Yeah, that's a common thing I noticed in NES games as I dissected some osts as well; the main melody is often in Square 2, not Square 1 I assume it's to use Square 1 as the sound effect channel

@@totoshampoin correct, square one is used for the sound effects, so square 2 holds the main melody

well thats how chords work im pretty sure

It’s like they were made for each other!

For real. I was like "why does it sound so off-key"

@@polecat3 its not lol, thats just how the square channels sound individually

@@brekreney5734 not even remotely true! They have similar motion, but they aren’t playing octaves at any point edit: im rekt BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN xd

I figured this out while playing SMB1 and realizing the melody went away every time I got a coin

@@Pip200ne yup its a little harder to notice in smb2 cuz there isnt as much stuff like groups of coins, prob vine climbing sound would end up cutting through a lot tho

Oh yeah, I got curious as to why the main melody was being played on Square 2 instead of 1 and found out that this is the reason

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@@Thomas_j041 what a funky coinkydink helo

They is Koji Kondo.

I'm still amazed as to how that was done! (For anyone confused, listen to the two square wave voices at 3:42). It that just a normal octave or is there some sound-design trickery at play? Perhaps that "upright" sound is all in my head.

@@bruhmomenthdr7575 To my ears it's a sliiiightly detuned octave, giving it that kinda honky-tonk saloon piano sound

@@Tresquall I looked further into what you said and it looks like you're right! In this case, specifically, the voice playing the upper octave (square 2) seems to have been raised by a few cents. It's subtle enough to create that nice honky-tonk sound without creating any jarring dissonance.

@@Tresquall square 2 sounds sharp to me at that point

I went through hell because I transcribed it WITHOUT THIS!!! DO YOU REALIZE HOW WACKTACULAR THOSE CHORDS ARE?! But I got it to sound really accurate, though I'm probably off by some notes.

Returning to monke.

I did this with a lamppost once

This makes you pull out vegetables and pour concoctions into a vase

True

Let's just hope the video won't get taken down...

I don't like doing nintendo videos to be honest and always worry Nintendo will strike me down with heinous wrath

@@carpathia808 Nintendo are asshole?

Are you kidding me!? These huge corps are stupid. Just hearing the music makes me want to go and play it and several other SMB games (legally at that giving Nintendo more 🤑💰💵💸💶). But let's worry if someone makes $0.34 off of it. So dumb .

The worst part is that it's fair use, yet Nintendo SOMEHOW still wins over this stuff

funny, considering it's basically only the NES that uses that sound

wait, you grew up in the start of time?

@@coderpro1040 I get it but he means 2000’s (I think)

I can see it

@@brinleyhamer729 Coder is being funay

Agree, it's great

It kinda sounds like a GameBoy by doing that! It could individually hard pan channels either left or right, whereas the NES was only mono.

Thanks

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@@_Custrd *T H A N K*

sail the ship

I love that the pause screen has the same music with just a few of the music tracks

I can see that! Would make a great animation!

Yep- it’s the harmony!

@@brianmolina8818 counterpoint*

@@Whatismusic123 5 months later but i hope you relaize how silly your comment was

@@realbubbles129 look in a mirror buddy.

@@Whatismusic123 just letting you know counterpoint is a type of harmony so your comment was like someone saying "Yep- it's a building!" and you correcting them with "house*"

pretty sure those are the same notes...

@@jtg55 No. It is slightly different.

@@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171 Isn’t it originally a bassline from a song at the beginning of the Blues Brothers movie?

Still had some good music, but still lacked

That's unless you have a certain type of Japanese Master System. Then again, there are many Famicom games with extra sound chips.

@Youssef Land Official KZfaq Channel, I think it's version 2.1.

True The Texas Instruments SN76489 sucks when compared to the Ricoh 2A03

Less timbre variety on the pulse wave, too, because iirc it only supported a 50% duty cycle.

Flaw of the original hardware.

@@isbragg Cool, I figured that would be it, but I didn't want to assume.

all 5 channels are skewed because they have a bias to return towards the centre, if you set one of the channels to its highest amplitude and left it there it would just return back to the middle. im told this is because of a low-pass filter applied to reduce noise, although im not entirely sure how that works im not an expert aha the triangle wave is stepped because all 5 channels have 4 bits of precision, i.e. the amplitude of one channel can be kept track of using only half a byte, the highest number that can be stored in half a byte is 15 - so 16 numbers counting 0. this means each channel can have 16 levels of "loudness". the pulse channels have direct control over what value it is, and can choose a smaller number to reduce the volume etc with 0 being silent and 15 being loudest. the triangle channel works by counting that amplitude half-byte all the way up to 15 then back down to 0 over and over again, and the speed at which it counts makes the frequency of the tone

@@capnkatie Considering the hardware of the time, that's really clever. I always love learning how the logic works on things, especially old-school stuff where you have to make the most of a limited resource. Even on modern hardware, old tricks still come in handy.

If you think that’s interesting, you might like this video by a guy who ‘fixed’ these quirks of the hardware & showed what it would sound like without them: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/briihNVyudS8iI0.html

it was 👍

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