♫DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? (SNES Arrangement) Happy Holidays 2020!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is an arrangement of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band-Aid, released in 1984. I have arranged it for native playback on SNES hardware, and the audio was recorded directly from a launch-model SNES console.
You know, it's funny. I've known the song since I was a little kid, but I never really took the time to listen to the lyrics until I sat down and typed them out for the captions. Just imagine the backlash that would be sprung on anyone who attempted these lyrics in 2020! O_o Things have certainly changed.
I wanted to do something fun for everyone for Christmas, so I thought that this might be a cool song to cover. To make things a bit more interesting, I limited myself to only using electronically generated sounds. No orchestra hits, no trumpets, no snappy toms.
(Well, okay. There is one exception. It'll be pretty obvious near the end....)
All of the sounds in the song are samples I recorded of PSG and FM waveforms sampled directly from the NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, and TurboGrafx-16 systems. I wanted to see what happened if I mashed so many distinct sounds into a single mix, and the SPC700 seemed happy to play host.
It was especially cool to have so much memory free after using those tiny instruments samples since I had room to include the digitized vocal at such high quality, relatively speaking. At 11Khz, that sample consumes about half of the SPC700's memory block on its own.
Given the sacrilege that this would've constituted back in the fabled console war days, I suppose I could force some ham-fisted metaphor here about the value of togetherness and working to overcoming differences, but I'm going to avoid that bit of low-hanging fruit at the moment.
Merry Christmas, everyone! Thanks for listening!
If you'd like to hear any more of my arrangements, you can find the playlist here: • Game Music Remixes/Cov...
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Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄
Here's a holiday favorite that I've remade for the SNES using only FM and PSG instruments sampled from the NES, Game Boy, Genesis, and TurboGrafx. Well, except for the vocals. Those weren't synthesized :p
Doing this was a most enjoyable way to commune with my inner geek. Ommm.
Ah, yes. Christmas. My favorite time of the year.
At time to play games like *_"Home Alone 1 & 2"_* on Sega (and to avoid the Nintendo versions like the plague).
Watching a *_lot_* of my favorite Christmas movies and TV specials ( *_"Frosty the Snowman"_* , *_"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"_* , *_"Santa Claus is Coming to Town"_* , *_"Home Alone 1 & 2"_* , *_"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"_* with Boris Karloff [while avoiding the Jim Carrey movie], *_"Jingle All The Way"_* , *_"The Santa Clause"_* .....
*_"...2 hours later..."_* )
And lastly, enjoying the calm, tranquil nature by just looking at the snowfall near your Christmas tree. I love it all!
Merry Christmas, to you too!
I love miusic for console retro 😍
Happy Holidays, NC🎄🎄❄️❄️⛄️⛄️.
Thanks, you too!
Its.... The CHRISTMAS FIVE!!!
Nice NES+Game Boy+Genesis+TurboGrafx style SNES cover of the song, plus a sample of the vocals from the original song!😄🤩😎👌
Thanks :) yeah it was a fun mashup to make
*Sip egg nog
Happy Christmas to you all. Super RT demo was something else see before.
this is groovy. Happy holidays NintendoComplete!
♫ It's Christmastime, there's no need to be afraid. ♫
♫ At Christmastime, we let in light and we banish shade. ♫
♫ And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy. ♫
♫ Throw your arms around the world at Christmastime. ♫
♫ But say a prayer, pray for the other ones. ♫
♫ At Christmastime, it's hard, but when you're having fun... ♫
♫ There's a world outside your window...and it's a world of dread and fear. ♫
♫ Where the only water flowing is...the bitter sting of tears. ♫
♫ And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom. ♫
♫ Well tonight, thank God it's them instead of you! ♫
♫ Give hope and joy to all the world this Christmastime. ♫
♫ The greatest gift they'll get this year is life. ♫ ( ♫ Ohhh... ♫ )
♫ Where nothing ever grows...no rain nor rivers flow...how can they know it's Christmastime at all? ♫
♫ Here's to you! Raise a glass for everyone! ♫
♫ Here's to them and to all the years to come! ♫
♫ Let them know it's Christmastime again!!! ♫
*INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE*
♫ Feed the world!!! ♫
♫ Feed the world!!! ♫
♫ Feed the world!!! Let them know it's Christmastime again!!! ♫
♫ Feed the world!!! Let them know it's Christmastime again!!! ♫
♫ Feed the world!!! Let them know it's Christmastime again!!! ♫
♫ Feed the world!!! Let them know it's Christmastime again!!! ♫
♫ Feed the world!!! Let them know it's Christmastime again!!! ♫
♫ Feed the world!!! Let them know it's Christmastime again!!! ♫
♫ Feed the world!!! Let them know it's Christmastime again!!! ♫
Can't even begin to tell you how much I needed this. Ha ha, I can see this being made with other 90s hardware as well. Merry Christmas!!
Happy holidays!
A blessed Christmas to you too!
Nothing like *_"MOTHER 2'"_* _Tonzura Bros_ (Runaway Five) to get you in the Christmas spirit. Alongside Christmas specials, movies, Christmas related videogames [ *_"Holiday Lemmings"_* , anyone?], and spending time with your loved ones just enjoying all the things that Christmas treats you to.
I just love it all.
Happy Holidays & Nice Arrangement, NC! 🎄👍
Kind of sounds like a genesis remix in some ways
Who would’ve thought that the snes sound chip can sometimes sound like something your hear on the sega genesis
This is why remixers on youtube are awesome they push boundaries of what is allowed on the hardware
Great job and happy holidays
Tyvm!
There's good reason for it sounding like Sega, actually. I recorded all of the samples I used (besides the vocal) from other consoles, so it's a mashup of NES, Game Boy, Turbografx, and Genesis instruments, even though it's playing from my SNES.
I did a straight cover of a song from Twin Cobra that mimicked the sound of the Genesis game, if you're at all interested. I think it could pass as a real Genesis tune if you didn't know better :) ua-cam.com/video/JZIkrfInx-4/v-deo.html
That's awesome.
Merry Christmas to you too man.
Merry Christmas Nintendo complete
now thats a christmas tune!
How they even know?!?!? their date system should be outdated nowadays, anyways Happy Holidays
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Brasil
Aí sim em cara kkkkkk
@ZCS Because people take comfort in knowing when there are people like them around?
@ZCS We Brazilians like to keep our presence registered in content that is not made by Brazilians.
Can you cover Genesis' B.O.B. It waa also on snes.