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i used to load up Turrican 2 purely to listen to the music on the title screen

I used to do this with the first one on gameboy. Years later a friend's band recorded a song with almost exactly the same guitar solo, claiming it was unintentional. I love their version as much as I did Turrican's!

if anyone can find me the music from Alone in the Dark 2, in any format (including midi), i'll love them forever.

Amazing! I've got that game on CD somewhere, so maybe I can get the music out of it somehow. It was the panpipes that made AITD. (Strangely, tying in with my reply to Ste, I was in a band about four years ago named after that game.)

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

oh wow, if you can find it, please please please rip them or something for me! i wanted the bouncy pirate tunes for our last in-house game of Pirate Cove, but couldn't locate them. i'll be eternally indebted to you, and will happily let you whup me at CS:S*

*this part is a lie

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, I've just had a bit of a search and no luck, but don't give up hope because I see it around quite a lot and it's with my CD version of Monkey Island 1&2. Also, if I can't find it, perhaps I can torrent an ISO or something (I'm allowed to say this because I own it, right?)

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

for sure.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I wish We Love Katamari Damacy's soundtrack was as good as the original. There are some really weak songs and some that go on too long, whereas the original was basically flawless.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 22 September 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Only recently did i realise that all the music from Flashback radio no GTA3 is from the movie Scarface. "Yo yo yippee ya oh"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 23 September 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

WIPEOUT! On a prefect lap you feel you're cornering in time with the music. Pure adrenaline.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

biohazard sound chronicle downloadable

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 September 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, I spent like seventy quid on that! Oh well, at least the box is nice. Thanks for the link though - I've been after the original soundtrack, which isn't in the box set.

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 24 September 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/mp3z/NEXMIX.mp3

BY ALLEN RILEY

― ~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

I really honestly feel that if you switched the OSTs of KD and WLK people would just say the exact same thing about the music being not as good and sounding unremarkable.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 26 September 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I really honestly feel that if you switched the OSTs of KD and WLK people would just say the exact same thing about the music being not as good and sounding unremarkable.

I disagree. I have both albums in my itunes and I listen to the KD soundtrack a lot but I always wind up turning off the new one or skipping to what I consider to be the "good" songs — which are few and far between, imo.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

There are about 4 maybe 5 good songs on the first OST and about 4 maybe 5 good songs on the second OST. If it's up to me it comes down to whether I'm in the mood for one Kenji Niinuma song (Prince & Moon) or the other (DISCO PRINCE). "Kuru Kuru Rock" is pretty great, too.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 26 September 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Why do people think the music in the Final Fantasy games is so good?!?

― TOMBOT, Monday, 26 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Why do people think the music in the Final Fantasy games is so good?!?

I've only heard the music from FF X, but I liked it because it seemed very incidental and unassuming. It didn't get in the way and held up well after constant replay.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Did the FF guy do the music for Xenogears, too? I always like the "underground/dungeon/explorey" themes that japanese adventure/RPGs have...

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

can someone id the tune that comes in at 4 minutes on the dodongo's nexmix plz?

― rio natsume, Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

04:18 to be precise

― rio natsume, Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

allen to thread! Laura told me what it wwas I think.....

― ~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

"URGENT & KEY"

PEACHnesynth
TOADnesdrum
TRIFORCEnesynth

i'll post some of the tunes i've made on the YSI thread.

i can already see my dissertation floating down a green pixellated pipe.

― rio natsume, Friday, 30 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

TRIFORCEnesynth

― rio natsume, Friday, 30 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I use those synths! Perhaps I'll join you in the YSI.

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

plz do!

― rio natsume, Friday, 30 September 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

allen's nex mix is so great!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 October 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

seriously! is there any chance of a tracklisting dodongo?

