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Back in 2016 a United States based music composer and performer Sergio Elisondo released an one-man
band music album titled A
Winner Is You ( know your meme), with
multi-instrumental cover versions of tunes from numerous memorable classic NES
games. A special feature of this release has been its version released in the NES cartridge format
that would run on a
classic unmodified console and play digitized audio of the full album; instead of the typical
chiptune sounds you would
expect from this humble console. Shiru was involved with the software development part of this
project.
This year Sergio makes a return with a brand new album release. This time, it is an all
original music
album titled "You Are Error", which is
heavily influenced by video game music aesthetics. It also comes with a very special feature. This
time, we have raised
the stakes, and this new NES cartridge release includes not only digitized audio, but full motion
videos for each song,
done in a silhouette cutout style similar to the famous Bad Apple video (Hatsune Miku). Yet again,
this project
is successfully crowdfunded via
Kickstarter... (Continue
the article here)
You can still reserve a copy of this cartridge
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Release date is
ETA'd for
July of 2024
Meet the Team:
Sergio Elisondo - Composer, musician, and visuals artist
Shiru - Main programmer and a seasoned veteran of NES programming
RetroUSB - Designer of the custom 64MB board and supplier of the hardware
Klaud San - Art
Buy NES Video Cart
"You Are Error" by Sergio Elisondo
NES COMPLETE IN BOX
(CIB)
DOMESTIC ONLY (USA)
$49.00 (Plus $8 Shipping)
**ETA July 2024**
"You Are Error" by Sergio Elisondo
NES COMPLETE IN BOX
(CIB)
INTERNATIONAL ONLY (Anywhere in the world - USA excluded)
$49.00 (Plus $20 Shipping)
**ETA July 2024**
"You Are Error" by Sergio Elisondo
ALBUM ONLY - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD (NO NES VIDEO CART)
$10.00
**ETA May 2024**
"Storming a Castle… In Red Stilettos"
(Sample Track)
"Pendulum Swings"
(Sample Track)
Sergio Elisondo
Composer, musician, and visuals artist
Born and raised in San Jose CA, he began playing
video games at an age
too young to remember and music by the age of 12. He has always wanted to put the two together and
now he has.
He is known for his work in "Sergio and the Holograms", which is a
tech-progressive live performance production involving life-sized hologram projections, elborate
youtube video
game music covers, and composing for indie video games / publishing them.
He is both a self-taught punk-rocker and a formally trained classical musician. He is also a massive
retro
video game enthusiast. He
received his BA in
Music and MA in Education from San Jose State University. He is currently a full-time Software
Engineer, college
instructor, and video game developer/publisher.
Shiru
Main programmer and a seasoned veteran of NES programming
Nickname(s): Shiru, sometimes shiru8bit. In the past Shiru Otaku, DJ Uranus (as composer)
Location: Russia, Moscow
As coder: Started in 1994. C/C++, Assembler, J2ME, Java, JavaScript, Lua, AS3, PHP, AngelScript,
Python, Haxe. 8080,
Z80, x86, ARM, AVR, MCS51, 6502, 65816, 68000, SPC700. Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Arduino,
ColecoVision, Commodore 64,
Commodore VIC-20, Commodore PET, ESP12, Game Boy, IBM PC (DOS/Windows), MSX, NES, Palm, PocketPC,
PowerTV, Radio 86RK
and compatibles, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive/Genesis, N64, SNES, Symbian, TI-8x, ZX Spectrum.
Worked as a
sound/tools/games programmer for several years.
As composer: Started in 1997. Any trackers, MIDI sequencers, DAWs, and other stuff. Both chip and
sampled music. I also
made music and sound effects for few commercial games. My favorite sound chip is 2A03. I prefer XM
and
FT2/Skale/MilkyTracker out of sample-based formats and trackers, and Psycle out of modern
trackers.
As artist: Not an artist in general, I have basic skills of hand drawing, pixel art, digital
painting, low and hi-poly
3D modelling.
Interests: Computers and game consoles. Anything related to video games. Programming for low spec
systems and embedded
devices. Music as a whole. Electric guitars and gear. Punk rock. Amateur electronics. Industrial
history. Space. Nuclear
power and weapons. Anime. Movies. Movie and animation making. VFX. Happiness for one and all.
RetroUSB
Designer of the custom 64MB board and supplier of the hardware
When retroUSB started it was with spare parts in a guest bedroom retrofitting NES controllers. Then
came the first USB
adapters, a huge step to take a product to full manufacturing. Now chinese copies are everywhere. We
mastered
controllers but were still hungry for more.
We brought you the first NES homebrews using all brand new parts. This continuing effort expands the
future of NES
gaming, and fulfills the childhood dreams of many programmers. Next we went high tech with the
PowerPak, a
groundbreaking flash cart. We mastered cartridges and realized we could do more....
Klaud San
Art by #klaudsan
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