp3 player unless you convert them first. The download links work fine if you want the XM files.
@mistervanderveer whats so bad about being mainstream? would you want your favorite music to remain unnoticed? all im saying is that mainstream doesn't mean tacky and not good...
I invented chiptunes so i know alot about the genre so i cn say with authority that this compilation is probably a 1 on a scale of 1 to how awesome i am. this guy is a poser and would be hard pressed to actually name me a real chiptune that is awesomer than me.
They are awesome, a few years ago I used some tracks for an awful game that I was making...non profit, of course.. a few months I found a web called chiptune.org..where this tracks are uploaded, maybe there you can contact some of this great chiptuners!
These songs make me wax poetic..... "Ode to the days of wasted youth in front of an 8-bit Nintendo, trading cartridges with friends in elementary school and rubbing erasers on the connectors to get them to work - to days of copying 5 1/4 inch floppy disks of games such as Loderunner and Oregon Trail for your apple IIe or IIc or Commodore and then playing free games on a monochromatic screen.... The good old days are gone, but not forgotten...." :)
@YulliSomenone Nice! Your work is appreciated and I'll add the link to all video descriptions so it's easily accessable and doesn't get lost in all these comments. :) However, please note that XM is actually the original file format of (most of) these tunes. It is also a source format, meaning that you can actually load it into a program like Milky Tracker and edit the files etc. So I don't think dismay would be an appropriate reaction for having them. ;)
0:30 - I want to go through the long painful experience of learning computer programming well enough to make a video game with this music (paying the artist ofc, hopefully they're not too hard to contact?). So epic!
All I know is he's a member of Titan, so that should be a way to get his contact details: titandemo.org (assuming you're talking about Strobe in particular).
The differences are very minor. .xm files are made from Fasttracker, .it files are made from Impulse Tracker (what I used to use. XD) .mod files I don't believe are set to a particular program, and I think may be a little more universal. They all hold a similar type of information though. Instruments, what notes to play when, what effects go where, what section is played at what time, etc.
@WillP999 These are full tunes, yes. I always fade them out right before they are about to loop, except if they are really short, then I let them loop once.
Exactly. As a Kid, I didn't even know what a "crack" was, and the guy who sold me an illegal copy of 'Escape to Monkey Island' ended up getting arrested because he was selling thousands of copies of games. Now, over a decade later, I'm listening to this music and realizing, why haven't I ever played Escape to Monkey Island?!
I knew about the 8/16 bit remixes, but the 'Chiptune' music style, it's the very 1st time I'm present to this. Lovely Atari, NES and Game Boy times ^^ PS: I also liked what electronic music producers did with this, giving it heavier bass and kick, like deadmau5 did on his song '8bit', for example. =P
Sure, you can render the .xm files to .wav (using XMPlay for example) and then encode those as MP3. Watch my other compilations for other recommended artists.
I am aware of the size restraints normally applied to chip modules, but I cared more for the music than for technical details in these compilations. Also, I am very well aware of (and lived) the old days and I still listen to Hubbard et al. as well as more recent SID stuff. ;)
@thronka You are wrong when you say 1024 bits = 1 byte. I know this much. I only asked the question to diffuse the situation at hand. I know that THERE ARE 8 BITS in EVERY BITE. (with a few exceptions: Signal processing applications tend to operate on larger values and some digital signal processors have 16 or 40 bits as the smallest unit of addressable storage (on such processors a byte may be defined to contain this number of bits).)
@ilovemyhonda250ex No, they're not, but you can think of MadTracker as basically a FastTracker remake for Windows. Other than that, they're completely separate products.
There's plenty of mainstream music that is good. The point is that good is good, and good will remain good regardless of how many people like it. The real message is don't be a hipster.
