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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)

Wilfred Castillo makes awesome music using a gameboy emulator. (click on the music link at http://www.snoopdroop.com/). Listen to You're a Hero on Level Zero and tell me i'm wrong!

I went thru a period of using Zelda sound files for all my mobile phone rings and alerts (receiving a text made the Treasure Chest ditty :D)

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, a midi of the Overworld theme is my morning wakeup alarm

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Donkey Kong Country 2 music roolz.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

i totally tranced out to the wii menu screen music earlier while trying to connect to wifi. it's

It's amazing isn't it.

If you leave the menu on, and play some music on your hifi it almost always appears to blend into whatever track is playing.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

-- sleep, November 23rd, 2005 2:46 PM. (sleep) (link) (admin)

The Wii menu music totally reminds me of this, and yes, it is kind of great.

― TOMBO7 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://wizardishungry.com/blog/archive/thirty_four_minutes_of_classic_nintendo_music

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

heh...

big stupid smile on my face when the super mario bros. 3 "reading a letter" song popped in.

― funny farm, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

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

-- rio natsume, Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:12 PM (1 year ago)

maniac mansion theme, right?

― funny farm, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had found that micromusic link before. Such bad qual but so good.

― Will M., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Wow I'm an idiot. I was listening to the LOGIN music. Or something. Hence the quality.

― Will M., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

the sacred grove music from ZTP when you have to chase that weird little doll with the quadrophonic horn around has been stuck in my head for about 48 hours

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

every once in a while, my brother will start singing one of the songs from bust-a-groove. that game sure was fun.

― funny farm, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

guys plz do track ids

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

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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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