Winter Chip XIII :: a BotB Battle

92962

w00h000 it's go time!

92964

It's that time of the year again

The time for Wintor Ships

92965

PC-x801 format please thank

92966

remmy season approachin' fuck whatever y'all been hearing

92967

[This n00b ashamed of what written. - BotB]

92968

chip art only major best

92969

is diz the first winter chops to start before the nude year?

92983

So are we gonna be unlocking formats again for this one? Gimme some GAMEBOI and PC ENGINE YREEEEE

92986

Gimme some NSF and NSF+

92987

Please give us all the formats at once this time :c

92990

OHMAHGERD!! IT IZ DAH WINRAR SHEEPS!!!11one!1eleven
Lets have some massive amounts of fun and tweak those chips! =D

92992

Winter Chip XIII prediction:
- Starts with 1 format
- Said format is one that all BotBrs want to make music on THE LEAST
- Formats unlock one at a time from the most UNPOPULAR to the most POPULAR
- puke7 evil chuckles

92993

Make HES popular again

92994

time for me and th4 D34D to try to make a silly co-op! ;)

92997

give me channelf or give me death

92998

It's even got elf in the name

93001

give me game boy or give me death
^{^{^{^{^{Please do not actually give me death. I like living.}}}}}

93009

Yep

93031

A-zu-ra: Please don't give him any more ideas.... D:

93042

wheres my heccin beepbox format ;-;
plz

also yey time to probably collab or somethin whenever this happens

93044

I've never collab'd (cause I don't have firiends T.T) but it would certainly be fun to try!

93071

Dear Mr. Puke,

Please include AYM this year
or else I will have to ask for your manager

Thanks

93098

I have a MP3 ready. Where do I upload?

93113

AYM yes
and POKEY
just one pokey tho
wwe dont need those
stereo nerds

93120

TIA, VIC20, and TED. :)

93127

sunvox plz

93129

x68k

93130

FM Towns pls

93131

If anything i would ask for a 8 bit remix format - if

93137

Wow, just in time for winter break! Although I'm feeling a bit anxious, I'll try to participate and see how I do. :)

93182

@A-zu-ra
"- Said format is one that all BotBrs want to make music on THE LEAST"

GXSCC CONFIRMED?

93189

I'd rather GXSCC than most of the other esoteric formats...

93239

gratz, jimmy you just ruined my plan of trying to make GXSCC the first format

93255

If i happen to come up with something for this, then this will be my First Winter Chip.

93265

its early days and i know the formats arent out yet but

f (x)
zx (x)

WELL GEEZ
either aglig or visual novel 9x01 (x)

omg
sssssnnnnnnes (x)

uhhhhhhhhhhh
tf if i know ( )

93266

Ah, I'll join in gtap !! :D

In order from most important to least (edit5):

~~[ ] HES~~
[x] 8k
[x] Collab Entry with someone
[ ] AHX
[ ] YM2608
[ ] 24k
[ ] HES #2

I'm on a long writers block again unfortunately :(

93267

sure~

ahx []
mariopaint []
24k []
8k [x]
nsfc []
pc98 []
zx [x]

and still hopin for that x68k ;) []
(to be continued when more 4matz are revealed)

93268

AYM fo sho [x]
Literally any other format that will bring my overall contributions of this event to two (2) entries []

edit: 50% to goal and the telephones aren't ringing anymore...

93273

[x] channel f

93276

Something [ ]

93278

To be honest I thought it started already and no one was submitting for the first format, just to see what would happen.

93279

If NSF classic happens to be part of this compo, then I'll probably end up doing some hummer team.
Now I really regret not wanting NSF classic.

93285

[ ] PC-x801
[ ] MIDI
[ ] HES probably
~~[ ] GXSCC~~

maybe ill do something in YM2610B in wildshit if I have the time

93299

Hey, can someone explain all this format talk? I don't get it.

