Chip Level Designs

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Chip Level Designs
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Born Unknown
Birth Place Unknown
Nationality American   USA.svg
Aliases Equilibrium
Basement Boys Software

Chip Level Designs designed sound drivers for the Super Nintendo. They also developed the MusiCart. The company's clients who used the driver are Equilibrium and Park Place Productions.

Chip Level Designs may be the alias of one person, but it is unknown. In Kawasaki Caribbean Challenge, it credits Mike J. Henry and Lawrence Hiler for creating the sound driver and lists Chip Level Designs as the music player, so it is possible that Chip Level Designs is just those two people. The name may also refer to Chip Burwell, who also used the sound driver.

Members

Music Development

SNES

For their earlier games, Chip Level Designs simply used a variant of the Kankichi-kun driver. Most games that use the driver are copyrighted to Basement Boys Software, a company that Henry worked at. Michelle Simon would use a modified version of this driver, which Tommy Tallarico also used.

Gameography

Note: Chip Level Designs is credited for providing the sound driver on a number of games, but most of their credits use David O'Riva's SLICK/Audio sound driver from Bitmasters, which the company licensed for their MusiCart software. As such, titles which are confirmed to use CLD's sound driver are credited on this page.

Released Title Sample Notes
1992-11-?? Road Riot 4WD (SNES) Sound Driver
1992-12-?? Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball (SNES) Music and SFX Code
1993-01-?? The Hunt for Red October (SNES)
Sound Driver
1993-04-?? Tom and Jerry (SNES) Sound Driver
1993-05-?? Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of Furred Kind (SNES) Music Driver
1993-06-?? Kawasaki Caribbean Challenge (SNES) Music Player
1993-07-?? NFL Football (SNES) Sound Driver
1993-07-16 Super Slam Dunk (SNES) Sound Driver
1993-08-?? Super Slap Shot (SNES) Sound Driver
1993-09-?? Cool Spot (SNES) Sound Driver
1993-09-?? Super Off Road: The Baja (SNES) Sound Driver
1993-10-?? Super Caesars Palace (SNES)
Sound Driver
1993-10-?? Capcom's MVP Football (SNES) Sound Driver
1993-12-?? Beethoven: The Ultimate Canine Caper (SNES) Sound Driver
1994-02-?? Mickey's Ultimate Challenge (SNES) Music Player
1994-03-?? Young Merlin (SNES) Music Player
1994-03-25 Champions World Class Soccer (SNES) Music Player
1994-04-?? Bebe's Kids (SNES) Sound Driver
1994-05-?? ESPN Baseball Tonight (SNES) Music Player
1994-07-10 Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (SNES) Sound/Music Player
1994-08-?? Fun 'N' Games (SNES) Sound Driver
1994-08-?? Troy Aikman NFL Football (SNES) Sound Driver
1994-08-?? The Death and Return of Superman (SNES) Sound Driver
1994-11-?? Jammit (SNES) Audio Driver
1995-11-?? Urban Strike (SNES) Sound Driver
Unreleased Baby's Day Out (SNES) Music Player?

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