#8bit-ish

[gremlingirlsmell]

Made a cover/remix/reinterpretation of Casio Hellburst by Wyatt Croucher aka Casio Mario World pardonner Fennel final boss theme (listen to the original here)

Listen/download from bandcamp: Hellburstin [Casio Hellburst Cover] by jead

[adobe-outdesign]

if you’re reviewing neopets, could you review my favorite color, 8bit?

8-bit gets a lot of slack from some people, on the grounds that none of the 8-bit pets are technically 8-bit. I'm not a pixel artist so I don't feel qualified to talk about the specifics, but basically 8-bit sprites have specific size and color limitations that none of the 8-bit Neopet designs do. Some pets also have other issues, like having half-pixels or uneven pixel sizes, which shouldn't happen for obvious reasons (see: the Kacheek's face below).

Personally, I don't think this is a problem, seeing as it's just a color and most of the issues with it aren't noticeable to non-pixel artists—but I do think the color should have been named "pixel" instead of 8-bit, which would've at least been more accurate.

Another issue with 8-bit pets tends to be inconsistency. Some are forward-facing. Some are in profile. Some don't wear clothes. Some wear clothes but just a t-shirt and pants. Some have clothes but it's an entire fantasy outfit. Some have shading. Some don't. Some have detailed pixel work. Some have very simple pixel work. You get the point. Every color is going to be variable depending on what artist worked on it, but usually there's more of an attempt to have some consistency with the style.

Overall, though, I do like it as a color. It's fun, it's interesting, and it's very unique compared to literally any other pet colour.

Favorite Species:

Uni: I hear a lot of people say that the 8-bit Uni is awful, but I don't care. I love it and its stupid little grin and stupid little pose. It's by no means the best looking 8-bit pet, but it's by far the most charming in my book. My only nitpick is that the perfectly square butt is a bit strange compared to the rest of the body.

Cybunny: While once again not the most technically impressive 8-bit pet, i do really like this one. It's super cute, and while it's obviously not accurate to real 8-bit sprites I do feel like it gives off a really nice retro vibe. All of the pixel sizes seem to be pretty correct as well, and the colors are nice. No clothes, but then again, do you really need them?

Tonu: When I say there are more impressive 8-bit pets out there, this is what I'm referring to. The recently released 8-bit Tonu has an incredible amount of detail in its sprite work, including multiple layers of shading and very small, detailed pixels. It's completely different compared to the Uni and Cybunny above, and while not as charming or half as retro, it is quite beautiful.

The other thing that's really nice about the 8-bit Tonu is that it has a very pretty rainbow palette, with a completely different horn and tail than the species usually sports. I honestly have no clue why, but it's very unique and keeps it from being too "Neopet but slightly pixelated"-ish. As a bonus, the rainbow parts are removable if you really don't vibe with them.

BONUS: hehe clown :)

Least Favorite Species:

Korbat: Why is the shading so weirdly detailed on the face but not on the feet or tail. Why does the dress not match the palette of anything else in the design. Why the colored outlines. Why does it look like Piglet from Winnie the Pooh. These questions and more will not be answered.

[animehouse-moe]

Shy Episode 1: I'm Shy

Masaomi Andou and movement aren't things that really go together. After all, a significant chunk of their storyboards for Hanako-kun were just manga panels. Shy, however, is a series that could really use some movement. So, how does it go over? ..... mixed signals, in my opinion. Some good, some not so good, lots of questions, so I'll lay it out here so you can decide if it's worth watching or not.

Alright, so superheroes exist but there's only one per country, and they're chosen by "heart bracelets" which bring out the latent hero potential in the individuals. Shy, or Teru Momijiyama, is Japan's hero and the main character of this series as she endeavors to save people and learn how to be a hero herself.

Sounds pretty comic book-ish, yeah? Andou and the staff seem to agree, as they open with a comic book style explanation of the story. It's good, really good. But is also a point of frustration for me.

Why? Because they don't keep it consistent in the episode. Andou uses comic book panels during the episode to accentuate reactions to something. In concept it's a great idea, it's just executed on very poorly. There's no animation in the "appearance" of the panel, there's no effect to its appearance, nothing. It materializes on the screen and that's it. There's also nothing special about it, it's just layered upon the regular screen. There's no "comic book dots", there's no color change, there's not even an outline or shadow to help separate the panel from the image itself.

