Chiptune.app

by lindtobias • 3 years ago

533 178 3 years ago

lindtobias• 3 years ago

Web-based music player for a variety of video game and chiptune music formats.

p2detar• 3 years ago

The fact that there is a whole folder of Necros‘ tracks just makes this amazing. What a great time to be a teenager that was. Recommended:

Martian Lovesong

Point of Departure

Paranoid Android

moconnor• 3 years ago

Great recommendations! Direct link: https://chiptune.app/?play=Modland%2FNecros%2Fmartian%20love...

Paul_S2• 3 years ago

The folder structure is such a mess that I thought it only does midi but I used the search bar and was amazed by the crisp SID rendition. Should add a filter toggle to remove all the midi spam.

drsopp• 3 years ago

I cannot find any SID music.

vidarh• 3 years ago

Same. Found a number of mods covers of C64 tracks, but not found a single sid.

akleemans• 3 years ago

Nice! Love the huge library, I wonder how much time was put into compiling it.

Reminds me of a Chiptune player I made a wile ago (with Chiptune.js), but with only like 20 predefined Cracktros. If anyone is interested: kleemans.ch/static/chiptune

cglong3• 3 years ago

Man, VGMusic.com was my Spotify in the 90's :)

I don't know much about the MIDI format, but there was one song [1] that I used to love listening to on Windows 9x. I guess the file took advantage of some 9x quirk, because the orchestration is completely busted in modern Windows and macOS. I'm so happy because this site plays it just the way I remember it!

[1] https://chiptune.app/?play=vgmusic.com%20MIDI%2Fconsole%2Fse...

Kye• 3 years ago

MIDI has no sound on its own, so it depends on the thing playing it. Windows' MIDI synthesis might have gotten worse, or you remember it on the particular sound card you had with 9x.

Here's a video I found of one of my favorite games sounding completely different from how I remember it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inn7IE6-wgY

cglong3• 3 years ago

What a good demo! Yeah, I think I has to do with "updated" MIDI synthesis logic. The issue involves some of the harmonies; on modern devices, they start but never stop, then begin to layer on top of themselves, making it a total cacophony haha.

Moru• 3 years ago

Try the settings in the player, it has loads of soundfonts to try, they all sound very different. If it's a midi file, it all depends on what sound card or installed soundfont you had at that time.

cglong3• 3 years ago

Ah thank you! I tried different combinations of Synth Engine and Soundfont but wasn't able to replicate the issue :/

bronikowski2• 3 years ago

Am I blind or are there no SID modules? C64 is like 90% of tracked music that I'm listening to. :(

Sharlin4• 3 years ago

Yeah, it’s a bit strange omission.

mdp20217• 3 years ago

Playing samples in patterns and computing coded sound are completely different efforts.

snowram• 3 years ago

May I recommand to you the High Voltage Sid Collection? It is a collection of curated SID songs in a neat package, and it is updated regularly! https://www.hvsc.c64.org/

bronikowski2• 3 years ago

Oh, I have HVSC, probably on most of my devices. I was expressing surprise about the project's lack of SIDs not my lack of it! :-D

Audiophilip• 3 years ago

The whole HVSC is available on DeepSID, an online SID player: https://deepsid.chordian.net/

daneel_w4• 3 years ago

In the scene people always set SIDs and tracker chiptunes apart, because of how technically different the two are. There's an enormous technical complexity of having to emulate not just the SID chip (which still isn't 100% understood) but also the 6510 CPU and even some of the C64's CIA timers to accurately replay SIDs, whereas almost all sample-based tracker music from the Amiga and PC need none of that effort. Replaying SIDs is even more complicated than emulating e.g. SPC700 of the SNES, the PSG sound of the SMS, or the YM/OPN2 synthesizer of the MegaDrive.

chromoblob• 3 years ago

Meanwhile, there's GoatTracker (tracker for SID music).