93301

You're about to!! >:D

93302

M04R F0RM4TS as n00bs submit and complain!! 💩

93303

I challenge everyone to use my hummer team sound set for their NSF classic entries.
http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=5470

93306

Can't wait for SPC and wildchip.

And for me not to actually submit in either of those because laziness.

93307

"Entries that have been previously publicly released are not allowed."

I assume it's okay to submit a track I started before the comp was opened? Pardon my n00bism.

93308

I'd say it's okay as long as it wasn't publicly released. I've done that for major battles in the past.

93337

First Entry

useful for eventual voting

93353

I have been working on an Adlib track.
If Adlib becomes available as a category, I will enter.
If Adlib does not become available as a category, I will not enter.
I will try to at least have another go at album art.

93362

[] SID

#justsaying
#babbysfirstcompo

93394

posted my list on my bio so as to not clutter up the comment thread :o

anyways working on a MIDI for now; hope it turns out alright

93399

whoa how'd this dupe get in here

93435

[X] Gameboy (duh)
[] PCE
[] NSF classic
[] SMS (if revealed)
[] Wildchip

We'll see

93455

alright nubs i'm starting my 3 day cross country journey to michigan
will add more formats when i get there
don't ruin anything >___<;

93461

have fun! good luck !!

93475

is there a limit to the number of songs we can submit?

93479

@AozoraOrigami

One per category (per account). You can submit to the same category twice, thrice, etc. by having multiple accounts, a.k.a. alt accounts :D

93483

[] game boy
Apparently I still haven't learned how to be ambitious.

93488

semantic argument with RazerBlue6 :

One entry per format; categories are used for voting.

93501

Oops.. yes I meant format, not category.

Also already 30 entries :o

93503

Infinite alts per BotBr; infinite entries per format.

93504

SNES [ ]

I actually have an entry in development for this particular category.

93507

[well, since everyone else is doing it.] any chance on sms! i might do another one, sneventracker seems nice

93508

SMS for me would be DefleMask, since SnevenTracker doesn't work in wine.

93512

i'm not doing sms ( ﾟ^ﾟ)

93514

s3xmodit please, i'm planning to do something special for it :)

93613

Will nsfplus even be considered, since nsf classic's here?

93614

it's not out of the question until puke says so. multiple nsf variants have been had simultaneously in the past

93615

Alright, then.

93657

moar formats added

93661

all praise puke7!~ \o/

93668

waiting for SGen

93673

here is my official shitpost submission for mod8k

93682

btw what's this "gl hv" on the rules?

93683

good luck have vil

thanks you puke7

93684

go luigi hates vodka

93685

then good luck have water for golgi

~~me too plz :c kthx~~

93686

Doing a AddmusicK entry

93780

Errrrrrrm. And where is WILD in this compo?
It was before, wasn't it......????????

93873

channel f entries this year are killer... using sleizsatrio now, eh? hopefully utz makes a nice appearance. :)

94026

so can I not submit? I use NES, Gameboy and Commodore 64 together and can only really record directly to a wave format. I can't submit?

94040

@Automatonsubsys
that would be suitable as a wild chip submission!

94050

@robyn
Can't see that option in list of submission types.

94051

It will be added later as there are more entries for each format

94102

this is the AYM year

94150

Let's hear it for TIA wooooooooohoooooooo! And VIC20 even though I might not get around to doing that this time.

94163

As much as I hate to say it, I think there has to be some sort of "official" decision about using SnoozeTracker.

There has been some discussion about this on IRC already. Some say it's OK, some say it isn't.

Imo it's not OK, because it basically forces evryone to use SnoozeTracker to seriously compete in the format, and even more importantly, it ruins the aesthetic of the format, as the results don't really sound like SMS music anymore.

Maybe a special format would be the best solution (if there is enough interest). I mean, we have 5 different NES formats to clearly differentiate between the different settings etc. Something similar could apply here.

I realize this is kind of a grey area and it's hard to make a decision, but that's why there should be a discussion and a definitive decision.

