riding my 16 bit motorcycle

BLOODY ELL M8

those voices

strobe how do you even DO this shit

I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO IT

I made it in DefleMask! :o

Those samples are some of the highest quality samples I've ever seen used. That's very CPU intensive on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive's end.

oh my GOD

gotta love that motorcycle effect

Is that the default FL Studio snare????

All 1's!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me good sir, but that is actually the default FL Studio clap sound.

Hey, I think this actually makes a great sequel to Fun with Laser Guns... or at least a companion track.

Holy molly this shit is awesome!

@KFF -- if i'm not mistaken, DMT only uses the z80 for all of its sound in the genny/md sound engine. :O

OMG you are a genius. I love your IDM+Chiptune+Aphex Twin style.

That noise at 0:43, it's like I'm being taken outside the machine!

This is better sounding than most Saturn soundtracks

extra hi votes for teh clown bike horn

seriously this is my new fav storbe track

I love clown bike horns!

okay this is officially one of my favorite entries of this compo ever

..and this doesn't play in FB2K -____

Obviously not, the FB2000 vgm plugin is really really outdated.

so is the s3xmod plugin

Going for the gold again Mr. Strobe?

Succesfully streching the limits of yet another format :)

Certainly the height of the compo for me! :)

Wow, really cool, and very interesting use of vocals in there . . . I wonder how much memory those samples took up. ;)

Oh, and on KungFuFurby's comment: good quality samples aren't related to CPU overhead (main CPU that is), since the Z80 is normally used for PCM playback (and often sound chip handling too). It's really a matter of good programming along with ROM space for good quality samples, that and well optimized 8-bit PCM samples in general. (PCM is limited to 26 kHz by the DAC in the YM2612, not by the CPU, and multi-channel 22~23 kHz PCM or DPCM is quite possible even with the Z80 handling the sound chips as well -there's some homebrew sound drivers using 4 channels at 16 KHz decoding 4-bit DPCM or potentially more channels of uncompressed PCM)

Yeah. I've heard brilliant PCM be done on the Genesis [although, nearly every commercial Genesis game has rather awful PCM, due to ROM size or engine constraints].

Hell, the samples didn't shock me too much, I know of a Sonic romhack [Sonic VR] that has a streaming-from-cart PCM soundtrack in a 6MB ROM [using the Super Street Fighter 2 mapper]. Super-clear, too.


also, given this song's response, I guess it has already won the sgen format :DDD

Strobe ! This is so good ! Dude !

Possibly my favorite Winter Chip VIII entry.
I love this so much.

at first i didnt like strobecore
but now everyday i get even more impressed with your skills and knowledge regarding chiptune and the diferent sound chips, and on how you deal with the limitations
great fucking job. this is probably one of the best sgen tracks i've ever heard.

source where

Just logged in to listen to those voices!