BotB Advent Calendar 2025

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Level 22 Mixist

luna197

post #227817 :: 2025.12.01 12:00am

sean, retrokid104, arceus413, fortuna0800, Surfcroc, kleeder and damifortune liēkd this

it's adventing time

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welcome to the BATTLE !!!

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Opilion - "html on day 1 and wavetracker on day 24, trust me"

well someone had their days flipped

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i can't wait to use scuffed software and maybe get completionist again

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So far, my format prediction rate is 100%!

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smw tomorrow

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and next day will be ascii

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GB studio is going to be day 7. I just know

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day 25 is gonna be adlib

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wondering if this year is gonna break some records again...

712 is the number to beat, can we do it???????

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smw tmr

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OH GOD

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advent++ (opl2)

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guess whos learning 2op fm Maybe i dunno

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I don't usually have the skill to finish a track in a day, but I do enjoy participating when I can. I messed around with Wavetracker yesterday and although I didn't finish anything, I really liked the platform. So if nothing else, I found a new toy!

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Expecting Sega Genesis here, so I can earn its badge

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Ok, I'll try to stop being the NSF-only guy here. The challenge is to submit something every Sunday and every other Tuesday (like today), when I'm relatively free, whatever format is chosen for that day.

Well, I'm about to lose it from the get go, since idk if I can create something in a few hours while learning an interface that can't even be used via mouse (AdLib Tracker II). I may try Furnace if I fail miserabily, however, it'd surprisingly be my first time ever using Furnace, too.

I'll consider myself a winner if I can submit anything.

Update: my time is up, I have to prepare dinner and the time limit will be very close by then. I failed with AdLib Tracker so at least I could mess around a bit with Furnace. Even when Furnace is very user friendly, 9 years of FamiTracker made my workflow difficult and I could only complete a couple of frames. I hope I have better luck next Sunday with whatever format destiny has in store for me.

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titanofplasma: cool little challenge! good luck! looking forward to some entries by you c:

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maybe i will force myself to participate

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fun fact: the number of entries currently features a digit (6) and then 1+that digit next to it. same with the nunber of botbrs (4, then 1+that digit)

(i dont like the joke but it had to be done),

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heads up for today's mod48k: be mindful of the size of the bitpack, I didn't do any trimming or downsampling to the samples myself this time, so you might need to either choose samples carefully or operate on em a little! there's a lot to work with

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cant wait to forget to cleanup

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xg tonite?

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cover art this early gotta be a crime

anyways, on todays news, grass is green...

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xg tomorrow

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Always remember the bitpack, folks. Don't be a The Diad

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Hey it happens! No sweat

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orgmaker tomorrow

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ok now xg REALLY tomorrow.... 👀

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Ok ok ok....... I know I said gbstudio day 7..... But I really meant gbstudio day 13

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==[--rare Fa Dlarf sighting--]==

I could use thirty dollar website

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blender tomorrow, trust

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t?print("its bytover"):0

(pretend js has print)

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my bitpack over bytebeat1k!!!! a true krampus miracle!!!!!

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Last Advent, I gave it my all but I over scoped, and gave up midway.
This year, I will try again and make sure I keep it simple!

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dammit felt sickly yesterday and now completionist arc's kaputt
I'm gonna rest some more, maybe I can get something out for bytebeat after that but I won't be mad about a few days of rest as well haha

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finally bytebeat

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how the heck are there already almost a quarter of a thousand entries to this battle holy moly

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Krampus, it bites and it beats

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8bit unisgned in shambles

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i too enjoy 1 bit doohickeys

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xg tomorrow.....

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and for your nexxt assignment...
a summer chip jumpscare! (now with bitpacks!)

