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Learn something: Treasure Buster tutorial

In it’s initial episode, NorrinRadd22 aka Matt Creamer  will try to teach you about frequency modulation in layman’s terms. Using an oscilloscope and keyboard along with some software, Matt breaks down the information into something anyone can process.

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Mario 64 – File Select (GrooveCube Remix) GameChops Spotlight

Take a listen to this trap remix of Mario 64’s File Select Theme by GrooveCube! The arrangement of this familiar tune and GrooveCube’s clever, collage-like use of samples harken back to the nascenccy of this 1996 3D platformer Goliath.

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Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: A Visual Compendium

Bitmap Books’ ‘Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom: A Visual Compendium’, a coffee table book that focusses on the visual side of the systems and showcases the amazing pixel art, product design and graphic design associated with them. This is the fourth book in a series that also includes Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, and the ZX Spectrum.

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Soundfly’s Chiptune Crash Course

Soundfly has several music education courses, released on the monthly basis. The most recent of which is a Chiptune Crash Course taught by Philadelphia’s one and only Chipocrite (aka Paul Weinstein) and promises to “uncover how to make chiptune music using a Game Boy or your computer. Popularized by such artists as Anamanaguchi and Beck, chiptune music is a fast growing genre” according to Soundfly‘s Creative Assets Director Jeremy Young.


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