ruiner9’s HIGH QUALITY Soundtrack-a-Ganza feat. PixelTunes Radio Game Music Podcast

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All links are available in the posts without having to go into the MEGA folders to get them. Enjoy! 🙂

Absolutely! I have a lot of work cut out for me 🙂

Whoops, you’re right! Tracks 16 and 32 are now back. Just re-download the DW3 soundtrack in the OP, they’re in there.

Also, I’m uploading Final Fantasy 2 and 3, and Mega Man 1 and 2 for ya. They should be up in a couple minutes.

Next up: Wizards and Warriors (by request,) more Mega Man, and… maybe the Super Mario series? Or Zelda. I dunno… what do you guys want most?

Oh, and Thank You!

I still can’t seem to figure out how to make these. I’m not very computer savvy I guess.

Next person to post a request will have that request by the end of the day, or your money back! 😉

Also these sound great!
Keep up the good work.

Also these sound great!
Keep up the good work.

I looked up the Castlevania 2 tracklisting, and even on the official soundtrack, it’s 9 tracks, like I’ve got. It’s possible that the little jingle that plays when Simon dies is considered a sound effect, and was left out of the tagged NSF that I used. Also, all of the Castlevania 1 NSF’s I could find were 15 tracks long, though I did see a YouTube video where it lists "Underground" as a final, 16th track. If somebody discovers an NSF that includes it, I’ll add it to the archive.

The Mega Man OST matches up with the soundtrack on this YouTube video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvLNV-Oc0EM) Do you know specifically which tracks I might be missing? Remember, there were only 6 evil robots in the original game (not counting the mega clone and the big yellow blobby thing), not 8 like the rest!

I have Elm St and TMNT 1+2 in the works, like I promised. They’ll be up later tonight, along with some Mario goodies. 🙂

My aim is for completion, so if there are tracks I can add, I’d be happy to add them, as long as I can find them!

OK, TMNT 1+2, Nightmare on Elm Street (which is surprisingly good – never played it!) and Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3 are up! My next will be the Zelda games, I think, just to get uut off my back. 😉 j/k!

Tonight, I’ll have both Zelda titles and Bionic Commando. Not sure if I’ll have anything else. Took the kids to an amusement park today and I am BEAT.

I’ll just go ahead and second this motion.

Man, you must be a mind reader. I was working on that just now!

DuckTales and Tetris – Nintendo Version are ready to go. 🙂

We got some Contra, some Blaster Master, TMNT 3, Fester’s Quest, Anticipation (just because it’s David Wise and he’s awesome,) Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!…

Oh, and an hour’s worth of music from Mother (Eartbound Zero)… very good stuff!

Also, I tagged the Bucky O’Hare soundtrack, leaving Dragon Warrior 3 as the only untagged OST left… can anybody help with that?

Enjoy!

EDIT: Even more stuff! Double Dragon! Maniac Mansion! Dr. Mario! More! The collection is getting big, now.

Sweet kahooa, YES!

I’ll look into that, haven’t tried. Thanks for the advice and the soundtracks. Amazing!

If you like Maniac Mansion, try Fun House. Both written by David Warhol, and they sound very similar… though I think Fun House is actually a bit better!

All the Mega Mans (Mega Men? IDK)! All the Ninja Gaidens! Metroid! Rad Racer, and Rollergames!

If you’re not familiar with Rollergames, and you like Konami’s soundtracks (TMNT, Contra, Bucky O’Hare), I recommend you try it out. It uses the same sound driver, and I believe some of the same composers.

So, I think that takes care of all requests, and most of my favorites… any other suggestions? I have Battletoads in the works. It’s got a weird sound driver that only some NSF players agree with, so I have to do a lot of manual work to get a good-sounding stereo version out. I’m sure I’ll have some time over the weekend to do it. Otherwise, let me know what you guys want!

Thank you for the advice, will do!

From what I gather, there’s only one NSF player out there which can play the sampled drums on the Battletoads intro music. It’s built into an emulator, and it can’t play stereo songs OR export to wav, so I had to settle for a quieter intro version without them. The song still works very well, so I’m not too upset. NSFPlay is still being actively updated, so if it supports those PCM files in the future, I’ll definitely update the soundtrack.

Enjoy!

From what I gather, there’s only one NSF player out there which can play the sampled drums on the Battletoads intro music. It’s built into an emulator, and it can’t play stereo songs OR export to wav, so I had to settle for a quieter intro version without them. The song still works very well, so I’m not too upset. NSFPlay is still being actively updated, so if it supports those PCM files in the future, I’ll definitely update the soundtrack.

Enjoy!

David Wise? 🙂

So on a different note, runier9 did you say you were capable of doing the same game-rip process for SNES games? I’m just certain I saw the discussion crop up somewhere around here.

-Captain Tsubasa
-Captain Tsubasa II – Super Striker (I think this one has one of those fancy enhancement chips as well)

Would Love to have a quality rip of these. Any hopes? =)

-Captain Tsubasa
-Captain Tsubasa II – Super Striker (I think this one has one of those fancy enhancement chips as well)

Would Love to have a quality rip of these. Any hopes? =)

I agree with you, especially with Captain Tsubasa II- love that soundtrack, by the way.

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Have you ever thought about the Japanese game Esper Dream 2?

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I have 2 requests for NES soundtracks:

1- Chronicle of the Radia War (Radia Senki): Chronicles of Radia (NES) Intro – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNihDoERYJo)

2: Just Breed: D-D’s Famicom (NES) "Just Breed" English Introduction – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0vwq6AAZJc)

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Have you ever thought about the Japanese game Esper Dream 2?

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I have 2 requests for NES soundtracks:

1- Chronicle of the Radia War (Radia Senki): Chronicles of Radia (NES) Intro – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNihDoERYJo)

2: Just Breed: D-D’s Famicom (NES) "Just Breed" English Introduction – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0vwq6AAZJc)

I can totally do them all, just be aware that they won’t be tagged, as there aren’t tracklistings with any of them. If you guys have the ability to tag them, that would be rad. If not, no biggie.

And yes, SNES is totally doable, MrBobHarris. I’ll gladly fill any requests for a small bottle of Suntory Whiskey. 😉

This is why I like requests. These soundtracks are great, and I probably wouldn’t have ever thought to give them a chance.

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Thanks, dude! 😀

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I’m totally seconding Just Breed! It has awesome music.

I agree, Lefance, that is the last NES/Famicom game to use the MMC5 Mapper Chip.

Well that surely can be arranged good sir. Kampai!

So for the two requests I had in mind, Zombies ate my Neighbors and Cool Spot for the SNES. You think that would be possible?

So for the two requests I had in mind, Zombies ate my Neighbors and Cool Spot for the SNES. You think that would be possible?

Shouldn’t be an issue, my good man.

Also, by request, Esper Dream 2 is up. Fun fact: The composer of Esper Dream 2 (Kinuyo Yamashita) (http://yamako.ciao.jp/home.html) is female. She once lost her memory after suffering a subdural hematoma while playing tennis, and she now lives in New Jersey.

*The More You Know!*

So for the two requests I had in mind, Zombies ate my Neighbors and Cool Spot for the SNES. You think that would be possible? Here’s my rip of Thread 126611 and Thread 122225

Neat! I’m interested in comparing the ripped versions to the all-digital SPC encodings, to see what the differences are. My guess is it’ll come down to 100% sound accuracy vs. noiseless clarity.

That being said, my versions of Cool Spot and ZAMN are up too, you lucky bastards!

I’m confused as to what you mean by this. That guy’s rips are also done via emulation and SPCs, unfortunately.

I for one don’t get it. Seems like a waste of time and space making them into MP3s (except maybe if it’s something special like stereo NES), when you could just use the spc/nsf/etc and the player. Most of the popular mobile devices have players for these sound code rips too. Yeah, you can manipulate stuff through the mature PC players to make it sound "better", stuff that you might not be able to do on mobile device players, but to me it still doesn’t seem worth transcoding to mp3, and certainly not FLAC — that’s just bonkers.

We need more heroes like "The Iron Goat" and his lovely FLAC hardware rips straight from the console, and a lot less of this untrue emulator jive. But that’s just my opinion. :p

I for one don’t get it. Seems like a waste of time and space making them into MP3s (except maybe if it’s something special like stereo NES), when you could just use the spc/nsf/etc and the player. Most of the popular mobile devices have players for these sound code rips too. Yeah, you can manipulate stuff through the mature PC players to make it sound "better", stuff that you might not be able to do on mobile device players, but to me it still doesn’t seem worth transcoding to mp3, and certainly not FLAC — that’s just bonkers.

We need more heroes like "The Iron Goat" and his lovely FLAC hardware rips straight from the console, and a lot less of this untrue emulator jive. But that’s just my opinion. :p

I wasn’t aware his tunes were done the same way. I was under the impression that "rip" meant "recorded from the source."

I’m so glad you took the time to pop into this happy, productive thread and start throwing your negative opinions around! Personally, I see very little use in direct line-out rips. It’s a lot of effort for very little benefit compared to the SPC method. Secondly, I find mobile VGM players very lacking, either in sound quality, or usability. I own an Android and an iPhone, and I’ve exhausted the app options for players on both, and I’m just not happy with them. My drive to work is an hour each way, and having the ability to listen to the tracks I want to without having to look at my phone every 15 minutes on the highway just isn’t possible.

Also, your "space" argument seems a little silly. Memory is cheap these days! Maybe 10 years ago, when 32mb cards were all you could get for your phone, it would have been an issue. My Android has 16gb internal memory, and a 32gb micro SD card, and it came with 50gb of Dropbox space (which is what I’m using to host these files.) So no, I don’t consider it a waste of space at all.

I was just reading an article that Wil Wheaton posted a few days ago, concerning geek culture and elitism. It was a call for those who enjoy certain aspects of this culture to stop driving other people away from it, just because they don’t like it the same way they do. The message, applied here, is "Be happy! You love VGM! So do these people! Does it really matter whether they’re listening to the Final Fantasy soundtrack on an NSF player, or via mp3? No. What matters is that you probably grew up loving these tunes, and didn’t have many people around to discuss it with, and now here’s all these people who love it too, and you’re choosing to preach to them because they don’t love it the same way you do."

Sorry for the long rant, but seeing stuff like this first thing after waking up just got to me. If I had entitled the thread "What’s your opinion on mp3 vs spc?" Then this kind of comment would have been appreciated. I just wanted a nice thread where people could request music, and I could make albums for them, because I’ve leeched for so long and felt like I should give back.

Anyways, I have no intention of stopping, and I’m making my albums the highest quality that I can, and I hope the comments above don’t deter anyone from loving this music in any way, shape, or form. I’ll take requests from NES, Genesis/MD, SNES, GBA, or DS! 🙂

Long live VGM!

Ruiner, do you happen to have that link to the Wil W article?

Absolutely. Right here (https://wilwheaton.net/2013/08/memo-to-gatekeepers/).

Also, by request, Esper Dream 2 is up. Fun fact: The composer of Esper Dream 2 (Kinuyo Yamashita) (http://yamako.ciao.jp/home.html) is female. She once lost her memory after suffering a subdural hematoma while playing tennis, and she now lives in New Jersey.

*The More You Know!*

Really? The former Natsume/Konami composer now lives in New Jersey? Wow- thanks for the info! I wonder if she still does game music?

She does, part time… if you read her blog (just click on her name) and scroll a few posts down, she writes about a few recent arrangements she’s done, and she’s performed a few shows with Video Games Live, too. If VGL ever comes to your area, check it out. I’ve gone to two of their shows, and it’s a blast. Plus, you get to meet Tommy Tallarico!

Just a small update this morning… Konami’s F1 Sensation. Found it totally at random, but really enjoyed it because it uses the TMNT 3 sound driver and sounds like an unofficial sequel to that soundtrack. Cowabunga!

And thank you for those amazing SNES rips from Zombies and Cool Spot. Such a treat ♥

And thank you for those amazing SNES rips from Zombies and Cool Spot. Such a treat ♥

Oh. My. God. The Journey to Silius soundtrack is AMAZING. Why have I never played that game before? I’m totally going to load it up on my EverDrive tonight and give it a play!

On another note, I had a PM from a very polite individual by the name of Flexter who requested the Shadowrun soundtracks from both the SNES and the Genesis (I’m American, so it’s a Genesis to me. Deal with it. 🙂 ) Considering the new Shadowrun PC game has just been released, which marries the gameplays of both titles, AND includes work from both composers, I felt it would be a very timely addition. I played through the SNES version at least 3 or 4 times as a kid, so that soundtrack brought back some memories. I think I need to find the OST from the new version to see how Sam Powell and Marshall Parker’s work has matured over the past 20 (20? TWENTY? REALLY?) years. (I feel REALLY old now.)

As usual, hope you enjoy them!

– Dai-kaijuu Monogatari
– Dai-kaijuu Monogatari II

Un-interesting fact: I actually own Super Famicom and these two games 🙂 Sadly the Dai-kaijuu II has some kind of a clock-related special chip and the battery for that is dead… or it is just broken. Hudson had an another game with that, Tengai Makyou ZERO and yes, guessed right, I have it also but it’s also broken. Dang you Hudson and your weird 90s gimmicks. 😀

Well, at least you can listen to the (really super long) soundtracks, both now uploaded. 3 1/2 hours between the two of them… yikes! Unfortunately, DKM2 isn’t tagged, but at least the tracks are accurately time-cut.

Also, from a request on the old thread, I’ve uploaded Double Dragon 3 (and Double Dragon 2, which wasn’t requested, but having 1 and 3 would just be weird.)

Sweet Home, from Capcom, is there too, and Bio Senshi DAN, which seems to be about a guy with a yo-yo sword who jumps in and out of closed windows and wrestles aliens for inventory items. I have no idea, I’m just watching this YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNYlAqmgEh8) about it and scratching my head.

Get to downloadin’!

BtW, Dai-kaijuu Monogatari II also got OST.
http://vgmdb.net/album/4527

Would love to have that in good quality. It would also help tagging the gamerip of yours. 🙂

A~nd. Did you know Dai-kaijuu Monogatari is actually a sequel for Kaijuu Monogatari for Famicom. It also had two spin-off games, Poyon no Puzzle Dungeon 1 and 2! So in the end there are five Kaijuu games, booyah!

Would love to have that in good quality. It would also help tagging the gamerip of yours. 🙂

A~nd. Did you know Dai-kaijuu Monogatari is actually a sequel for Kaijuu Monogatari for Famicom. It also had two spin-off games, Poyon no Puzzle Dungeon 1 and 2! So in the end there are five Kaijuu games, booyah!

I’ll keep my eye out for the OST… Tagging a 90 song soundtrack is a pretty big project, but if you’re up for the task, it would be a great help to the SPC collectors! 🙂

Anyone else have requests? Work is boring today so I have 2 more hours to kill. :roflworf:

MANY people would want Kid Icarus and Arkanoid, or YOU would want Kid Icarus and Arkanoid? 🙂

Doesn’t really matter, because they’ll be up in about 3 minutes. Arkanoid has like, under two minutes of sound, so.. I dunno. I guess the sound that’s there is GOOD sound, anyways. And I can’t believe I forgot about KI! Derp.

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She does, part time… if you read her blog (just click on her name) and scroll a few posts down, she writes about a few recent arrangements she’s done, and she’s performed a few shows with Video Games Live, too. If VGL ever comes to your area, check it out. I’ve gone to two of their shows, and it’s a blast. Plus, you get to meet Tommy Tallarico!

VGL will never come in my area. I live in too rural of a state. Besides, they ONLY perform the famous game music and I cannot stand Tommy Tallarico. I don’t even like concerts.

Strange, isn’t it?

As always, hope you enjoy them!

Yes, but still, I don’t like Tommy Tallirico.

Super Castlevania IV
Castlevania Dracula X

Thank you.

Wow, Contact is BIG. 5 hours! 570mb of MP3! I think I’m only going to leave it up for about a week because it’s taking up a lot of space. I’ll keep the file so it can be uploaded upon request. I listened to a little of it and it’s quality stuff. I might make myself a "best of" album. Also note, that DS files aren’t going to be crystal clear becuase they’re already compressed audio files, but these are the best quality you’ll find anywhere until an official OST is released from Grasshopper Manufacture.

Bayou Billy is up, too, and so are Dracula X and Super Castlevania IV. And just becuase I thought you might be interested, uut, I uploaded the two GameBoy Castlevania soundtracks as well. 🙂

Have fun!

I’d rather meet my favorite Japanese music composers over the English composers,depending of course if they can speak English well.

Composers such as Tsukasa Masuko, Hiroyuki Yanada, Ryuji Sasai, Michiko Naruke, Kennosuke Suemura, Eiko Kaneda, are such examples.

Composers such as Tsukasa Masuko, Hiroyuki Yanada, Ryuji Sasai, Michiko Naruke, Kennosuke Suemura, Eiko Kaneda, are such examples.

Well, I look at it like this: if you really want $1000, but that’s almost impossible to get, and someone instead offers to give you $100, would you turn it down? Tommy is like the $100… still money, just not as much. Besides, sitting 20 feet away from the beautiful Laura Intravia while she plays the Zelda theme on an ocarina was worth it by itself!

This will be it for awhile
And also i have been mixing my own nes games and they sound great!

BtW, Dai-kaijuu Monogatari II also got OST.
DPCX-5078~9 | Daikaijuu Monogatari II ~The Magical Land Shelldorado~ – VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/4527)

Would love to have that in good quality. It would also help tagging the gamerip of yours. 🙂

A~nd. Did you know Dai-kaijuu Monogatari is actually a sequel for Kaijuu Monogatari for Famicom. It also had two spin-off games, Poyon no Puzzle Dungeon 1 and 2! So in the end there are five Kaijuu games, booyah!

I have the SPC file of the 2nd one, but there are no titles to it, meaning that the soundtrack is complete. I have downloaded the SPC off of Zophar’s Domain.

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Well, I look at it like this: if you really want $1000, but that’s almost impossible to get, and someone instead offers to give you $100, would you turn it down? Tommy is like the $100… still money, just not as much. Besides, sitting 20 feet away from the beautiful Laura Intravia while she plays the Zelda theme on an ocarina was worth it by itself!

Sorry, but I would turn down the "100 dollars" as you would say. I would rather meet them than Tommy Tallarico or anyone else.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but I like the Japanese composers a lot more than the English game composers. I am in no way a "weeaboo" or an "elitest". I just prefer game music composed by the Japanese composers, that’s all.

Should you have time for Gargoyle’s Quest 2 on NES (or even better : Gargoyle’s Quest on Gameboy), they’re worth the time… 🙂

Now I have the Zelda theme stuck in my head… hopefully when I wake up tomorrow it’s be gone. Enjoy!

By the way, if you like the Zelda theme from Link’s Awakening, and don’t mind a little dubstep, check this track out – it’s a great tribute that really enhances the melody of the original tune:

Nostalgia – The Hero (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOrlmuprm-8)

I was just about to suggest the very same!

We’ve got:

Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers 1 and 2, DuckTales 2, and Gargoyle’s Quest 2 for the NES;

Bionic Commando, Dragon Warrior III, Gargoyle’s Quest, and TMNT – Fall of the Foot Clan for the GameBoy;

and TMNT IV – Turtles in Time for the SNES.

I’m trying to round out the TMNT collection… There’s two more GameBoy games, Tournament Fighters on the NES, SNES, and Genesis, Hyperstone Heist on the Genesis… um, am I missing anything else notable?

"I am the terror that flaps in the night… Only this time, it’s in STEREO!"

Darkwing Duck is up. Go grab it!

Darkwing Duck is up. Go grab it!

Many thanks!

Battletoads & Double Dragon
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
Contra III
Axelay
ActRaiser

That Genesis section is looking pretty weak. Any suggestions or requests to fill it in a bit?

Give it a try, and as always, enjoy!

– Medarot 1 Kabuto/Kuwagata
– Medarot 2 Kabuto/Kuwagata
– Medarot 3 Kabuto/Kuwagata
– Medarot 4 Kabuto/Kuwagata
– Medarot 5 Kabuto/Kuwagata
– Medarot Card Robottle

Yamashita Kinuyo Extravaganza!!

Medarot Kabuto Version (SGB)(1997-11-28)(Natsume)(Imagineer)
Medarot 2 Kabuto Version (GBC)(1999-07-23)(Natsume)(Imagineer)
Medarot 2 Parts Collection (GBC)(1999-10-29)(Natsume)(Imagineer)
Medarot Card Robottle Kabuto Version (GBC)(2000-03-10)(Natsume)(Imagineer)
Medarot 3 Kabuto Version (GBC)(2000-07-23)(Natsume)(Imagineer)
Medarot 4 Kabuto Version (GBC)(2001-03-23)(Natsume)(Imagineer)

Are those more or less what you’re looking for?

Edit: Also just found these:

Medarot 4 Kuwagata (2001)(Natsume, Imagineer)
Medarot 5 (2001)(Natsume, Imagineer)

OK, Medarot 1-4 and Card R is up… 🙂

Medarot 5 might not be possible, as I can’t find a time-cut version anywhere, and 74 tracks is going to take a lot more time than I have to go through manually and find the loops. I’m still searching for a listing, but enjoy the first 4 for now!

NES – Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
NES – Wacky Races
NES – Gauntlet
NES – Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Blowout
NES – Mappyland
NES – Code Name Viper
NES – Tiny Toon Adventures
NES – Crystalis
NES – Snoopy’s Silly Sports Spectacular
Game Boy – Snoopy’s Magic Show

Childhood memories, lesser known gems. 🙂

5 is possible, It’s just big, so I’m time-cutting them a little every night.

In the meantime, though, BIG update! Here’s what’s new:

Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Blowout
Codename: Viper
Crystalis
Gauntlet
Mappy Land
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
Snoopy’s Silly Sports Spectacular
Snoopy’s Magic Show (GameBoy)
Solomon’s Key
Tiny Toon Adventures 1 and 2
Wacky Races

Whew! Most are untagged because they’re kind of obscure requests, but they’re all at least time-cut and ID3 tagged.

Grab ’em! Listen to ’em! Be happy!

Request:
Lagrange Point (Famicom)
– another enhanced one

Mr. Gimmick!
Freedom Force
Hebereke
Gremlins 2 – The New Batch
Pescatore (Prototype)
Platoon

3 HOURS of excellent music in the EarthBound soundtrack!

Also, a couple Konami classics:

Top Gun
Top Gun Dual Fighters

And, for Lefance, Lagrange Point is up, too!

Check Mr. Gimmick! out. It’s an amazing soundtrack, and it uses Sunsoft’s FME7 custom processing chip for audio… hardly even sounds like an NES at times!

What about some of Renovation’s games on the Sega Genesis, you know the ones developed by Telenet Japan and Wolf Team?

Oh, dang. I was recording Time Trax at 50hz, which was the correct speed, and forgot to set it back for Hyperstone! I’ll re-record it and let you guys know when it’s done. Sorry about that!

– Bokura wa Kaseki-horider / Fossil Fighters.
This game has some very cool tunes, sadly the sequel (Fossil Fighters Champions)… doesn’t.

– Bokura wa Kaseki-horider / Fossil Fighters.
This game has some very cool tunes, sadly the sequel (Fossil Fighters Champions)… doesn’t.

Fossil Fighters is up and sounding good! It’s a long one. Working on some Renovation stuff. Valis 3, Gaiares, and Sol-Deace are in the works!

First off, the aforementioned Genesis titles, Sol-Deace, Valis III, and Gaiares. They’re the first of a batch of Genesis titles I’ll be doing.

Secondly, the Battle Kid series. Never heard of ’em? That’s because they’re homebrewed NES titles, and they’re freaking awesome. Not only are the games very fun and reminiscent of Mega Man, but the soundtracks are top-quality too. They’ve been released on mp3 before, but never in stereo, and I think they deserve that treatment. Please give them a listen, it’s worth your while!

You can download (or even buy a physical copy of) Battle Kid 1 + 2 here. (http://sivak.nintendoage.com/index.html)

But, I have some funky new tunes in the Genesis section!

For the metalheads, Lightening Force/ Thunder Force IV is here.
Both ToeJam & Earl games, too, and I honestly think the soundtrack is better than the games were.
Lastly, Virtua Racing Deluxe for the 32X. I really love that OST… one of the best uses of the expanded capabilities of the 32X’s sound system.

There may be more later today!

Everybody does Genesis stuff, right? So I feel I have to dig up some of the gems that don’t get a lot of play. Here are a few games with really good music that don’t get yelled about a lot:

Combat Cars
Gauntlet IV
The Hybrid Front
Sonic CD

For Sonic CD, it’s just the music that plays when you’re in the past zones, that’s not included on the CD audio. Everybody posts the CD music itself because it’s so easy to rip… now you can combine them and have the whole soundtrack.
Gauntlet IV is pretty crazy. It uses a custom sound driver and really pushes the FM synth to it’s limits.
Combat Cars is like, breakbeat techno, or something. It’s really dancy and well done.
Hybrid Front never made it out in the US, I don’t think. The songs have a lot of voice samples and are really well composed. I think you’ll enjoy it.

Let me know what you think, and keep the requests coming! 🙂

By the way, Equinox by both Follins is also nice, what do you think?

By the way, Equinox by both Follins is also nice, what do you think?

Ah yes, Equinox! How could I forget? I have to upload that one. I never played it as a kid, so it always slips my mind that it was a Follin game. 🙂

FYI, your TMNT Fall of the Foot Clan soundtrack is missing the first Stage 1 piece of music (not the sewer).

If you ever find the Maru’s Mission (GB) soundtrack and want to post it, I may worship you. 😉 Never found this rare soundtrack. I only found the title theme and first stage theme.

FYI, your TMNT Fall of the Foot Clan soundtrack is missing the first Stage 1 piece of music (not the sewer).

If you ever find the Maru’s Mission (GB) soundtrack and want to post it, I may worship you. 😉 Never found this rare soundtrack. I only found the title theme and first stage theme.

Oh, thanks for the tip on TMNT – FOTFC… I’ll attempt to fix it later tonight. In exchange for your error-checking, I reward you with the full Maru’s Mission OST. Enjoy!

Also, the missing Tim Follin soundtrack, Equinox, is up, as well as some more less-popular-but-still-awesome Genesis soundtracks:

Superman – It’s Sunsoft, so it’s gotta be good!
Skitchin’ – Because with track names like "Spicy Placenta" and "Jerky Curtains," I couldn’t NOT upload it.
SEGA CD BIOS Music – I’m not sure if these tracks are awesome, or if it’s the just the glee I felt every time I played a CD game when I was a kid. Either way, all 3 versions of the music are here.

And, because I felt like adding yet ANOTHER system to the list, I’ve encoded Legend of Zelda – The Minish Cap for the GBA. It’s like an hour long. No bigs.

Zaenom, you owe me like a bottle of rum or something. 😉

Hmm, seems like there’s a bug in the NSFPlay plugin I was using that causes naming errors when using the m3u+nsf format. The latest SVN fixes it, fortunately. I’ve fixed Contra and Ninja Gaiden III, the links are the same… just re-download. Please let me know which others you find are broken like this, and I’ll make sure they’re corrected. Thanks for letting me know!

Another one is Bucky O Hare.

Btw, regarding e-mail I sent you earlier; I could help you rip the NSFEs with your standard configuration and application. Because I want to have my favorite games be properly saved to MP3.

I briefly explained my process earlier in the thread… currently I’m explicitly using NSFPlay to convert to wav, Audiograbber to normalize to 98% peak (or Audacity if I need to cut the loops manually,) and then the bare LAME command-line app to convert to VB0 mp3. All of the apps are free, so if you want to give it a shot, be my guest! You can upload the mp3’s to dbinbox (http://dbinbox.com/ruiner9) and I’ll give them a listen, and I’ll credit you on the OP. Just let me know what you want to work on so we don’t do the same ones. I’ll have all of the ones you sent me ready in about an hour or so.

What’s in it?

Banana Prince – Well, never heard of it, but the guy who composed the GI Joe soundtrack wrote it, and that was pretty good, so here it is.
G.I. Joe – I rented this game as a kid and loved it, but my mom was anti-gun so I couldn’t buy it. Joke’s on her! I own it now! 🙂
Gradius – A classic. Songs that stick in your head.
Gradius II – Another classic. More songs that stick in your head. I need to upload more shmup music. I love shmups.
Gun.Smoke – I never played this one (see G.I. Joe description.) The tracks sound pretty cool, though.
Jurassic Park – My oldest son loves dinosaurs, and I fired this one up on my EverDrive because he saw the name on the screen. Holy cow, that music! One of my favorites. The game is a bit lame, though.
Little Nemo: the Dream Master – I remember Nintendo Power having a huge article on this one, which I ignored, because a kid in his pajamas makes for a pretty lame video game hero.

So there ya go. Thanks for the files, Rama! I’m in a Super Nintendo mood, now… maybe I’ll post some SNES shmups next. Any suggestions?

Bio Metal – I seriously don’t know why they replaced the decent Japanese soundtrack with that crappy 2Unlimited techno for the USA release. It’s soooo repetitive.
Darius Twin – One of my favorites growing up. VERY Japanese sounding. Some of those high notes may make your ears bleed. 🙂
Gradius III – I got the SNES the day it was released in the US, and then got Gradius III for Christmas, I think. It was the first time I had ever heard real cymbal crashes in VGM. I was floored.
Phalanx – Another very well-produced soundtrack, leaning on the rock side. Stuff that makes you wanna keep shooting those enemy ships up!
Rendering Ranger R2 – Didn’t know much about this one, but I was looking up some SNES shmups and came across it. Very nice orchestral stuff mixed with some rock ‘n roll boss battle tunes.
Super E.D.F. – Crazy time signatures and slap bass is a rad combination. The bass solo on Track 11, "Boss Attack," is totally badass.
Super R-Type – This one has kind of an industrial rock feel to it. Of all the 8 and 16-bit R-Type games, I think this one has the best soundtrack. Track 15, "Blast Rock," is a head banger.

Enjoy!

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Oh, and also your Dropbox seems to be out of bandwidth. I think you should also use alternative hosting like Mediafire or so.

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Oh, and also your Dropbox seems to be out of bandwidth. I think you should also use alternative hosting like Mediafire or so.

My bandwidth is 20gb per DAY. Somebody went a little download-crazy, it seems. They should be back up tomorrow.

What about trying MEGA for uploads? I think its better than Dropbox and the 50# typical message. Anyways, thanks.

What about trying MEGA for uploads? I think its better than Dropbox and the 50# typical message. Anyways, thanks.

I’ve done some research on MEGA and I think it’ll be a good mirror. I’m uploading the NES files there now, so there will be two links per soundtrack. Thanks for the suggestion!

dariendude17, you got it. I should have it up sometime later today. 🙂

California Games is up! I think I’m slowly gaining the entire David Wise collection, here.

Abadox – This game was kind of gross. It just looked very organic and fluid. It was the title that really got me into shmups, so I owe it a debt of gratitude.
Blades of Steel – There were two hockey games out in the early NES days: Ice Hockey, and Blades of Steel. If you were a wimp, you played Ice Hockey. Unfortunately, I was a wimp. But the BoS soundtrack ROCKS.
G.I. Joe – The Atlantis Factor – I can’t bear to have a game on this list without it’s sequels, so I had to do this one. It’s by Yusuke Takahama, who also wrote the Bad Dudes and Joe & Mac Soundtracks.
Metal Gear – How has no one requested this? Anyways, Snake’s Revenge will be up at some point, because of that whole sequel thing I just talked about.
Power Blade – Dude, these soundtracks are great. Taito was very under-appreciated in the sound department. It’s by Kinuyo Yamashita, of Castlevania and Medarot fame, so how can it be bad?

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Hmmm, I realized that odd sounding came from the NSFEs I sent you earlier. It sounds normal over here, but why not with the convertion? I wonder…

EDIT: Which NSF player are you using that makes it sound normal?

EDIT: Which NSF player are you using that makes it sound normal?

I have Spica and Micro Genius. Both will produce different sounding compared to original NES, and that was exactly happened to convertion from my NSFEs handed to you. But nothing like that happened from your collection.

I play the NSFEs using Natsofatso (winamp).

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Just e-mailed you the wrongness.

Thanks a lot for your work. And for the NSF files… Yes, there are A LOT of configs/soft, etc. In this forum you will find several versions of one game x 3-4 gamerips and some are pretty much the same but others seems to sound slightly different.

Thanks a lot for your work. And for the NSF files… Yes, there are A LOT of configs/soft, etc. In this forum you will find several versions of one game x 3-4 gamerips and some are pretty much the same but others seems to sound slightly different.

I agree. IronGoat makes some great hardware rips if you’re looking for 100% sound accuracy. The limitation on that is you either get monaural sound, or two square waves in one speaker, and triangle + noise/ DMC in the other speaker. I much prefer the square waves on separate speakers, because it sounds amazing when they harmonize. I picked the method that I’m using because:

1. It’s a great sounding plugin.

2. It automates a lot of the process so I can focus on the details.

3. It provides consistency in quality, meaning that:
a. The songs are tagged similarly.
b. They’re all the same volume.
c. The stereophonic effect stays the same throughout albums.

4. There are more options provided than in other plugins or by using hardware.

I’ve downloaded a lot of NES tracks over the years, and ended up with a collection where the quality was inconsistent, I’d have to raise and lower the volume depending on who ripped what, and the loops weren’t the same. (Some would only play without once without looping! WTF?)

So, that’s my motive here. I’m sorry if things don’t sound 100% the way that some people want, but you can’t please all the people, all the time. I’m just happy that I can provide some excellent nostalgic tunes to people who appreciate it.

OK! That being said, there’s some requests up! Captain Tsubasa III, IV, and V! I know V wasn’t requested, but I can’t just upload part of a series. :-O
They’re mirrored on MEGA too, because it would be kind of lame of me to put them on DropBox while it’s suspended.

Enjoy them! Rama, I’ll get your latest batch done today. 🙂

In any case, Armadillo, B-Wings, Bomberman, Captain America and the Avengers, Chou Jikuu Yousai Macross, Choujin Sentai – Jetman, and Kabuki Quantum Fighter are up!

Dropbox is still down… I’m wondering if it’s permanent. Oh well, use MEGA for now, and I’ll work on getting the SNES, Genesis, etc. titles over to MEGA within the next few days.

There’s a Super Nintendo update up!

The Mega Man series: 7, X, X2, and X3 – I have to admit, I only owned Mega Man 2 growing up… I beat it over and over again and loved it, for some reason never really gave the others a chance.
Super Adventure Island – It’s Yuzo Koshiro. Duh. Seriously, I kind of hate this game. I rented it as a kid and was like, "what is this crap?" But I played it just to get to the new music so I could record it onto cassette. Deepest bass I’ve ever heard in a game. Such good music.
Super Mario All-Stars – Koji Kondo did a fantastic job updating his 3 soundtracks into the SPC700 format. It’s nostalgic deja-vu all over again!
Super Scope 6 – There’s some really cool tunes on this one, and a lot of variation. I really like how Nintendo would experiment with music on their 1st party titles. There’s some very unique concepts at work here.

OK, so the two Rocket Knight games, and the Adventures of Lolo series will be up next, followed by the two previous Adventure Island NES titles. Good thing it’s a long weekend in the US! No work tomorrow! 🙂

In any case, Armadillo, B-Wings, Bomberman, Captain America and the Avengers, Chou Jikuu Yousai Macross, Choujin Sentai – Jetman, and Kabuki Quantum Fighter are up!

Dropbox is still down… I’m wondering if it’s permanent. Oh well, use MEGA for now, and I’ll work on getting the SNES, Genesis, etc. titles over to MEGA within the next few days.

Wonderful! I chose Armadillo because here in Indonesia, the seller changed the title to Mario IV so many people stupidly bought it including me. B-Wings? Nobody could replace the "after school hour" I spent with it! Captain Ameria and Jetman; both I gave the NSFEs to you because those tow were great, and Kabuki Quantum Fighter also has nice tunes but seems like not many people know about it.

There’s a Super Nintendo update up!

The Mega Man series: 7, X, X2, and X3 – I have to admit, I only owned Mega Man 2 growing up… I beat it over and over again and loved it, for some reason never really gave the others a chance.
Super Adventure Island – It’s Yuzo Koshiro. Duh. Seriously, I kind of hate this game. I rented it as a kid and was like, "what is this crap?" But I played it just to get to the new music so I could record it onto cassette. Deepest bass I’ve ever heard in a game. Such good music.
Super Mario All-Stars – Koji Kondo did a fantastic job updating his 3 soundtracks into the SPC700 format. It’s nostalgic deja-vu all over again!
Super Scope 6 – There’s some really cool tunes on this one, and a lot of variation. I really like how Nintendo would experiment with music on their 1st party titles. There’s some very unique concepts at work here.

OK, so the two Rocket Knight games, and the Adventures of Lolo series will be up next, followed by the two previous Adventure Island NES titles. Good thing it’s a long weekend in the US! No work tomorrow! 🙂

There’s actually 3 Rocket Knight games :X

I really like Kabuki Quantum Fighter’s music. It’s very Japanese, with kind of a glitchy industrial techno thing going on in parts. Really cool stuff!

There’s actually 3 Rocket Knight games :X

If you wanna get really technical about it, there’s 2 Rocket Knight games, and one Sparkster game… but I know what you mean 😉 Don’t worry, I’ll have all 3 soundtracks uploaded!

Also, Adventure Island 1 and 2 and Adventures of Lolo 1, 2, and 3! I was pretty impressed with 3’s music… it was kind of a surprise.

Happy Labor Day to the US folks!

The Portable Music Archive (http://snesmusic.org/pmh/) will be releasing a tagged version of it relatively soon. Once it’s up, I’ll convert it and post it. I don’t have a solid ETA for it, though.

Oh, and how to fix the title bug? The title shown does not match the actual song. I believe when I rearrange the track, Winamp still play it using the original playlist from the NSF.

Oh, and how to fix the title bug? The title shown does not match the actual song. I believe when I rearrange the track, Winamp still play it using the original playlist from the NSF.

Sent, although the news is a little disappointing… Winamp still doesn’t work that great. 🙁

But, be happy! NEW UPDATE!!!1!!

