Ah, I see. Toyo Kusanagi and his compositions at Family Soft were great. I would like to try ripping music off of Hoot, but it seems too complicated, since you have to log each track using .WAV one by one, then convert all the tracks to MP3.

I have scripts that fully automate the wav-logging, the only part that you would have to do manually is the editing (track length, fade out, etc. ) and some of the tagging.

Maybe pick a soundtrack that you want to rip in Hoot (preferably a short one), and I'll try to walk you through the process.

I have scripts that fully automate the wav-logging, the only part that you would have to do manually is the editing (track length, fade out, etc. ) and some of the tagging.

Maybe pick a soundtrack that you want to rip in Hoot (preferably a short one), and I'll try to walk you through the process.

That is what is so complicated about it. I don't know. All of the ones I want are either long, unknown, or never released yet, like Brah Choushinden, Gal Act Heroism, Wolvish Gallop and some good soundtracks from D.O., such as Crystal Reynal: Ouma no Mekyuu and all of the tracks from Family Soft.

That is what is so complicated about it. I don't know. All of the ones I want are either long, unknown, or never released yet, like Brah Choushinden, Gal Act Heroism, Wolvish Gallop and some good soundtracks from D.O., such as Crystal Reynal: Ouma no Mekyuu.

Gal Act Heroism can be played in Hoot and has about 20 tracks.

Gal Act Heroism can be played in Hoot and has about 20 tracks.

OK. I might need the scripts to log .wavs and tagging.

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Gal Act Heroism can be played in Hoot and has about 20 tracks.

I still don't know. It seems like a tedious process. It would be best if I just waited.

Thanks for Monopoly (Windows) soundtrack, have been looking for that one for years!

Today's update includes a handful of Amiga arcade ports and some other random stuff. Enjoy!

Toki (Amiga, 1990, Ocean) - A pretty good port of the arcade game with a much improved soundtrack by Pierre-Eric Loriaux. I think only two of the themes are actually based on the arcade soundtrack.
Stage 2 (https://youtu.be/t1No7kqyuSo?t=94)

Pang / Buster Bros. (Amiga, 1990, Ocean) - Another arcade port by Pierre-Eric Loriaux. The soundtrack covers the arcade original, but the intro theme is an original piece.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cezJNg4plbA)

Shadow Warriors / Ninja Gaiden (Amiga, 1990, Ocean) - Composed by Matt Furniss, this is loosely based on Tecmo's arcade soundtrack.
Shadow Soldier (https://youtu.be/wnmAXVieUqk?t=140)

Fire and Forget II: The Death Convoy (Amiga, 1990, Titus) - I think this was supposed to be an arcade game at some point. The project was eventually cancelled and only the home ports were ever published.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awB8W-zQZrQ)

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (Amiga, 1993, U.S.Gold) - RPG based on a pen & paper game with an orchestral / acoustic guitar soundtrack by Rudi Stember.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGlZpfPAfXk)

The Faery Tale Adventure (Amiga, 1987, MicroIllusions) - Classic Amiga RPG. This isn't really new but I updated the soundtrack with a version that runs at the correct NTSC speed.
Daytime Travel (wrong speed) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znBPjxkq-WE)

Etemible: Tenjou Mukyuu (PC-9801 [SC-88], 1995, Glodia) - Atmospheric MIDI soundtrack by Tenpei Sato.

Noctropolis (MS-DOS [SC-88, CD Audio], 1994, Electronic Arts) - P&C adventure/mystery game with some really nice MIDI arrangements.

Wingstar (MS-DOS, 1996, Interactivision) - Raiden-inspired shmup.
Stage 1 (https://youtu.be/VhwdRqUNVSU?t=2)

The Apprentice (CD-i, 1994, Philips Interactive Media) - A pretty awesome looking puzzle-platformer, and the music is not too shabby either. At times this reminds me of the Rare soundtracks on the N64.
Medieval Tower (https://youtu.be/BGOddOjpyBU?t=261)

Soft de Hard na Monogatari 2 (X68000, 1989, System Sacom) - A Manabu Saito soundtrack. Like with the prequel, the music here seems to be based on classical compositions for the most part.

And two updated C64 soundtracks: Quedex, Task III

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #014: Game Music History ~1987~

A look at the state of video game music in 1987, the games are roughly in chronological order according to their release dates. The video is missing the track from Dragon Spirit as its inclusion would have blocked the podcast in certain countries.

You can watch the video on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mBDZ5hBSfc) or download the mp3 version here (https://mega.nz/#!6R4yEYAL!lFro2C8_ZuoSFDF7JttX8tfQsSXn-I9dhsyM4n7VeuQ).

Tracklist

01 "Temple BGM" - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Akito Nakatsuka
02 "Recounting the Journey" - Dragon Quest II (1987, NES) by Koichi Sugiyama
03 "Flame Fortress" - Contra (1987, Arcade) by Kazuki Muraoka
04 "After Metamorphosis BGM" - Wonder Momo (1987, Arcade) by Kimio Yudate
05 "Main Theme" - Jet Set Willy (1987, Atari 800) by Rob Hubbard
06 "Cosmic Air Way" - Darius (1987, Arcade) by Hisayoshi Ogura
07 "Daytime Travel" - The Faery Tale Adventure (1987, Amiga) by David Joiner
08 "Psycho Soldier Theme" - Psycho Soldier (1987, Arcade) by Kaori Shimizu, Eikichi Kawasaki
09 "High Score Theme" - Wizball (1987, Commodore 64) by Martin Galway
10 "The Paleozoic Era" - Dragon Spirit (1987, Arcade) by Shinji Hosoe
11 "The Wastelands" - The Last Ninja (1987, Commodore 64) by Ben Daglish
12 "Sub-Mission" - Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished (1987, PC-8801) by Yuzo Koshiro
13 "Title Screen" - Chronos: A Tapestry of Time (1987, ZX Spectrum 128) by Tim Follin
14 "Slash Fighter" - Life Force (1987, Arcade) by Miki Higashino
15 "For Your Thighs Only" - Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987, MS-DOS) by Al Lowe
16 "Overworld" - Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Koji Kondo
17 "Title Screen (Edit)" - Cataball (1987, Commodore 64) by Mark Cooksey
18 "Opening Theme" - Reviver: The Real-Time Adventure (1987, PC-8801) by Toshiya Yamanaka
19 "Main BGM1" - Arumana no Kiseki (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Kinuyo Yamashita
20 "Main Theme" - Armageddon Man (1987, Commodore 64) by David Whittaker
21 "Bloody Tears" - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Kenichi Matsubara
22 "Main Theme" - Pi.R Squared (1987, Commodore 64) by Jason Brooke
23 "Enemy Headquarters" - Double Dragon (1987, Arcade) by Kazunaka Yamane
24 "Ending" - Euphory (1987, Sharp X1 turboZ) by Manabu Saito
25 "Title Screen" - Hyber Blob (1987, Commodore 64) by Steve Barrett
26 "The Evening Voyage" - Falsion (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Shinya Sakamoto, Shigehiro Takenouchi, Atsushi Fujio
27 "In-Game BGM" - Hysteria (1987, Commodore 64) by Fred Gray
28 "Main Theme" - Amegas (1987, Amiga) by Karsten Obarski
29 "AFTER BURNER" - After Burner II (1987, Arcade) by Hiroshi Kawaguchi
30 "Title Screen" - Quedex (1987, Commodore 64) by Matt Gray
31 "Super Sonic Sarring" - Shinra Bansho (1987, PC-8801) by Nobuhito Koise, Shinobu Ogawa
32 "Field 1" - J.J. & Jeff (1987, PC Engine) by Takeaki Kunimoto
33 "Main Theme" - Sidewize (1987, Commodore 64) by Keith Tinman
34 "Name Entry" - Ginga Ninkyouden (1987, Arcade) by Yoshinori Kawamoto
35 "Cut Man" - Mega Man (1987, NES) by Manami Matsumae
36 "Opening Theme" - Final Fantasy (1987, NES) by Nobuo Uematsu
37 "Castle: Let's Meet Here" - Sorcerian (1987, PC-8801) by Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.
38 "Lassic" - Phantasy Star (1987, Sega Master System) by Tokuhiko Uwabo
39 "Intro" - The Great Giana Sisters (1987, Commodore 64) by Chris H�lsbeck
40 "Departure Again" - Salamander (1987, MSX) by Motoaki Furukawa, Masahiro Ikariko
41 "Epilogue" - Heavy Barrel (1987, Arcade) by Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida

Today's update includes a handful of Amiga arcade ports and some other random stuff. Enjoy!

Toki (Amiga, 1990, Ocean) - A pretty good port of the arcade game with a much improved soundtrack by Pierre-Eric Loriaux. I think only two of the themes are actually based on the arcade soundtrack.
Stage 2 (https://youtu.be/t1No7kqyuSo?t=94)

Pang / Buster Bros. (Amiga, 1990, Ocean) - Another arcade port by Pierre-Eric Loriaux. The soundtrack covers the arcade original, but the intro theme is an original piece.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cezJNg4plbA)

Shadow Warriors / Ninja Gaiden (Amiga, 1990, Ocean) - Composed by Matt Furniss, this is loosely based on Tecmo's arcade soundtrack.
Shadow Soldier (https://youtu.be/wnmAXVieUqk?t=140)

Fire and Forget II: The Death Convoy (Amiga, 1990, Titus) - I think this was supposed to be an arcade game at some point. The project was eventually cancelled and only the home ports were ever published.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awB8W-zQZrQ)

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (Amiga, 1993, U.S.Gold) - RPG based on a pen & paper game with an orchestral / acoustic guitar soundtrack by Rudi Stember.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGlZpfPAfXk)

The Faery Tale Adventure (Amiga, 1987, MicroIllusions) - Classic Amiga RPG. This isn't really new but I updated the soundtrack with a version that runs at the correct NTSC speed.
Daytime Travel (wrong speed) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znBPjxkq-WE)

Etemible: Tenjou Mukyuu (PC-9801 [SC-88], 1995, Glodia) - Atmospheric MIDI soundtrack by Tenpei Sato.

