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Chiptunes on a chip, just like mom used to make (before she was eaten by bears)


Nex \\ 07.05.2007	11 comments

Chiptunes artist Alex Mauer has stumbled upon the kind of synergistic, proactive scheme that marketing firms create terms like "synergistic" and "proactive" to describe. Mr. Mauer forgoes the standard MP3 or laser-etched media route with his latest album of bleeps and bloops, and has instead opted to release Vegavox on high-fidelity plastic NES cartridges.

You can purchase a copy of Vegavox from this page for €22 (two hogs' heads), or you can catch a preview clip of his music here.

While many may see this move as merely a novel trick, for those of us who get pixelated nostalgic tears from this particular genre, Mr. Mauer is a genius. In reaction, Destructoid has decided to release all further blog entries on Game Gear cartridges, and each episode of the Podtoid will be shipped to you on a CPS1 board.

[Gracias Tehuberone]

11 COMMENTS, LATEST BY SuperDave
@Alaphic Haha, I actually have one but the damn thing died. :( - view discussion

There are 11 comments about this post:

Mxyzptlk says:
07/05/2007 02:38

Man, I don't think they've got MAME on my ipod yet. Why you gots to be keeping a brotha down, dawg?

OWLICKS says:
07/05/2007 03:05

Psh Mxyptlk, i've got MAME on my toothbrush, son.

I bet you don't even read Slashdot.

hahahalalalol

nightmareci says:
07/05/2007 03:16

Just wondering, but will he be releasing .nsf's of the tunes as well? There's some hardware-based options to run .nsf's on a real 2A03 (or whatever sound chip the other, non-USA NES' have) instead of an emulator capable of playing 2A03 code. I don't have said hardware, but I've always sort of wanted to get more classic music playing hardware, so I can run .nsf's on a real 2A03 whenever I want (SID might be a better choice though, tons more music to run on it).