Hello to all of you on this post, ladies and gents, and since my Wide-Dot Pixel Game Jam 2017 clearly requires that you create all of your original sounds and musics in entirety in the style of 8-bit/chiptune/FM-synthesis form in the format we are looking for on a 2x1 pixel-aspect format, here are some valuable resources to really help you get well-started on your way towards truly becoming a magnificent 8-bit maestro for your new game project!!  ^^

For your 8-bit/chiptune/FM-synthesis music creation buzz, here are the following tools that are available for free download to get you revving:

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• DefleMask by Leonardo (Delek) Demartino (http://deflemask.com/)
  

• Klystrack by kometbomb (https://kometbomb.github.io/klystrack/)
  

• Bosca Ceoil by Terry Cavanagh (http://boscaceoil.net/)
  

• PXTone by Pixel (http://www.cavestory.org/pixels-works/pxtone-collage.php)
  

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...and to top things off quite so nicely by adding some rather damn good 8-bit/chiptune sound effects of your own to brilliantly match, try these next free tools right here:

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• LabChirp by Labbed (http://labbed.net/software/labchirp/)
  

• Bfxr by increpare (https://www.bfxr.net/)
  

• sfxr by DrPetter (http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html)
  

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Okay.  Now that you got your hands on them, you are wondering how you’re gonna use them efficiently to create your own quality music and sounds at the absolute fullest once you load them up?  Well, fear not, because there are quite some excellent video tutorials to help you tremendously on this here, starting with these that I HUGELY recommend you want to pay real close attention to:

That way, you will end up taking a significant step ever-closer towards successfully making your amazing-quality game for the Wide-Dot Pixel Game Jam 2017, and perhaps much, much more!!

Hope this all helps, and I thank you all so splendidly much for your awesome time and wonderful attention indeed!!!  ^-^=b !!

If you're familiar with MIDI but not necessarily chiptune trackers, GXSCC is a really nice tool for Windows. It'll take an input MIDI file and output it as a WAV that sounds more akin to a retro game.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/8700/P/GXSCCB236/indexE.htm

Famitracker is another good chiptune making program, http://famitracker.com/, looks strikingly similar to DefleMask.