It's a great idea that ends up woefully underdelivered on which is a shame given how well it fits both the series and Andou's sense of direction.

It's even worse because there's examples of the same styling of layering an image on top of the environment where they do use that style, and I think it makes an important difference in how you see things.

I think about the only thing it does well is hide the lack of animation in a lot of sequences. Whether it's 8Bit's limits or Andou's intervention I've no idea, but a lot of the episode is still outside of superhero stuff. There's a few examples like this piece of Teru clinking her bracelets together in defeat, but not much. Overall, I'd say that the "average" visuals feel very awkward at times, which is disappointing.

However, the superhero stuff is very cool for the most part. The movement, action, and transformations are all very solid and pride themselves on impressive visual effects.

But really, that's about all I have for it. I don't really think there's any standout direction or boarding being done since so much is just shot for shot with the manga. There's no massive differences or changes to how things go, and the animation on average is just alright. I definitely think there's potential for some really standout episodes with this series, but that will highly depend on the episode director/boarder on the episode. Basically though, if you felt that this episode wasn't that good, I don't think it's going to end up something that you'll enjoy.

[ronaldreganofficial]

Here's a funky tune that I only spent 9 hours on. Imo the beginning is a little rough but it evens out near the end.

here's it on YouTube in case you want it on a playlist or something idk.

[ask-the-sharps]

omg yes post pics of fish bois 🥺🥺🥺

^^ This is Lophii!!

And this is the un-named fuchsia captain! vv

(if you have name ideas I'm 👀👀)

[sadisim]

czech republic killing it!!!

[eternal-armin]

playing videogames with aot characters

because playing videogames together is the best way to get to know your s/o. don't quote me on that characters included: jean, sasha, armin, levi, hange, mikasa, erwin

✧༺♥༻ jean ༺♥༻✧

⋆ ˚｡ both of you are competitive let's be real ⋆ ˚｡ mainly play vs games, such as mario kart, jeopardy, monopoly, etc ⋆ ˚｡ he swears a LOT because jean ⋆ ˚｡ you both will try and sabotage each other by nudging the other or obscuring vision ⋆ ˚｡ no matter what the game it is always extremely intense ⋆ ˚｡ if people watched you they would probably be scared ⋆ ˚｡ but you guys still are....... fairly cordial when one wins and the other loses ⋆ ˚｡ "no pressure, but whoever wins this gets the game. bragging rights for eternity" ⋆ ˚｡ sometimes you guys play horror games (i.e. resident evil 8, the walking dead) and he gets jealous when you say a character is hot ⋆ ˚｡ you guys make a crack character for the show through jokes and it's so funny you need to lie down for a minute because you hurt so badly ⋆ ˚｡ you are both delusional ⋆ ˚｡ game grumps vibes ⋆ ˚｡ will make fun of couples in the game and then be like "uhh" ⋆ ˚｡ you try not to swear but he doesn't care and it is a beautiful comparison

✧༺♥༻ sasha ༺♥༻✧

⋆ ˚｡ mostly stick to puzzle-ish games and two-player games, like little nightmares 2 or death squared or human fall flat ⋆ ˚｡ but you both love minecraft and other sandbox games ⋆ ˚｡ great teamwork ⋆ ˚｡ telepathic communication has long been established ⋆ ˚｡ but you still try and kill each other because it's funny ⋆ ˚｡ you can't even be mad because the other is laughing so hard over something so stupid it's so cute ⋆ ˚｡ you will just throw sasha over the edge of the map and keel over for the next 7 and a half minutes laughing until you cant breathe ⋆ ˚｡ and she does the same ⋆ ˚｡ you play gang beasts with the boys and it's a fucking chaotic mess ⋆ ˚｡ its literaslly so fucnny help hahahahhahaaa ⋆ ˚｡ callmecarson playing gta 5 vibes forever ⋆ ˚｡ "PLEASE STOP I CANT BREAAATHE" ⋆ ˚｡ "breathe on your own time"

