Woooo I like the sound of this thread already and promise to contribute to it as soon as I can get my head wrapped around my current setup.  Variations on Perfect Dark by Nocturnus coming up in the hopefully not too distant future.

Much of the music was made by a program called muse, a text-based midi composition program... and then processed using Reaper in the usual way of music production.

A lot of the stuff from BK2 sounds like it was composed on a Sound Canvas (probably sc88 pro). It was an old hardware sound module. You can actually get it in software now with Roland's Sound Canvas VA VST, but its accessibility is not at all good.

Also I've heard a few tracks in BK2 which sound like they were made with Hypersonic, again an old synth. This time from Seinberg. It's no longer sold.

Anyone know where I can get a fractal effects processor for cheap for a guitar I don't have, which I might also be able to get for cheap?  :d
So many limitations when it comes to music, and all of them, everysingle freaking one of them caused by this little, itty bitty thing called money that affects me in a monumental way!

Of course this might have changed, but last I heard, his music sounded like it was made with a Yamaha Tyros keyboard (if I had to guess, probably original Tyros since he's not using fancier patches that come with Tyros 2 and beyond). I am still in love with that sound set, and finally got a keyboard that has it in its full glory, in addition to many of the newer sounds I like. His music has actually inspired most of my orchestral writing with those sounds, at least it did when I started sequencing. I can think of a million reasons why they inspired me so, but none of those reasons seem too special when I think about it. Lol

I just would like to add that Edirol SD-50 which my composer used had done some quite good stuff, too.

I've thought about this many times.
One of my more recent thoughts was for an "Audiogames Meet Metal" video, featuring heavy metal versions of various audiogame music. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this channel on Youtube.)

I have also made remixes of audio games, but most are incomplete to share them here.

To make remixes I use MidiText; I work well with it.

I have started using Edirol SD-20 MIDI File Converter when making MIDIs. I'd like to work with DAWs, but making music with text is what I do best.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record... I like how NoteWorthy Composer does it. If it could be made accessible, that'd be great. If you play a lot of mainstream games, though, I imagine it might be less difficult to deal with the accessibility issues. But it's still writing out music, just via sheet music editor rather than letters and numbers.
Maybe I like NWC just because my rhythm is too awful to use QWS's onscreen keyboard. I think playing the music would be much slower, because it'd take practicing each part and editing the recording for transcription errors. Meanwhile, writing it only requires doing it once and is not vulnerable to bad posture or missed notes. ... I miss band.

Breaking my own rule and about to go on a tangent and derail the thread a bit. But why not?

I also cannot wrap my head around programming, but mml and similar music text composition comes to me with only moderate effort. With enough practice with a particular system I can normally coax some fairly fun stuff from it. By contrast I've struggled for years to grasp programming and have just about given up, even with comparatively simple prospects like BGT. Basically, I think what it comes down to is that people think in different ways. The more specifically you can narrow into your strengths and weaknesses, the better. While I can't be sure if a block for programming is the same as a block for music text, in my own case the two are completely unrelated. I think this is because programming is syntactical in the sense that you have to know a language and its structure, while MML is very linear in nature. The only time it isn't is if you explicitly specify as such, i.e. make an instrument or something and then call it up later for use. Different versions of MML do work differently though, and so that can be confusing if you don't have adequate documentation or you're not good at dealing with differing methods.

A lot of what goes into MML writing is just knowing what you're getting into. MML is not a language you will use if you want to sound like a live band. That goal would be counterintuitive really. Often what you will find is that timings and velocities and whatnot are pretty grid-like when writing in text, or indeed when writing with anything that isn't live input, simply because there is no easy way to do it otherwise. This is not to say that mml is bad... some tools do have randomizers to try and mitigate this deficiency, and you can still do a lot of advanced tricks to add pollish to even acoustically oriented tracks. So don't think of text composition as that generic cheap-sounding stuff, because while it often starts that way, it doesn't have to stay there. there is no doubt in my mind that having live input is easier on all fronts, and I wouldn't blame somebody for deciding writing music in a text file is too taxing. But all the same I do like it when people give it a shot. All in all, both methods have their strengths and weaknesses. Both open up opportunities. MML is a niche thing mainly for chiptunes but does open doors for midi as well. Using live input like keyboards is almost exclusive to midi and does tend to sound more organic, and opf course if you use keyboards you have a lot of control over the organic nature, if you know how to edit with your sequencer and use things like quantize etc. Still, there is so much overlap between the two and I don't really subscribe to a viewpoint that holds that each method has its own specific purpose.

Now, back to a less geeky topic. I'll be the first to share music here! How about that! But since the thread has some stuff in it, I figured why not?

This is a chiptune remake for the Nes of the Super Liam level 1 music. I made this at the end of 2016. Here's the catch. A friend of mine also did his own chiptune cover while I was doing mine. After we were both done, we sent each other our covers, and we occasionally fight, in a friendly way of course, about whose is better. I've decided to upload both, so you can decide which you like better. They are simply called version 1 and version 2, so you don't know who made which. If you do know because I showed you this already, please don't spoil it for everyone else; I will eventually post a message here saying which is mine. Get it here! IN the zip you will find NsF files as well as mp3s for those  who can't play NSF music.

Here are some criticisms I have of both... yes I will criticize my own work here:
Version1 drums are a bit overkill for my taste, while you can barely notice them in 2.
Version 1 sounds more accurate but kinda has an overbearing quality if I can put it that way. 2 is easier on the ears but perhaps a bit boring and too floaty.

So, have at it. Fight over the first actual music submission of the thread! Lol

FYI I would be interested in making other versions of this song, mainly because it's challenging but simple. So if I post a bunch more versions for different chips, don't be too surprised. At present none are in the works but thinking about this made me want to go back and do stuff. Lol

I definitely would encourage you to try live input first with a sequencer. There's more practical use for it really. No matter what I"m doing, sequencing, writing in a text file, I always use a keyboard to sketch with. And when I say keyboard, I use the term loosely; I often write without a real keyboard, using an on-screen one which some people might think of as a joke. But I've gotten really efficient with it. If all my keyboard were destroyed and all i had was a laptop, I wouldn't be unable to sequence. Besides, I'm such a perfectionist that the original performance I recorded hardly ever gets used because I edit it so much after it's been recorded. I know that not everyone will be doing that, but for me, just having something there to sketch with is infinitely better than not. Of course being good at your instrument is key, and if you aren't, then that is indeed discouraging.

I know someone in this world did the super liam beta theme, and the pcs games theme. unfortunately they were only hoasted on an ftp server that is now dead.
I also did part of the q9 soundtrack, but it's incomplete, and without access to the game files, it may remain that way. plus, It's in nsf format, which not a whole lot of us can play (though there are a couple of people on here that can deal with it).