Feels like the year is about to end....?

...or maybe not yet, but it is still time to suggest some formats for our annual ADVENT EVENT!

All suggestions are welcome, even the weirdest and ugliest formats >:)
Unless the format is non-existent on BotB. Please use this list of formats as a reference: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Formats


=== Explanation for new people ===
From Dec 1st to Dec 24th, we will have daily battles featuring one format and bitpack. You have this day to make an entry and submit it. On the next day, a different format+bitpack will show up.
You can check out the previous event for more information!
You will not know which format or bitpack is next (surprise, surprise whoooo~)

There's also this lyceum article in case you wanna read even more about it: Advent Calendar (Battle series)


=== Next up ===
After collecting format suggestions in september, there will be another thread asking for bitpacks in october! November will get used to finalize the schedule and bitpacks, and december is when the thing is happening.

You can liek or haeit comments to show your support or anti-support for a format. Or you simply post the format name again. However you like!

Of course, there will still be some unwanted and surprising formats, too. And posting your format doesn't mean it will go in, not even if it has a lot of votes. It still helps with the schedule, so LETS GO !!!


=== What's new this time??? ===
Well, regarding the battle itself, there won't be anything new i assume. But I am happy to announce that the battle and its organisation, which includes schedule- and bitpack-creation, will be co-hosted by damifortune this time! So please don't get confused when it's not me who posts an Advent Calendar-related thread or battle :O

Ok so, here are my format suggestions.

Tracker-based: Deflemask Legacy, Vanilla FamiTracker, and klystrack.


Chip/System-based: YM2151, Amiga MOD, AHX, AY/YM, NES/Famicom with expansions, mod16k, mod32k, SNES, SMS, Genesis/Mega Drive, and WILD_CHIP.

🫡 happy to be serving the people on the Advent Calendar Planning Committee (the committee is just me and kleeder)

add melonadem as a format for melonadem advent calendar 20melon ! thank you !

serious answer: i likely won't get to participate super often at all given Drainage of the Energy (by Retail Work) however i'd love to see sms and nsf classic and also sgen i think

- Lunar Magic
- OpenMPT
- PXTone
- Remix
- Sample
- SNES / Super Famicom
- Wildchip

Shoutouts for some of the formats missing in the last calendar.

tic80 was a good time last time it'd be fun to have it again
i think you should have all the new formats (plaintext, bespoke, photography, pdf? i think that's all of them)
amiga mod (it's surprisingly popular and fun when you don't have to make a collection of samples yourself gosh that's annoying)
sample and remix
renoise
btw there's been no pure data yet so you must subject everyone to that ;p

I would like at least one (1) map format TYVM

A jummbox format would be greatly appreciated

Okay. So I'm doing...

- NSF+
- VGM
- YM2151
- Module
- OpenMPT
- SNES

You have a choice or do your selection.
I have back to work because Getting a PC this week. Or maybe tomorrow

I loved everyone’s AdLib entries so much last year that I humbly again must request ADLIB

BLUF: i very much want musescore and sample. i will avoid participating in pd and ym2151. i am ok with participating everything else.


formats i will bribe dami and klaedde for:
musescore
sample

my friendly biases:
pc98
nsf classic
midi
wildchip/fakebit

those i want to do more of:
teletext
channel f
keffietracker
mt32
pdf/txt

those i will be alright with trying:
fsound
gameboy
jummbo
🗿
12k
fotomash

i might face these fears:
vcv
renoise
bespoke
zxbeep
lunarmajic
snes
voice
doom/boom

i will run the opposite direction:
pd
ym2151

- svg
- sunvox
- renoise
- ntrq
- openmpt

That's it I guess

edit: oh, I want a photomash too please

Photograph :3

surely the new writist and photographist formats must get a look-in?

since there's no guarantee what days in December I'll have available if any, I'll just turn up and see what's there and hope it's.not tic80

snibbetracker :)

Let's see, what do I need badge progress in...

Boom
SMS
NSF/NSFc
visuall
sgen

reminder , theres half a month left to post format suggestions!

pixelll pleeease

if there's no vocal this year i will burst (in tears)

bytebeat1k

It's so much fun! Instead of programming sequencers people are required to be creative with their allocated 1kB. I think it may well be my favourite format!

ansi
doom
fsound
mariopaint
pdf
pixel
photo
plaintext
sample > remix
sms
smw
teletext

I don't know how much I'll be able to participate, but now, I've already finished my master's degree and I'm unemployed I'm still looking for a PhD with a scholarship. So, perhaps, I'll be able to chime in at least more than two times ^^ .

Well, as you know, I'm very bad with formats, barely having time to do some FamiTracker so I don't end up gathering dust. However, maybe this year will be different, so here are the formats I could at least try (+ the usual ones):

nsf (without +, it drains my energy)
0CC
(Could Dn-FamiTracker be a thing someday?)
Edit: nsf classic. I realized I'm one point away from the badge.

midi
ascii
mariopaint
voice

you people are anus. you need real Foramts. the ones real botbrs know and love and cherish and hug all day. watch

RENOISE
MOD04K
PANDATRACKER
S3XMODIT
TIA
ZXBEEP
NSF CLASSIC
0CC

I personally would love to see:

Voice (especially this)
SMS
PCE (I’m kinda obsessed with it rn lmao)
PC88/98
Wildchip or Allgear

But overall I’m down for whatevs

Vocal
SID
Plaintext
OpenMPT