Here you are, then. Of course, this soundtrack is by no means bad. I also used to resent videogames having actual bands soundtrack them (see: terrible Rob Zombie songs in my lovely Jet Grind Radio. "Dragula"? Get the hell out of here!!) until I played this game. Nothing with "Raining Blood" on it can ever be dud, EVER.
― original bgm, Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
www.minibosses.com/
― ddd, Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Adam A. (Keiko), Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes, but soundtracks with "big name bands" on them are a fairly recent phenomenon. Most of these older soundtracks were simply game music in cd format or rearranged versions of this same game music.
― original bgm, Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 25 November 2002 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
Capcom really has it hands down on the greatest original video game music, though. The Mega Man series has killer tunes throughout, esp. on the NES; Bionic Commando songs still get stuck in my head on a regular basis; and more recently their music for the various Street Fighter versions has also made me sit up and take notice.
Sega once released a CD of dance remixes of various Genesis tunes. It was terrible. (I keep admitting the most embarassing shit on this board. I should stop.)
Video game OSTs are about one step away from becoming as significant as those for film. I hereby nominate Capcom's musical staff of the NES era as the Morricones of games. Fucking Bionic Cammando Levels 3 & 5 kill me every time.
― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 25 November 2002 06:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think the biggest soundtrack for me was always "Super Mario Bros. 2", not only because the game itself was such an uncompromising bastardization of the Mario series, but because it expresses with infinite clarity and poetry exactly how fragmented and generally f***ed up this game truly was. Here you had a pair of Brooklyn plumbers, a medieval princess, and a strange toad-pygmy sort of creature, running around a tropical/desert/ice/ethereal dream-world, fending off hoards of masqued death midgets and dinosaurs that shoot eggs and giant mice that throw old-fashioned bombed, etc. etc. I could go on forever. The opening theme is ragtime. The character select screen is game show theme music. The overworld theme is dixieland calyspo. The underworld theme (when you enter pipes) is Egyptian boogie-woogie. And boss music is heart-stopping industial death-crush. It's truly the love of my life...
(p.s. sorry to do this, but I kind of feel obliged now to plug Super Madrigal Bros. which is medieval music done with NES samples, so there! our site is down at the moment but we have some info up at Momus's site http://www.demon.co.uk/momus....)
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 25 November 2002 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 25 November 2002 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob zemko (bob), Sunday, 8 December 2002 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Game completio theme to Actraiser 1!
The hostel/overnight/beddy-byes music of RPG ever!
A Link to the Past!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
I wish it was the past now :-(
― meirion john lewis (mei), Sunday, 8 December 2002 23:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 9 December 2002 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― silverfox, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
OTM. Corridors of Time is the shit.
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
this is fucking awesome.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
"SKATE.... OR.... DIE!! SKATE SKATE SKATE SKATE OR DIE!!! DDDDDDDDDDIE DIE DIE!!"
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link
i was wondering if anyone remembers a somewhat bizarre but completely entrancing SNES RPG called Earthbound. It's greatest fame comes from the fact that its main character, NESS, is in Super Smash Brothers. If you haven't played it, you're missing out, it's awesome. The music from that game is some of my favorite music of all time. it's trippier than an olivia tremor control Vs. comets on fire faceoff.
― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― original bgm, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
Unfortunately these won't download fast for me. Oh, but if only they did...
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
Neptunes go gamelan: "The Legend of the Hero: Zelda Wind Waker".
― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
― original bgm, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
If you want a certain song but can't find it anywhere, there are utilities for the NES and SNES that can extract the songs from game ROMs, and play them in winamp using a plugin.
― fletrejet, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 22 February 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 22 February 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 22 February 2004 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
100% agree
― eleki-san (eleki-san), Sunday, 22 February 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link
― ghdfg, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
― dsfsdf, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:32 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/LilFlip/
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
It's amazing how some of these melodies and compositions really hold up...
http://www.theadvantageband.com/
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
www.5rc.com
(I'm sure the minibosses are pissed someone stole their schtick but these guys are just a flat out better band...way better drummer and a little more inventive in the arrangement dept)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 4 June 2004 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 5 June 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
^ Plugins for winamp that allow you to play rsn files
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
HELLA + VIDEO GAMES
― Jon Williams!!!!! (ROFFLE!@!@!@) (ex machina), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― :|, Friday, 15 October 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Whoa I came in this thread to mentionn that song. Kudos.