Noctropolis (MS-DOS [SC-88, CD Audio], 1994, Electronic Arts) - P&C adventure/mystery game with some really nice MIDI arrangements.

Wingstar (MS-DOS, 1996, Interactivision) - Raiden-inspired shmup.
Stage 1 (https://youtu.be/VhwdRqUNVSU?t=2)

The Apprentice (CD-i, 1994, Philips Interactive Media) - A pretty awesome looking puzzle-platformer, and the music is not too shabby either. At times this reminds me of the Rare soundtracks on the N64.
Medieval Tower (https://youtu.be/BGOddOjpyBU?t=261)

Soft de Hard na Monogatari 2 (X68000, 1989, System Sacom) - A Manabu Saito soundtrack. Like with the prequel, the music here seems to be based on classical compositions for the most part.

And two updated C64 soundtracks: Quedex, Task III

Thanks for Soft de Hard Monogatari 2, and Etemible. Matt Furniss's cover for Ninja Gaiden/Shadow Warriors is pretty good.

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #014: Game Music History ~1987~

A look at the state of video game music in 1987, the games are roughly in chronological order according to their release dates. The video is missing the track from Dragon Spirit as its inclusion would have blocked the podcast in certain countries.

You can watch the video on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mBDZ5hBSfc) or download the mp3 version here (https://mega.nz/#!6R4yEYAL!lFro2C8_ZuoSFDF7JttX8tfQsSXn-I9dhsyM4n7VeuQ).

Tracklist

01 "Temple BGM" - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Akito Nakatsuka
02 "Recounting the Journey" - Dragon Quest II (1987, NES) by Koichi Sugiyama
03 "Flame Fortress" - Contra (1987, Arcade) by Kazuki Muraoka
04 "After Metamorphosis BGM" - Wonder Momo (1987, Arcade) by Kimio Yudate
05 "Main Theme" - Jet Set Willy (1987, Atari 800) by Rob Hubbard
06 "Cosmic Air Way" - Darius (1987, Arcade) by Hisayoshi Ogura
07 "Daytime Travel" - The Faery Tale Adventure (1987, Amiga) by David Joiner
08 "Psycho Soldier Theme" - Psycho Soldier (1987, Arcade) by Kaori Shimizu, Eikichi Kawasaki
09 "High Score Theme" - Wizball (1987, Commodore 64) by Martin Galway
10 "The Paleozoic Era" - Dragon Spirit (1987, Arcade) by Shinji Hosoe
11 "The Wastelands" - The Last Ninja (1987, Commodore 64) by Ben Daglish
12 "Sub-Mission" - Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished (1987, PC-8801) by Yuzo Koshiro
13 "Title Screen" - Chronos: A Tapestry of Time (1987, ZX Spectrum 128) by Tim Follin
14 "Slash Fighter" - Life Force (1987, Arcade) by Miki Higashino
15 "For Your Thighs Only" - Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987, MS-DOS) by Al Lowe
16 "Overworld" - Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Koji Kondo
17 "Title Screen (Edit)" - Cataball (1987, Commodore 64) by Mark Cooksey
18 "Opening Theme" - Reviver: The Real-Time Adventure (1987, PC-8801) by Toshiya Yamanaka
19 "Main BGM1" - Arumana no Kiseki (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Kinuyo Yamashita
20 "Main Theme" - Armageddon Man (1987, Commodore 64) by David Whittaker
21 "Bloody Tears" - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Kenichi Matsubara
22 "Main Theme" - Pi.R Squared (1987, Commodore 64) by Jason Brooke
23 "Enemy Headquarters" - Double Dragon (1987, Arcade) by Kazunaka Yamane
24 "Ending" - Euphory (1987, Sharp X1 turboZ) by Manabu Saito
25 "Title Screen" - Hyber Blob (1987, Commodore 64) by Steve Barrett
26 "The Evening Voyage" - Falsion (1987, Famicom Disk System) by Shinya Sakamoto, Shigehiro Takenouchi, Atsushi Fujio
27 "In-Game BGM" - Hysteria (1987, Commodore 64) by Fred Gray
28 "Main Theme" - Amegas (1987, Amiga) by Karsten Obarski
29 "AFTER BURNER" - After Burner II (1987, Arcade) by Hiroshi Kawaguchi
30 "Title Screen" - Quedex (1987, Commodore 64) by Matt Gray
31 "Super Sonic Sarring" - Shinra Bansho (1987, PC-8801) by Nobuhito Koise, Shinobu Ogawa
32 "Field 1" - J.J. & Jeff (1987, PC Engine) by Takeaki Kunimoto
33 "Main Theme" - Sidewize (1987, Commodore 64) by Keith Tinman
34 "Name Entry" - Ginga Ninkyouden (1987, Arcade) by Yoshinori Kawamoto
35 "Cut Man" - Mega Man (1987, NES) by Manami Matsumae
36 "Opening Theme" - Final Fantasy (1987, NES) by Nobuo Uematsu
37 "Castle: Let's Meet Here" - Sorcerian (1987, PC-8801) by Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.
38 "Lassic" - Phantasy Star (1987, Sega Master System) by Tokuhiko Uwabo
39 "Intro" - The Great Giana Sisters (1987, Commodore 64) by Chris H�lsbeck
40 "Departure Again" - Salamander (1987, MSX) by Motoaki Furukawa, Masahiro Ikariko
41 "Epilogue" - Heavy Barrel (1987, Arcade) by Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida


Fantastic lineup!

I'm curious, nx666, but are there any more Hitoshi Sakimoto soundtracks (PC 88/98, Sharp X68000, Sharp X1, etc.) left for possible future releases? Or have they all been taken care of? I'm curious, because I wanted to thank you for introducing me to another excelleng VG composer.

I'm curious, nx666, but are there any more Hitoshi Sakimoto soundtracks (PC 88/98, Sharp X68000, Sharp X1, etc.) left for possible future releases? Or have they all been taken care of? I'm curious, because I wanted to thank you for introducing me to another excelleng VG composer.

He has a complete(?) list of his music on his website (http://sakimoto.jp/), although this doesn't seem to distinguish between arrangements and original compositions.

This is what I currently have in my (pretty sizable) backlog:
Dragon Master Silk 1+2
Barabatus no Majo (I could post a third-party rip, if you want)
Blue Garnet
Raika
Heroes of the Lance (can't find a disk image of this game)

If it's no harm in asking how did you exactly rip the sound off of PC-88/98 games?

If it's no harm in asking how did you exactly rip the sound off of PC-88/98 games?

This is a fairly complex subject as there are many different methods, the most common are:

- Hoot: relatively easy, supports many games, finding the right disk images can sometimes be a problem though
- from VGM or S98 files: even easier but only very few games are available in these formats
- original sound format via player/plugin: some formats are directly supported by players like Foobar, Winamp, etc.
- original sound format via the game's sound driver: requires knowledge of the sound driver, effort varies, but sometimes this is surprisingly easy
- sound test: some games have (sometimes hidden) sound tests that allow you to record the music
- hacking: this is where it gets ugly, by far the most time-consuming method

If you need help ripping a particular game, just ask in this thread.

If you need help ripping a particular game, just ask in this thread.

THANK YOU!! Seriously I've been trying to figure out how to rip this stuff for years, and not once I ever got a response to that question! So thank you.

Actually there is two games in particular that I would like to get:

Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari & 95, not sure if they have different tracks or one has more than the other, but I REALLY would like to get a rip for this one especially!

Kikimora's Cleanup, Someone did upload this one to Youtube, but I would prefer an outright rip mostly cause the uploader just recorded the music while playing which sounds a bit off...

If you can get these two you'll have my eternal gratitude~!

The Apprentice (CD-i, 1994, Philips Interactive Media) - A pretty awesome looking puzzle-platformer, and the music is not too shabby either. At times this reminds me of the Rare soundtracks on the N64.
Medieval Tower (https://youtu.be/BGOddOjpyBU?t=261)

Now that's a great find. This is exactly why I love your thread, I keep finding gems like these I would never listen to otherwise.

THANK YOU!! Seriously I've been trying to figure out how to rip this stuff for years, and not once I ever got a response to that question! So thank you.

Actually there is two games in particular that I would like to get:

Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari & 95, not sure if they have different tracks or one has more than the other, but I REALLY would like to get a rip for this one especially!

Kikimora's Cleanup, Someone did upload this one to Youtube, but I would prefer an outright rip mostly cause the uploader just recorded the music while playing which sounds a bit off...

If you can get these two you'll have my eternal gratitude~!

If you want to give this a shot yourself, you can find the music for these games on Compile's Disc Station #5 and #8 releases. Both can be recorded in Hoot, player and music files available here (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/). I'm not sure when I'll be able to look into this, maybe I can fit in DMS somewhere, but DMS'95 seems to be a rather lengthy affair.

In the meantime you can download Kikimora's Clean Up! from the OP, fortunately that one only had 6 tracks :)

Kikimora's Clean Up! (PC-9801, 1995, Compile)

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Now that's a great find. This is exactly why I love your thread, I keep finding gems like these I would never listen to otherwise.

I'm glad you liked it - it is very encouraging to hear that I'm not just doing this for myself! :)

If you want to give this a shot yourself, you can find the music for these games on Compile's Disc Station #5 and #8 releases. Both can be recorded in Hoot, player and music files available here (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/). I'm not sure when I'll be able to look into this, maybe I can fit in DMS somewhere, but DMS'95 seems to be a rather lengthy affair.

