Local stores started selling christmas snacks last week, so I think we are good to start this now, too.

HELLO!!! WELCOME!!!
We are doing it AGAIN!

This is the 8th Advent Calendar happening ~

As always, we need some formats to run the show. That's what this month and this thread is for.
If you have any formats you would like to see in the upcoming Advent Calendar, just post them here.
Please use this list of formats as a reference: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Formats

If you never heard of the BotB Advent Calendar before, here is some info:
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)

I will host this event together with damifortune again.
After the format suggestion period in September, we will have a bitpack suggestion period in October!

Disclaimer: Please be aware that a suggestion does not mean the format will definitely show up in the battle. But we can use the amount of lieks/haeits as well as which formats are posted here for reference when crafting the schedule.

Alright, lets go! Hype Hype Hype!! ^~^///

XG!

The last time it showed up in a major (besides DD2) was over 2 years ago...

bytebeat

plaintext and pdf only

TIC-80 and FamiStudio would be cool to have

orgmaker

blender

nexxt
ntrq (would force me to learn it)
nsf

doom or smw please i want to mappist

Also asking for Doom
Would also like to see photo and/or JummBox

liveplay :D

- SUNVOX (the last time it appeared in an Advent Calendar was the year before I joined the site)

- Plaintext (every Advent calendar should have a Writist day, including the non-BotB ones)

- Orca+Pilot (it debuted in Oops! All New Formats and has not been hosted since, presumably because it is scary)

- YM2151 (fm is fum)

oh damn we doing this earlier than i thought
anyways

msx, orca+pilot, vgm, baby-k

The time has come for the newer formats to rise up...

ZQuest for Advent Calendar 2025.

musescore

a sweet selection of tiny mods, maybe just 4k and 8k interspersed

🂡 furnace day

🂲 pc-x801

🃓 bytebeat

I think this could be a good moment to try Klystrack!

As an FM expert, here are my suggestions:

Deflemask, Furnace, VGM File Format, MSX with Expansions, OPL2 and OPL3, PC-x801, Sega Genesis, YM2151 and X68k

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quake

also tic80 and doom and boom
seriously mappist formats are the best for advent

ok I said mappist but I meant codist
so also html5 and html and svg for good measure
p.s. my phone tried to autocorrect mappist to maoist

why did I not ask for GBstudio??? I want to be the first BOTB to get the badge

Don't know if it's ever been done yet but a sample day that then leads to a remix day would be pretty rad

I hereby vote Sunvox!

pxtone pxtone pxtone pxtone please!

And preferably with a bitpack that has .ptvoice and .ptnoise instruments instead of just .wav samples! I would be happy to contribute to this!

Edit: or maybe the bitpack could be you can make your own .ptvoice and .ptnoise instruments, that would be cool too

Html5 or ticcy

SPC

Bespoke was quite interesting.

@mrperson987 yes we did the sample+remix days in 2018 c:

Any of the NSF ones

aym ofc

famistudio but you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT USE FAMITRACKER IMPORT AT ALL COSTS

Also going to make a separate post to shill since this also hasn't been in advent before:

Any MML enjoyers?

has ascii art even been fucking used in the last 2 years?

(thats my extra suggestion, ascii)

Nah we should get allgaer for the whole month lolol



But seriously, I would like any FM format available because I want to practice my FM skills (and of course any NES format)

vcv rack

musescore and liveplay make calogant a happy bloke

lunar magic baybeeeeee

seconding gb studio because it just got added and would be nice to have a day dedicated to it. also seconding html(5) because of tradition

i'll say ansi as well since that format hasn't been in an advent since 2021; mariopantse hasn't been seen in a hot minute as well. mml would probably be the most interesting addition and something i'd be interested in trying if it was in this advent

I second Musescore and liveplay

Roland SC-55 for Christmas

tic80, openmpt, amiga and ahx.

haha tic80 would be so cool and crazy haha please haha

fakebit pleek

liveplay, vocal (Please,) klangfreude, any tinymods, any NSFs, draw!

pandatracker...

sample then remix would be cool
liveplayz would be cool
obligatory jummbox mention

also suggesting html (not 5. although that one would also be nice to see)

I want teh ZX Spectrum speaker

another suggestion: wavetracker
reasoning: it is dead, basically (albeit less dead than ascii) which is sad, cuz shits cool



also, side note, but what local store is gonna be selling christmas snacks in AUTUMN???? and early autumn, mind you.
like, it isnt even gifts, that you might prepare for the following couple months before christmas comes and prices visit jupiter.

just, snacks.

havent even reached da spooki monthe and we're already jingle belling.

@srb2er
every single grocery store starts selling christmas snacks around the beginning of september in germany.
and also halloween isnt a crazy big thing here

@srb2er
Costco does in my country from early September.

As for formats, suggestions are perfect, I don't have anything special in mind (since I can, other than the NES formats, do MIDI, Mario Paint, pixel, probably photograph and Gameboy in a pinch).

I could also try something fun with my voice a capella, so the closest thing to a format suggestion I can make now is, human voice ^^ .

cmon guys, even walmarts got valentines day stuff in inventory in fucking november lol

As much as I am a staunch loyalist for not engaging in most Christmas behavior until after Halloween (and personally until after Thanksgiving in late November too, but I realize that's very US-specific), if we waited until November to start suggesting formats and bitpacks we would most likely have a very rushed and crunched Advent ahead of us, which I don't think any of us want.

Guess I should justify this post's on-topicness with another suggestion huh. I'll reciprocate vocal, I like making mouth noises and it's very in-season and wasn't present last year.