hi, i want to submit a MIDI for summer chip III but the size limit is 64kb and my entry is nearly 10x that size (runtime is 3:29)
it plays fine on the microsoft GM wavetable synthesizer and i promise it isn't too boring.

i realise it may be tough titties and that maybe i should just submit a .mp3 to the wild chip scategory but midi files are way more cool, ye?

You can't really expect somebody to go full force on a midi file and have such a tiny limit. You can't even call that a proper battle if you can't submit a 3 minute song that features your best technical abilities. I personally would consider the midi category to be mostly judged by composition rather than technical prowess, but I'm not a midi-wizard.

The size limitation is to keep the midi entries in the spirit of chip. Think of trying to keep your game's size down to below a single 1.44mb diskette. That's the whole game including the music. Whatever you did to manifest a midi file of 640kb is absurd wizardry! You know there was a time when that was all the RAM you had? Minus some kb for DOS and a playback routine and you have even less RAM. So, yeah, please submit your render to the Wildchip format. ;)

ahh, thinking about it that way makes a lot more sense

i may have just been sucked into the maximalist side of things :>

So the format is "DOS game MIDI" then. Noted.