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i kind of like this guy's terranigma remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNEKdDIvDzY
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Dec 9, 2020 18:48
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Does anybody know which synthesizer/keyboard that Earthbound sampled?
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Jan 5, 2021 06:16
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Sir Winston posted:Super lurker here to say SOR3 is still my fave soundtrack of the trilogy and no one will persuade me otherwise, but I was into Aphex Twin at 15 and this was probably responsible for it. I travelled from Manchester to London to see that Yuzo Koshiro live gig it was exceptional. It's been a while, but I also want to reiterate that this is an excellent post and you are correct on every point (I didn't even listen to Aphex Twin, but I still think SOR3 is the superior soundtrack and the creation of it is absolutely amazing - they really went all in on the theme of 'replacing humans with machines' in both tone, sound, and how they created some of the tracks). Someone's probably already mentioned it, but you also can't say "awesome Genesis OSTs" without including "Thunder Force 4/Lightening Force" in the same sentence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLDBwMusg4o Phantasy Star III is not a good game, but I do love the opening theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FmGy6nyduk Probably also already mentioned especially considering that I've seen people mention Fantasy Zone remixes, but the Space Harrier theme is another great tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Tam9lv1KQ), as is Magical Sound Shower from Outrun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzsqx5uXmpA). In terms of more recent games, one of my favorites songs from the PS2 era is Beyond The Bounds from ZOE2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niruwh4UwS8 The Guilty Gear series is known for its soundtrack and glorious number of metal references, but Holy Orders (Be Just or Be Dead) from Guilty Gear XX is one of my picks from that soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa0NDydh8B4 Going back to the Genesis, I also enjoy Langrisser II's soundtrack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rmEPAp2730), as well as Gleylancer's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y9lvbLltZ0). Both are Masaya games, so probably no coincidence.
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Jan 5, 2021 17:39
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im not a fan of songs where they add lyrics to videogame music
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Jan 9, 2021 13:39
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Shibawanko posted:im not a fan of songs where they add lyrics to videogame music I felt the same way when i got a higher quality version of the Command & Conquer 95 soundtrack a while back. I didn't like it at first because it just wasn't the ones in the games, but I have to say the lyrics grow on you Frank Klepacki's Remaster that released in 2020 offers the highest possible quality at this time AND the option of the game version with no lyrics, and the CD version.
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Jan 9, 2021 17:27
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Just about everything Telenet either developed or ported for the Genesis/Megadrive kicked rear end in the music department. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PsAx-KGLk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaIlogK4y_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuXw27m5xW0
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Jan 10, 2021 04:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8efRFhEcuQ okay this is my new favorite game song, by hideki naganuma who did the soundtrack for jet set radio also lol this is for a card trading game
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Jan 20, 2021 10:21
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Shibawanko posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8efRFhEcuQ holy poo poo
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Jan 20, 2021 17:17
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Synthetic Hermit (Nov. 2019) posted:I've made a playlist of my top 50 Dance Dance Revolution tunes Synthetic Hermit (Apr. 2020) posted:Now up to 66. Just hit 90, and will probably cap it there.  
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Mar 21, 2021 00:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vykaLmOAKow This one is sorta cheating, seeing as it's a conversion of a song from elsewhere, but really this game was far better in every arena than I ever expected it to be.
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Mar 24, 2021 07:19
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AngryRobotsInc posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vykaLmOAKow *points to title of thread* Covers aren’t cheating
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Mar 24, 2021 09:09
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AngryRobotsInc posted:This one is sorta cheating, seeing as it's a conversion of a song from elsewhere, but really this game was far better in every arena than I ever expected it to be. I mean its original music was real good too so there's no problem there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D61WyANq7MA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhZBPNQ_kM
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Mar 24, 2021 10:03
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What if Sonic CD's time travel gimmick had stuck? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Fl2ruYEKA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNJYRID_X8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY-lBSF0AdA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8NSpW3LwjU
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Mar 24, 2021 12:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-uWmgOm9g god this menu music is/was so loving good. so many hours spent at college smoking weed in between rounds with this playing in the background lol
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Mar 30, 2021 17:13
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I saw Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition, and Save the Homeland were on sale for like $4 a pop on PSN and couldn't help myself. My debit card pretty much just flew out of my wallet by itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK-UXCH_Ut0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJluWjYhK4
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Mar 30, 2021 18:08
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Kevin Manthei time! A lesser known game composer, his style is more ambient which has made him one of my favorite background/work/cleaning composers. Sacrifice was the first game I ever bought, so I'm a litte biased, but the music really fits the game's weird atmosphere. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLviYFbvSbcNNR12rzKIUB_9HTS1_-ynOG I still haven't completed Wizardry 8, I may have as much hours into listening to to the soundtrack while working as playing the actual game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIREmqej5MM kirbysuperstar posted:I mean its original music was real good too so there's no problem there. The whole soundtrack is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufeKC1Nc2VE Many of the tracks were used as MIDI renditions in the Doom wad Valiant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdTNLEyzqyg
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Apr 4, 2021 09:44
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Just thinking about the Konami "Bubble Memory" system and it's accompanying Warm Up tune. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory from wiki The Bubble System is an arcade system board designed by Konami and used across many arcade games across 1985. The Bubble System introduced a unique new form of data storage for arcade-style video games. It used bubble memory cartridges, a sort of non-mechanical magnetic storage system. It was said to have a higher reliability than mechanical floppy disks or tape drives. Bubble Software can be identified by its booting sequence; it displays "WARMING UP NOW - PRESENTED BY KONAMI" on screen, accompanied with a countdown timer and a small musical tune (called the "Morning Music"). The reason this was implemented was because bubble memory must be heated to around 30–40 °C (86–104 °F) for it to work properly. ..... so when the arcade cabinet (say. original Gradius) booted it displayed a 100 second countdown timer you'd see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEueYGq2mT4 and since this is a nostalgic little tune, even in the late 80's remixes would appear in things like x68000 systems equipped with top shelf dedicated midi hardware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeeuTyeyoyk and some people have made remixes  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wpxadjW9A
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Apr 4, 2021 21:27
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Coffee Jones posted:Just thinking about the Konami "Bubble Memory" system and it's accompanying Warm Up tune. Something I've never heard of, turns out it's almost exactly what it sounds like. Data stored in the
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Apr 15, 2021 11:02
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Feel the urge to surface this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i14sfEUGSbo Good Tim Follin covers are a rarity, this is one of the best I've heard.
