Careful posting this sort of thing. You might accidentally summon the Crazy Frog, and then we'll all be sorry.
I found a better quality image of this photo but I still don't have any idea what the hell is going on
Real nerds learned how to create SP-MIDIs and structured them to degrade gracefully no matter how limited your phone's synth chip was.
In some ways though that was kind of part of the fun. You had to really want the song to be willing to do that lol
I remember programming the songs by pressing the buttons in the right order from some website.
y'all remember the "ring back" tones? i don't think they ever really took off since they are a ring tone that people hear when they call you instead, which is... just... totally idiotic... but i did encounter it a few times in the wild.
It's INSANELY popular in Iran and pushed hard by the service providers