First up are the Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys soundtracks for the NES and the SNES. It’s one of the rare occasions where the NES music composition is virtually identical to the SNES… and they both sound great. So, I decided to do a little Snes/NES mashup and combine the two versions of one of my favorite tracks, called "Be Careful." I alternated the melody of the SNES and NES throughout, played both during the times where they harmonize perfectly, and stripped the drums track of the SNES version out and played it through the whole thing to give it a bit more cohesion. Give it a listen and tell me what you think! If you like it, I may do something else like it in the future!

Ys 3 Be Careful (ruiner9 SnesNES Mix) (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109623321/Ys3%20Be%20Careful%20%28SnesNES%20Mix%29.mp3) MIRROR (https://mega.co.nz/#!5lsQ1RYZ!NCKJ4zbo1IwANgwDCWeNU3CbxK9WIrfpdkg4GmW M87Y)

OK! Also up is Zombie Nation for the NES. Kind of an interesting soundtrack. It uses lots of samples and sounds pretty unique compared to a lot of stuff out there.

Next up is a special bonus: a collection of SNES Demo and Trainer Music. You know the music that plays in ROMs where you can put in cheats, or there’s some flashy loopy graphics before you start the game? Usually the music on those things is rad, and this is about 90 minutes of those tunes collected in one album. There’s some really awesome stuff in there, ranging from experimental, to techno, to hip hop. Definitely check it out!

I’ll be out and about today, so I won’t be back online till very late tonight. Shoot me some requests! 🙂

Enjoy!

Uploaded!

Yeah, good call… Super Double Dragon had a pretty good soundtrack… I was listening to "Mission 1" and it reminded me so much of the "Subway" theme from Sengoku Denshou, that I had to look at the composers to see if it was the same dude. It wasn’t, but I uploaded it anyways, because it has some really good tracks. For those that don’t know, Sengoku Denshou is a Japan-only port of the first Sengoku Neo-Geo game to the SNES. While the Neo-Geo version had mostly traditional Japanese ambient music, they decided to spice the SNES version up with some very hip-hip and jazz inspired music. It’s a favorite OST of mine.

I see you have Journey to Silius…why not add Gleylancer (Genesis) and Water World (SNES) to your collection? While Gleylancer is just very melodic, Waterworld reached maximum of snes synthing possibilities

Also good choices! I’ll work on getting those up soon. Waterworld is pretty mind-blowing, and I’ve never heard Gleylancer’s music, but I’m looking forward to checking it out!

Yeah unfortunately the GBA player isn’t that great. The tracks are listenable, but it’s not as clear as the 8 and 16 bit consoles. Work stopped on the decoders a long time ago so it’s probably the best it’s gonna get unless someone picks the work back up again.

For those that don’t know, Sengoku Denshou is a Japan-only port of the first Sengoku Neo-Geo game to the SNES. While the Neo-Geo version had mostly traditional Japanese ambient music, they decided to spice the SNES version up with some very hip-hip and jazz inspired music. It’s a favorite OST of mine.

If you like the soundtrack to Sengoku Denshou for the SNES, you might love Zoku: Legend of Bishin for the SNES. 2 of my favorite composers, Osamu Kido and Takeshi Sakamoto composed the music to that one as well as Sengoku Denshou for the SNES.

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Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys[/B] soundtracks for the NES and the SNES. It’s one of the rare occasions where the NES music composition is virtually identical to the SNES… and they both sound great. So, I decided to do a little Snes/NES mashup and combine the two versions of one of my favorite tracks, called "Be Careful." I alternated the melody of the SNES and NES throughout, played both during the times where they harmonize perfectly, and stripped the drums track of the SNES version out and played it through the whole thing to give it a bit more cohesion. Give it a listen and tell me what you think! If you like it, I may do something else like it in the future!

Ys 3 Be Careful (ruiner9 SnesNES Mix) (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109623321/Ys3%20Be%20Careful%20%28SnesNES%20Mix%29.mp3) MIRROR (https://mega.co.nz/#!5lsQ1RYZ!NCKJ4zbo1IwANgwDCWeNU3CbxK9WIrfpdkg4GmW M87Y)

Dude, I LOVE the SNES version’s soundtrack to YS III- I wonder if you can rip the entire sound driver used from that game and make your own custom music, and have it downloadable to the people who compose video game remixes?

Ha, I wish I was able to do that! All I did to separate the drum track was mute the other channels during the SPC playback. As far as I know, the only sound driver that’s been successfully ripped and widely used is the Mario World driver over at SMWCentral.

I’ve been slow on the requests lately, and I apologize. I work for a school system, and all the kids are back this week, and it’s been crazy, so I haven’t been able to make as many albums as I would like to. Also, I’m going on vacation/ holiday this weekend, so I won’t be at my computer from now till Tuesday. 🙁

But!

To tide you over, I have 6 awesome soundtracks for you to listen to:

Genesis

Captain America and the Avengers – By request. A nice piece of work. I forgot how hard this game was!
Gleylancer 90 minutes of upbeat, heroic action music. This is really good stuff. I think maybe I’ll play this game on my phone while I’m away.
Midnight Resistance – Another Data East title. Quality tunes. Worth a listen, too.

SNES

Bishin Densetsu Zoku – All I can say is, THE DRUMS ARE VERY POWERFUL ON THIS ONE! It sounds very similar to Sengoku Denshou, but less jazzy and more aggressive. Thanks for the recommendation, Evolution01!
Hyper Zone – Guys. Oh my god, guys. This is it. Jun Ishikawa’s music is amazing. The game plays like F-Zero’s challenged little brother on LSD, but that MUSIC! Dancey, clear, well-produced. And this was basically a LAUNCH TITLE! Listen to it. NOW.
Waterworld – The opposite of Hyper Zone. Clear, serene, relaxing. Very cinematic, and very well-produced. I guess this game never came out in the states, which is why I wasn’t familiar with it. But I could listen to that music while I fall asleep, like, every single night.

So, enjoy, guys! Think of some requests I can fill once I come back from riding 790,845 roller coasters! And I’ll have access to the web, so if you wanna talk soundtracks/ composers, I’ll definitely be able to respond.

Cheers! 🙂

I’ve been slow on the requests lately, and I apologize. I work for a school system, and all the kids are back this week, and it’s been crazy, so I haven’t been able to make as many albums as I would like to. Also, I’m going on vacation/ holiday this weekend, so I won’t be at my computer from now till Tuesday. 🙁

But!

To tide you over, I have 6 awesome soundtracks for you to listen to:

Genesis

Captain America and the Avengers – By request. A nice piece of work. I forgot how hard this game was!
Gleylancer 90 minutes of upbeat, heroic action music. This is really good stuff. I think maybe I’ll play this game on my phone while I’m away.
Midnight Resistance – Another Data East title. Quality tunes. Worth a listen, too.

SNES

Bishin Densetsu Zoku – All I can say is, THE DRUMS ARE VERY POWERFUL ON THIS ONE! It sounds very similar to Sengoku Denshou, but less jazzy and more aggressive. Thanks for the recommendation, Evolution01!
Hyper Zone – Guys. Oh my god, guys. This is it. Jun Ishikawa’s music is amazing. The game plays like F-Zero’s challenged little brother on LSD, but that MUSIC! Dancey, clear, well-produced. And this was basically a LAUNCH TITLE! Listen to it. NOW.
Waterworld – The opposite of Hyper Zone. Clear, serene, relaxing. Very cinematic, and very well-produced. I guess this game never came out in the states, which is why I wasn’t familiar with it. But I could listen to that music while I fall asleep, like, every single night.

So, enjoy, guys! Think of some requests I can fill once I come back from riding 790,845 roller coasters! And I’ll have access to the web, so if you wanna talk soundtracks/ composers, I’ll definitely be able to respond.

Cheers! 🙂

You are welcome dude- Osamu Kido and Takeshi Sakamoto are another 2 of my favorite composers. I just like their soundtrack to Zoku a lot better than Sengoku Densyo on the SNES a lot better because of the hard drums, and the rockin’ tunes it has on that soundtrack.

According to MobyGames, Takeshi worked on Mario Baseball in 2005, but Kido is nowhere to be found.

I see. So I guess maybe Osamu Kido must’ve retired from the game industry. What other games did those 2 work on besides Sengoku Densyou and Zoku Legend of Bishin? Have they done any games for the Play Station?

Requesting a couple oldies:

Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Solar Striker
Tetris (Tengen)
Dragon Power (aka the first Dragonball Famicom game)

Honestly, Sengoku Denshou, Bishin Densetsu Zoku, and Mario Baseball were all I could find. It’s a shame, really. They were pretty good. Now I wanna hear the baseball ost to see if I can pick out what Takeshi composed. 🙂

Happy 14th Birthday Dreamcast!

But other than that, it’s also the 20th anniversary of one of the coolest Genesis titles out there – Gunstar Heroes!

So to celebrate, Overclocked Remix (http://gunstar.ocremix.org/) has put out a brand new 2-CD remix album with some amazing soundtrack remakes, and I’ve gone and uploaded the original soundtrack to accompany it. Enjoy one of the games that put Treasure on the map! (Pun intended!)

I’ve filled a few requests:

GameBoy:

Super Mario Land – Hiro Tanaka’s first foray into Mario music. I wonder why Koji Kondo wasn’t available? Anyways, the first world theme is just as memorable as the original’s was.
Super Mario Land 2 – 6 Golden Coins – One of the most technically impressive GB games. The music is pretty good, but I don’t think it’s on par with Kondo’s work.
Solar Striker – Some very simple melodies to keep you shooting the baddies.

NES:

Tetris (Tengen Version) – A lot different from the licensed version, and although this version plays better than the original, the Nintendo soundtrack is much better.

Genesis:

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse – A very lighthearted OST, with whimsical themes. It sounds a little different in emulation than on the real console, but dare I say it sounds…. better, in parts? :-0
Castlevania Bloodlines – Some romping versions of everyone’s favorite Castlevania tunes, like Bloody Tears and Vampire Killer. Worth a listen!

I still have some more requests to fill, so I’ll be working on those tonight. In the meantime, enjoy these!

I originally just started with NES games in stereo, but then I realized I had access to a lot of other console files that were pretty obscure and/ or hard to find, so I figured I’d start taking requests for those, too. So, no… I don’t really DO anything to them except make sure they sound as good as possible, and are tagged as well as possible, too. 🙂

We’ll start with the Genesis stuff:

Vectorman 1+2 – I never played Vectorman. I didn’t have a Genesis until well after model 2 came out, and the price dropped low enough that it was worthwhile. So I didn’t get to play very many of these games. It’s sad, because Vectorman looks really awesome, and the soundtrack is equally rad. Maybe I’ll dig the cart out of a bargain bin somewhere and play it.

TiTAN OVERDRIVE Demo – Not really a game, per say, but this is being hailed as the most technologically superior piece of Genesis software ever conceived. The music was incredible, so I made my own VGM rip in Kega and encoded it to MP3. I think it sounds a little better than the mp3 they put up on their site, but that could just be my ego talking. 🙂 You should either download the demo ROM or watch the YouTube video… it’ll knock your shoes off.

And the NES stuff:

Contra Force and Super C – Gotta complete the Contra NES series, right? Some nice melodies here… music suitable for shooting aliens and making everything go kablooey.

Dragon Power – This was secretly the original Dragon Ball game "Americanized" for us folks in the USA. I tried it. It was… OK. But then again, I don’t watch DB or DBZ.

Rush ‘n Attack – *Breeeeeyow! Breeeeeyow!* Ha, that siren brought back memories. Rama requested this one and Contra Force a while back and I totally missed it. My apologies, dude! Here it is! The guys who worked on this soundtrack went on to create lots of other famous games.

From VGM Daily:

"Rush ’n Attack‘s console port was composed by four guys. Shinya Sakamoto was one of Konami’s main composers for the NES, working on Life Force and The Castlevania Adventure among others. Another composer, Iku Mizutani, found his way to composing Metal Gear on the MSX before leaving to compose Shadow of the Ninja for Natsume (he now works at THQ). Hevimeta Satoe (Heavy Metal Satoe) is an alias for an unknown composer. He worked with most of the other team on King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch for the Famicom (another fun soundtrack). Lastly, Masanori Adachi had a rather prolific history, composing Contra III: The Alien Wars, Suikoden, and Little King’s Story."

Pretty rad! Hey, Contra III. That’s a good one. And maybe Contra Hard Corps on the Genesis. Yes. I’ll do those next.

Any more requests?

Oops! They’re fixed now. Thanks for the tip!

Contra III – The Alien Wars was a Super Nintendo classic. The sound effects were loud and crazy, the music was cinematic and driving… the whole game just rocked.
Contra: Hard Corps was like Alien Wars on steroids. A lot of the Treasure development team worked on it, so there were tons of wacky bosses, and the difficulty was through the roof. There’s about an hour of excellent music in the album!

Also, I’ve separated out the Sega CD tunes into their own section. I think I’ll be adding more in the future, and the tracks sound so different from the Genesis tunes,that I wanted to break them away.

Speaking of Sega CD, I’ve added Silpheed. The music in the actual game is pretty hard to hear, with the explosions and radio chatter going on all the time. Separated out, and with the bitrate increased a bit via the VGM player, it really shows how excellent the tracks are! The tracks labeled (demo) in the album are rips from the FMV sequences in the game, so the quality is noticeably lower than the actual game music. If you haven’t played the game before, check it out, especially if you like shoot ’em ups!

So, ever hear of Alien Soldier?

Around 1995, Treasure kind of lost it’s mind for a while, and decided they were going to make the hardest, fastest, most ridiculous console game ever. The result was this game. See where it says "Now is time to the 68000 heart on fire?" Yeah, they’re talking about running Sega’s Motorola x68000 processor to it’s absolute limits… ON THE TITLE SCREEN. Insanity. It’s got about an hour’s worth of frenetic music that most people never hear, because they can’t get very far in the game (I’ve only made it to level 2 without Game Genie codes.) Well, now you can hear it, cuz it’s uploaded!

And, to get back to roots a little, there’s two Data East titles in the NES section – Bad Dudes and Joe & Mac Caveman Ninja. I like both soundtracks, but they’re too short. The SNES Joe & Mac music was top notch, and I’ll be putting that up in the near future.

As always, I hope you dig ’em!

I am searching for music rip from a NES pirated multicart called Super
190 in 1. It actually has other variants like 100 in 1 function 16. It
has awesome menu music.

If you happen to find it please rip it for me.

An NSF of an obscure Chinese pirate cart? Too hard a request to fill? Well, I happen to own both multicarts he mentioned! And, the music from both are actually from a Japanese-only retail game called Booby Kids.

Yes, that wasn’t a typo. Booby Kids.

The game has really good music, and tracks 4 and 10 are the menu themes from the multicart titles. If you guys want to stump me, you have to try harder! 😉

Castlevania Adventure – GameBoy GBS Music – Zophar’s Domain (http://www.zophar.net/music/gbs/castlevania-adventure.html)

I tried to do it myself with nezplug but it was an endless loop.

It has over 12 hours of music. 🙂

https://mega.co.nz/#!wYBF3LSb!ejX6iSTj2gle9SUA1n6rQkUxWmVnP4fCGSzuevN gNVo – PSFs

Only if it’s line-out, and not inaccurate off-sounding emulated BS. 🙂

.psf and .usf and their plugins are especially BS, from my experience. As well as the Genesis .vgm players.

What track NUMBERS are they on the GBS file?

You want PSX? I give you PSX! Do this and you are pretty much god-tier:
Sound Novel Evolution: Machi – Unmei no Kousaten

It has over 12 hours of music. 🙂

https://mega.co.nz/#!wYBF3LSb!ejX6iSTj2gle9SUA1n6rQkUxWmVnP4fCGSzuevN gNVo – PSFs

I’m gonna do it! I’m just curious to see how much space it takes up. Obviously, I won’t leave it up permanently. I’ll probably have to do split-rar files.

Only if it’s line-out, and not inaccurate off-sounding emulated BS. 🙂

.psf and .usf and their plugins are especially BS, from my experience. As well as the Genesis .vgm players.

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=733315&d=1374169256

I’ll have a couple more uploads later on today, including one of my favorite N64 "inaccurate sounding BS" soundtracks! Personally, I think the upsampled N64 soundtracks sound a million times better.

But hey, here I am, going against my own sign. 🙂

Dark Lord – I totally found this NES game by accident. It’s a Japanese RPG-style game with combat that’s kind of Zelda, and kind of Final Fantasy. The music is beautifully done. The songs have great melodies and sound fantastic in stereo. It was so good, that I searched out the English translation of the game and patched the ROM so that I could play more of it. Give it a listen.

Joe and Mac – I recorded this to cassette back in the day, and used to listen to it on my Walkman when I went for rides in the family car. The sound samples are clear as a bell, and there’s a nice tribal feel to the beats, with vocal samples in a few tracks. This one brought back memories.

Beetle Adventure Racing! – Anyone who wants to argue about N64 tracks sounding terrible need only download this one to be proven wrong. I listened to the whole thing in the car on the way to work and I was actually impressed with myself in how well it came out. This game had some great music, and if you like the early Chemical Brothers albums, or any sort of acid jazz, or just some really well-produced beats and grooves, check it out. And after hearing how much clearer everything sounds here than on a real N64, you might want to request some other games for me to upload. 🙂

I should have some time today to do more albums (and BTW Lefance, your request is still processing on my home computer! It ended up being 4GB of wav files. :-O )

What else can I put up today?

Lefance — Here you go:

Sound Novel Evolution: Machi – Unmei no Kousaten

Part 1 (https://mega.co.nz/#!o88mBZxC!ThiE4xIitewK92IDPXxjyTyXN-V_SzMYBVwHj0aFpog)
Part 2 (https://mega.co.nz/#!ttEHiLYJ!OE_NsmRAnUB9NKxcp350knMhVTAEKmy0Sbls8oj VbZM)
Part 3 (https://mega.co.nz/#!JwMSwTSZ!LUseLRmUROJSwEAYP31yd3dUGm8fVg4wBuMoKma QPM0)
Part 4 (https://mega.co.nz/#!pod2mIxR!d-rs2xOESbpYKs9MR7zxCnJPjHwJIeYKc2mJBC4eXiM)
Part 5 (https://mega.co.nz/#!UtlVzDgB!d6sOBgeZMPyAzrUjF9Gpqw3-Gcd_KiVt4dtdHEL-sFo)
Part 6 (https://mega.co.nz/#!Jt1XjRpC!QvDsEQbZwZEHxqL0MnaHjmgFrKx_CnRuGmHaHxK Xb8I)

The music is pretty nice! Some cool jazz, some piano, some bouncy j-pop parts…. but man, that unnamed composer must have had a LOT of work to do to make this thing!

uut – Castlevania – The Adventure has been updated with the missing tracks. I found a complete version so I ripped the whole thing over again. Just redownload it!

There was an OST for this game but it is impossible to find, but as far as I know, the one who made the psf rip, took some songs from the OST so this should be very complete. Awesome work! Did you know that Machi was ranked as the second (or was it third) best game ever in Japan a few years ago… There is also a PSP version.

There was an OST for this game but it is impossible to find, but as far as I know, the one who made the psf rip, took some songs from the OST so this should be very complete. Awesome work! Did you know that Machi was ranked as the second (or was it third) best game ever in Japan a few years ago… There is also a PSP version.

I don’t think a sound novel would ever be considered even CLOSE to a "best game ever" list in the USA… everyone wants their Call of Duty here. 😛

I have two requested uploads going up in a few minutes! Both Kirby’s Dream Land games for the GameBoy and GBC. The first (and most classic) soundtrack was written by Jun Ishikawa, who you may remember I was gushing about when I uploaded Hyper Zone a while back. Everybody loves Kirby!

My next project is the entire Mario Kart lineage from SNES to DS. I have some new GBA and DS decoders which I’m testing out, which are promising to be better than what’s publicly available. I’ll give them a test listen and put them up tonight if they get my stamp of approval.

Enjoy!

Also, because I don’t know why I haven’t yet, I added the first 2 Streets of Rage games. The first one is one of the Genesis’s most famous soundtracks, and rightly so. Yuzo Koshiro made great use of the FM synth, and the high hats actually sound like high hats! Welll… almost.

I’ll add the third game later this evening or tomorrow!

Rygar – Certainly a classic. The super-heroic tunes really brought back memories. Kind of reminds of Metroid in places, a little.
Yoshi’s Cookie – Now THESE are some chill tunes. Even the "hurry up!" music sounds relaxed! I love the reggae sound in the single player tracks.
ZEN: Intergalactic Ninja – An often-overlooked Konami title that’s the opposite of Yoshi’s Cookie: Very fast-paced and full of that Konami percussion that’s in all their NES titles.

And on the Genesis side:

Streets of Rage 3 – I used to think this soundtrack was just crazy noise pretending to be musc. I guess after listening to lots of dubstep and Aphex Twin, I’ve learned to listen to it as music, and it’s actually an amazing piece of work. This and Contra Hard Corps are now my favorite Genesis soundtracks.

Enjoy! I’ll be in all weekend, so throw me some crazy requests!

-Sound Novel Evolution 2: Kamaitachi no Yoru Tokubetsu Hen

Give me a holla if you can’t find psfs.

On the other note, I am going to try playing Machi on PSP. For some weird reason it didn’t work with the firmware I got a long time ago, so I hope it works with this way newer one. If it still doesn’t work… heck, I am gonna play the PSX version then. 🙂

-Sound Novel Evolution 2: Kamaitachi no Yoru Tokubetsu Hen

Give me a holla if you can’t find psfs.

On the other note, I am going to try playing Machi on PSP. For some weird reason it didn’t work with the firmware I got a long time ago, so I hope it works with this way newer one. If it still doesn’t work… heck, I am gonna play the PSX version then. 🙂

If I understood a word of Japanese, I’d play along with you!

So SNE2 is only 2 hours and 40 minutes? That’s nothing! 🙂

Can I take down SNE3? Did you finish downloading it?

It works and…wow, Machi has 120 bad ends 😀 😀 That is quite a lot. And the game is extremely text-heavy, gotta give it time sometimes.

Sound Novel Evolution 2: Kamaitachi no Yoru Tokubetsu Hen (https://mega.co.nz/#!s5M1TYQY!EyWL9QMybe31uzfH8gFgKCcS3tFt92TqqFIkkd4 yb8E)

Enjoy! I think I like SNE3’s soundtrack a little better, though.

Oh and Iron Tank!

And if ya want something awesome thats a bit more obscure, Chaos World by Natsume. One of the best soundtracks no one seems to talk about, I could listen to the menu music forever. 😀

Oh and Iron Tank!

River City Ransom is up! I forgot how awesome that soundtrack was! Iron Tank is listed as Great T.A.N.K. so it’s already there. 🙂

Could you upload a ZIP file of Kirbys Adventure

Kirby’s Adventure is already in the NES section. If you need a program to open the file, use 7Zip at this page (http://www.7-zip.org/download.html). It’s free, and handles almost any compressed file you can throw at it.

So a couple requests for NES soundtracks: biggies for me are both StarTropics games.

And if ya want something awesome thats a bit more obscure, Chaos World by Natsume. One of the best soundtracks no one seems to talk about, I could listen to the menu music forever. 😀

Both StarTropics are up! This is like, the most tropical soundtrack for an RPG ever. Even the music from the spaceship level sounded like island music. Also, Chaos World is here, too. I had never heard it before, but as soon as I heard the title theme, I was like, "This is pretty good. And… it sounds like Konami music?" That’s when I found out the composers worked on Rush ‘n Attack and some other Konami titles back in the day, as well as the Power Rangers SNES games from Bandai. Not a bad resume!

Also, I uploaded Thunder Fox in the Genesis section, because I played through it while I was recovering from some surgery over the weekend and the first level music totally got stuck in my head. I love those big, juicy drum samples.

Enjoy, and throw me some more requests! 🙂

The only other stuff I like but don’t see on the list yet, hmmm… Well there’s Destiny of an Emperor, Life Force, and Shatterhand. And since Yoshi’s Cookie is in there, there’s also Yoshi (some regions called it Mario & Yoshi) which has some nice music. Oh, and Wario’s Woods! That one’s on the NES and SNES and both have different tracks, I think both are nice for different reasons.

The only other stuff I like but don’t see on the list yet, hmmm… Well there’s Destiny of an Emperor, Life Force, and Shatterhand. And since Yoshi’s Cookie is in there, there’s also Yoshi (some regions called it Mario & Yoshi) which has some nice music. Oh, and Wario’s Woods! That one’s on the NES and SNES and both have different tracks, I think both are nice for different reasons.

Destiny of an Emperor is really good. Thanks for reminding me of that one! Also, Life Force and Shatterhand (which is amazing!) I’m working on Yoshi and Wario’s Woods… they’ll be up soon!

Do you have the audio from the gold cartridge 1990 Nintendo world championship?

I do, actually! It’s freshly uploaded. There’s not much original music, just four short tracks, but it’s very typical Koji Kondo/ "HIP" Tanaka stuff that nobody gets to hear a lot. I mean, technically the full soundtrack includes Super Mario Bros, Rad Racer, and Tetris, but those are all already uploaded, so you can make your own full soundtrack if you wish. 🙂

SNES stuff is in the works, ghdude! SMB RPG is like 2 hours worth of tracks!

On the SNES, we have Star Fox, Super Mario RPG, Legend of Zelda – A Link to the Past, Kirby Super Star, and Wolverine – Admantium Rage. All (except Wolverine) are requested Nintendo classics. I added Wolverine because the music is very… unique. It… like… TRIES to be good, but fails in a weird way. There’s some really neat tracks, but the rest is kind of embarrassing. And there’s almost an hour’s worth of it. Yep.

On the NES, two requests: Yoshi and Wario’s Woods. Both are puzzly Nintendo-published games that came out late in the NES’s life, and they both have those trademark Ninty whimsical tunes.

There’s a lot of music there… enjoy it!

Anyone know of any worthy TG16/ PC Engine game music out there? I have a few, but I want to have a bunch before I put the section up.

Hmm, well, I haven’t considered doing CD music. What do you suggest?

Also i have a question – you have so many nes music here, what can you recommend that would sound close to Follin works (besides his, of course) or megami tensei 2?
because most 8bit is too abstract for me

Also i have a question – you have so many nes music here, what can you recommend that would sound close to Follin works (besides his, of course) or megami tensei 2?
because most 8bit is too abstract for me

I’ll check those out! If I can improve upon the sound that’s been posted here already, or if I can’t find it at all, I’ll upload it.

As far as game music that sounds like the Follins’ stuff? …that’s tough. The closest you’ll come to is David Wise (gameography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wise_(composer))) and David Warhol (gameography (http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=David_Warhol).) They both had more of an American/ UK rock sound in their compositions, like Tim Follin. Also, I recommend the Sunsoft titles Fester’s Quest, Mr. Gimmick!, Batman, and Batman – Return of the Joker because they use extra sound channels that make them sound a bit more advanced than normal NES sounds. Start with Mr. Gimmick! since it has the best composition out of all of them.

Herzog Zwei – I have a bunch of old Genesis carts that I’ve accumulated over the years, some were bought, some were just given to me. One of those freebies was this game. I threw it in my trusty JVC X’Eye a couple days ago to check it out, and I had no idea what the heck I was doing. Some weird ship flew around that I could turn into a robot, and it would shoot bullets, and I could blow up the blue ship/ robot, but I couldn’t do much else. Anyways, the music was AMAZING… well, the 3 tracks I heard anyways. So I listened to the rest on the PC and was blown away. I ripped it right away so you guys could enjoy it. It’s up now!

Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker – OK, so the game isn’t that great, and kind of fails compared to the arcade version, but the Genesis interpretations of MJ’s hit songs actually sound pretty good! I figured an upload was worthwhile.

Knivesman – I’m pretty sure I have a few of those discs at home. I’ll see what I can do this evening!

Also, a first for this thread… CD Audio! Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire is an amazing shooter on the PC Engine CD, and the soundtrack is full of slick electronics meeting crazy guitar riffs.

Enjoy them!

By any chance do you have the genesis OST for Quackshot?

And secondly, Quackshot. Written by Kamiya Studio, who also scored Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. Very whimsical stuff. I like it!

I’ve been really getting into Genesis/ MD music lately. I need more stuff that sounds like Contra Hard Corps and Hybrid Front: Dancy, heavy, almost industrial tunes. What else out there sounds like these games?

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Looks like somebody went crazy on the downloads and suspended my Dropbox account for 24 hours. Please use MEGA right now, and go easy on it please! 🙂

EDIT: Did anyone find the tags on the Super Mario 3 (NES) soundtrack weren’t correct?

EDIT: Did anyone find the tags on the Super Mario 3 (NES) soundtrack weren’t correct?

Ah, thanks for catching that. They’re fixed, just re-download the album!

Also, two more PC Engine CD soundtracks… Lords of Thunder and Rayxanber III are up. Man, they really liked their ridiculous guitar solos back then, didn’t they? 🙂

Enjoy!

(btw, anyone want the Sonic games?)

Well I can’t just add awesome music without explaining why I chose it, right? 🙂 Thanks for the kind words!

So, guys… why didn’t anyone tell me about Mega Turrican? Oh.. My.. GOOBERS, this is one heck of a soundtrack. Chris Hulsbeck is a pretty righteous dude. Definitely check this one out.

I’ve also included Super Turrican 1 and 2, both also composed by Hulsbeck. I gotta say, I’m really not a huge fan of the 2nd one… both the music and the game itself seem a little thrown together. However, the ending music is like 8 minutes long and pretty incredible. It’s worth the download just for that track alone.

And we’ve got another PC Engine CD soundtrack… Cho Aniki! This game series got gayer as it went on, and I don’t mean "gay" as in "bad," I mean it as in, "homosexual." They’re really fun to play, if you can keep your eyes dry from laughing so hard. I couldn’t find a tracklisting that wasn’t in Japanese, so I used Google Translate to get the tracknames, and then used a little bit of artistic license to make them make more sense. Still, they sound pretty absurd anyways. 😛

It’s the weekend! I have no idea what albums I’m going to do next, but I promise they’ll be cool!

Thanks so much for all of the uploads. Between this thread and The Iron Goat’s posts I’ve found a lot of VGM I was looking for, including a few soundtrack I can’t seem to find elsewhere. Your work is much appreciated.

If I could make a few requests/recommendations, I’d be interested in uploads of Undead Line, Super Fantasy Zone and Outrun for the Genesis. Outrun has some classic tunes, Super Fantasy Zone is a candy-colored horizontal shooter with an upbeat, poppy soundtrack, and Undead Line is an obscure fantasy-themed vertical scrolling shooter with a good mix of Genesis rock and more moody tracks.

Thank you!

EDIT: Sorry, it’s asking for a password on the Mega mirror?

EDIT: Sorry, it’s asking for a password on the Mega mirror?

OK, there was an extra space at the end of the download link. I tested it, it’s working, so NOW you can download it. Sorry about that.

Coming up later today: Undead Line, Fantasy Zone, and Flashback: The Quest for Identity (GEN and SNES!)

So here’s what’s on the menu today:

Flashback – I love this game. I own it on every platform it was ever released on, including the PC and Jaguar version. The music isn’t anything that’s going to make your pants fall off, but it has a certain cinematic quality to it that really complements the gameplay. If you’re gonna download one version, get the Genesis version… it has more music, and I think it actually sounds a little better.

Outrun – Kind of silly to have OutRunners without Outrun, right? So these are the original versions of a lot of the tunes in the sequel. Classics!

Super Fantasy Zone – This game both looks and sounds like an SNES game. Vibrant colors, a sample-heavy, bright soundtrack without the FM synth so often found in Genesis music, and simpler gameplay all seem very much like it was made for Nintendo’s platform. That said, the music is really quite awesome! This and Mega Turrican are my two awesome finds of the week. This is why I love requests! Thanks, Elwood!

Undead Line – If somebody had decided to take Castlevania and make a vertical shoot ’em up out of it, this would probably be it. Crazy bosses, crazy levels, some endlessly running dude that doesn’t even stop jogging when the screen stops… this game has it all! I played all the way through it last night, and it is TOUGH. If you try to play it, use the flamethrower weapon. Destroys everyone super fast!

I also just played through Wings of Wor and thought it was pretty cool… kind of like a horizontally-scrolling Castlevania shmup. I’m noticing a trend here…. Maybe I’ll upload that soon.

Enjoy the albums! And as always, throw me some requests!

Man, you’re quick! I just put the MEGA link up 🙂

OK, here’s two games which have more or less been forgotten over the years:

Felix the Cat – A late release by Hudson Soft, coming out in ’92. The game looks pretty good from the YouTube videos I’ve seen, and the music is very good, too. I think the license is where they went wrong; Who cares about Felix the Cat? I mean, *I* don’t. 😛

Home Alone 2 – Lost in New York – Also a 1992 game, this one won numerous awards… for being the worst game of the year. The very prolific Mark van Hecke (http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Mark_Van_Hecke) wrote the music, though, and it seems like he wasn’t as rushed as he had been on some other projects, because this one turned out quite well. George Sanger of Maniac Mansion fame wrote the first Home Alone game, so I’ll put that up sometime in the near future.

How’s everyone’s weekend going? It’s pretty gloomy in New England, but we’re gonna try to get to a town fair so my kiddos can sit in the fire trucks. They looooove fire trucks.

Not to get overzealous with the requests, but there are a few SNES games I’d love to see uploaded as well.

The big one for me is Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shōjo (aka Famicom Detective Club Part II). A murder mystery visual novel type game, I can’t seem to find a proper rip of the music anywhere. Some (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiEfain5LM) samples (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJc1ymUWe6Y) here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-peVd1-Sowk).

Other than that, I’d like to see Seiken Densetsu 3, Soul Blazer, Legend of the Mystical Ninja and Mario Paint.

Felix the Cat – A late release by Hudson Soft, coming out in ’92. The game looks pretty good from the YouTube videos I’ve seen, and the music is very good, too. I think the license is where they went wrong; Who cares about Felix the Cat? I mean, *I* don’t. 😛

Home Alone 2 – Lost in New York – Also a 1992 game, this one won numerous awards… for being the worst game of the year. The very prolific Mark van Hecke (http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Mark_Van_Hecke) wrote the music, though, and it seems like he wasn’t as rushed as he had been on some other projects, because this one turned out quite well. George Sanger of Maniac Mansion fame wrote the first Home Alone game, so I’ll put that up sometime in the near future.

How’s everyone’s weekend going? It’s pretty gloomy in New England, but we’re gonna try to get to a town fair so my kiddos can sit in the fire trucks. They looooove fire trucks.

Thank you so much! great memories off my childhood

OK, so to start off… the requests:

Famicom Tantei Club Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shōjo – Quite a long soundtrack full of expertly-composed jazzy tunes. It’s great chill-out music, but there’s some suspenseful stuff in there, too.
Mario Paint – Like the Super Scope 6 soundtrack, this one has a lot of the experimental stuff that Nintendo does in their first-party niche titles. Hiro "HIP" Tanaka worked on this one, and his influence is very apparent.
Legend of the Mystical Ninja – I played this one a bit as a kid. I think I rented it for a while until I finally beat it. I didn’t remember the soundtrack, but once I heard it, the oriental melodies and sweet basslines reminded me of the game. Good music here!
Seiken Densetsu 3 – What, like only 3 hours of music? No sweat! This one’s a big file, but worth it if you like excellently scored orchestral-style soundtracks. Oh, BTW, this is Secret of Mana 2, which never came out in the US, but there’s a great English translation patch out for it.
Soul Blazer – I don’t think I played this game. I normally stayed away from fantasy-style games as a kid, opting for the sci-fi or brawler-style games instead. The music is nice… kind of sweeping and march-like.

And the rest is stuff I discovered myself. Are you familiar with the name Jesper Kyd? Well, he composed the music for Assassin’s Creed, Hitman, Borderlands 2… all sorts of AAA titles. he got his start on the Amiga, though, and and the Genesis shortly afterward. So, I’ve uploaded his whole collection: The Adventures of Batman and Robin, AWS Pro Moves Soccer, Sub-Terrania, and Red Zone.

I had to break soundtrack convention when making his albums, because his tracks are SOOOO LOOONG that they ended up being over 2 hours for like, 18 tracks. So I’ve made them only play through once, with the exception of the very short soccer soundtrack. So if you like crazy hardcore industrial techno with a side of "how did the Genesis soundchip even DO that?", then download his stuff, and rock out. It’s really really good. I think the Genesis is becoming my favorite music system, which is nuts because I was a die-hard SNES music fan before I started making albums!

First up is Dynami Tracer, or BS Dynami Tracer on some sites, seeing as how it was a BS Satellaview game. It’s a very obscure game that never came out in cartridge format, and only in Japan. Square developed it, and the music was created by none other that Nobuo Uematsu! It’s not his usual stuff, though… no orchestration here. It’s really crazy music, made up of mostly vocal samples and beatboxing. Think of it like a cross between Panic! for the Sega CD and the excellent Katamari Damacy soundtracks. I urge you to give it a listen… it really shows off the SNES’s music strengths.

Secondly, another Japan-only release called Gunple: Gunman’s Proof. Imagine if Link had a sidearm in the Zelda games, and you’ll have an idea of what this is about. The music is maybe a little western, a little military…. but it’s all really good. The game is awesome too! It just came out too late in the SNES lifespan to make it’s way overseas.

Enjoy the albums! What else should I put up?

Monster Gate and Monster Gate 2 (two Japan-only, Mystery Dungeon-esque rogue likes). Some (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E70_Qeu7qPk) Examples (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHy0Gi6iqfI).
Tomato Adventure (an early game by the team who does the Mario & Luigi RPGs). Some (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2XnxI04MhM) examples (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIbHsHb2XOQ).

Otherwise here’s a few suggestions:
Super Adventure Island (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8sSX8GBdyw&list=PLCFADD588C5062E30&index=35), Treasure Conflix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mvRsxkWKCY), Timecop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOrU0NuV17E), and The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj1OX-d_chs) (SNES)
Alisia Dragoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC2c-hyoRq8), Lemmings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L9gVaHN6yU) (Genesis)

Monster Gate and Monster Gate 2 (two Japan-only, Mystery Dungeon-esque rogue likes). Some (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E70_Qeu7qPk) Examples (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHy0Gi6iqfI).
Tomato Adventure (an early game by the team who does the Mario & Luigi RPGs). Some (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2XnxI04MhM) examples (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIbHsHb2XOQ).

