Summer Chip XIII

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Level 31 Chipist

kleeder

post #172762 :: 2023.06.25 3:24pm

Retro Gracz, gotoandplay, argarak, damifortune and cabbage drop liēkd this

it is way too hot in here.

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edit: as always, happy to hardware render SNES entries, as well as NSF unless it uses MMC5 (or multiple 'spansions i think)

TIME TO SWEAT!! \o/

you know what, i'll just be aspirational about what formats i could tackle this time. there's a lot of other stuff i want to be working on too this summer, but we'll see what i end up having the inspiration to make!

done:
[🌞] snes
[🌞] chip's wild
[🌞] nsf+
[🌞] gameboy
[🌞] adlib
[🌞] classic DOSular modular
[🌞] F
[🌞] 48k
[🌞] 64k
[🌞] real fake bits
[🌞] pc-98
[🌞] genesis
[🌞] nsf2beat
[🌞] pokey pokey

didn't get there:
[🌧️] pc-98 2
[ ] genesis 2
[⛅] midi
[⛅] mt32
[ ] pc-engine

postmortem: i got a lot of stuff done that i'm pretty happy with in the last couple months \o/

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it's winter in here lmao
fucking cold as shite

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FINALLY,

IT

172779

my electricity bill went up again...

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uhhhh.............................
right ok list time!!

HOPEFULLY:

-Gameboyd
-PCE ✅
-PC98
-SGEN
-NSF+
-Fakiebit
-Wildechip
-TIA

Yeah I'm feelin' ^ambitious!

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I shall do

[ ] Adlib
[ ] SID
[X] AY-3-8910
[ ] Some kind of Furnace multi system shenanigans
[ ] Genesis
[ ] Maybe some other stuff?

Welp

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[ ] SNES (mostly finished. Need to learn 65c816 / SPC700 to put my entry together) (did not pan out)
[x] NSF+ (dropped the second song)
[x] s3xmodit (ended up doing BLEAK instead of my original plan)

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Don't know the format, don't know the time, but this is the major where, so help me powers that be, I finally write a song by melody first.

Likely formats:

[ ] Sega Genesis
[ ] PC-98
[ ] s3xmodit
[ ] Wildchip

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know for sure i'm doing Dese formats here

[x] Pixel
[x] Ay-3-8910
[ ] Chip Battle Art
[ ] Gameboy
[ ] Wildchip (I'm thinking YM2203 + POKEY)
[x] sgen

i might do more. i feel charged (like a tomato) !

173263

Just putting it out there that I can do Genesis hardware renders! Model 1 VA6.5 or model 2 VA4, take your pick.

I will probably record all MD entries (from both models?) and put them into a video for vorting time. But if you want a recording before that, let me know.

Will not be doing this. Very busy. Sorry.

-=-=-=

Summer Chip Goals:

[*] AY3
[*] MD
[*] NSF
[ ] Adlib
[ ] MIDI?
[*] GB?
[ ] C64?

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q: is dual pokey in .vgm acceptable for the pokey x2 format? i didn't notice anything mentioned for it. i would assume probably not, cause dual pokey in vgm isn't hardpanned like dual pokey in .sap is

173328

given that POKEYx2 is a hardware hack then i think that the panning and volume of each chip is completely arbitrary since each chip has its own output :D

173336

I'm planning to join this and focus on the chip side of things. Specifically the Mega Drive interests me the most, so I reckon I'll be starting there. I just need to sell my soul to the devil first for a bit of knowledge of how FM works and I'll be all good.

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no al gear :(

173484

woop woop, voting is open!

173488

I'm already 25% done voting. Wanna prevent this step from being futurely laborious.

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ъ

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let me be the first to say an extension would be greatly appreciated! i have many irons in the fire and am busy the whole weekend so i don't really have enough time to crank out all the tunes-in-the-works as is

173924

damifortune STEAMIN Dat Iron!!!!
(i might make use of said extension to make another tune! hopefully)

173935

extend pls

173973

surely we'll get an extension..... surely, right?

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we have EXTENDED thank you

174008

Thank you! 😌

^{^{I was so worried when the entry period was 5 days left}}

174078

I'm actually working on an entry for the MT-32. Until now there are no entries for this format. Maybe one might get inspired by the fairly new MT-32 sound editor

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extend pl0x

175146

no... no more extend pls, the summer has been going for 2 months now, i need something to cool down x.x

175147

i am personally not going to enter any other entries apart from possibly a chip battle art so...

