Dual PCM: DJ M.Jester - Brink of Control

[@RenegadeScooter]

GENESIS DOES.

[@GaliMercury]

"Brink of Control" couldn't be a more fitting name for a sound driver demonstration!

[@cinossu]

Holy shit, this is absolutely amazing.

[@MarkeyJester]

Hahaha, I knew that'd tickle your funny bone~ d=

[@Prinsdam]

This is sick, dude. You're so wrapped up in the technical aspect, it's really easy to overlook that you're actually a fantastic musician to boot. But the real point here is that you just revived this particular 90s genre with complete accuracy and sincerity. People so immersed in bygone eras that efforts to replicate them aren't just parody or pastiche, but a seamless continuation- that's what our scene is really all about, right?

[@GaliMercury]

Damn dude, you are so right. This legit sounds like a 90's Jungle track. And Markey tells me he doesn't really consider himself a musician. He's so modest about himself. ;w;

[@mightywaranvil2912]

Less than a year after you released this, it's still going strong. I have a lot of high hopes that more people see this and start to have some ambition for building in a dual PCM equivalent for any Genesis trackers, particularly VGMMM or DefleMask's Genesis mode.

[@Alzter0]

I'd love it in VGMMM as I _occasionally_ experiment with porting tunes to it, but isn't it dead?

[@GaliMercury]

Oh man, original music from the Jester himself?! Hell yeah! I hope we can download this track in MP3 format!

[@dabzcast]

Bruh just ytmp3.cc/ KZbin to Mp3 Converter

[@RWL2012]

I'd rather a bin file haha edit: I now have it!

[@cfothough]

@@RWL2012 Hey wait, I remember you! But if you could provide us with said .bin that'd be excellent

[@Karnage233]

@@RWL2012 where did you obtain it?

[@RWL2012]

@@Karnage233 Sonic Retro ---> User:MarkeyJester ---> Projects ---> Dual PCM - FlexEd ---> "Sonic 1 Test Driver" ZIP (4th link in 1st post, "save link as") ---> "Sound Driver Test" folder ---> "Dual PCM - Sonic 1" folder ---> s1built BIN file (make sure it's the one in that folder). Press the Start button on the title screen and it goes to this sound test. To play this particular track, press the Right button once and then the C button :)

[@hayum]

Not only is this wonderful from a technical standpoint, it's a hellaciously good song. Great work!

[@MrIzaiah2007YT]

THAT AMEN BREAK THO. IT GOES HARD

[@saddydummy3004]

Man isn't this amazing! This is straight out fantastic, the pitching control is absolutely amazing. I really can't say much, you're a great musician if I say so myself.

[@tonmaster189]

If I was a rich man I swear would sponsor a huge game for you to take a great delight with your intelligence and skill

[@ferraroffelipe]

Impressive Jester-san

[@Alianger]

Reminds me of ape escape, very cool!

[@heavyviper]

Hot fire, this. Absolutely adore the UI you've got going here, too! Makes me want to get my grubby mitts all over it. >:3

[@YTChannelNat]

Oh, hell yes!

[@vtcabbit]

i am just so impressed rn

[@chrisfratz]

I think this song would fit in a Sonic rom hack, then again that might just be the drumbeat and tempo making it work

[@PigDan]

I like this, Jester. I love your work so much! :)

[@madson-web]

Sounds like a neo geo

[@BComet]

I love you.

[@jacobrepors408]

Bruno A. Casais -ew gay-

[@HackGameX294]

Beautiful!

[@Vectormantudeoz]

Markey GOD 😎👍

[@wormsex]

Feels like it could be a ristar 2 boss theme

[@mypkamax]

I think it sounds too edgy to be a Ristar tune. Ristar has a similar theme to that of Nintendo's Kirby franchise, therefore, it wouldn't fit. I hate to be a party pooper, but that's how it is...

[@dededesgustingtkemylife4825]

sounds like a sonic cd special stage to me

[@RoddyDev]

Impressive.

[@MegaDriveProfile]

sick track!! Also this little interface you have here, is it your creation? Looks cool always wanted something like this!

[@GaliMercury]

You can bet that interface is his creation!

[@shamaYahu8635]

Sweet!!! Can we get the .vgm file? And does anyone know what program is this?

[@RWL2012]

Don't know about the VGM, but for the ROM (BIN), go to Sonic Retro ---> User:MarkeyJester ---> Projects ---> Dual PCM - FlexEd ---> "Sonic 1 Test Driver" ZIP (4th link in 1st post, "save link as") ---> "Sound Driver Test" folder ---> "Dual PCM - Sonic 1" folder ---> s1built BIN file (make sure it's the one in that folder). Press the Start button on the title screen and it goes to this sound test. To play this particular track, press the Right button once and then the C button :)

[@shamaYahu8635]

@@RWL2012 thank u yo!!!!