― rio natsume, Saturday, 1 October 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

yeah! the bit with the mario 3 "I just beat the boss" music!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I know I'm typecasting myself here but, the SimCity 4 game music is really nice. They actually brought in a full orchestra to record some pieces. And some others are done by dudes called the Humble Brothers; their peices are great! "Metropolis" is really cool. I listen to the SC4 tunes when I'm working sometimes. Good background music.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 2 October 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Did the FF guy do the music for Xenogears, too?

It was Yasunori Mitsuda, who also did Chrono Trigger (with the Final Fantasy guy) and uh, Tsuganai: Atonement.

I fucked up the sound quality on the nintendo mix somehow when I finished it. It was edited together using Cool Edit 96 (registered to PhRoZeN cReW 97!!!!) and I somehow saved it wrang. It's gotta be cleaned up!

faxanadu
dr. mario
mario 3
wizards & warriors
maniac mansion
wagan land
double dragon
james bond jr.
deja vu
mother
castlevania
batman
kid icarus
dragon warrior
mario
magician
wagan land 2
marble madness
mega man 3
8 eyes
metroid
xexyz
zelda

― Allen E. Riley (allenriley), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

thanks allen!

nice job!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

SASKROTCH
Very Noize!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 October 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

when i play (s)nes games on my emulator i always turn off their sound and listen to mp3s. old game music is interesting as a nostalgia trip only.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

The Complete Works of Rob Hubbard

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I finally started fussing around with some of the cooler audio options for Snes9X on OS X. The Large Chamber reverb sounds awesome! Now if only I had time.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 31 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Best OC remix: "Time Management" by E-Bison.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

monty on the run OST

― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Thursday, 3 November 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

I got mp3 downloads of the themes to a couple of my Gamecube games from nintendovip.com when I registered them. Not that the theme music to Mario Golf is that exciting, but I thought it was an interesting move on their part.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I like that song from FF6 that sounds like Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 20 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

one of the ocean loaders for the C64 was sonically perfect. kingfish is right: i think my love for the SID chip explains my love for M83 :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 20 November 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

There's a wee loop of background music in mariokart ds that plays while you're waiting for people to come and join your online game. I've had it quietly running in the background for the last 20 minutes or so, and it's not got tired at all, it's exactly the sort of sweet backgroundy midi music that nintedo have always been great at.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

There are some pretty nice almost micro-housey tracks for the ice/snow levels of Metroid Prime on the gamecube.

― tylero (tylero), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

The only good thing about Xenosaga, and it is pretty awesome, is the ambient synth techno jingle that plays when you access the Unus Mundus Network on the main character's little PDA thingamabob. A bizarre Miyazakilike white rabbit thing floats and bobs up and down on the side of the screen while this music just loops, and it actually feels cool and futuristic and imaginative for a while, then you get back to the actual game part of the game and wham, abundance of boring, unappealing crap.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

TOMBOT OTM. I remember thinking the exact same thing.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i discovered recently that JOHN FOXX and some dude from like bomb the bass or something did the music for godz on the amiga.

― rio natsume (rio natsume), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

I really honestly feel that if you switched the OSTs of KD and WLK people would just say the exact same thing about the music being not as good and sounding unremarkable.

OffTM. The true litmus test comes from my girlfriend, who has never played either game, but loves the soundtrack of the first game, begged me to download the soundtrack to WLK, and then was really disappointed in it when she finally heard it. We still listen to the first soundtrack pretty often.

What about the world map music for Dragon Warrior I (NES)? It wasn't the greatest, but it looped so often that it's pretty much etched into my memory forever.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

i totally tranced out to the wii menu screen music earlier while trying to connect to wifi. it's beautiful, ryuichi sakamoto is clearly still a huge influence on game music.

― rio natsume (rio natsume), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/sirweezejunk

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Spraying Bacteria All Over You...AGAIN!! (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

None of the songs want to play. Erm 'you fool'.