Otherwise here’s a few suggestions:
Super Adventure Island (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8sSX8GBdyw&list=PLCFADD588C5062E30&index=35), Treasure Conflix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mvRsxkWKCY), Timecop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOrU0NuV17E), and The Addams Family: Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj1OX-d_chs) (SNES)
Alisia Dragoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC2c-hyoRq8), Lemmings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L9gVaHN6yU) (Genesis)

It’s going to be quite a while before Tomato Adventure and the Monster Gate series games are even available on the web in gsf format… The Portable Music History (http://snesmusic.org/pmh/) archive has them listed, but they’re doing releases in chronological order, very slowly, and those titles are a ways off. I can definitely do the console releases though. Super Adventure Island is there already (you must have missed it!) and the others I’ll work on tomorrow. 🙂

On the SNES:

Addams Family – Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt – Possibly the most Victorian SNES soundtrack ever committed to a game. Lots of harpsichord here, and if you don’t know what that is, you will after listening to these tracks. It’s OK, though, because the arrangements are awesome.
Time Cop – The total opposite end of the spectrum! Probably the most… urban? soundtrack I’ve heard. Crazy heavy beats, lots of vocal samples, and a very "Demolition Man" kind of atmosphere.
Treasure Conflix – A SatellaView game, like Dynami Tracer, and also by Square. A really high-quality production… lots of sweeping orchestral music, but very upbeat. We’re 3 for 3 in quality!

And on the Genesis:

Alisia Dragoon – Taking a step even furhter back from Victorian, this one is straight outta Medieval Times. I think I hear a lute and a cornett in there, somewhere!
Lemmings – Whoa. Unexpected music, until I noticed it’s from Sunsoft. This soundtrack sounds almost like demo scene music: dancy, complex, and uptempo. It’s really good!
Wings of Wor – I meant to post this alongside Undead Line a few days ago, but forgot. Both are shooters with heavy Castlevania influence, both have crazy, ugly-as-heck bosses, and both are pretty freaking hard! This soundtrack is a bit more orchestral and militaristic than UL’s is, though.

Enjoy! 🙂

Crest of Wolf – A PC Engine CD game that’s like Final Fight, but slightly worse. But! It’s a CD game, so you can expect big drum sounds and wailing guitars! LOTS of wailing guitars!

Dynamite Headdy – Hailed as one of the greatest Genesis games of all time, the soundtrack largely contributed to that distinction. It’s eclectic and accessible, and lots of fun.

Enjoy!

Mighty Final Fight – I think this was the last Capcom soundtrack to grace the NES’s soundchip. I remember when this came out in ’93 and I was like, "they’re STILL making NES games?" Still, you can tell from the quality of the music that Capcom still knew what they were doing.

Ski or Die! – Rob Hubbard’s a talented dude. Skate or Die! was great, and this follows suit.

Ys 1 and Ys 2 – I got a name that will get you to download these tracks: Yuzo Koshiro. To back up my point, from Wikipedia –

The Ys series is particularly known for its original music soundtracks by Yuzo Koshiro, Mieko Ishikawa, and Hideya Nagata. The composers’ works have been remixed for each subsequent release of Ys I and II, for instance, by Japanese computer musician Ryo Yonemitsu for Hudson Soft’s Ys I & II and Ys III: Wanderers from Ys releases for TurboGrafx-CD. The TurboGrafx versions made very early use of Red Book audio in video games.

And they’re right. The Ys soundtracks have always stood on their own as beautiful works. Check out how it all started, in stereo! 🙂

Cool, someone already requested Famicom Tantei Club Part II. An excellent game with excellent music. Which makes me wonder if it’s possible to make a rip of the first Famicom Tantei Club game, Kieta Koukeisha? It’s for Famicom Disk System. Would be awesome to hear the tunes of that game also.

Cool, someone already requested Famicom Tantei Club Part II. An excellent game with excellent music. Which makes me wonder if it’s possible to make a rip of the first Famicom Tantei Club game, Kieta Koukeisha? It’s for Famicom Disk System. Would be awesome to hear the tunes of that game also.

Hey! Welcome back!

So yeah, I think I can manage that. No title tags, though. It’s a shame that every single Genesis/MD game, and every single SNES game is fully tagged and easily available, but NES game music is so horribly disorganized. I wonder how it got to be like that? Even the sites with tagged games only have a handful of titles each…

But I digress. Famicom Tantei Club – Kieta Koukeisha is available for your listening pleasure!

Don’t forget his early masterpiece Scorcher! 🙂 It’s less crazy than AofB&R though.
Also, Freedom fighters from mid-2000s was great. IMHO

Anyway, i lllove this thread! i usually listen to 1995-2005 osts, but you halp me discover some good oldies!

Also, you may already be aware of this, but your Megaman 2 soundtrack has all the songs mixed up. For example, Crash Mans stage is actually Wood Mans stage music…

If there aren’t many other requests in the queue, perhaps I could make a few more suggestions?

For the SNES:
Jaki Crush, Actraiser 2, Hamelin no Violin Tamaki (The Violinist of Hamelin), Live A Live, S.O.S, Tactics Ogre and Rudra no Hihou (Treasure of the Rudras)

For the Genesis:
El Viento, Crusader of Centy

Until then, here’s a requested classic: Donkey Kong for the NES!

:whatislove:

OK, so I’m not going to be able to talk about ALL of them, but here’s what we have today:

NES

Akumajou Special – Boku Dracula-kun – This is some fine Konami stuff. A lot reminds me of the first TMNT for the NES.
3D Battles of WorldRunner – One of Nobuo Uematsu’s earliest works. Very simple, but fun!
Fire Emblem and Fire Emblem Gaiden – Pretty good RPG-style stuff.

Genesis

Crusader of Centy – Motokazu Shinoda composed this one, and it’s his only big VGM album. He worked as a demo artist for Yamaha’s synthesizers, which just happens to be inside a Genesis, so he knows his way around the music hardware. It definitely shows in this album.
El Viento – Motoi Sakuraba composed a lot of Wolf Team’s games, and this is a great example of his talents.

SNES

ActRaiser 2 – I’m gonna come right out and say it now: I don’t like symphonic soundtracks. I see the necessity for them in RPG’s and fantasy-based games, but I’d rather listen to a rock or dance soundtrack any day of the week. So, while the amazing Yuzo Koshiro created this album, it’s much more orchestra-based than the first game, and I never really got into it.
Jaki Crush – I am a huge fan of Devil’s Crush and Alien Crush on the TG16, so imagine my surprise when i found out there was a 3rd game in the series! I haven’t played it yet, but the soundtrack is very heavy metal. I’m loving it.
Live a Live – This game takes place in a whole bunch of different time periods, and Yoko Shimomura does a great job at writing songs in each style. She was responsible for writing most of the music for Final Fight and Street Fighter II so you’ll hear some familiar tones throughout. "Knock You Down" sounds REALLY similar to Ken’s stage from SFII.
Rudra no Hihou – The little that I listened to of this was grand and symphonic, so if you like that stuff, go get it! 🙂
S.O.S. – This is about a game that takes place on a sinking ship, and you have one hour to get out. The music is very cinematic, and kind of sad in parts.
Tactis Ogre – It’s like having your own orchestra INSIDE YOUR TV!
Violinist of Hameln – I didn’t know this was based on a huge series of Manga and Anime. Also, two tracks are named "Faggot" and "Battle With Faggot." I guess you have to be from the USA to understand why that’s weird. 🙂

Whew! That was a lot of stuff! I’ve been playing around with converting music from Capcom’s arcade games, like 19XX: The Loop Master and Darkstalkers. There’s some excellent music here that I’ll start uploading once I get the process automated well enough.

Enjoy the new stuff!

Jaki Crush – I am a huge fan of Devil’s Crush and Alien Crush on the TG16, so imagine my surprise when i found out there was a 3rd game in the series! I haven’t played it yet, but the soundtrack is very heavy metal. I’m loving it.

It’s worth noting that there’s (technically) a fourth game in the series as well, called Dragon’s Revenge. It’s a sequel to Dragon’s Fury, the Genesis-port of Devil’s Crush. I can recommend Dragon’s Fury since it’s a pretty faithful port made by Technosoft; it looks and sounds great, and there’s even some bonus songs on the cart that are remixes of songs from other Technosoft games like Thunder Force II and III, Elemental Master and Herzog Zwei. Dragon’s Revenge however is a pretty mediocre game and has some very bland tunes.

Boy, were you right. Dragon’s Fury has some excellent tunes, and I’ve uploaded the album. The sequel was just… awful. Like some pubescent kid playing with his first keyboard. Not even gonna do that one.

Also, I’ve got Jonathan Dunn’s Jurassic Park albums for the SNES. That guy has a lot of talent. His NES JP music almost rivaled Tim Follin’s, and the SNES music sounds kind of like Koshiro’s Super Adventure Island. It’s worth a listen.

I’ve also corrected the Mega Man II soundtrack with the right titles. I know, I know… it took awhile. 😛

And lastly, but not leastly, I’ve opened the arcade section! The first album up is 19XX: War Against Destiny and it sounds GREAT. By the way, it’s pronounced "Nineteen Double-X," Not "Nineteen X-X" or, as I liked to call it, "Nineteen Exty-X." I’ll do 1944 – The Loop Master up soon, as well as Viewpoint from the Neo-Geo. I love that game’s music.

What other arcade titles would you like to see? Basically, if MAME can emulate it, I can rip the music for it. 🙂

Just suggestion:

Gaia Crusaders
Progear no Arashi
Mars Matrix
EDF: Earth Defense Force (music different from snes version)

Also, i’d like to ask.. can i make special rerquest? it’s Burnout 1 from ps2/xbox/gc. I know you don’t do that stuff, but maybe…
It was written by Stepeh Root, author of Forsaken, Alien Trilogy and Extreme-G2
Burnout 1 OST – Eurorush – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUdq-W-Bl5E)

Burnout fans are so obsessed with licensed tracks that started with 3rd title in series that makes me sick 🙁

@Knivesman: Raw music files from Burnout 1 (http://xbox.joshw.info/b/Burnout%20(2002-04-29)(Criterion)(Acclaim).7z) (Xbox) this should be what you’re looking for, but you have to convert the files using vgmstream.

Yup, I was going to be sourcing that, as well as doing custom rips using M1 for titles that aren’t available in that format.

Mainly MP3 from VGM and M1 lists. I’ve been browsing the VGM forum and a lot of the ripping processes seem a bit over my head, but if I can use the modified M1 to easily create some logged VGMs on supported systems, I would spend a bit of time on that.

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Update Time!

Got some new arcade titles to fill in my recently-opened section:

1944 – The Loop Master – This is the next game in the series after 19XX (and I’m still gonna call it Nineteen Exty-X.) Anyways, it’s fantastic. The percussion and bass are all sequenced, but the melodies are high-bitrate guitar samples. The songs have a bluesy, southern rock feel to them. This game is one of the reasons I wanted to start arcade rips.

E.D.F. Earth Defense Force – I mentioned this was one of my favorite SNES soundtracks, and the Arcade version is very similar, but takes some advantage of an FM synth. I can’t really tell which version I like more… Although track 7, "Naval Battle," definitely sounds much better in the arcade version.

View Point – Oh, Neo Geo… you were the best. Such amazing games. View Point was not really one of the most amazing… but the soundtrack rocked! I love the sampled dance beats coupled with retro keyboard melodies. This is classic stuff.

And, one Genesis title, too, just because it’s Motoi Sakuraba, and he’s got mad skillz: Enjoy Granada!

As for some of the arcade requests: Some games, like Gaia Crusaders, aren’t compatible with any of the ripping tools that I’m aware of. I haven’t fully researched all of my capabilities yet, so if I discover that it’s possible, I will totally post it. I will get as much done as I can in the meantime, though!

I will have a TREAT for you in the morning. 🙂

I’ve been a little busy, though, with some quality stuff… here it is:

SNES

Final Fight – One of the SNES launch titles. Man, I wanted this soooo badly, but my mom wouldn’t let me. She was right, though… every time my little brother played a violent game, he’d get all psycho and start hitting everyone. Oh well. This was a great game, and I missed out on it. The soundtrack is nice, too. Very aggressive sounding, with some driving rock tunes, and some very odd time signatures thrown in.

Vortex – One of the least-remembered SuperFX Chip games, mainly because it was pretty awful. It has a great soundtrack, with some long, sweeping dance tracks. Since the game wasn’t played by many, I figured the soundtrack needed to be heard.

Arcade

Final Fight – Whoa, deja vu! Didn’t I just talk about this one? The arcade version of Final Fight ran off of Capcom’s CPS 1 hardware, and the music driver was a variation on the Genesis’ Yamaha synth chip, so this soundtrack sounds about as close to this game as it would be if it was released on Sega’s console. Yes, there was a Sega CD Final Fight, but they decided to go with… smooth jazz (?) renditions of the songs. I mean, really? Pianos and saxaphones as you lumber down the street, throwing dudes into each other? Not cool, Capcom.

Mars Matrix – Hyper Solid Shooting – This soundtrack is REALLY hard to find. I tried! So, here it is! It’s compressed streaming audio, so it doesn’t sound as crystal clear as chip-based rips, but if you like 90’s industrial music (like I do!), you’ll appreciate this.

Dangun Feveron – I’m so glad Elwood reminded me of this one. I’ve played this in MAME before (I think I’ve played every shmup there is in MAME) and I remembered the soundtrack as being great, but OMG when listened to by itself, it really shines. I was lucky enough to find a high-bitrate copy of the actual OST on a dark corner of the web, so I doctored it up a bit and it sounds AMAZING. These songs are catchy, infectious, and very danceable. "Soul Supermarket" will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day, and you won’t care. 🙂 Seriously, download this one. And then play the actual game, too, because it’s equally awesome.

Enjoy, guys!

logging them is easy (same process as logging WAV files) but timing/looping them is a whole different matter. i’d stick to doing mp3s for now, if I were you. 😛

Yep, I was able to make a few VGM’s, but got stuck at the point where I’d have to trim and edit. Is there a decent tutorial or place where I can start learning? I’m an IT guy by trade, so I’m pretty technically proficient, and I can make seamless .wav loops with ease, so I understand the musical concept.

Haha, they NEEDED ask these guys help them instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfwhG1KtQp4

John Zorn & Naked City with Eye – NYC live – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfwhG1KtQp4)

That would have been awesome! Actually, Final Fight Streetwise on the PS2 had some really aggressive industrial-metal remixes of the original game’s themes. The game was pretty awful, but I still listen to that soundtrack.

And for Vortex and Feveron, of course

Hey thanks! You’re the giant upon who’s shoulders I have stood. 🙂

So, we’ve got some lovely albums this morning, all worthy of being added to your "Holy carp, this is AWESOME" collection.

SNES

F-Zero – OK, so if you haven’t heard the music from this game yet, you should probably get out from under that rock and put some headphones on. Again, a very early SNES title, and again, they made sure that they could show off what the system’s audio capabilities were. This is some good stuff.

Arcade

Shock Troopers and Shock Troopers 2nd Squad The Neo Geo’s sound capabilities were amazing. Because of it’s ability to hoard more memory than any console before it, it was able to store lots of high bitrate audio samples. The Shock Troopers series demonstrates that perfectly. You’ll hear heavy metal, drum ‘n bass, house, hip hop… all sorts of different genres, all with the high energy that these "Ikari Warriors on steroids" games demand. Highly recommended.
Psychic Force (FX-1A) – An arcade fighter from Taito. The music is like a cross between Gunstar Heroes and TMNT: the Hyperstone Heist. It’s very well composed, and the soundchip is very unique. I think you’ll love it!

I’ll have the stereo version of Guerrilla War for the NES up later today, as well as some other goodies. See you then!

NES

Guerrilla War – So I learned some crazy stuff about this title!

From Wikipedia –
As the original title (Guevara) indicates, the game is based on the exploits of revolutionary Che Guevara, and the defeat of the Batista regime in Cuba in the late 1950s. In addition, player 2’s character was Fidel Castro. …fearing anti-Communist sentiments in the West, SNK did a localisation of the game’s dialogue and instruction manual for its North American and European releases.
Super interesting, right? Oh, the music is good, too. 🙂

SNES

Hebereke’s Popoitto – So let’s forget about Cuban revolutionaries for a bit, and instead focus on a cute white penguin with a fuzzy blue hat. He and his friends have a cool little puzzle game that was never released in the US, but has a really nicely produced soundtrack that’s kind of reminiscent of the later SNES Bomberman titles.

Arcade

Darius and Darius 2 – Maybe you’ve seen these monstrous, multi-cabinet games in your arcade? The screens are laid out next to each other, and you play the shooter on a loooong horizontal playfield. The music is kind of basic, but still very good. The soundtrack to the 2nd one is much better, IMHO.
Marble Madness – This game was released in 1984! I was… barely out of kindergarten! I’m so old. Anyways, this is a fun little title that David Wise ported the music from on the NES version. For it’s age, it sounds pretty good. The level 5 music is unique… it just keeps getting faster and faster until it sounds like a machine gun, then after 10 minutes, it goes back to its original tempo. I cut it after 5 minutes because it becomes unlistenable after that.
Metal Slug 5 – This came out after Playmore bought all the rights to SNK’s Neo Geo stuff,and very nearly ruined everything. Well, the Metal Slug games were only OK after that, but I love the music in this one anyways. it’s all streaming audio, so it’s as usual, not crystal clear, but worth a listen. If I find a CD-quality soundtrack from a commercial release, I may replace this one with it.

Annnnnd my story is done for now, until more requests come in, or inspiration hits. Till next time!

You said you take requests, so I will list a couple out and see if you can rip any of them.

Gunbird 2 (Psikyo – Arcade)
Mahou Daisakusen – 魔法大作戦 (Socerer Strike) (Raizing – Arcade)
Secret of Evermore (Squaresoft – Snes)
Drakken (Kemco – Snes)
Fushigi no Dungeon 2 : Furai no Shiren – 不思議のダンジョン２　風来のシレン (Shiren the Wanderer) (Chunsoft – Snes)
Shin Megami Tensei – 真・女神転生 (Atlus – Snes)

I’m pretty sure all these games are obscure as hell, and you might not have every heard of them, but any of these would delight me 🙂 Also if you would like help find info for tags I can probably assist with that as well.

Hey, it was first work of Jeremy Soul 🙂

As for requests

Maybe arcade Virtua Racing & Outrunners?

As for requests

Maybe arcade Virtua Racing & Outrunners?

I’m assuming you mean the arcade versions, since the Genesis versions are already there?

You said you take requests, so I will list a couple out and see if you can rip any of them.

Gunbird 2 (Psikyo – Arcade)
Mahou Daisakusen – 魔法大作戦 (Socerer Strike) (Raizing – Arcade)
Secret of Evermore (Squaresoft – Snes)
Drakken (Kemco – Snes)
Fushigi no Dungeon 2 : Furai no Shiren – 不思議のダンジョン２　風来のシレン (Shiren the Wanderer) (Chunsoft – Snes)
Shin Megami Tensei – 真・女神転生 (Atlus – Snes)

I’m pretty sure all these games are obscure as hell, and you might not have every heard of them, but any of these would delight me 🙂 Also if you would like help find info for tags I can probably assist with that as well.

Thanks for the kind words! I’m glad you appreciate the quality… it took a lot of work to get these rips to sound right!

So, as far as your requests go, I was able to post all of them except Mahou Daisakusen. I guess the audio driver just isn’t supported by ripping tools yet. Technically, Gunbird 2 isn’t either, but the arcade-perfect Dreamcast version is, so I was able to convert that. It sounds fantastic, too! Shiren the Wanderer is also non-rip friendly, but I was able to find a very good quality version of the OST in the nethers of the web, and I cleaned up the tags to fit with the rest of my collection. Enjoy!

Yes, arcade ones. Or they don’t have much difference, do they?

Not TOO much. Most of Sega’s arcade machines used Yamaha synths, just like the Genesis, so the music is very similar. I can most likely do Out Runners directly from the arcade roms, but I may need to look at the Sega AGES PlayStation 2 port of Virtua Racing to get accurate music from that one. It’ll be a fun weekend project.

Oh! Also, I’ve posted Battletoads Arcade! I think it’s Dave Wise’s best soundtrack from that era. It’s got that Battletoads feel without the limitations of the console sound systems.

Any other requests? 🙂

Megami Tensei (Famicom)
Megami Tensei II (Famicom)
Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei I II (Super Famicom) – remake of MT 1 and 2 for SupaFami.

Yea you are right. For Jeremy Soule fans its quite popular, but in the regular gaming world the game was no where near as popular as its secret of mana cousins. Also most people I talk to outside of the internet have never heard of the game. But I loved that game’s writing and the alchemy system. I found it was one of the most charming games of my adolescence.

Well once again ruiner9 you go above and beyond with these rips. I personally tried to rip mahou in the past to no avail as well. I guess I should just try to record it from the soundcard or something. They have a copy of the bgm at GH, but it would never sound as nice as one of your rips. Anyways thanks a boatload. I’ll be taking that battletoads too, because david wise is my man! I never played the acrade game… I’m looking forward to hearing this.

Also that kyuuyaku megaten ost is niiiice, atlus does not mess around.

(In the order of ruiner9’s rip, not the ost)

1.Discover The Dream (Title Screen)
2.Just Fly, The Dreamers (America)
3.Type Of Essence (Italy)
4.Why Do You Wanna Fly (Japan)
5.High Energy (Boss B)
6.High Speed Reaction (Trick Tramp Train) (Sea of Clouds)
7.A Cold New World
8.A Minute to Midnight
9.Feel Bad (Final Stage)
10.Chase the Case (Boss A)
11.Gunbird (England)
12.Unbelievable Zone (Boss C)
13 – 16.We Did It (Stage Clear)
17.The End Of The Gunbird E
18.The End Of The Gunbird F
19.Dreamin’ Again (Ranking)
20.???
21.??? Credits maybe…

Another request for you… It’s Nijuuei aka Shadow and Shadow (PS1, Dreamcast)
Would you try, please?

Hmm… a few requests

For the NES:
Vice: Project Doom.

For SNES:
Majin Tensei II Spiral Nemesis, Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, Rockman and Bass, Space Megaforce, The Flintstones (the one based on the live action movie. Trust me.)

For the Genesis:
Jim Power (Chris Huelsbeck!), Wiz n’ Liz, Ranger-X

EDIT:
Also a question, what’s your availability for Game Boy games? You’ve uploaded some already, but I don’t see many requests for it.

Believe it or not, I spent like a whole day on the arcade version of OutRunners, because the official OST is almost impossible to find, there’s like 40 tracks, and they’re super long. So, the game’s audio levels are SUPER HIGH and I did the best I could to bring them down to a reasonable volume without clipping the audio, but some of it got a little distorted sounding. It sounds the same when you play the game in MAME too, so maybe that’s just how it is? Anyways, all the tracks are time cut to the times from the official OST (there are tracklistings on the web) as well as a few songs that aren’t on that disc. I’d say the majority of the songs sound excellent, there’s just a few here and there that get a little punchy.

I almost didn’t bother with Virtua Racing arcade, since I had the 32X version. Then I listened to the soundtrack and was like "this needs to be ripped, NOW." The whole thing is only about 7 minutes long, but it’s a fantastic 7 minutes! And before anyone says anything, the game itself fades the songs out, when it sounds like the music is still going. That’s just the way it is. I tried raising the levels during the fade to see what it sounded like, and the instruments just kind hold their last notes, then stop… so you aren’t missing anything. 🙂

Elwood, my availability for GB titles is "just about anything, though they might not be track-named." What are you interested in? I’ll get those console requests done over the course of the next few days.

Knivesman, yes, I can do Nijuuei, but I don’t have the track titles for it currently. If I can find it, I’ll label them, but no guarantees. It will sound very good, though!

jigenbakuda, I’ll label those Gunbird 2 tracks! Thanks! *EDIT* — I’ve relabeled them, just re-download to get the new set!

And lastly, lefance, I should have the MT series up later tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks for the kind words, all! Your appreciation motivates me to keep making these albums! 🙂

Here’s what’s up so far:

NES

Megami Tensei 1 and 2 – So, um, wow. You know, MT1 was pretty decent… seemed like Tsukasa Masuko had a good handle on the music. But then I heard the sequel and was like, "whaaaaaat? This is an NES making these glorious tones?" I did some research and found out that the MT2 cartridge is actually bigger because it needed to house the custom N163 soundchip inside. It was totally worth it… the music is unbelievably good for a Famicom, With tracks like "Fall’n Gods" and "Daedalus" really showing off some awesome songwriting skills. This one is staying in my "stuff I listen to" collection.

SNES

Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei I II – So, I’ll just repeat everything I said above, but also include a kickass SNES soundfont to make it all that much better. I’m gonna have to dig up some arrange album CD’s, now.

Dreamcast

Nijuuei – Hey, everyone! Welcome the Dreamcast to our collection!

"Hi, Dreamcast."

OK, now that THAT’s out of the way, here’s a visual novel soundtrack that I’ve never heard of, but really enjoyed because it reminds me of Akira Yamaoka’s Silent Hill work, bouncing back and forth between sublime piano melodies, ambient soundscapes, and scary industrial beats. I do love me some scary industrial beats.

There’s more requests coming up soon!

Big T-H-A-N-K-S for Nijuuei 🙂

🙂

Really quality stuff.

Btw, speaking of Dreamcast – i recommend you take a listen of D2 original albums – "D2 sketches" and "D2 sketches 2". Not D2 OST and not D2 game rip.
Forgive me for this offtop.

🙂

Really quality stuff.

Btw, speaking of Dreamcast – i recommend you take a listen of D2 original albums – "D2 sketches" and "D2 sketches 2". Not D2 OST and not D2 game rip.
Forgive me for this offtop.

Hey, if you’re talking about any kind of game music, it’s not off topic to me! I’ll try to find those. I loved D2.

Do you have any idea who composed Nijuuei? I can’t find the credit anywhere.

On this video ??? – OP – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQIZFqxvWp8) on 0:10 there is following line:

MUSIC BLASTER HEAD

Can’t find any info though

and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDllfIkqEsg

has "tkr game music factory"

NES

Conquest of the Crystal Palace – Hey, here’s a hidden gem! I really like this one, especially how the stereo effect treats the two square wave instruments. It’s got a nice, driving beat behind all the tracks, too.
Vice – Project Doom – Today I learned that this was written by Kiyoshi Yokoyama, who also wrote Astyanax, a favorite of mine. Sweet! The melodies are tight and the music is action-oriented. Thumbs-up!

SNES

The Flintsones – Johnathan Dunn was behind this one, and I’ve always considered this soundtrack to be a bit of a Super Adventure Island knockoff, much in the way that SunSoft’s Batman music was a clone of the first Streets of Rage. I guess that shows you how influential Yuzo Koshiro was on the industry! Truth be told, it’s not bad. It has a nice tropical flavor, with very dancy beats and some cool synths.
Majin Tensei 2 – This music is foreboding and creepy. It would make for a pretty good horror movie soundtrack.
Lufia 2 – I’m not really a symphonic music fan, but I’ve gotta say the soundfont they used in this game is very nice. The tones are rich and clear, and the music seems to be pretty good, too.
Space Megaforce – I remembered this game as soon as I started listening to it… I can’t believe I forgot about it! Some may remember this title as Super Aleste, but here in the states, that series wasn’t big, so they changed it. Anyways, the music has a 90’s kind of dancy, acid-jazz vibe, with thick beats and piano in parts. A good one, for sure.
Mega Man and Bass – Also known as Rockman and Forte, although Elwood kind of got the names mixed up in his request. 🙂 This one has your typical Mega Man vibe, but’s it’s a little jazzier, with some funky basslines and some woodwind-sounding instrumentation. Also, this game had the worst enemy bosses of all time. Dynamoman? Tenguman? They must have rally been reaching at this point.
Jim Power – So I know that the Genesis version was requested, but that version only has one song (it was a beta.) So, here’s the SNES version, too. Also composed by Chris Huelsbeck. This game is a bit unique because although the soundtrack is really good, it’s almost entirely monaural. Not sure why they didn’t separate out some parts to be in stereo! I much prefer Huelsbeck’s Genesis stuff, but this is pretty good too.

Genesis

Jim Power – So just one track, since it’s a beta game, but what a track it is! I wish the whole soundtrack had been finished!
Ranger-X – I remember this one from back in the day, too. The graphics are phenomenal, and the music is killer, driving shoot ’em up fare as well. Worth the download!
Wiz ‘n Liz – Matt Furniss is no stranger to this collection of soundtracks, with about 100 games to his name. His experience shows here, with nice melodies and catchy beats. Really weird game, though.

N64

Quest 64 – This one was composed by Masamichi Amano, who I just learned also wrote the music for the amazing (and very expensive) Treasure-developed shooter Radiant Silvergun. You learn something new every day! If you like symphonic music, check this one out. I’ll keep my (biased) opinions to myself. 😉

So! That’s it! That was actually a lot of work, but they’re some nice additions to the collection. Halloween is a few days away, and I know it’s treated differently in some parts of the world, but the main theme amongst all is ghosts and spooks. So what are some creepy soundtracks you guys know about that I can post on the holiday?

Super Smash Bros. – You all know what this one is, right? And the soundtrack isn’t easy to find, and of course it’s got a little bit of everything from Nintendo in it!
WipEout 64 – This game has some really awesome electronica by some pretty big names. The streamed audio is surprisingly good for the N64. Listen and love it!

That’s all for now!

Some suggestions…

SNES:
Clock Tower (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxrXvDdKuw)
Demon???s Crest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slm_Bw8YyL0)
Otogirisou (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Vrbc3Gxsg)

Genesis:
Bio Hazard Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ0CGVEBPIs&list=PLF543750CE87AA322)
Devilish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqJQxWgOjJo)
Skeleton Krew (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zWve-kubBI) (really dark moody synths here, even if the games SFX kinda drown it out).

Some of these aren’t exactly scary mind you, but still. Also if anyone is looking for some creepy game tunes, this compilation the blog GO-GO-GST made called MD Terror (http://go-go-gst.tumblr.com/post/35837754267) is pretty great. It’s a collection of dark and atmospheric songs from Genesis games, which is where I got the idea to request Skeleton Krew.

Genesis:
Bio Hazard Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ0CGVEBPIs&list=PLF543750CE87AA322)
Devilish (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqJQxWgOjJo)
Skeleton Krew (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zWve-kubBI) (really dark moody synths here, even if the games SFX kinda drown it out).

Some of these aren’t exactly scary mind you, but still. Also if anyone is looking for some creepy game tunes, this compilation the blog GO-GO-GST made called MD Terror (http://go-go-gst.tumblr.com/post/35837754267) is pretty great. It’s a collection of dark and atmospheric songs from Genesis games, which is where I got the idea to request Skeleton Krew.

Oh, GO-GO-GST! I miss that blog! 🙁

Anyways, fantastic suggestions! The ones I wasn’t familiar with, I gave a listen to, and was very impressed. We’ll have lots of spooky goodies for tonight and tomorrow!

To start off the Halloween soundtrack festivities, I have a nice treat: Castlevania 64 and Castlevania – Legacy of Darkness for the N64! Now I know these games were pretty much hated by lovers of the series, and well, hated by everyone in general, really, but the music really was a lot better than the game. In fact, Motoaki Furukawa (http://www.squareenixmusic.com/composers/furukawa/), one of Konami’s most prolific and famous composers, and who also founded the Kukeiha Club, worked extensively on both titles. There’s a good 3 hours of gothic music to enjoy between the two titles.

Also, if you’re a fan of Castlevania music, especially the NES soundtracks, check out Joshua Morse’s new remix EP on GameChops, entitled "VLAD (http://music.gamechops.com/album/vlad)." I can’t describe the genre because it’s really frenetic, but there’s some jazz, some techno, some rock, a little of everything. You can hear all 4 tracks on the webpage itself. I was totally floored when I heard it! (And no, I don’t know the dude. I just really like the music and wanted to share it.)

Enjoy! 🙂

For the record, I’ve only ever used Dropbox for downloads that don’t have a MEGA link.

NES

Conquest of the Crystal Palace – Hey, here’s a hidden gem! I really like this one, especially how the stereo effect treats the two square wave instruments. It’s got a nice, driving beat behind all the tracks, too.
Vice – Project Doom – Today I learned that this was written by Kiyoshi Yokoyama, who also wrote Astyanax, a favorite of mine. Sweet! The melodies are tight and the music is action-oriented. Thumbs-up!

SNES

The Flintsones – Johnathan Dunn was behind this one, and I’ve always considered this soundtrack to be a bit of a Super Adventure Island knockoff, much in the way that SunSoft’s Batman music was a clone of the first Streets of Rage. I guess that shows you how influential Yuzo Koshiro was on the industry! Truth be told, it’s not bad. It has a nice tropical flavor, with very dancy beats and some cool synths.
Majin Tensei 2 – This music is foreboding and creepy. It would make for a pretty good horror movie soundtrack.
Lufia 2 – I’m not really a symphonic music fan, but I’ve gotta say the soundfont they used in this game is very nice. The tones are rich and clear, and the music seems to be pretty good, too.
Space Megaforce – I remembered this game as soon as I started listening to it… I can’t believe I forgot about it! Some may remember this title as Super Aleste, but here in the states, that series wasn’t big, so they changed it. Anyways, the music has a 90’s kind of dancy, acid-jazz vibe, with thick beats and piano in parts. A good one, for sure.
Mega Man and Bass – Also known as Rockman and Forte, although Elwood kind of got the names mixed up in his request. 🙂 This one has your typical Mega Man vibe, but’s it’s a little jazzier, with some funky basslines and some woodwind-sounding instrumentation. Also, this game had the worst enemy bosses of all time. Dynamoman? Tenguman? They must have rally been reaching at this point.
Jim Power – So I know that the Genesis version was requested, but that version only has one song (it was a beta.) So, here’s the SNES version, too. Also composed by Chris Huelsbeck. This game is a bit unique because although the soundtrack is really good, it’s almost entirely monaural. Not sure why they didn’t separate out some parts to be in stereo! I much prefer Huelsbeck’s Genesis stuff, but this is pretty good too.

Genesis

Jim Power – So just one track, since it’s a beta game, but what a track it is! I wish the whole soundtrack had been finished!
Ranger-X – I remember this one from back in the day, too. The graphics are phenomenal, and the music is killer, driving shoot ’em up fare as well. Worth the download!
Wiz ‘n Liz – Matt Furniss is no stranger to this collection of soundtracks, with about 100 games to his name. His experience shows here, with nice melodies and catchy beats. Really weird game, though.

N64

Quest 64 – This one was composed by Masamichi Amano, who I just learned also wrote the music for the amazing (and very expensive) Treasure-developed shooter Radiant Silvergun. You learn something new every day! If you like symphonic music, check this one out. I’ll keep my (biased) opinions to myself. 😉

So! That’s it! That was actually a lot of work, but they’re some nice additions to the collection. Halloween is a few days away, and I know it’s treated differently in some parts of the world, but the main theme amongst all is ghosts and spooks. So what are some creepy soundtracks you guys know about that I can post on the holiday?

That’s because both Astyanax and VICE: Project Doom were developed by Aicom for Jaleco and for Sammy. As for The Flintstones, I like Jonathan Dunn’s work over at Ocean, as well as Keith Tinman’s. They are my favorite musicians over at Ocean. Speaking of Jonathan Dunn, another 2 good games he did over at Ocean are the Jurassic Park soundtracks- the first game for the SNES and the 2nd game titled "Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues".

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I have only 5 requests, and these are for the Genesis-

Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco the Tides of Time
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Road Rash
Road Rash II

Those games have use the ONLY 2 Non-Japanese made sound drivers that I like on the Sega Genesis.
First, for Road Rash 1 and 2, it is Rob Hubbard’s very own custom made sound driver he made for those 2 games for EA- that one has a nice tinny/gritty sound to it, just like the Japanese made sound drivers on the Genesis.

The same thing goes to Ecco The Dolphin, Ecco II the Tides of Time, and The Lost World: Jurassic Park- those 3 games use Novotrade’s custom sound driver that also has a nice tinny warbly/tinny/gritty sound to that one.

In fact, it would be nice that on your Genesis releases, you also tell the name of the sound driver used in those games in terms of music. Here is a list of them: Mega Drive/Genesis Sound Engine List – GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute (http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Mega_Drive/Genesis_Sound_Engine_List)

Bear in mind that the Japanese made ones as well as the custom made ones are good while the GEMS sound driver is considered to be the worst.

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I liked the N64 Castlevania.

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I have only 5 requests, and these are for the Genesis-

Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco the Tides of Time
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Road Rash
Road Rash II

Those games have use the ONLY 2 Non-Japanese made sound drivers that I like on the Sega Genesis.
First, for Road Rash 1 and 2, it is Rob Hubbard’s very own custom made sound driver he made for those 2 games for EA- that one has a nice tinny/gritty sound to it, just like the Japanese made sound drivers on the Genesis.

The same thing goes to Ecco The Dolphin, Ecco II the Tides of Time, and The Lost World: Jurassic Park- those 3 games use Novotrade’s custom sound driver that also has a nice tinny warbly/tinny/gritty sound to that one.

In fact, it would be nice that on your Genesis releases, you also tell the name of the sound driver used in those games in terms of music. Here is a list of them: Mega Drive/Genesis Sound Engine List – GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute (http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Mega_Drive/Genesis_Sound_Engine_List)

Bear in mind that the Japanese made ones as well as the custom made ones are good while the GEMS sound driver is considered to be the worst.

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I liked the N64 Castlevania.

I will definitely start on those requests after today’s Halloween festivities!

As for the sound drivers, that’s a very informative page! I’m not sure I want to list them with the releases, though, because I’m not trying to be too technical here. Also, I don’t want people to start pre-judging music because they didn’t have a good experience with a particular sound driver in the past. GEMS was used in some great soundtracks like ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron, as well as some pretty terrible games too. I’ll mention the sound driver when it’s relevant, though, or when a particular composer was responsible for creating his own driver. Thanks for linking me to it!