terlisimo4• 3 years ago

also the 6510 CPU and even some of the C64's CIA timers

yes, but also the VIC timers and the PLA. So basically you need all of the c64 chips emulated, at least in part :)

I wrote a simple SID player for fun and I feel like it's 20% shy of being a full c64 emulator, all it needs is video output and keyboard/joystick input.

kevin_thibedeau2• 3 years ago

Sample based tracker formats shouldn't be considered chiptunes. The latter is supposed to mean sound generated by dedicated hardware with automatic waveform generation, envelopes, and filtering. Doing it all in software by mixing samples isn't the same.

terlisimo4• 3 years ago

To be fair, nobody called c64 music "chip music", it was just "music/tunes" because c64 music is really just code so in a way all of it was chip music (excepting some digi tunes).

The term chip music was coined on amigas and newer computers to differentiate it from regular sample based music.

nurettin• 3 years ago

Now you get an entire thread of nerds explain you the etymological history of sound chips and the huge differences between a sid program and the mid format despite having perfectly working converters in both directions.

Sharlin4• 3 years ago

C64 modules here: https://chiptune.app/browse/Game%20Mods/-%20Arranged%20-/

Of course these are indeed modules, arrangements by someone else than the original composer, and not SID tunes per se.

montag10• 3 years ago

You are not blind! This is my personal bias showing, I should really add SID modules to the catalog.

khazhoux• 3 years ago

The fact that the songs play instantly when you click makes me sad for literally all modern software.

Waterluvian2• 3 years ago

Not sure I follow. I just tried with Spotify on my phone and desktop (oooh Electron spooky) and any song plays instantly.

p-e-w• 3 years ago

It's just a variation of the standard "all modern software is garbage because Facebook and Twitter are garbage" nonsense complaint.

sealeck• 3 years ago

I actually find that Spotify is super buggy. If I switch devices it doesn't work (I have to select the new device at least five times), when I go underground with my phone it's super slow to realise that I've lost connection, and I usually have to restart the app for it to continue playing music.

brk• 3 years ago

I think the point is that "all modern software" has all kinds of delays and buffering before playing, in contrast to this site where the audio just plays instantly and reliably.

ungamedplayer• 3 years ago

This is not a consistent experience for everyone.

xp84• 3 years ago

Try Apple Music, lol. They’re still working on starting tracks quickly and smoothly.

ziml77• 3 years ago

They don't though? I just clicked between two tracks a few times. Each time I switch there is a very clear delay between the click and the playback starting. You can even visually tell there's a delay because the row only becomes highlighted when playback of that track starts.

mdp20217• 3 years ago

Check the download graphs in your browser's network activity monitor.

mdp20217• 3 years ago

when you click

When you click, you download packages between 30kb and 300kb (roughly speaking); the player is surely already in memory - that is your latency. For systems that run immediately on machines with a fraction of power.

1letterunixname2• 3 years ago

The relative compression is much, much higher for the equivalent of "vector" music over high bit rate "raster" digital audio codecs.

throwaway6753092• 3 years ago

This comment makes zero sense considering that mod/XM type tracker files are mere kilobytes in size as opposed to a streamed OGG or MP3 file which is megabytes.

tarcon• 3 years ago

Awesome. I didn't know my browser can play midi files. Firefox Developer 116 on macOS 13.4.1

epcoa2• 3 years ago

The browser can play any sound so why not MIDI files. To be clear, the default implementation here is that this uses a soft synth (FluidSynth) compiled to wasm to render MIDI to waveform data - this is not how browsers classically played MIDI through the OS sequencer. It does also support sending out MIDI data to external devices though.

lavventura• 3 years ago

It brought me back to childhould memories, I remember the songs of the games I played. I wish there were links to all the games's info.

makach• 3 years ago

Labor of love, excellent!

epcoa2• 3 years ago

The MOD player seems to have some problems with the sequencing and tempo in a number of files on multiple browsers/devices.

