only BotBrs who login may tag

authorcore descriptioncore dn-famitracker hax nsf2beat vgm

Hello and welcome to our nsf classic submission for Spring Tracks ^~^

======================================

Hey, this is kleeder.
What you are listening to, is a bytebeat entry. I wrote an engine, which is able to read and convert register address logs from nsf-playbacks. The way it works is actually simple (and heavily inspired by funutes vgm engine): I use a lua script made by miau to log the APU into a .csv while playing back the .nsf in fceux. I then use a selfmade python script to convert the csv into a javascript-array and write it into a .txt together with the additional bytebeat-logic. The bytebeat-logic is going through the array data and converts it on the fly for all 4 channels (sorry, no DPCM support). I agree, the code could probably be more optimized and prettier, but i don't feel like improving it, because it works well how it is.

The playback is very accurate, even though it doesn't support hardware sweep, no DPCM and for some reason, no F-1 note (miau and me don't know why, but the lua script isn't properly recording those lol).
The bytebeat engine also only supports 0cc-Famitracker nsf-exports (and j0cc, and Dn). But Vanilla FT as well as DefleMask Exports fail (they store data differently). I didn't test it with other tools that can export nsf, but i assume 0cc/j0cc/Dn are the most used forks/trackers anyway for nsf.

I would like to give special shoutouts to both miau and argarak! miau helped me with understanding the NES-Hardware better as well as sending me a script which records nsf-register writes. argarak helped me with the bytebeat code, especially some silly bugs that occured earlier on in the development. Thanks to you two!

The entry itself is a collaboration between damifortune and me and was done in Dn-Famitracker. It was a lot of fun working on it! dami is a very talented person and it's always inspiring to collab with him! Thank you as well!

Finally, i want to thank ChatGPT for coming up with the title.

The render is recorded directly from dollchan.net.
The submitted .txt file includes the bytebeat js-code. Just copypaste it into https://dollchan.net/bytebeat/ and set the sample rate to 44100Hz. The playpack is kinda laggy in Firefox but works well in Chromium-based browsers as far as i tried.

Have fun with the entry!
Download the converter-script as well as miaus lua-script here: https://github.com/kleeder/nsf2beat
(This repository will be made public right after the battle is over)

128

16

43

10

25