Byte Size Sound

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Byte Size Sound
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Born
Birth Place USA
Nationality American   USA.svg
Aliases Byte Sized Sound
Website bytesizesound.com

Byte Size Sound is a group of composers founded by Matt Scott that produces music for games. The members of the group are:

Audio Development

Game.com

Byte Size's MIDI files were converted to sound driver by a programmer from Tiger Electronics.

Game Boy / Game Boy Color

Byte Size's MIDI files were converted to the GB/GBC using Stuart E. Ross' sound driver from Absolute Entertainment. Also, their games reuses Mark Van Hecke's sounds from The Ren & Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Adventures, Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.

On NBA Life 2000 and Triple Play 2001, composers used Tiertex's sound driver by Donald Campbell. Programmers of Handheld Games possibly did reverse engineering of NBA Live 96, due the NBA Live 2000 uses assets from same game.

On rest of their works, they used MusyX, a sound tool by Factor 5.

Game Boy Advance

For games developed by Handheld Games and Cinegroupe, they used MusyX, a sound tool by Factor 5.

SNES

For Urban Strike and Bubsy in the Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, they wrote the music in assembly, listening to sheet music by ear, using Chip Level Designs' version of Nintendo's Kankichi-kun sound driver.

For Total Carnage, they used BMus by Sculptured Software.

For College Football USA '97: The Road to New Orleans and Mohawk and Headphone Jack, they used SLICK/Audio by Bitmasters.

For the rest of his work, including Lester the Unlikely, NHL '97, NHL '98 and Phantom 2040, they used Visual Concepts' sound driver.

Genesis

Composers used the famous GEMS.

Game Gear

Matt Scott typed music to upgraded sound driver by Paul Hutchinson via assembly.

Beavis and Butt-Head seems to use unique sound driver.

Pinball

At Alvin G. & Co, Kyle Johnson converted his MIDI files to Brian Schmidt's BSMT2000 sound chip.

Gameography

Byte Size Sound's involvement with the following games have been verified via their website. This gameography also lists all the games that credit Byte Size Sound.

Released Title Sample Notes
1993-11-?? Pistol Poker (PBL)
1993-??-?? Dracula Unleashed (DOS)
1993-??-?? Dracula Unleashed (MAC)
1993-??-?? Dracula Unleashed (SCD)
1994-01-?? Lester the Unlikely (SNES) (おでかけレスターれれれのれ)
1994-10-?? Beavis and Butt-Head (GG)
1994-??-?? Bonkers: Wax Up! (SMS)
1995-??-?? Bonkers: Wax Up! (GG)
1995-??-?? Urban Strike (SNES) Arranged Don Veca's music
1996-11-?? Casper (GB) Composer?
1996-??-?? Arcade Classics (GG)
1996-??-?? NHL '97 (SNES)
1997-??-?? NHL '98 (SNES) Reuses music from NHL '97 (SNES).
1998-??-?? Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (GB)
1999-??-?? Centipede (GCOM)
1999-03-?? Sesame Street: Elmo's 123s (GBC)
1999-03-?? Sesame Street: Elmo's ABCs (GBC)
1999-09-30 Frogger (GCOM)
1999-10-?? Sesame Street: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (GBC)
2000-05-08 Triple Play 2001 (GBC)
2000-09-07 San Fransisco Rush 2049 (GBC)
2001-11-15 Sesame Street Sports (GBC)
2000-12-08 MTV Sports: T.J. Lavin's Ultimate BMX (GBC)
2001-03-25 Tech Deck Skateboarding (GBC)
2001-09-?? Portal Runner (GBC)
2001-09-17 Arctic Thunder (PS2)
2001-11-15 Arctic Thunder (XBOX)
2001-11-15 Dragon Tales: Dragon Adventures (GBC)
2001-11-15 Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion (GBA)
2002-05-27 Little League Baseball 2002 (GBA)
2002-06-13 Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction (PS2)
2002-12-13 Dora the Explorer: The Search for Pirate Pig's Treasure (GBA)
2003-03-18 MLB Slugfest 20-04 (GBA)
2003-10-26 Super Duper Sumos (GBA)
2003-11-17 Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham (GBA)
2004-??-?? Dragon Tales: Dragon Adventures (GBA)
2004-10-25 Dora the Explorer: Super Spies (GBA)
2007-10-09 The Cheetah Girls: Pop Star Sensation (NDS)
2008-08-13 The Cheetah Girls: Passport to Stardom (NDS)
2009-05-06 Imagine: Music Fest (NDS)
Unreleased Barbie Super Model (GG)
Unreleased Eye of the Beholder (LYNX)
Unreleased NBA Live (GCOM)
Unreleased Mission Bravo (GBC)
Unreleased NBA Live 2000 (GBC)
Unreleased Portal Runner (GBA)
Unreleased The Super-Stoo-Pendus World of Dr. Seuss (GBA)

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