Final Fantasy VII - One Winged Angel (VRC6 8-bit)

[@Zenryth48]

"Oh man, I wonder what he's gonna do for the choir part?" DOES THE CHOIR PART.

[@ΆκηςΚωνσταντινίδης-π8ω]

If You Listen One Winged Angel 8-Bit That Makes Her Choir

[@ManicPixelMusic]

you did the choir you did the choir on a fucking NES all bow before the one true God

[@remixtheidiot5771]

Manic Pixel yup...

[@remixtheidiot5771]

Manic Pixel actually its a vrc6 not the nes chip.

[@goldsmith8502]

The choir alone probably would take up half an NES cartridge.

[@Spamus]

One-Winged Angel: The Theme: The Game

[@williamdrum9899]

This raises an interesting question: How do you know how much data a song would take up on an NES cart ahead of time?

[@esmooth919]

That choir could probably take up the whole Kirby cartridge

[@danceycat6446]

@@esmooth919 the nsf file for this song is 147 kilobytes, and the rom for kirby's adventure is 468 kilobytes

[@mortenera2294]

The most advanced chips (VRC 6-7 and MMC5) can handle up to 2MB. That's the largest size for a NES game

[@malaert64]

_“Now, I shall give Smash this chiptune.”_

[@margiesandals]

Aww, I wanted this pear...

[@ravagerboss83]

And I wanted this POYO

[@primal9007]

And I wanted this dis track.

[@choihayting5039]

I wanted dis pear

[@novablaster4083]

And I wanted dis

[@karunyagopan]

If I was a kid in the 80's playing an NES game and I heard this song and choir in this quality I would have been equal parts impressed and terrified.

[@esmooth919]

I once played a Sesame Street game on the NES, starring the Count, and I was astonished to hear how clear his voice sounded in that game. Lol

[@paulmann8570]

​@@esmooth919 Ah ah ah! Find...TEN!

[@TheAce736]

you God.. you madman.. you actually fucking did it.. you made the choir.

[@technetium4761]

Estuans interius ira vehementi Estuans interius ira vehementi NES NES

[@ΆκηςΚωνσταντινίδης-π8ω]

Sephiroth Sephiroth

[@NowhereManForever]

Too bad this is almost half of an entire NES cartridge

[@8BitDanooct1]

you don't need good gameplay when the music gets good enough, just look at silver surfer. you could write a tic tac toe game under this and this would be the theme. yeah. that'd work.

[@Etsa]

8BitDanooct1 The most epic game of PONG ever.

[@Motscoud]

Hey, it could be a theoretical multi disk Famicom Disk System game

[@RoddyDev]

Please insert Disk 1 (game data) Side A Please remove disk. Please insert Disk 2 (music data) Side A Please remove disk. Please insert Disk 1 (game data) Side B Loading...

[@RoddyDev]

I see what you did there.

[@psn8bit]

'one of the main reasons i decided to release it now was rushjet1 being a jerk and linking me to a whole bunch of awful "8-bit" renditions of this song done in GXSCC, FL studio, and god knows what else.' I lol'd.

[@mineboom7377]

@@TurboPancake sahut

[@misterglaceon210]

Vocal samples are severely underused in FamiTracker music, so when I do hear it, it's seriously amazing. I'm blown away the NES could play samples this clear!

[@maxthompson7107]

I hope people incorporate DPCM samples into the games they make with NES Maker.

[@kitkat2849-b3h]

The NES would DEFINITELY struggle. But it'd be amazing to see and hear, EVEN if it struggled.

[@8BitDanooct1]

i made this unlisted for a while but now it's public again

[@TheSpingus]

8BitDanooct1 I dare you to do Super Mario Bros 2 Overworld Theme!

[@TheSpingus]

***** Shhhh

[@TheSpingus]

Well there's more channels you can use in FamiTracker with different settings so maybe

[@MemeNess]

Hello from 2020.

[@prorocco6449]

0:26 don’t mind me

[@ZeroByteInFlight]

Clever how you broke the bell sample up like that to overcome the sample size limitation.

[@williamdrum9899]

There are a lot of limitations of the NES that can be worked around like this. For example a branch command in the NES's code can only go forward 128 bytes or backwards 127, but a jump command can take you anywhere in the code

[@MaximTheArchmage]

Ok, I was watching this and I was thinking, "Wow, this is actually pretty good, this needs more views." And then the choir came in and I thought, "Holy crap! How did they do that so well?!" Ten outta ten. Excellent work!