In the meantime you can download Kikimora's Clean Up! from the OP, fortunately that one only had 6 tracks :)

Yea not surprised the strategy game being an odd one, though I don't think it has many tracks itself either considering DiscStation titles are usually very short, and reuse music pretty often! Still DMadou and it's '95 counterpart from hindsight seem to be mostly the same from my playthroughs. Regardless I'm a patient sort, so take you're time!


*Annnnd I completely clueless on how to even work with those files! Ah wells guess I'll just actually wait for ya then.

He has a complete(?) list of his music on his website (http://sakimoto.jp/), although this doesn't seem to distinguish between arrangements and original compositions.

This is what I currently have in my (pretty sizable) backlog:
Dragon Master Silk 1+2
Barabatus no Majo (I could post a third-party rip, if you want)
Blue Garnet
Raika
Heroes of the Lance (can't find a disk image of this game)

Whichever one is good with me. Just want some more Sakimoto goodness. lol. :-)

if, at any point, requests open up again, then i'd definitely like to request the AGA version of the Bloodnet soundtrack.. since it's, like, impossible to find - and awesome

Something for the weekend...

The Incredible Machine 3 (Windows, 1995, Sierra) - Despite the name, this is actually the Windows port of Incredible Machine 2 with a CD audio soundtrack. Every track is done in a different genre and most of it is pretty good.
New Age (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQZ8PEVn7o), Tuna Loaf (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpeY0kYgKM8), Progressive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QV3lfib_8)

WiBArm (MS-DOS [Tandy], 1989, Br�derbund) - DOS port of the Arsys classic. Compared to the original PC-88 version, this one seems to have significantly more music.

Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (MS-DOS [SC-55, CD Audio], 1993, Interplay) - Pretty good orchestral MIDI music and the two CD tracks are the icing on the cake.
Victory (CD Version) (https://youtu.be/_5OGdjAKVio?t=96)

The Combatribes (Arcade, 1990, Technos) - Beat'em up by Technos with rockin' music by Kazunaka Yamane.
Amusement Park Nightmare (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf7KPG6Hvh0), The Motorcycle Nuclear Warheads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7SQPsoO9nw)

Illumination Laser (X68000, 2000, TERRA) - A doujin shmup with music by Shinoda Nobuhisa (I.C.KaZe)
R.E.D. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YGn3T4ovCs), Orange Type L (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LKTnuUzF34)

Mahou Shoujo Fancy Coco (PC-9801 [OPN], 1996, POW) - Music by Ryu Umemoto and Takeaki Watanabe (NAVA). Some really good stuff with excellent sound design, kinda crazy what they were able to do with the puny OPN chip.
Opening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxXs7x3BXmY), Spring (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVrylC2SxbM), Ending (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRh7QYRg8y4)

Something for the weekend...

The Incredible Machine 3 (Windows, 1995, Sierra) - Despite the name, this is actually the Windows port of Incredible Machine 2 with a CD audio soundtrack. Every track is done in a different genre and most of it is pretty good.
New Age (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQZ8PEVn7o), Tuna Loaf (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpeY0kYgKM8), Progressive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QV3lfib_8)

WiBArm (MS-DOS [Tandy], 1989, Br�derbund) - DOS port of the Arsys classic. Compared to the original PC-88 version, this one seems to have significantly more music.

Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (MS-DOS [SC-55, CD Audio], 1993, Interplay) - Pretty good orchestral MIDI music and the two CD tracks are the icing on the cake.
Victory (CD Version) (https://youtu.be/_5OGdjAKVio?t=96)

The Combatribes (Arcade, 1990, Technos) - Beat'em up by Technos with rockin' music by Kazunaka Yamane.
Amusement Park Nightmare (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf7KPG6Hvh0), The Motorcycle Nuclear Warheads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7SQPsoO9nw)

Illumination Laser (X68000, 2000, TERRA) - A doujin shmup with music by Shinoda Nobuhisa (I.C.KaZe)
R.E.D. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YGn3T4ovCs), Orange Type L (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LKTnuUzF34)

Mahou Shoujo Fancy Coco (PC-9801 [OPN], 1996, POW) - Music by Ryu Umemoto and Takeaki Watanabe (NAVA). Some really good stuff with excellent sound design, kinda crazy what they were able to do with the puny OPN chip.
Opening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxXs7x3BXmY), Spring (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVrylC2SxbM), Ending (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRh7QYRg8y4)

Thanks for Combatribes and Majou Shoujo Fancy Coco.

I had a little bit of time today to work on some of the suggestions from this week:

BloodNet: A Cyberpunk Gothic (Amiga, 1995, MicroProse) - There seems to be only one set of sound files for this game which this rip is based on.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFU-jtsciU), Character Creation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uUUc88Fpo)

Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari (PC-9801, 1995, Compile) - Looks like a Puyo Puyo-themed SRPG.
Title Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12lRiAeCVc), Arle's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUMbWVNEY0)

Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari '95 (PC-9801, 1995, Compile) - Some sort of a remake of the first game. There is significantly more music, but I could only find tags for a few of the tracks.
Arle's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GheTowthsX4), Staff Roll (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baLIXutu5lU)

Blue Garnet (PC-9801, 1994, Trush) - Visual novel with music arranged by Hitoshi Sakimoto.
BG06 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqRaNI5Jzuk), BG08 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSL2x4-ve5E)

Mahjong Princess Go! Go! (PC-9801, 1995, Ringer Bell) - Some people (like the video below) claim this was also composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto, but it isn't listed on his website. Maybe he doesn't want to be credited for the music of a hentai mahjong game?
GG01 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ktGzMWgsag), GG03 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET4ggCyNrA4)

I had a little bit of time today to work on some of the suggestions from this week:

BloodNet: A Cyberpunk Gothic (Amiga, 1995, MicroProse) - There seems to be only one set of sound files for this game which this rip is based on.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfFU-jtsciU), Character Creation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0uUUc88Fpo)

Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari (PC-9801, 1995, Compile) - Looks like a Puyo Puyo-themed SRPG.
Title Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12lRiAeCVc), Arle's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUMbWVNEY0)

Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari '95 (PC-9801, 1995, Compile) - Some sort of a remake of the first game. There is significantly more music, but I could only find tags for a few of the tracks.
Arle's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GheTowthsX4), Staff Roll (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baLIXutu5lU)

Blue Garnet (PC-9801, 1994, Trush) - Visual novel with music arranged by Hitoshi Sakimoto.
BG06 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqRaNI5Jzuk), BG08 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSL2x4-ve5E)

Mahjong Princess Go! Go! (PC-9801, 1995, Ringer Bell) - Some people (like the video below) claim this was also composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto, but it isn't listed on his website. Maybe he doesn't want to be credited for the music of a hentai mahjong game?
GG01 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ktGzMWgsag), GG03 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET4ggCyNrA4)

holy shit
i have no idea how you did it.. but awesome. awesome!!
cheers for the BloodNet soundtrack!

Hey nx666. If you have real Japanese computers, do you know anyone who can fix the PSU for the FM TOWNS II HR model?

Hey nx666. If you have real Japanese computers, do you know anyone who can fix the PSU for the FM TOWNS II HR model?

Have you tried taking it to an electronics repair shop? You need someone who is able to test your PSU with a multimeter and fix the damaged components. Based on my experience with ancient PSU's, it's often capacitors that have to be replaced. And it would probably help if you could find schematics for that thing on the internet, otherwise the repair could be a total crapshot. I don't think there is a place that specializes in FM Towns repairs though, simply because there is no market for that outside of Japan.

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #015: Draconian Outlaws

You can watch the video on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQf9XiOmJr4) or download the mp3 version here (https://mega.nz/#!zYo2XKgB!RvQjXbZGLep8lwbwEajZ464f8dB3vBjKAFXMnPsjQp0).

Tracklist

01 "Outlaws" - Outlaws (1997, Windows) by Clint Bajakian
02 "Draconian" - Demo (1990, BP) by Sebastiaan Lentfert (Zzzax)
03 "Violence Energy" - Black Bird: Tori Tachi no Tooboe (1995, PC-9801) by Takeaki Watanabe
04 "Title Screen" - Puzzlenoid (1990, Commodore 64) by Richard Rinn
05 "M.P.O. in the Summer" - Cho-Jin (1992, X68000) by Fix
06 "Outline MC" - Demo (2004, IT) by Roelof Johan Calling Heerspink (Cerror)
07 "Erias" - Sword of Vermilion (1989, Mega Drive) by Hiroshi Kawaguchi
08 "Radio Track 3" - Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (1990, Amiga) by Shaun Southern
09 "I Defend Stm" - Truxton II (1992, Arcade) by Masanori Yuge
10 "Welcome (To The Castle)" - Shadow of the Beast (1992, PC Engine) by Chris Howlett, Ian Henderson
11 "BGM #3" - Shanghai 2 (1990, NES) by Yuki Chan
12 "Cerebral Beres" - Demo (1990, MOD) by Martin Wall (Mantronix)
14 "BGM 1" - Dialide (1989, Sharp X1) by BAKI
15 "Haunted House" - Tetris Battle Gaiden (1993, SNES) by Tomoyuki Hamada
16 "Title Screen" - Amyloid (1987, Commodore 64) by Marcel Donn� (Mad)
17 "Rocket Punch" - Demo (1997, PC-9801) by OTU

You should really get your show on iTunes. I can help you do that if you'd like! :)

That would be a great idea- that way more people can be aware of the music from these obscure games! :D

Today's update:

Little Big Adventure 2 (MS-DOS, 1997, Electronic Arts) - Classic DOS action adventure with pretty interesting music. Sounds a little bit like a mix of Stephane Picq and Danny Elfman.
LBa's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3YMfaqvWBg), Zeelich (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfwW5ZeEwM4)

Chou Jigen Densetsu Rall 3: Kakuseihen (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Fairy Dust) - More Ryu Umemoto goodness.