[@RWL2012]

​@@shamaYahu8635welcome 😊

[@UnlimitedTrees]

epic

[@turtleisland456]

Unlimited Trees forced meme XDDDDDDDD

[@UnlimitedTrees]

Do I know you

[@MarkeyJester]

No you may not, only the true elite may operate within this ritual... Which I guess also means I'm out =(

[@rivet6403]

I must be late to the ritual 😓

[@jacobrepors408]

Did you create a completely custom PCM driver?

[@MarkeyJester]

Exactly, that was the point in sharing this video, to show what you could do with it. If you are interested, you can find a video here which shows it more technically on hardware: kzbin.info/www/bejne/noGXZnRmpbmJgrM

[@jacobrepors408]

Markey Jester Is that how to made real music for Sonic 1 The Next Level crystal clear?

[@MarkeyJester]

That was a different PCM driver.

[@jacobrepors408]

Markey Jester So Dual PCM and JST where different drivers? Also are both of them harder than the other to make or they're equally hard to make?

[@MarkeyJester]

JST is a marketing name, a joke name, a pun on the old "Blast Processing" thing. It does exist though, the driver had a buffer space, and would copy more PCM data into that buffer than it actually needed to play, and it would do what old disc players used to do, read ahead of the disc than what it was actually playing, so that if the disc was interrupted in some way, it would continue playing what it had already loaded while the disc stabilises and fixes itself. This is a similar thing, it'll read PCM data from the ROM through the 68k window into a buffer ahead of time, and if it could not access the 68k, it would instead play what it's already loaded until the 68k became available to access (similar to streaming an online video, hence the gimmicky name Stream Technology). Dual PCM has a similar buffer system in place, which does the same thing, but of course, because it's two different samples in different places, there is a lot of complicated programming going on to ensure it works efficiently. So technically they have the same type of technology (although programmed slightly differently). Dual PCM is technically more difficult, because there's two samples, there's pitch control, there's volume control, there's reverse playback, there are filter effects, and the samples being played can be two completely different samples from different locations in the ROM, and of different unlimited size, all including the buffer streaming system to ensure no quality loss.

[@cromulence]

Would love a ROM file

[@RWL2012]

it exists. one of the Dual PCM demo ROMs from the Markey Jester page on Sonic Retro.

[@shamaYahu8635]

@@RWL2012 Huh? It does? May I have a link plz?

[@RWL2012]

Go to Sonic Retro ---> User:MarkeyJester ---> Projects ---> Dual PCM - FlexEd ---> "Sonic 1 Test Driver" ZIP (4th link in 1st post, "save link as") ---> "Sound Driver Test" folder ---> "Dual PCM - Sonic 1" folder ---> s1built BIN file (make sure it's the one in that folder). Press the Start button on the title screen and it goes to this sound test. To play this particular track, press the Right button once and then the C button :)

[@mypkamax]

(Joke comment) WaterMelon's Magical Game Factory wants to know your location...

[@elshrapnel]

Markey, please may I ask you to share link to download this rom, i wanna launch this masterpiece on a real sega md

[@elshrapnel]

Okay Markey, I already found this rom, thanks anyway :). Best wishes, greetings from Russia!

[@bochtabochta]

@@elshrapnel where did you find it

[@elshrapnel]

@@bochtabochta i didnt remember, but my rom is called s1built.bin

[@bochtabochta]

@@elshrapnel all i found is assemblies of the sonic rom

[@RWL2012]

Sonic Retro ---> User:MarkeyJester ---> Projects ---> Dual PCM - FlexEd ---> "Sonic 1 Test Driver" ZIP (4th link in 1st post, "save link as") ---> "Sound Driver Test" folder ---> "Dual PCM - Sonic 1" folder ---> s1built BIN file (make sure it's the one in that folder). Press the Start button on the title screen and it goes to this sound test. To play this particular track, press the Right button once and then the C button :)

[@keyherriot8757]

Sounds like sonic CD

[@voidmilkyway]

You’re so good at making Sonic hacks. Try this: Make Sonic 1 into fullscreen.

[@SolarChip]

Do you mean wide-screen? I don't think that's possible on the original hardware, but I could be wrong

[@RWL2012]

There is a hack however that increases the vertical resolution of Sonic 1 PAL from 224p to 240p. redhotsonic did a video of upscaling that to 4K!

[@kiwibro6454]

Damn, who needed the sega cd when the MD can pull of music like this! ( but then again, probably back then this would've taken up alot of cartridge space)

[@RWL2012]

still not as much as JST tracks :)

[@kiwibro6454]

@@RWL2012 never heard of that, but ill check it out

[@RWL2012]

@@kiwibro6454 the entire OST of Jester's Challenge, the title screen of Pana der Hejhog, and the title screen, Act 2, Invincibility and Boss music in Sonic 1 Next Level. Literally playing "streamed" audio files (but in repeatable sections to save space).

[@MoonDeLaAxel]

Beautiful!