Searching for the Broken-down Chiptune Player of My Dreams

This is a story from the old days before we had YouTube or the bandwidth to stream audio. Back then, if you wanted to listen to music from a video game, maybe you could track down an official soundtrack CD&mdash;or, if you were a mega nerd like me, you&rsquo;d download ripped chiptunes and their special players. These files are basically cut-down versions of the original game data, containing the…