Bakuretsu Quiz Tatakae! Maitiruna (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Ucom) - Also known as Mighty Luna, a quiz game with nice upbeat tunes.
Final Battle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhNhU0oO9jg), Explosion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKtSt96Q8hg)

Cross Changer (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1994, Ucom) - A visual novel scored by the same composer

X-Girl (PC-9801 [OPN], 1996, Fairytale Red-Zone) - Torture porn in form of a p&c adventure game. Composed by Akira Sato, this is mostly techno-inspired stuff and definitely one of the more interesting PC-98 soundtracks I have listened to lately.
Mouth 2 Mouth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpylhqgPhoU), Talking Base (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0YG5wXizY) <-- not the best tracks, but that's all I could find on Youtube

Arcus (PC-8801 [OPNA], 1988, Wolfteam) - I made my own rip of this game with longer tracks and proper fade outs.

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You should really get your show on iTunes. I can help you do that if you'd like! :)

Yeah, that is somewhat overdue. So far I have managed to create a simple blog and rss feed for this, but I haven't had the time to upload all the episodes yet. My understanding is that you can submit an rss-based podcast (I'm using Feedburner) to iTunes, or is there something else that needs to be done?

alley cat C64 is missing and future knight, sigma 7, iball

Today's update:

Little Big Adventure 2 (MS-DOS, 1997, Electronic Arts) - Classic DOS action adventure with pretty interesting music. Sounds a little bit like a mix of Stephane Picq and Danny Elfman.
LBa's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3YMfaqvWBg), Zeelich (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfwW5ZeEwM4)

Chou Jigen Densetsu Rall 3: Kakuseihen (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Fairy Dust) - More Ryu Umemoto goodness.

Bakuretsu Quiz Tatakae! Maitiruna (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Ucom) - Also known as Mighty Luna, a quiz game with nice upbeat tunes.
Final Battle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhNhU0oO9jg), Explosion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKtSt96Q8hg)

Cross Changer (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1994, Ucom) - A visual novel scored by the same composer

X-Girl (PC-9801 [OPN], 1996, Fairytale Red-Zone) - Torture porn in form of a p&c adventure game. Composed by Akira Sato, this is mostly techno-inspired stuff and definitely one of the more interesting PC-98 soundtracks I have listened to lately.
Mouth 2 Mouth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpylhqgPhoU), Talking Base (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie0YG5wXizY) <-- not the best tracks, but that's all I could find on Youtube

Arcus (PC-8801 [OPNA], 1988, Wolfteam) - I made my own rip of this game with longer tracks and proper fade outs.

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Yeah, that is somewhat overdue. So far I have managed to create a simple blog and rss feed for this, but I haven't had the time to upload all the episodes yet. My understanding is that you can submit an rss-based podcast (I'm using Feedburner) to iTunes, or is there something else that needs to be done?

You just need to submit the feed and an appropriately sized image to the iTunes submission site. It's not too difficult but it took me a little trial and error when I started out because I was flying blind.

Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari (PC-9801, 1995, Compile) - Looks like a Puyo Puyo-themed SRPG.
Title Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12lRiAeCVc), Arle's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUMbWVNEY0)

Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari '95 (PC-9801, 1995, Compile) - Some sort of a remake of the first game. There is significantly more music, but I could only find tags for a few of the tracks.
Arle's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GheTowthsX4), Staff Roll (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baLIXutu5lU)

*Cheers* ~ YEEESS!! Thank you!

Also forgot to mention if you want I can go through these files, order them, and label them appropriately. Then again some of these tracks from the original version uses the tracks from 1-2-3 with some REALLY trippy remixes.

*Cheers* ~ YEEESS!! Thank you!

Also forgot to mention if you want I can go through these files, order them, and label them appropriately. Then again some of these tracks from the original version uses the tracks from 1-2-3 with some REALLY trippy remixes.

I would actually appreciate that a lot. Do you know who composed these soundtracks?

I would actually appreciate that a lot. Do you know who composed these soundtracks?

That... I couldn't tell ya. Usually I just label the "Composer" as LMS Music, or I tend to fall towards the falling people:

Masanobu Tsukamoto, BA. M, Einosuke Nagao, Imani Pon, and Toshiaki Sakodo. These guys in particular have done almost every Madou/Puyo Puyo related title since their inception. Though various ports have only a select few, sadly though I can't exactly read Japanese too well, so I wouldn't know who did these games specifically.

The '95 version especially is different, but I have a good feeling since the original uses music from 1-2-3, two of those composers might have been involved too. BA. M is notable for doing almost ALL DiscStation related games, so he might be a possible candidate as well.

alley cat C64 is missing and future knight, sigma 7, iball

Well, not anymore.

Alleykat (C64, 1986, Hewson) - Graftgold-developed shmup with music by Steve Turner. The emulated version included here is mono only as the SID plugin I usually use for this can't seem to play the track correctly.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gHMI-_0MIY)

Future Knight (C64, 1986, Gremlin Graphics) - Music by Ben Daglish
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opm0kDI-d9I)

Sigma Seven (C64, 1986, Durell) - Isometric shmup, the music was converted from the original Spectrum version by Rob Hubbard.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVafNbR1YuA)

I, Ball (C64, 1987, Firebird) - I-Ball, I, I, I-Ball! This is also a shmup with a Rob Hubbard theme that is based on two Cabaret Voltaire tracks.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLHMNk-DBA)

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That... I couldn't tell ya. Usually I just label the "Composer" as LMS Music, or I tend to fall towards the falling people:

Masanobu Tsukamoto, BA. M, Einosuke Nagao, Imani Pon, and Toshiaki Sakodo. These guys in particular have done almost every Madou/Puyo Puyo related title since their inception. Though various ports have only a select few, sadly though I can't exactly read Japanese too well, so I wouldn't know who did these games specifically.

The '95 version especially is different, but I have a good feeling since the original uses music from 1-2-3, two of those composers might have been involved too. BA. M is notable for doing almost ALL DiscStation related games, so he might be a possible candidate as well.

BA.M's real name is Tomonori Minami, although that doesn't really help us here :)

You just need to submit the feed and an appropriately sized image to the iTunes submission site. It's not too difficult but it took me a little trial and error when I started out because I was flying blind.

There you go:

Website (https://audiopanicroom.wordpress.com) | RSS (http://feeds.feedburner.com/AudioPanicRoom) | iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/audiopanicroom/id1131197847?l=e) | Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvhlJlbyu7DdRCu72CFTpUqgaj56pcrsO)

I'm still busy uploading episodes, so it might take a few days until the feed has caught up.

There you go:

Website (https://audiopanicroom.wordpress.com) | RSS (http://feeds.feedburner.com/AudioPanicRoom) | iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/audiopanicroom/id1131197847?l=e) | Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvhlJlbyu7DdRCu72CFTpUqgaj56pcrsO)

I'm still busy uploading episodes, so it might take a few days until the feed has caught up.

Annnnnd subscribed. This will make grabbing your show so much easier for me & my iPhone :)

BA.M's real name is Tomonori Minami, although that doesn't really help us here :)

*Insert NBC Logo here* I may not believe in math being everywhere, but you definitely learn something new everyday!

Plus I did find a list of composers that were part of Compile Sound & Division, so what I'll do is go through '95, and keep track of the composers listed.

c64 ninja (not the last ninja) and sanexion and tarzan

c64 ninja (not the last ninja) and sanexion and tarzan

Lol, are you working on a complete Hubbard collection? Btw, Sanxion is already in the OP.

yes i am :) but ben dalglish and martin galway is also good music maniacs of noise

C64 Head over heels

Some new Amiga stuff...

Rambo III (Amiga, 1989, Ocean) - Pretty crappy movie license with music by Jonathan Dunn.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjUdVYAQkNw)

Loopz (Amiga, 1990, Audiogenic) - By David Whittaker, this is the version of the soundtrack that sounds the most like Shadow of the Beast.
Tune A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiVDefW3tYg)

Ziriax (Amiga, 1990, The Software Business) - Tomas Dahlgren aka Uncle Tom was one of the first stars of the emerging Amiga demo scene. He also composed for a few games, like this one, a shmup inspired by Thunder Cross.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9vvlhIK9Q)

Thunder Jaws (Amiga, 1991, Domark) - Atari arcade port with music by Jolyon Myers

Super Space Invaders (Amiga, 1991, Domark) - Another arcade conversion, also by Jolyon Myers.
Space Invaders Theme (https://youtu.be/TYtHvDpgsk4?t=69)

Dungeons of Avalon II: The Island of Darkness (Amiga, 1992, CompuTec Verlag) - A 3D dungeon crawler composed by Rudi Stember. This is very similar to his Realms of Arkania soundtrack.
Intro (https://youtu.be/ZngJn5K2V2Y?t=15)

Rackney's Island (Amiga, 1993, Megatronix) - Music by Jeroen Soede
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaCbnldW6TQ)

T-zer0 (Amiga, 1998, PXL) - A pretty rad looking CD-only shmup with a techno soundtrack by Fabio Barzagli

Something for the historically inclined:

Deus Ex Machina (ZX Spectrum, 1984, Automata UK) - Is this even a game? Deus Ex Machina was one of the very first 'art games' and a very divisive product at that time. Originally released on the Spectrum in '84, the game features no in-game music. Instead, it came with an audio tape with music and narration that is played alongside the program. The script is loosely based on "The Seven Ages of Man" from Shakespeare's As You Like It.
walkthrough with full soundtrack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZS6JVCDI9s)

Piman's Greatest Hits (1984, Automata UK) - This is a collection of songs that were originally gracing the B-sides of various Automata games from 1983/84. Some of this is really ... well, see for yourself. The audio quality is not quite up to snuff, but keep in mind that this is coming from tapes that are a few decades old.

