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Once again, I'm back after a long break. I will explain my absence and a very harsh lesson I learned about computers that I'm surprised I didn't know about already. On Christmas morning, I woke up and turned on my PC, only to find it would crash during startup every time. After doing some research, I found out that the cause was of this is a dead hard drive, and that I may have lost all of my data. I had to go on a trip to San Antonio so I knew I wouldn't be getting the HDD replaced anytime soon. Finally, after 4 months, my father took action and sent my PC to a computer technician who works with him at his job. After a week passed, I was able to get the PC back with a new and configured HDD, but not the data, which the technician is trying to extract to another HDD as far as I know. What does this mean for me? I may have lost a lot of unfinished work that I failed to back up. Thankfully, I saved a few NSFs on an SD card so I can at least try and recreate most of it if I don't get my data back. To sum it all up, this is the moral of the story: [b][color=#FF0000]Backup your files.[/b] If you don't, eventually you may suffer the same fate I did.
Other than that, during the time I lived without a working PC I discovered other VGM composers, mostly European ones. It wasn't long before I discovered Neil Baldwin's title theme to Dropzone. When I first heard this song, I thought, "This is glorious!!" That's all that needs to be said about this song. I knew it deserved a cover, so here it is.
Well, sorry bout your hard drive, but thanks for the idea to now backup all my music files to a 32 GB hard drive I have laying around. Also, it's good to have you back! This sounds awesome, too!
Some other places I've tried to conquer:
[url=http://chipmusic.org/ch3dd4r]Le Chipmusic
[url=http://battleofthebits.org/barracks/Profile/CH3DD4R/]Le BattleOfTheBits
Excellent job on this! Imma throw this in my "to-record-on-hardware" folder (though I'll need to run it at 60 Hz).
Also, I totally second Fezuke's advice. I came really close to losing all (and I mean [b]all[/b]) of my music to a faulty hard drive once, and it would've gone the way of the dodo were it not for the fact I keep my stuff in a Dropbox folder.
I did lose everything else I had on that hard drive, but the music was the most important part; I would have been devastated if I had lost that.
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I record (some) NSFs on hardware. Feel free to [url=http://www.famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=3633]request a hardware render.
I've already experienced the hard drive failure and have lost a lot of data about my ROM hacks, along with several chiptune FTMs.
The good thing is I eventually found those ROM hack related data nearly useless.
Well this FTM sounds fantastic. I guess I still have to take some time to learn how to use arpeggios well.
Thanks for the positive responses, everyone! Greatly appreciate it!
[quote=Fezuke]If you have NSF's that were created with Famitracker, you can retrieve your FTM's with this NSF decompiler posted by Slimeball
[url=]http://famitracker.com/forum/attachments/55827/nsfdecompiler_v0.11.zip[/quote]Thank you for showing me this! I was able to get back most of the work I cared about. (There were a few NSFs with multiple tracks I was unable to decompile. I hope Slimeball updates this soon.)
[quote=Warheart]I wonder when you're gonna start doing dubstep on Famitracker, Vinyl Scratch?[/quote]In a matter of time, that will come. But first, I have another Follin style 2A03 song I need to finish.
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