Tease or Please - PC Engine / TurboGrafx chiptune

PC Engine / Turbo Grafx 16 conversion of Tease or Please by joule & malmen. This chiptune was originally 20 channels wide ;O_o Took a bit of work, but I'm happy how this came out. I amp'd the bass levels of the kick drum and filtered out the treble, but had to envelope the sample's volume down as it was over powering the rest of the tracks (too bad, 'cause it was punching hard :D ). Sounds more reasonable now, though. Changed the square/duty cycle samples and gave the lead a bit more bite to it. The song is also a bit slower than the original. It's songs like these that make me wish the PCE had 12 channels....

The original song can be heard in all its glory, here: http://8bitcollective.com/music/joule/joule+%2526+malmen+-+tease+or+please/

I'll upload the XM for this video in the next few days.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• PC
• Engine
• Turbo
• Grafx
• TG16
• chiptune
• music
• tracker
• turbografx

[PaleDeth]

How is this a pc engine tune?

[malducci]

@PaleDeth Because: 1) it uses the Amiga period table for frequencies which is identical for PC Engine. 2) All short waveforms (32bytes) are 5bit which is what the PC Engine uses(mini wavetable synth). 3) All long waveforms (greater than 32bytes) are set to a fixed frequency of 7khz (they've been recalculated from original note and resampled down). PCE can play long waves on any channel. Everything is PC-Engine 'legal' in this XM (which I also have a WIP XM to rom converter for PC Engine) :)

[malducci]

@PaleDeth Oh and it's six channels (thought I can mix more than that for fixed frequency playback channels on the real PC Engine by using two channels to make a single 10bit linear DAC and soft mixing)

[Nintega]

Never heard of this TURGO GRAFX before : )

[malducci]

@Nintega Hahaha. Nice catch. I fix :)

[Ebinsugewa]

This is great. I actually prefer it to the original!