[NES 2a03] Undertale - Metal Crusher remade in Famitracker

[@Somerandomjingleberry]

I had no idea that it could be recreated so perfectly with NES limitations! I was sure Toby had “cheated” a little bit, but it seems like he didnt, knowingly or not (though it’s rather likely he knew)

[@ChillaxeMake]

He used the NES VST plugin.

[@DigiSpaceProductions]

​@@ChillaxeMake I thought it was a Sega Genesis sound chip VST.

[@yomama9390]

he did cheat, though. The noise channel is impossible beyond the first 3 seconds because it uses pitches that the NES doesn't generate.

[@64_three]

​@@DigiSpaceProductions??? How in the hell does this sound like Genesis music

[@DigiSpaceProductions]

@@64_three I was referring to Toby Fox. I'm pretty sure quite a few songs in the UT soundtrack, including Metal Crusher, used a genesis vst, the genesis has PSG Channels, 3 of them, and the low notes sound similar to what the PSG the genesis uses would output.

[@DeliriousPersona]

triangle is a VERY intense Pong match ngl

[@tas_cie]

😂😂

[@DeliriousPersona]

DPCM is the Battletoads pause theme

[@rydoggo]

Pulse 1 could be its own song in some parts.

[@OficialDreamsInteractiveMedia]

@@DeliriousPersona I love that pause theme

[@FloydianSystem]

I can definitely hear some virt inspiration in pulse 2, but the echo on that channel is amazing. The fact that he managed to make a melody/harmony/bass out of a white noise channel is such a beautiful 2a03 crime.

[@minestar2247]

Wow, this is amazing, the metal crusher it all the chiptune glory

[@othello7]

holy crap this is awesome. the sheer amount those pulse channels are able to do is incredible

[@tas_cie]

😁

[@Spax_]

holy shit this is amazingly accurate, congrats

[@quintonconoly]

Wow, very underrated and cool!

[@tas_cie]

Thanks !!

[@arkhaic1792]

noise channel goes hard

[@InterCatGamer]

Put this amazing shit on yt music so i dont need internet to have this fucking masterpiece at my finger tips

[@-originalLemon-]

Y2mate

[@canaldohector]

Tried this 1:1 cover years ago but couldn't get as good as this. Congrats!

[@crushermach3263]

Very nice! I think with some effort if you took a page out of Tim Follin's book you could eliminate the PCM channel entirely and it'd be even more authentic, since that was rarely used back in the day due to memory limitations. All in all though, this is using the hardware to its fullest and I can't fault it for that. Again, great cover!

[@joveaaron-real]

it uses DPCM only, so there is no issue here. Use banks to eliminate memory restrictions. And it uses a total of two samples of less than 0.25s, so it's not like you'll run out of space.

[@Uopra]

2a03 is the best soundchip!!

[@cerulity32k]

unironically my favourite, its the perfect cross between features and limitations plus i can use the pcm mode as a sort of get out of jail free card :P

[@luisgamercoolgaming]

@@cerulity32k ngl hot take, sid chip is better

[@mr.saturn_boing]

@@luisgamercoolgaming nuh-uh, ym2612 is better

[@luisgamercoolgaming]

@@mr.saturn_boing nuh uh, i changed my mind, GAMEBOY SOUND CHIP BETTER

[@mr.saturn_boing]

@@luisgamercoolgaming Well, if we talk about green gameboy chip that have 2 channels of pulse (same, as in 2A03), wavetable and cool Noise channel, and every of channels have hard panning (left, right or both), then I'd say that YM2612 still better, cuz if we take YM2612 with extended FM 3 channel and Dual PCM, then we have 10 channels (FM 1 + FM 2 + OP 1 + OP 2 + OP 3 + OP 4 + FM 4 + FM 5 + PCM 1 + PCM 2) VS 4 gameboy channels. BUT if you're talking about GameBoy Advance sound chip, then I'd say that gba better than YM2612, because gba have 2 channels of PCM with soft pan, linear volume, and the best of it is software mixing, so it's literally 16 independent PCM channels vs 10 YM2612 channels, the only problem may be the software mixing, because it's eating a lot of CPU (of course if you want less crispier sound and higher sounds frequency). So, I'd say that YM2612 < GameBoy Advance sound chip

[@wolffire8819]

This is really cool!

[@thecloudwyrm7966]

this is awesome

[@Benethen_]

this is really cool

[@Kaishidow]

Je suis soufflé, gg bg

[@MrFiver1111]

Pulse 2 sounds so sovietsky 🇻🇳🛠️. Almost like tetris

[@minestar2247]

And this is how this theme got me into undertale

[@Yellowredstone]

You can do that with the noise channel? How do get it to sound like that?

[@demonchromee9217]

i have 2 guesses 1: manual input (hell) 2: not random, very low pitch

[@Yellowredstone]

@@demonchromee9217 Im not very skilled at famitracker, but ive never heard the noise make buzzing sounds like that. it's just interesting to me

[@actually_well_]

duty cycle effect (VXX)

[@snesmocha]

@@Yellowredstoneit was used in mega man 2 iirc

[@cs127lite]

the 2a03 has two types of noise, 32768-bit noise and 93-bit noise the 32kbit one is the more "random" / "toneless" one that is commonly used for drums the 93bit one is the "melodic" one which is way less commonly used the one at the beginning of metal crusher is 93bit

[@Wituz]

Well done

[@QwertyAD1150]

imagine someone puts this on a smb romhack

[@countriescomparisons74]

I don't think it would fit lol. Unless you cut out some levels

[@OficialDreamsInteractiveMedia]

OK DUDE WHAT!?

[@da_baseball_bat]

tim follin be like:

[@ConnorR.mp3]

where did you get the drum samples? i've been looking and i cant figure out where the default drum samples in nes vst come from

[@tas_cie]

Actually I exported nesvst drums to wav then imported them to famitracker, so I don't don't know neither

[@ConnorR.mp3]

@@tas_cie that makes sense, i don't know why i didn't think to do that lol

[@seriyserek]

can we get ftm?

[@luigikoopa8771]

Download dnm?