The program played a leading role in the Game Boy chip music trend that came to attract a lot of industry in media. The now non-existent Swedish duo Puss is odd of the better-known chip music projects, and was nominated 2003 for a Grammis prize in "Årets klubb/dans". The same year, Goto80 probably played as the first chip musician live at Hultsfredsfestivalen. In 2005, Paza produced an Atari canticle for Beck. The Stockholm club Microdisko of the Voice Cards old school since 2004 arranged gigs with the biggest chip modern artists worldwide.

• The technique of chiptunes with samples synthesized at runtime continued to be popular even on machines with full sample playback capability; because the description of an thingamabob takes much less space than a raw sample, these formats be developed plain baby files, and because the parameters of synthesis could be varied over the development of a composition, they could contain deeper musical expression than a purely sample-based format

• Also, even with purely sample-based formats, such as the MOD format, chip poetry created by looping exact little samples still could take up much less space.