Ending, Jon Talbain -- Vampire Savior / Darkstalkers 3 [HuC6280 in Furnace]

It's probably been about 10 years ago that I started falling in love, tech-wise, with the tiny & cute yet super-capable PC Engine. Tiny console, game cartridges basically card sized, capable of outputting wonderful pixel art and lovely sound -- **_AUGH, all so cute!_** 💖 The sound in particular -- it's more advanced than the NES, and yet, steadier and not nearly as abrasive as the sound could be from the Sega Genesis/MD. Several years earlier, say at the end of the 20-aughts and the start of the 2010s, I'd been playing around quite a bit with FamiTracker, getting a hang of things like duty-cycle switching and manually-input echoes -- and after really loving what I was hearing from the PC Engine, I was hoping for a chance to see what I could pull off with a tracker that enabled it. Sad thing is, there weren't really too many options available for Linux x86 -- and even less so for Linux ARM once I made the switch to using Raspberry Pi devices as my daily driver, starting with the Pi 4