― Sansai, Friday, 15 October 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― :|, Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― :|, Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sansai, Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Saturday, 16 October 2004 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Million Talking Hot Dogs (AaronHz), Saturday, 16 October 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― r|t|c, Saturday, 28 April 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― JW, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
― almcd, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
― negotiable, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Even over two years after finishing it, I listen to the Chrono Trigger soundtrack regularly as concentration/chill out music. There are some seriously lovely things on there, especially Corridors of Time and Wind Theme.
If anyone's a fan, I've made a Spotify playlist of Chrono Trigger music, with some Earthbound and Final Fantasy VI stuff thrown in: https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/1LArAWIwZLQmH7tnhS0ZnO?si=Fs0hDblDTICIuRMlo391ig
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 08:21 (four years ago) link
great revive
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 08:22 (four years ago) link
(I mean it this time, thanks for this!)
Cool, glad to be of service. The only rubbish thing about this is that Spotify now thinks 'TPR' is my all time favourite artist and 'Wind Theme' is my all time favourite song (which it is, I mean)
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 09:16 (four years ago) link
'Wind Scene' I should say. It's perfect. Those pizzicatos get me every time. It's a SNES game.
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
Corridors of Time is all-time for sure
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link
Subscribed! This is A+ fan service DL, thanks much!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
corridors of time is an all time classic even if logic did rap over it
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
i'm absolutely worse off for having heard that
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
if I had to hear it so does everyone else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPY4BD8IzI
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
there's also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
I have logged way more hours with the Xenogears soundtrack than the game itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFbVhFlqt3k
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
(that song is one of a couple that Mitsuda says came to him in a dream)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
i have never played xenogears or even listened to the soundtrack but i guess i really should give it a listen
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
in a better world there would be dozens of remixes of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmI93WqFLXQ
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
wow, I've never heard a video game theme that sounded more like Jethro Tull than that it's awesome
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
I have a lot of love for the SNES era of VGM but Mitsuda was on such another level than everyone else. I love the Xenogears soundtrack despite never having played the game
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
hahaha, Mitsuda's wikipedia page is kinda unintentionally hilarious, it is super-Japanese in tone:
He took piano lessons beginning at the age of five, but was more interested in sports at the time and did not take music seriously, quitting by the age of six.
but it did confirm for me that he was a big time Vangelis fan
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
i quite like the secret of mana soundtrack. not as much as my brother, who has the opening theme played by a flautist at his wedding
https://youtu.be/T6YAiLHXw_c
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
man, I need another snes jrpg to get hooked on. sadly I've completed what I believe to be the best ones: Chrono, Earthbound and Ff6. Not sure I really got on with Mana,the text was hard to read and I didn't like the handling, plus the storyline felt a bit arbitrary but maybe I shod give it another shot
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver)
i got super into the seiken densetsu iii soundtrack, hiroki kikuta just got completely _into it_, like you can tell listening to it that this is music made by somebody who has given up on sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6W_6pqUDA&list=PL4649F0DBF0FC09E3&index=29&t=0s
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 May 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
ah fuck i forgot ilx doesn't do playlists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6W_6pqUDA
secret of mana is frustrating because it has an excellent soundtrack but kind of sucks as a game (partly because it apparently got gutted significantly during development, but still)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:06 (four years ago) link
I really enjoyed it. I was about 9 and played the thing through on coop with my brother-he was main dude,I was the sprite
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:09 (four years ago) link
even Earthbound is really frustrating to me - fantastic music, writing, general atmosphere etc. but the gameplay itself is pretty mediocre and frustrating with weird difficulty spikes even by the standards of SNES RPGs
― ufo, Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link
I love Chrono Trigger et al but all JRPGs are unbearable slogs to me nowadays
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:51 (four years ago) link
At one point when I was thinking about making a dark Super Mario World hack I made a youtube playlist of creepy, atmospheric, Super Nintendo tracks with a little bit of high-BPM boss music and "the journey will be tough but tonight we rest" songs.
SMW Music - Dark And Demented With Moments Of Respite
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
(not snes, but mother 3 fixes a lot of the gameplay/tonal consistency issues)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
Romhacking.net has a lot of Secret of Mana tweaks like equipment progression balance. If I ever attempt a play-through again I will probably use a few that are compatible. I have often started (on an emulator) and given up because I died a lot and I don't have time for that.
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link