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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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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makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 16:21 next collapse

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

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 16:24 collapse

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?

makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 16:34 collapse

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

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 16:44 collapse

No i appreciate the explanation and the reccs, both are valuable a d i definitely tee’d it up that way :)

Snailpope@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 16:26 next collapse

Check out LoZ: Link’s awakening. Easily some of the most beautiful music of the gameboy / color era, in my personal opinion

cheese_greater@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 16:31 collapse

I really like the inside house theme of the switch update but it soundss different without the background pot boiling

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 12 Mar 16:35 collapse

Minish Ca- wait that was GBA… Uh… Tetris?

Wait… the LOZ Oracle games were also GBA titles 🤔

rImITywR@lemmy.world on 12 Mar 16:45 collapse

Oracle games were GBC titles

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 12 Mar 16:48 collapse

Hm… They were. 🤷‍♂️

I only remember playing them on my SP. They were the last 2 games I bought before it was stolen. 😮‍💨