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Circus Charlie

1986 · Konami · NES · music by Shinya Sakamoto

  1. Out now▶ Play

    All five tunes as notes falling onto a keyboard per voice — mute one, slow it down.

    Circus Charlie as piano rolls
  2. Out now▶ Read

    The same five tunes as scores, read bar by bar — every note out of the cartridge.

    The score of Jumping Through the Wheel of Fire / Get on the BendThe score of Ropewalking / Jump on the JewelThe score of Aerial Bar (Sobre las Olas)The score of ApplauseThe score of Miss
  3. Out now▶ Open

    All five stages drawn whole from the cartridge, with a tool-assisted speedrun playing over the map — the game's own frame, its music and sound.

Charlie the clown, a lion, a tightrope and a trapeze — and five short tunes, the waltz "Sobre las Olas" among them.

Nothing here was transcribed by ear: every note was read out of the cartridge and is played by an emulated NES sound chip — two pulse waves, a triangle and the noise channel, each on a keyboard of its own.

The music and the game belong to their composers and publishers; this site only shows how the cartridge plays it, for learning.

Circus Charlie — the whole soundtrack as a piano-roll videoWatch the videoNES Piano Roll on YouTube ↗Circus Charlie — the whole soundtrack as a sheet-music videoWatch the videoNES Sheet Music on YouTube ↗