This is not meant to be some sort of mean attack on the people using SnoozeTracker btw, it's quite the opposite. I think a clear decision would be best for everyone. Otherwise SnoozeTracker entries would probably just get low scores from people who don't think it's OK to use it.

94198

We need more Gameboy entries. Yes DevEd, this includes you too.

94200

I can't even figure out how to download/install SnoozeTracker

94201

I don't expect Snoozetracker to really catch on anyways just like SuperNSF. Some users will use it, but often to somewhat lower quality and users prefering normal sounding SN7 entries and thus voting those higher than Snooze entries.

Besides as I see there are some users who already have problems with Snoozetracker working/opening is already tackling Snooze from building up a userbase altogether.

So before a debacle is started just like the SuperNSF discussion that was posted in an old bulletin here on BotB, let's first watch if the use is sustained (or is used at all to be honest).

Atleast that is how I perceive the situation.

94218

I don't even know what SnoozeTracker is. There are only 3 NSF formats, not 5. The majority can agree that a tool isn't appropriate, but that won't stop n00bs from using it if it works in common players and hardware. It's much like me wishing that everyone would use bytebeat in its simplest form (an abstract algorithm against time) instead of making tools that produce accessible tunes that will run in bytebeat.

94221

Yeah, you are probably right. This will probably sort itself out. I just thought it would be better to bring it up here, than to discuss it in the comments of the Snooze entries.

I counted FTM and 0cc as well, by the way. That's how I came up with 5 NES formats.

94234

haha then you're still wrong because ntrq makes 6! :D

94235

MOAR FORMATS ADD++

94241

NES 2A03 and SNES

94242

@puke7 I just made a test track using Snoozetracker, which plays fine in windows vgm player, and winamp, but when I rendered it to an SMS rom using Maxin's SMS VGM player, it didn't come out right AT ALL. Until the player has rom output, or someone makes a rom based vgm player for it, I think the entries should be moved to "all gear" or "wild chip", since for the time being they can't play in an SMS emulator and/or hardware. Of course, if the rom output gets addressed then I think they should totally qualify as legit SMS entries.

Thought I should post it here since there are already entries using the tracker.

94248

Hey Puke, since wildchip is added as well, are these the all the formats for Winter Chip now?

94259

Tasty new 4mats!

I guess I'm playing the format game too. This time I finally want to get something ready for a major.

[ ] 8k (Almost done)
[ ] 24k
[ ] S3xmodit
[ ] Amigamod
[ ] MIDI
[ ] SGen
[ ] ZX

If I get all of those done, I'll look into some other formats too.

94275

Sooo, I can't upload more than 1 cover art?

94277

Nope, only one entry per format, at least if you don't make another account.

94278

[This n00b ashamed of what written. - BotB]

94370

I submitted an Adlib track.

Depending on my ensuing employment, I may or may not have any time to actually vote this time.

94490

is too soon to ask for an expansion? i have been working on something for Winter Chip XIII since before the start of this year and regardless i barely had sleep by focusing on get it done, i think an expansion could come great! =' 3

please, puke7! \o/

94496

Seconded ^^^^^^

94497

Yeah, that would be extremely nice

94499

I've had a major deadline come up at uni so most of my compositional efforts lately have been towards that... I'll definitely be able to get in one or two more pieces if there's an extension

94505

I didn't know there was wild chip! now I'm working on something : )

94509

#TeamWCXIIIExtension2018

I did *finally* get something started last night, but two - four songs is better than one :P

94510

someone mentioned there was no VIC 20 in WC13 which is a sin so I replaced NEC PC-x801 FM with because it has no entries and 24 formats is enough sorry not sorry

two week extension whoop

pretty sure battle changes are behind us for WC13

94512

Sweet, that should give me enough time to get a few submissions in. Huzzah!

94519

will 2 weeks be enough for grandpa chip champ to get the job done?!? it's not looking good for our champion... tune in next month for the thrilling conclusion of winter chip xiii!

