Hi everyone,

I am in the middle of creating an old school top down RPG (pokemon/final fantasy style), and am nearing the stage where I need to focus on sound. So far I have been unable to find a program that will easily create the sort of music I want. If you've ever heard anything from pokemon or the old zelda games, that's the sort of thing I want to create. Can anyone recommend anything?

Thanks

If you are concerned with chiptunes, I recommend trackers (a bit hard at the first glance, but the work pays off), for example ModPlug Tracker, MilkyTracker and stricly for NES chiptunes - FamiTracker (Jake Kaufman aka virt uses it).

If you are a bit crazy and want to create C64 tunes (SID), look at GoatTracker.

If you mean glitch as a glitch/noise, well, then you have to tell more about details.

I wrote and produced the following with NESTri, NESPulse and NESNoise:

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You can find those VST plugins and plenty more here: http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-plugins.php?s=NESTri+-+NESPulse+-+NESNoise
When you say "Pokémon" the GameBoy comes to mind, so it's certainly that NES\Famicom synth type of sound. But the original hardware has a very limited amount of simultaneous channels (4 channels maximum or something like that).
Modern "chiptune" or "lo-fi" music pieces use these chiptune sounds without the shortcomings, so you can pair them with modern effects such as reverb, compression, delay and sampled instruments.
Example:

(track by Carlo Castellano).

You may also find interesting the effects of "bit-crushing," using a plugin to deliberately add resampling noise to your sounds to get a "lo-fi" character:
http://www.gamedev.net/topic/628838-how-to-get-lo-fi-tones-and-sounds/