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my favorite formant :D

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the bitpack is summer themed and I'm from the southern hemisphere coincidentally wow

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im losing hope in xg. (im from the southern hemisphere too)

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how to win advent:

1. draw boobs
2. profit

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Wow THIS is an unexpected format :o

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im guessing we're getting remix or smth down the line because idk what else sample serves as a format otherwise

either that or its the "make the soundtrack for x activity/event" format

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here are all the samples from day 11 for all ya lazy bums ;D

https://agargara.com/files/botb/advent_calendar_2025_day_11_samples.zip

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i uploaded that zip as the actual bitpack for day 12. thanks agargrgagra

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this is my unsurprised face

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I found this tool which might be helpful for today's bitpack
https://incompetech.com/app/text2morse2midi

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wait when i said tommorow was famistudio i meant that as a joke kleeder how could you do this to me????

studying the fami 5 was practice i guess

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you studied the fami now's the exam

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Bitpack forgot to add no ftm import for masochistic feeling /hj

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xg....

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nvm i think i can sub smth

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oh my! prompt!
in an unexpected format! fun idea suki suki
unfortunately won't be able to submit on this for a list of reasons
but I'm very tempted to try and make some nsf toonies for submitted maps in teh future if anyone makes it through this round :D

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I give up. I'm overwhelmed. I don't even know where to start in ZQuest. The guide link in the lyceum doesn't work. Tutorials in the net don't even remotely look like the actual editor, nor there's one which guides absolute noobs who have never ever designed anything game related to start from zero.

My time is over, so I'm failing my challenge again T_T (posting an entry every Sunday and one Tuesday out of two). I'll try to compensate for it another day if I'm lucky enough to sneak in some free time. I hope I have better luck on Tuesday with the format.

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i wish i could submit to zquest but my braces hurt so fucking hard x_x

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sorry they got the wrong mappist format today, smw will be tomorrow

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I know this is a little late but the dead link from the lyceum was archived : https://web.archive.org/web/20250213055813/http://zcguides.celestialrealm.net/tutorials/main/start
(I also updated the lyceum now)

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It is with great sorrow and remorse as the “leading ZQuester of BotB” (there’s only been one battle with it so far and I got the gold somehow lol) that I am unable to make an entry for this day’s advent. I would be more than glad to atone for this by hosting zquest battles in the future (when I eventually get 2 more badges…)

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so apparently, "I Spy" is a game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_spy
I wasn't aware of this, while dami and me put together the bitpacks. I thought it wld be a bitpack asking you to stage photos how you would spy on someone or something.
turns out it is actually a game in english speaking countries.
so be aware everyone

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Aight I'm lost, so is there a theme for each day, or do I just upload anything Christmas related each day?

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check the Info & Rules page, there is a bit pack for each day
https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Battle/10611/InfoRules

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yosh

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dinosaur

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i wanna make an entry for today but i have no idea what i can do with the bitpack

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temp discord link
for all html entries bundled

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Oh my! It's my bitpack proposal ^^. Unfortunately, not only it catches me on a very busy day, but I'm also an absolute Genesis/Mega Drive illiterate.

However, I'm looking forward to hearing all of today's entries.

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went to export a vgm from genny -> has to try for 30 minutes -> ends up with a commodore amiga VGM that sounds like it was made by the devil himself... any chance we can get a furnace day?

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opll (msx+) tommorow guys

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s3xmodit
peak format

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@srb2er were u a magician by any chance

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msx+ AND my bitpack? did i accidentally go to heaven?

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xg?

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it's ascii! and my bitpack! awesome 🤘🤘🤘

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smw is in only 1 hour!!!

edit: i fucking hate my stupid chud life

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@sweatynoodle my condolences

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dude but what if the next major is smw major though ⁉⁉

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I really loved last year's advent calendar but I couldn't find it in me to submit even a single entry to this one. A little of it is the bitpacks but man these formats were not doing me any favors.

I tried making a Genesis tune but it took forever to export and then I played it back in the wrong thing so I thought the file was corrupted. Half of the formats were "download this hyper specific tool that's only useful for one thing" and I've already installed too many of those. Maybe one day I'll actually get into Wave tracker tho. Last year's advent calendar was sooo much better. I've decided that for this last day it's plaintext or bust. I gotta get at least one entry in

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I loved this year's Advent Calendar. Ironically, even without NSF formats, which were the only ones I used to send any entry to, I achieved to submit three entries, more than any other Advent Calendar before. Ok, there was Famistudio, but I'm a FamiTracker boy.