[@8BitDanooct1]

hey, thank you. i'm glad shoehorning the choir in there worked out to your liking

[@simoncotten5886]

@@8BitDanooct1 I'm Honestly Suprised That You Were Able To Get The Choir In There, Considering That This Up About Half A Normal NES Cartridge. Not trying to implement that yours is modified.

[@blara2401]

As much as I wanted to see what sort of amazing instrumentation would replace the choir, hearing the choir amidst the rest of the instruments is a special kind of wonder. Extremely good one. Thank you for your wish, you truly did this song justice.

[@jocloud31]

brb, sharing this with everyone I've ever spoken with, looked at, or sneezed in the vicinity of. But seriously, this is insane, and it immediately leapfrogs the official PC version music since you managed to get the choir in. Kudos!

[@8BitDanooct1]

thanks!

[@grandmaster101587458]

I was listening to this and I was all "Okay this is awesome and stuff" but as soon as the choir started singing my jaw dropped. Being able to add that to a NES song is beyond incredible. Awesome job, as usual!

[@theKobaltPossum]

When I hear the trumpet countermelody in the second version of the vocal part I know this is a good cover because no one does that for some reason and it’s so cool to me

[@FlameUser64]

The choir makes me think of Ghetsis's theme from Pokémon Black 2 & White 2. =D

[@FyreofShadow]

SPAGHETSIS

[@Myrea_Rend]

Excuse me while I go retrieve my jaw from where it fell on the floor.

[@meowsandstuff]

Not even Chuck Norris can keep his jaw from dropping!

[@TheLoveMario]

"How hot is the 2A03 chip now?" "IT'S OVER 9000°C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "What? 9000? There's no way that could be right!" "KAME- HAME- DPCM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111" *this song starts playing*

[@firestar3285]

Sephiroth is incinerating the chip with it MIND ?! 😱

[@vksasdgaming9472]

You just squeezed bottle of refreshing cola out of solid piece of granite.

[@notsofunny9651]

Me: I wonder if he added the choir? *choir shows up Me: ah shit here we go again.

[@meemsandvich1258]

Sephiroth: Shall I give you dis NES?

[@angelorivera2768]

I will give you dis NESS I will give you dis PAULA I will give you dis JEFF I will give you dis POO

[@TeeJayMac1218]

@@angelorivera2768 lmao

[@TeeJayMac1218]

Earthbound reference lol

[@ΆκηςΚωνσταντινίδης-π8ω]

I will give you dis PEAR

[@eckitronix]

Thank you in advance for being used to help Joel (Vinesauce community) to do his next Destruction stream, even if you aren't involved! But still, I expect a huge influx of people arriving soon, I was already here and proud but you know

[@DataDrain02]

Ah... I've been waiting for someone to do this theme in true 8-Bit... It does not disappoint. I have to admit, I was surprised you managed to get the choir in there, considering the limitations of the Famicom's sound chip. All and all... This sounds really good. Any chance of you uploading the MP3? I would just use a KZbin2MP3 program. But I'd rather actually have a download link.

[@8BitDanooct1]

there is an FLAC in the description, you could use/convert that, or export wav from the NSF and convert to MP3.

[@TheLoveMario]

8BitDanooct1 OR, if you wanna do it the hipster way, just play the NSF on an emulator (or a PowerPak) like i did.

[@kuskus_th13]

I had no idea Dan could make very good 8-bit remixes apart from making computer virus videos. very nice. ESTUANS INTERIUS IRA VEHEMENTI, SEPHIROTH!

[@SirBopALot]

Immediately what comes to mind is a little 8-Bit song composed by Matt Creamer/Norrin Radd, called ‘A Barrage of Hostile Abstractions,’ which, like what you did with the choir in this rendition of ‘One Winged Angel,’ does have vocals, and also took an absurd amount of risks by doing so. What I’m trying to say is, this sounds absolutely phenomenal, even speaking as someone who isn’t a fan of Final Fantasy, but really loves how the song sounds. Seriously, incorporating the choir must’ve been an absolute nightmare. I have nothing but great things to say about this. This is outstanding.