DATAHITS (1986, MUPADOS) - Arrangements of C64 game music by the likes of Hubbard and Galway that were originally released on cassette. A candidate for the very first European arrange album.

Radio Ace (1987, Ace Magazine) - This is another tape originally released by Ace Magazine. Side B contains some sort of video game music top 10. Also included is a (non-game) synthesizer track composed by Rob Hubbard.

Rob Hubbard Early Demos (1983, Rob Hubbard) - Before his career as a game composer, Hubbard worked as a studio musician. He eventually started to write his own tracks on synthesizers and some of these experiments were later used as the basis for his C64 soundtracks. Included here are early versions of the Chimera, Formula One Simulator, One Man and His Droid, and Phantoms of the Asteroid themes arranged with typical early 80s synths like the Roland TR606 and TB303, Korg poly synth, and Casio MT-20.

... plus three new C64 soundtracks:

Ninja (C64, 1986, Mastertronic) - Music by Rob Hubbard with East Asian influences.
Main Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPHlG8B_2sQ)

Tarzan (C64, 1986, Martech) - Also by Rob Hubbard, the title track is a cover of Tarzan's Nuts by Madness. The in-game tracks, especially the night versions, all have pretty spectacular sound design.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftcsTZSIyY)

Head Over Heels (C64, 1987, Ocean) - By Peter Clarke. This is all based on classical/traditional music.
Title Screen (https://youtu.be/65PGGzIPM3A?t=11)

hey! once again: great thread. lots of obscure gems you just couldn't find anywhere else
if you take requests, then i'd definitely like to see this: Speris Legacy for the Amiga
thanks!

hey! once again: great thread. lots of obscure gems you just couldn't find anywhere else
if you take requests, then i'd definitely like to see this: Speris Legacy for the Amiga
thanks!

That's already in the OP.

That's already in the OP.

oh, man. i think you just made my year!
and here i thought i'd already looked for it. honestly, a thousand thanks
you're awesome!

Been awhile! So I FINALLY beaten the darn game! Not a fan of SRPGs, but anyways I managed to get the composers and the order of track appearance. All that's left is extending them cause I'm not a fan of 1-2 minutes of playtime! No sir, I'm gonna make them longer!... Don't worry I won't make it 10 minutes or something... I hope. ;)

Some new stuff, mostly from classic C64 composers.

ACE 2 (C64, 1987, Cascade Games) - By Rob Hubbard
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG4mpiRcBeM)

BMX Kidz (C64, 1987, Firebird) - By Rob Hubbard and Jori Olkkonen
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTUS60oQvdY)

Nightdawn (C64, 1989, Magic Bytes) - Johannes Bjerregaard

The Vikings (C64, 1987, Kele Line) - By Ben Daglish and Johannes Bjerregaard
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPgpzGieo8)

Dulcedo Cogitationis (C64, 1987, Rainbow Arts) - By Chris H�lsbeck
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA0JF4sg-0c)

Bible Master II: The Chaos of Aglia (PC-9801 [SC-88], 1994, Glodia) - By Tenpei Sato

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (Amiga ,1990, Image Works) - Now with the audio tracks from the CD32 release.

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Been awhile! So I FINALLY beaten the darn game! Not a fan of SRPGs, but anyways I managed to get the composers and the order of track appearance. All that's left is extending them cause I'm not a fan of 1-2 minutes of playtime! No sir, I'm gonna make them longer!... Don't worry I won't make it 10 minutes or something... I hope. ;)

A playthrough just for the tags? Now that's some serious dedication right there!

Some new Amiga stuff:

Another World / Out of this World (Amiga, 1991, U.S. Gold) - The original version of this game, composed by Jean‑Fran�ois Freitas
Opening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNPxKhxAjM)

Flashback (Amiga, 1992, U.S. Gold) - Sequel to Another World, also originally an Amiga release. The music here is by Jean Baudlot, Rapha�l Gesqua, and Fabrice Visserot.
Main Menu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLC-zIFdN04)

Jimmy's Fantastic Journey (Amiga, 1994, Lionheart Software Design) - A mix of Super Mario and Bubble Bobble. A Rapha�l Gesqua soundtrack with some really nice jazzy tunes.

Cybernoid II: The Revenge (Amiga, 1989, Hewson) - Jeroen Tel's famous theme converted to the Amiga by Frederic Hahn
Main Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nf8WdhDoXA)

Baal (Amiga, 1989, Psygnosis) - A Ray Norrish soundtrack, heavily influenced by contemporary (late 80s) dance music.
Title Screen (https://youtu.be/r9EHHaru45k?t=19)

Tower FRA (Amiga, 1990, Thalion) - Airport simulation with an intro theme by Jochen Hippel.

Australian Pioneers (Amiga, 1991, Thalion) - Unreleased Thalion game, also composed by Jochen Hippel.

A playthrough just for the tags? Now that's some serious dedication right there!

Better than being all over the place in no order with no names amiright? :p

Still I'm halve way done at least. (Mostly cause working all day, but not ENTIRELY complaining about that either!) So far keeping the tracks around 6-8 minutes at most, since I'm just that kinda odd person who would do that!

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #016: Ryu Umemoto

A tribute to the late Ryu Umemoto and his work on the PC-9801. In the West, he is mostly known for his contributions to various Cave arcade shooters, but in Japan his claim to fame comes from these expertly crafted FM-synth soundtracks he composed for various visual novels in the 90s.

Download Episode #016: Ryu Umemoto (https://c732487858a5c78f2ba1ae90414928eca5907c62.googledri ve.com/host/0B6lNbn9SHhVYZHN0NUZHMkxEeGM/AudioPanicRoom%20Episode%20%23016%20Ryu%20Umemoto. mp3) (78 MB, mp3) here
�or watch it on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCH7oztevnE)

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Tracklist

01 "Hitomi's Arrow" - Don't Call Me Amy! (1995, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto, Comp. Kazuhiro Kanae
02 "Reamer" - Xenon: Fantasy Body (1994, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
03 "Hoax of Wyrm" - Dengeki Division (1993, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
04 "YU-NO (Version B)" - Yu-No: Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shojo (1996, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
05 "パジャマのままで" - Mahou no Tenshi Creamy Mami: Futari no Rondo (1994, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto, Comp. Yoshiaki Furuta
06 "Reflector (from "PMD Ryokusui Disk")" - Desire (1995, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
07 "Pudding-Jelly-Bavarois" - EVE burst error (1995, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
08 "Town 1" - Mahou Shoujo Fancy Coco (1996, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
09 "Climax" - EVE burst error (1995, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
10 "Introduction" - Mahou no Tenshi Creamy Mami: Futari no Rondo (1994, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
11 "Love 2" - Yu-No: Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo (1996, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
12 "Event 1" - Mahou Shoujo Fancy Coco (1996, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto, Comp. Takeaki Watanabe
13 "Sudden Change" - Yu-No: Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shojo (1996, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
14 "Mansion" - Don't Call Me Amy! (1995, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto, Comp. Kazuhiro Kanae
15 "Winning Expectation" - Chou Jigen Densetsu Rall 3: Kakuseihen (1994, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
16 "Shop" - Meikyuu Gakuensai: Kyuukousha no Nazo (1994, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto
17 "Room (Marina)" - EVE burst error (1995, PC-9801) by Ryu Umemoto



... but wait, there's more!

De.FaNa (PC-9821 [OPNA], 1995, Himeya Soft) - For the most part composed by Kazuhiro Kanae and arranged by Ryu Umemoto.

Twilight (X68000, 1995, Studio Twinkle) - One of Umemoto's few X68000 soundtracks. All these tracks were composed by Hiroaki Sano for the original PC-98 version.

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Better than being all over the place in no order with no names amiright? :p

Still I'm halve way done at least. (Mostly cause working all day, but not ENTIRELY complaining about that either!) So far keeping the tracks around 6-8 minutes at most, since I'm just that kinda odd person who would do that!

Are you trying to edit the tracks manually in order to create longer songs? That seems to be a lot of work if all you have are the versions from my rip. If you want, I could give you raw wav/flac files with 10 minutes of audio for each track. That would probably make these kind of edits a lot easier.

Umemoto certainly deserves the recognition. This is an awesome playlist.

Are you trying to edit the tracks manually in order to create longer songs? That seems to be a lot of work if all you have are the versions from my rip. If you want, I could give you raw wav/flac files with 10 minutes of audio for each track. That would probably make these kind of edits a lot easier.

... Should've told me that earlier! >;p

It's ok though I already started, so I may as well finish it, ... actually you think you can pass me them anyway? I kinda wanna make sure my looping edits are as soundly as the game plays them.

Umemoto certainly deserves the recognition. This is an awesome playlist.

I've been listening to all of his soundtracks again over the last two weeks, and that was a really awesome experience. He has such a unique style, that even makes his arrangements sound like they were originally composed by him. It's all very carefully constructed but extremely effective at the same time. He used to post on the Soundshock forum, seemed to be a really nice guy as well.

Good news everyone! Wait that sounds familiar...

Never mind I finished with Daimadou and 95's soundtrack! Thanks to Nx for giving me the 10 minute loops, initially was looping it all myself. I went and cleaned up, tagged, and stamped the audio so now it's much more organized! However I'm labeling it as '95 mostly because a lot of the tracks in the original are just taken from 1-2-3 save for a handful of tracks. The latter is the real meat with mostly arranged and 1-3 unique tracks.

