Pokemon Trading Card Game (GBC) - Ronald's Theme (FamiTracker)

I have slain the beast known as Ronald.

To be honest, I primarily took this on because psn8bit shuddered at doing it. (I mean, I'd have done all the long themes in PTCG anyway, but this jumped up in the queue for that reason.) Also, I don't like to post a video of something if someone else has already done it. (The reason you won't see me cover Clubmaster Duel.)

psn8bit has posted his cover; check it out! He did an awesome job at it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oREkPrEIh-A

Yeah, this theme is hard, but it repeats itself often enough that it didn't remain hard for very long. However, the section where the melody starts improvising tripped me up until I realized that there were triplets in there. Once that hurdle was crossed, the beast fell easily.

Also, yes I did it in VRC6. I'm shying away from using FDS channels because I want to use the themes with the Game Music Emu chip music programming library, which doesn't support it. Any music I've come across uses some variety of pulse or sawtooth wave anyway.

FTM source file available at http://icesoldier.me/music.html
(So you, too, can have the awesomeness looping in the background of your day!)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• pokemon
• trading
• card
• game
• tcg
• gbc
• nes
• 2a03
• chiptune
• cover
• difficult
• jazz

[psn8bit]

Hey, great job on this! I like how accurate you were with the note cuts and the attention to detail (that one V00 note amongst the V01's in Square 1 at 0:45 for example). I ought to have mine finished later today so we'll be able to contrast. I've added you on AIM as well so we'll chat over that.

[BWIceSoldier]

@psn8bit Thanks! One of the things I really focus on is getting FamiTracker to spit out exactly what my recording tells me, save volume balance, precise waveforms and vibrato. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[TheMiamiDolphin19]

Ronald was such a dick too

[kitchenmaniac111]

Oh by god, I love you.

[danooct1]

This sounds awesome. If you like I can send you a few tools and a tutorial for using them in order to get the Gameboy waves 100% accurately.

Again nice job, can't wait to hear psn8bit's take on it. You should get AIM or something and chat with all of us trackers.