mogoh• 3 years ago

https://github.com/mmontag/chip-player-js

cheerioty• 3 years ago

“Let ‘ss kick together!” .. All the Raizing soundtracks are just pure fire.

altilunium• 3 years ago

Just made a simple remix : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWzK_wAPc68

Additional feature idea (for remixing)

- Play several tracks at once

- Keyboard shortcut to toggle each voice channel (soundboard)

tiborsaas• 3 years ago

Looked for rave, stayed for Ravel :)

Jakob• 3 years ago

If you are on macOS, download the .mid file and open it in Garageband and listen for how much (free!) MIDI synthesis has improved.

wiradikusuma2• 3 years ago

You're right! Why is that? Shouldn't regardless of the app (Chrome vs GarageBand) the sound be the same? I mean the underlaying player should be the same right?

TazeTSchnitzel• 3 years ago

MIDI files only contain a description of (simplifying somewhat) the rhythm and base pitch of notes, and which instruments they should be played on, so the realisation can vary drastically depending on the particular system and configuration (e.g. soundfont choice) it's played back with.

Pathogen-David3• 3 years ago

That's the nature of MIDI files. They don't encode audio, they encode a set of instruments with a list of notes. It's up to whatever's playing them to provide what those instruments actually sound like.

Here's an example of the same MIDI file being played back on several different devices: https://youtu.be/eiMP-PlL6VM?t=954 It's clearly the same song on all of them, but it sounds slightly different.

Modern browsers do not support MIDI playback on their own, so chiptune.app is presumably doing it on its own with its own (likely intentionally retro) sound font providing the instruments.

Additionally even if macOS had its own system-level MIDI synthesis (not sure if it does), GarageBand would actually probably still be different since it's main purpose isn't MIDI playback -- it's to be a DAW.

Jasper_2• 3 years ago

MIDI does not have a sound. It's just instrument data. The classic "MIDI sound" that you recognize is the Roland GM soundkit shipped with Windows (an early version of Roland's Virtual Sound Canvas product).

This website uses a different instrument set. You can actually select which one it uses in the Settings panel, but by default it uses Kenneth Rundt's GMGSx.sf2 (which does sound quite a bit Roland-y to me), as shipped by SynthFont.

I don't know what instrument collection GarageBand uses.

wiradikusuma2• 3 years ago

Btw I just want to say that I tried CANYON.MID and it sounds worse in GarageBand. I guess like using retina display to see old JPEG files, the imperfections now visible.

badrabbit• 3 years ago

Didn't have some stuff I looked for. Modarchive lookup might fix all that.

thih9• 3 years ago

Beautiful!

Also, it’s so unexpected to see this text-style UI scroll smoothly or update the progress bar smoothly.

qwertox• 3 years ago

What is playing this back? When using the inspector, I see it actually downloads the .mid file. I didn't grant Chrome access to my MIDI devices (not that I'd have any connected) and it was still playing the audio.

Is it playing it back with some internal samples and a playback feature, relaying it to the OS, or is this a Javascript player?

Oh wait, I just turned on the Visualizer, which makes me think that this is all done in Javascript, including the audio rendering?

boomlinde2• 3 years ago

I'd guess the hard work is done by the WebAssembly blob. There are open libraries written in C and C++ for the rendering of just about any audio format into a sample buffer. For General MIDI playback you could use e.g. the TiMidity++ or FluidSynth libraries, which use instrument data from SoundFont files.

twoodfin• 3 years ago

The settings offer a variety of playback options, including FluidSynth—with a choice of SoundFonts—or direct Web MIDI.

This is wild. Anyone who’s more into this space than I am have any editorial comments on the various SoundFont options?

…listening to Space Quest III…

bryans• 3 years ago

MIDI playback does not require a device and is baked into the OS via QuickTime's synthesizer and Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth.

jensgk• 3 years ago

The classical piano pieces sound great in the Pianoteq VST.

ghusbands• 3 years ago

Where is that option? It's not in the list of SoundFonts that I see.

montag10• 3 years ago

Yes! Proud owner of Pianoteq myself. Performance MIDI + Pianoteq is better than a recording, because it's so tweakable, and has a noise floor of zero.