Regardless here ya go!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NBMAnhci_y9AI7xENDtH46YHLoGTYrs1TC6hzi4zKczrA6rhLK RWL8-Mzgx8MBAsWtSuspF49mTPVF8C4gDkCYrbF814C3_Ohx2-NSKuEsAXrpdqEzUt-0koaPujvdmk4jI2JqwtMaY9l6T7W0YucoGjsyRm1gi2cneiIvf k9gtlv50MCgVKh85ml-I5GKD1oKAcrfwHKzlUPLXCn1l9SI50XPbKrYZ_Q94XIy7mq2_u w6STLI2deJFCvv3uetYHrO6Wec9WXqtb1PVchmn6jzD79McCST hEXNCXVsxk1DdmJ4zi5bHaWfkxIiA9Y6_gpj93EV0lEJM9dV1s H2SIpYksxHf3kXD6K51H8TAoOHrXccrLYXgwUdkni2Bk3KbxJF DlY9w4Nr5cx-TxOO79I7GxmcBLG8HXoZWUUBbEQYCekOWcUmDVME8BBVpMq5R5 VNOAJCU7Gf5JIOS332Nx70J1TxRPlETkgzSJ-h8v8tWgRSbFyqfVSO1sZS3Mz4pgId_VfDv0WCZJwIalaRaBDbC QapE2WN3Z80TLhW1BRw82RXxZPYUvNcQU95VuSf_WGpNpV6Go3 b7Jvl6jXTwfGDgsNODVRuo=w607-h382-no

Download (https://mega.nz/#!CMF2wKKb)

Good news everyone! Wait that sounds familiar...

Never mind I finished with Daimadou and 95's soundtrack! Thanks to Nx for giving me the 10 minute loops, initially was looping it all myself. I went and cleaned up, tagged, and stamped the audio so now it's much more organized! However I'm labeling it as '95 mostly because a lot of the tracks in the original are just taken from 1-2-3 save for a handful of tracks. The latter is the real meat with mostly arranged and 1-3 unique tracks.

Regardless here ya go!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NBMAnhci_y9AI7xENDtH46YHLoGTYrs1TC6hzi4zKczrA6rhLK RWL8-Mzgx8MBAsWtSuspF49mTPVF8C4gDkCYrbF814C3_Ohx2-NSKuEsAXrpdqEzUt-0koaPujvdmk4jI2JqwtMaY9l6T7W0YucoGjsyRm1gi2cneiIvf k9gtlv50MCgVKh85ml-I5GKD1oKAcrfwHKzlUPLXCn1l9SI50XPbKrYZ_Q94XIy7mq2_u w6STLI2deJFCvv3uetYHrO6Wec9WXqtb1PVchmn6jzD79McCST hEXNCXVsxk1DdmJ4zi5bHaWfkxIiA9Y6_gpj93EV0lEJM9dV1s H2SIpYksxHf3kXD6K51H8TAoOHrXccrLYXgwUdkni2Bk3KbxJF DlY9w4Nr5cx-TxOO79I7GxmcBLG8HXoZWUUBbEQYCekOWcUmDVME8BBVpMq5R5 VNOAJCU7Gf5JIOS332Nx70J1TxRPlETkgzSJ-h8v8tWgRSbFyqfVSO1sZS3Mz4pgId_VfDv0WCZJwIalaRaBDbC QapE2WN3Z80TLhW1BRw82RXxZPYUvNcQU95VuSf_WGpNpV6Go3 b7Jvl6jXTwfGDgsNODVRuo=w607-h382-no

Download (https://mega.nz/#!CMF2wKKb)

Good job! Can you post a MEGA link that includes the decryption key? Otherwise people won't be able to download the soundtrack.

Good job! Can you post a MEGA link that includes the decryption key? Otherwise people won't be able to download the soundtrack.

Whaaa? When did they have people do that? ... bah that's really stupid.

Code: !ewTnmt4B4mvvhSn17tw112TFsCZmsSxSWnAStfCGRLM

I've just uploaded a new version of my Daimadou Senryaku Monogatari '95 (PC-9801) rip with new tags. Many thanks to Carbyken for that! Or, if you prefer the version with the extra-long tracks, then get it from Carbyken's post above.

And there is also one new soundtrack:

Kimi Dake ni Ai o... (X68000, 1991, Game Technopolis) - Jazzy tunes by Akira Sato, Ryu Takami, and the elusive BAKI.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Rob5FB_xE)

I'll take requests again for the next week or so, but that is limited to soundtracks that can be done without too much of an effort. That means that I won't be able to do any game for which I have to extract the music myself, recordings from sound tests, or anything requiring an external MIDI device.

Thanks so much for Bible Master 2! :D

Fantasy World Dizzy (Amiga, 1991, Codemasters) - Are there any more Dizzy games that I haven't uploaded yet? Well, of course! Allister Brimble did the music for this one.
Title (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5423wmrRNyA)

Ultimate Body Blows (CD32, 1994, Team 17) - The console version of the Body Blows series with a CD soundtrack by Allister Brimble and Steve Blenkinsopp.

Return to Genesis (Amiga, 1988, Firebird) - One of the early soundtracks David Whittaker did on the Amiga. Comes with his trademark 1988 sample set.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNM2-QkRjAY)

CarVup (Amiga, 1991, Core Design) - Platform game inspired by City Connection with music by Matt Simmonds
BGM 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IEe62afuFY)

Violator (Amiga, 1991, Codemasters) - An top-down action game, also composed by Matt Simmonds.
Title Screen (https://youtu.be/W8LBmYaYv10?t=14)

Shadow Fighter (Amiga, 1995, Gremlin Interactive) - Fighting game with music by Fabio Cicciarello

The Ultimate Pinball Quest (Amiga, 1994, Infogrames) - Pinball music by Allan Kirkeby
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pxlgefk8sY)

Dragon Knight 4 (X68000, 1994, Elf) - Pretty good Falcom-style RPG soundtrack by Witch.
Lead the Van (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw28d3SRCVU)

Thumbs up for CarVup!

Extase is so awesome
St�phane Picq's stuff is the shizzle
a great, long "thank you" to you, my good sir

I'll take requests again for the next week or so, but that is limited to soundtracks that can be done without too much of an effort. That means that I won't be able to do any game for which I have to extract the music myself, recordings from sound tests, or anything requiring an external MIDI device.

Got some for you!

- U.N. Defense Force Earth Joker (Arcade; another Visco shmup.)
- WiBArm (Sharp X1; The tracks are the same as the PC-88 version. Requesting this version because I haven't heard this one before.)
- WWF European Rampage Tour (Amiga; has a few good tracks, including short samples of the theme songs of the WWF Superstars.)

Lot's of C64 clones of arcade games in this update:

Ramparts (C64, 1987, GO!) - Rampage-inspired game with music by Mark Cooksey.
Title Screen (https://youtu.be/v6tIfebrIMM?t=6)

R.I.S.K. (C64, 1987, The Edge) - From what I remember this was a pretty interesting mix of Defender, economy sim, and RPG. The music is by Wally Beben.
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380Rd_3cPE8)

Ransack (C64, 1988, Audiogenic) - Crappy shmup with a great Wally Beben theme.
Great Wally Beben Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG7Y2vDuZjA)

Alien Syndrome (C64, 1988, ACE) - Sega arcade port with a much improved soundtrack by Jeroen Kimmel
Title Screen Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccVUWuNaAH0)

Impossamole (C64, 1990, Gremlin Graphics) - The final part in the Monty series. The main theme is a cover of Monty on the Run by Barry Leitch
Main Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmgDJGoAKU)

Garrison (C64, 1988, Rainbow Arts) - Gauntlet-clone with music by Ramiro Vaca
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcuyiAm3lok), Menu Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJHNDmToM8E)

Laydock 2: Last Attack (MSX2 [OPLL], 1988, T&E Soft) - By Shigeru Tomita
Opening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJ8MV_KPxc)

GD: Greatest Driver (MSX2 [OPLL], 1988, T&E Soft) - By Shigeru Tomita and Kazunori Hasegawa
Opening Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e7c4SX6BNM)

Star Trap (PC-9801, 1996, Fairy Dust) - Visual novel scored by an all-star team of Shin Miyamoto, Takahiro Nogi, Daisuke Takahashi, Takeaki Watanabe, and Masahiro Kajihara

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Extase is so awesome
St�phane Picq's stuff is the shizzle
a great, long "thank you" to you, my good sir

Yes! That whole game is a work of art though.

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Got some for you!

- U.N. Defense Force Earth Joker (Arcade; another Visco shmup.)
- WiBArm (Sharp X1; The tracks are the same as the PC-88 version. Requesting this version because I haven't heard this one before.)
- WWF European Rampage Tour (Amiga; has a few good tracks, including short samples of the theme songs of the WWF Superstars.)

I was starting to get worried about you :)

I was starting to get worried about you :)

Don't worry, I'm still around. In fact, if my requests are done in time, I got another one already lined up for you. But as always, I'm a patient man; I'll wait. ;)

All the Sharp X1 games now have their own section in the OP, along with a handful of new soundtracks that Yuzo Koshiro composed for Dempa on that system:

The Gate of Labyrinth (Sharp X1, 1987, Dempa) - By Yuzo Koshiro, M. Kadowaki

Dark Storm: Demon Crystal III (Sharp X1, 1987, Dempa) - By Yuzo Koshiro

The Curse of Mars (Sharp X1, 1988, Dempa) - By Yuzo Koshiro

Issural: The Story of Calcan (Sharp X1, 1988, Dempa) - By Masashi Harada, Yuzo Koshiro, Mr. Jizou

And a few requests:

WiBArm (Sharp X1, 1986, Arsys Software)

U.N. Defense Force - Earth Joker (Arcade, 1993, Visco)

WWF European Rampage Tour (Amiga, 1992, Ocean)

Thank you very much for the uploads! Much appreciated!! :D

As promised, here is my second batch of requests for you (if possible):

- Blade Master (Arcade; Irem's first (I believe) beat-em-up game they made)
- Star Luster (Sharp X68000; an enchanced remake of the NES original. The music sounds at times like a mid-80s Namco arcade game.)
- WWF WrestleMania (Amiga; I'm not sure how many tracks there are (probably one, lol), but I'm requesting this to complete Ocean's WWF games for the Amiga.)