[@breadzeppelin2165]

Bells, Frogs, Big Cherries, Peter Pan, Mac and Cheese, SEPHIROTH!

[@n00bobliterator]

Goddamnit, you beat me to the upload by a freaking day. Makes my version feel kinda inadequate... Though I do have to say, you can do amazing things with three extra channels. Awesome job.

[@NagaTen]

I was all like "ok, this is pretty good" and then the vocalizations started and i kinda jizzed in my pants :v

[@5UBJ3CT3GG]

I think he got too excited

[@matsuretro]

O.O JEEBUS. Um ... damn. Good work leaving me speechless, sir.

[@Zennistrad1]

Wow, how did you get the vocals onto the NES with such high quality?

[@RoddyDev]

No, the VRC6 doesn't have a PCM channel. And... Wasn't the NES DPCM 1-bit?

[@RoddyDev]

Bero256 || Yes, you're right! I did a quick search on the internet and yeah, it supports both 1-bit and 7-bit

[@TheGlitchyMario]

Magic

[@Alouette_EXE]

That chorus creeped me out for a second. That DPCM! Its so accurate!

[@Ed-Ge]

I believe it's one of the most impressive tune done with Famitracker. Excellent work here.

[@Dragonheart_7]

OWA. Running off real hardware. With the choir. You sir a legit legend.

[@adamb404]

This is fucking bananas.

[@teckworks]

Thank you for making me love this song all over again~ :>

[@8BitDanooct1]

thank you teck for glorious midis that make me want to write muzak

[@opaopa86]

Congrats on 6000 subs. This is amazing, and I've always wondered if this could be pulled off on the NES and still sound amazing. Its also nice to finally see a version of this song that isn't just a midi file.

[@dimentiothemagician]

Chior on this: *exist* Me: Good! Praise this phenomenon!

[@ed_games56]

This is the only good 8 bit rendition of owa I've been able to find. Great job, man.

[@TechnoThomas666]

I was only ever vaguely aware of final Fantasy but I never touched it...until the long sworded science fair freak show split galeem in half and I heard those notes playing in the background. And that's when I knew, my hair was about to get a hole lot more blonde and spiky and anime styled

[@FilmStrife]

Wait is this the NES style song overlayed over the original? Or is this all running on a NES, including the vocals? If the latter, holy shit.

[@8BitDanooct1]

this is all running on my NES. it requires a cartridge that can emulate or use the VRC6 expansion chip (in this case the Powerpak), and a small modification to enable expansion channel sounds to be heard (running a resistor between two pins on the expansion port). this can play natively on a famicom if you use any VRC6 cart (Akumajou Densetsu, Esper Dream 2) to play music. try downloading the NSF in the description and opening it in an emulator, it should play the same way.

[@FilmStrife]

8BitDanooct1 Amazing. Did any famicom games ever sound this good? or could they not have, because they didn't know how to digitize vocals or drum beats or do midi at the time?

[@AlchemiconSilver]

FilmStrife Actually, the digitization of vocals or drum beats was attempted by some games, but the voices are usually not very clear, though.

[@waffledoctor87]

***** Implying there'd be enough space on the cartridge with this song

[@TheLoveMario]

***** 1 word: Bankswitching. 'nuff said

[@waffledoctor87]

The only problem with this is that it's a slightly different tempo than Smooth McGroove's cover so I can't perfectly overlay the two

[@TheAzureNightmare]

+waffledoctor87 Audacity, friend. Use Audacity.

[@waffledoctor87]

+TheAzureNightmare that requires effort

[@canamoxproductions]

I could do it for you, but maybe it's a bit late since it's a six years old comment

[@waffledoctor87]

@@canamoxproductions I would appreciate that

[@canamoxproductions]

@@waffledoctor87 Okay, I'll inform you when I have it

[@CinderaceOTS]

VRC6で空耳歌詞が聞けるとは思わなかった。 The voice of the chorus sounds different from the original lyrics and words, especially if you are a Japanese speaker. XD

[@eckitronix]

The song spoke to me. Literally spoke. How many years did this take you!? Perfection is here, everyone. I would literally use this in a FF7 NES remake. I'm sure there exist some...but none that have the capabilities of this song in them. Plus, I would recreate the entire game in 2D. MY GOD, dude. This is fantastic.

