Recognizable tunes — the ones that actually ring a bell — rendered the way an NES would: two pulse squares, a triangle bass, and noise drums. Every track here is a public-domain composition (the composers all died well over a century ago); the chiptune arrangement and the synthesis are made fresh on this page, so no copyrighted recording is touched. Pick one — it loops like a title screen — and download any as a .wav.
select your screen
looping · ~12s wav
choose a title screen — all public domain
why these. the recognizable game tunes you're thinking of (Mario, Zelda, Mega Man…) are copyrighted — I won't reproduce them. So these are the recognizable melodies that are genuinely public domain: their composers died long ago (Pachelbel 1706, Mozart 1791, Beethoven 1827, Rossini 1868, Bizet & Grieg later that century; Greensleeves is older still), which puts the compositions in the public domain worldwide.
what's mine. the chiptune arrangement (which notes go to which channel, the duty cycles, the drums) and the synthesis are original and generated live — no sampled or copyrighted recording or published arrangement is used. melodies are transcribed by ear to the well-known themes.
the chip. two pulse channels (12.5 / 25 / 50% duty squares, built from the pulse Fourier series), a triangle bass, and a noise channel for drums — a faithful nod to the NES 2A03. nothing is downloaded to play; the .wav you save is rendered in your browser.
8-BIT TITLE SCREENS · public domain · 2026-06-26David Lee Wise · Bridge-Burners LLC · the Sapphic Melody ↗