Remember Irem's Kung-Fu Master (aka Spartan X)? That was made in 1984 even before Technos Japan's own early beat 'em ups.

Thank you very much for the uploads! Much appreciated!! :D

As promised, here is my second batch of requests for you (if possible):

- Blade Master (Arcade; Irem's first (I believe) beat-em-up game they made)
- Star Luster (Sharp X68000; an enchanced remake of the NES original. The music sounds at times like a mid-80s Namco arcade game.)
- WWF WrestleMania (Amiga; I'm not sure how many tracks there are (probably one, lol), but I'm requesting this to complete Ocean's WWF games for the Amiga.)

Here you are! I think I'll have time for requests until Friday so feel free to post a few more.

Star Luster (X68000 [SC-88, OPM], 1994, Dempa) - There are only about 6 minutes of music in this game so I ended up doing the MIDI and FM versions of the soundtrack. The FM version is missing the Ending theme which I couldn't find in the sound files, it's also missing from the sound test for some reason.

WWF Wrestlemania (Amiga, 1991, Ocean)

Blade Master / Cross Blades! (Arcade, 1991, Irem)

Thanks for accepting requests from others. See if you can rip these:

Mag Max (Nichibutsu, Arcade)
Sector Zone / Seicross (Nichibutsu, Arcade)
Frisky Tom (Nichibutsu, Arcade)

Got a third bath for ya, nx666! (Oh, before I forget, thanks again for posting the second patch last night) ;)

- Hydlide 3 Special (NEC PC-88; same as the regular version, with the addition of a few new tracks (or one, I think; lost count, lol))
- Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf (Arcade; don't usually request golf VGMs, but this one's an exception, because this is made by SNK)
- XZR (MSX or MSX2, not sure which)

Got a third bath for ya, nx666! (Oh, before I forget, thanks again for posting the second patch last night) ;)

- Hydlide 3 Special (NEC PC-88; same as the regular version, with the addition of a few new tracks (or one, I think; lost count, lol))
- Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf (Arcade; don't usually request golf VGMs, but this one's an exception, because this is made by SNK)
- XZR (MSX or MSX2, not sure which)

I can't seem to find sound files for the PC-88 version of Hydlide 3 SE, so ripping that game would require a bit of an effort. The PC-98 version also has the two extra tracks, but that one only has OPN music.

Here are the other two:

Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf (Arcade, 1988, SNK) - I couldn't find tags for this one, and there might be a few duplicates as well.

XZR: Hakai no Guuzou (MSX2, 1988, Telenet) - An homage to PC beeper soundtracks

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Thanks for accepting requests from others. See if you can rip these:

Mag Max (Nichibutsu, Arcade)
Sector Zone / Seicross (Nichibutsu, Arcade)
Frisky Tom (Nichibutsu, Arcade)

Here is Frisky Tom, the other two would take too much time for now.

Frisky Tom (Arcade, 1981, Nichibutsu)

I am sorry if I don't have any requests as of right now. I don't know any other good RPG soundtracks on the PC-98 that are very good.

Hello nx666,

Excellent thread you have here.

If possible, I have one request: Namachuukei 68 (for the Sharp X68000) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4ckZBNvQA)

Take care!

Here is the fourth and final request (for the time being) this week from me:

- Laydock (MSX; the first game in the series.)
- Laydock (Sharp X68000; not sure if this version is much better sonically than the MSX version, but requesting it nonetheless.)
- Super Laydock: Mission Striker (MSX; not sure if this is a sequel to or a remake of the first Laydock, but I'm hedging my bets here, lol.)

I requested these because ever since I listened to the Laydock 2 VGM you uploaded days ago, I've been curious to know what the music to the other games in the series sounded like.

And that's it for me!! I'll still be checking around here now and then, and will resume work in helping identifying and retagging soundtracks for you, should the time and need arises. ;)

I got one request: Brain Breaker for the X1.

Here's MagMax:

https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/magmax-arcade

I can't seem to find sound files for the PC-88 version of Hydlide 3 SE, so ripping that game would require a bit of an effort. The PC-98 version also has the two extra tracks, but that one only has OPN music.

I wouldn't mind the OPN tracks for the PC-98 versions, no matter how basic the OPN sound is. I like the sounds of both OPNA and OPN tracks on every game released for the PC-88 & 98 anyways.

This is going to be the last round of requests for now and it's full of Laydock

Laydock (MSX2, 1986, T&E Soft) - Only one PSG track by Shigeru Tomita

Super Laydock: Mission Striker (MSX2, 1986, T&E Soft) - The sequel with significantly more music.

Super Laydock: Mission Striker (Sharp X1, 1987, T&E Soft) - Probably the best version of this soundtrack thanks to the superior sound hardware of the TurboZ model.

Laydock (X68000, 1997, Takayuki Hoshishiba) - Fan-made port based on the MZ-2500 version.

Namachuukei 68 / Nama Baseball '68 (X68000, 1991, Konami) - Baseball game with music by Yuji Takenouchi

MagMax (Arcade, 1985, Nichibutsu) - By Ryoichi Yamada

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Here's MagMax:

https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/magmax-arcade

Thanks, I was actually looking at that site but just typing "Mag" into the search box doesn't seem to work there...

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I wouldn't mind the OPN tracks for the PC-98 versions, no matter how basic the OPN sound is. I like the sounds of both OPNA and OPN tracks on every game released for the PC-88 & 98 anyways.

If I find some time next week I'll look into it. There is also the X68000 SE version, which you can get from ruiner and the X1 port which also sounds a little bit better than the PC-88/98 releases but doesn't have the two extra tracks.

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I got one request: Brain Breaker for the X1.

Sadly I couldn't find any sound files for this game so this rip would be a fairly big effort :(

Namachuukei 68 / Nama Baseball '68 (X68000, 1991, Konami) - Baseball game with music by Yuji Takenouchi

Thanks for the upload nx666, I appreciate it. However, I'm a little confused about something: there's a track that I've heard from the game, the one that actually convinced me to request it, that isn't included in the upload. It's this track, titled User Disk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4ckZBNvQA). Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks for MagMax and Frisky Tom, nx666. If Seicross is too difficult for now, can you replace it with the PC-98 Lenam - Sword of Legend? If you need something, let me know. Thank you.

Thanks for the upload nx666, I appreciate it. However, I'm a little confused about something: there's a track that I've heard from the game, the one that actually convinced me to request it, that isn't included in the upload. It's this track, titled User Disk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4ckZBNvQA). Is there something I'm missing?

I uploaded a new version that has better tags as well. That particular track is called 'Pennant Race'.

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Thanks for MagMax and Frisky Tom, nx666. If Seicross is too difficult for now, can you replace it with the PC-98 Lenam - Sword of Legend? If you need something, let me know. Thank you.

I think you had asked for Lenam 98 before. Also, I'm closed for requests at the moment.

I uploaded a new version that has better tags as well. That particular track is called 'Pennant Race'.

Thank you kindly! I appreciate the extra effort.

Okay, take a rest. I'll request them later. What makes you stuck on Lenam PC-98 version?

thank you SO MUCH!! ^^

Okay, take a rest. I'll request them later. What makes you stuck on Lenam PC-98 version?

From what I remember the game stores most of its data in custom archives, so I would have to analyze that format and then extract the sound files. And there is probably more time required in order to get these files to play with the sound driver outside of the game.

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #017: Game Music History ~1988~

A look at the year 1988 in game music. The year that saw the first CD and MIDI soundtracks, arcade boards started the transition from FM to PCM, and some real classics were released on the NES. Meanwhile in Europe the C64 had reached its commercial peak in a market that was slowly being taken over by the new generation of 16-bit computers. As always, the playlist is in rough chronological order.