94526

thanks so much puke7! :D i now can take it more easy! x3 ~~who i am kidding, i'll probably don't sleep until this is done lol~~

94535

Hopefully extension is enough for me to stop feeling unmotivated and shitty and actually finish up the entries I wanted to @_@

94537

Awesome! A two week extension will give me more time to work on my Wild Chip entry, and more time to try learning other formats. Thank you so much!

94542

woooooo HYPEEE!~ :D

94544

I shall be back with a zxbeep then!

94554

aw, I was working on a pcx801 entry... but I can understand _{should I convert it to VIC20? 🤔}

thanks for the extension tho, gonna finish my MIDI

94557

Wow, now I have no excuse. I had really better make something. Maybe I'll try a format I don't already know?

94562

Extension, huh? HM :O

94578

EXTENSION!!! :D

94595

alright, ok, so, liek, I somehow missed there was a new tool for PC-x801 announced here hours before I pulled that format so, liek, now it's back and stuff and bytebeat 1k too because why not?

94597

which tool was it

94599

http://battleofthebits.org/academy/GroupThread/17555/dmf2pmd.py/

has it been added to the lyceum yet? :u

94637

god, am i thinking what every other old motherfucker here is thinking? this is probably one of the best winterchips in history.

mad props to everyone really bringing their soul to display for us. i, personally, am honored to witness this grand spectacle of beauty and individualisms.

thank us.

94640

BYTEBEAT 1K MY FAVORITE FORMAT? :D/ ! Thanks!

94805

Being super new to the entire scene, I wonder if this is the right place to bring forth my first attempts that go beyond just screwing around. o:

94807

absolutely, Producer-san! :D do your best or try your worst! x3 also welcome to BotB! \o/

94808

Three years and two days ago, I was super new to the entire scene too :)

94811

@Producer-san Indeed it is, and it's also the right place to try out new formats! I was unfamiliar with AHX, but I was motivated to make an entry after hearing what it was capable of. This site is very encouraging, and I love it.

94813

^^^^^^^ i learned how to make chiptunes here too

so i can actually encourage everyone willing to start in the scene to start on BotB! \o/

also there's so much cool guys which are very supportive and likes to give feedback, so feel at home!~ x3

94865

hey has anyone given any thought to wanting to host a synclisten?

just in case youre new to this concept, its where someone on youtube/wherever streams every entry and botbrs get a chance to listen, comment in real time on it. the idea is that it encourages people to vote while all listening together.

also said hoster often forgoes 'sleep' and So Called /jorbs/ because there are so many entries to stream

if noone steps up to it im available to.... but id much rather let someone else have a chance!!!

94876

Ah yes, I still have an overlay and OBS project files/presets pack as good as ready to be released (Guess I should finally finish them up)
Should be more tempting for people to be able to set up streams faster and easier, I'd figure

94901

That sounds like a really fun idea, but is a little rough when it comes to many people coming from many timezones.
I approve either way! The more the merrier, that's for sure. That, and it makes for better discussion.

95104

wow this got a lot of entries.

damn.

i can't believe i'm gonna miss out on it too lol
maybe ill make up for it by hosting a synclisten (if no one else has called dibs yet)

95227

OH WHOOPS ANOTHER WEEK ADDED :O

...will this battle end before summer?!?!

95228

when will winter chipperino enderino

95229

neverino!

95231

wow ok ill keep working for another week i guess

95233

And here I was scrambling to finish off my entry before the deadline, 5 minutes left... and then suddenly 7 more days hahahaha. I guess I'll wait with the submission and see if I can flesh things out a bit haha.

95234

time to vicerino
edit; riperino

95235

Welp, haha!! Surprise exteeeeeeeeeeeension!
I don't know if I'll improve my tune further or not...But now I have time for a MIDI!

95236

Welp, was ready to be doneso but maybe I can squeeze in one more track or so... :)

95237

Another extension! Now I feel silly for staying up until 5 AM working on a Channel F entry to meet the deadline...

