BotB Advent Calendar 2023

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this year co-hosted by dami f. tune.
big thanks to him and big thanks to puke7 as always for making it possible AND implementing shared hosting , wtf how cool???

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me when advent calendar 2023

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ITS ADVENT 2023!!
nice

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welcome everyone >:)

hope to see a bunch of completionists doing each day this year (and it's a good opportunity to learn something new), but regardless of how much you end up getting done, i hope this event is a ton of fun for you!!

also don't forget you can vote on each day after the day is done :D

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is this thing on? [edit]seems to be
*this was just a test*

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tell all your friends about "BotB Advent Calendar"

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For the day 1 challenge, everyone have a badge and not me, how is that possible ?

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@anizodotmp3 the badge means "you have not yet voted on this entry"

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what is this time signature poop crap

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everyone knows that the M in MSGS stands for Math

Math Sounds Guitar Source

really wishing my age was divisible by 4 and my name had a C in it right now, thanks for that mom and dad

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This one is really weird
And not really in a good way tbh
Especially if you suck at time signatures, as this basically requires good knowledge on that.

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sounds like a good opportunity to practice not sucking at time signatures!

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About pxtone bitpack: can I duplicate instruments? For example, I want to create cool sounding intervals/arpeggios with guitar long samples.

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yes, you are allowed to manipulate the samples like that!

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@kleeder ok, thanks! Post punks not dead!

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HUMAN VOICE?!
So I need to use my voice?! How does that even work?!

(Christmas ghosts does sound cool tho as a bitpack)

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check the lyceum++

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human voice is usually produced by yourself btw. like, did you try "talking" before? that's one possible way of creating human voice.
you usually move your mouth along that to sharpen the sounds you produce. it's fun you shld try it.

for the format rules: lyceum is ur friend, rly.
this is just allgear+whatever human sound u can add on top

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> for the format rules: lyceum is ur friend, rly.

To be fair, nowhere in the Lyceum does it spell out whether the submission must be completely acapella or not! Well, until I just now edited it...

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thanks for clarifying stuff in the article!!

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Hey so uhhh, I'm confused about what the bitpack is for this one (I've never used this format before lmao)

Do I use the samples in it, or does the file say somewhere about what to do?
And if I do need to use the samples provided, do I need to use only those, or can I make my own?

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Rules would only be provided if the bitpack was a .txt or a .zip containing the text file and the samples.

So, in this case, there are no rules other than that you can only use the samples in the bitpack with one of the tools associated with the format, like OpenMPT.

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OK then, thanks!

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so many cool interpretations of bitpacks and great entries so far - really happy with how things are going :D

and, massive props to all the people who are trying out new things this month and putting their attempts out there! that's one of my favorite things about this event and i love seeing more of that spirit going on

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furnace let's go!!!! Multi-chip time!!!

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jesus christ, 33 entries on day 9???? you are all crazy n00bs, wtf
im so happy to see everyone is having fun with this event !!!
lets keep rocking >:))

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couple things for today!

1) dn-famitracker 0.4.0.1 is recommended over the most recent one for this format, because 0.5+ have some issues exporting w/ expansion chips

2) i can do hardware renders for this format if anyone wants one!

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dami I’d love a hw render for me and mioh’s, please!

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also worth mentioning, the foobar2000 game emu player component (foo_gep) didn't play back my
nsf correctly...so maybe use something else like nsfplay for checking!

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I really wanna do this one but my brain lacks any knowledge on how to make a carnival esc theme, lmao

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props to Dami for streaming the SMW entries! 🎮

Also I was like oh, cool, super mario world, I love that game, I can whip up a level before dinnner!

Having never touched Lunar Magic before.

turns out you *can't* just 'sit down' and whip up a vertical level where you climb a christmas tree to get to the goal at the top

next time I'll be a little better prepared 😅

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i played all the SMW emtries on stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE5so4IxwAo

if you wanna use that to vote rather than playing them yourself! i did not succeed at getting Every Single Secret or Coin live but i think we saw most of the levels

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only one day left!!! what will it BE!!!

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We've been dami'd!!