Can't tell you how glad I am to hear that at least one other person has used Chip Player JS this way.

smodo• 3 years ago

For people trying to play this in Safari: reload the page if you get no sound. I’ve some experience with safari on mobile and wasm. Audio is unfortunately quite wonky.

ErneX• 3 years ago

Safari specially on mobile usually wants audio to be user initiated (e.g. triggered by a click/tap), to prevent autoplay surprises I guess?

honeybadger1• 3 years ago

This, this is so good.

ilaksh• 3 years ago

Love this but unfortunately the sound has significant issues on a cheap Android phone. I'm sure it will work the the laptop though.

move-on-by• 3 years ago

Very fun! I wish I could send a link for a song and have it play when it is opened. I have a friend group I would share that with.

xp3ll3d• 3 years ago

You can link directly to a song. When a song is playing, down the bottom, click the link icon.

Eg. Sonic 3 ice cap zone https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FSonic%20the%20He...

montag10• 3 years ago

You can do this by right-clicking the currently playing song title in the footer and copying the link. Dang, I wish this was more discoverable.

vardump3• 3 years ago

Searched for any chiptunes (in the original meaning) on that site, the only ones I could find are here: https://chiptune.app/browse/ModArchives/Dreamfish. Perhaps there are more?

In the 1990s chiptunes meant *tracker (Protracker, etc.) tunes with short loops used as instruments.

nxpnsv2• 3 years ago

For me it meant sid, and a bunch of ym trackers on atari st. The mods where just chip style. That said i really loved those old chip mods

vardump3• 3 years ago

Absolutely no one referred to SID, YM etc. tunes as chiptunes in the nineties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune

"The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music using extremely basic and small samples that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term)"

mdp20217• 3 years ago

"Chiptunes" means that some microprocessor was used as a sound synthesizer. In the initial years, you coded the tune. Then a standardization happened, as music code could be generalized in "sound patterns" definition and organization: hence, e.g., Chris Huelsbeck's Soundmonitor (1986). That is one of the first public "trackers". The name comes from the Ultimate Soundtracker on the Amiga (1987) - but the Paula was more typically used as a sampler, not as a synth. Speaking of "chiptunes" implies a style - that may or may not be the output of a tracker (it depends on how it is used).

el_nahual• 3 years ago

I'm old enough to remember playing games with chiptunes, but young enough to not have known what a tracker was. This YouTube video (from the amazing Ahoy channel) is an incredible, in-depth overview of trackers, their sound and history:

https://youtu.be/roBkg-iPrbw

jon_adler• 3 years ago

I really enjoyed the Xtree Gold vibes of the website. I used to own a Gravis Ultrasound back in the day, and this UI and music took me back there.

m_walden• 3 years ago

If you like Xtree Gold, then check out the updated successor:

ZTreeWin https://ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm Free 30 day trial period (USD $29.95)

jamesgreenleaf• 3 years ago

https://chiptune.app/?play=Nintendo%20SNES%2FChrono%20Trigge...

fatfox• 3 years ago

For anyone into SID, I can highly recommend C64 radio: https://c64radio.com

teddyh2• 3 years ago

I would also suggest <https://kohina.com/>.

flykespice• 3 years ago

Great web app, I like the simple static page with 90s aesthetic.

My only complain is that track selection is inconsistent among systems, for example on Sega Master System the game tracks is spread among individual .vgm files but on Nintendo all the tracks is contained on a single .nsf file, which I find disavantadgeous compared to the former one because you have to go through all the tracks to find what you want.

