Turn 8-Bit NES music into Rock Band tracks

April 7, 2009 - 12:22 pm - Posted by Sean

Insignificant Studios’ 8bitar Hero procedurally generates four Rock Band patterns from the audio of someone playing an emulated NES game, all in real-time.

8BITar Hero is basically Rock Band except with a Nintendo emulator generating the music and levels. Taken from the 8BITar Hero website:

Gameplay levels that are procedurally generated from the act of playing a game. One person plays NES games on an emulator, others play a Rock-Band game with levels that are generated algorithmically from the audio code of the NES game. The focus here is the generative nature of the game, and the process by which the levels are created.

So this is basically filed under “something I had no idea I wanted to do, until I realized I had the opportunity to do it”.

2 Responses to “Turn 8-Bit NES music into Rock Band tracks”

  1. Retro Rob says:

    Wow. This looks promising.

  2. Colin says:

    This is pretty interesting, now I want to try it.

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