As promised, there’s some crazy spooky stuff coming your way today, and we’ll start off with the Sega-related stuff first!

Genesis

Bio-Hazard Battle – This game’s kind of creepy in a sci-fi way. There aren’t any humanoids in the whole game, and you get the feeling that you’re kind of alone, in a strange ship, fighting even stranger creatures. The soundtrack is sometimes new-age, somtimes 80’s pop, sometimes just a bit eerie. It’s good pre-Halloween music to ease you into the mood.
DecapAttack – So you’re a mummy with a skull head, and you throw the skull head at your enemies. The background in the first level features palm trees made of bone. Spooked yet? Well, me neither. BUT! The soundtrack rocks! It’s energetic and fun, while still being a little spooky. Not "midnight on Halloween" spooky, but still good.
Devlish – With a soundtrack by Hitoshi Sakimoto, you know it’s gonna be good. This is a breakout/ vertical shooter mashup, where you send your glowing orb bouncing through a castle, murdering innocent demons and skeletons. Getting even scarier now!
Skeleton Krew – Okay, NOW we’re getting creepy! The original vgm ripper of this game described it as "ambient psychedelia with a touch of rave for good measure," and I don’t think I could have said it better. Those FM synths just create some very creepy effects that the SNES couldn’t ever hope to replicate. Here’s (http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2011/12/skeleton-krew-genesis-megadrive.html) a great blog post reviewing the game. It’s pretty hilarious.
Splatterhouse 2 and 3 – Milky Eiko knows the deal. The Splatterhouse soundtracks are drawn from a love of horror films, tinging upon John Carpenter’s staccato keyboard stingers, and medieval classics of old. These are the first soundtracks that came to mind when I decided to do a Halloween post, and you should definitely give them a listen.

Dreamcast

House of the Dead 2 – Here’s a little bonus! Unfortunately, it’s not tagged, but this game often gets overlooked because it’s not very prominent in the game over the gunfire and shouts of "save me!" every 30 seconds. The music is pretty nice, though, with a VERY fast-paced, frantic feel. Good for getting your pulse racing.

Hope you enjoy! I’ll have the SNES additions later this afternoon. There’s still time for a few suggestions if anyone knows of anything!

OK guys, here are the SNES selections for the day… a few requests, and a few I’ve picked myself:

Clock Tower – This game was all about suspense, because the object is to hide from a crazy serial killer brandishing a giant pair of scissors, and the music certainly follows that sense of fear. There’s some creeeeeepy soundscapes at work here!
Demon’s Crest – A little symphonic music to lighten the mood a bit, although the game itself is pretty hellish in terms of difficulty AND setting.
Ghoul Patrol – A sequel of sorts to Zombies Ate My Neighbors, you’ll find some comically scary songs in this one.
Majyuuou – The music was composed by Tomohiro Endo (Ys IV) and Hiroshi Iizuka (Langrisser III,) so there’s some big names behind this one. The music sounds a bit more on the action side, but the game itself is a story of demons, dead wives, and selling your soul to beat the game. No wonder it never made out to the US!
Nosferatu – I’m surprised no one requested this one! It’s actually a pretty obscure title, but plays like a cross between Double Dragon and Prince of Persia. It’s a take on the Vampire mythology, and the graphics are really nice… even if you don’t wanna play it, check out the intro on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq4ARy4JEXw) or something… it’s impressive! The music is equally frightful, even during the energetic parts, it has that modern horror movie feel.
Otogirisou – Aside from Clock Tower and a few others, most early video games rely on action, and so the music always drives forward steadily. In a visual novel, however, the composer could take his time and build some suspense, or create quite ambience without being buried behind slicing or pounding sound effects. This one’s pretty chilling…. I like it a lot!
Super Ghouls and Ghosts – The game everyone thinks about when you mention spooky titles. This game is HARD. The soundtrack is good enough that you don’t mind listening to it over and over as you try to beat each level, though, and it fits the game perfectly.

Well, there you go, guys. Enjoy the creepy stuff! I’ll start work on the other requests tomorrow!

As for the sound drivers, that’s a very informative page! I’m not sure I want to list them with the releases, though, because I’m not trying to be too technical here. Also, I don’t want people to start pre-judging music because they didn’t have a good experience with a particular sound driver in the past. GEMS was used in some great soundtracks like ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron, as well as some pretty terrible games too. I’ll mention the sound driver when it’s relevant, though, or when a particular composer was responsible for creating his own driver. Thanks for linking me to it!

Well, it would be a good idea. No- The GEMS sound driver was terrible in ALL games, reguardless. You are welcome.

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Happy Halloween!

As promised, there’s some crazy spooky stuff coming your way today, and we’ll start off with the Sega-related stuff first!

Genesis

Bio-Hazard Battle – This game’s kind of creepy in a sci-fi way. There aren’t any humanoids in the whole game, and you get the feeling that you’re kind of alone, in a strange ship, fighting even stranger creatures. The soundtrack is sometimes new-age, somtimes 80’s pop, sometimes just a bit eerie. It’s good pre-Halloween music to ease you into the mood.
DecapAttack – So you’re a mummy with a skull head, and you throw the skull head at your enemies. The background in the first level features palm trees made of bone. Spooked yet? Well, me neither. BUT! The soundtrack rocks! It’s energetic and fun, while still being a little spooky. Not "midnight on Halloween" spooky, but still good.
Devlish – With a soundtrack by Hitoshi Sakimoto, you know it’s gonna be good. This is a breakout/ vertical shooter mashup, where you send your glowing orb bouncing through a castle, murdering innocent demons and skeletons. Getting even scarier now!
Skeleton Krew – Okay, NOW we’re getting creepy! The original vgm ripper of this game described it as "ambient psychedelia with a touch of rave for good measure," and I don’t think I could have said it better. Those FM synths just create some very creepy effects that the SNES couldn’t ever hope to replicate. Here’s (http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2011/12/skeleton-krew-genesis-megadrive.html) a great blog post reviewing the game. It’s pretty hilarious.
Splatterhouse 2 and 3 – Milky Eiko knows the deal. The Splatterhouse soundtracks are drawn from a love of horror films, tinging upon John Carpenter’s staccato keyboard stingers, and medieval classics of old. These are the first soundtracks that came to mind when I decided to do a Halloween post, and you should definitely give them a listen.

Dreamcast

House of the Dead 2 – Here’s a little bonus! Unfortunately, it’s not tagged, but this game often gets overlooked because it’s not very prominent in the game over the gunfire and shouts of "save me!" every 30 seconds. The music is pretty nice, though, with a VERY fast-paced, frantic feel. Good for getting your pulse racing.

Hope you enjoy! I’ll have the SNES additions later this afternoon. There’s still time for a few suggestions if anyone knows of anything!

I love Milky Eiko’s sound driver that she did for Splatterhouse 2 and 3 for the Genesis- that one was one of the best.
By the way, "Milky Eiko" is actually Eiko Kaneda, a sound composer over at Now Production Co. Ltd, the developer of Splatterhouse 2 and 3 for Namco.

Well, I just posted Sonic Spinball and Batman Returns as examples of why I don’t agree with you. I mean, they’re not the BEST soundtracks ever, but they’re certainly not terrible, especially BR’s "Catwoman" theme, "Gotham City 3", and "Into the Sewers." A sound driver is just a set of sounds and a method to implement them… it’s the COMPOSERS that make or break a soundtrack.

BTW that GDRI sound driver list is not 100% accurate, but it’s good enough.

Well, here’s the Saturn version: Thread 98941

Ah, there was an extra space at the end of the URL. It should be fine now! Thanks for the warning!

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First off, thanks for posting an increasingly great soundtrack collection! Also, I would like to request The Radiant Silvergun+ soundtrack (contains both Arcade and Saturn music). Both Galbadia Hotel and KH Insider have corrupted MP3 files. I’m going to keep looking for it on my own, but I’ll point you in its direction if I find it first so you can add it to your collection on here. I’d upload it myself, but I’m not normally on the net long enough.

Well, here’s the Saturn version: Thread 98941

Is there a major difference between the arcade and Saturn versions? I have the source music files from both, and they’re practically identical to each other, except that the Saturn version contains one extra track called "Origin."

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Well, I just posted Sonic Spinball and Batman Returns as examples of why I don’t agree with you. I mean, they’re not the BEST soundtracks ever, but they’re certainly not terrible, especially BR’s "Catwoman" theme, "Gotham City 3", and "Into the Sewers." A sound driver is just a set of sounds and a method to implement them… it’s the COMPOSERS that make or break a soundtrack.

Well, I can agree with you on Batman Returns- that’s the only game on the Genesis that I like uses the GEMS sound driver. My favorite track is the first stage of the Red Triangle Circus Gang, (Stage 3-1). Yes, I agree with you that the COMPOSERS make or break a sound track, but it is also the SOUND DRIVER that can also make or break it.

I mean the only thing that was ACTUALLY GOOD about the GEMS sound driver is that it can sample voices very well, such as the case in Earthworm Jim. But however, its instrument set is very piss-poor.

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yep. the GEMS engine was just a way for composers to implement the sounds into the game. blame them for using the default sound patches and not further editing their work.

BTW that GDRI sound driver list is not 100% accurate, but it’s good enough.

Yes, but sooner or later, that list will be accurate, if they put more heart into it.

I mean the only thing that was ACTUALLY GOOD about the GEMS sound driver is that it can sample voices very well, such as the case in Earthworm Jim. But however, its instrument set is very piss-poor.

I can agree with you there, too. A musician is only as good as his instrument. However, some are talented enough to do great things with very little, like Tim Follin on the Amiga and NES with a standard audio chipset!

So, I’ve got MOST of the requests up: Road Rash 1,2 and 3 (3 because I like the international flavah), Ecco 1 and 2, Super Valis IV, and I got the arcade rip of Radiant Silvergun, too! Unfortunately Jurassic Park: Lost World is nowhere to be found… it simply hasn’t been dumped yet. I put up the original JP though, because at first I had gotten confused and thought that was the one you wanted. Oh well… If I find it, I’ll certainly put it up.

Enjoy!!1!!

So, I’ve got MOST of the requests up: Road Rash 1,2 and 3 (3 because I like the international flavah), Ecco 1 and 2, Super Valis IV, and I got the arcade rip of Radiant Silvergun, too! Unfortunately Jurassic Park: Lost World is nowhere to be found… it simply hasn’t been dumped yet. I put up the original JP though, because at first I had gotten confused and thought that was the one you wanted. Oh well… If I find it, I’ll certainly put it up.

Enjoy!!1!!

That is true. I agree with you- Tim Follin as well as Geoff Follin’s works on the NES are excellent. I don’t like the 3rd one- that one did not use Rob Hubbard’s sound driver he created for EA, and that he didn’t compose that one. Damn… Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers, right? Anyway, I am glad you have Ecco 1 and 2 as well as Road Rash I and II uploaded. Thanks.

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Unfortunately Jurassic Park: Lost World is nowhere to be found… it simply hasn’t been dumped yet. I put up the original JP though, because at first I had gotten confused and thought that was the one you wanted. Oh well… If I find it, I’ll certainly put it up.

Someone has put up videos of the soundtrack- I am just showing you the video, so you can hear what it sounds like. This game uses the Novotrade sounddriver that I like: Jurassic Park 2 – The Lost World OST (Sega Genesis) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqAXOU_CHg8)

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Someone has put up videos of the soundtrack- I am just showing you the video, so you can hear what it sounds like. This game uses the Novotrade sounddriver that I like: Jurassic Park 2 – The Lost World OST (Sega Genesis) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqAXOU_CHg8)

I’ve found passwords for all the levels, and I’m attempting to go through and log my own VGM files to convert to mp3. I’ll try to make it as complete as I can because I think the music is pretty awesome, too.

Good luck, dude! 😀

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Can you make mirrors of the 4 Medarot soundtracks on the GBC?

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Welp, you know what this means, right? Mega Man 1,2,3,4,5,6, Super Mario 1,2,3, Ninja Turtles 1,2, Legend of Zelda 1,2!!!!

Its always the famous bunk…. 🙁

Good news – The Medarot games are now on Mega!

Bad news – Jurassic Park 2 isn’t rippable from an emulator, mainly because you can’t let a good number of the songs play without sound effects getting in the way, especially on the motorcycle level. So, we’ll just have to give up on that for now until they release a way to extract the music directly from the ROM.

Well, I’m just not a fan of those games, except of course for Mega Man. Everything else is just over-rated garbage in my eyes.

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So, good news and bad news:

Good news – The Medarot games are now on Mega!

Bad news – Jurassic Park 2 isn’t rippable from an emulator, mainly because you can’t let a good number of the songs play without sound effects getting in the way, especially on the motorcycle level. So, we’ll just have to give up on that for now until they release a way to extract the music directly from the ROM.

Ah, thank you.

Well, the VGM file used to be on Project2612.org a few years ago- I wonder why they took it down… Oh well. Thanks anyway.

Mega Man 3 is fixed! Wily Wars will be up later today. 🙂

Mega Man – The Wily Wars – This collects the soundtracks from the first 3 Mega Man titles, as well as some original music, all in sweet, sweet Genesis form. It’s fun to listen if you’ve heard the originals.
Verytex – A really obscure Japan-only shmup with music by Hitoshi Sakimoto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Sakimoto), who we heard from recently in Devlish, and who also went on to score such amazing games as Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre, and Final Fantasy XII, among dozens of others. Quite a resume!

Also, two improvements: Fester’s Quest suffered from the same "double song and wrong titles" issue that MM3 did, so that’s fixed. And I’ve re-uploaded Mars Matrix. It’s transferred from the Arcade to the Dreamcast section, because I re-ripped the music from there, and it sounds WAAAAAAAY better… like from 128kbps to 320kbps better… It’s worth the re-download!

Any hard-to-find Dreamcast requests?

Mega Man – The Wily Wars – This collects the soundtracks from the first 3 Mega Man titles, as well as some original music, all in sweet, sweet Genesis form. It’s fun to listen if you’ve heard the originals.
Verytex – A really obscure Japan-only shmup with music by Hitoshi Sakimoto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Sakimoto), who we heard from recently in Devlish, and who also went on to score such amazing games as Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre, and Final Fantasy XII, among dozens of others. Quite a resume!

Also, two improvements: Fester’s Quest suffered from the same "double song and wrong titles" issue that MM3 did, so that’s fixed. And I’ve re-uploaded Mars Matrix. It’s transferred from the Arcade to the Dreamcast section, because I re-ripped the music from there, and it sounds WAAAAAAAY better… like from 128kbps to 320kbps better… It’s worth the re-download!

Any hard-to-find Dreamcast requests?

Simply put, you are AMAZING!! About to go download some Mega Man goodness! AWESOME JOB!!

AeroWings 1 and 2, and Aero Dancing i – The AeroWings series on the Dreamcast was well-liked by flight fans. It was along the lines of Namco’s Ace Combat series, but more on the simulation side of things. The music was really cool. The first game was a pretty electronic, with some well-produced dance tracks, and the latter games went full-on rock and metal, adding incidental vocals as well. There’s a lot of music to check out here, and I’d recommend it. It’s great for highway driving! Also, because it’s Dreamcast, the audio quality is top-notch, too.

Also on the plate is Gradius Galaxies for the GBA. It was just released over at PMH, and I really liked this soundtrack, so I put it up. GBA music quality isn’t the best in the world, mostly due to limitations in the hardware itself, but it’s not fair to leave good soundtracks unposted. I’ll be adding more GBA stuff as time goes on.

Enjoy it!

I really enjoy some of your soundtracks, also they have showed me more music, so it has been an enlightened experience

I read you were looking at ripping Jurassic Park 2 The Lost World, although it seems there isn’t a vgm rip, we have here in ffshrine the FLAC OST 🙂
The link is here (Thread 135528)

I really enjoy some of your soundtracks, also they have showed me more music, so it has been an enlightened experience

I read you were looking at ripping Jurassic Park 2 The Lost World, although it seems there isn’t a vgm rip, we have here in ffshrine the FLAC OST 🙂
The link is here (Thread 135528)

Thanks, but he was getting the soundtrack to the Sega Genesis version specifically for me. Besides, I do not like Michael Giacchino’s work.

I really enjoy some of your soundtracks, also they have showed me more music, so it has been an enlightened experience

I read you were looking at ripping Jurassic Park 2 The Lost World, although it seems there isn’t a vgm rip, we have here in ffshrine the FLAC OST 🙂
The link is here (Thread 135528)

Thanks for keeping me in mind, and thanks for the kind words! If you happen to run across the Genesis soundtrack, please let me know. 😄

Arcade
lastblade & last blade 2

Arcade
lastblade & last blade 2

You, sir, have excellent taste. Dreamcast shooters were my religion back in the day! Here’s what’s new in the OP:

Dreamcast

Border Down – There’s a lot of music in this game, because every time you die, you get "bumped" down to a different area in the same stage, and the music changes slightly. So, you’ll hear three variations on each level music, plus bosses etc. It’s really nice electronic music!
Under Defeat – The Legendary Shinji Hosoe (Ridge Racer) created this masterpiece of a score. Excellent dance music!
Ikaruga – Treasure’s famous black/white shooter had a really cool symphonic and electronic soundtrack.
Last Blade 2 – I ripped this from the Dreamcast, since the music was of much better quality than the Neo Geo cart. It’s traditional Japanese music with a few modern twists.

Arcade

King of the Monsters – I loved this Neo Geo game, and I meant to post it around Halloween, but there was a lot of other stuff to post. It’s a very eclectic mix of tunes, each individually themed to match the monster’s personality. All of it sounds great on the NG hardware, since it’s all synths and not compressed audio.
Shippu Mahou Daisakusen – This is like excellent Genesis music on steroids, and you can really hear Sakimoto’s influence on a lot of the tunes. Excellent request, jiganbakuda!

I’ll also be posting Karous soon, once I get the track names sorted out, and I’ll try to find a good way to rip Last Blade. I have the Neo Geo CD disc so I may go that route.

Have fun with them!

Sorry it’s been a couple of days, but I’ve been busy changing around some hosting stuff. Sadly, my Dropbox has been pretty much shut down because of bandwidth usage, so I’m exclusively using Mega now. All of the links have been changed to reflect that. I did get a couple of albums done, though!

Cosmic Carnage – Here’s an often overlooked 32X game that had a great soundtrack. It actually reminds me more of shmup music than fighting music. Also, the music only used the Genesis soundchips, and not the 32X expanded sound, so it makes it even more impressive.

Karous – I used to think it meant "Crow" in English, but it actually means "Raven." Anyways, I think this is my favorite of the Dreamcast-ported shoot em up soundtracks. It’s a bit darker and bassier than the other shooters I put up a few days ago, with some excellent breakbeats.

Still taking requests! My queue is empty right now!

🙂

Also, I could not find the cosmic carnage album in the genesis downloads, could you tell me where its at ruiner9?

Also, I could not find the cosmic carnage album in the genesis downloads, could you tell me where its at ruiner9?

Total High-Five, bro. The Mother 3 soundtrack is simply the most amazing 6 hours of music ever made. I made my own GBA rip awhile ago, but it’s NOTHING compared to what this guy did:

MOTHER 3 Ultimate Music Rip ??? EarthBound 2 / MOTHER 3 ??? Forum ??? Starmen.Net (http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Games/Mother3/MOTHER-3-Ultimate-Music-Rip/page/1/)

He extracted the MIDI data and soundfonts from the game and rebuilt the soundtrack from there, so it’s free of the contraints of the crappy GBA hardware. You’re left with the entire game’s worth of music in super-duper high quality. It’s never been done like that before, and probably never will be again. That ripper is a genius. You’ll find the MP3 and FLAC downloads at the bottom of the first post on the link. BTW, have you played the game? I finished the unofficial English version about two months ago and was so mad that it never came out over here. But that’s Nintendo for ya. If your game has some cross-dressers and a guy who beats the crap out of his friends when his wife dies, it’s "not fit for American audiences." Oh well.

Anyways, Cosmic Carnage is now back up. Sorry about that!

For anyone else trying to download the mother 3 ultimate soundtrack, which I am listening to now and its amazing, the links on the first page are dead (at least they would not work for me). But whoever mirrored them on the 2nd page has kept the dream alive. Their mirror is here (vbr mp3s not the flacs)
https://blessedra.in/files/mother3.7z

MOTHER 3 Ultimate Music Rip ??? EarthBound 2 / MOTHER 3 ??? Forum ??? Starmen.Net (http://forum.starmen.net/forum/Games/Mother3/MOTHER-3-Ultimate-Music-Rip/page/1/)

He extracted the MIDI data and soundfonts from the game and rebuilt the soundtrack from there, so it’s free of the contraints of the crappy GBA hardware. You’re left with the entire game’s worth of music in super-duper high quality. It’s never been done like that before, and probably never will be again. That ripper is a genius. You’ll find the MP3 and FLAC downloads at the bottom of the first post on the link. BTW, have you played the game? I finished the unofficial English version about two months ago and was so mad that it never came out over here. But that’s Nintendo for ya. If your game has some cross-dressers and a guy who beats the crap out of his friends when his wife dies, it’s "not fit for American audiences." Oh well.

Anyways, Cosmic Carnage is now back up. Sorry about that!

First off, HUGE thanks for this. I’d been looking for a better quality upload for the Mother 3 soundtrack, so I appreciate the link. I somehow managed to miss this.

Second, it’s a shame your Dropbox was shut down, but I can’t say I’m surprised, what with the sheer amount of stuff you have.

Third, some requests, including some of those Game Boy requests I hinted at a little while back.
A few requests then:

NES:
Square no Tom Sawyer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFAUeOHlK7Y)

SNES:
Brain Lord (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZFRvBdVwM&list=PL12159A220EB0A877)
Dark Law: Meaning of Death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy4wj7ejHAQ)
Thunder Spirits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw_C4QexBNM&list=FLk1Fo1TfTOFWRhffJGvDSUg&index=5)

Genesis:
Addams Family Values (shoulda requested this for Halloween!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0oOX6x9JI)
Junction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUw41380uHk)
King Salmon: The Big Catch (surprisingly good) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4n5hz4JIuk)
Socket (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIhirO51TgY)

Gameboy:
Batman (1989, Sunsoft) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppJ8K5CWgs)
Donkey Kong Land 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7tYWIxwIM)
Final Fantasy Adventure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHJD5dxvLE)
Kirby’s Block Ball (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7kdl2TBFn8)
Oddworld Adventure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNBS1-DjzI&list=PL09CE7256D8F9898F)
Power Quest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKz98yvMG5Y)
The Sword of Hope (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S88aoBB-DRM)
Warlocked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0s7mTNW60&list=PL8D73ADAF19EE243C)
X / Ekkusu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk8PGE-FpZw)

Also I’m curious, do you know of the Youtube channel Wiiguy309 (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL391CD2B910480D15) and his 8-Bit Stereo project? Like your NES Stereo uploads, he’s been uploading Stereo mixes of NES games. I’ve had mixed opinions on them: along with separating sound channels, he adds a bit of echo to the mix. For some soundtracks, usually ones with "fuller" sound, the addition is welcome, but for others it just sounds off. Do you have any opinions on it?

Second, it’s a shame your Dropbox was shut down, but I can’t say I’m surprised, what with the sheer amount of stuff you have.

Third, some requests, including some of those Game Boy requests I hinted at a little while back.
A few requests then:

NES:
Square no Tom Sawyer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFAUeOHlK7Y)

SNES:
Brain Lord (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZFRvBdVwM&list=PL12159A220EB0A877)
Dark Law: Meaning of Death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy4wj7ejHAQ)
Thunder Spirits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw_C4QexBNM&list=FLk1Fo1TfTOFWRhffJGvDSUg&index=5)

Genesis:
Addams Family Values (shoulda requested this for Halloween!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0oOX6x9JI)
Junction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUw41380uHk)
King Salmon: The Big Catch (surprisingly good) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4n5hz4JIuk)
Socket (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIhirO51TgY)

Gameboy:
Batman (1989, Sunsoft) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppJ8K5CWgs)
Donkey Kong Land 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7tYWIxwIM)
Final Fantasy Adventure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHJD5dxvLE)
Kirby’s Block Ball (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7kdl2TBFn8)
Oddworld Adventure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNBS1-DjzI&list=PL09CE7256D8F9898F)
Power Quest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKz98yvMG5Y)
The Sword of Hope (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S88aoBB-DRM)
Warlocked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0s7mTNW60&list=PL8D73ADAF19EE243C)
X / Ekkusu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk8PGE-FpZw)

Also I’m curious, do you know of the Youtube channel Wiiguy309 (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL391CD2B910480D15) and his 8-Bit Stereo project? Like your NES Stereo uploads, he’s been uploading Stereo mixes of NES games. I’ve had mixed opinions on them: along with separating sound channels, he adds a bit of echo to the mix. For some soundtracks, usually ones with "fuller" sound, the addition is welcome, but for others it just sounds off. Do you have any opinions on it?

Awesome! I’ll work on them over the weekend!

As far as echo effects in the NES tracks go, I’m personally not fond of it. I’m a purist when it comes to these things. In emulators, I always turn all the filters off because I like the blocky, clean look of the graphics rather than blurry antialiasing, and I feel the same way about sound… while the stereo effect is an extra feature, I don’t feel it changes the sound like echo or reverb does. I just checked the Treasure Master soundtrack out and it sounded like I was listening to the music in a steel cage! Of course, music is always personal opinion, but you won’t find me adding it to my rips. 🙂

And hey, it leaves it open for people to apply their own effects after the fact! A complex but feasible project would be to record every instrument in the songs separately using the muting feature on the nsf player, and then rebuilding them in a sequencing program like Sony Acid, and then adding reverb/ echo to only the lead square synths, so it doesn’t sound like the whole thing is underwater. With the Follin music, it would allow you to use flange and phase distortion and wah, to make the guitar parts sound more like the real thing. THAT would be pretty cool!

NES

Square no Tom Sawyer – Something to add to yiur Nobuo Uematsu collection! Some tightly-composed rpg-sounding works on this one.

SNES

Brain Lord – I was expecting some light RPG fare, but got some really nice beats and catchy music! This is one to definitely check out!
Dark Lord – Meaning of Death – This one is a bit more symphonic, but a few tracks are really nice action oriented bangers.
Thunder Spirits – A cousin of the Thunder Force series on the Genesis, this one has some nice SNES versions of the tracks from it’s predecessors. I think I prefer the Genesis versions, but these have their own charm, too.

Genesis

Addams Family Values – OK, now THIS is some creepy stuff! You’re right, this should have gone in the Halloween collection. I love this soundtrack!
Junction – A rare Konami-published puzzle game. I know, right? Anyways, I like the music here. A lot of it kind of reminds me of ending music to action games, but some is actually pretty fast, too. This is going in my "listen to" collection. The composer of the music is unknown, but others have compared the music to that of Heavy Nova, whose composer is ALSO unknown. Weird.

Anyways, we have some more Genesis requests and a bunch of GameBoy stuff coming up soon. Expect some more awesome stuff tomorrow!

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Time for a weekend update! Got a few requests done over the last few days:

NES

Square no Tom Sawyer – Something to add to yiur Nobuo Uematsu collection! Some tightly-composed rpg-sounding works on this one.

SNES

Brain Lord – I was expecting some light RPG fare, but got some really nice beats and catchy music! This is one to definitely check out!
Dark Lord – Meaning of Death – This one is a bit more symphonic, but a few tracks are really nice action oriented bangers.
Thunder Spirits – A cousin of the Thunder Force series on the Genesis, this one has some nice SNES versions of the tracks from it’s predecessors. I think I prefer the Genesis versions, but these have their own charm, too.

Genesis

Addams Family Values – OK, now THIS is some creepy stuff! You’re right, this should have gone in the Halloween collection. I love this soundtrack!
Junction – A rare Konami-published puzzle game. I know, right? Anyways, I like the music here. A lot of it kind of reminds me of ending music to action games, but some is actually pretty fast, too. This is going in my "listen to" collection. The composer of the music is unknown, but others have compared the music to that of Heavy Nova, whose composer is ALSO unknown. Weird.

Anyways, we have some more Genesis requests and a bunch of GameBoy stuff coming up soon. Expect some more awesome stuff tomorrow!

Konami did not do Junction. Micronet Co. Ltd, the creators of Heavy Nova created Junction. Shaka, the same composer to Heavy Nova, as well as Curse, has done the soundtrack to that game. Even I do not know who he or she is, but I like Shaka’s sound driver used in Junction, Curse, and Heavy Nova for the Genesis.

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Konami did not do Junction. Micronet Co. Ltd, the creators of Heavy Nova created Junction. Shaka, the same composer to Heavy Nova, as well as Curse, has done the soundtrack to that game. Even I do not know who he or she is, but I like Shaka’s sound driver used in Junction, Curse, and Heavy Nova for the Genesis.

Right, notice I said Konami PUBLISHED it, not developed it!

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We have more updates! Hooray! What’s in the bag today?

Genesis

Blades of Vengeance – This was done as a favor for a friend for a project he’s working on. It’s actually quite a good soundtrack. Marshall Parker worked on it, and he was also responsible for the unique Shadowrun Genesis soundtrack, as well as half of the new Shadowrun game which was just released for the PC. He always puts out quality work.

King Salmon – Man, Hitoshi Sakimoto worked on some obscure titles! We all know what he’s capable of producing, and this furthers that proof… some tight melodies, an excellent sound driver, and a few tracks that side toward the hard-rock genre.

Sega Channel Demo Cart – You won’t hear THIS one every day. This is music ripped from an in-store demo of the Sega Channel capabilities, and it has quite a bit of music. Each channel has it’s own theme, and they’re pretty good! There aren’t any credits for the composers, but I detect some similarities to Toejam and Earl in places, so maybe….?

GameBoy

Batman – Yes! This is what I’m talking about! I’m so lame when it comes to GB music because I only ever owned a few games, myself. But here we have a Naoki Kodaka masterpiece that fits in your pocket! Download this one. No, just do it. Seriously.

Donkey Kong Country 1 – 3 – Dave Wise (of course) wrote the first two albums, while Eveline Novakovic took over on the 3rd, making it a "rare" non-Wise Rare soundtrack (did that make sense?) Anyways, you’ll hear that Wise’s music is a little heavier, with lots of sweeping sound effects and note bending, while Novakovic takes a more traditional approach to her work. Although, she gets pretty heavy on the "Nuts and Bolts" tracks.

Warlocked – Wow, this one is rad. Fast arpeggios, really nice percussion, catchy melodies… This is how GB games should sound! A must-hear soundtrack!

OK! There’s still more GB requests in the works, so I’ll be posting those within the next day or so.

What else on GB am I missing out on? 🙂

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We have more updates! Hooray! What’s in the bag today?

Genesis

Blades of Vengeance – This was done as a favor for a friend for a project he’s working on. It’s actually quite a good soundtrack. Marshall Parker worked on it, and he was also responsible for the unique Shadowrun Genesis soundtrack, as well as half of the new Shadowrun game which was just released for the PC. He always puts out quality work.

King Salmon – Man, Hitoshi Sakimoto worked on some obscure titles! We all know what he’s capable of producing, and this furthers that proof… some tight melodies, an excellent sound driver, and a few tracks that side toward the hard-rock genre.

Sega Channel Demo Cart – You won’t hear THIS one every day. This is music ripped from an in-store demo of the Sega Channel capabilities, and it has quite a bit of music. Each channel has it’s own theme, and they’re pretty good! There aren’t any credits for the composers, but I detect some similarities to Toejam and Earl in places, so maybe….?

GameBoy

Batman – Yes! This is what I’m talking about! I’m so lame when it comes to GB music because I only ever owned a few games, myself. But here we have a Naoki Kodaka masterpiece that fits in your pocket! Download this one. No, just do it. Seriously.

Donkey Kong Country 1 – 3 – Dave Wise (of course) wrote the first two albums, while Eveline Novakovic took over on the 3rd, making it a "rare" non-Wise Rare soundtrack (did that make sense?) Anyways, you’ll hear that Wise’s music is a little heavier, with lots of sweeping sound effects and note bending, while Novakovic takes a more traditional approach to her work. Although, she gets pretty heavy on the "Nuts and Bolts" tracks.

Warlocked – Wow, this one is rad. Fast arpeggios, really nice percussion, catchy melodies… This is how GB games should sound! A must-hear soundtrack!

OK! There’s still more GB requests in the works, so I’ll be posting those within the next day or so.

What else on GB am I missing out on? 🙂

Sorry, its just when I looked at the cover for the USA version of Junction, it didn’t look like Konami published it, that’s all.

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I have 6 requests for Game Boy games, all of them are Japanese Only RPGs:

1: ONI II: Innin Densetsu: Oni II: Innin Densetsu (ONI II ????) – Game Boy Gameplay – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWbbFzvNd9Q)
2: ONI III: Kuro no Hakaishin: Oni III: Kuro no Hakaishin (ONI III ?????) – Game Boy Gameplay – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-WNrHxhn0)
3: ONI IV: Kishin no Ketsuzoku: ??????????ONI IV ????? – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txc_KtOwerI)
4: ONI V: Innin no Tsugumono: [Oni V: Innin no Tsugumono]Last Boss Sanato Kumara – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXyAidDD9RA)
5: XERD no Densetsu: Xerd no Densetsu (??????) – Game Boy Gameplay – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJft-rEPqzw) (This one and the sequel were composed by Fumito Tamayama)
6: XERD no Densetsu II: XERD!! Gishin no Ryouiki: VGM Hall Of Fame: Xerd no Densetsu II – Welcome to Town (GB) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyUEDgQSO8)

The easy answer is probably "most things that Alberto Gonazalez did." A veteran of the MSX and ZX Spectrum, he made some of the best and most technically advanced GB/GBC soundtracks. The easy recommendation for a soundtrack would be The Smurfs’ Nightmare. This song in particular is amazing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlokRNcURKM), but the whole soundtrack is top notch. He did a lot of high quality soundtracks for the GBC near the tail-end of it’s life cycle.

He actually has a Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby)where he’s been posting remasters of his music, though he only posts each soundtrack as one long-individual track rather than separate tracks per tune. Still worth checking out.

He actually has a Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby)where he’s been posting remasters of his music, though he only posts each soundtrack as one long-individual track rather than separate tracks per tune. Still worth checking out.

Holy smokes. Amazing stuff. I have a feeling my GB section will be growing very big very soon. Thanks for pointing him out!

He actually has a Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby)where he’s been posting remasters of his music, though he only posts each soundtrack as one long-individual track rather than separate tracks per tune. Still worth checking out.

I love Alberto Gonzalez’s work, especially on what he did for the Gameboy Turok games.

Final Fantasy Adventure – This is what Final Fantasy would sound like in Kenji Ito’s hands: eh, not too impressive. There’s some OK tracks, but the Chocobo Theme is pretty terrible, in my opinion.
Kirby’s Block Ball – It’s Breakout in the Kirby universe! The music is fun – a constant fast pace keeps the action going, and the sounds are pleasant to the ears. This is a nice one.
The Smurfs – OK, this is an Alberto Gonzalez soundtrack. Remember that name, because he’s evidently a music legend that I’ve never heard of, for some reason. Just download this one. Take my word for it.
The Smurfs’ Nightmare – Another Gonzalez soundtrack, and I think one of his best. Listen to "Another World (The Mysterious Planet)" and "The Workbench Gone Mad" and see what the GameBoy soundsystem is REALLY capable of!
The Sword of Hope – Kind of an obscure Kemco game that doesn’t have any composer credits. The melodies are nice and seem a bit melancholy at times. It reminds me a lot of late 80’s NES music.

OK, still have a bunch of GB titles to do… but they’re coming soon! Promise! 🙂

And as far as GB music goes….. I’d like to request Trip World, if possible. This is a Sunsoft game, so you KNOW it’ll have a great soundtrack! 😉

And as far as GB music goes….. I’d like to request Trip World, if possible. This is a Sunsoft game, so you KNOW it’ll have a great soundtrack! 😉

Huh, I was just thinking about recommending Trip World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kqZUXevrmo) myself, so consider that recommendation seconded then.

Thank you, I am glad I have got to share that soundtrack series to you and to everyone else on the Net. Actually, there are 5 games in the ONI series, its just that 2-4 had a lot better music, that is why I decided on those 4 only. In fact, 2 games in the ONI series also made it to the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo):

1: Kishin Korinden ONI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72CgYEaCpVY
2: Bakumatsu Kourinden ONI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSx2W8IPv8s

These games, the entire ONI series was made by my all time RPG developer from Japan- Pandora Box.

So, how’s it coming along on Xerd no Densetsu?

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In an unrelated question, why do you like the Non-Japanese composers more than the Japanese?

1: Kishin Korinden ONI: ?????ONI ???.mp4 – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72CgYEaCpVY)
2: Bakumatsu Kourinden ONI: ?????ONI ???.mp4 – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSx2W8IPv8s)

These games, the entire ONI series was made by my all time RPG developer from Japan- Pandora Box.

So, how’s it coming along on Xerd no Densetsu?

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In an unrelated question, why do you like the Non-Japanese composers more than the Japanese?

I’ve no preference over the nationality of game composers. Follin is my favorite, yes, but I also love Yuzo Koshiro, Motoi Sakuraba, and Naoki Kodaka.

Xerd should be up later today, along with a bunch more. Just depends on how busy I am at work!

:rockwell:

Xerd No Densetsu 1 and 2 are up! We’ve got some very Konami-esque tunes here. A lot reminds me of either Castlevania, or the first Ninja Turtles game on the NES. Also, it’s rare for a game to use the triangle wave as the lead on most songs, and these albums do it quite a bit! Makes it sound very unique.

Tonight, I’ll have the arcade/ Dreamcast shooter Chaos Field, and maybe a few others Enjoy for now!

Chaos Field – Hardcore techno shooter music! *yawn*

Trip World – I thought this GameBoy game was about drugs! So disappointed. BUT! The music is rad. *nodding off*

Asterix – Alberto Gonzalez did NOT do this one on the SNES. It’s mediocre.

Asterix & Obelix – Alberto Gonzalez DID do this one on the SNES. It’s totally amazing.

I’m going to bed now. See ya tomorrow!