I would rather if track selection would be uniform on all systems by spreading them to individual files like Sega Master System does.

jimmydddd• 3 years ago

Are these all actual tracks from games? I'm a jazz fan and I never knew tunes by Chic Corea, Wayne Shorter, etc., were incorporated into games?

aflag• 3 years ago

I think some of them are just midi versions of famous songs.

zeta0134• 3 years ago

Jake Kaufman was kind enough to release the entire Shovel Knight OST as an NSF under creative commons, meaning we're allowed to host it and do cool stuff with it. So I'll take this opportunity to plug an NES visualizer I've been working on. Did you know the Shovel Knight OST can and will run on a real FamiCom, using Konami's VRC6 mapper? Knowing that, I can look at the register writes as they're being made, work out the appropriate frequency on the keyboard, and show a piano roll in realtime:

https://rusticnes.reploid.cafe/wasm/?tab=jam&cartridge=Shove...

But I don't have a slick interface or a way to browse chiptunes, so...

chiptune.app: 1

zeta: 0

Clearly I need to get to work :) (At the very least, you can load up most NSF files and even NES games, and the visualizer will still run. If you want to know what notes the "coin" sound in SMB makes, now you can.)

sonjaqql• 3 years ago

This is a really cool visualizer. Neat work!

TulliusCicero• 3 years ago

Wow, this visualizer is awesome!

Pathogen-David3• 3 years ago

I hadn't realized (or maybe just forgot) your visualization was publicly available, super cool to see the Shovel Knight OST in it! I love seeing your music come up on YouTube/Twitter, the retro piano roll and the waveforms are so satisfying to watch.

emmanueloga_2• 3 years ago

FX3 [0] is one of my fav albums from Virt, but I don't think he ever released the source? If I get it right it was composed as .nsf files too.

I saw there was a MIDI file for at least one of the songs (Choppastyle [1][2]), so maybe there's a chance to get the rest of them from somewhere? I'd love to hear a version with modern synth instruments to compare and contrast (although my dream is for a cover of the whole album by www.paulgilbert.com and friends hahah).

NOTE: the redirect from links like [2] is a bit jarring, it would feel more natural if the URL remained (instead of the redirect to [3]). It would also make it easier to share a specific song by just copying the URL.

0: https://virt.bandcamp.com/album/fx3-remastered

1: https://virt.bandcamp.com/track/choppastyle

2: https://chiptune.app/?play=Contemporary%2FVirt%2Fv-choppasty...

3: https://chiptune.app/browse/Contemporary/Virt

montag10• 3 years ago

I had a rationale for this redirect behavior, but not sure it matches user expectations. The URL will reflect the browse location, but not the playing track...otherwise the URL gets too clunky. You can always copy the playing track from the link icon.

kibwen• 3 years ago

The piano/waveform visualizer is great, and there's a ton of fun to be had here by turning on and off different instruments. It would be nice if the interface were more discoverable/documented though. :)

(EDIT: also, it looks like chiptune.app does have a sort of piano-like visualizer available from the top-right corner, but it doesn't look quite as nice as yours.)

tangwwwei• 3 years ago

amazing visualizer! are there any other games or NSF you would recommend to load up in the visualizer? im not familiar with the world of nes music

teddyh2• 3 years ago

For those who want MP3 files to use locally, there’s the Stone Oakvalley collections, recorded from real Amiga and Commodore 64 computers:

• Amiga Music Collection (SOAMC=) <https://www.paula8364.com/>

• Authentic SID Collection (SOASC=) <https://www.6581-8580.com/>

29athrowaway• 3 years ago

They have Dancing Mad from Final Fantasy VI.

That composition is equivalent to painting the Sistine Chapel with only crayons and making it look 95% the same.

Nobuo Uematsu is an impressive man.

gv83• 3 years ago

castlevania all the way baby!

sph• 3 years ago

Very cool but... there's my favourite track, Foregone Destruction from UT99, but can't link it because the URL is too long, and for some reason the song skips. :(

For the nostalgia, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4

tptacek• 3 years ago

God, I forgot how bad the Genesis sound synthesizer sounded.

montag10• 3 years ago

It varies widely, based on both composer and sound driver.