[@8BitDanooct1]

iirc this took about a month of off and on (mostly off) work to complete. glad you like it

[@onlinetooutdoor2382]

I love this! Imagine an NES-style final Fantasy VII...

[@mejercit]

Online to Outdoor I concur.

[@snbeast9545]

That does exist.

[@Ristarite]

hahaha you dont even know.

[@SuperGrody]

who wants to tell them?

[@thewindthatblows]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3PUap14fdOsqpI

[@PerspectiveZero]

Thank you for not being that person who finds MIDI files and makes "8-Bits" in FL Studio or other MIDI synth programs like that! Honestly, some of these "8-Bits" I hear even have reverb in them!

[@8BitDanooct1]

obviously 8-bit means all sine waves with as many channels as you need to fit the midi you are using

[@PerspectiveZero]

8BitDanooct1 :) Very nicely put :) You ought to also include that reverb can be added as necessary and all those waves are only squares.

[@williamcarter7461]

8BitDanooct1 dat sarcasm

[@rawkfistgaming]

HOLY SHIT! The accuracy of this compared to the original track is ASTOUNDING! Especially for being two console generations behind!

[@serifAizawa]

Then he made it to smash.

[@MasterZebulin]

Honestly should have made it earlier, IMHO.

[@MilionMaru]

I am in awe of how perfect this sounds

[@calvinrivera49]

this is badassser then most people know. it's the first version of Kahoots cover, 8bit and modern digital sounds are coooool . thanks op for keeping it so clean and authentic

[@BookooZenny]

The FTM link appears to be dead ... I would've loved to study this :(

[@PixelforgeAnimations]

He did it. He fucking did it. The choir. On an NES.

[@teipiou8073]

This is by far the best Famitracker cover I have ever heard! Excellent job!

[@AnnOSRS]

Amazing Dan! As always :) Hope to hear more direct-from-NES stuff, it sounds much more natural this way.

[@8BitDanooct1]

thank you! i might have to record more audio like this.

[@kitanaisunshine1057]

This sampling is so good I'm gonna cry.

[@PerspectiveZero]

I am impressed with how you integrated the voices in.

[@DavidOliveira-wi1gi]

Man, youre crazy. I dont have words to describe this...

[@RuruFIN]

Even in 2022, OWA is the best FF track existing. And this demake is awesome.

[@darklinkx8]

Holy shit, that was perfect. I don't throw around the p word often and lightly.

[@TheLoveMario]

THIS IS WHAT I CALL PERFECT VOICE DIGITALIZATION.

[@8-bitBishop]

This can't be real! I'm floored at how amazing this is! You sir, are a damn genius. WOW!

[@GammaLyrae]

god damn, dude. this shit is incredible.

[@BlazeWeednix]

Holy crap, absolutely incredible! Gotta love how the samples sound really clean.

[@kitsunelunari]

I considered making this the other day, I thought of how to compress the choir to the DCPM channel but now I dont need to. You've done some fantastic work here like I'm extremely impressed

[@awe9217]

its been years and this still sounds just as amazing as i remember it

[@maxthompson7107]

The DPCM Samples alone impress me. If someone ever made an NES game with DPCM Samples as high quality as the ones in this rendition of the One Winged Angel theme, I’d buy a copy.

[@CaelThunderwing]

there was a reason it wasnt really done though its verry clearly possible.. it comes at the cost of cartridge Space for code & Assets.

[@commandycan]

nice work, i am glad to see this completed. excellent instrumentation, woof, etc

[@MegaMan306]

Did a side-by-side comparison to the original. Nailed it spot on. Great job!

[@Kwpolska]

this + One-Winged Angel: DECODED (Sephiroth Theme) = awesome.

[@CaelThunderwing]

just...i'm... i dont even.. i'm defenatly blown away i bow to you 8bitdan!

[@LasDesventurasdeVirus]

The NES wasn't meant to do this.

[@Sebastian-xy3xk]

+MrJimbo1qaz I've seen worse on NES Homebrew tbh

[@dankmoo]

MrJimbo1qaz Bankswitching.

[@Olivia-W]

Yeah, but making the NES do _that_ is still nothing short of amazing.

[@ABCDEFGHdumbo]

The infamous Solstice Title Screen was half the cartridge. Also if I wasn't fed false facts there's some Famicom mech game that's 8 megs in which they only really sacrificed this for cutscenes. Essentially, it could be gotten away with, maybe...

