The year the hardware fixed the sound
The Famicom's launch and the decisions frozen into it.
The console shipped in 1983 and the audio was already fixed →
Four decades, and only one of them is 1985
The full run is in the archive →What composers did once they knew the limits
The scores that are still the reference.
Writing a theme people can hum after one hearing →
Writing for it now
FamiTracker, the NSF format, and preservation as code.
The tool the scene actually uses →
On, or off
The triangle channel has no volume register
Every bass note on the machine plays at exactly one loudness. Composers wrote rhythm where other machines wrote dynamics, and the walking bass of the whole catalogue follows from it.
A bass line you cannot make quieter →Thirty-two steps, four bits, one amplitude · NESdev Wiki, APU Triangle
