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i'm looking for retro/8-bit sounds to make an old retro/8-bit themed song
any help would be appreciated

There is a ton of stuff out there. If you got a keyboard/synthesizer I would look to get some vst plugins that you can run on something like vsthost(which is free).

Music made with 8bit stuff is generally called chip tunes. You can do a search for atari, gameboy, c64/commodore64, and nes, or chip tunes on Freesound for waves.

Here's some plugins:

http://www.ymck.net/english/download/index.html

http://www.delamancha.co.uk/basic.htm

http://www.tweakbench.com/ (stuff like peach, triforce and toad)

Just a note: I'm not really sure of the "legality" of all these sounds. Some of them really sound like the ones in actual games. It's possible some aren't "legal". Then again I've never heard of chip tunes people running into legal trouble.

thanks alot for the reply i'll look into

There's a super-simple tool for retro sound generation: http://www.cyd.liu.se/~tompe573/hp/project_sfxr.html