>Switches to turtle beach head set (fuck COD but the head set is badass) >Sets video to 240p >Ears bleed from sweet epic chips OH GOD YES BEST MORNING ROUTINE EVER
@deadlock365 The thing about chiptunes, is that they're not compressed. They are naturally that small because of how "low" their quality is. They're being processed through processors meant for 8 or 16 bit games, and most nes cartridges held less than 1mb!
![ORiON - Against The Time (Keygen song) [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6Kzgxu_4YDQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Been about 10 years. Still dope
Who is still jammin' to these bangers in 2024?
How can something so easy, make me so happy? Goosebumps everytime, I guess its the nostalgia
0:00 Strobe - Chipset Senset
2:55 Loonie - Back 2k
4:45 Josss - Fuck Da Ripper (lol)
7:03 Raina - Yellowhale
Unsung hero.
This shit is so good.
Mate, leave and go listen to whatever autotuned shit you enjoy.
You're drunk, I see.
Oh yes, great tune! I remember Turrican saga from the Amiga computers
When I pondered getting into chiptune this is the first thing I saw, over 2 years later and I regret nothing. Thanks for helping introduce me to some fine music. hehe I converted these to .wav and burned them.
@PerpetualMindDump I use a Commodore 64 emulator on Fruityloops but would like to do it other ways too as I'm not sure if my way is "authentic" to the style.
very cool music, the up and down part in the background in Yellowhale reminds me so much of calling Pegasus in The Battle Of Olympus
Great stuff!
Strobe - good drive, good chip percussion
Yellowhale - nice build up from light percussion to full sounding drum kit
Piracy and keygens brought me here xD
nice to hear some well made chiptunes once in a while
beautiful. could anyone recommend what I should read in order to learn more about audio? How could I listen to this at the highest quality? I can hear the muffling youtube adds and just want to understand why this sort of thing happens. I'm a complete audio noob
Chiptunes always brings da hero within yah!
Does anyone know where i can download a program that will allow me to compose chiptunes like these?
Is it strange that I enjoy music from practically every genre out there?
@halfaheartbongobongo hey, you seem to know the exact difference between "chiptune" and "8-bit", but unfortunately i never were able to explain how these two are divided, even though I knew they are different...
so, would you mind to give some kind of a definition of it? thanks in advance^^
Wow. number one is really epic
Im sorry. They are all extremely good :D
@axelasdf no I am correct. Look at the registers your using and unless your using a Math Co Processor, the registers are as I listed. Math Co processor is for converting if they floating point unit was not check suming with these registers.
I always try making my own music with whatever program
but it always fails.....
can someone recommend a chiptune song that I can use for my school project ? (will be mentioned in credits)
dude, this is some pretty grade A chipmusic, I can definitely get down to these sick beats. Keep up the good work!
Chiptunes are just rad to the max. I'm downloading a bunch of them and making a collection.
@axelasdf 8 bits would be the size of the individual data points. In this application the tunes are generated with a precision of 8bits. Basically the output can range from 0 - 255 or if they are using PWM it would be 256 different possible frequencies.
@binbashLinuxAhole ermm... Hi, I noticed you seem to know alot about this kind of thing and since I´m a rising chip tune artist noob, Could you, maybe, be so kind as to tell me if the MilkyTracker software is good or bad... and where I could research to find out how to be the best chiptune artist i can be? please.
I listend to it as i was a kid. and still i Comeback every year roughly :D
A great collection of songs to have in the background while playing Minecraft. :)
I wish I lived in the 80,s. Must have been wonderfull being part of the Commodore 64 and the Amiga days. ALL HAIL THE GAMES OF THE PAST!
@LegitFerret I downloaded it and i dont seem to have any instruments with it, where do i get those from?
These chiptunes were made in formats that could be played on ex. an Amiga a long time ago, which is why they qualify as chiptunes. I know that I've written songs that have been called chiptunes because they could be losslessly converted to a module format.
Loonie - Back 2k ... this is probably the greatest chiptune music ever...
