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FamiTracker
NOTE: This has nothing to do with the creepy pasta.
I was trying to recreate the Lavender town theme, but there's a weird instrument in the background. It sounds like something that the FDS module would make, so that's what I used to create it. But I don't think the game boy had anything like that, I thought it just used the 2 Square 1 Tri 1 Noise and 1 DCPM channels.
The instrument I'm talking about is here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOadAaGiq4
it starts at 7 seconds and it's the constant buzz in the background.
The gameboy could absolutely do it. How else would you be hearing it? The GB's channels are also different from the NES's. Two pulses and a noise, yes, but no dedicated PCM channel and no Triangle channel. Instead it's equipped with a customizable waveform channel almost exactly like an N163 channel, and it just happens to be able to play PCM.
As for how they did it, they drew a waveform and used it. Take a look at that recent FTM that's attempting to cover all the RBY pokemon music if you want the wave.
Like Im_a_Track_Man said, the Gameboy has a customizable wave channel, which is just like an N163 channel, but it only has 3 volume levels + silence. You also can't do fancy quick wave changes like you see in N163 modules, because it resets and pops when you play a new waveform just like the FDS does.
So if you want to cover gameboy songs by hand, take everything you know about the NES, throw out the DPCM and replace the triangle with an N163 channel pretty much. Not as important, but on the Gameboy, only pulse 1 has hardware sweep.
You know, i need a good sega genesis tracker to remake the "Can you feel the sunshine" song in reverse from the tails doll creepypasta or the music from sonic.exe
A good Sega Genesis and Game Boy tracker would be Deflemask.
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