Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Made with Furnace Tracker: NES [2A03 + VRC6]

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Originally by: Periphery

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Soooo, I've been on a bit of a hiatus as of late. After releasing my most recent album a year ago, I got quite burnt out and busy. I wouldn't say I'm fully done being on hiatus, but I've slowly started doing my own projects again.

I started this cover a few weeks ago, so not immediately after Periphery's new album came out, but still pretty soon after. I've been enjoying the album a lot, even though it is pretty different. Not entirely sure what spurred on the idea of making a chiptune version of this, but once I had the idea I knew I needed to follow it. I feel like the lonely feeling of this song translates well to NES beep boops lol.

I haven't done Famitracker stuff in a while, so it was nice to get back into it! I think this is the best I've ever done it.

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You already know the drill: 2A03 + VRC6, the ultimate combo. I'm never able to limit myself to just the two pulse waves in the 2A03, so I always gotta add in the VRC6. I just can't live without having enough tracks to add delays to my melodies lmao. I used the saw wave as expected, mainly just doubling the basslines on the tri. The DPCM channel gets abandoned once again, cause I don't have much use for samples. I prefer the kicks I make on the tri channel and the hats/snares I make on the noise channel. I promise I'll use you someday DPCM ;-;

I batch exported the tracks in Furnace, with the hopes that I'd do some panning in Logic to make it feel Big and Stereo. Turns out I did not arrange it well for that, so instead I just kept it entirely mono. I did some very tiny EQ moves to clean up some harshness, but really nothing all that noticeable. I kept the final export very faithful, only really doing a small amount of mastering (like, not even a limiter, just a clipper that hardly touched any peaks).

Making this song work with the limitations was honestly pretty hard, but I feel like my creative solutions ended up making it something special. I hope you think the same! :D

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