{"id":3859,"date":"2012-07-15T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2012-07-15T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T06:16:12","slug":"game-music-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/game-music-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Music Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago, I was prototyping a method to leverage <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/native-client\/\">Google Chrome&#8217;s Native Client technology<\/a> in order to play old chiptunes (video game music) directly in a web browser. <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/back-on-the-salty-track\/\">The last time I posted on the matter<\/a>, I said that I might have something ready for public consumption by the time Google Chrome 21 rolled around. I thought I was being facetious but I wasn&#8217;t too far off. Chrome 20 is the current release version as I write this.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <strong>I did it<\/strong>: I created a chiptune music player in Native Client by leveraging existing C\/C++ libraries such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slack.net\/~ant\/libs\/audio.html\">Game Music Emu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rbelmont.mameworld.info\/?page_id=221\">Audio Overload SDK<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zophar.net\/utilities\/2sf\/vio2sf.html\">Vio2sf<\/a>. Then I packaged up the player into into a Google Chrome extension and published it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/leooadmebmmjogbfhdcbfldndllfkhpg\">Chrome Web Store<\/a>. Then I made a website cataloging as many chiptunes as I could find for 7 different systems:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/gamemusic.multimedia.cx\/\">http:\/\/gamemusic.multimedia.cx\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Check it out if you have any affinity for old game music or you want to hear how music was made using a limited range of bleeps and bloops. Thus far, the site catalogs NES, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast songs. I&#8217;m hoping to add support and catalogs for many more systems, though, eventually bringing support in line with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chipamp.org\/\">the Chipamp plugin<\/a> for Winamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play old video game soundtracks directly in your web browser using a Native Client extension for Google Chrome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-hacking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Play old video game soundtracks directly in your web browser using a Native Client extension for Google Chrome\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta 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