― Don't Ban Darramouss (Darramouss), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Contact MySpace. Not that they care.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

no love for STREET FIGHTER? i played it for the first time in ages the other day and OMG GUILE'S MUSIC! KEN'S MUSIC! so awesome

onimo otm about wipeout. wipeout 2097 or whatever it was was brilliant

― webber (webber), Friday, 2 February 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ah I cba arguing with GZeus any more he's an ok guy. I think Oblivion has some great music especially the re-worked Morrowind theme(I don't know or care if it was used in previous Elder Scrolls games so please don't point it out).

― Darramouss is nice now (Darramouss), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EnGAus8iG0

― am0n, Thursday, 9 May 2013 17:30 (thirteen years ago)

― polyphonic, Thursday, 9 May 2013 18:09 (thirteen years ago)

http://groupees.com/gsg

basically i'm in just for the Spelunky soundtrack, even though i don't know if i'll ever listen to it

― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 03:16 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN_LilvnQ2g

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 April 2017 20:49 (nine years ago)

i really like the Gradius sound. sequential interstellar techno that is actually melodic instrumental metal

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 April 2017 20:51 (nine years ago)

nine months pass...

This is cool, though most won't even be familiar with the original music (game only shipped 10,000 copies in the States). Not sure how many units they shipped to other countries, if at all (other than Japan).

http://store.bravewave.net/album/resurrection-panzer-dragoon-saga-20th-anniversary-arrangement-2

Brave Wave is proud to announce the release of a new arrangement soundtrack for the legendary SEGA Saturn RPG, Panzer Dragoon Saga. Saori Kobayashi, the game's original co-composer, has selected 20 tracks from the original game and given them fresh, new arrangements that will allow longtime series fans to reminisce about the game's iconic music while simultaneously experiencing it in a brand new way.
Joining Kobayashi is Eri Ito, one of the original vocalists for the game. She lends her powerful and dramatic vocals to two songs. Five tracks are backed by the Washington D.C.-based video game music band, Triforce Quartet, with three songs featuring the backing of Boston-based flutist Maho Azuma.

― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:23 (eight years ago)

The channel "8-bit music theory" is self-explanatory. Maybe I only find it interesting because I know very little about music theory. Try the video on Mega Man 2 at least.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZLO2VgbZHeDcongKzzfOw/videos

― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:31 (eight years ago)

that's awesome!

― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:40 (eight years ago)

shit you weren't kidding about the Mega Man 2 video. so good

― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:49 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

mix of pause screen/title screen/save room themes, very soothing:

https://soundcloud.com/purpletapepedigree/retrovertigo

― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 17:59 (eight years ago)

seven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHZKPc0z30

saw this in the used bins today. may have to go back and buy it. a fucking yars' revenge storybook album. mix of rambling story and actual score with game samples. the song "yars' revenge" is blatantly ripped from "living in the plastic age." "fly yar warriors" is also something but i can't place it right this second. who the fuck made this?

ten months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaSaizpUlho

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 11 August 2019 15:32 (six years ago)

one year passes...

this song from the 7th guest just kinda lives in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axozvje4L1I

― exist in theory (esby), Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:03 (five years ago)

i'm just a complete sucker for that motif when in the 5 chord the 5th steps down to the 3rd. there's for sure something in earthbound like that too. foundational!

― exist in theory (esby), Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:07 (five years ago)

in the cup of coffee song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6LZ1GqSrEE

― exist in theory (esby), Thursday, 18 March 2021 19:08 (five years ago)

one month passes...

"Arranging Jazz Standards in Game Soundfonts pt.8" (warning: annoying loud synthetic voices at beginning of video)

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeVUFo4R/

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 19:08 (five years ago)

did we ever poll video game music?

would we like to?

― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 15 May 2021 21:17 (five years ago)

ok guess not lol i would have just been forcing everyone to listen to nier automata music anyway

― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 28 May 2021 21:37 (five years ago)

i mean, i like the idea but it's so big! You'd have to do it by eras. How do you compare Pac Man interstitial songs to the soundtrack from Journey?

― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 May 2021 18:06 (five years ago)

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