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i'm probably not gonna send in anything else either unless it's a small sketch or something - got a lot else to get done this month. i am ambivalent on more time. if it closes this weekend it will be a pretty small seasonal (granted some ppl will submit at the very end i'm sure), and there are some formats that really need love, but they won't necessarily get it with or without more time :(

175156

whoops too late one week extension

175157

nice, in that case i am starting a Boon Bounty. if you enter any of the following formats between now and the end of the battle, you shall receive

100 per entry:

amiga ahx
ansi art
ascii art
channel

pxtone
pokey x2
commodore plus/4
TIA
VIC20

(these are all the formats with less than 3 entries as of writing this)

(this also assumes you are not submitting boonsave-quality entries. do not do that)

175158

thats so chill, i get another week of summer and spend it by just staying in my room, melting and doing nothing else 👍👍👍

175159

dami: time is an illusion and i want my 300 boons NOW or else i time travel and ... uhh... keep my entries offline until now and then submit them

175160

time is an illusion. summertime doubly so.

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dami, as you can clearly see on the submission times of my entries
https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/.byte+%242_+%241c_+%2434_+%240/61033/
https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Heat+Wave+Surfer/61115/
https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/%21byte+%28splitting_sequences%3E%3E8_%24f%29/61025/

i entered some of your formats between the post time of your comment and the end of the battle, so gimme boons

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it feels to me like all the top 10 is gonna be nsfplus and genesis submissions - there are so many insane entries this time (and it's not even over quite yet)! wow. this is gonna be one for the books

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At first I felt like I was maybe being a bit too generous with my votes, but no - I will say with absolute confidence that there are some amazing entries in here!

176308

voting extension needed pls.
one more week shld be fine.
I have 0 days left of available time until Sunday but the next week has at least a few free evenings that I can use for voting :x

176309

I also meant to request a voting extension of one more week

Thought I'd need to vote on 12 entries a day for 10%, but miscalculated: I need to vote on 24 entries a day to achieve that percentage... aaaaaa

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sorry -- been meaning to add a week because I will be at Knob Con all weekend and won't be able to host results

so let's relax and vort for an extra week!!

:D <3

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hooray for knobs, just this once

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@Abraxas86
_{"At first I felt like I was maybe being a bit too generous with my votes, but no - I will say with absolute confidence that there are some amazing entries in here!"}

Same here! This SCXIII even brought my aura to hearts for the first time in 6 years.

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64% through - thanks for that extension, I'm hoping I can blast through the rest... The music has been my playlist at work, voting as I go :)

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gonna go for 3PM EST tmrow -- high noon mountain time! around an hour after MT32 ohb entry end vote start; nsf+ and wildchip grand finale synclisten and vote at cabbs drop twitch
! all 26 of other 28 formats up on parts 1 and 2 atm. twitch dumps vids after a week; may be able to archive on YouTube

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thx for putting the info in here! makes it much easier for me to see and plan. depending on my level of tiredness later today, I will or will not join the stream x)
cool that you're doing a sync tho!

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thanks again for hosting synclisten :D

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:D part 3 atm! probs grand finale; 2a03+, wildchip

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Thank you so much, Cabbage. You even read the whole lyrics from my entry <3 .

Excellent synclisten.

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time stamped and backed up the streams! may help for final voart week? full bulk list
; part 1
, p2
, p3
; set as "unlisted" to be safe

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Going through the queue be like "well the songs start coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming..." lol

[EDIT] Holy heck, I made it through the entire thing!

176828

it's almost spring in my area

176839

sounds like it's time for Spring Tracks XII II

176846

what about Autumn Tracks since it's going to be Autumn in the hemipshere BOTB is hosted on?

176953

we should swap winter & summer chip sometime

176956

I think of Advent Calendar as the honorary autumn event, if that makes sense

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i think having an off season is good because we have the space to do other big ideas (such as the present Very Rare II) and it allows hype to build up for winter chip

that said i think it'd be fine to at some point swap spring/autumn and do an "autumn tracks" but *not* do spring tracks the next year

also on the topic of summer chip: gg's everyone!! amazing chippin', many memorable tunes this year. thanks for all the love as well <3

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and when Summer Chip XIV will start? ;p

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July

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might try to actually do more than one song this time around (this is probably a lie, I’ll have a lazy July and crank something out in a week)