✧༺♥༻ armin ༺♥༻✧

⋆ ˚｡ you build the fucking sickest builds together in minecraft like fantasy-inspired, thousand-blocks-wide builds that are so detailed and have so much passion in them ⋆ ˚｡ you plan them for hours ahead of time and every part of the process is the best ⋆ ˚｡ also love very detailed puzzle games; death squared, the witness ⋆ ˚｡ superliminal is your favorite aside from minecraft ⋆ ˚｡ you cried at superliminal because you were so confused ⋆ ˚｡ you've played all runs of undertale ⋆ ˚｡ armin got emotional during all of them and so did you ⋆ ˚｡ but he was the one to do the genocide run it was incredible ⋆ ˚｡ detroit: become human when you're sleep deprived is absolutely shitpost heaven ⋆ ˚｡ human fall flat while drinking 2x the ammount of coffee the average college person consumes ⋆ ˚｡ after a while, you start laughing at silly little things you do on accident and armin thinks it's absolutely adorable ⋆ ˚｡ he's always like "NO! save the animals" even when you literally cvant touch them ⋆ ˚｡ you're working your way through all of the legend of zelda games. breath of the wild is your favorite, the original is armin's favorite ⋆ ˚｡ he loves 8bit games

✧༺♥༻ levi ༺♥༻✧

⋆ ˚｡ he doesn't really play video games often because..... i mean come on ⋆ ˚｡ but he does love horror games that don't have gore, like little nightmares, layers of fear, ju-on the grudge, FAITH, etc ⋆ ˚｡ offers little commentary aside from appreciating graphics or going quiet before a "oh" and a complete explanation of what youve been missing ⋆ ˚｡ he doesnt swear (that much) ⋆ ˚｡ asks you questions since you introduce him to each game ⋆ ˚｡ but he asks them like every five seconds like "what is that" ⋆ ˚｡ "hun that's just a fridge" ⋆ ˚｡ "but it has fifteen shelves" ⋆ ˚｡ watches you play other games and offers commentary that makes you laugh at juuusst the wrong time and then you throw the minecraft hunger games championship ⋆ ˚｡ and also gives you tips when it comes to gang beasts or puzzle games because he has the eyes of.... a god? ⋆ ˚｡ overall a pleasant experience and very productive. he does tease you a lot though, even when you do actually figure it out before him

✧༺♥༻ hange ༺♥༻✧

⋆ ˚｡ it's the most chaotic thing you can ever imagine ⋆ ˚｡ you make the worst jokes (in quality and in subject) and every time you're both cry-laughing ⋆ ˚｡ literally deceased ⋆ ˚｡ will punctuate every sentence of theirs with some swear word/combination just to make you laugh and it always works ⋆ ˚｡ "burger kink. finally" ⋆ ˚｡ heavy wheeze ⋆ ˚｡ the most absurd things always happen when you play together and it is absolutely fucking magical ⋆ ˚｡ the bits are extraordinary ⋆ ˚｡ afterwards you actually talk about the things you liked ⋆ ˚｡ and it's always like an endless list ⋆ ˚｡ it's the most chaotic neutral wholesome thing you guys do ⋆ ˚｡ once again game grumps vibes but like x5.49 at least ⋆ ˚｡ you two could be streamers it would be incredible ⋆ ˚｡ whenever you come out with the Good Lore they listen and then make the worst jokes/commentary, it's fantastic

✧༺♥༻ mikasa ༺♥༻✧

⋆ ˚｡ you always genuinely try ⋆ ˚｡ mikasa is excellent at video games, let's be real rn ⋆ ˚｡ but will dial it back a bit to play by your side because your side is the best to be on x ⋆ ˚｡ so sweet during the entire time ⋆ ˚｡ not chaotic but she does get competitive and kind of intense ⋆ ˚｡ like staring at the screen unblinking intense ⋆ ˚｡ always there whenever you get confused ⋆ ˚｡ you end up explaining some things to mikasa tho. you always research the game beforehand, watch playthroughs, so you know the ins and outs and all the lore ⋆ ˚｡ you Are the sacred scroll ⋆ ˚｡ mikasa is genuinely in love with how passionate you get about the games, the look in your eyes and the smile on your face is so sweet and gorgeous ⋆ ˚｡ you love introducing her to the things you love ⋆ ˚｡ wholesome time. depending on the game you play ⋆ ˚｡ your 2 player minecraft world is exquisite