In any case, despite not being able to complete my challenge, I tried one completely new format (new for me, at least, JummBox) and got two other entries in other formats from which I already had some knowledge.

Happy Holidays, minna-san ^^.

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@da flarf
how was last years (or any other advent before) not "download this hyper specific tool that's only useful for one thing" as well?
i checked last years schedule and i counted around the same amount of formats that you need very specific tools for that can only be used for that specific format.

and that is... also kinda the nature of botb formats btw. experiment with cryptic and weird tools to craft your stuff. advent calendar was never meant to be a chill path through mostly super accessable formats - its meant to be a surprising journey through the big variety of formats this site has to offer.

that being said, i also see like 50% of formats this time that are doable by using mpt, furnace, random DAW or a text editor or a phone - basically the same amount as last year as well.

if you think last year was sooooooooooooooooo much better, i am struggling to see how, unless it was personal motivation - but that wasnt your point here, i think?
if you enjoyed last year, where half of these formats were mpt/furnace/phone/text editor formats, then you should have had the same amount of doable formats this time as well.

well anyway, if u didnt feel like participating thats fine, but i struggle to see how this years schedule was much worse than last years or any other year before. it has the same amount of variety in tools and classes as any other advent calendars before i would say?

or is it just that we didnt include two times allgear this time?

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I also think this was another great advent calendar year, thank you kleeder and dami for hosting!

New format that I liked more than I expected: Jummbox.

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cool advent calendar but no smw

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24 format completionist complete gg ez

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thank you all for playing our lovely little advent game again this year! 2nd largest battle ever is still a high honor ;) merry christmas, congrats to completionists and thanks to everybody who entered anything! extra shouts out to everybody who tried something new!

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Fuck my stupid organya twei life

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shit there was an advent calendar

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wonderful event, glad i could join right as this was happening. ty and congratz to kleeder and dami for hosting !!!

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can we please not get voting extensions btw, i kinda just want it to be over as soon as possible

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literally just punched a 10 inch hole through my wall because sid wasn't a format in this...

okay no in all seriousness THIS WAS FUN and was also me first battle so i was quite scared (mainly because you guys are really good at everything!) but im glad i tried out a few formats and the bitpacks for this were quite cwl (zxbeep one was the most challenging one for me)

cheers kleeder and damifortune!

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voting extensions only happen when the average amount of votes per entry feels way too low.
so to avoid a voting extension, use the next 3 weeks to vote.

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Last Advent has, like, 712 entries iirc? How did this got 589 Where do them noobs go

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Hopefully this doesn't come off as a complaint, just looking for some clarification:

Since sample day can't be voted on, does that mean that the sample entries won't count towards badge progress at all? This happened with Chipwrecked too and I'm wondering if it's just a site rule for sample entries in majors to not count, since they're not usually the final product. I would like to know cuz I want to get the sample badge and it would be good to know if doing these in majors even helps toward that goal or not.

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i have the voting form on the sample entries so i think you can vote on them ... ?

well, i think the state of sample entries in majors isnt clear atm. ideally, there wld be a difference between a bit ( like chipwrecked was meant to be) and entry ( like it is meant to be in this battle) but the code is definitely not fully working for this right now and im not sure how much puke can do before this battle tallies.

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The voting form part was a mistake on my side, I was looking at my own entry 💀

Though it is odd that the sample entries don't show the "?/589" that the others do, which is what set off my concern initially.

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DONE VOTING

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happy christmas and merry new year

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@kleeder re: hyper specific tools

For what's it's worth, I like being pushed to download weird shit. I only found out about this site a month ago, submitting to advent was my first time using furnace and since then I've tried two other obscure trackers plus a myriad of chips on furnace. Haven't been this inspired about music for a long time and branching out into tools I'm not comfortable with is a big part of what's fueling the energy.

The other part is being ceaselessly amazed by the level of musicality from people on this site. Truly inspiring. And coming dead last in more than one battle has lit a fire under my feet to up my game.

Love everything people do here and thanks again kleeder for co-hosting advent calendar and everything else to build this strange and wonderful online community.

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puke7 did a lot of fixing and sample entries display correctly now! ^~^