95239

after working so hard i finally can O HELL ANOTHER WEEK

time to work on an amiga mod entry \o/

95240

Thanks for the extension!!

95241

it wouldn't be Winter Chip unless there were at least 2 extensions to the entry period, would it? ;)

Well, maybe I'll try to scratch something else off my list.

95293

if I procrastinate anymore I'm gonna die sarge

95295

^-^ La-di-da-di-deee hehe^{hehe^{hehe^{hehee^{hehee^heee}}}} I'm gonna go get on BotB and start vo-...

95418

extenze but for chip

95420

We don't have winter here anymore, so i'm happy i at least have winter chip for a longer time now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

95463

Looking forward to voting :-)

95467

thanks n00b

95476

It's summer in Australia and my entry may not be cool enough as a result. Please drink hot tea before listening to increase chance of temperature phase lock.

95626

Winter Chip doesn't end until the fat groundhog sings.

95705

Will BotB actually end in 3h 51m? Placing bets...

95706

I'll place my bet on that it will end in 3h

95707

oh well, i got too much ideas and can't possibly wrap it all until this deadline BUT i'll keep building it up to submit it next major! :D

95738

Wooooooo, I managed to get my thing in on time ~~thanks to the billions of extensions~~

95778

tentative sync date of sunday, ill work out the details this week and make a post soon !

95851

wildshit: 47
vic20_best_chip_evar: 3
:/
now I feel really bad for not making a little vikky...

95852

nsfplus maybe next year if no one has a deep hatred for it

96503

100%

96521

How about an extended deadline for voting? There are so many tracks!

96565

Ah, finally 100% done with the voting. Loads of awesome entries this time around, gg everyone!

Winter is still going strong where I live, temperatures look to be around -15 to -25 celsius all week ;P

96860

im sloggin my way thru the votes. current favs r

× tenniser's songs
× notademoscener's songs
× <3 MOVIEMOVIES1 <3 (if he wins then i get to avoid two accounts in the chipist top 10)

96899

almost finished voting. things i learnt from this compo:

× weirdly masculine "tfw no gf" weeb culture has continued apace and is now every world culture. some of u guys cld stand to be less scared when writing a note
× sega master system can do pcm
× i seem to now be able to diagnose whether someone is a homosexual furry based on whether or not their music uses more than three chords

96903

you did a good job practicing what you preach with commenting. think of all those people who feel special with their alerts now.

96906

trump the gay furry like donald;
scared with the mask you in;
weebs run run through like ronald;
a pace truly masculine?

least the gender agnostics acknowledge their balls now;
breaking down weebfunk walls, giving me pause now;
hum haws, wow; water-drinkers cause arousal
being clowns, all n00bz, flip flop crowds y'all

botbr codists, they know this: the future is bright
despite weebfunk still held in the light.
move over for the coders; they're taking over.
double threats with the artists; the smartists.

multimedia tag-teams gleam in'a arena
factions fighting; coding functions
in this junction, no unction; it's fun shit.
we run this; demoscene, get ready for one fist.

botbr power! ✊

eww... i just vorted.

96928

Results are 2 Hours Early

I have something I have to do at 2pm CST so I moved things up two hours which should make everything work out.

* Disregard and see my next post!

97060

yay 100% votezd! srsly, i'm getting too old for this shit.

97061

vorting is almost a full-time job nowadays. oi vey.

97088

Yay, this means I don't have to sleep late again.

