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I want to thank Chikafuji Lisa for transmitting my current earworm, Julia Wolf.
Telegraph Road is a song for a long drive. Knopfler captured what it's like to get older and see everything change around you here, in a way few other musicians have.
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Girl at work was talking about her Spotify rewind so I got curious and found out that I'm schizophrenic
The Castlevania 3 famicom soundtrack is so good. So good they're still ripping it off today.
Gotta love the JP sound chip, so much more capable than the one we got in the US when used correctly.
Gotta love the JP sound chip, so much more capable than the one we got in the US when used correctly.
It's not the JP Famicom's sound chip, but a bundled Konami chip on the cartridge called the VRC6. We didn't get it in the US (or anywhere besides JP) because Nintendo has always been Nintendo and didn't let companies manufacture their own cartridges outside of the Japanese market so the fancy Konami proprietary bits weren't included.
(Konami technically could have done it but they would have lost the ***NINTENDO SEAL OF QUALITY*** cert approval)
It was a neat chip since it added two extra square wave/pulse wave channels, either of the pulse wave channels could also do PCM sample playback, and then there was an extra saw wave channel. It pretty much doubled the amount of simultaneous synth outputs the NES could have so you could have more realistic percussion sounds from the PCM samples (ordinarily percussion/explosions on the NES were just using the noise channel) or double a music line but have it out of phase to create thicker sounds.
The one cool thing about cartridges was the way that they could expand the capability of the console, since they were really just a daughterboard in a protective housing that you'd plug in. A later famous example of this expandability was the Super FX chip for the SNES that Starfox and SMW2 used for their 3D and transform effects. Not really worth it in the long run because of how much more expensive it was to manufacture and distribute. High demand SNES and N64 carts would be $70-90 new, in the mid 90s, which is the equivalent of about $145-185 today.
(Konami technically could have done it but they would have lost the ***NINTENDO SEAL OF QUALITY*** cert approval)
It was a neat chip since it added two extra square wave/pulse wave channels, either of the pulse wave channels could also do PCM sample playback, and then there was an extra saw wave channel. It pretty much doubled the amount of simultaneous synth outputs the NES could have so you could have more realistic percussion sounds from the PCM samples (ordinarily percussion/explosions on the NES were just using the noise channel) or double a music line but have it out of phase to create thicker sounds.
The one cool thing about cartridges was the way that they could expand the capability of the console, since they were really just a daughterboard in a protective housing that you'd plug in. A later famous example of this expandability was the Super FX chip for the SNES that Starfox and SMW2 used for their 3D and transform effects. Not really worth it in the long run because of how much more expensive it was to manufacture and distribute. High demand SNES and N64 carts would be $70-90 new, in the mid 90s, which is the equivalent of about $145-185 today.
Speaking of Castlevania, the Vampire Survivors' DLC OST is
Really, I could sperg about how happy the whole DLC made me, such a love letter to the series
E: Eh, one more, always time to listen to Heart of Fire
Reminder that Julius Belmont is so goated they can't make a game depicting him because he causes Castlevania to crumble around him when he's just half-assing it and he put down Dracula for good. People already complained about Symphony of the Night being too easy...
Actually shit this comment on the video says it best.
Let me tell you about Julius Belmont.
Dracula was the incarnation of all evil guaranteed to resurrect at least once a century, until he met Julius. When Julius Belmont ices a bitch, he stays dead. Dracula's immortal soul got fucked so hard it reincarnated as a Japanese twink. That's right, Julius gave the lord of darkness the John Numbers treatment.
Years later you get to play as Twinkula disciplining your pet castle and wannabe Dracula trying to fill the power vacuula. And it's all pretty tame until you meet Julius FUCKING Belmont, who is pretty FUCKING sure he said No Draculas. Some of you may remember the next part, because if you were young it's where you got your ass kicked to the sound of Julius' personal ass kicking mix. And once you think you've got him down he just uses Grand Cross, instantly kills you, and rips apart the castle in the background just because.
So you finally get through all that and become Top Drac, only for Soma's bat-senses to kick in and he comes to a realization:
"This motherfucker is sandbagging"
"This is the hardest fight in the game and it's just Julius giving up because he feels sorry for me"
"This is what Julius throwing a fight looks like"
Julius is like "Sorry I only feel comfortable killing vampires not Japanese women" and Soma doesn't correct him, just runs off to punch the castle in the snout until it behaves because Jesus Christ you stony prick you're going to get me killed.
And everything's fine until cultists try to get their hands on Dracula's stash again in Dawn of Sorrow. There you have to use touch screen to seal bosses or they'll resurrect indefinitely. Without sealing magic, you can't just murder bosses so hard so hard they don't come back--unless you're Julius Fucking Belmont. Fuck your touchscreen gimmicks, Belmont says.
How old is Julius during the games? Late fifties. This is what old and busted Julius Belmont looks like. Julius Belmont in his prime cannot be depicted, for no game can contain him.
Dracula was the incarnation of all evil guaranteed to resurrect at least once a century, until he met Julius. When Julius Belmont ices a bitch, he stays dead. Dracula's immortal soul got fucked so hard it reincarnated as a Japanese twink. That's right, Julius gave the lord of darkness the John Numbers treatment.
Years later you get to play as Twinkula disciplining your pet castle and wannabe Dracula trying to fill the power vacuula. And it's all pretty tame until you meet Julius FUCKING Belmont, who is pretty FUCKING sure he said No Draculas. Some of you may remember the next part, because if you were young it's where you got your ass kicked to the sound of Julius' personal ass kicking mix. And once you think you've got him down he just uses Grand Cross, instantly kills you, and rips apart the castle in the background just because.
So you finally get through all that and become Top Drac, only for Soma's bat-senses to kick in and he comes to a realization:
"This motherfucker is sandbagging"
"This is the hardest fight in the game and it's just Julius giving up because he feels sorry for me"
"This is what Julius throwing a fight looks like"
Julius is like "Sorry I only feel comfortable killing vampires not Japanese women" and Soma doesn't correct him, just runs off to punch the castle in the snout until it behaves because Jesus Christ you stony prick you're going to get me killed.
And everything's fine until cultists try to get their hands on Dracula's stash again in Dawn of Sorrow. There you have to use touch screen to seal bosses or they'll resurrect indefinitely. Without sealing magic, you can't just murder bosses so hard so hard they don't come back--unless you're Julius Fucking Belmont. Fuck your touchscreen gimmicks, Belmont says.
How old is Julius during the games? Late fifties. This is what old and busted Julius Belmont looks like. Julius Belmont in his prime cannot be depicted, for no game can contain him.
In other news, Devin Townsend recently released his newest album PowerNerd, and it is absolute god-damned *kino.*
Im at the idgaf stage of my life where i have started to listen to Kiss because they were awesome
'Tis the season.
Anyone have any v-tuber originals (or JP stuff in general) that are similar to slow blues?
Like this genre, I guess.
I don't pay as much attention to V-tubing music but am in the mood for some stuff I haven't heard before with this kind of energy, kind of tapped out on songs I've heard before.
Like this genre, I guess.
I don't pay as much attention to V-tubing music but am in the mood for some stuff I haven't heard before with this kind of energy, kind of tapped out on songs I've heard before.
Spotify Weekly blessed me with the forums theme song 
My transformation into everyone's psychotic uncle is nearing completion