Give these a try -

https://chiptune.app/?play=Contemporary%2FCatskull%20Records...

https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FRolling%20Thunde...

https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FTime%20Trax%2F01...

\https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FShining%20Force%...

wackget• 3 years ago

Dunno who made this site, but I have feedback:

1. The on-site Feedback link sends you to Twitter where you must become a paid, "verified user" to message the author. I am not signing up for Twitter, much less PAYING for Twitter, to provide feedback.

2. Would be good if you could link directly to a track on the website.

3. You should be able to click anywhere on the current row to start playing a track. Currently you have to click the track's actual filename. Clickin the empty space after the filename does nothing.

4. There could be a top list / chart or at least a handful of tracks on the home page which users can start playing right away instead of having to manually search for something.

5. No Bach in the classical folder?!

6. Open source?

Pathogen-David3• 3 years ago

Not the author, but:

1. The verified thing is a recent change https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1680039297637040129

6. It is, it'd definitely be nice if it was easier to find https://github.com/mmontag/chip-player-js

sporadicallyjoe• 3 years ago

Great app. Though the files for 'The Elder Scrolls - Arena' seem to be missing.

butz• 3 years ago

Minor nitpick: volume slider is unstyled in Firefox. Great web app otherwise, I love shuffle play feature.

TomatoTomato• 3 years ago

canyon.mid never disappoints

kebman• 3 years ago

I see there's an Project AY folder, but will there come any Atari ST tunes? I'm specifically wondering about The Union Demo by The Union (1989), including intro from The Carebears, and many more.

gdubs• 3 years ago

I can confirm this is the real deal by its inclusion of my favorite soundtrack: Donkey Kong Country.

omoikane• 3 years ago

I see that some of the files came with a "txt" link that shows some credit info, which is nice. But I can't find any credits for the site itself, is that intentional?

Vekz• 3 years ago

very cool I like the UI. Wish it had the catalog from keygenjukebox do net though.

montag10• 3 years ago

Noted.

lepetitchef• 3 years ago

I am looking for Japanese Tokyo train melody tunes. It would be great if this library includes them

Andrex• 3 years ago

This is awesome! And maybe a good place to plug my similar perpetually-almost-finished chipmusic app? It's basically the OP link but shuffle-only, but you can sign up and favorite songs you like (as well as keep track of your listening history).

https://chipmusic-f6069.web.app

It's supposed to display a random pixel art GIF from Giphy but they probably changed the API in the last two years.

I originally had chipmusic.fm but $99/year for a domain is hard during hard years.

Dig1t• 3 years ago

https://chiptune.app/browse/Nintendo%2064/Bomberman%20Hero%2...

"Redial" in this folder is one of the best and most underrated video game songs of all time.

Very nice.

Yhippa• 3 years ago

Thanks for pointing this out! Actually a bunch of other songs on there are really great.

sogen• 3 years ago

18-Ooze has voice??

Always had thought there only were chiptune sounds

Jasper_2• 3 years ago

The N64 has no native sound processor -- just PCM sample output. Game developers often integrated some form of custom sequence or MIDI format, combined with PCM samples, and some playback code running on the N64 CPU. The miniusf file format is a bit of a hack, it basically packages a copy of the ROM together (sometimes stripped to just the audio code / data, but not often), a savestate of registers/RAM, and runs a full N64 emulator with the graphics code stripped out. [0]

So what you're hearing is just the playback code shipped in the game, plus all the samples it came with.

[0] http://hcs64.com/usf/

jakemauer2• 3 years ago

Wow this is really great, thanks for sharing.

montag10• 3 years ago

Also check out the Soundfont conversion - not perfectly accurate, but sounds nice https://chiptune.app/?play=Nintendo%2064%20(SoundFont%20MIDI...

(I spent entirely too much time on these conversions...)

ugh123• 3 years ago

Anyone know the "fair usage" status for stuff like this? Can I host this myself without getting hit by lawyers?

charred_patina• 3 years ago

Wow, I previously had this domain with a similar project hosted and just let it expire in March. I was really confused seeing it at the top of HN.