Nooooooooooo-

Jokes aside, having 2 formats sounds cool
Too bad I only have access to doing 1 lmao (remix)

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for adventists: doing only one of the two formats is fine and counts as "doing the day"

for completionism doing both formats is required otherwise it doesn't count as a complete battle

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ehehe welcome to the final day surprise :D

for the snes format, don't be afraid! i have written a big guide on the best ways to do this format and there's multiple ways you could tackle it, even a daw: https://samplemance.rs/snesguide

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oh right also if anybody wants a SNES hardware render, either leave the render space open or let me know!

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two formats as the star on our little advent tree?!

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Congrats to all the completionists and adventists, and all the people who submitted stuffs. I still need to catch up on the last few days, but it was wonderful experiencing everyone's ~art~ throughout the month.

It was a (sometimes masochistic) joy to be challenged by unfamiliar formats. Out of all the new formats I tried, the one I most want to explore further is NSF+expansions. This also whet my appetite for more pxtone and renoise battles...

HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you to kleeder and dami for organizing and hosting. Also thanks to puke of course for making this all possible. This was a blast! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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thanks everyone and thanks kleeder and damifortune for this idea

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congratz to our adventists this year (people who participated in at least 50% of days):

- agargara (24)
- cabbage drop (24)
- damifortune (24)
- Lint_Huffer (24)
- sean (24)
- TristEndo (17)
- Snowdune (16)
- kilowatt64 (14)
- Prestune (14)
- Yuzu (13)
- mirageofher (13)

congratz to these three for participating once again and therefore extending their streak of submitting every year since 2018:

- kleeder
- Tobikomi
- TrippleP

congratz to our completionists for submitting to every format:

- agargara
- cabbage drop
- damifortune
- Lint_Huffer
- sean

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maybe too early, but I took a page from damifortune's book and uploaded my tracks to bandcamp :3

https://agargara.bandcamp.com/album/advent-calendar-2023

(I also cheated a bit and padded it with OHB tracks >_>)

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congratulations to amy kleeder and danielle fortune for hosting the new battle with the moast entries

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vote it up vote it up! would love to see more votez overall, but especially on the formats that are still under 10 voters. if you're just starting, you baaasically just have to hit one format each day rn

i think we might see some synclistens soon for voting purposes? keep yer eyes peeled

i played the mario world levels here if you wanna thumb through this video and vote on em

since we pushed the voting period back 2 weeks (one to avoid overlap with guntner battle end, one more to avoid magfest), there will probably not be any more voting extensions and we'll have a results stream that sunday, 3wk from now!

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i played teh smw levels too and you can watch my playthroughs here in the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNoJHWBdeL8&list=PLwYS1k2A3k7K8TC-Ftct9nUThuy3poIqP&index=44

i skipped snowdunes entry here because it was too annoying

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wanna do vote synclisten stream this Sunday hi noon mountain time 2PM EST! and go day after day same time thru at least the music formats

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first two parts bunkered and date-stamped by format on YouTube; 1
and 2
! may start early for Wed Jan 24 stream; relaxed pace for visual, coding, and gaming formats; mb make way for an XHB or two, and do Advent day 24 on Jan 25 hi noon mountain 2PM EST for the grand finale

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Some fun bitpacks in this. Makes me wish I participated at least a little more. But had fun voting on everything. Lots of new faves. Was wowed by what people were capable of with these formats.

GG everyone! And congrats to kleeder and damifortune for hosting the longest boi

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made it thru all 441 emtries! here's the bulk playlist
and here's parts 3-1
, 3-2
, 4-1
, 4-2
, and 5

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thank you so much for doing these cabbage! i enjoyed tuning in where i could! your enthusiasm is wonderful

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thanks cabbage drop, I enjoyed watching a lot of the recordings. agree with dami, love your enthusiasm and you have a great "radio voice"!

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one week extension on vortings!

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plz vortings! would really love to see every format above 15 votes

joint result stream from me and kleeder next weekend! top 3 every format

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RESUTLS STREAM tomorrow 3pm eastern noon botb time (right when voting ends) !!!! be therewave or be squarewave

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oh wow I scheduled the thing ahead of time for a change

https://youtube.com/live/xc8oy0tBmHI?feature=share

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thank you everyone for making this such a successful and memorable battle :')

thanks kleeder for having me on as co-host, and puke for making everything run super smoothly!

and thank you to all the lovely people who entered and/or voted. so much awesome art was created here

see you next year 🫡

final stream results pic

Average Score: 23.617