ZZZZZzzzzz…..

Well, fine! If you like synthesized Baroque and/ or chamber music, then Virtual Hydlide is totally your cup of tea! Go grab it in the newly-opened Saturn section! 🙂

(OK, it was a little hard to find. Took me about 7 minutes.)

Xerd should be up later today, along with a bunch more. Just depends on how busy I am at work!

:rockwell:

Thanks so much, dude for the Xerd soundtracks. Fumito Tamayama is known for his Konami-esque soundtracks in his games. Here is a sample of what I am talking about, but this game was never released: [NES] Secret Ties 06 – Incan Temple (Stage 1, Stage 5) (OST) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YxOBt9pfSo)

That’s good. I am like you in some ways, I do like a few Non-Japanese composers, like Geoff and Tim Follin, Grahame Norgate, Robin Beanland, David Wise, Brian Coburn, the people over at Novotrade who did the Ecco games, as well as all of their other work on the Genesis, Jonathan Dunn, Keith Tinman, Rob Hubbard, Alberto Gonzalez, only on certain games, the same thing goes with the Japanese, such as Naoki Kodaka, Motoi Sakuraba (I recommend you look up his work he did when he worked over at WOLFTEAM, the games from that company and the music he composed for them is excellent) and Yuzo Koshiro (especially on his work on Streets of Rage).

(OK, it was a little hard to find. Took me about 7 minutes.)
wtf? well anyway thanks. 😀

maybe next you could try your luck at all the saturn/dreamcast Let’s Make A Pro Soccer Team/J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! series?

PS, the King Salmon game you put up was composed by Masaharu Iwata, Sakimoto just supplied the sound driver. (not sure if that’s how you have it tagged, since I didn’t DL it)

@Evolution01 I have all of Tamayama’s works, so if you want them let me know.

That’s good. I am like you in some ways, I do like a few Non-Japanese composers, like Geoff and Tim Follin, Grahame Norgate, Robin Beanland, David Wise, Brian Coburn, the people over at Novotrade who did the Ecco games, as well as all of their other work on the Genesis, Jonathan Dunn, Keith Tinman, Rob Hubbard, Alberto Gonzalez, only on certain games, the same thing goes with the Japanese, such as Naoki Kodaka, Motoi Sakuraba (I recommend you look up his work he did when he worked over at WOLFTEAM, the games from that company and the music he composed for them is excellent) and Yuzo Koshiro (especially on his work on Streets of Rage).

Well that’s an impressive cadre of composers! Did you know that the soundtrack to Secret Ties is available? I’ll work on a stereo version for you over the weekend!

wtf? well anyway thanks. 😀

maybe next you could try your luck at all the saturn/dreamcast Let’s Make A Pro Soccer Team/J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! series?

PS, the King Salmon game you put up was composed by Masaharu Iwata, Sakimoto just supplied the sound driver. (not sure if that’s how you have it tagged, since I didn’t DL it)

@Evolution01 I have all of Tamayama’s works, so if you want them let me know.

I have them both tagged as artists on King Salmon, actually, since I wasn’t sure if Sakimoto actually wrote any of the music.

Also, Saturn version of J.League Pro Soccer Club wo Tsukurou is in a weird format that hasn’t been able to be dumped yet, but I can definitely do the DC iteration, J.League Spectacle Soccer. I’ll be mad busy tomorrow but I’ll have some stuff ready over the weekend!

and I’m specially looking for the early Saturn era J.League Pro Soccer Club wo Tsukurou games (1-3 mainly). in fact I think I have Spectacle Soccer already. too bad almost none of them have credits, although I know Junko Shiratsu (of Knuckles’ Chaotix fame) did some of the earlier games in the series.

SNES

– Lagoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WdowS85K3I) (A game very similar to Falcom’s Ys series. This was also released for the X68000, but that version’s soundtrack might be harder to find, I’m not sure.)
– Metal Morph (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY3Dbx_das0)
– Super R-Type (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9rN2y_EBLY)
– Realm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TLsDR_XH9U)
– Dead Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQT7C9hFZgA) (aka Tuff E Nuff for the localized versions)
– The Lost Vikings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZItppVpUwwc) and its sequel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDofCOo4AGQ) (I’m actually surprised nobody else requested these earlier!)

Game Boy

– Monster Max (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgi9EsDNoVM) (David Wise, anyone? ;))
– Volley Fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dznhLGMPNjA)
– Spanky’s Quest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3I9Jc895uM)

Genesis/MD

– Atomic Runner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwk-7ro1tnY)
– Socket (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uLXeQP_yCE) (That tune alone should convince you of how awesome this soundtrack is ;))
– Twinkle Tale (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK4fn5oN3q0) (I have a LOT of trouble finding the music for this one, personally….)

Also, I dunno if it’s okay to request GBA music, but I’ll list ’em anyway:

Game Boy Advance

– Drill Dozer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1nOHWOa2-0) (LOVE this game’s soundtrack! But I have a hell of a hard time finding any MP3 downloads of it….)
– Shonen Jump’s One Piece (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTVOB8fmbPc) (I’m probably biased here since I’m a huge OP fan, but IMO this is one of the best GBA soundtracks ever! Hopefully, the final stage theme will convince you of that, as well. ;))

Aaaaaand….. that’s it, for now! 🙂

Elwood, I’m working on finishing up your GB requests first.

dissident93, it’s not looking great on the J.League stuff, unless I find a tool that will rip music from the game iso AND some documentation on which files host the soundtrack. I’ll keep digging, though! You may have actually stumped me… 🙁

MarvelB, great suggestions! I actually did have Super R-Type and Tuff E Nuff up at one point when my Dropbox wasn’t banned, but I don’t think they were ever mirrored on Mega so they got lost in the purge. I’ll redo those. I can get just about everything except for Drill Dozer, which stinks because it DOES has some cool tunes. One Piece is untagged and untimed, so that’ll take some extra work, too.

Normally I can do a lot of this at work (I’ve gotten to the point where I can do these albums without even having speakers, I just check the levels to make sure there’s no clipping, not too quiet, etc) but I’ll be attending a huge convention today. So, most work won’t begin till late tonight/ Saturday afternoon. Oh, and I have to pick up this PS4 thing on the way home. 😉

-SD Gundam G Generation F (PSX)

This is (ultimately) a five disc (3+Premium+F.IF) behemoth for PSX. The ultimate Gundam UC game. Was remade for PSP but some UC arcs were removed to get space for SEED and SEED Destiny. :/

Psfs are easy to find and remember… STAND UP TO THE VICTORY!!

I’ll work on it!

Of course- I have a good ear for game music, if you know what I mean. Thanks, dude, but I already have the soundtrack to Secret Ties.

No worries, you’ve had a lot of requests and I appreciate the effort either way.

Of course- I have a good ear for game music, if you know what I mean. Thanks, dude, but I already have the soundtrack to Secret Ties.

Perhaps, but I don’t. I certainly wouldn’t mind hearing a NES Stereo version of the Secret Ties soundtrack for what it’s worth, ruiner9.

Perhaps, but I don’t. I certainly wouldn’t mind hearing a NES Stereo version of the Secret Ties soundtrack for what it’s worth, ruiner9.

I was gonna do it anyways, Elwood 😉

Also… 200 posts! Do I get like an award or something? No? Oh, OK. 😛

Super R-Type (Snes)- OK, not NEW new, but back up again. 🙂

Atomic Runner (Genesis)- I LOVE the 1st stage theme of this game. It’s so catchy! This is a great action game soundtrack.

Socket (Genesis)- Socket was designed by Vic Tokai to be almost a rival to Sonic. Well, they didn’t do that great in THAT department, but the music is top notch! Maybe even better in places than the first Sonic score. Maaaybe. It’s pretty good.

And the Gameboy stuff:

X – Hip Tanaka worked on this one, and it’s a little Metroidy in parts… he likes to build sound effects into his music. It’s pretty cool.

Volley Fire – Arpeggios! Arpeggios everywhere! This soundtrack has more cascading notes than I think I’ve ever heard. It’s pretty unique, and very cool… but don’t listen if you have a headache.

Power Quest – Imagine this as an alternate Mega Man soundtrack, made by Sunsoft, and you have the right idea. 🙂

Monster Max – Imagine THIS one as an alternate Battletoads soundtrack, made by Rare (and Titus,) and you also have the right idea. 🙂

OK! Got TEN. FREAKING. HOURS. of SD Gundam music coming up soon… it’s over 1gb, so it’ll be a temporary upload for Lefance and anyone else who wants to grab it (cuz it IS really good stuff)… should be done sometime in the next few hours.

Also, more previous requests will be worked on! Woot!

SD Gundam G Generation F (PSX – ruiner9).7z.001 250.0 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!kwtVyYzL!WvxS5QlkAakIGKxOotz9xVKdPmFzGjLEF5pkKZ6 CdSw

SD Gundam G Generation F (PSX – ruiner9).7z.002 250.0 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!N9NFiTSS!AiG_Tn-4cV2QROLthNTXI1j5cid5bAmMhVSW2ppxR2I

SD Gundam G Generation F (PSX – ruiner9).7z.003 250.0 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!Rh1HUCRK!VPuIjzxr2x0i7aYcFo-Q5m8w3zAMDBWKSx1Qtl0FplM

SD Gundam G Generation F (PSX – ruiner9).7z.004 250.0 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!U9EVzQzZ!dpHidgim4TJ0_DDzklatVzN_JI1jjFp1TAhQSY_ W-q8

SD Gundam G Generation F (PSX – ruiner9).7z.005 176.3 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!I4131T5L!ME2PTmSUakRdAMBpPLWbD3UozzRzQzzcamB9qR-ilxY

NES

Secret Ties – No, it’s not about those things you wear around your neck when your mom forces you to look nice. It’s an unreleased Japanese game with a soundtrack from Fumito Tamayama! It’s pretty freaking good. He knows how to get music stuck in your head.

GameBoy

Spanky’s Quest – Some cheery music to get you up when you’re feeling down. It’s a medium-paced, very melodic soundtrack.

Genesis

Twinkle Tale – This one’s kind of similar in gameplay to Pocky and Rocky on the SNES… a run n’ gun overhead shooter. The music is a head-nodder. Nice drum samples drive the beat along with some triumphant-sounding synths keep your little witch protagonist shooting the bad guys.

GBA

Shonen Jump’s One Piece – This one wasn’t timed or tagged, so I did my best! It’s 35 tracks long, and has a very MIDI-instrument sound to it. That’s not very uncommon in GBA games, though. It’s a lot of fun to listen to!

SNES

Lagoon – I think this uses the same sound driver as Hyper Zone. It’s got some great drum and hi-hat samples, and the music is energetic and fun.
Metal Morph – One of the very few soundtracks not written by a Japanese artist today, this has got some very metal and hard-rock oriented tracks, with chugging guitar samples and a thick percussion section. It’s pretty unique!
Realm – Trancey techno! Makes you wanna shake in your seat. I really like this one, though it’s kind of short…
The Lost Vikings 1 and 2 – These are some very unique works! They’re so advanced that traditional ripping methods don’t work, so special software had to be developed to get the music from the ROMs. It’s worth it, because they ROCK. Even though they’re from different composers, they blend elements of pop, classical, and hip hop together to make some really cool tunes. The 2nd game wasn’t tagged OR timed, so this makes the first SNES title I’ve had to do some manual work on. Definitely check these out if you’re not familiar.
Tuff E Nuff – Also known as Dead Dance across the ocean, but Nintendo didn’t like "death" being talked about in the USA. Weirdos. Anyways, the music is kind of reminiscent of Final Fight in away, but that’s OK, because so is the game!

So! I think now, I’m open for more requests, and I finally have time to put some of my own up, too. Hope you guys enjoy this weekend’s music loot! 🙂

Nice variety. Challenge accepted.

Saturn

Sonic R – The "more mature" equivalent to Mario kart, Sonic R was a pretty cool game, with a VERY disco/ 90’s dancepop soundtrack, complete with vocals. This one’s a direct rip from my copy of the game, so it’s very high quality.

SNES

Super Metroid – Hip Tanaka’s original score was minimalist. It was very lonely and melancholy sounding, but also had a sense of purpose to it at times. Kenji Yamamoto’s soundtrack takes that same feeling and works with it throughout the whole game. It’s a "sit alone in the dark and try not to get spooked" kind of soundtrack.

Tales of Phantasia – So here’s an interesting soundtrack… there’s a rip out there in SNSF format, which is what Lost Vikings uses, because it has samples and sequences that the SPC format doesn’t support. The issue is that the SNSF source is totally untagged and untimed, and it’s a MAJOR project to do it correctly. The SPC version is complete with track titles and times, so I made that one. Can the people who are familiar with the music tell me if it’s missing instruments? I know there’s one track that’s supposed to have vocals, but I’m not sure which one. If we can narrow down the tracks that are incorrect, it won’t be as much of an issue to tag and time-cut a few SNSF songs. Then I’ll integrate them into the existing album.

Genesis

Shinobi III – Some great examples of how clean rock ‘n roll composition should sound on the ol’ Yamaha 2612. I really like this soundtrack. Give it a shot if you haven’t heard it!

NES

Moon Crystal – I’ve never heard of this game till now. The music is… well, I guess "whimsical" is the best way to describe it. Lots of twinkly notes in the higher registers make a very "cute" soundtrack. The game looks great, though! I just saw some footage on YouTube and it has cinematics like Ninja Gaiden and some great character animation. I think I’m gonna check it out tonight!

N64

StarFox 64 – It’s nice to have an addition to the N64 section! It’s a pretty symphonic soundtrack, which I’m not too fond of, but it sounds really good!

GameBoy

Turok Rage Wars, 1, and 2 – Alberto Gonzalez. Need I say more? Right.

PlayStation

Rage Racer – I LOVE the Ridge Racer series music. Shinji Hosoe’s original soundtrack got my into electronica when I was in high school, and the music got more mature with Tetsukazu Nakanishi’s subsequent soundtracks, all the way up to Ridge Racer 7. I’ll be adding more of this series’ music over time. This is also a direct rip from my game’s CD audio, except track 1, which is the only PSF track in the game.

Well now, that was a lot of stuff in two days! I should be getting the parts for my new Core i7 monster PC in a day or two, which means BLAZING FAST encoding times. I’m excited!

Hit me with some more requests! Peace out for now.

Arcus Odessey (gen)
RYU 〜哭きの竜より〜 (PC-98 or Sharp X68000)
Mahjong Hisshou Den: Naki no Ryuu [麻雀飛翔伝 哭きの竜] (super nintendo) – Different game based on the same franchise

I’ll take care of those requests, too. I have some access to X68000 games, but they’re scarce, so hopefully that’s one of the titles I can rip.

Also, tomorrow I’m going to be posting just about every Street Fighter II 16-bit console version that’s out there, along with the Naxat pinball series for the TG16. Some sweet tunes in those games!

Not to be a bother, but it seems you forgot to put the link to Super Metroid as well.

Glad to hear Ridge Racer music will be getting uploaded, I was thinking of requesting it.

EDIT:
Some requests…

NES:
Base Wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXEN0v3fmDs&list=PLEOQ0YA_1DWkzMi3JH8qj26RQQa0oHGN1)
Crisis Force (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWye7hTVahI)
Exciting Soccer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlVBfm6YNg)
Gyruss (if possible I’d love to hear both the NES verison (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9zhVYuCCRI&list=PL4FCA367804BC811A) and the Famicom Disk System version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ikab-ZvAA))
Metal Max (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlluJFuhgWo)
Mission Impossible (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUlv2ZQG75Y)
Mitsume ga Tooru (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqjDv5Vc74)
Snake’s Revenge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rROnc2c44Y&list=PLE58969CC7CFE390C)
Super Spy Hunter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5OMA21uyXE)

Game Boy:
Castlevania Legends (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8FH8NI4U4Y&list=PL7DC042EBEF3DFAF2)
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru / For the Frog the Bell Tolls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lL9_jGX78)
Oddworld Adventures (you actually forgot this one in the last batch of requests) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNBS1-DjzI&list=PL09CE7256D8F9898F)

Pretty heavy on Konami now that I look at it.

Glad to hear Ridge Racer music will be getting uploaded, I was thinking of requesting it.

EDIT:
Some requests…

NES:
Base Wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXEN0v3fmDs&list=PLEOQ0YA_1DWkzMi3JH8qj26RQQa0oHGN1)
Crisis Force (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWye7hTVahI)
Exciting Soccer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlVBfm6YNg)
Gyruss (if possible I’d love to hear both the NES verison (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9zhVYuCCRI&list=PL4FCA367804BC811A) and the Famicom Disk System version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ikab-ZvAA))
Metal Max (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlluJFuhgWo)
Mission Impossible (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUlv2ZQG75Y)
Mitsume ga Tooru (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqjDv5Vc74)
Snake’s Revenge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rROnc2c44Y&list=PLE58969CC7CFE390C)
Super Spy Hunter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5OMA21uyXE)

Game Boy:
Castlevania Legends (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8FH8NI4U4Y&list=PL7DC042EBEF3DFAF2)
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru / For the Frog the Bell Tolls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lL9_jGX78)
Oddworld Adventures (you actually forgot this one in the last batch of requests) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNBS1-DjzI&list=PL09CE7256D8F9898F)

Pretty heavy on Konami now that I look at it.

Man, I must be losin’ it. Super Metroid is now UP!

I love Konami music, so no worries! After I get the Street Fighter II collection up, I’ll start on the requests.

Alien Crush and Devil’s Crush – Kicking off our TG16 chiptune music rips is these two awesome pinball games, and I’ve always loved their music. It’s fast-paced hard rock, and makes the fact that you’re playing on the same pinball table for hours a little less tedious. Check them out!

Street Fighter II Series

Street Fighter II – SNES
Street Fighter II Turbo – SNES
Super Street Fighter II – SNES (USA and JAP)
Street Fighter II’ – Special Championship Edition – Genesis
Street Fighter II’ – Champion Edition – TG16

That’s a lot of the same music! It’s very cool that each version of the soundtrack sounds drastically different, even on the same system, and sometimes even by country. The US and Japanese Super Street Fighter II both have some different instrument samples, so I’ve included rips for each.

And do I need to say much about the music? Whether you consider it a great soundtrack or not, if you were old enough during the Street Fighter Craze of the mid-90’s, you have most of these songs memorized. I was one of those kids that rushed out to my local game store on the day the first SNES version was released, and I’ve been hooked ever since. It was kind of nice that I had a younger brother to kick the snot out of in tournament mode, too. 😉 I’m a big fan of the Street Fighter III soundtracks as well, so I’ll probably be ripping my Dreamcast discs at some point.

Time to start on the requests!

I will check on that! They’re not available in VGM format but I might be able to rip them in MAME, and that will take a few days.

Here’s what I’ve got so far! I’ll be brief because I’m about to leave work, lol….

Genesis

Arcus Odyssey – It’s another Motoi Sakuraba masterpiece! I’m really digging this soundtrack!

NES

Gyruss – I’ve uploaded both the NES and the FDS version, as requested. 🙂

GameBoy

Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru So in this RPG, you and a fellow prince are turned into frogs and you have to destroy a huge snake. Or at least that seems to be the gist of it. It’s a nicely composed soundtrack, typical of a lot of JRPG’s, from what I’ve listened to. I’ll give it a better listen later.

Castlevania Legends – This was kind of a weird game. It starred a female protagonist (Sonia Belmont) who was supposedly the first Belmont to fight Dracula. It was removed from the Castlevania timeline canon because it didn’t fit with the rest of the stories. Also, the soundtrack was kind of meh. It sounds pretty good through PC speakers instead of a GameBoy speaker, though.

SNES

Mahjong Hishouden – Naki no Ryuu – This one has a bit of a loungy vibe, which I would expect from a Mahjong game, I guess! 🙂 It’s pretty fun to listen to!

Saturn

Sega Rally Championship – Guys, I LOVE this game. It’s a blast to play, and the framerate is great for a Saturn 3D game. The soundtrack is mostly rock, with some synths thrown in for pop effect, and it’s very well produced.

Super Hang On GP – Also very similar to Sega Rally Championship’s soundtrack, I’m pretty sure the same production studio did the music, because it’s very similar. The composers are different, however, and this soundtrack is a little more on the pop side, instead of rock.

More to come soon!

Yeah, sure! It’s up in the downloads section now. It was REALLY hard to find any info for it besides publisher and date, so if you can fill in any details like composer or song titles/ song location in the game, let me know, and Ill add it in. 🙂

Also, I have a few extra albums this morning!

Arcade

Street Fighter II – If I’m going to have all the console soundtracks, may as well post the original, right? This is actually my least favorite version, mostly because the percussion is so muddy. It overtakes a lot of the tracks.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time – Wow. I thought the SNES soundtrack was awesome. The arcade version really kicks butt. It’s like an electro-punk rock dance party. If you like TMNT music (or, you know, just music in general,) grab this one!

OK, back to work on the other requests!

Base Wars – I’ll just be honest. Most of these games just have really good Konami music reminiscent of TMNT or Castlevania, so I’m not gonna go too much into them. 🙂

Crisis Force – Konami’s last game for the NES. It’s a technical masterpiece, and it’s got a great soundtrack as well.

Gyruss (FDS) – Didn’t I do this one? Well, yes, but I forgot to tag it. Redownload it and you’ll have a more complete package!

Metal Max – This is a freely explorable world done in RPG style, that challenges you to find the right stuff to get the best ending without forcing you to go anywhere. It’s a cool concept. The dungeon music is pretty creepy.

Mission Impossible – More Konami music! Hooray!

Mitsume ga Tooru – Here’s a game about a dude with three eyes, who has a gun and shoots enemies for gold coins and has a condor that can be used as a platform. Yikes. It was developed by Natsume, who’s done some cool music in the past, so check ‘er out.

Snake’s Revenge – So this game is hailed as an embarrassment to the Metal Gear series by Hideo Kojima himself. He’s right, it’s not even a stealth game. However, the music was really good. It’s intense, and tightly composed, and uses those famous Konami drumbeats. So at least there’s that, right? It’s not all a waste!

Super Spy Hunter – Naoki Kodaka. Shinichi Seya. Sunsoft. Yeah, I can see you’re drooling already. Wipe that spit off your chin and go download this short (but awesome) soundtrack.

Challenge complete! Requests finished! What’s next? Hmmmm… I’ve got some ideas!

Actually you did forget two requests.

Oddworld Adventure for the Game Boy. (Not a super impressive soundtrack I admit, but I have soft spot for it)
Exciting Soccer for NES (Another solid Konami soundtrack)

Arcade

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9huP9aOL8) (you already did the sequel, so why not the original, too? ;))

Asterix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQFu7xmPS8) (Yep, more Asterix. Even cooler is that part of the soundtrack was done by Mutsuhiko Izumi, the same fellow who did the aforementioned Ninja Turtle games. ;))

Zero Wing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9GfzfjAFNo) (Many remember this for the legendary meme that spawned from the Genesis/MD version, but it truly is an awesome game with awesome music!)

Thunder Cross I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwlUOptWrU) and II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvS_CBg6_o) (This Konami shmup series isn’t as well known as Gradius/Salamander, but it’s most definitely awesome!)

S.P.Y. Special Project Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpgKO0lTkE) (Obscure Konami game that mixes several genres together, it’s pretty interesting.)

Metamorphic Force (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1CfsdHdBc)

Gaiapolis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IweZSMg01h0)

Undercover Cops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHlGesjHK0E) (Irem brawler, was developed by members of the original Metal Slug team)

NES

Asterix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdwRrvvtUfI) (yep, more Asterix, this one also from Alberto Gonzalez!)

Game Boy

Asterix, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzAWb4vMvAo) and Asterix & Obelix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EekRXCiwk) (even MORE Gonzalez, though curiously the second title is merely titled "Obelix" in-game)

Genesis/MD

Asterix and the Great Rescue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ufFsfzxito) (even MORE Asterix! This soundtrack, however, was done by Nathan McCree.)

Zero Wing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLr_B3uYVHg) (I already requested the arcade version, so why not this, too?)

TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ExWhGUMoII)

X68000

Lagoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWdqloi3AFw) (Uh, CAN you obtain this version’s soundtrack?)

SNES

SD The Great Battle I, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nJpFq1zrqY) II, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKNINYyz2T8) III, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNfSphQBSa4) IV, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9IVrkSEUo) V, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z52HpK2axOE) and Gaiden 2. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSPMETckP28)

Playstation

Puyo Puyo~n (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDuqCAQlaFo)

Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VBKIkzFYOc) (Kind of REALLY doubt you’ll be able to get this one, but figured I’d mention it, anyway. I spent darn near a decade searching for this game’s soundtrack with no luck….. :()

And….. that does it for my second big list. Can you complete it? 😉

Probably not ALL of them, but MOST of them. Arcade soundtracks are hit-and-miss depending on the soundchip used. Usually games using some variation of the Yamaha chips are rippable, games with custom soundsets are almost impossible (unless the game was super popular and someone worked hard on it) because software just doesn’t exist to make the proper rips.

Looks like I can definitely do Asterix, Thunder Cross 1 and 2, and Zero Wing. I’m surprised that TMNT isn’t available! I’ll check to see if I can do it through MAME. Also, I can do the SNES version of Undercover Cops if you’d like since the arcade version isn’t there. That was a great game! Especially how it would always shout "U.C. COPS!" at you all the time. 😀

The rest of the console requests (except Gaoranger 🙁 ) are definitely do-able. EDIT: And Lagoon for the X68000 isn’t available either!
EDIT AGAIN: Is Puyo Puyo~n the same as Puyo Puyoon?

Hey Ruiner9, I was moving some of your uploads to my music library and noticed a couple of mistakes. I’m pretty sure the Alien Crush upload is incorrect, as the songs in there sound like repeats from Devil’s Crush (it’s labelled Alien Crush, but it’s very clearly the Devil’s Crush title and main themes, for instance). Also the Shinobi III soundtrack upload, while it has the correct names, it’s numbering seems way out of order (the title song is in the 12th song, track one is the stage 1-2 song, etc.). Not as big a deal, but I figured I’d at least point it out.

That’s really strange about the Crush games. I’ll check on that! The Shinobi rip is in that order because that’s the order that the sound test is in the game, so the source file ripper added them in as such. Feel free to arrange it however you like! 🙂

I appreciate you letting me know. When you’ve done over 300 soundtracks, you’re bound to make a few mistakes here and there!

EDIT: OK, I must have been drunk or something. Those Crush soundtracks were ALL MESSED UP. I didn’t even have the right composer! Anyways, they’re fixed now and the links have been updated. Please re-download to get the right song flow.

Also, I have a few extra albums this morning!

Arcade

Street Fighter II – If I’m going to have all the console soundtracks, may as well post the original, right? This is actually my least favorite version, mostly because the percussion is so muddy. It overtakes a lot of the tracks.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time – Wow. I thought the SNES soundtrack was awesome. The arcade version really kicks butt. It’s like an electro-punk rock dance party. If you like TMNT music (or, you know, just music in general,) grab this one!

OK, back to work on the other requests!
Kickass, gotta thank you for your time again. Nostalgia rolling in! As for track titles and composer, I’ve no earthly idea unfortunately. One of the reasons it was so hard to find anything on it haha.

Also, both versions of Zero Wing are up. I think the Genesis version is a lot better. It just sounds more gritty and heavy. The arcade version is a lot lighter and simple. Both have some amazing composition, though!

I hadn’t ever heard of Thunder Cross, so I didn’t know what to expect. The first one is pretty good, but fairly standard shooter fare. The sequel is MUCH better! It uses the same sound driver as Turtles in Time, which is a really versatile soundset. I’ll have to rip Sunset Riders, too, since it also uses the same driver. Definitely check out Thunder Cross II!

Let’s see, that’s all I have for now. I’m manually ripping the original TMNT arcade game through MAME, so it’ll take a while, but I should have it up by the end of the weekend, along with more of the requests.

Peace out, homies!

And yeah, I’m cool with getting the SNES version of UC for now. 😉

EDIT AGAIN: Is Puyo Puyo~n the same as Puyo Puyoon?

Yeah, the title’s also been romanized that way. Again, thanks! 🙂

Here’s what I’ve got so far! I’ll be brief because I’m about to leave work, lol….

Genesis

Arcus Odyssey – It’s another Motoi Sakuraba masterpiece! I’m really digging this soundtrack!

I agree- I particualrly like the Genesis version of the game’s soundtrack, mainly because it uses a sound driver that makes sharp notes, like the ones used in that game sound excellent. I particuarly like Genesis games that use mostly sharp notes for music, since they sound so low-pitched.

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Hey ruiner9, thanks a ton for doing my earlier requests (especially the One Piece one). You rock, man! 🙂 That being said, I’ve thought up another list of requests (mainly arcade). Up for the challenge? 🙂

Arcade

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9huP9aOL8) (you already did the sequel, so why not the original, too? ;))

Asterix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQFu7xmPS8) (Yep, more Asterix. Even cooler is that part of the soundtrack was done by Mutsuhiko Izumi, the same fellow who did the aforementioned Ninja Turtle games. ;))

Zero Wing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9GfzfjAFNo) (Many remember this for the legendary meme that spawned from the Genesis/MD version, but it truly is an awesome game with awesome music!)

Thunder Cross I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwlUOptWrU) and II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvS_CBg6_o) (This Konami shmup series isn’t as well known as Gradius/Salamander, but it’s most definitely awesome!)

S.P.Y. Special Project Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpgKO0lTkE) (Obscure Konami game that mixes several genres together, it’s pretty interesting.)

Metamorphic Force (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1CfsdHdBc)

Gaiapolis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IweZSMg01h0)

Undercover Cops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHlGesjHK0E) (Irem brawler, was developed by members of the original Metal Slug team)

NES

Asterix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdwRrvvtUfI) (yep, more Asterix, this one also from Alberto Gonzalez!)

Game Boy

Asterix, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzAWb4vMvAo) and Asterix & Obelix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EekRXCiwk) (even MORE Gonzalez, though curiously the second title is merely titled "Obelix" in-game)

Genesis/MD

Asterix and the Great Rescue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ufFsfzxito) (even MORE Asterix! This soundtrack, however, was done by Nathan McCree.)

Zero Wing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLr_B3uYVHg) (I already requested the arcade version, so why not this, too?)

TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ExWhGUMoII)

X68000

Lagoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWdqloi3AFw) (Uh, CAN you obtain this version’s soundtrack?)

SNES

SD The Great Battle I, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nJpFq1zrqY) II, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKNINYyz2T8) III, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNfSphQBSa4) IV, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9IVrkSEUo) V, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z52HpK2axOE) and Gaiden 2. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSPMETckP28)

Playstation

Puyo Puyo~n (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDuqCAQlaFo)

Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VBKIkzFYOc) (Kind of REALLY doubt you’ll be able to get this one, but figured I’d mention it, anyway. I spent darn near a decade searching for this game’s soundtrack with no luck….. :()

And….. that does it for my second big list. Can you complete it? 😉

I’m not a fan of Asterix for Konami. I feel that Konami wasted a license by doing that game. They could’ve done another licensed game for the arcade instead of Asterix.

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Snake’s Revenge – So this game is hailed as an embarrassment to the Metal Gear series by Hideo Kojima himself. He’s right, it’s not even a stealth game. However, the music was really good. It’s intense, and tightly composed, and uses those famous Konami drumbeats. So at least there’s that, right? It’s not all a waste!
I wish he didn’t hate it. I find that game to be better than Metal Gear because it is not a Stealth game.

So do I, dude! Konami was the best when it came to games on the NES, as well as Natsume’s work they did for themselves and for contract developers. Did you know that one of Konami’s composers, Kiyouhei Sada left Konami in late 1988 early 1989 to work over at Natsume to create the soundtrack of Abadox? He left Natsume in 1991 to become a freelance composer.

Can you make a list of Konami soundtracks on the NES just like you did with Tim Follin’s?

Also, I have 2 soundtrack requests- Have you ever heard of Kenji Eno? He founded a company called EIM, and they were the ones that created the unreleased game Sunman for the NES. Unfortunately, Kenji Eno passed away early this year in 2013, and I was thinking can you upload both of Kenji Eno’s soundtracks for the NES, which are Panic Restraunt, and Sunman?

-Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m81LJBNoQww)
-Goemon’s Great Adventure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AGLIzzkRyc)

^These games’ soundtracks are INCREDIBLE. However, the official OST versions of the above two game’s tracks are a bit incomplete compared to what you hear in-game (like for instance, Great Adventure has various day/night cycle versions for the village themes, but the OST really only plays the day versions). If you could get the complete rips for these games, I’d really appreciate it. 🙂

-Guardian Recall – Shugojuu Shoukan (PSX)

-Guardian Recall – Shugojuu Shoukan (PSX)

I’ve got Guardian Recall as MP3s but they are 5:00 minutes long for each track. Do you still want it? I can upload it.

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REQUEST: Treasure Hunter G (Super Famicom)

I’ve also got Treasure Hunter G. Do you want it? I can upload it.

Sorry I’ve been out of the loop for a bit… between setting up my new PC, and re-imaging the old one for my wife, AND having some work done on my house, it’s been a crazy weekend! Anyways, I finally got my ripping software configured on my new Core i7 PC, and it FLIES through the encoding process! Like 10 times faster! It’s so awesome. Totally worth the money. So anyways, I got a few things done today:

SD Great Battle 1 – 5 and Gaiden 2 – I was surprised at how consistently good these soundtracks were. There’s a lot of action music, but a lot of calm songs, some funny ones, and some traditional Japanese tunes, as well. Very nice stuff.

Soccer Brawl – A few of my buddies and I were having a Neo Geo game night, and we had never checked this game out before. We had a blast playing it! We all noted that the soundtrack was cool, so I ripped a copy for them and posted it here as well. It’s kind of futuristic sounding, and has some neat fanfares, too. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the composer’s name.

TMNT – I said it couldn’t be done, but I was wrong! I had to manually time out all of the music, but it’s worth it, because the tunes rock, especially if you know the NES version by heart (which I’m sure most of use do!) Also note: this game is monaural, not stereo. It’s not an error in the recording. I researched it to make sure.

OK, I’ve got some more requests for MarvelB to finish, and the rest of the new ones to collect and work on. Looks like there’s some good music coming up!

First is Puyo Puyo~n (or Puyo Puyoon as it seems to be called in most places.) This is the Dreamcast version of the soundtrack, as it’s the best-sounding of them all. Lots of well-produced music, visiting many different themes, here. Compile always made really good tunes!

And then, there’s the Asterix games, for just about all the major platforms! Genesis, NES, two for the Game Boy, and Arcade! Alberto Gonzalez handled the NES and GB versions, so you know you can expect some nice Follin-inspired tunes there. Nathan McCree took on the Genesis title, and it’s very clean sounding, and nicely done as well. The Arcade version is my least favorite. It’s very cinematic sounding and a bit bland compared to the rest, but that’s just my opinion. Symphonic music fans will doubtless find it much more appealing.

OK! Time to start on the others. I should have some up later today!

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Ruiner9 I have a request for you, mind if you can do Taz in escape from mars from Sega Genesis music 🙂

This game is impossible to find source material for, and there’s no way to log VGM from the game because sound effects get in the way. It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to complete this one. 🙁

No way!

*sneaks in the link*

It’s totally right there in the NES section, don’t you see it?

Thanks! 🙂

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Have you ever heard of Kenji Eno? He founded a company called EIM, and they were the ones that created the unreleased game Sunman for the NES. Unfortunately, Kenji Eno passed away early this year in 2013, and I was thinking can you upload both of Kenji Eno’s soundtracks for the NES, which are Panic Restraunt, and Sunman?

According to this (http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Hirohiko_Takayama) website, Hirohiko Takayama composed the music for Sunman, and Eno had no part in it except maybe game production.

N64

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon – Goemon is a ninja who lives in some sort of crazy alternate Japan where things are just chaotic, all the time. This soundtrack and it’s sequel definitely reflect that!

Goemon’s Great Adventure – Lefance, don’t worry about your "only 1 hour" soundtrack request… this one clocks in at 4 hours! It’s the sequel to the previously listed game, and has a lot of similar vibes; very comical, Japanese-sounding, and lighthearted, with some ominous storyline stingers and such throughout. For such a long soundtrack, all of the music is very nicely done.

NES

Panic Restaurant – What a weird box. This one always caught my eye when I was perusing the video game rental shelves as a kid, but I never got it because, hey, it’s about restaurant. Boring, right? Well, evidently the game (and the music) are pretty good!

Sunman – Sunsoft was going to release a Superman game, but then they lost the license. So they changed Superman into Sunman, who was kind of the same except he was red. The game never got released but was leaked as a prtotype years later. Anyways, there’s some contention as to who wrote the music… some websites say Kenji Eno, others say it’s Sunsoft regular Hirohiko Takayama. Personally, it sounds like it could be either! It’s got the trademark Sunsoft sampled sounds, though!

PSX

Guardian Recall – An isometric viewed RPG, I guess this one was kind of bland, but had a pretty good soundtrack. It’s midi-sounding, but the soundfont is really nice, and the tunes are powerful and fun. I like this one a lot!

SNES

Treasure Hunter G – Another long soundtrack! This RPG had no less that 7 composers working on it, including thread-regular Hitoshi Sakimoto. It’s typical RPG fare, with lots of synth string orchestra tunes and fanfares, but there are some cool moments here and there.

Undercover Cops – I promised this one in lieu of the arcade version and forgot to post it last time. I really like this soundtrack. It’s got a cool hip-hop vibe, with vocal samples and fun tunes.

OK! That was a lot of stuff today! I think I’m caught up with everything I can do, so far, right?

I saw that there’s a debug cheat available for the game. That will allow you to switch levels, but it still won’t stop the sound effects. I’ll try it out tonight and see how it works. It’s a good soundtrack so I’d like to have it for myself, too!

I see. Man you know everything don’t you? Guess I shouldn’t be telling you about game music…

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I’ve got a request- Can you upload Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II- Back from the Sewers on the Game Boy for a soundtrack? I grew up with that game, and to this day, I still love it.

Nope! It was missing the last letter of the URL… it’s all fixed now. 🙂

Coming up tomorrow: All 3 TMNT Game Boy titles, plus the VERY hard to find Armed Police Batrider! w00t!

