The heavy lifting is handled by an FPGA, which emulates the SNES’s S-SMP sound processor, and handles loading the music from the SPC-format files. Being chiptunes, these files store both the ...

The chiptune ... based effect. 6. Here we’ve loaded up the NES square wave into Vital and set the amplitude envelope with zero sustain and used the decay time to create a short fast sound.

sound effects or musical sounds, actually sound quite rough and ready. If you’re producing chiptune in a modern DAW, then emulating these aspects will keep things authentic. 3: Sound ...