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Aug 22, 2021 04:38
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So I forgot how much THIS owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTbxmLCj1H0 Dell_Zincht fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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Aug 31, 2021 08:57
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrOAEr6dXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oY6TvKdlWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZeGC7e9M_w
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Sep 15, 2021 18:45
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I went to the trouble of getting my computer to emulate the play of video game music, so I'm raiding Zophar's Domain for the raw stuff (96KB for 3 hours of music? ok). The SNES had a real warm sound to my ears, though I only played it sporadically at a friend's house. I mostly remember the Sim City soundtrack. I'll take any relaxing warm chip music you got, even from the JRPGs I instinctively avoided back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cOvQT9l6CE
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Dec 9, 2021 21:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mKXJqWHy9o Since there doesn't seem to be a music thread in the main Games forum, and because Zelda is old as poo poo, I've been listening to the 25th Anniversary album again and wondering what the hell Nintendo is smoking that they don't release this stuff on spotify. The music is phenomenal and yet Nintendo gives no fucks about preservation. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Dec 29, 2021 02:55
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Arc Hammer posted:Since there doesn't seem to be a music thread in the main Games forum, and because Zelda is old as poo poo, I've been listening to the 25th Anniversary album again and wondering what the hell Nintendo is smoking that they don't release this stuff on spotify. The music is phenomenal and yet Nintendo gives no fucks about preservation. We've also got a thread just for Zelda music.
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Dec 29, 2021 03:16
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Dick Tracy NES is not a great game but I've always really liked the 'building' theme when you're closing in on a breakthrough in one of your cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHgaWoJBbe8 I've also always liked the main music for Chew Man Fu for the TG 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Ax5GrWJPE
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Jan 13, 2022 03:41
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enjoy old japanese computer jams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_oKELzWiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC9SwfBdmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwMQPN5vwAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMcCnqqdFEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb6ZaeEQZD8 and a cool genesis track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4CPCC_KHM
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Jan 30, 2022 06:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVfZd7dWpQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mg46Kzols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HOLF8Nwfo
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Dick Tracy NES is not a great game but I've always really liked the 'building' theme when you're closing in on a breakthrough in one of your cases: A few bad/awkward games can wind up having some pretty good bits of music, and NES Dick Tracy is no exception. That's some loving good 8-bit jazz going on there.
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Feb 25, 2022 17:14
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AngryRobotsInc posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVfZd7dWpQ Finding out the composer for the game was the singer from Godiego was both wild but also explains why the game is so funky. They did a bunch of music for the live-action Saiyuki/Monkey, and I believe another band member did some game composing as well? I'd drop sources but I'm one handing this at the hospital at the moment.
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Feb 27, 2022 23:00
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Another "bad" game (it's one of my childhood favorites) with a great soundtrack is M.C Kids. I love the Gopher Grove theme, which I call the "underworld theme": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=?wIkJgUQisPg (Hope this takes. My link is acting weird tonight.) F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Mar 3, 2022 |
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Mar 3, 2022 03:30
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Hope it is kosher to post my retro VGM remixes in here: Final Fantasy 6 - Boss Theme (CHUMP CHANGE Breakbeat Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_VUBiV_HBA Aaliyah & Harvest Moon 64 "Try Again vs Summer Theme" (CHUMP CHANGE Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6063AzoBBI got a few more in the pipeline, please sub to the youtube if you enjoy
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Mar 6, 2022 09:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGpGyze-6V8
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Mar 14, 2022 10:10
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One of the best pieces of Game Boy music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xbWvXkI6ZQ I used to let the timer run down to almost nothing in world 4-2 just to keep the music going.