First up, all 3 TMNT games for the Game Boy. Personally, I grew up playing the first one, and I know every note of that OST by heart. Evolution01 grew up with the 2nd. Anybody grow up playing the 3rd? We need to complete the circle! 😀

On the arcade side, there’s Armed Police Batrider, a vertical shmup featuring music from our pal Motoi Sakuraba. Yes, so you know it’s good. Very action-packed and fun!

Also on the arcade is Street Fighter Alpha 1 – 3! Some really good tunes, and each title got a bit more techno than the last. Grab ’em!

For the PlayStation, Bushido Blade 1 and 2. I loved these games when I was a kid. The 2nd game especially had some great multiplayer, where two people could just run around a map swinging swords at each other until one fell. The 1st soundtrack is OK, but the 2nd soundtrack is AMAZING. It takes traditional Japanese instruments and blends them with some guitar driven hard rock, and the results are fantastic. in fact, this game was what got me trying to figure out how to rip PSX games way back when they were brand new. If you haven’t heard it before, definitely download BB2 and let me know what you think.

OK! Time to sign off. Enjoy the tunes!

Now, a few requests:

NES:
Balloon Fight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL5Q4GybKWc)
Cosmic Wars (a Gradius-inspired Advance Wars-like strategy game) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFKsFMD_T1E&list=PL4DC5143E911A9C63)
Hello Kitty World (a Famicom conversion of Balloon Kid, the Game Boy sequel to Balloon Fight) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=docUpqT9Mqg)
Summer Carnival ’92 Recca (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbdDW3aSCyM)

SNES:
Classic Road II: Real Kouma Simulation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2il0GIjavk)
Super Bomberman 5 (a (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjj7W19H_pY&list=PLFF94E5A6499FAD57) few (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50xW1_JnjUc&list=PLFF94E5A6499FAD57) samples (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP7mG1wMJiE&list=PLFF94E5A6499FAD57))

Genesis:
Space Invaders ’91 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSj1uaTXKBk)

Gameboy:
Metal Masters (Alberto Gonzalez!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5NZXMEtUoY)
Revelations: The Demon Slayer (aka Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyluUz0vvOc)
Shantae (Jake Kaufman!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tb5JcpMslk&list=PL66ADC40BC396091E)
Spot: The Video Game (Geoff Follin! The audio quality in this vid is crap, but you’ll get the idea at least) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBIxnw22l1A)
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeCYG12hMHs)

You’ve got to be kidding. 🙁

Hey now… no being rude over other people’s requests. I was going to do Mario 64 at some point, since I have SMB 1-3, World, and All Stars up anyways.

Fine….:(

Game Boy

Metal Masters – Hey, here’s another Alberto Gonzalez album! This one is only 3 tracks long, but those 3 tracks are something FIERCE. It’s got a very industrial-techno vibe to it, and it pushes the GB hardware to it’s limits. Check it out.

Revelations – The Demon Slayer – This is part of the Megami Tensei series. The music is AS good as the NES and SNES soundtracks, but it’s still not bad.

Shantae – This one was a tricky one! The source music file doesn’t have any tags or times, and my audio software wasn’t having any of it. Fortunately, Jake Kaufman had the whole soundtrack uploaded on his site, so I made a few adjustments to fit it in with my set, and there ya go! Anyone who’s familiar with Kaufman (AKA virt’s) work know he’s amazingly talented and originally started off by uploading remixes at OverClocked Remix.

Spot – Here’s a short soundtrack from Geoff Follin. I like his works, but the don’t hold a candle to his brother Tim’s. Geoff is an engineer by trade, so his works are a bit more technical and less melodic.

Star Ocean – Blue Sphere – We’ll have everything Motoi Sakuraba’s done eventually, I guess. This soundtrack didn’t strike me as awesome as some of his other stuff, but I’ve never really been too much of a fan of RPG soundtracks to begin with (outside of Mother 3 and Earthbound.) He knows how to build mood, though.

Turok – Battle of the Bionosaurs – More Gonzalez. More action music. You already know it’s good.

Genesis

Space Invaders ’91 – At first listen, it sounds like simple stuff. But then you realize this music is REALLY catchy! You’ll be humming it all day long.

N64

Super Mario 64 – I really enjoy the main theme of this game. Koji Kondo knows how to make enduring tunes, and he always succeeds at making memorable music. This rip includes every piece of music from the game, which a lot of the other available SM64 soundtrack’s don’t have.

NES

Balloon Fight – A short but sweet soundtrack from Hip Tanaka, probably the second most famous Nintendo composer behind Kondo.

Cosmic Wars – I’m hearing lots of hints of the first TMNT NES title in this one. I didn’t check, but I’d bet they share some of the same composers!

Hello Kitty World – A sequel (of sorts) to Balloon Fight. Tanaka is writing the music again, and it sounds a lot like Dr. Mario, which came out around the same time. I like this one a lot!

Summer Carnival ’92 – Recca – Naxat released this game as a contest in the summer of ’92 in Japan. It’s a vertically-scrolling shmup that’s really fast and really hard. The soundtrack is pretty remarkable, and pretty long… some of the songs are longer than 4 minutes for one loop! It reminds me a lot of Jesper Kyd’s early stuff… gritty techno with samples throughout. I was lucky enough to find a rip of the official OST that Naxat put out, so all the songs are named and ordered from that album. Mine sounds even a little clearer, and of course it’s in stereo!

SNES

Classic Road 2 – This one feels old-timey. I guess the game is about horse racing. There’s several pieces, and all evoke a pretty genuine feel of the season that it’s named after. Pretty neat.

Super Bomberman 5 – The Bomberman soundtracks are great. Mine has always been the 4th in the SNES series, but 5 is really good, too. I’ll put the rest of them up over the weekend, because they all his this really nice playful, kind of techno industrial, kind of J-pop vibe. They’re all worth a listen!

So that’s a lot of soundtracks. I’ve got a 4 day weekend coming up because of American Thanksgiving, so I’ll work on some more then!

Game Boy

Metal Masters – Hey, here’s another Alberto Gonzalez album! This one is only 3 tracks long, but those 3 tracks are something FIERCE. It’s got a very industrial-techno vibe to it, and it pushes the GB hardware to it’s limits. Check it out.

Revelations – The Demon Slayer – This is part of the Megami Tensei series. The music is AS good as the NES and SNES soundtracks, but it’s still not bad.

Shantae – This one was a tricky one! The source music file doesn’t have any tags or times, and my audio software wasn’t having any of it. Fortunately, Jake Kaufman had the whole soundtrack uploaded on his site, so I made a few adjustments to fit it in with my set, and there ya go! Anyone who’s familiar with Kaufman (AKA virt’s) work know he’s amazingly talented and originally started off by uploading remixes at OverClocked Remix.

Spot – Here’s a short soundtrack from Geoff Follin. I like his works, but the don’t hold a candle to his brother Tim’s. Geoff is an engineer by trade, so his works are a bit more technical and less melodic.

Star Ocean – Blue Sphere – We’ll have everything Motoi Sakuraba’s done eventually, I guess. This soundtrack didn’t strike me as awesome as some of his other stuff, but I’ve never really been too much of a fan of RPG soundtracks to begin with (outside of Mother 3 and Earthbound.) He knows how to build mood, though.

Turok – Battle of the Bionosaurs – More Gonzalez. More action music. You already know it’s good.

Genesis

Space Invaders ’91 – At first listen, it sounds like simple stuff. But then you realize this music is REALLY catchy! You’ll be humming it all day long.

N64

Super Mario 64 – I really enjoy the main theme of this game. Koji Kondo knows how to make enduring tunes, and he always succeeds at making memorable music. This rip includes every piece of music from the game, which a lot of the other available SM64 soundtrack’s don’t have.

NES

Balloon Fight – A short but sweet soundtrack from Hip Tanaka, probably the second most famous Nintendo composer behind Kondo.

Cosmic Wars – I’m hearing lots of hints of the first TMNT NES title in this one. I didn’t check, but I’d bet they share some of the same composers!

Hello Kitty World – A sequel (of sorts) to Balloon Fight. Tanaka is writing the music again, and it sounds a lot like Dr. Mario, which came out around the same time. I like this one a lot!

Summer Carnival ’92 – Recca – Naxat released this game as a contest in the summer of ’92 in Japan. It’s a vertically-scrolling shmup that’s really fast and really hard. The soundtrack is pretty remarkable, and pretty long… some of the songs are longer than 4 minutes for one loop! It reminds me a lot of Jesper Kyd’s early stuff… gritty techno with samples throughout. I was lucky enough to find a rip of the official OST that Naxat put out, so all the songs are named and ordered from that album. Mine sounds even a little clearer, and of course it’s in stereo!

SNES

Classic Road 2 – This one feels old-timey. I guess the game is about horse racing. There’s several pieces, and all evoke a pretty genuine feel of the season that it’s named after. Pretty neat.

Super Bomberman 5 – The Bomberman soundtracks are great. Mine has always been the 4th in the SNES series, but 5 is really good, too. I’ll put the rest of them up over the weekend, because they all his this really nice playful, kind of techno industrial, kind of J-pop vibe. They’re all worth a listen!

So that’s a lot of soundtracks. I’ve got a 4 day weekend coming up because of American Thanksgiving, so I’ll work on some more then!

Good work, but I am not a fan of Koji Kondo’s music..

That would be excellent! I would love to download all of their work.

Happy Thanksgiving to you, too! I checked the debug code out and got it to work, but it doesn’t help with the sound effects ruining the music. If there was a Game Shark code to silence the SFX, it would be perfect. Gamehacking.org doesn’t have anything like that, though, and they’re usually the definitive source for codes. 🙁

dissident93 and Evolution01: Try this out, and see what you think. I have no reference to the synth quality, so if it sounds good, then I’ll do some more:

Akushu – Kagerou no Jidai wo Koe te (PC-88 – ruiner9).7z 71.4 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!h9N3zD7I!ZHLBVnfiK2ik3vkXLg3tnSfHW-0StozByo_ob3uzd1I

dissident93 and Evolution01: Try this out, and see what you think. I have no reference to the synth quality, so if it sounds good, then I’ll do some more:

Akushu – Kagerou no Jidai wo Koe te (PC-88 – ruiner9).7z 71.4 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!h9N3zD7I!ZHLBVnfiK2ik3vkXLg3tnSfHW-0StozByo_ob3uzd1I

It sounds pretty good to me, but I’m not familiar with the game, nor can I find any videos of it. It would be great if you could effectively rip soundtracks for PC-88 and 98 games. Aside from some of Ryu Umemoto’s soundtracks, there’s next to no full rips up for download anywhere. PC-88/98 is a pretty underrated platform for some good retro game music.

This compilation (https://archive.org/details/dehumanize-yourself-and-face-to-bloodshed) put together by cboyardee (the creator of Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden) has a lot of PC-98/88 music among other things and is might be worth a listen.

This compilation (https://archive.org/details/dehumanize-yourself-and-face-to-bloodshed) put together by cboyardee (the creator of Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden) has a lot of PC-98/88 music among other things and is might be worth a listen.

Sounds good. I might check it out, since I like FM synth music.

For the Genesis, we have Arrow Flash, a shmup from Renovation. Personally, this soundtrack is very hit-or-miss. Some of the songs I think are really annoying, but the Opening Theme, Stage 4-1, Stage 4-2, and Stage 5-3 tracks are amazing. So check it out and see if you agree!

I am so full of turkey, I could burst… like a huge bomb was in my gut… oh, that reminds me… we’ve got some SNES Bomberman! So altogether, there’s all five Super Bomberman albums plus Panic Bomber W, which was partially composed by thread-favorite Hitoshi Sakimoto. All 6 games have top-quality music, so they’ll make a great addition to your collection.

And a newcomer in the collection, here’s the PC-88! A computer that was only released in Japan, some console composer heavyweights like Motoi Sakuraba cut their teeth on this lil’ Yamaha synth-based machine. Up for your inspection are Arcus and Akushu – Kagerou no Jidai wo Koe te, which are both Sakuraba’s works. I’m not sure how they SHOULD sound, so if anyone can verify that they’re of acceptable quality, I’ll add some more to the collection.

Now, I’m gonna go sleep off all this food I just ate…. maybe after one more slice of pumpkin pie….

I wish I had the space to host them… I could put them up, but only temporarily…

Hopefully someone else would be able to grab them and host them on a more permanent basis (I’m tempted to volunteer, but I’m pretty green on the whole hosting bit, though I could probably figure it out). I’m pretty sure neither of these have any kind of lossless rip in circulation. They are definitely two of the best PC Engine redbooks around.

Thanks!

and BTW, Hitoshi Sakimoto didn’t compose anything for Panic Bomber W, he just did SFX and ported the songs from the PC Engine version of the game.

but anyway, major thanks. HOOT is a pain to deal with, since you must be present when logging all the songs or it will run forever. 😛

and BTW, Hitoshi Sakimoto didn’t compose anything for Panic Bomber W, he just did SFX and ported the songs from the PC Engine version of the game.

but anyway, major thanks. HOOT is a pain to deal with, since you must be present when logging all the songs or it will run forever. 😛

That’s pretty much the same as with M1, unless there are timed lists (which is only in like 5% of the songs.) I’ll put more up here and there when I have time because they ARE pretty rare, and I really like the music.

Thanks!

I’m pretty sure lossless rips aren’t common because it’s easy to get the 1:1 disc rips from Pleasuredome or other image-hosting sites, which include the audio in it’s lossless state.

PC-88

Hiouden – Very odd name, very cool tunes. Sakuraba co-penned this one.

Mid-Garts – OK, another odd name. This one is by Masaaki Uno, and I think it’s one of my favorite Wolf Team releases on the system so far, music-wise.

Also, for GoldfishX, here’s Sapphire in lossless:

Ginga_Fukei_Densetsu_-_Sapphire OST (Lossless).7z 305.7 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!I5EAzCBQ!Dopi9EjZEMl4RnoocY91PDCreL4CCECAQYZyrQw 7QEY

Rayxanber III will be up later. Like I said, I don’t like to leave large files up permanently because I could fit 10 mp3 soundtracks in the space where that one is, so grab it ASAP! 🙂

and BTW, Hitoshi Sakimoto didn’t compose anything for Panic Bomber W, he just did SFX and ported the songs from the PC Engine version of the game.

but anyway, major thanks. HOOT is a pain to deal with, since you must be present when logging all the songs or it will run forever. 😛

No kidding- I had a hell of a time trying to log all of the songs from the PC98 version of Alshark, but luckily, I’ve succeeded in getting the whole soundtrack.

If you have the right hardware (NES Stereo mod + FDS Extra Channel mod) there is nothing negative to using the real hardware. The analog sound to the 6502 cannot be reproduced via emulation – not to mention you will have have incorrect sound font timing, mixing and pitch never can be 100%. I have the mods, the powerpak ($400+ setup here) and there is nothing negative, there is no cons to using the real deal whatsoever…unless you don’t know what a real NES and 6502 sound chip sounds like.

I don’t want to debate your work but I have to strongly disagree that there is pros and cons to doing both, unless the con being money and work it takes to do. Anyone can run NSF’s thru an emulator, in fact why bother making composite waveforms? Be easier to offer everyone NSFs as you aren’t doing anything they can’t do.

I wish I did have the time to record the NSFs to prove you wrong, perhaps one of these I’ll do some in Stereo and with extra channels on my Powerpak and modded NES as it isn’t something anyone can do themselves.

Also, you have the means to separate the square wave channels? As far as I know, hardware stereo mods place both squares completely in one channel, and the triangle and the noise in the other. If you can selectively modify the stereo channels to suit the sound of the song, I’d love to see how you do it.

You weren’t kidding! The Saturn Bomberman soundtrack rocks! It’s written by Jun Chikuma, who also composed the last 3 Super Bomberman titles. This time, though, he wasn’t hindered by the limitations of the SNES and it’s all redbook audio. It’s up in the Saturn section, go check it out!

And on that note, some requests, all NES ( 😉 )

Batman Returns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCb3GhDXh2M)
Doraemon – Giga Zombie no Gyakushu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxXPe1YH8Zg)
Falsion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiEl042SLTM)
Hokkaido Serial Murders: Disappearances of Okhotsk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE00u-GUYnw)
J. League Winning Goal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDO5YZnppVM)
Jesus: Kyoufu no Bio Monster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxVTOk7kRcQ)
King of the Beach (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0yvgTVZjU&t=0m24s)
Konami Wai Wai World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGS59odJBKQ)
Konami Wai Wai World 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-6rVfkU9wQ)
Kouryu Densetsu Villgust Gaiden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQd-Iy5C8k)
Kyattou Ninden Teyandee/Samurai Pizza Cats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF17t-mM6JE)
Mappy Kids (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rOvCGm1OHM)
Monsters in My Pocket (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_T-CXFUN_c)
Rackets & Rivals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQABhjWbEC4)
Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTD_7ILA9M)

Now i have PS1 request – the game called Cyber Daisenryaku. I tried some .PSF but track titles werent working for me

p.s.

Arcus Odyssey music is so beautiful! thanks!

Knivesman, what kind of issue do you mean? That Winamp outputs garbage when it has Japanese tags, or that the tags aren’t in English?

You know me so well. Actually, I’ve got the file names in Japanese AND English, so I’ll add both. 🙂

Also, because I love the soundtrack so very very much, I’ve added Ys III: Wanderers From Ys into the PC-88 section. "Be Careful" sounds fantastic. I’m amazed at how many versions of that soundtrack there are.

The NES requests will be worked on next! Most are untagged/ untimed, so it’ll take some time.

I know you’ll be working on NES requests, but I was wondering if it would be possible if you could please do the soundtrack of Secret of Mana or Star Fox 2? One of those two is enough, preferably Star Fox 2.
I already have this one (http://www.starfox-online.net/page/Media/mu-sf2), but I’d really like to have it with the quality of your soundtracks.

And of course, if you don’t want to, it’s ok. 🙂

Batman Returns – This one is surprisingly not by Sunsoft. That doesn’t mean they cheaped out on the music, though! It’s Konami! For those who haven’t heard this game, I’d recommend it to fans of the first TMNT and Castlevania games. It’s quite good stuff.

Doraemon – Gigazombie no Gyakushuu – This was Doraemon’s second NES game, and was a Final Fantasy II style RPG. The music is pretty cool. Some tunes are quite catchy.

Falsion – An obscure Famicom Disk System exclusive shmup from Konami. It has some similarities to Gradius, including the music. The game is pretty fun, too.

Hokkaidou Rensa Satsujin – Somebody’s been murdered! Who did it? Well, I have no idea because it’s all in Japanese. This game’s soundtrack ranges between pretty annoying, and pretty catchy. I’ve picked out my favorite tracks for my personal collection and left the other ones for you to judge. 🙂 No, I’m just kidding. They’re all there!

J. League Winning Goal – Sports games always have that "hero’s anthem/ onward to victory" kind of sound to them, and this one is no exception. It sounds pretty good, though!

Awesome work! I absolutely love all of your soundtracks I downloaded.

I know you’ll be working on NES requests, but I was wondering if it would be possible if you could please do the soundtrack of Secret of Mana or Star Fox 2? One of those two is enough, preferably Star Fox 2.
I already have this one (http://www.starfox-online.net/page/Media/mu-sf2), but I’d really like to have it with the quality of your soundtracks.

And of course, if you don’t want to, it’s ok. 🙂

What a humble request! How can I turn it down?

Secret of Mana – This was a quality game. I played the heck out of this when I was a kid. The excellent music (about 2 hours’ worth!) still brings back memories of my brother and I playing through this title over summer vacation.

Star Fox 2 – Quite a lot of music for an unreleased game! This one is a bit more on the symphonic side than the original game in the series, so my opinion is kind of biased against it. If I liked symphonic stuff, I’d say it was good stuff. I guess. 🙂

Still have a few more NES requests to get through, and some PC-88 stuff is in the works.

Enjoy the new music!

Haha! You misunderstand! When I list a game like that, it means I’ve posted it. Go grab ’em! 🙂

Also, thanks for Daisenryaku =) It was very fast

Also, I have the soundtrack for Sega Rally 2 in the Dreamcast section. Fantastic music. A little rock, some jazz, some dance/ techno… it’s all there, and it’s very well produced.

There’s a few more of the NES albums completed, too:

Jesus – Kyoufu no Bio Monster – A rag-tag group of people set off on a ship named "Jesus" to defeat a demon. Only the Japanese. The music is pretty cool. It’s more of a laid-back game (you can’t die) so it’s not as fast-paced as the action titles are.

Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust Gaiden – This RPG came out very late in the Famicom’s life (1993!) and featured some great art, as well as a combination of overhead exploring and side-scrolling fights. Sweet music, too! There’s a lot of variation in this one.

Mappy Kids – The Japan-only sequel to Mappy Land. The music is fast-paced and fun, with nice percussion. I seem to always love NES soundtracks that have sampled drum hits.

Monster in My Pocket – Co-written by Kozo Nakamura, who is thought (though never proven) to have written the music for the first TMNT and Bayou Billy, this game’s music sounds very much like those two games. So if you’re a fan of them, grab this one, because you’ll love it.

Rackets & Rivals – Also a supposed Kozo Nakamura title. It stinks that there aren’t any music credits in these games! Anyways, this one is very short, but really good. I’m glad it was requested!

OK, that’s it for now. Still a couple more NES titles, and then I’m all caught up! Woohoo!

Oh I see, I feel dumb now xD
Sincerely, didn’t expect it to be done that quick! Thanks a lot, awesome as all the others. 🙂

Personally I appreciate the NES uploads, as I’m frankly too impatient to fiddle with the NSF files and make MP3s of them. The sound quality is better than many uploads I’ve come across on the internet before, and ruiner9 has provided such a large library of NES soundtracks that it seems like a worthwhile resource.

And on that note, some requests, all NES ( 😉 )

Batman Returns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCb3GhDXh2M)
Doraemon – Giga Zombie no Gyakushu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxXPe1YH8Zg)
Falsion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiEl042SLTM)
Hokkaido Serial Murders: Disappearances of Okhotsk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE00u-GUYnw)
J. League Winning Goal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDO5YZnppVM)
Jesus: Kyoufu no Bio Monster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxVTOk7kRcQ)
King of the Beach (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0yvgTVZjU&t=0m24s)
Konami Wai Wai World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGS59odJBKQ)
Konami Wai Wai World 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-6rVfkU9wQ)
Kouryu Densetsu Villgust Gaiden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQd-Iy5C8k)
Kyattou Ninden Teyandee/Samurai Pizza Cats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF17t-mM6JE)
Mappy Kids (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rOvCGm1OHM)
Monsters in My Pocket (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_T-CXFUN_c)
Rackets & Rivals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQABhjWbEC4)
Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTD_7ILA9M)

Jesus – Kyoufu no Bio Monster – A rag-tag group of people set off on a ship named "Jesus" to defeat a demon. Only the Japanese. The music is pretty cool. It’s more of a laid-back game (you can’t die) so it’s not as fast-paced as the action titles are.

Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust Gaiden – This RPG came out very late in the Famicom’s life (1993!) and featured some great art, as well as a combination of overhead exploring and side-scrolling fights. Sweet music, too! There’s a lot of variation in this one.

Mappy Kids – The Japan-only sequel to Mappy Land. The music is fast-paced and fun, with nice percussion. I seem to always love NES soundtracks that have sampled drum hits.

Monster in My Pocket – Co-written by Kozo Nakamura, who is thought (though never proven) to have written the music for the first TMNT and Bayou Billy, this game’s music sounds very much like those two games. So if you’re a fan of them, grab this one, because you’ll love it.

Rackets & Rivals – Also a supposed Kozo Nakamura title. It stinks that there aren’t any music credits in these games! Anyways, this one is very short, but really good. I’m glad it was requested!

OK, that’s it for now. Still a couple more NES titles, and then I’m all caught up! Woohoo!

You also appear to have uploaded Kyattou Ninden Teyandee. Another pretty good licensed based game by Konami.

If possible, could I maybe add one more NES request to the list?
KLAX (seriously, this song is kinda nuts) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQC3FH0BUlw)

If possible, could I maybe add one more NES request to the list?
KLAX (seriously, this song is kinda nuts) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQC3FH0BUlw)

I totally forgot Kyattou Ninden Teyandee (Samurai Pizza Cats). My bad!

This morning’s uploads are the two Wai Wai World games. I love the music in these, because all of the classic Konami games’ music are revisited, from Castlevania to Contra. They’re great to listen to while on the go!

And also, Klax. Um… well… this is unique. I’d say it sounds like maybe Motorhead and Aphex Twin did a collaboration on the NES? Kind of punk/ metal, and very experimental. I had to play the game on a real NES to make sure that’s how the music was SUPPOSED to sound, and yeah… it’s pretty accurate! I love this kind of music, so I was happy to have the request. Thanks, Elwood!

It’s going to be a bit of a wait for Solar Jetman. There are a TON of tracks (like 45!), and none of them are timed, so I’m about halfway through it. I’m hoping to have it up within the next 48 hours.

In the meantime, any other requests?

oh, and unless you were talking about another game, Jun Funahashi did the original NES TMNT game.

oh, and unless you were talking about another game, Jun Funahashi did the original NES TMNT game.

Oh, OK, thanks!

There seems to be some confusion about the first TMNT game, then. (http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Kozo_Nakamura)

EDIT: Haha, and the game page it links to, lists only Jun Funahashi as the composer. So I don’t even know anymore. LOL

The Simpsons – This was a really common Konami cabinet in bowling alleys and stores when I was a kid. The game was built on the same premise as the original TMNT arcade cab – Fast, frenetic, and flashy fighting. The music is pretty crazy… like an epileptic sitting at a keyboard. Parts are good, but some I just don’t think work outside of a game environment.

Sunset Riders – Another Konami hit arcade title. Four gunslingers try to tame a hyper-stylized version of the USA’s "old west," which means horses, saloons, and six shooters. The music combines synthetic acoustic guitars, castanets, and those famouse orchestra hits that have appeared in almost every 2D Konami arcade title since TMNT. I really enjoy this soundtrack.

Have fun with them!

Jumping Flash PS1 ?)

Thank you for your time, Ruiner. 🙂

Thank you for your time, Ruiner. 🙂

Hey, thanks for the kind words! I took a look at the Brave Prove image and it’s going to be way beyond my scope to rip, as in "you need to know how to code in assembly language" kind of stuff. I’m pretty good at turning PSF’s into albums, but making the PSF’s themselves is real serious business.

My apologies!

*Poofs Away* 😛

What, you thought I’d go a day without an upload? Ha!

OK, so… we’ve got Jumping Flash! and Jumping Flash! 2 in the PlayStation area. Personally, I like the 2nd game’s music better. It’s a little more dynamic, and even though there’s less music, the tradeoff it that It’s higher quality so it didn’t need to be compressed as much on the game’s disc. They’re both pretty rad, so give ’em a listen!

Also, for the arcade section, a few Q-Sound titles… Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and X-Men vs. Street Fighter! Both contain alternate versions of the SFII fighters’ music tracks, as well as all original tunes. And Q-Sound games generally rock in the audio department anyways.

Enjoy!

-Brave Fencer Musashi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63TkTVtTNp8) (one of my top favorite PS1 soundtracks of all time! Sadly, as was the case with my earlier Goemon requests, the official OST is incomplete compared to what you hear in-game (no castle or shop themes, etc.))

-Bomberman Fantasy Race (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvYs2OISUSQ)

-Chocobo Racing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U52rs5464lY)

-Speed Freaks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kspUer5kTi4) (aka Speed Punks in the US version)

-Ape Escape (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl9LmUVuHuM)

-Einhander (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5fNBNTXYlQ)

-Harmful Park (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwDq3YSDX20)

Not sure if you can get all of these, but thanks in advance for trying!

Brave Fencer Musashi – This has like, 1 1/2 hours of music. Yikes. It’s PSF, so it’s very high quality, and uses one of the best synthesized orchestra soundfonts I’ve ever heard. I almost thought it was real. There’s some cool electronica in here, too.

Bomberman Fantasy Race – This game had a unique combo of PSF and streamed audio, so that’s why you may notice a difference in sound quality beyond the first few tracks. I like this one… it’s bright and catchy like most Bomberman soundtracks. I had to actually rip the streamed audio from the game disc as opposed to finding it in an archive, so they’re named as they were on the disc.

Chocobo Racing – I guess today’s theme is "karts." Here’s a collection of a whole slew of Uematsu’s Final Fantasy music, arranged by Kenji Ito, who worked on some of the FF Tactics titles. There are a few songs exclusive to this game too, from what I understand.

Speed Punks – Hey, another kart title! This one seems kind of generic in terms of looks… it’s not licensed, and the characters are kind of bland. But, the music is cool! It’s trance/ techno.

Ape Escape – This is another really long soundtrack, clocking in at over 3 hours. It’s pretty cool breakbeat/ drum n’ bass, and very frantic to match the pace of game. You can’t chase monkeys to classical music!

Einhander – I loved this game as a kid. It’s a Squaresoft game that actually ISN’T an RPG or RTS, but instead, a horizontal shmup. Excellent electronica soundtrack… perhaps even better than the game.

Harmful Park – This game’s soundtrack just doesn’t seem to exist on the internet… until now. Coming up with the game image was hard enough, too! Anyways, here’s a cool shmup that I’d never heard of before, with some very playful and dancy music. I think I’m gonna try this one out tonight. Songs are titled as found on the game disc.

That’s a lot of high-quality music right there. Should be enough to keep you occupied for the weekend! Unless I post something else later….

Except Crumbling Castle theme which always reminds me of Mozart… and is the best theme in the whole game. 🙂

And Speed Freaks…. man I love the Challenge theme to death. I used to drive the track wrong way just to hear the theme longer. 🙂

There seems to be some confusion about the first TMNT game, then. (http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Kozo_Nakamura)

EDIT: Haha, and the game page it links to, lists only Jun Funahashi as the composer. So I don’t even know anymore. LOL
Kozo’s page is wrong, it should say TMNT2 (i’ll fix it)

and if you run out of requests, I have two. both ps1 games that I couldn’t find on joshw.info. Hellnight and Fuuun Gokuu Ninden. (both have music by Harumi Fujita, if you wanted to know the connection :P)

Also, Fuuun Gokuu Ninden has a strange audio format (filename.da) for which a decoder doesn’t seem to exist. Maybe that’s why it’s not on joshw’s site. I’ll keep researching.

Actually, speaking of obscure PS1 games, I actually did my own PSF conversion a while back for a game called Chippoke Ralph no Daibouken (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOam1-Rezs) (or The Adventure of Little Ralph in English). However, looking back at my thread (Thread 128042) for it, I notice that most of the mirrors I made for it have already expired (the only links working for me are Solidfiles, Megashares, and 1filchier). If you want, you can go ahead and mirror this wonderful game’s equally wonderful soundtrack yourself (or if you wanna do your own conversion of the PSF files, that’s cool, too). 😉

And with that being said…. I have one more request for now: I was actually unsure about making this one considering my previous luck with a X68000 request, but is it possible for you to get the soundtrack for Knight Arms? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1gvwkqlMAQ) If not, that’s okay, but I thought I’d ask….

Ghost in the Shell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9avhp8QuAlk) & Loaded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lmjXR5XYM&list=PL16F51D31FAE3E773) would be solid additions if possible.

Also, Fuuun Gokuu Ninden has a strange audio format (filename.da) for which a decoder doesn’t seem to exist. Maybe that’s why it’s not on joshw’s site. I’ll keep researching.
actually I have no idea. i just wanted it so I could have more of Fujita’s work 😛

If not, I can do it myself, after all I do have the PSF of the soundtrack, complete with track titles.

The Adventure of Little Ralph – This looks like a really cool side-scrolling fighting game. I need to check it out. The music is kind of MIDI-sounding, but has a heroic, adventurous feel to it.

Loaded – Ah, here’s a game I had forgotten about for a LONG time. The first two songs on the album were performed by Pop Will Eat Itself, a British punk/rap/industrial band. The frontman, Clint Mansell, went on to compose the amazing scores for the movies "Requiem for a Dream" and "Moon." The rest of the soundtrack is pretty cool, too. Some nice industrial dance music.

Hell Night – By dissident93’s request, here’s what I could get out of this game. All the in-game tracks are via FMV scenes, so I ripped everything, and got rid of duplicate music and ones where there are too many sound effects to hear it. What’s left is about 15 minutes of cool Indian, electronic, and symphonic music.

Ghost in the Shell – I remember playing this back in the day. The music is very beat-oriented techno, which reminded me a lot of the soundtrack to the contemporary indie game Hotline Miami (which is one of the best games I’ve ever played.) There were a lot of different artists at work on this soundtrack, and it’s really good stuff!

And on the arcade section, the soundtrack to the Cave-developed shmup Guwange. It’s kind of an oriental industrial techno thing. It’s one of my favorites, and I think most of you will dig it.

Evolution01, I should have your request up probably later this evening (it’s noon right now for me), it’s already in the works!

Enjoy! 🙂

To celebrate, here’s a few cool soundtracks that nobody requested!

First up is Gungrave PS2! It was composed by Tsuneo Imahori, who’s got a lot of other cool anime projects in his resume, most notably the AMAZING Trigun soundtrack. Similar to Trigun, the music has a kind of old-western USA feel, but also features a horn section, like his other project, Cowboy Bebop. He also composed the sequel to this game.

Secondly, Sega Rally 2006. The game was never released outside of Japan and Korea, so many haven’t heard this cool soundtrack. If you liked the previous ones, you’ll definitely dig this. GAME OVER, YEEEEAAAAHHHHH! 🙂

And last… Street Fighter II for the…. NES? Yup! It’s a homebrew album. Every track from the original SFII done on the NES. And now, it’s in stereo. Some of the tracks are a bit iffy in quality, but the majority are really good. Check it out!

Absolutely! If it’s easier than uploading the tagged version, just list them in order in text. I have software that’ll parse it into tags. Thanks!

and about Fuuun Gokuu Ninden, if you rename .DA to .WAV, it plays. i’ll upload it if you want?

All NES:
Crackout (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fit7g0LI14k)
King of Kings (the obscure Namco strategy game, not the biblical game of the same name) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qke6ZsWJ7Gk)
Laser Invasion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDs-4mGFqv8)
Legacy of the Wizard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4HRaq8takk&list=PL86271DB57EBE3F0F)
The Lone Ranger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXfgylsc9s4)
Might & Magic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMFbps44tyY&list=PLE1938D898D3F91A0)
Pin Bot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AYtvyfiyY0)
Quarth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZN75JrKlDw)
Risa no Yousei Densetsu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=175VHmyYAa8)
Rockman 4 Minus Infinity (Kind of an odd request. The creator of this Rockman 4 rom hack did remixes of various video game tunes. Some are better than others, but it???s a pretty good soundtrack. You can find out more about the game and it???s soundtrack here (https://sites.google.com/site/rockman4mi/home)).
Skate or Die! 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8TmIxHSBcU)
Solar Jetman (just a reminder, as I know you were already working on this very long soundtrack)
Super Dodge Ball (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOTSK6Dw450&list=PL70E990BADC9B3939)
Yume Penguin Monogatari (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUSPulw6gdw)

and about Fuuun Gokuu Ninden, if you rename .DA to .WAV, it plays. i’ll upload it if you want?

Seriously? I’ve been running those dang files through every decoder I could find! I’ll put that on my list next.

Elwood, Solar Jetman is coming, I just wanted to get that SF II soundtrack done first. The rest of them will be added to my queue!

Ahoy there! Looking back at the first page of the thread, I noticed there weren’t many PCE/TG16 soundtracks, so hopefully this little list of requests will remedy that! 😉

-Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh068Sj-Ems)
-Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmxI1MlnM9U) (aka Shockman)
-Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XJOYdoqcyo)
-Air Zonk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIx9dma-M-U) (aka PC Denjin)
-Coryoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNELnTHco4w)
-Legend of Xanadu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAinKVXTjuw)
-Legend of Xanadu II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO4cKKH_aJ0)

And not an entirely unrelated SNES request:

-Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7IkBPXMfCw)

And now I set off again! *sails away*

Awesome! Good luck! I’ll stop by! 🙂

Virtual Hydlide has now been updated with song tags, thanks to dissident93! Just re-download from the OP.

Looks like I’ve got some work to do!

BTW, the tracks are kinda messed up, in the way that the start of most of the songs has the last 5 sec fadeout of the previous song.

BTW, the tracks are kinda messed up, in the way that the start of most of the songs has the last 5 sec fadeout of the previous song.

Hmm. I tried VLC, Nero, and Sound Forge, but not Foobar. I’ll give that a shot when I get home. I can fix the offset fades in Sound Forge once it’s playable, it just takes a bit of work to do it. Challenge accepted!

Also, Future Tactics: The Uprising is in the PS2 section. It’s by a little-known composer by the name of TIM "the man" FOLLIN. It’s spacey folk rock, and well… it’s Tim Follin! So it’s AMAZING!

A short little soundtrack for Crackout is here, as well as S.C.A.T., which has a really nice soundtrack. Definitely check that one out!

OK, back to work I go!

Turbografx-16

Air Zonk – Wow, this is some good stuff. I knew there had to be some excellent TG16 music out there, but I wasn’t too familiar with the console so I didn’t know where to start. This is very much in the shoot ’em up genre of music, fast paced and fun. Love it.

Coryoon – Child of Dragon – Almost sounds similar to Air Zonk, but not as crazy. Lots of good arrangements here.

Kaizou Chounin Shubibinman 1 and 2 – The 2nd game was titled Shockman in English territories. Both games’ music is pretty different, as they were composed by different artists. The mood is the same, though; Heroic mid-tempo anthems. I like the 2nd game’s music a bit more. It had a nice sound driver.

NES

Laser Invasion – More Konami goodies! All of their titles had such good tunes. It’s mind-boggling.

Yume Penguin Monogatari – MORE KONAMI! I’M KONAMI CRAZY! Here’s the concept of this game from Wikipedia:

"The player takes the role of a penguin named Penta, who is getting dumped by his girlfriend Penko, because he has become far too obese for her liking. Penta is most likely Pentarou, a Konami protagonist who has been in several games including Antarctic Adventure, Penguin Adventure and the Parodius series. The game follows Penta’s quest to win back his ex-girlfriend by losing weight via collecting diet drinks and avoiding enemies. Penko’s new boyfriend, Ginji, is trying to block Penta’s attempt by dispatching enemies sent to force-feed him back to obesity."