Damn that first tune is NASTY! If that were ever in a game, it would have to be the most epic NES game ever.
Chipset Sunset is amazing.
Absolutely Brilliant!
@ICrusherRiderI In the description are the download links for them. They're saved in the Extended Module Format. You can play these using many programs. My favorite is the VLC Player. It's open-source, so it's absolutely free.
@PokeFreakOfTheYear that's because they're not mp3 files, they can not be played by an mp3 player unless you convert them first. The download links work fine if you want the XM files.
@mistervanderveer whats so bad about being mainstream? would you want your favorite music to remain unnoticed? all im saying is that mainstream doesn't mean tacky and not good...
The second and third one are really nice!
This was made in 2008 but it will NEVER be old, you know what I mean?
I invented chiptunes so i know alot about the genre so i cn say with authority that this compilation is probably a 1 on a scale of 1 to how awesome i am. this guy is a poser and would be hard pressed to actually name me a real chiptune that is awesomer than me.
I was looking for some music for my game. Does anyone know the copy right for these songs?
They are awesome, a few years ago I used some tracks for an awful game that I was making...non profit, of course.. a few months I found a web called chiptune.org..where this tracks are uploaded, maybe there you can contact some of this great chiptuners!
what is this kind of music called? and what are verry populair artists?
love the tunes - excellent choice and great swagger !
above them in terms of perception and comprehension
but you are correct in saying that this has little to do with enjoyment
amen..........i remember first hearing these type of tunes at about 5 or 6 years old
@Solar2 That's one reason why I like electronic music in general. :D Trance, house, electro... But chiptune is just straight awesome.
GOD!! Why does chiptune sound so magic??
Awesome compositions in the mix!
Er this might seem like a stupid question since I'm all new to the music programs and instruments but what program do you use to make chiptunes?
If Double Dragon had Chipset Sunset in it I'd still be playing it right now.
I'm not a pirate or anything so uh I wouldn't know anything about that whats a keygen
*Absolutely Agreed*
I'm grown up with C64, and nowadays, im still hearing chiptunes.
Isn't all data stored in sets of 8 bits?
8 bits = byte?
do anyone know the chiptune site that plays chiptune all time. you can go into that site and it just start playin
These songs make me wax poetic..... "Ode to the days of wasted youth in front of an 8-bit Nintendo, trading cartridges with friends in elementary school and rubbing erasers on the connectors to get them to work - to days of copying 5 1/4 inch floppy disks of games such as Loderunner and Oregon Trail for your apple IIe or IIc or Commodore and then playing free games on a monochromatic screen.... The good old days are gone, but not forgotten...." :)
Wow AMAZING tunes! you sir/madam have amazing taste in Chiptune/Keygen music!
@mistervanderveer Keygen music then?
You sir, just won at the internet... Here is your free cat... You've earned it.
Yes, yes indeed. Loonie and Radix are my favorite chiptune composers. This is music by the way, just incase you don't feel it is.
Chip music is broader concept than what you suggest.
@YulliSomenone Nice! Your work is appreciated and I'll add the link to all video descriptions so it's easily accessable and doesn't get lost in all these comments. :)
However, please note that XM is actually the original file format of (most of) these tunes. It is also a source format, meaning that you can actually load it into a program like Milky Tracker and edit the files etc. So I don't think dismay would be an appropriate reaction for having them. ;)
0:30 - I want to go through the long painful experience of learning computer programming well enough to make a video game with this music (paying the artist ofc, hopefully they're not too hard to contact?). So epic!
All I know is he's a member of Titan, so that should be a way to get his contact details: titandemo.org
(assuming you're talking about Strobe in particular).
The differences are very minor. .xm files are made from Fasttracker, .it files are made from Impulse Tracker (what I used to use. XD) .mod files I don't believe are set to a particular program, and I think may be a little more universal. They all hold a similar type of information though. Instruments, what notes to play when, what effects go where, what section is played at what time, etc.
