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Wow! It's been a long time since my last video of my Bleeper Music Maker program playing music. This time I DIDN'T make the music - it's just playing a MIDI which someone else has made and released here:
http://easypianoscore.mad.buttobi.net/sheetList.php

This is the theme for when you're fighting Satori (stage 4's boss) in the 11th Touhou game (Subterranean Animism). I've increased the tempo, though, to try to make it sound more lively (my program plays 1-bit music, which is as basic as a waveform can get, and so long notes can sound very boring/tedious/headache-inducing).

My Bleeper Music Maker program is freeware, and you can grab the latest version of it and see more info on it here:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/blog/?page_id=84#bmm

Also, I think I'll be using this LED display in a lot of videos... if I can find a way to make it look less unstable/juddery on the camcorder. =/

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The Japanese characters were just on a bitmap which I drew. However, I am trying to make a program which lets you type Japanese text, and automatically 'draws' a bitmap, sending it to the display. It's quite hard to fit complex kanji onto a display only 7 pixels high. -_- Hiragana and katakana are much easier, though. You can see I could fit 2 lines at one point.1