WTF? I don’t even know. Anyhow, the music rocks. Even has some cool percussion samples.

Legacy of the Wizard – Yuzo Koshiro, around the time of the first couple Ys games. Oh yeah.

Might & Magic – Secret of the Inner Sanctum – This has some cool medieval sounding tunes. I like the arrangements on this one.

Pin-Bot – A short one by David Wise and friends. It’s got a few short futuristic sound tracks and a lot of sounds that are kind of a cross between music and sound effects. pretty unique.

Rockman 4 Minus Infinity – Over an hour of music! For a homebrew, this has some rad stuff. If anyone has info on where the music originally comes from, let me know! 🙂

OK… still more requests on the way over the next couple days!

This website (https://sites.google.com/site/rockman4mi/music) here gives a detailed list of where every song originally comes from. It even includes video links of both the original version and the remixed version for comparison. The creator mostly drew from pretty obscure sources, including a few of my previous requests like Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin, Mappy Kids and Doraemon. I especially like the Get Equipped music, which is a remix of a song from the GB version of RPG Maker.

SNES

Kaizou Tyoujin Shubibinman Zero – So the first game on the PCE was a side scrolling sword fighter, the second one was a shooter, kind of like Mega Man, and now this SNES version is back with the sword antics. The music, however, sounds a lot like Mega Man X music, which is a very good thing.

Winter Gold FX – Here’s an obscure one. Remember Warlocked on the GBC that I posted a while back? Had some awesome tunes, right? Well, this one is also by Jeroen Tel, and it’s a very dancey soundtrack that’s one of the SNES’s best.

NES

Solar Jetman – Can you believe it? It’s finally done! There’s like an hour’s worth of music here, all by David Wise. Some of it sounds like it was taken from a Battletoads sequel that never existed, and other tracks are very experimental and weird. This one was a really tough album to cut, because some of the songs are very long and minimalistic.

Overlord – Another Jeroen Tel soundtrack. There’s not much to this one, but the title screen music is 3.5 minutes long and EPIC. Check it out.

PCE CD

Kaizou Chounin Shubibinman 3 – Ikai no Princess – Following the further adventures of Shockman, this one was on CD. The music is pretty good!

Legend of Xanadu – This one is unique in the fact that it has a lot of CD audio, and also chiptune music. All together, there’s about 4 hours’ worth! The CD audio is mostly symphonic with a lot of Japanese voice overs, but some of the boss encounters have some synths in them. The chiptune portions use music that doesn’t sound like tradition HuCard-based games. It’s quite good! The songs are in order from the game, so the CD tracks are mixed in with the chiptunes. I’ve tagged the CD tracks with "(CD)" at the end of the file if you’d like to separate those out for whatever reason.

Seems like I’m gonna be snowed in this weekend, so I should have some time to catch up on the requests… if I don’t freeze to death, that is. 🙂

You’ve put up some real gems lately. I’ll be glad to give them a listen in a few days.

Kaizou Chounin Shubibinman 3 – Ikai no Princess – Following the further adventures of Shockman, this one was on CD. The music is pretty good!

Pretty sure you forgot to include the link for this one, though.

Seems like I’m gonna be snowed in this weekend, so I should have some time to catch up on the requests… if I don’t freeze to death, that is. 🙂

Stay warm!

Stay warm!

Yep. Sure did. Gimme 5 minutes, it’ll be up. 🙂

First up, Legend of Xanadu 2 in the TG16 section. Same concept as the original title in the series, some CD audio, and also some chiptune. I like the sound driver on this one, it’s much more high quality.

And secondly, Need for Speed for the PSX. I was originally going to open a 3DO section to post that version, but then realized that the PSX port had more tracks and better quality music, so I’d rather do that. This has some really great music. It was also one of the first games (if not THE first) to let the player select a "rock" or "techno" soundtrack, or to mix them up. This was a very well put-together game, and even though it was one of the first PlayStation games around, it still looks good even today.

Enjoy!

Coryoon – Child of Dragon – Almost sounds similar to Air Zonk, but not as crazy. Lots of good arrangements here.

Yeah, from what I found out, both Air Zonk and Coryoon shared the same staff, so it’s not a coincidence that their styles of music sound a bit similar.

Also, seeing Doraemon mentioned here reminded me of a few more requests, heh. So I was wondering if you can get the original Famicom Doraemon’s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuzBE21hRCU) music, as well as the tunes from the four SNES Doraemon games (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9H2HHSARqg) from Epoch? I was only able to find music from the 4th game on youtube, but it should at least give you a bit of an idea of what the prequel’s soundtracks are like. 😉

That was a great game, with some very unique music. It’s one of the only 3DO games to have sequenced music (instead of streaming) and there hasn’t been any software to rip it yet. I think that’s just stupid.

What’s NOT stupid? NES stereo albums! Woo!

First up is King of Kings. This uses a proprietary Namco soundchip (the N163) and the tunes are hardly even recognizable as NES music. They remind me a bit of Megami Tensei 2. That’s a VERY good thing.

Next, Lone Ranger. This has a lot of tracks, all done in the traditional Konami style. What’s unique are tracks which involve Japanese interpretations of Native American music, done in the 8-bit style. The results are… interesting.

How about Quarth? More Konami stuff. These tunes are more rhythm-based, and have a very nice groove. It’s a short album, though. I would have liked to have heard more in this style.

Ever heard of Risa no Yousei Densetsu? Me neither. It’s an adventure game starring a long-forgotten 80’s pop idol from Japan. The music is listenable, but it’s very generic Konami stuff. Nothing awesome really jumped out at me.

Skate or Die 2 – This is Rob Hubbard’s best stuff. Vocal samples, arpeggios, heavy percussion… he threw it all into this game. I really enjoyed it. Notable tracks are the "ramp" tune and the ending theme.

OK, That’s it for the long list of NES requests. Next stop is 5 Doraemon games! That’ll happen either tonight or tomorrow. See ya!

EDIT: I forgot to do Super Dodge Ball! I’ll put that up with the Doraemon stuff.

Also, there is no way to rip music from Sega CD’s Mansion of Hidden Souls and some other games with format it used..don’t remember atm

There’s this game called "Crayon Shin Chan: Puzzle Daimaou no Nazo" and I was going to request it but then read that.
Thing is I remembered that I actually extracted its sound files with an iso extractor. Don’t know what format they are, but adding .midi makes them playable (at least in WMP). Anyways, I’m 99.99% sure they are not midi files.

Here’s my favorite song from that game. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owiPRl1b6yU)
And here’s the one I ripped. (https://db.tt/Fx5doOE8)

Would that be enough for you to make a stereo rip? 🙂

Here are Sunday’s goodies!

As promised from yesterday, the missing Super Dodge Ball track is up. Very good stuff. Composed by the same artist as River City Ransom, so if you like this one, go grab that. Each country’s level has a music in their traditional style, and they’re all very cool and unique!

Also, it’s a Doraemon extravaganza! The original NES title is up, along with all 4 SNES titles. Expect mostly lighthearted music with some creepy tunes from the haunted areas, and some epic boss music. Epoch really cranked those SNES games out… 4 games in 3 years! Whoa.

And, today is the grand opening of our 3DO section! Crayon Shin Chan: Puzzle Daimaou no Nazo is there, as a request from the oddly Magnetic Man. 🙂 The format it was in was actually not far from a standard .wav file… .aiff is Apple’s version of uncompressed audio. The conversion was easy, and it sounds great! I also threw Crash N’ Burn in the section too, to get it going a bit. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen MOD music in a console game, so that was pretty cool.

Anything else on the 3DO you guys wanna hear?

It’s great to see you adding more consoles to the list. I hope Gamecube and Wii appear there too eventually! 🙂

The source music files for those games aren’t available, and I know next to nothing about ripping directly ripping from the Xbox discs, but I’ll do some research and see if I can do it. No promises, though!

Yes. Yes I am.

Hmm? How about Castlevania: Rondo of Blood?

That seems like a very good idea.

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OK! I have some good stuff today! Here’s what it is!

3DO

Gotta add some more to that tiny little 3DO section! First up is Off World Interceptor. Believe me, this soundtrack is great. It’s kind of an electro-industrial thing with really good production value for it’s time. I hear influences of Nine Inch Nails, some Sisters of Mercy, maybe a little of the DOOM soundtrack in there… check it out!

Next, I have Total Eclipse. Both of these releases are from Crystal Dynamics, and for the most part, their music was some of the best on the system. This album is more in the hard rock/ metal genre, but has some synths and orchestrated elements, too. It’s one of my favorites.

TG16/ PC Engine

A couple small ones. Chase H.Q. is first. It’s a short album, but I love the bassline. The game is lots of fun, too.

And last, Cyber Knight. This was a really difficult RPG that had some very cool tunes in it. I think you’ll like it.

OK, I’m gonna look into Otogi tonight and see if it’s feasible, and also get to that PCE CD request. Peace out!

Contra: Shattered Soldier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8QIrYATuDU) – As was the case with a few of my past requests, the official OST is pretty trimmed down compared to what you hear in-game, though not in terms of tracks being cut, but shortened. For example, the track I linked to is the full version that you hear in-game (now compare that to the OST version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYE_lb3sYzE) which is roughly 3/4 the length of the original). If you’re able to get a rip with all the extended tracks, that would be nice…. 🙂

Contra: Shattered Soldier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8QIrYATuDU) – As was the case with a few of my past requests, the official OST is pretty trimmed down compared to what you hear in-game, though not in terms of tracks being cut, but shortened. For example, the track I linked to is the full version that you hear in-game (now compare that to the OST version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYE_lb3sYzE) which is roughly 3/4 the length of the original). If you’re able to get a rip with all the extended tracks, that would be nice…. 🙂

I was actually planning on that very soon. I love that soundtrack. I may throw Neo Contra in, too. 😉

The source files aren’t available for the PS2, GameCube, or Xbox versions of the game, which leads me to believe that they’re in a unique format. I’m downloading the game to verify.

Also, sadly, Otogi is unrippable as well. It’s too bad, as there was some sweet music there.

I’ve just uploaded Akumajou Dracula X – Chi no Rondo (Castlevania – Rondo of Blood) for the PC Engine CD… really good game, really good music (but very similar to the SNES version which has been up for a while), and has a few bonus chiptunes at the end, too. A worthy addition to any Castlevania collection!

In the PS2 section, Contra: Shattered Soldier and Neo Contra. Both were composed (or more like summoned from the pits of industrial metal hellfire) by Sota Fujimori, with a little help from Akira Yamaoka on Shattered Soldier. By the time Neo was in production, Yamaoka was working on Silent Hill 4. They’re both quite long for rock/ industrial soundtracks, and there’s a whole lot more than there were on the OST CDs.

As far as CoD – Finest Hour goes, the only version I can find is the PS2 version, which I can’t rip. Supposedly the Xbox version will have music that I can extract and convert, but I can’t find the image anywhere. I’ll keep my eye out for it, though.

So, just waiting for the snow to pile up high enough to shovel… maybe there will be some more music later.

Rockin’ Kats
Wacky Racers
The Legend of the Ghost Lion
Deja Vu
Uninvited
Shadowgate
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle I and II
Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
Snoopy’s Silly Sports Spectacular
North & South
Kid Klown in Night Mayor World

Thank you very kindly in advance!

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Hello, you upload Magical Quest 1,2 and 3, please?

The SNES versions or the GBA versions?

Actually, I have one more Konami-related request for now: Haunted Castle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8RoQnLQg) (aka the early arcade "remake" of the first Castlevania). This was always one of my favorite Castlevania soundtracks, despite the game itself not being as well-known as the console releases (it’s also hard as heck, but hey, that’s Konami for you, lol).

how about Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo YU-NO from PC-98 (not Saturn or any another version, .s98 !)

For the NES, there’s The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle and Deja Vu. They’re both from the same composer (most kemco games are) and so they both have a very jazzy feel to them, and a nice echo effect that sounds cool in stereo. Also, I added Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (FDS Version) to the OP, because I forgot to do that when I uploaded the others!

In the Arcade section, Haunted Castle is there. The music was done by Kenichi Matsubara, who also composed Castlevania 2, so it has a more dancey tempo to it.

On the Dreamcast, since I wasn’t sure whether it was being requested or not, is Wacky Racers. 🙂 I couldn’t find the composer for this album anywhere, so if anyone knows, please tell me! OK? OK!

An lastly (for now), Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO in the PC-88 section. 5 hours long! And it’s pretty good, too!

Have fun with them! 🙂

For the NES, there’s The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle and Deja Vu. They’re both from the same composer (most kemco games are) and so they both have a very jazzy feel to them, and a nice echo effect that sounds cool in stereo.

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Have fun with them! 🙂

Thank you so much for these! Downloading them as I type.

In case anybody was wondering, Kemco’s house composer was Hiroyuki Masuno (though Ryu Hasegawa also composed music for a few of their games). A good serving of Masuno’s scores was recently issued on the recent Rom Cassette Disc Kemco set. However, that compilation omitted his wonderfully atmospheric and eerie soundtracks for Kemco’s ports of the MacVenture games.

So thank you, thank you, thank you ruiner9 for your great work in the stereo realizations of these brilliant scores!

In case anybody was wondering, Kemco’s house composer was Hiroyuki Masuno (though Ryu Hasegawa also composed music for a few of their games). A good serving of Masuno’s scores was recently issued on the recent Rom Cassette Disc Kemco set. However, that compilation omitted his wonderfully atmospheric and eerie soundtracks for Kemco’s ports of the MacVenture games.

So thank you, thank you, thank you ruiner9 for your great work in the stereo realizations of these brilliant scores!

Ah, so he was the one who did the Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle and Birthday Blowout soundtracks, as well as The Legend of the Ghost Lion? His work was excellent! I wonder what happened to him and why he left Kemco?

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Kaizou Chounin Shubibinman 1 and 2 – The 2nd game was titled Shockman in English territories. Both games’ music is pretty different, as they were composed by different artists. The mood is the same, though; Heroic mid-tempo anthems. I like the 2nd game’s music a bit more. It had a nice sound driver.

I agree, I love the sound driver in the 2nd game. If only that game made NCS and Winds (the developer) famous. But it didn’t.

He left Kemco in 1998. Since then he seems to have done pretty well; he’s still working hard in the industry.

By the way, you can follow Masuno on his Twitter: @HiroyukiMasuno. He doesn’t seem to have updated it recently, though.

Two Atlus games join the group, too: Rockin Kats and Wacky Races. (Wacky Races was already there, but it needed updating.)

OK! I think that pretty much clears up the NES requests… I’ll do the Mickey Mouse SNES games next, since the requester never got back to me on the choice of system. 😛

So, I’m caught up (except for some slow goings on some PC-88 stuff.) Any more requests?

Cool Riders – Arcade
Armed Police Batriders – Arcade

Blue Seed: Kushinada Hirokuden – Saturn
Neon Genesis Evangelion: 1st Impression – Saturn
Greatest Nine ’96 – Saturn
J. League Victory Goal ’97 – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 97 – Saturn
Sega Worldwide Soccer ’98 – Saturn
J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Team mo Tsukurou! – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 98 – Saturn

Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! – Dreamcast
JRA PAT for Dreamcast – Dreamcast
Dream Passport 3 – Dreamcast

Ghost Vibration – PS2
Rule of Rose – PS2

FlingSmash – Wii

Cool Riders – Arcade
Armed Police Batriders – Arcade

Blue Seed: Kushinada Hirokuden – Saturn
Neon Genesis Evangelion: 1st Impression – Saturn
Greatest Nine ’96 – Saturn
J. League Victory Goal ’97 – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 97 – Saturn
Sega Worldwide Soccer ’98 – Saturn
J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Team mo Tsukurou! – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 98 – Saturn

Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! – Dreamcast
JRA PAT for Dreamcast – Dreamcast
Dream Passport 3 – Dreamcast

Ghost Vibration – PS2
Rule of Rose – PS2

FlingSmash – Wii

I shall endeavor to do my best, however some of those are pretty obscure. Armed Police Batrider has already been done. You must have missed it! 🙂

Also, because I’m bored, I put Comix Zone and Mortal Kombat 1, 2, and 3 in the Genesis section. Comix Zone is really good, and there’s about an hour’s worth of music to enjoy. And I’m sure most are familiar with the Asian influences of the MK series!

Enjoy!

If you’re bored enough to try smth else, i suggest Armored Core: Formula Front (either PS2 or PSP)
It was strange title in AC series – instead of fighting, you needed to manage your team of mechas.

Speaking about AC, i shall say that love music from AC1, AC: Masters of Arena (PS1), AC: Nexus, AC: Last Raven (PS2)
All of ’em have OSTs, don’t know if there any hidden tracks that were left in games

PS: I didn’t notice you had already put a link up for Armed Police Batrider. but I see that it doesn’t have any tags? I’ll fix that and upload it later.

Two Atlus games join the group, too: Rockin Kats and Wacky Races. (Wacky Races was already there, but it needed updating.)

OK! I think that pretty much clears up the NES requests… I’ll do the Mickey Mouse SNES games next, since the requester never got back to me on the choice of system. 😛

Ruiner, you’re the best! Great job on these stereo versions.

Also, a big thank you for your upload of Koichi Sugiyama’s score to Jesus: Kyōfu no Bio Monster. The music he composed for that game, especially the lovely "Two People in Dream" track, is among the greatest the "big boss" of Japanese video game music ever composed.

Again, a big thanks for all your masterly work!

PS: I didn’t notice you had already put a link up for Armed Police Batrider. but I see that it doesn’t have any tags? I’ll fix that and upload it later.

Thanks! The rip is actually from the Saturn disc that I have, which is identical to the arcade version but in a higher bitrate. It’s some fantastic music.

BTW, I should have Rule of Rose (tagless unfortunately, no OST exists except for a 4 track EP) up in a few hours!

and don’t worry about it being untagged, if I can’t find titles for the song, I normally just automate the titles in foobar, so that they are named BGM #01, BGM #02, BGM #03, etc.

Enjoy!

-Kirby’s Dreamland 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5arkk5lVo)
-Tetris Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGhHqKercIk) (aka Panel de Pon)
-Pocky & Rocky 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTj5ZXkErOE) and 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMb9a51UKlI) (aka Kiki Kaikai in Japan)
-Ganbare Goemon 2, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf1iH68iqQg) 3, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-B5pQd3x4) and 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWqRrssJC3Q)

And….. if possible, a Dreamcast rip of Sonic Adventure? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhh8K2wJC1E) Though if you’re unable to, that’s no problem….

Cool Riders – Arcade
Armed Police Batriders – Arcade

Blue Seed: Kushinada Hirokuden – Saturn
Neon Genesis Evangelion: 1st Impression – Saturn
Greatest Nine ’96 – Saturn
J. League Victory Goal ’97 – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 97 – Saturn
Sega Worldwide Soccer ’98 – Saturn
J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Team mo Tsukurou! – Saturn
Pro Yakyuu Greatest Nine 98 – Saturn

Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! – Dreamcast
JRA PAT for Dreamcast – Dreamcast
Dream Passport 3 – Dreamcast

Ghost Vibration – PS2
Rule of Rose – PS2

FlingSmash – Wii

Welp, you’ve stumped me. The majority of those titles aren’t on joshw’s site, and for good reason, I guess. I’ve looked at their disc images and the sound files are either without any extension whatsoever, or in .bin format, which is anybody’s guess as to what it might be. The only thing I did discover is that J.League Victory Goal ’97 is the JAP version of Sega Worldwide Soccer ’97, and that’s on his site in mp3 format already. I can host it here, but it seems a bit redundant LOL.

As for MarvelB’s requests, those are certainly possible. I’ll start work on those in the morning!

but thanks for Rule of Rose, at least!

We have Gunbare Goemon 2, 3, and 4 on the SNES! Also, the excellent vertical shooters Pocky and Rocky 1 and 2 in SNES! Tetris Attack is there too! Oh my word, we also have Kirby’s Dreamland 3! It’s MADNESS!

Frankly, these are all super-quality albums. Jun Ishikawa’s work on Kirby 3 is phenomenal, the Goemon soundtracks are always top notch, if you’ve heard the first one, Legend of the Mystical Ninja. And Tetris Attack actually has a lot more music than I though in it!

Oh yeah! Almost forgot…. Sonic Adventure is also up in the Dreamcast section! This is a direct rip from the game, so the songs are titled as on the disc. They’re more or less abbreviated versions of where the songs are played during gameplay.

Lots of good stuff today. Happy listening! 🙂

If you can find me a link to download the Xbox image of the game, I can try it. So far, I haven’t found it.

Ugh, what a slow download. I’ll have to do it when I get home. Thanks! Hopefully I can get something out of this.

Today’s albums are all from the same composer: Hiroshi Kawaguchi. He worked for Sega starting in the mid 80’s, and alongside the classic Outrun series, he also composed the soundtracks for the newly-posted Hang-On, Space Harrier, and Power Drift arcade games. Some may know of Space Harrier’s excellent tunes, but Power Drift is the real treat here. You’ve really gotta download it to see what I mean. On top of that, I’ve also posted the Saturn version of the game, from the Sega Ages series. It contains arranged versions of the chiptune soundtrack!

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

I was thinking in Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak, Disney Pixar Monsters Inc., Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, F-Zero Climax and F-Zero GP Legend.

And Onore (http://psp.joshw.info/o/Onore%20no%20Shinzuru%20Michi%20wo%20Yuke%20(2009-06-11)(Silicon%20Studio)(From%20Software).7z)?

Also, more classic request – PSX’s game Rising Zan (which is kinda awesome one – imagine God Hand alike atmosphere in slasher. Too bad controls are..not the best)

You’ll find that under S.O.S.! 🙂

That seems to be a different game.
I meant this one. (http://snesmusic.org/v2/profile.php?profile=set&selected=2383)

You mean there’s TWO games for the SNES that are BOTH called SOS, and BOTH involve action-puzzling while saving people from a sinking ship? Well that’s just confusing! Anyways, the one you requested is uploaded. Enjoy it!

Let’s see what else Santa has for you today:

Rising Zan – I remember this one on the PSX. It had some really cool industrial techno, with some western style stuff thrown in in parts. Really enjoyable music.

Onore no Shinzuru Michi wo Yuke – Looks like we have a PSP section now! This one was a PAIN to rip! It’s in FMOD Sound Bank format, and there’s only like one player that even supports playback. Unfortunately, the music is in a pretty low bitrate, so it’s not the greatest sounding. The tunes are phenomenal though!

Armored Core – Formula Front Extreme Battle – WOW! Excellent electronic tunes! I was surprised. This one was also a pain… the music was in proprietary Sony format and it took a bit of research to get it going. I needed two different programs for each of the sound formats! Anyways, I’m learning a lot about ripping PSP stuff, and this soundtrack was totally worth the effort.

F-Zero Climax – This GBA title was the only one I could get from the 4 requests. It sounds really good, though… better than I expected it to. I’ve got a new custom-made GBA plugin for Winamp which sounds much better than the one normally found. 😉

Nightshade – The one lonely NES album. This was great for me though, because it’s written by Marshall Parker, who later went on to write the soundtrack for Shadowrun on the SNES. It’s one of my favorite games.

We’re getting closer to Christmas… I wonder if there will be any surprises under the OP tree?

And both have awesome soundtracks!

I have another request. (http://snesmusic.org/v2/profile.php?profile=set&selected=1189)

Anyhoo, I woke up this morning and found that I had a most powerful hankerin’ for some shmup-type music:

-Rohga (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7U1qTkvRwM) (aka Wolf Fang. I’d like to request the Saturn/PS1 port in particular since it also has an arranged soundtrack)

-Skull Fang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33BjQc6MBb0) (Like with Wolf Fang, I’m requesting the Saturn version as it also has an arranged OST)

-Thunder Zone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgrYVFXW3To) (AKA Desert Assault overseas)

-Cybernator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkeg6udUh0) (aka Assault Suits Valken)

-Gynoug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZ06RbjC5U) (aka Wings of Wor)

-Imperium (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQMNjPiY2Y) (aka Kidou Soukou Dion)

-Devestator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SxPTPO2TLI)

-Android Assault: The Revenge of Bari-arm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERR0lqR2xvI) (or just Bari-arm in Japan)

-And finally, Spriggan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPeSCNgoC4) and Spriggan Mark 2. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZKwZUm4gmY)

And that makes up my little Christmas list! 😉

what’s the name of this plugin?

Oh well, thanks a lot anyways. 🙂
Sounds really good!

Check your PMs!

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though i didnt find this from official ost Historic FF Armored Core Formula Front Official Sound Track #03: INJECT THE RIGHT TRACKS – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyN5X1QdSJ8)
maybe it was in PS2 version, i dont know

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though i didnt find this from official ost Historic FF Armored Core Formula Front Official Sound Track #03: INJECT THE RIGHT TRACKS – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyN5X1QdSJ8)
maybe it was in PS2 version, i dont know

I’m not sure. I can tell you that that was every track on the PSP disc. I matched up the number of tracks and everything!

Well, Japanese can put tracks you never heard in game on their OSTs 🙂

By the way there is article about Onore here (http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/oreike/oreike.htm)

I came across that page while looking for composer information. It looks really cool! I think I’ll see if I can find it to play.

Here are the non-CD based requests. I need to be home to do the CD requests because I don’t have software on this machine to mount images.

On the arcade, there’s Thunder Zone. This one is great. It’s like a Genesis on steroids producing kickass rock music. I’m gonna listen to this one on the way home.

And 3 SNES albums:

Cybernator – By Masanao Akahori, who also did Brain Lord and Nosferatu, two other albums which I’ve posted in the past and are very good. This one’s a bit more of an action soundtrack, though. Reminds me a bit of… Axelay? Maybe?

Imperium – This one is cool. It uses the same sound driver as Darius Twin, one of my all-time favorite soundtracks, so it was cool to see it used by a different composer. Just think abut lots of 80’s screamy guitars, and you know what this sounds like.

Illusion of Gaia – On the longer side, being an RPG, there’s a lot of nicely orchestrated pieces in this one. It’s nice background music while you’re working!

OK, that’s it for now. I’m super bored today so I may pick a few more selections to post soon. Peace out!

Starting off on the Genesis, wolves. Namely, the hard, gritty rock of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage. And, the slightly less gritty (but still awesome) Wolfchild. Next, as a Twitter request from the YouTube guys @HeadacheHeroes, we have MUSHA, which is so awesome that I can’t believe I forgot to post it earlier!

Also, if you do the Twitter thing, you can follow me at @ruiner9. I’ll probably start tweeting when I do updates and such, if enough people are interested.

Now…. the CD requests. MarvelB, I was worried I’d have to let you down in a few spots, but my game searching skills prevailed, and I got it all! Skull Fang and Wolf Fang on the Saturn, and Seirei Senshi Spriggan and Spriggan Mark 2 on the PCE CD are up! The Sega CD games are forthcoming… I had to open a new MEGA account because I’m already using 45gb of my 50gb limit. :-O (I also need lots of space for the Christmas present.)

Enjoy your goodies! I’ll have more later tonight or on Christmas morning, depending on how chaotic my family gets tonight! 🙂

Sure thing!

But first…. I have a little surprise. Ok, wait, not yet… FIRST, I have the Sega CD stuff… Devastator and Android Assault.

Ok, NOW comes the surprise.

The Wii section is now open for business!

I’ve been working on a few hard-to-find albums, and these things aren’t that easy to rip and maintain the quality that I try to be known for… but I figured out the right method and they sound fantastic. So, we have:

Castlevania – The Adventure ReBirth – This WiiWare game collects some really high-quality versions of Castlevania tracks from other systems. Some are arranged. It makes a great OST.

Castlevania Judgement – OK, so this Wii attempt at a fighting game totally sucked, and that’s why the amazing soundtrack was overlooked. If you’re a fan of the Belmonts and haven’t tried it, grab it!

Mario Kart Wii – Do the rest of the Nintendo games even need introduction?

Mario Party 8 – Some of these songs seem like they cut off at the end, but that’s the way they are in the game. The minigames stop abruptly with a whistle, so it sounds awkward in the game file. However, I was floored by this music. It’s sooooo much better than I thought it was.

Super Mario Galaxy – Ohhhhh yeaaahhhh. Celestial tunes and catchy hooks. And now, totally uncut, unlike the lame official OST.

Super Paper Mario – This one is hard to find, and it’s got a lot of eclectic stuff in it. Something for everyone!

Wii Music – I maybe played this game for about an hour, realized that Miyamoto was probably trolling us, and didn’t pick it back up. At least we have the music to listen to!

Wii Play Motion – A mediocre game with a lot of cool tunes.

Wii Sports – The original! If you own a Wii, you’ve played the crap out of this game, and probably have the music memorized without even knowing it!

Wii Sports Resort – My favorite Wii 1st party title. I love archery! This brought back good memories.

Well guys, I hope my little Christmas gift brings your ears some joy. I just wanted to thank everyone for introducing me to a lot of cool music, and being a generally cool bunch of guys! Here’s to another year of crazy video game music!

:rockwell:

Oh and Kings Quest V on NES please!

And Patchwork Heroes for PSP!

Here’s the games I want you to rip:
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 94 (Super Famicon)
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 2 & 3 (Also Super Famicon)
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 4-6 (All on the N64)
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 7-15 (Either on PS2 or Gamecube for a couple)

Here’s a couple of Arcade soundtracks you could also check out:
1. Dashin’ Desperadoes (Data East Game)
2. Darwin 4078 (Data East)
3. BreakThru (Data East)
4. Karnov (Data East)
5. Spinmaster (Data East)
6. Gunforce (Irem)
7. Air Inferno (Taito)
8. Volfied (Tatio)
9. Violence Fight (Taito)
10. Gekirindan (Taito)
11. Operation Wolf 3 (Taito)
12. Elevator Actions Returns (Taito)
13. Kaiser Knuckle (aka Global Champion)(Taito)
14. Dungeon Magic (Taito)
15. Super Chase: Criminal Termination (Taito)

That’s all the requests I’ll give you for now since you’ll be busy looking for these for awhile.
P.S – It’s be cool to see you post some Amiga music if you could.

Oh and Kings Quest V on NES please!

And Patchwork Heroes for PSP!

More 3DO rips maybe?

Hey man could you get some music from the Jikkyo Powerful Pro Series (known as Power Pro in America) for me. If you don’t know what it is it’s basically a Japan-only baseball series made by Konami that is very arcade-like and is one of the longest running series in Japan. I’ve been interested in checking out the music for this series once i found out Konami made them, but can’t find any gamerips for it.

Here’s the games I want you to rip:
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 94 (Super Famicon)
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 2 & 3 (Also Super Famicon)
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 4-6 (All on the N64)
Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 7-15 (Either on PS2 or Gamecube for a couple)

Here’s a couple of Arcade soundtracks you could also check out:
1. Dashin’ Desperadoes (Data East Game)
2. Darwin 4078 (Data East)
3. BreakThru (Data East)
4. Karnov (Data East)
5. Spinmaster (Data East)
6. Gunforce (Irem)
7. Air Inferno (Taito)
8. Volfied (Tatio)
9. Violence Fight (Taito)
10. Gekirindan (Taito)
11. Operation Wolf 3 (Taito)
12. Elevator Actions Returns (Taito)
13. Kaiser Knuckle (aka Global Champion)(Taito)
14. Dungeon Magic (Taito)
15. Super Chase: Criminal Termination (Taito)

That’s all the requests I’ll give you for now since you’ll be busy looking for these for awhile.
P.S – It’s be cool to see you post some Amiga music if you could.

*faints*

But I’m going to say "no more new ones until I’m caught up!" 🙂

Maybe next Christmas. 😉

So, here are some albums for ya!

On the NES, we’ve got Metal Storm. It’s kind of minimalist stuff, nothing fancy. But some of the tracks are pretty cool.

A few on the SNES – Metal Warriors, which has the fastest, most constant baseline of any soundtrack I’ve ever heard, and Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball ’94 and 3, which are the only two JPP games I can find the soundtracks to ANYHWERE.

Also, Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time for the PSP. This is a direct rip from the disc, so there are music pieces as well as some ambient desert noise tracks, too.

Lastly, Patchwork Heroes for the PSP. Wow, this has some really cool tunes! The theme song is incredibly catchy, and the rest of it sounds like a cross between a carnival and a military drill band. This one’s a recommended download for sure.

Up next: Arcade requests! There are a lot, and I already have a bunch in the works, but I’m not sure I can get them all. We shall see, though!

So, here’s what I have for the requests so far… the other arcade titles might take a bit of work, if they’re even do-able at all.

Air Inferno
Darwin 4078
Gunforce – Battle Fire Engulfed Terror Island (What a mouthfull!)
Karnov
Operation Wolf 3
Violence Fight
Volfied

Most of them (with the exception of Op Wolf 3) are very short, with Volfied clocking in at under 2 minutes! There are some cool old-school titles here, so check them out.

Also, one NES entry, King’s Quest V. There’s a fair amount of music, and it has mostly a medieval feel to it. If you liked the soundtrack to Equinox, you may enjoy this one too.

Have fun with ’em!

Warning: USF stuff may be low or very low frequency. Maybe a high quality and high frequency recording could be done and custom-made.

Windows XP Sound Recorder?… It was used in the Mission THINK music set that I did.

That game isn’t rippable, it seems 🙁

But what I DO have today, is some N64 goodies! They’re USF rips, but to me they sound fantastic… I’ll let you be the judge. Go grab Snowboard Kids 1 &2 and Pokemon Snap in the OP!

From GBA:

WarioWare Inc Minigame Mania
Pokemon Pinball Ruby and Sapphire
Mario Power Tennis
Wario Land 4

From GB:

Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land

Thanks in advance!

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Mario Kart Super Circuit – FULFILLED
Donkey Kong Country – FULFILLED
Pokemon Pinball – FULFILLED
Pocket Bomberman – FULFILLED
Bomberman Tournament – FULFILLED
Donald Duck Advance – FULFILLED
Super Mario Ball / Mario Pinball Land- FULFILLED

1. Strider 2 (Capcom)
2. Tech Romancer (Capcom)
3. The Punisher Arcade Game (Capcom)
4. Three Wonders (Capcom)
5. Trojan (Capcom)
6. Last Duel (Capcom)
7. Led Storm (aka Mad Gear)(Capcom)
8. Magic Sword (Capcom)
9. Mega Twins (Arcade or PCE Version)(Capcom)
10. Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (aka Pocket Fighter in Japan)(Capcom)
11. Power Stone 1 & 2
12. Puzz Loop 2 (Capcom)
13. Quiz Nanairo Dreams (Capcom)
14. Warriors of Fate
15. Vulgus

Other Games
1. All of the TwinBee Games
2. Alundra 1 & 2
3. Jade Cocoon
4. Mitsumete Knight
5. All the Parodius Games (Konami Series)

But what I DO have today, is some N64 goodies! They’re USF rips, but to me they sound fantastic… I’ll let you be the judge. Go grab Snowboard Kids 1 &2 and Pokemon Snap in the OP!

Oh crap that sucks >.<

Well I got another one can you please do a rip of GBA’S Tomato Adventure ?

Size123, The arcade titles I posted were the ones I could rip easily… any of the others will need to be done manually, and could take many hours apiece. I’ll try my best, but I’m not sure I can do too many of them. And there’s, um, like 13 Parodius games. So I’ll get a few. But not all. Any particular ones you want?

Eliskuya2, the source music files for Scooby Doo and Shaman aren’t made yet, so I can’t do those. I can’t rip music from a sound test… it’ll honestly sound really horrible from an emulator.

Trunks Briefs, yes, I can do Tomato Adventure… eventually! There’s a lot I have to catch up on. So stay tuned.

SevenX, yes. NES and SNES are easy as pie. I’ll have those within a few days.

So bear with me guys, I’ll be back in the groove soon!

What I decided was, I’m just going to grab all the source music from the 30+ requests I had (yikes) and do them alphabetically. So here’s what’s up today:

On the NES, A Boy and His Blob. A quick easy rip, only about 6 minutes of music. It’s got some good tracks!

Then there’s Alundra 1 & 2 on the PSX. This is mostly synthesized symphonic music, with some regular synths thrown in here and there. Some vocal tracks, too!

Bomberman Tournament for the GBA is up, which is some really excellent work from Jun Chikuma, who made the SNES and Saturn soundtracks.

Chiki Chiki Boys or Mega Twins in up for the PCE CD/ TG16. It’s an arranged version of the arcade soundtrack, and it’s pretty jazzy. I like it.

And lastly, Donald Duck Advance. Now, because this is streamed GBA music, it sounds pretty bad. It doesn’t even sound that good coming straight out of a GBA itself. Hopefully someone out there appreciates it!

Well, I may have more later, depending on how long I sleep for. This stomach thing has knocked me out.

Peace!

-Super Robot Wars Z (PS2)
The OST is a bit over four hours long, where as gamerip clocks about 5:18 hours… Sweet.

ALSO…. RULE OF ROSE??? Amazing. I have PAL and NTSC hardcopy of it. 🙂

You’re crazy, dude. 🙂 I’ve added it to my queue! Who even has time to listen to these straight through? I’ve done Mother 3 soundtrack sessions in my car, and at 6 hours long, it still takes me 4 days of travelling to and from work to hear it all.

Anyways, here’s a few goodies for the New Year. Shake off the hangovers and grab ’em!

Arcade

Last Duel – An older arcade game with some simple but unique tunes. I like the jazziness of "Frozen Route."
Mad Gear (Led Storm) – Really cool stuff. "Net Wood Forest" just ROCKS. I’m gonna give this one a bunch of listens.

GBA

Mario Kart Super Circuit – I think I had this one up at one point, but took it down as it didn’t sound that great. The new gsf decoder makes it sound a bit better, plus my mp3 encoding skills have helped it a bit too. So, if you have one from me for this game already, re-download it and compare!

GBC

Donkey Kong Country – This has a lot of tracks from the original DKL tracks, plus some originals. David Wise is at the helm, of course.