@WillP999 These are full tunes, yes. I always fade them out right before they are about to loop, except if they are really short, then I let them loop once.
The first song is AWESOME !!!
Nice, people like C64 very well.
About .xm format -> fasttracker 2. MadTracker is far better, but still xm sounds like original.
@TheRealBlackspawn
No SID? Is it a Gameboy or what a synth do you use?
chip tunes are so awesome
Chiptune music is where it's at
Exactly. As a Kid, I didn't even know what a "crack" was, and the guy who sold me an illegal copy of 'Escape to Monkey Island' ended up getting arrested because he was selling thousands of copies of games.
Now, over a decade later, I'm listening to this music and realizing, why haven't I ever played Escape to Monkey Island?!
watch in low quality. its.. awesome.
@Dragonicafan music using the sound chip from gameboy or NES
@mthomas45 XM player can be used, or VLC player.
I knew about the 8/16 bit remixes, but the 'Chiptune' music style, it's the very 1st time I'm present to this.
Lovely Atari, NES and Game Boy times ^^
PS: I also liked what electronic music producers did with this, giving it heavier bass and kick, like deadmau5 did on his song '8bit', for example. =P
Is there full version of these songs knocking around? the downloads are short and smaller than the samples here!!??
Sure, you can render the .xm files to .wav (using XMPlay for example) and then encode those as MP3.
Watch my other compilations for other recommended artists.
I am aware of the size restraints normally applied to chip modules, but I cared more for the music than for technical details in these compilations. Also, I am very well aware of (and lived) the old days and I still listen to Hubbard et al. as well as more recent SID stuff. ;)
@thronka
You are wrong when you say 1024 bits = 1 byte. I know this much. I only asked the question to diffuse the situation at hand. I know that THERE ARE 8 BITS in EVERY BITE. (with a few exceptions: Signal processing applications tend to operate on larger values and some digital signal processors have 16 or 40 bits as the smallest unit of addressable storage (on such processors a byte may be defined to contain this number of bits).)
@ilovemyhonda250ex No, they're not, but you can think of MadTracker as basically a FastTracker remake for Windows. Other than that, they're completely separate products.
Good stuff. Good old times
thanks for these great XM.
Love the first,second and third track they were amazing :) ^o^
Chiptunes, my favorite genera of music.
There's plenty of mainstream music that is good. The point is that good is good, and good will remain good regardless of how many people like it. The real message is don't be a hipster.
I just love these. I like the 1st song the most :D
5/5 rating!
Goddamn I love chiptune.
VVVVVV brought me back.
This are truly greatness
@YulliSomenone Thanks man. You're comment won't go unnoticed. Appreciate the time you took to set this up for us. Thanks again!
Best thing I've heard in a while!!
Chipset Sunset. My Life just Completed
Very nice music! I'll use it in my DooM wad
@mthomas45 It's the native format of Fasttracker 2. Look it up on wikipedia, they have an article about FT2.
damn "strobe" is a kickass tune.
The first song: "Greetings, program. Welcome to the Grid".
Nintendo once made a poster saying "all they had were 8 bit and a lot of fun"
Hey, these are awesome tunes... You know where I can find the licensing information for them? I wish to use some tracks in a game I am producing.
>Switches to turtle beach head set (fuck COD but the head set is badass)
>Sets video to 240p
>Ears bleed from sweet epic chips
OH GOD YES BEST MORNING ROUTINE EVER
@deadlock365 The thing about chiptunes, is that they're not compressed. They are naturally that small because of how "low" their quality is. They're being processed through processors meant for 8 or 16 bit games, and most nes cartridges held less than 1mb!
These tunes are all XM files made with FastTracker2 and compatible variations thereof, no VSTs involved in this ^_^
chiptune + gaming = AWESOME
@TheRealBlackspawn I guess that depends on if one wants to put them onto their MP3 player or not. :P
This is awesome!!