97090

Would appreciate an extension since I'm only about 60% done with voting, but realise that's unlikely. I also wanted to give feedback on as many entries as I could but that's not possible with the time constraints :P

I'll try my best but it's not looking good

EDIT: Nevermind I finished voting on all the audio entries at least. You can go ahead and disregard this request now :)

97154

1 WEEK VOTE EXTORNSION

This has nothing to do with Fod's request; I had a sudden funeral situation and will not be home at all this weekend. Result stream will be at the regular scheduled time next week of 2pm CST

97158

is all okay, puke7! :D i honestly like to wait, also my condolences about your situation right now :c no hurries! x3

97160

~~winter chip? more like spring chip~~
nvm I just actually read puke's reason for extending it now. that sucks :(

97176

~~God dammit puke I spent the entirety of today to vote instead of studying for midterm exam so I could keep up with the deadline and now you extended it? Wow. I want my time back.~~

Edit: Yes. It's all my fault for not voting earlier. I'm sending my condolences to puke too. It was just me having a bad day yesterday and having plans ruined twice.

97177

Sending my condolences. See you (URL) in a week or so!

97179

Ohh that sucks, Puke! I hope everything is alright! Take your time!

97182

also my condolences puke7! sometimes life happens and things need to be put into priority order, resluts can easily wait for an another week.

at least the folks who are not yet done have now no excuse not to finish their voting. ;)

97183

sweet vomiting extension!

97185

not my fave reason for delaying resluts :( condolences...

97203

do a result stream at the funeral

97205

Finished my votes! Lots of wonderful entries this time around.

That being said, no rush for resluts, take your time puke7...

97223

This is all a game, but death is real. I hope people at the funeral were able to find new meaning in life.

97224

you do you, man. *hugs*

97336

Got myself a cool "hundo" on my voting today. Be like me. Get yourself a "hundO" percent.

97348

I only got mariopants left, not looking forward to it lol. 100% is so close yet so far... lol

97353

Wish I could 100%, just can't vote on collaborations with myself in lol

97365

Okay, If you did a collab, edit "hundO" in my comment to "99.871%ndO" or whatever it would be. Lucky for me, I don't have any friends to hold me back from that sweet sweet hundo 😏😏😏😏😏

97370

if this extends again i'm going to extend my neck vertebrae

97379

One hundO https://i.imgur.com/25s6quF.png

97390

...99.671% done!
_{_{yes. I had one collab with m9m so I couldn't go 100%. welp}}

97394

Please don't bamboozle me again.

97407

haha sorry don't have time to fix

too many entries breaking the site!!

97408

good job we borked it

97410

sorry guys, we gotta redo Winter Chip XIII :)

97413

Sorry I missed the stream, I completely forgot what time it was (.___.;;

Also, really well done everyone!! I think I favorited and relistened to more songs on this one than any other compo on here! BOTB GROWS STRONGER EVERY SECOND

97434

Very good winning track! And congrats y'all :)

97464

Points are up!!

97486

I had a fun time participating in this year's Winter Chip, I got to try out lots of new formats, and I also had the pleasure of listening to so many wonderful songs! The talent here is insane. So much more for me to learn :O

97548

i am so mad

97549

Amazing competition, so much fire for a winter chip! I seriously can't believe I placed so high, there are soo many entries that absolutely killed it and could all qualify for first place in my book. Winter Chip is now my favorite holidai :D

97687

Can I send a flac for the bandcammp release?

97704

You got to talk to Chip Champion about that --
he handles all the bandcamp releases

100399

sub NUBLETS it's getting cOoOoOoolld outside (?) and you know what that means?! time for wintershits on NADCAMP! unFORTUNEately, unruly bots and FREELOADERZ have already plowed through our paltry number of free donloads. i'm afraid that means thirteen will be ONE daallor until june 1st, then it will be set to pay what you want (ie FREE). better mark your calendar if you don't want to be bested by teh botz

100440

I'm listening right now!!
https://battleofthebits.bandcamp.com/album/winter-chip-xiii

100441

And it would be winter chip XIV

100479

Album trailer coming soon; I have the audio prepped

Also I'm doing a slightly different style of album trailer for this one (and maybe future ones)

100737

A-zu-ra's album trailer is up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwvW-qlyRYE

bandcamp link here --
https://battleofthebits.bandcamp.com/album/winter-chip-xiii