Saturn

Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius – Excellent, excellent stuff. Parodius started with mostly public-domain classical music, but then branched off into remixes of Konami classics and sometimes even pop songs. This one is one of Konami Kukeiha Club’s finest soundtracks, I think.

PlayStation

Jade Cocoon – Man, I’ve never played this game before, but from the tracks I’ve sampled, this is really melancholy, sad stuff. Not great to listen to when you’re sick and stuck in your den alone on New Year’s Eve night. Anyways, it’s well-produced, so there’s that. LOL

OK guys, that’s it for now! Enjoy!

Dude that seems like a petty reason to dislike someone just because they like something you strongly dislike. (If that’s what you meant by that statement). I also mostly agree with what ruiner9 is saying but, I think it also depends on your attitude toward that person when you criticize them for the thing they like. Being a asshole is going to make people hate you a lot more then if you politely disagree with them.

GBA

Mario Pinball Land – There’s a nice variety in this one, due to the many different landscapes you can pin your ball in. This is one of my favorite GBA titles.

PlayStation

Mitsumite Knight – Here’s a large collection of classical music of all types… symphonic, chamber, etc… It sounds really nice for being sequenced pieces!

MSX

Parodius – OK, I stuck this one under the PC-88 section, which is now the PC-88/ MSX section. Yes, I know they don’t have a lot in common, except that they’re both Japanese gaming computers that I don’t know much about, but can appreciate. 😛

SNES

Harvest Moon – Is this cartridge really expensive in the states? I remember when I was working at GameStop back when the PSOne was new, this game was already selling for over $100. Anyways, the music is like one giant collection of RPG town melodies. If you like that kind of music, this is for you!

Gokujyo Parodius – There’s some different takes on game music here, as well as some quirky remakes of other classical tunes. It’s not as awesome as the Saturn version, but still pretty good.

OK, that’s all I got for this update. Now go do a barrel roll! 🙂

Oh, adding MSX games too huh? When you aren’t so swamped I’ll definitely have some MSX requests in the future.

Somebody already requested that. I looked into it and it’s not rippable… the audio is in an unknown format.

Size123, The arcade titles I posted were the ones I could rip easily… any of the others will need to be done manually, and could take many hours apiece. I’ll try my best, but I’m not sure I can do too many of them. And there’s, um, like 13 Parodius games. So I’ll get a few. But not all. Any particular ones you want?

Eliskuya2, the source music files for Scooby Doo and Shaman aren’t made yet, so I can’t do those. I can’t rip music from a sound test… it’ll honestly sound really horrible from an emulator.

Trunks Briefs, yes, I can do Tomato Adventure… eventually! There’s a lot I have to catch up on. So stay tuned.

SevenX, yes. NES and SNES are easy as pie. I’ll have those within a few days.

So bear with me guys, I’ll be back in the groove soon!

Cool thank you ruiner9 looking forward for it on the update =)

OK guys, quick hit and run, here’s what’s new in the OP!

On the Gameboy, two popular titles: Pocket Bomberman and Pokemon Pinball!

For Dreamcast, Power Stone 1 & 2! If you’re gonna get one or the other, get the 2nd one… it’s much longer and has a lot of the same themes from the first one.

In the Playstation section, Sexy Parodius! Expect cat sounds and more crazy renditions of public domain music!

And for the arcade. Parodius DA! um… more cat sounds, probably. And definitely more PD music.

OK….. gotta shoot off to Brinstar now…. ZOOOOM!

-Both the arcade version of Contra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ok4GzhIo0k) and its sequel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACg7Or60l_E)

-The original House of the Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRAqfDVc1ZM) (either the arcade or Saturn version is okay with me, I don’t really care)

And one DS request, seeing as that section is particularly lacking at the moment:

-Ganbare Goemon DS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI8jJlvsjfg) (I’ll spare you the game’s overly long subtitle, lol)

Thanks in advance if you’re able to get any of these! 🙂

I also edited my post and marked the fulfilled ones. Here’s what’s left:

From GBA:

WarioWare Inc Minigame Mania / Mega Microgames
Pokemon Pinball Ruby and Sapphire
Mario Power Tennis
Wario Land 4

From GB:

Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land

Thanks again!

Alright, peeps! Here’s the day’s loot!

Arcade

Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix – Some playful fighting tunes composed by some of the members of the Street Fighter soundtrack team.
Strider 2 – Action/ dancy goodness on a Yamaha synth, with copious instrument samples.
The Punisher – More music from the Street Fighter team… see if you can pick out hints of Bison’s theme and Sagat’s theme along the way!

Saturn

House of the Dead – Guitars! Dance beats! Zombies! You can’t go wrong!

PS2

Super Robot Wars Z – 5 hours. A good 5 hours, but yeah, 5 hours.

I’m going to have start pulling down some of the real long and obscure Japanese soundtracks in order to make room for stuff, so if there’s anything over 300mb you’ve been waiting to grab, please get it within the next couple of days. I’ve only got like 3gb of storage left!

Also, MagnetMan34, of your remaining requests, Wario Land 3 and 4 are the only ones available. Like I said, most GBA games haven’t been converted to their source music files yet, so I can only do what’s been done so far. I’ll have those up probably tomorrow!

I’ll have at least Tomato Adventure, Sim City, and Trojan up later… possibly a few more.

Enjoy! 🙂

Densetsu no Starfy 1, 2, and 3
Magical Vacation
Rhythm Tengoku
Kuru Kuru Kururin
Kururin Paradise

For DS games, convert these:

Kousoku Card Battle: Card Hero
Kurikin: Nano Island Story
Touch Panic
theta

Could you warn us what exactly you are going to erase?

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Convert the Joy Mech Fight soundtrack into STEREO. And speaking of GBA games, convert these:

Densetsu no Starfy 1, 2, and 3
Magical Vacation
Rhythm Tengoku
Kuru Kuru Kururin
Kururin Paradise

For DS games, convert these:

Kousoku Card Battle: Card Hero
Kurikin: Nano Island Story
Touch Panic
theta

I can do Joy Mech Fight and Kuru Kuru Kururin, the rest aren’t available. I’ll add them to my queue!

OK, these are the titles I just selected to go on Tuesday evening, Eastern Standard Time. Grab ’em while they’re hot.

*GOT MYSELF SOME MORE SPACE. NO DELETIONS AT THIS TIME!!!*

1. Aurail (Published by Sega)
2. Wrestle War (Sega)
3. Dynamite Dux (Sega)
4. Teddy Bear (Sega)
5. Wing War (Sega)
6. Sega Rally 3
7. Ghost Squad & Ghost Squad: Evolution (Sega)
8. Virtua Cop 3 (Sega)
9. Beast Busters (SNK)
10. Gang Wars (SNK)
11. The Next Space
12. SAR: Search and Rescue (SNK)
13. Ikari III – The Rescue (SNK)
14. Prehistoric Isle in 1930 (SNK)

Other Games:
Metal Max Series:
1. Metal Max Returns (Remake of Metal Max 1 for NES)
2. Metal Max 3 (Nintendo DS)
3. Metal Saga: Season of Steel (Nintendo DS)
4. Metal Saga: Sajin no Kusari (PS2)
5. Metal Max 2 (Any Version is fine)
Nobunaga’s Ambition Series:
6. Nobunaga no Yabō: Sengoku Gun’yūden (Sega Saturn or Playstation Version)(Koei)
7. Nobunaga no Yabō: Kakushin (Wii or PS2 Version)(Koei)
8. Nobunaga no Yabō: Tenka Sōsei (PS2 Port)(Koei)
9. Nobunaga no Yabō: Sōtenroku (PS2 Port)(Koei)
10. Nobunaga no Yabō: Ranseiki (PS2 or XBOX Version)(Koei)

For other platforms, here are my suggestions for you to add to your queue:

ARCADE:

Air Duel
Geo Storm
Seibu Cup Soccer (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Seibu+Cup+Soccer&sm=3)
Big Fight: Big Trouble in the Atlantic Ocean
Legionnaire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D0xHZDRELg)
Zero Team
China Gate
Susume! Mile Smile

NES / FDS:

Eggerland: Meikyū no Fukkatsu
Eggerland: Sōzōhe no Tabidachi
Rollerball
Reigen Dōshi

GB / GBC:

Astro Rabby
Vattle Giuce
Chikyū Kaihō Gun ZAS (make sure it is at its best sound. It’s difficult for sound emulators to make it sound as good as this (http://nicosound.anyap.info/sound/sm3308295))
Chalvo 55: Super Puzzle Action
Mole Mania
Balloon Fight GB
Lolo’s Great Adventure
Revenge of the Gator

GBA:

Nonono Puzzle Chailian
Custom Robo GX
Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival
Sennen Kazoku

DS:

Densetsu no Starfy 4
Densetsu no Starfy Taiketsu! Daīru Kaizokudan
Fossil Fighters
Fossil Fighters: Champions
Chibi Robo: Park Patrol

PC98 / MSX:

Variable Geo
Variable Geo II
Darwin 4078
Eggerland Mystery
Eggerland 2
Rollerball

MD / GEN:

Darwin 4081

PCE / TG-16:

Championship Rally
Galaxy Keiji Gayvan

Super NES:

Jerry Boy

I will take a look at those songs, and get through them along with other peoples’ requests, but it’s been so crazy that I haven’t even been able to share the music that I enjoy.

I guess I’m just trying to say that it’s starting to feel more like work, and less like fun, and that’s definitely not a good thing. I’d hoped to have some cool conversations with people about composers and music, and not just have lists thrown at me without even a "please" or "I appreciate your work" sentiment thrown in.

I’m working on the 14 albums left in my queue, and once that’s done, I may take a few days and post some stuff I’ve been meaning to since before New Year’s. After that, I’ll see what I can do with the rest.

Don’t go nowhere! I just need to shake off this "burnt out" feeling. 🙂

Thanks, size123, I do appreciate that. And I really do enjoy converting the soundtracks, and creating a large set of great tunes that are all labeled the same way, and at the same volume. But I’ve also got a full time job and a wife and two kids, who are always like "Daddy, why are you always on the computer with your headphones on?" Obviously I can’t choose soundtracks over family, so I’m choosing to scale back so I can hang out and play some Wii U with the kiddos after work instead.

dissident93, I hope the little audio touches and the meticulous tagging (when available) make my work shine a little brighter than someone who does it themselves. 🙂

ProTip: Did you know I also tag publishers? If your audio player supports it, you can sort your playlist by Konami, Capcom, Nintendo, or whatever you like best!

From Bomberman Tournament, i really liked BGM #09 (really happy and peaceful and comfortable track) and, of course, BGM #02 (crazy powerful variation of Bomberman tune).

Ninja Gaiden III from original NES trilogy has pretty lovely melancholic soundtrack. I was surprised to hear it (i didn’t play NG because… well, i’m not NES guy). "Ryu’s defeat" and "Into subspace" are my favs here.

M.U.S.H.A. is damn powerful. It’s my one of my most favorite Genesis soundtracks now among Gleylancer and Sub-Terrania. My picks for MUSHA are "Armed Armor" (so cool bending notes it has), "Galvanic Gear", "Divine Devise", "For the love of" (especially from 1:08) and "Stratospheric Struggle" (DAT BASS!).

Off-World Interceptor is pretty cool. It was interesting to listen to early Garry Schyman. This work is groovy.

Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO, grab it while it’s still here 🙂 I requested this, so what should i say? Very lyric music from cult visual novel/adventure. My fav melody is "Love 2" I also find "Ruins" being very beautiful track.

Battletoads Arcade has catchy melodies despite lo-fi sound.

Jumping Flash! 2 was another req by me, i reccomend everyone "Track 05", which is filled with happyness and colourful breathing of awesomeness <3

Hokkaidou Rensa Satsujin is awesome example of pure melodies. I especially love "8" and "11" from here.

Arcus Odyssey opened my ears for early Motoi Sakuraba. "Pray for victory", "The wicked flame", "Prison", "Castomira – Dragon" are excellent tunes and good examples of Genesis sound chip usage. Not as powerful as Bare Knuckle 3 or Jesper Kyd’s works but still.

Chaos Field is awesome breakbeat/techno electronica, full of motion energy.

Street Fighter Alpha is a pleasure to listen to. Funky and soft.

Under Defeat is one of examples of Shinji Hosoe’s awesomeness (i love his 999 and ZE:VLR osts and not only em).

Karous can blow away with it’s "drumnbass on steroids" sound. "You can fxxk me" starts with high speed ?breakbeat? but transforms into melodic trance. "Sex pervert of a silence" is really crazy. Is it what people call GABBA ? And "Lily in desert" is very beautiful idm piece.

Nijuuei was another request from me. I highly recommend to take a listen because it has wide variety – from crazy acid techno to dark ambient/noise, from atmospheric trip-hop with ethnic elements to chiptune.

Vortex is pretty cool snes title using Super FX chip. My fav track is "Thermis".

Shock Troopers 2nd Squad is lo-fi sampling crazyness. "Promise of 505" blew me away.

Psychic Force is catchy. "Burnin Scape" and "Freezing Point" are most awesome.

Genesis version of Lemmings is not my all-time fav BUT i really dig one track from it. That track is so catchy that it comes to my mind when i’m wandering in the city. It’s "Stage Theme 5". So awesome. Ouch.

Sub-Terrania is real masterpiece by Kyd. Especially "Complete (End sequence). Also AWS Pro Moves Soccer has two great tracks by him.

And, of course, everything by Tim Follin. Just run and listen to if u haven’t 😉

That’s my impressions, guys. Of course i forgot smth. So much goodies here!

I’m so glad you’ve discovered a whole bunch of new cool music through my posts! You seem to have similar tastes to me in terms of dark electro and ambient, like in Karous, Shock Troopers, and Jesper Kyd’s stuff… do you listen to anything like that outside of game soundtracks?

Got a few updates for now, and maybe a few more later (depends on how busy work is.)

Arcade

Super Contra – I started off just listening to this on the M1 player because I hadn’t heard before, and LOVE Contra music, and ended up ripping the whole thing right then and there. Now because it’s from M1 and not a traditional music sourcefile, it may not be as cleanly timed as some of my other stuff. I took the times from the game’s OST (which they put some awful reverb on, BTW) and applied it to my tracks, adding 10 seconds for a proper fade out. The game itself has some nice alternate versions of some of the usual themes from the series, and excellent boss music.

Trojan – An older Capcom game, with some simple Yamaha synths and a few catchy melodies.

GBA

Tomato Adventure – An action RPG by the guys who eventually made Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. It’s got some nice dance tunes, and a lot of your typical RPG music tropes, too.

SNES

Sim City – One of the earliest SNES games. While I was ripping it, I noticed how similar it sounded to PilotWings in parts, and that’s because they were both composed by Soyo Oka. She started work on this game immediately after finishing the flight-sim’s soundtrack, so it’s no surprise anymore why they’re so alike.

So I added something to the OP that says requests are on hold right now. If you guys have a title or two you’re very interested in, and the source file is readily available (ie. I don’t have to put hours into researching, cutting, naming etc.), I can honor a few here and there. T this point, I’m going to go through what’s been requested so far, play a little catch-up, and post some of my own faves, too.

Enjoy today’s new stuff, guys! 🙂

Thanks for the info, and thanks for the great rips.

Thanks for the info, and thanks for the great rips.

I think Super Mario 3D World is one of the best games Nintendo has put out in a long time, and Miyamoto didn’t work directly on it at all. Kondo was credited in the music section, but I think that’s because they revisit the themes that he originally wrote. I’d hate to think of a Nintendo without them, but as long as they can keep the quality up like that, I think they’ll be OK.

Vulgus – This arcade game has 15 seconds of music. So… are you trolling me, now? 🙂

Theta – A Japan-only DS game with music by the electronic artist Esem. It’s pretty chill.

Kuru Kuru Kururin – Another Japan-only GBA game with a pretty long soundtrack

Kurikin – Nano Island Story – A DS battle game where you battle your bacteria against other people’s bacteria. I guess Nintendo had run out of ideas at some point. Anyways, the music is some nice electronic stuff. I liked it!

Kousoku Card Battle – Card Hero – Another DS battle game with a lot of music. This time it’s a little more varied.

Contra – The arcade version! Some familiar tunes here, in YM synth fashion.

Wario Land – SML 3 – Some very Nintendo-style Gameboy music.

Wario Land 4 – I was surprised to see that this had over 2.5 hours of music! It’s pretty cool too. It’s written by Ryoji Yoshitomi, who contributed to Wario Land 3, and the same feel prevails.

So that’s the last of the stuff I can post from 1983parrothead’s first batch of requests, except Joy Mech Fight, which I’ll have up soon. Then I’ll take a look at size123’s and parrotbrain’s 2nd batch.

In the meantime, I’d like to add to the Wii section. Does anyone have any Wii requests or cool suggestions for PS2 or PSX? I’ve done so much Japan-only stuff, I’d like to add some US or EUR games for a change.

Enjoy the new releases!

Thanks for the info, and thanks for the great rips.
both Miyamoto and Kondo haven’t been heavily involved in a project in years, so I don’t there would be a huge difference.

@ruiner9: do you mean US/EUR composers or just more games outside japan?

I meant games that were released for US or EUR audiences, whether they were developed in the East or the West. 🙂

As far as Silent Hill goes, I have all of the OSTs or can do full game-rips. Which do you prefer?

I would like Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, I have been looking for it for a while.

I’ve uploaded the PSP version of the soundtrack, which is the only one I could find. It’s supposedly the best version, though, with 55 tracks and about 90 minutes of audio. It’s all cinematic symphonic music very reminiscent of the movies.

Enjoy!

And well, Rhythm Heaven Fever, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Mario Strikers Charged Football and Wario Land: Shake It! would be cool additions too. 🙂

Oh, and btw, the Wario Land soundtrack has some weird noise at the beginning of every track. Same with Wario Land 4. Could that be fixed, please?

Hmm. I don’t notice anything when playing them with VLC. What player are you using?

Oh, also, I’m avoiding the real popular Wii titles like Metroid Prime Trilogy and Smash Bros. because they’re easily found and SUPER LONG… it’s just wasted space on my account. But Wii Party and some of the others are great suggestions!

I tried with Windows Media Player and even Winamp, but in both there’s the sound. "Palm Tree Paradise" is a good example because it starts with silence, and you can hear the noise clearly.

It’s weird because it never happened before. Maybe ripping again could solve it?

Did you mean "Teddy Boy Blues" by Sega? I can’t find references to a Sega-made "Teddy Bear" arcade game anywhere.

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Oh, fair enough then. I was just giving some suggestions, not really requesting. Glad you liked some of them though! 🙂

I tried with Windows Media Player and even Winamp, but in both there’s the sound. "Palm Tree Paradise" is a good example because it starts with silence, and you can hear the noise clearly.

It’s weird because it never happened before. Maybe ripping again could solve it?

I’ll take a look at the files in a spectrum analyzer when I get home. It’s probably as easy as chopping off the first few miliseconds of each track, but Wario Land 4 has a lot of tracks, so it may take a while. It’s odd that it happened on two games from two different systems, though.

I converted these two on my work PC, so I’ll try it at home (even though my setups are almost identical) and see if there’s a difference in the beginnings. I did notice a tiny glitch in a few tracks (VLC is infamous for cutting off a few miliseconds on the beginning and end of audio files it seems) so I’m getting closer to figuring it out.

@Ruiner9
I’m just as surprised as you to find out how short the Vulgus soundtrack is. Most of these arcade games I’m suggesting I don’t know how long they are so you might get super short ones like the Vulgus one. The Teddy Boy Blues soundtrack is the one I’m looking for.

Ok, I was wondering what that was all about! 🙂 I can do a fair share of your requests, but not all. They’re in the queue!

There aren’t any source music files available for Digimon World 3, which is probably why the existing rips aren’t great. I can do Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories, though!

Hmmm, what do you mean by source music files? I have read something about it’s music somehwere, that it are like MIDI files spread all over the place in parts. Not sure how true that is.
I have Yu Gi Oh files in PSF format, can you extract to losless? PSF incorrectly plays some channels in Winamp.

(I was hoping you were some reverse-engineer prodigy who could extract anything Q_Q)

(I was hoping you were some reverse-engineer prodigy who could extract anything Q_Q)
pretty sure he means the joshw.info (http://hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php?showthread=26929) archive. loads of extracted game audio rips, but it doesn’t have everything.

also, if the psf set plays incorrectly, it has to do more with a bad rip than the plugin, I believe. not much can be done without reripping, and good luck doing that/finding somebody who will do it.

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So MagnetMan34, I re-ripped the Wario games in Winamp at home, and when I still heard the pop, I tried it in Foobar2000 with the latest plugin. It shows up in that, too. So it must be a fault in the audio files and not in the players themselves. 🙁

actually, it’s extremely easy to make a 2sf set from the rom (it’s literally drag and drop). i’ll send the software to you if you want.

EDIT – Just figured it out with VGM Toolbox. This is nice. 🙂

Exactly how do you rip? I was under the impression that you ripped the PSF files yourself.

I see. Still I’d be great to have the Yu Gi Oh soundtrack in mp3. 🙂

I’ll have to do the 3:00 one at some point and manually cut the tracks, but that’s a major project. I was hoping to have it up for you today, but that won’t happen unless a proper PSF archive falls into my lap. 🙁

First up is Ganbare Goemon DS. Shout out to dissident93, who pointed me in the right direction to rip and convert this one! It’s a great soundtrack with some electronic jams, and an Asian flair.

And also, the full gamerip of Silent Hill 2 – Restless Dreams in the newly-opened XBOX section! OK, so this is about 3.5 hours of the ambient horrorscapes and industrial grinding found throughout this magnificent game. The original ripper was kind enough to leave the audio grouped into folders by the areas they’re heard in, so I’ve preserved that structure. Most of the rock and vocal tracks all take place in FMV sequences, so they’re not included here. You can find those on the OST.

So, I’m a HUGE Silent Hill fan. I’ve got enough material to start a "shrine" where all of the soundtracks and gamerips are collected. Would anyone be interested in that?

Yea, Im currently using the 3 minutes rip. So it is true that the rips are inherently flawed, rather than it’s playback. That’s positive I guess?
Sigh, I wonder why people with ripping skills are so elusive.

I researched how to rip PSF’s a couple weeks ago when I ran across a title I couldn’t find it for. It started out by saying that first, you should go and learn how to code in Assembly, and then in C. That’s a few years worth of knowledge right there, and I’m no coder. So, I assume that once the handful of people who had the know-how ripped what they could and were satisfied with their work, they moved on, and although there’s plenty of documentation on how to rip a PSF, you still need to reverse-engineer some of the game’s files to grab them. The other issue is that PSX games aren’t built in a uniform manner, so you need to use different tricks per title to do it. I’m surprised people figured out how to do it in the first place!

Anyways, enjoy this morning’s posts, and I’ve noticed some glitches in Mario Super Strikers Charged, so I’m going to try to fix that.

Cheers!

Can you do the PS1 game Gundam Battle Assault 2, or Age of Empires: age of Kings for DS?

Can you do the PS1 game Gundam Battle Assault 2, or Age of Empires: age of Kings for DS?

Agreed! And, yes. Yes I can.

Also! I’ve updated Mario Strikers – Charged! If you’ve listened to the original rip, you’ve heard the horrific popping and static between loops. Nobody likes that! The individual loops are 3 minutes long anyways, so I cut out the 2nd loop and faded the tracks out all professional-like. It’s a much better sounding album now. (Besides, some of those tracks dragged on a bit too long with 2 loops.)

Aww, really? Well that’s too bad. 🙁

I’ll try to remove the pop myself with Audacity then. Thanks for all your efforts! 🙂

Also, can’t wait to hear the other requests, hope you can add them eventually. 😀

Oh, and just noticed the Donkey Kong Country GB rip also has a little pop at the beginning of every song, but don’t worry about it, I’ll see what I can do with those three soundtracks.

Wii

Excite Truck – You guys remember this game, right? One of the earliest Wii titles? I really loved it. The music was great… Japanese hard rock/ metal with a touch of electronics to keep it sounding exciting. I think I’m gonna play this one tonight… it’s been AGES.

Gameboy

Astro Rabby – A cute little game with 6 minutes of simply, catchy tunes.

Balloon Kid – Hiro "HIP" Tanaka wrote the music for this one, as he did for the original on the NES. He took the original melodies and really fleshed them out, and it’s all got that sound that he’s known for… like in Dr. Mario. This is good stuff.

Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS – This one rocks. Seriously. It’s got some intense action music, and it’s very nicely composed. A recommended download!

Alrighty, that’s it for now.

Enjoy!

You must be pretty good at finding OSTs if you’re only requesting the impossible ones! Lol

So, I’m a HUGE Silent Hill fan. I’ve got enough material to start a "shrine" where all of the soundtracks and gamerips are collected. Would anyone be interested in that?

Thank you so much! I’m also a huge fan of the series and would be very interested to see your collection include the rest of the complete SH soundtracks!

Also a request: Bloody Roar 2 for ps1 please?

Anyway, I thought I’d add another contribution instead of a request this time around: I figured you might be interested in adding Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (http://www.mediafire.com/download/1dq5e7c6yk15udh/DKBB.rar) to your Wii section! 😉 This is a conversion of the game’s music files that I made ages ago. So to Ruiner and everyone else interested, enjoy!

Also a request: Bloody Roar 2 for ps1 please?

You got it dude! Bloody Roar 1 & 2 are now up in the PSX section! I was suprised to see Hitoshi Sakimoto’s name on the credits for the original one, but a lot of the guitar work sounds like his when I gave it another listen. Anyways, they’re both a nice blend of electronic and rock.

And HOLY CRAP Ollie King is amazing. I need to find a high quality rip of that game. Top Skater is still one of my favorite arcade games, and this looks like that one on steroids. Thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks for the Goemon DS soundtrack! I actually had a different rip of it ages ago, but lost it due to my previous PC breaking down (and unfortunately, not having the good sense to back up my files). It’s all good now, though. 🙂

Anyway, I thought I’d add another contribution instead of a request this time around: I figured you might be interested in adding Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (http://www.mediafire.com/download/1dq5e7c6yk15udh/DKBB.rar) to your Wii section! 😉 This is a conversion of the game’s music files that I made ages ago. So to Ruiner and everyone else interested, enjoy!

Awesome! Thank you! I added it to the Wii section. I added some tags as far as year, publisher, composer, etc… and put your name where I usually add mine. I was surprised to see it’s only 128kbps because it sounds really good!

Also in the OP today, there’s a few more goodies:

Chalvo 55 – A cute Gameboy action game with a really groovy soundtrack. It’s quite bouncy and energetic without being too cute.

Chibi Robo! Park Patrol – I *wub* Chibi Robo! The GameCube game was amazing. I wasn’t as big a fan of the DS version, but the music was still very good.

Darwin 4081 – This came along with a request for the arcade game Darwin 4078, but that was already uploaded a couple months ago. The Genesis music here is pretty simple, but still catchy.

OK everyone! That’s it for now. Ya’ll have a great weekend. I’ll have some more stuff up soon!

But i still have something to req 😀

1) Ihatovo Monogatari
Ihatovo Monogatari – (Super Famicom) OST – Ihatovo City – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCpov2zeGJ4)
Not all tracks are like this one though.

2) Spriggan – Lunar Verse
PSX – Spriggan – Lunar Verse – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxCjE4gyYg)
It’s FROM SOFTWARE, dude! Their music is always top notch)

3) Megarace
It’s by Stephan Picq (u know him right? Richard Jacques, S. Picq, Spenser Nilsen.. they were THOSE guys)
It’s not his best work though.
Which version? Hmm. Maybe, 3DO’s one?

But i still have something to req 😀

1) Ihatovo Monogatari
Ihatovo Monogatari – (Super Famicom) OST – Ihatovo City – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCpov2zeGJ4)
Not all tracks are like this one though.

2) Spriggan – Lunar Verse
PSX – Spriggan – Lunar Verse – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytxCjE4gyYg)
It’s FROM SOFTWARE, dude! Their music is always top notch)

3) Megarace
It’s by Stephan Picq (u know him right? Richard Jacques, S. Picq, Spenser Nilsen.. they were THOSE guys)
It’s not his best work though.
Which version? Hmm. Maybe, 3DO’s one?

Is there even any music in Mega Race aside from the little 4-bar guitar riff during the car select screen? There’s silence during the races and the title screen, and anything else I’ve heard has been during FMV with sound effects all over it.. I’m having trouble finding the streamed audio files and just wondering if it’s gonna be worth looking deeper into the disc images if it’s only for 12 seconds worth of music.

I can ask for Gauntlet 4 or Madou Monogatari instead.

NES

Eggerland & Eggerland-Souzou heno Tabidachi – Two Japan-only titles in the Adventures of Lolo series. They were all composed by Hideki Kanazashi, so if you liked the music form the American titles, you’ll enjoy these too.

Joy Mech Fight – One of the very last NES games, from 1993. It’s a cool one on one fighter from Nintendo themselves, using simple shapes to make fluidly moving robots (think Vectorman.) I like the tunes a lot… they remind me of HIP Tanaka’s work on Dr. Mario and a bit of Super Mario 3 too.

Playstation

Spriggan: Lunar Verse – This contains the psf’s from the web, plus the streamed audio I ripped from the disc itself. Some of the music has some dialogue in it, but I left it there because there’s original music in the backgrounds. It’s nice electro… I remember this is one of the first import titles I ever played back when I originally modded my Playstation back in the day.

Arcade

Dynamite D???x – I like the groove on the album! All the songs are very danceable, and the instrumentation is clear and pleasing. Grab this one!

Genesis

Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi – This is an album I picked personally, as it’s really awesome and very underrated. The music is great! It’s got rich tones, the stereo effects are sweet, and the bonus stage music is a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy it!

Hey Ruiner9 can you rip music from PC games and I would like to request the music from Star Ocean: The Second Story (and the PSP remake) & Star Ocean for Famicom (also the PSP remake for it too).

PC games…. well, there are old PC games from 1981, and there are modern PC games from 2014. There’s games that have their soundtracks right on the CD, some that are MIDI, some that are MP3’s right in the install folder, some that are MOD tracker files, and some that are encrypted audio streams… you’re going to have to be a little more specific. 😉

As far as Star Ocean goes, the SNES version can’t be ripped by normal means, from what I remember, but I’ll look into the other ones.

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I’ll check them out! Thank you!

Oh, I see… you want new stuff! Of COURSE you do! Well, you’re lucky, cuz I got some new stuff right here:

DS

Age of Empires – This one’s got some nice battle hymns. It’s streamed audio which sounds really clear, and the tracks are made of individual loops that are about 30 seconds long or so. So, I guess if you used something like Audacity, you could make your own song, if you wanted!

Fossil League – Dino Tournament Championship – Some decent game songs here. The DS’s sequenced sound always sounds very MIDI to me, so I’m never very impressed.

Game Boy

Lolo no Daibouken – Some fun action tracks… here’s another entry in the Lolo series of games!

Castlevania 2 – Belmont’s Revenge – A friend described some of the tracks on here as "too intense for Castlevania." I kind of agree. There’s a lot of music in this game which is WAY too fast-paced for the action on screen. Taken out of context, though, as a regular album, it’s fantastic music. Probably some of the best on the Game Boy I’ve ever heard. Definitely grab this one.

Arcade

Ikari III – The Rescue – Some simple Yamaha chiptunes for ya. Some of them vaguely revisit the Ikari themes, so you may hear something familiar in there.

SNES

Ihatovo Monogatari – Yeah I know I spelled the file name wrong. Deal with it. 🙂 Anyways, here’s some symphonic SNES stuff… it’s not a bad soundtrack and not too long, I’m just not a fan of this kind of music.

PlayStation

Gundam Battle Assault – This one is kind of two albums in one. There are the PSF tracks, which are mostly laid-back house tracks, and then there’s the streaming audio, which are the intense guitar-driven techno battle tunes. I’ve split them up by title so you know which ones are which. Either way, both styles of track are very nicely done.

Wii

Ghost Squad – Somebody requested the arcade version of this, but it’s WAY too new to have been ripped yet. This is the Wii version of the game, which I believe is identical. And… wow. Holy bejeezus, this is an absolutely fantastically amazeballs soundtrack. It’s rockin’ electronic music, with samples and guitars, and it’s just high energy and really well done. The songs are meant to loop, even though they’re streamed, so you get about a minute of each song, and they end cold. If you have an MP3 player that doesn’t put stops in between tracks, you end up with kind of a continuous dance party mix. There’s about 50 minutes of audio, it’s varied enough that it doesn’t all sound like the same thing, and it rocks all the way through. If you like the music from Contra Hard Corps or WipEout or stuff from The Prodigy or Chemical Brothers, I definitely recommend this one.

I’m slowly getting through these requests! I have a pretty big Sega CD collection, so I’m planning on ripping a lot of the audio from my retail discs soon. They should sound great. 🙂

Enjoy! 🙂

Honoo no Takuhaibin Original Soundtrack – VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/9489)

Honoo no Takuhaibin Original Soundtrack – VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/9489)

I’ll have to track the game’s image down, it sems to be pretty hard to find. From what you remember, do you think the game is PSF, or streamed (pre-recorded) audio?

Some more suggestions (not top priority) for Genesis:

Vapor Trail – because you already have Wolf Fang and Skull Fang
Side Pocket – jazz music
Hybrid Front – just i’ll show this:
12. The Hybrid Front – Scarab of Glory No. 3 – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FpiS7GbQI)

Some more suggestions (not top priority) for Genesis:

Vapor Trail – because you already have Wolf Fang and Skull Fang
Side Pocket – jazz music
Hybrid Front – just i’ll show this:
12. The Hybrid Front – Scarab of Glory No. 3 – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FpiS7GbQI)

You’re welcome! And, I totally had Hybrid Front at one point! It must have gotten lost when I switched from Dropbox to MEGA. Luckily I still had it on my cellphone (I listen to it all the time) so I put it back up in the OP!

From your uploads, are there any soundtracks that have upbeat themes with vocal samples mixed in? The Jet Set series or Ollie King are a couple of good examples.

Let’s See… there’s Sega Rally 2 in the Dreamcast section, and Einhander, Rage Racer, and Ghost in the Shell in the PlayStation section… that’s about it as far as songs with upbeat vocals go, and even then, it’s mostly instrumental. If you have any suggestions for me, let me know! I enjoy that style, too.

hey ruiner9, I need ask a quick question, how do you get those PSF2 files to work, kinda having a hard time doing it myself

Get "in_psf.dll" (the proper name for it is "Highly Experimental PSF Player") for Winamp and add it to the "plugins" folder. Then it’s just a matter of drag ‘n dropping the PSFs into Winamp’s playlist. If you have troubles, I can be more detailed, but I’m at work and leaving in like 10 minutes!

Honoo no Takuhaibin Original Soundtrack – VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/9489)

I’d like to second this request, if a rip is possible. Koji Hayama is awesome (I requested some of his works earlier this thread, like the Shubibinman soundtracks). 🙂

And while we’re on the subject of Hayama’s works…. is a rip of Ape Escape 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVPymAv1Z0) possible, as well?

Aside from that, I have two more requests: See, lately I’ve been playing Ys Celceta for the Vita (excellent game BTW), and I was wondering if you’re able to obtain the original SNES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouK9WlWO-Qo) and PCE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxBm81UirT4) versions of the game’s soundtrack? But again, I’ll see about doing something about it myself if it’s a no-can-do….

And while we’re on the subject of Hayama’s works…. is a rip of Ape Escape 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVPymAv1Z0) possible, as well?

Aside from that, I have two more requests: See, lately I’ve been playing Ys Celceta for the Vita (excellent game BTW), and I was wondering if you’re able to obtain the original SNES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouK9WlWO-Qo) and PCE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxBm81UirT4) versions of the game’s soundtrack? But again, I’ll see about doing something about it myself if it’s a no-can-do….

Ape Escape 2 is PSF2 music that hasn’t been extracted yet, so I can’t do that one. Ys I+II, III, and IV can be made for the PCE-CD, and Ys IV and V can be made for the SNES (I already have III uploaded.) So I’ll add those to the pile. 🙂

I can wait, for more info from you ruiner9, becuse there is a website has a lot of PSF and PSF2 files, that’s why I asked

It’s pretty easy. Download and install Winamp if you don’t have it already. Then go to Highly Experimental – Neill Corlett’s Home Page (http://www.neillcorlett.com/he/) and click the "Download Highly Experimental v2.09 (Windows installer)" link. Run that exe file, and it will install the plugin to the Winamp folder. Now you can download PSF files and drag them into the playlist, and they will play. There’s not much else to be done!

Ah, excellent. The music I found on YouTube sounded very MIDI so I was going off that. Thanks for the info!

I’m still downloading Honoo no Takuhaibin to see what I can do with that… the 1st part downloaded overnight, I’ll let the 2nd part go while I’m at work.

WarioWare Inc Minigame Mania / Mega Microgames
Pokemon Pinball Ruby and Sapphire
Mario Power Tennis

Don’t forget these please! 🙂

I haven’t posted those because they’re not available. Sorry.

Unfortunately the number of GBA games that have been converted to GSF is extremely small. I’d say maybe only 20%-30% of the whole romset has been converted, and there doesn’t seem to be any work going forward on it.

However! I have newwwww stuffffff! Here it is:

PS2

Ape Escape 3 – Since dissident93 has offered the second game in the series, I figured I’d round out the collection with the 3rd one. It’s by Soichi Terada, who composed the first one!

Silent Hill 3 – This is the 2 hour gamerip. It includes two vocal songs at the beginning, "You’re Not Here," sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (god I love her voice) and "Hometown," with Joe Romersa on vocals. Romersa also contributed a lot of the drum tracks for the album. The rest of the gamerip is the ambient sound and background music from the game. You’ll also get a few extended versions of some of the instrumentals from the OST.

Arcade

Windjammers – Here’s a cool Neo Geo classic! This one is fun, and the music is totally energetic. Grab it!

Genesis

Knuckles Chaotix – I’ve seen a lot of line-out versions of this one, and some are a bit "meh" in the quality department. The game itself wasn’t that great, but I really enjoyed the music, so here’s my conversion. It’s a bit different from the line-out.. maybe a bit more crisp. Anyways, I think you guys will like it.

That’s it for now! Enjoy!