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Music: HappyNES by Shane Ivers – https://silvermansound.com
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HappyNES is the real thing. Rather than approximating the sound of classic 8-bit Nintendo music with modern software, this track was made using actual samples of the Ricoh 2A03 - the sound chip found inside the original NES console. The difference is immediately apparent to anyone who spent formative years with a Nintendo controller in hand: the bleeps and bloops have an authentic character that emulation rarely captures fully, and the overall sound has that specific warm-but-digital quality that made those early game soundtracks so memorable. It's happy, bright, and energetic in the way that the best NES game music was - simultaneously simple and completely absorbing. And it loops, which is rather the point.