✧༺♥༻ erwin ༺♥༻✧

⋆ ˚｡ loves really disorienting/detailed puzzle games ⋆ ˚｡ so superliminal was right up his alley ⋆ ˚｡ you worked out the game together, the teamwork was perfection ⋆ ˚｡ and it always is ⋆ ˚｡ you're the one to usually ask to play. he's not usually a video game guy, he prefers going out or staying in, but is getting into games thanks to you ⋆ ˚｡ usually a very nice and un-chaotic time that you both enjoy ⋆ ˚｡ usual banter and you laugh a lot. though not the hange type laughter, important distinction ⋆ ˚｡ will ask questions about the games you introduce him to. and questions that directly ask about the things you love the most about the game so you get to gush about it to him ⋆ ˚｡ like mikasa he absolutely loves the look in your eyes when you're talking about things you love ⋆ ˚｡ usually ends up getting deeply interested in everything about a game because of you ⋆ ˚｡ when it comes to strategy games he is a god ⋆ ˚｡ don't even ask about 5D chess with time travel

[therunawaykind]

Which of yours and 8bit's children is the most chaotic

Hiya anon! Sorry for the late-ish reply in regards to this question, been a busy weekend and I think ya girl is sick. This was and still is a question I'm thinking very hard about. The very first answer I had as well as others in the discord was.

They're all tied for first place EXCEPT for lil 🐝anon who sits happily in 2nd place as the least chaotic.

HOWEVER, I know you'll want an actual ranking. And with that, I'll give you them in two different categories the first will be in their duo or their twin if you will and the second category will be individual.

These will all rank from 1 being the most chaotic and 5 being the least chaotic. I should let it be known they were/are always the most chaotic when I'm asleep....whether that be because they know they'll just get timed out or because they know their other parent @8bitscarlet can't handle them and they'll get away with it....who knows. (I do feel like people may disagree with this ranking but I've gone to the stage of ignoring and blocking them and all chaotic activities out because they were literally stressing me out too much)

THE DUOS (twins) CATEGORY

At number 1 we have @thought-of-you-and-me and @fruitytrashpanda19

Coming in second we have @savethecookie and @alexia-redacted

Finally we have lil 🐝 anon. Yes, they have no twin or duo but I don't want them to feel felt out.

INDIVIDUAL CATEGORY

In first place as most chaotic, we have the fabulous @fruitytrashpanda19. All I have to say for this is shaking, spinning, Shrek memes and penguins of Madagascar memes.

Coming up close but not far behind is....probably @thought-of-you-and-me not as much or frequently anymore but she did have her moments. Though she does do her random check-ins to make sure I'm hydrated and all that jazz.

For number three....I think I'm gonna have to go with @alexia-redacted....she just....she just has her moments...as well as 😏

In fourth we have our dear friend @savethecookie I feel like I may be blocking out some of her chaotic moments or something..or maybe I'm just never around when she is....or maybe I ignore it. I don't really know. The only time that stands out to me where she gets a lil wild or doesn't listen to me or anyone is when she has alcohol in her system.....also 😏

Finally, last but not least we have our dear lil precious 🐝anon. The do and cause no such harm, just sharing their lil bee facts with me and 8Bit, do lil check-ins with us from time to time and just let's us know we're doing great on everything and anything we're pursuing or going through at that moment in time even though we might not think it Though I do have to say....those bee tiktoks that they send to 8Bit where they like....potentially join a cult or whatever it is..does leave me a lil sus from time to time

[daeva-agas]

I can't believe this joke concept is a real game. The LIs start out as literal solid floating squares, and then the artwork gets more polished as things progress.

From singular blocks, to 8bit art, to RPG Maker level pixel art, to Fire Emblem-ish level pixel art, and then finally polished art.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.imahiro.dotokoi

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1378730/_/

That giant pixel art CG looks so funny though. It literally looks like a cardboard printout of a pixel sprite. Like, IT’S SUPER FLAT, NO JOKE, NOT EVEN MINECRAFT-STYLE 3D PIXELS

[punkbirb]

my thoughts on shining pearl

no worries, theres no spoilers

wow. ive never been driven to write anything about pokemon before. i’ve been playing my whole life, and I’ve played every mainline game, including remakes- except for black and white 2.

