Hearing "Gate of Steiner" reduced to raw chiptune square waves is genuinely emotional in a way that shouldn't be legal. This Sharbo Z1 Turbo arrangement by ChaMa takes Takeshi Abo's Steins;Gate score and crushes it down to 8-bit, originally bundled as a preorder bonus for the Variant Space Octet spin-off.
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"Solitude" loses none of its weight in chip form, if anything the stripped-back channels make the melody hit lonelier. "Operation SKULD" becomes this urgent little pulse that sounds like it's fighting its own hardware limitations.
Eighteen tracks total, every one a translation rather than a downgrade. If you've ever wondered what Steins;Gate would have sounded like on a late-'80s Japanese PC, here's your answer.