"Wait why is my website on the front page of HN? I thought I let the domain expire."

I don't mean to piggyback, but I want to show what I had hosted here before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEvu_nC2LQ

OPs project is obviously much more impressive, but it's cool to me that the aesthetics are similar and both come from similar places. A nice reminder that the internet is actually pretty small I guess.

Also, I'd like to introduce people who may not be familiar with Chiptunes and trackers to Tim Follin. Tim has a legendary status among NES composers. His music doesn't even sound like it could be coming from an NES sound chip:

https://chiptune.app/browse/Nintendo/Silver%20Surfer

montag10• 3 years ago

Very interesting, had no idea when I bought the domain. Cool project, too.

tarellel• 3 years ago

These tunes bring back some incredible memories form my teens.

https://chiptune.app/?q=ultima+online

chaosprint• 3 years ago

is this open sourced? the audio is clicking on my phone

VonGuard• 3 years ago

Man, I would kill to have this as a standalone app on my phone with all of these midis loaded.

montag10• 3 years ago

Check out Modizer by yoyofr. (Hope it's still on the App Store)

genewitch• 3 years ago

I have midis not included in the onlymidis and midis folders. I can mail a floppy disk with the fills!

ceroxylon• 3 years ago

The settings to turn on/off voices and adjust the effects is amazing for sampling parts of legendary songs.

Netcob• 3 years ago

I love the visualizer, how you can basically follow along on that keyboard at the top.

moritzwarhier• 3 years ago

What a neat project, kudos! Wish I'd had the idea to do something similar as a React fun / spare time project, this sparks joy and new interest in doing something with web audio.

Also very polished, the UI really looks like Norton Commander or something similar and is still perfectly usable on a phone.

panzi6• 3 years ago

Anyone can recommend anything to listen to on there? I already know (since back then) and still regularly listen to:

- Unreal 1

- Megaman (1-7, X, ...)

- Super Metroid

- Chrono Trigger

- Zelda

Preferring actual chiptunes over MIDI.

modeless• 3 years ago

Vectorman 2 - Intro A https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FVectorman%202%2F...

Sonic 3 - Ice Cap Zone https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FSonic%20the%20He...

Note that these are links to individual songs, not just folders, but you have to click once anywhere on the page before the linked song will play.

I tried to find some other classics like the moon theme from Ducktales or Flower Garden from Yoshi's Island or the Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble music but they're not present in their original forms.

Also interesting is that they have CANYON.MID and PASSPORT.MID in a folder with a ton of other songs from some software I've never heard of called MidiSoft Recording Session. I wonder if the others are any good? https://chiptune.app/browse/Demo%20MIDI/MidiSoft%20Recording...

jakemauer2• 3 years ago

I still listen to all of the following regularly. Castlevania IV and ActRaiser in particular have pretty incredible arrangement and sound design for being so early in the system's life.

From the Super NES:

  - Super Castlevania IV
  - ActRaiser
  - Axelay
  - StarFox
  - Gradius III
  - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time
  - U.N. Squadron
  - Final Fantasy VI (III in the US)

From the Genesis:

  - Sonic 2
  - Sonic 3 & Knuckles
  - Ranger-X

From the Unreal Tournament Soundtrack:

  08 - Botmca
  11 - Enigma
  17 - Skyward Fire
  28 - Foregone Destruction

Note: I think there's something up with chipplayer.js' tracker playback because some of these Unreal Tournament tracks were definitely playing slower than they should.

div3rs3• 3 years ago

Lizardking’s stuff is great, e.g. Triton Theme: https://chiptune.app/?q=lizardking

prmoustache• 3 years ago

Thunderforce III - Stage 1 / hydra on the Sega Genesis / Megadrive is probably one of mu favorite game music ever. But really the whole playlist is nice.

https://chiptune.app/browse/Sega%20Genesis/Thunder%20Force%2...

