What GameBoy/GameBoyColor games have a similar sound to Pokemon or the Zelda oracle games?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 12 Mar 16:08
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from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 12 Mar 16:08
https://lemmy.world/post/44170776
They sound incredible and so relaxing/soundbathy when the harsher mid-upper ranges are equalized out
Not sure if all GB© games use the exact same sound engine/output or if there are idiosyncrasies to specific games and franchises
Going for warm
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Old video game consoles had dedicated sound chips with a range of tones, sounds, and total notes they could play. They simply didn’t have the memory to store music on the cartridge so they would store instructions for the sound chip instead which took far less space. As a result you can learn to recognize the sounds of various machines. From my brief search it appears GB and GBC used functionally the same chip
What games did you find to have very ambient/euphonic sound to them in particular if you have anything in particular you had to mention?
Oh, you asked for what games, not why. Oops
I think Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country, and the SNES Final Fantasies. Specially 6 would fit the bill
No i appreciate the explanation and the reccs, both are valuable a d i definitely tee’d it up that way :)
Check out LoZ: Link’s awakening. Easily some of the most beautiful music of the gameboy / color era, in my personal opinion
I really like the inside house theme of the switch update but it soundss different without the background pot boiling
Minish Ca- wait that was GBA… Uh… Tetris?
Wait… the LOZ Oracle games were also GBA titles 🤔
Oracle games were GBC titles
Hm… They were. 🤷♂️
I only remember playing them on my SP. They were the last 2 games I bought before it was stolen. 😮💨