[@henryso4]

This is very difficult in famitracker to recreate to 8 bit! (I totally failed doing it) well done!

[@christopherrice2004]

Because of this, I'm subscribing to your channel. I look forward to more content like this!

[@caster25000]

Sure, it takes up half of an NES cartridge all by itself, but it pushes the NES farther than anyone ever would have thought possible. That's some goddamn good programming.

[@floofball8905]

the choir is just amazing

[@ericlueck5838]

This is amazing. Sounds better than the SNES, honestly. I mean lets face it, although impressive tunes of themselves, the SNES instrumentation and programming were only serviceable, it still sounded tinny. With this, we have clear, clean, technical sophistication to make this track ten times better.

[@Genindraz]

Best. Achievement on any 8-bit chip. EVER!

[@remixtheidiot5771]

How dafuq did you make those choirs sound so high quality?! Dpcm's cant do that!!! Bravo sir... Also the 6 people who disliked this did so probably out of jealousy.

[@nikopunksuperlink]

vocals was awsome

[@logansmith1936]

This sounds more like an Nes game track then most other 8bit remixes

[@colinmcglynn694]

Because this was actually made using the Famicom's sound chip technology, so this is technically running on an NES

[@3ndymion_1]

Geez. That's pretty darn good man.

[@matthewmeno5279]

Wow! Impressive! You deserve a high 5 for all that work! Rock on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LotoTheHero]

Not my favorite song from the Final Fantasy series. However, you have done a fantastic rendition here!. Mad props to you. :D

[@8BitDanooct1]

not mine either, but this FTM came out of a sort of experiment of "i wonder if it would be possible to do this," then the first frames turned out exceedingly well so i just went with it for the whole thing.

[@datboiagain5656]

this always reminds me of a C130, no clue why.

[@Zenryth48]

This is a fucking masterpiece. A's all around.

[@detectiveblutomindpretzel6292]

but that was AMAZING actually putting this on a nes carteridge

[@ShadG]

Really really impressive.

[@khairulanam7777]

This is awesome. More pleace. 'Dancing Mad' from 'Final Fantasy VI' if possible~!

[@JPMusicOfficial367]

Reading through this comment section is like trying to decode Morse code if Morse code was enchantment table writing encrypted in binary Fr tho I love this, wasnt at all expecting the choir part. 💯

[@carmarcam98]

For all who say this can't fit in a game, I think that if you replace a song from almost any NES game (let's take FF1 for example, and replace the encounter music with this) it could play, if the game is a japanese famicom cart with VRC6 (like Castlevania 3 jp version for example). It wold not be that big of a game (FF1 was 256 kb, and this song is 230 kb). Add some programming to get the song to play and it would be slightly under 512 kb (big, but not unthinkable, as many games, such as FF3 were this size). Correct me if I am wrong though :)

[@danielleimhofer88]

cool 8 bit sound of sephiroth´s theme

[@TheLoveMario]

Daniel Leimhofer "cool" is a SEVERE understatement in this case.

[@MrMysterious420]

Hahaha didn't know you had a chiptune channel too!

[@Brimstone27]

Oh god, great version! :D

[@bokunootakuacademia2885]

Don't you see cloud? What I'm really here for... Is my mocha. You will not be able to resist me once I have my hands on it.

[@SeanBialo]

This... is outstanding

[@PostalHeathen]

Ok, I'm very, very impressed.

[@AlchemiconSilver]

Wait, the voices were possible with the Konami VRC6 expansion chips? That is surprising, so I might do an 8 bit FF7 fan game. Just because, 8 bit expansion chips.

[@8BitDanooct1]

the voices are possible on the stock 2a03. they're just samples

[@AlchemiconSilver]

8BitDanooct1 Oh.

[@ZeroByteInFlight]

The problem is that digital samples take up a lot of storage space on the cartridge. Cart space was very very very precious, so there's no way they would sacrifice so much just for music quality. (Ever notice how the music and speech on the SNES version of Street Fighter II weren't as good as the arcade version? The SNES was capable of the full quality - they just had to save storage space, so music quality suffered)

[@rinkun6689]

U guys gotta remember, sesame street new had as actual voice and clear too