Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The title doesn't have much significance (I am so good at naming things). All it really refers to is the fact the kick sample showcased here is only THIRTY-THREE BYTES and is still functional. To accomplish this, it is played at the lowest pitch possible, and the audio level of the DPCM channel intentionally ends up lower at the end of the sample than what it was when it started, so I can directly write a value to the audio level at the start of the sample, and since it ends at a different level, writing the same value every time produces a voltage click which works just well enough to be an attack for this kick sample. I also had to do a lot of faffing about in a hex editor to get the sample to behave exactly how I wanted it to, e.g. changing how much it slopes up or down, finagling the amplitude over time, and reducing whining artifacts as much as possible. But in the end, it just works!

NOTICE: This track takes advantage of the NES's non-linear mixing, and while I don't know how to show that PROPERLY in these videos, I can scale the waveforms up or down to at least get closer to the actual mixing. For most of the track, the bottom three channels are all significantly quieter than they would be playing alone, so I scaled them down relative to the pulse channels.

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