Also on the same console I like a lot of soundtracks from games that were ported from Amiga: Lemmings, Lotus, James Pond II, they all have some kind of cert different character to traditionnal consoles music.

nmz• 3 years ago

Well...

  - Pokemon crystal

SNES

  - Tales of Phantasia (It's probably top 5 in best OST for SNES)
  - Donkey Kong series
  - FF Series
  - Terranigma   Some good tracks, like:
    - Evergreen
    - Sanctuary
   - Earthbound (not recommended but I do enjoy some tracks)
    - In winters there is a genius
    - Heartless Hotel
    - Megaton Walk
     Some notes, Many of the tracks here are actually pop music, (Even the Beatles!), but its been mashed so much its indistinguishable. theres a nice youtube video about it.
   - Super Mario RPG (And my name bookie is fantastic)
   - Street Fighter 2
   - Kirby
   - Sim City    (City is just 5/5)
   - Anything Mario really     (Kart, Bros)
   - Spider man Maximum Carnage
   - Tetris Attack ("Forest stage" is super chill)
   - Uchuu Race Astro Go Go
   - Tetris & Dr mario (I've listened to this so much, I'm 
  unsure if its good)
  - Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts loose (A little zany 
  but I like a few)
  - Zombies Ate My Neighbors
    Last but not least is ZAMN, which has one of the best tracks for the SNES, Mars needs cheerleaders (and also Pyramid of fear). It is genuinely good

I could make a bigger list, but I think after PS1 and N64 costs too much CPU and you're better off getting nonchiptune.

Some Mentions

  - Layton (DS)
  - Saga Frontier 2 (PS1)
  - dot hack (PS2)
  - Megaman Battle Network Series (GBA)

Its strange, you have to dredge through so much chiptune to find some tracks so recommendations list are always nice.

panzi6• 3 years ago

Ah yes, Donkey Kong Country, Mario, and Terranigma are already in my playlist. Thank you!

panzi6• 3 years ago

Thank you all for all the recommendations! Will listen through them when I have time. :D

monstertank• 3 years ago

search outrun-b.mod

I have been chasing a really cool remix for this track for ages. It's like an amped up techno/psytrance remix...all I remember is it was done by something team or team someone?

Does anyone know what I am after at all?

neoromantique• 3 years ago

Very nice interface, sadly no keygen music :(

Synaesthesia• 3 years ago

The Piano e-competition MIDI files are great!

1letterunixname2• 3 years ago

That the MIDI instruments are so good and the emulated playback is so accurate is amazing. It sounds better on my iPad Pro than it ever did on a large 4:3 TV. Damn impressive.

Many hours wasted on this 2P game with a neighbor: https://chiptune.app/browse/Nintendo/Jackal

dimator• 3 years ago

https://chiptune.app/?play=Nintendo%20SNES%2FDonkey%20Kong%2...

:')

by david wise. what a gem. and here is the obligatory, very well done mini-doc about this track, and the incredible technical achievement it took to make it:

https://youtu.be/jvIzIAgRWV0

CapTinKneeMow• 3 years ago

Love the retro UI

fire• 3 years ago

this is extremely cool when it works well!

my poor pixel 3 can't play back almost anything on the site without constant popping ( resembling artifacts, I think? ), which is sad

panzi6• 3 years ago

Hm, most songs from Unreal 1 have actually 2 tracks in them: One calm one, and one when fighting happens. But that player seems to only play the first one. VLC (and back in the days Winamp) plays both, one after the other. Would be cool if it could play both.

panzi6• 3 years ago

I remember a classic Amiga OS styled website that had lots of chiptunes to download. It really worked like the Amiga OS, with movable, resizable windows and a file explorer etc. Can't remember the URL. I wanna say chiptune.net, but apparently that's not it.

panzi6• 3 years ago

Oh it was https://www.chiptune.com/ but it has an invalid TLS certificate now.

Chiptune.app

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