shining pearl has made pokemon FUN again. it has stayed so true to the original, and I so deeply appreciate that. all the small quirks of the game that I remember so fondly have made me fall in love all over again- to the point im willing to go through the trouble of getting the pokemon ive had since i was 8 off of the old ds games and onto my switch. I love the fact that this game doesnt hold your hand. It took over a year after the release of sword and shield for me to give it a try. Sword and shield- while cool in concept- were so heavily disappointing for me. the wild area was a really neat thing that I enjoyed, but it made it....too easy. it was too overwhelmingly big and just gave you any and every pokemon for no work at all. there was no reward in running up to a glaceon just standing there, waiting to be caught. I found it needless to do anything in that game because if I wanted a dusknoir all I had to do was find it roaming around the same spot it always is. forget trading and special items for evolution! it defeated the purpose for me. and items....my goodness the fact that game just gives you infinite gold nuggets and evolution stones and other items made the careful selection of focusing on developing a handful of pokemon redundant. it’s as if the focus was mostly on giving you free money for the overly expensive clothing choices rather than making it a special feature that you had to make careful decisions for. i feel like sw/sh had a lot of potential, but just lost focus on what the game was supposed to be about.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fact nintendo brought over the ability for your pokemon to follow behind you from heart gold/soul silver. I think i’ve been quietly begging for years to see this. I’d always adored that feature and wondered why it wasn’t more common. All the small details, like the polishing of the badges and playing music notes on them, contests, to the stickers on the ball capsules, berry planting, to the mining and secret bases, to the poffin making- even the fact that the pokemart isn’t crammed into the pokecenter all struck high chords for me. call it nostalgia, but the way it’s kept true to the original form with a few little new tweaks here and there (like the underground caverns that minimize the concept of the wild area from Sword/Shield, and the minimal focus on the wardrobe changes) is exciting. What would really solidify the deal for me is if they brought back the little item in ss/hg that turned the music into the original 8bit tracks (I know that pearl/diamond wasn’t 8bit, but hearing the original tracks would be so cool). 

I do appreciate the fairly new-ish-but-not-really concept of the visual aids and battle mechanics of friendship with your pokemon carrying over into s.pearl. it’s been over a decade since i’ve played the original D/P (wow, makes me feel old), so I don’t quite remember what generation this became a mechanic. however, I feel like somehow this game kept specifically all the things I like about pokemon just for me. while i do remember using maybe 2 or 3 specific pokeapps on the watch feature, i’d forgotten how convenient it could be. I’m excited to see if any new ones have been added. Speaking of, the addition of the HM one (which I dont recall, forgive me if it isn’t new)- I so greatly appreciate that A) gym badges are required to use certain ones and B) I don’t have to waste a move slot or use a HM-designated pokemon to use HMs. I feel like requiring badges to progress with HM usage keeps true to the original pokemon journey- which is what I look for in these games. I appreciate the small backtracking aspect here and there after an HM is obtained. It urges deeper exploration and reminds you that you might not be able to progress in one particular area just yet- but don’t forget about it and some nifty rewards will be found if you come back. certain points in the game- like how to obtain a spiritomb from a certain ruin (I think)- i’m fondly remembering that “hey eventually I’ll get this pokemon here” but I don’t exactly remember how- so it’s a nice challenge that brings back that journey aspect. maybe it’s an unfair edge in terms of experience since i already know where to go and mostly what to do- but slowly recalling little bits of forgotten information are, again, making it fun, and making me really love the work that went into remastering this game. the little hint box on the menu is a nice touch for someone who is forgetful like me. Nice to open up the game after I’d been away and not have to think about “wait, what am I doing here again?” It isn’t so direct that it’s just a statement telling you specifically what to do- but rather “explore X city!” 

sometimes it takes me awhile to warm up to new mechanics, such as dynamax or the mega evolutions in x and y. while I understand there needs to be some way to keep pokemon fresh and exciting- it can be a bit much sometimes. it’s honestly a nice change of pace to nix that in s.pearl (at least, so far- im only just leaving veilstone city). It’s a lot less to keep up with, and honestly they never really did much for me to start with. maybe I’m just too stuck on older gameplay. I do think they’re very neat mechanics, and have made stories interesting (since they’re usually used as plot devices). while I always thought it should’ve been an option to turn off the “super effective/not very effective/etc” tags under the moves, I suppose I wasn’t surprised to see it in s.pearl. When that mechanic was first introduced I thought it kinda took away the point of learning move types- but this isn’t really a gripe. It can definitely be a lot to keep track of- and I still even forget the whole ghost-dark-psychic type efficiency wheel. I think a lot of trainers (especially those who are new to pokemon) appreciate it.

even the battle initiations are a nice little nod to the original games. it was cool to recognize the static image of a trainer in their original battle pose for them to then burst into the 3d movement we’ve come to appreciate. the backgrounds are beautiful and feel more realistic (not literally of course) to the area you’re battling in. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the big-headed chibi overworld view, but seeing the fully rendered battle animations made me think that it’s a sort of modern take on the old, original style of the pixel sprites. definitely warmed me up to the cutesy-ness of it all.

