I was curious about making retro gaming sounds using Sonic Pi. A couple of months and a lot of Googling later, here's the original Mario Bros theme as it was heard on the NES console.
I'm (just about) old enough to remember rushing home from school to play this game at Philip Boucher's house, sitting cross-legged in front of the TV till my feet got pins and needles. Working out how to recreate it for Sonic Pi was a lot of fun!
Output on 14.03.2017
$ python pywaw.py
Collecting beautifulsoup4
Using cached beautifulsoup4-4.5.3-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting requests
Using cached requests-2.13.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4, requests
Successfully installed beautifulsoup4-4.5.3 requests-2.13.0
| # make peach the president | |
| # | |
| # drumloop based on | |
| # http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2013/my-collection-of-transcribed-rhythm-patterns/ | |
| use_bpm 95 | |
| drumloop = { | |
| :drum_bass_hard => [0,7,8,14], | |
| :drum_snare_hard => [4,12], |