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I went on a Zophar binge recently, and just downloaded every Game Boy game I own. Haven't played them in decades, doesn't matter. Some I bought as an adult in the early 00's, basically just to have, or maybe make up for a game-starved childhood. Hearing old chiptunes is like time travel. Altered Space was one of those titles I ebayed, and it was so stupidly difficult and un-fun that I never made it past the first sprawling, confusing level. Intriguing music, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt12HoMqbHc
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Apr 13, 2022 18:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ZriJ8FTp8
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:One of the best pieces of Game Boy music: I played this game so much as a kid that my emotional association to the Oriental Riff is now "it's go time, poo poo's about to get real" instead of "welp, looks like this film is about to get incredibly racist".
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Hello, dead thread in a dead forum. I am here to talk to you about Falcom's Sorcerian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5SAarSC-DQ This soundtrack features many compositions from Yuzo Koshiro. It also features the criminally under-discussed Mieko Ishikawa, the founder of the legendary Falcom Sound Team jdk, which she still manages to this day, I believe. The soundtrack was an absurd undertaking for a game released in spring of 1987, as Falcom decided to not reuse any music for any level or boss in the game. The end result is over sixty tracks, totalling over two hours of music composed by five different composers. I don't have any definitive proof of this, but I would not be surprised if this were the most ambitious (and expensive) video game soundtrack ever made at the time. There were releases for Sorcerian on numerous platforms, including an MS-DOS port with a custom MT-32 arrangement by Rob Atesalp and Ken Allen (it's uh, not great), but Falcom's ambition is most evident in the Sharp X1 Turbo version I embedded above, arranged by Mieko Ishikawa. It utilized both the YM2151 and YM2149 sound chips. The glut of sound channels available gives the soundtrack a great deal of depth that home consoles and other pasokons weren't matching at the time. There are at times up to five simulated instruments audible, layered on top of each other. This wasn't really something that was happening elsewhere in 1987 to my knowledge (though if you have other early examples of this, I would love to listen to them) With two hours of music from five different composers, not all of the tracks are going to be hits. But there are surprisingly few real duds here, too. I don't have a song-by-song list of who composed what unfortunately, but if you hear a track that absolutely loving rips, it's probably from Yuzo Koshiro. This soundtrack was made around two years into his career. He joined the video game industry after hearing and being blown away by the Gradius soundtrack, but Koshiro also loved rock music at the time, and he would later say that Castlevania had a strong influence on his early sound. This is most obvious in the stage 1 theme of Actraiser, but you can hear some clear CV influences in a few tracks here as well. The Vanished King of Wands - Dungeon theme (9:05 in the video above) is peak Falcom, the quintessential sound that Koshiro and Ishikawa pioneered for them. I remember nearly 20 years ago playing the newly released fan translations for Ys I & II Complete (a late 90s remake, original versions scored by this duo) and simultaneously laughing my rear end off and jamming the gently caress out to the music coming out of my speakers. Electric guitars wailed as I charged sword-first into monsters and watched them explode into bloody gibs. And in Sorcerian, you are headbanging to some early Koshiro jams as your party of rogues and wizards get torn apart by some random loving birds. It turns out that the game itself is not very good, but the music loving rules. God bless Yuzo Koshiro and Mieko Ishikawa. edit: I've been on a Japanese PC/"pasokon" kick recently, and I could post a whole lot more music from that era. I love classic chiptunes, and all the yamaha FM synth chips everyone used are just so sexy sounding. Lots of amazing music was made for the SNES, but quality of the compositions aside, I will forever prefer the sound of FM synth to sample-based ADPCM audio. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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Aug 29, 2022 22:31
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I've somehow avoided hearing any of Socerian's music and this looks like a good place to fix that. Thanks for sharing this version of the soundtrack. The Falcom OST I've been listening to most recently is PC-88 Popful Mail. Great mix of charming whimsical tracks and high tempo action tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV0sAjPfFf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XabwYSu2UkY Also there's never a wrong time to post this Falcom Revival Xanadu track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eXWPzGGQEs Not a Falcom game but King Breeder has completely insane music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6NwEOX-XN8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRskA_tNr2A
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Popful Mail and Xanadu's soundtracks are great, yeah. I don't think I ever actually listened to the Revival version of Xanadu, though. I'm adding that to the list. Seems like a solid OPNA arrangement. And I can't mention the YM2608/OPNA without bringing up Grounseed, composed by Ryu Takami, with some contributions by Ryu Umemoto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_54ZM-QK8 This is a late-stage PC98 game, released in 1996. The very '90s use of samples and the mix of hip-hop/pop influences with some old-fashioned PC98 chiptunes are wild to hear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waLn5ApeGZ4 And then, of course, Umemoto's parts absolutely whip rear end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCLXDFcGgrQ By the time you get through the whole thing, you won't even care that it comes from an abysmal porn RPG. That's just the charm of the PC88/PC98. Also, I really enjoy these oscilloscope views of FM synth. I love seeing the raw waveforms that make the music. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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