I feel there is a huge swarm of trainers everywhere- which has been kinda annoying, but then again I probably got used to the lack of them in shield. I’d forgotten about the VS Seeker- which is definitely a nice item for when I need to grind later. I’ll admit, Roark defeated me twice before I could beat him. I honestly liked the challenge of it. It was nice knowing that i’d have to either train, train, train, or go catch a machop to use against him rather than just being handed a badge for defeating his team in 3 moves. I’d chosen chimchar, and with his lack of defense, one little fighting-type move alone wasn’t enough to defeat a team of 3 rock-types. It was wonderful to see such an early-on test of type and team efficiency!

being gifted a jirachi from a random NPC early on in the game was a nice shock to me. Not sure if that was part of the pre-order gift yet, but it was definitely a hook!

overall so far this game is not just nostalgic, but somehow very refreshing. I’m definitely looking forward to Arceus in January, and s.pearl has given me revived hope for the series. I enjoy the challenge of the game again- and I love that everything just isn’t thrown at you all at once. You have to explore and you have to work for most rewards. The selection of pokemon in grass isn’t overwhelming- it’s nicely paced, making you take on that original style of hand-picking a team that’ll best suit your needs for the moment rather than just having a plethora of variety at any given time that don’t really give you much challenge for facing the next gym.

I love this game!

[omg-casualbeardstudent]

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[chicoriii]

Are you a music professional?

Absolutely not. I'm not even a music hobbyist. I mean someone who creates music, I am passionate about the music, but I don't create my own. If I was, I would do some covers of Miraculous music. ;)

I always liked music (like everyone, I think), but I started be more passionate about it 11 years ago, when I became a huge Queen fan (mostly classic 70's Queen with no synthesizers), to the point I was definitely too obsessed about the band. I was also fan of classic rock in general. I liked instrumental parts of music the most, like solos, and progressive rock attracted me more, because usually it includes more instrumental parts than in "typical" radio-friendly songs. In time I realized that since I prefer listening to musical instruments more than human voices (even at the beginning of my Queen phase, I was interested much more in Brian May's guitar than Freddie Mercusy's voice), I should focus on instrumental music. I also realized that jazz is more attractive to me than any other genre of music, although it took lots of time to "learn" how to listen to that, to not be bored of jazz improvisations (but still I don't like free jazz and other stuff like that). Nowadays rock is not a big part part of my life anymore, I focus on jazz and classical music (and music inspired by classical like soundtracks), which I liked even before.

So instruments is what I like in music the most, this is why I wanted trying to learn how to recognize sound of those "basic" instruments by ear.

I'm also big Pokémon fan since childhood, who likes music in those video games a lot, and around 2012 I discovered that you can rip musical notations from the games (as MIDI files) those use sequenced audio (every single main game until X/Y released on Nintendo 3DS in 2013) as well as digital samples of instruments in soundfont format. So I started having fun with those MIDI files and I tried to "remaster" music which originally uses midi-ish quality of instruments (or 8bit noises). It's not real creating music, I don't make anything new, I only redo MIDI files just for fun, but it helped me a lot, I learned some things about the music thanks to it.

Recently I made "remaster" of Central Valley, an original composition from fanmade game Pokémon Clover, that is Pokémon FireRed hack, so it uses Game Boy Advanced quality of music (a mix of proper instrumental samples with 8bit noises). It's a simple and "clean" orchestral piece, so it very was easy to do, although it's really beautiful. This is an example what you can do using only free soundfonts and a free software named Synthfont. Real musicians could do much better, but I still enjoying doing it from time to time much.

That thing is the simplest "remaster", I can also changing instruments, tempo, key (pitch) etc.

