With Persona 3 Reload having released recently, and "The Answer" being announced as DLC for it last March, the song "Heartful Cry" was on my mind and I decided to listen to it again.
As I was listening, I thought "in a 2A03 chiptune cover of this song, that triangle linear counter effect would make for a great instrument to represent the harsh bass lead in the original".
So, I made that 2A03 chiptune cover!
I used Furnace tracker, because FamiStudio doesn't support the triangle counter effect. I started making the cover on the weekend, March 16th. I worked on it for hours each day to get it done before my next class, and finished on March 18th.
Remember when I made a chiptune cover of Murders, but didn't post it on my blog until I finished coding an NSF player? I've done the same thing again! Currently, the only chiptune format that Furnace can export Famicom chiptunes to is VGM; so I couldn't use Web-NSF-Player or Web-GME-Player for this post. I had been experimenting with making more web players for more chiptune formats for a while, but making this VGM format cover motivated me to finally release a usable multi-format, multi-library web chiptune player. There are more features I would like to add, but I think Web-Chiptune-Player is in a good state right now.
The purpose of Web-Chiptune-Player is to allow web developers to embed chiptune in their websites, as I have done in this very post; if that sounds interesting to you, then I hope you'll find Web-Chiptune-Player useful!
I was watching Snapcube's stream of Insomniac's Spider-Man, and I noticed that MJ's camera looked very familiar. In fact, it's almost exactly the same as my camera: the Panasonic Lumix LX100 II!
This reveals another little detail: MJ takes photos with the flash on in this mission, but her camera doesn't have the flash module attached! Hmm, her camera must have been modified to add an in-body flash.
I spent about two weeks migrating my website from Jekyll to Eleventy. Jekyll is probably very good for simple websites, but I added a lot of complicated features to my website, so the Liquid code was a mess. Now that all that complicated code is in JavaScript, I feel like it'll be much easier to maintain.
I'm not sure I can write a good post about my experiences, so I'll just make a big list of tips and links. (make sure...
SquareWave has a 2A03 song that showcases a cool effect that can be achieved by playing two square waves with the same notes at the same time, with the first's waveform set to 25% duty, and the second's set to -25% duty. This effect is called the "pseudofilter" (at least, that's what the comments call it) because of how its tinny, needly waveform resembles the sound of a 50% square wave run through a high pass filter. The basic steps...
These are both created using the same feature: the triangle's linear counter. By setting the linear counter to a low value between 1 and 3, it causes the triangle to pulse (mute and unmute itself) very quickly instead of sustaining a single note. Though it is not possible at the moment to create this effect in FamiStudio, it is possible in Furnace Tracker using effect 19xx. Here is a sample Furnace project file that shows this triangle effect.