For example - in Bicycle theme from Black/White/Black2/White2 I changed string section into brass section (trumpet, trombone, alto and tenor saxophones), synth bass into acoustic bass, flute into soprano saxophone and I added a little alto sax part which isn't in the original.

The night version of Floaroma Town from Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum (my favourite soundtrack ever, I don't kidding) I turned into a depressing cello-driven piece by lowering tempo and the key (and instruments). That's an old thing and I could do it much better now, but the idea was great in my opinion. Maybe I will try to remake it later. Floaroma is a little town in Sinnoh region filled with flowers, so I image it as a piece which could play there if it was destroyed by big fire.

[badacts]

giucorreias replied to your post “the foxes as minecraft youtubers”

Minecraft is one of them games with 8bit-ish art and exploring and crafting and building things with blocks. And there are absolutely YouTube channels dedicated to it. There are BOOKS on Minecraft.

as i was reading this (very good helpful explanation) i kind of thought ‘well maybe i SHOULD know about this, if there are books on it. shit maybe i’m the weird one’ but then i remembered it’s the nature of humans to get obsessed with their particular interests and that i don’t know anything about many things that have books written about them. for example: any roleplaying game, crafting of all kinds, any videogames, any games in general. there are many things i don’t know anything about, including minecraft youtubers, and that’s fine

[the-badwolfy]

hello! I was wondering what the name of the song during your credits and patreon shout out was called? :3 Love the videos!

Thank you for saying so, as for the song it’s actually from an 8bit-ish remix of the ShB full trailer created by Oboro Akaneya, you can find the entire remix here.

The part used in my credits begins at 5:45, I strongly suggest checking out their channel it’s loaded with excellent remixes of FFXIV songs.

[twotalesdoezstuff]

*wants to learn to do retro/8bit ish music and do pixel art but its too late and my dumb ass will forget tomorrow*

[kimrom]

This is a 1-hour long compilation of Commodore 64 demos, edited, sorted and beat mixed-ish to Jeroen Tel’s DJ/live set from 2013. His DJ set mostly consists of remakes/remasters of his own SID tunes, the mix also contains tracks from Hubbard and Daglish.

Music: Jeroen Tel

Video: Rom

Captures: c64 Studio

  The video kinda-ish plays like an hour-long c64 demo, some-new-ish demo parts and routines served with incredible Jeroen Tel music. Back when demos had parts. And you just ripped some random game music. 

JT pulls off 60 minutes of the best SID remakes I’ve heard, ever (out of hundreds). The music feels more like a 4 AM DJ set at some underground EDM bunker in London, than a remake of a videogame track.

It’s an hour of old melodies and their distinctive sound reinvented and masterfully crafted with the heavy soundscape and vibrancy of the SID chip. In what “sounds effortless” across an impressively wide range of EDM styles and genres. Jeroen doesn’t really try to replicate “the sound of SID” in these remakes, he playfully reinvents the feeling of a SID tune instead. What a composer. 

And what craftsmanship. You can literally hear the hundreds of hours that went into this hour-long production. It doesn’t sound like a remake, it doesn’t sound like a game, except in that part of the brain that feeds on nostalgia like it was Grade-A Coca plant based Vegan.

Jeroen Tel has claimed the “stadium house” sound for SID tunes, crisp and digital where available. For this mix I added more bass for the Beats by Dre-generation, because more bass is more awesomerer. There are 6-7 versions of JT’s DJ sets out there, unfortunately, neither of them are great recordings.

Demos by: Horizon, MegaStyle Inc, Focus, Fairlight, Bonzai, Camelot, Crest, Oxyron, Triad, Booze Design (so much Booze, holy cow), Censor Design, Shape, Reflex, Extend, Beyond Force, Chorus, Elysium, Hitmen, Shape, Scandinavian Allstars, Byterapers, Albion, Arsenic, Smash Designs, Offense, Onslaught, Contex, Dinmor. 

I felt dirty and savage for gutting demos like this, reducing one piece of digital art to fragments, segments, sometimes just seconds. As an expression of art, creativity, talent, and teamwork every demo in this video deserved better.  This one hour of 8bit visuals represent decades of work. Nerd-chills.

But I still butchered all of it. It’s done. Forever mutilated. Will never be the same.

There are maybe 500 nerds in the world that will understand this post, the rest are lamers.