Download Episode #017: Game Music History ~1988~ (https://c732487858a5c78f2ba1ae90414928eca5907c62.googledri ve.com/host/0B6lNbn9SHhVYZHN0NUZHMkxEeGM/AudioPanicRoom%20Episode%20%23017%20Game%20Music%2 0History%20~1988~.mp3) (154 MB, mp3) here
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Tracklist

01 "Daddy Mulk" - Ninja Warriors (1988, Arcade) by Hisayoshi Ogura
02 "Main Theme" - Crystal Hammer (1988, Amiga) by Karsten Obarski
03 "Burning Heat" - Gradius II (1988, Arcade) by S.Tasaka,M.Furukawa,K.Matsubara,S.Fukami
04 "Main Theme" - Rimrunner (1988, Commodore 64) by Richard Joseph
05 "Overworld Theme" - Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (1988, Famicom Disk System) by K.Murata,S.Fukami,Y.Kurahashi,K.Sada,A.Fujio
06 "F-3000 Final Race 2" - F-1 Dream (1988, Arcade) by Manami Matsumae,Takashi Tateishi
07 "Main Theme" - Cybernoid (1988, Commodore 64) by Jeroen Tel
08 "High Speed Level BGM" - Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother (1988, Arcade) by Goblin Sound
09 "In-Game BGM" - Obliterator (1988, Amiga) by David Whittaker
10 "Great Battleship VOID" - Star Cruiser (1988, PC-8801) by Toshiya Yamanaka
11 "Carrier Command" - Carrier Command (1988, Atari ST) by Dave Lowe
12 "Night Line" - Chequered Flag (1988, Arcade) by Konami Kukeiha Club
13 "Area 1" - Blaster Master (1988, NES) by Naoki Kodaka
14 "Feel Blue" - Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished-The Final Chapter (1988, PC-8801) by Hideya Nagata
15 "Title Screen" - Odysseus: Trojan Warrior (1988, Commodore 64) by Steve Barrett
16 "Operation in Unsteady Space" - Star/Ship Rendezvous (1988, PC-8801) by Hitoshi Sakimoto,Masaharu Iwata
17 "A Flower Enchanted by the Devil" - Sorcerian Additional Scenario Vol.1 (1988, Sharp X1 TurboZ) by Mieko Ishikawa
18 "Name Entry" - Ball-Blasta (1988, Commodore 64) by Adam Gilmore
19 "Sympathy -Version II-" - Angelus: Akuma no Fukuin (1988, PC-8801) by Koichi Sugiyama,Yasuhiro Taguchi
20 "Introduction (Excerpt)" - King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella (1988, MS-DOS) by William Goldstein
21 "Level 1" - The Legendary Axe (1988, PC Engine) by Jun Chikuma,Toshiaki Takimoto
22 "Title Screen" - Bodyslam (1988, Commodore 64) by Tim Follin
23 "Main Theme 1" - Top Landing (1988, Arcade) by Zuntata
24 "Still Running Around" - Super Mario Bros.3 (1988, NES) by Koji Kondo
25 "For Your Tighs Only" - Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (1988, MS-DOS) by Al Lowe
26 "Staff Roll" - Chatty (1988, PC-8801) by Manabu Saito
27 "Central Park (In-Game)" - Last Ninja 2 (1988, Commodore 64) by Matt Gray
28 "Revolver" - Police Quest 2: The Vengeance (1988, MS-DOS) by Mark Seibert
29 "Take Off One's Gloves" - Thunder Force II (1988, X68000) by Tomomi Ootani
30 "Title Theme" - Hybris (1988, Amiga) by Paul van der Valk
31 "Main Theme: Part 1" - Skateboard Joust (1988, Commodore 64) by Tonal Teapot
32 "Eagle's Theme" - Fighting Street (1988, PC Engine CD) by Shofuku
33 "Unbreakable Determination" - Ninja Gaiden (1988, NES) by Keiji Yamagishi,Ryuichi Nitta
34 "Title Screen" - R-Type (1988, Commodore 64) by Chris H�lsbeck
35 "Twilight of Neo Kobe City" - Snatcher (1988, MSX2) by Konami Kukeiha Club
36 "Stage 2: The Village of Decay" - Ghouls'n Ghosts (1988, Arcade) by Tamayo Kawamoto
37 "Rebel Army Theme" - Final Fantasy II (1988, NES) by Nobuo Uematsu
38 "Flash Flash Flash" - Bosconian (1988, X68000) by Yuzo Koshiro
39 "Samba de Ram" - Crazy Climber 2 (1988, Arcade) by Kenji Yoshida
40 "Main Theme" - Quiz Master (1988, Atari ST) by Jochen Hippel
41 "Dr. Wily's Map" - Mega Man II (1988, NES) by Takashi Tateishi
42 "Mission 1" - Double Dragon II: The Revenge (1988, Arcade) by Kazunaka Yamane

From what I remember the game stores most of its data in custom archives, so I would have to analyze that format and then extract the sound files. And there is probably more time required in order to get these files to play with the sound driver outside of the game.

I see. If you don't have enough patience or other requirements, you probably should let someone else spend time with it in the future. :)

I see. If you don't have enough patience or other requirements, you probably should let someone else spend time with it in the future. :)

Like whom? All my underlings are currently terribly busy extracting sample data from encrypted Spectrum roms.

Well I mean elsewhere.

the new AudioPanicRoom episode is so awesome
never realized 1988 was the year

hey, if you're still taking requests, then i'd definitely like to request these from the Amiga:
- Kyrandia
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Indiana Jones IV: The Fate of Atlantis
- Moonstone

cheers!

Here are a few more of these great Korean Adlib soundtracks .... and Wacky Wheels

Modaozi (MS-DOS [OPL2], 1993, Softstar) - Top-down action game, also known as Prince of Evil in the West

Pee & Gity (MS-DOS [OPL2], 1994, SKC Soft Land) - Beat'em up with animals and music by the D.A.C. guys.

Pee & Gity Special (MS-DOS [OPL2], 1994, Family Production) - Mostly remixes of the original version.

Wacky Wheels (MS-DOS [OPL2], 1994, Apogee) - Super Mario Kart-inspired racing game.

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hey, if you're still taking downloads, then i'd definite like to request these from the Amiga:
- Kyrandia
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Indiana Jones IV: The Fate of Atlantis
- Moonstone

cheers!

I'm not taking requests right now, but I'll keep them in mind when I do the next round of Amiga soundtracks. I might have to pass on Indy 4 though, these iMuse soundtracks all have interactive music that can only really be recorded by playing through the entire game.

Here are a few more of these great Korean Adlib soundtracks .... and Wacky Wheels

Modaozi (MS-DOS [OPL2], 1993, Softstar) - Top-down action game, also known as Prince of Evil in the West

Pee & Gity (MS-DOS [OPL2], 1994, SKC Soft Land) - Beat'em up with animals and music by the D.A.C. guys.

Pee & Gity Special (MS-DOS [OPL2], 1994, Family Production) - Mostly remixes of the original version.

Wacky Wheels (MS-DOS [OPL2], 1994, Apogee) - Super Mario Kart-inspired racing game.

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I'm not taking requests right now, but I'll keep them in mind when I do the next round of Amiga soundtracks. I might have to pass on Indy 4 though, these iMuse soundtracks all have interactive music that can only really be recorded by playing through the entire game.

man, i just re-read what my own comment, and wow
that's barely english

ah, i see.. man, that's a shame
but either way - thanks

i've been plowing my way through the AudioPanicRoom episodes - great stuff! thanks for those
there's just so much stuff in there i'd never find on my own
so yeah, big thanks for those. keep em coming!

I have a request- Inindo: Datou Nobunaga. Everyone knows of the SNES version, but I also know that there are PC88, MSX, PC98, and X68000 versions of the soundtrack. So, which one is better in terms of music?

Some new stuff:

Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight (Amiga, 1991, Mindscape) - Action RPG with lots of gory battles. Some people have been comparing this to Dark Souls, but I think the overall structure of this game is actually quite different. The creepy music is by Richard Joseph.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0rrm5RXHyI)

Dragon Knight (X68000, 1989, Elf) - First part in this SRPG series.
Opening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhsYxtcOBno)

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (X68000, 1990, Pony Canyon) - Like the PC-98 port, this was arranged by Kazuo Sawa
Stones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt3KXJOOwz0)

Dimo's Quest (CD-i, 1994, Philips Interactive) - Arcade/puzzle game with music by Joris de Man
OST (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Bsr1STk8s)

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I have a request- Inindo: Datou Nobunaga. Everyone knows of the SNES version, but I also know that there are PC88, MSX, PC98, and X68000 versions of the soundtrack. So, which one is better in terms of music?

Probably the X68000 port, the PC-88/98 versions are OPN only.

I know this may seem like a weird question but I'm searching for some good soundtracks with that late 90's demoscene/keygen feel. I really enjoyed stuff like Pinball World or Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and 3.

I know this may seem like a weird question but I'm searching for some good soundtracks with that late 90's demoscene/keygen feel. I really enjoyed stuff like Pinball World or Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and 3.

Try Jochen Hippel's Amiga soundtracks. Asteroth is one of my favorites.

I think the typical Keygen sound is what was originally called Chiptune on the Amiga: music made with (mostly) single-cycle wave forms. Like ruiner said, much of what Jochen Hippel (Mad Max) did falls into this category. For a quick overview just listen to my podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b45wTTA82_U) about him. Other game soundtracks in that genre:

Hybris
The Plague (especially the in-game music)
Battle Squadron
Captain Dynamo
Ilyad
Nebulus 2
much of Karsten Obarski's music (recommendations: Dyter 07 and Centerbase)

Many Amiga/DOS soundtracks were made by actual demo sceners and as a result sound pretty much like demo music:

Shockwave (Amiga) by 4Mat
Statix (Amiga) by Virgill, Lizard King
Super Space Invaders (Amiga), Thunderjaws (Amiga) by The Judge
Tales from Heaven (Amiga) by X-Ceed, Pink etc
Death Rally (MS-DOS) by Purple Motion
Outer Ridge (MS-DOS) by Karsten Koch

Pretty much every Pinball game on Amiga/DOS also has that distinct demo scene feel to it

The next Impulse Project focuses on VGM composers' contributions to the demoscene. I think a lot of you guys will find it pretty interesting.

The next Impulse Project focuses on VGM composers' contributions to the demoscene. I think a lot of you guys will find it pretty interesting.

I think in most cases it was actually the other way round: demo musicians contributing to VGM. Are you going to include some of the Japanese demo artists as well?

I think in most cases it was actually the other way round: demo musicians contributing to VGM. Are you going to include some of the Japanese demo artists as well?
Well, yeah, exactly. And because the only FM chip we feature on the show so far is the 2612, there weren't any Japanese composers to be featured. We add a new chip to the show every 5 episodes. I mean, if you know of any that used the C64, Amiga, or Atari ST, please let me know!

Well, yeah, exactly. And because the only FM chip we feature on the show so far is the 2612, there weren't any Japanese composers to be featured. We add a new chip to the show every 5 episodes. I mean, if you know of any that used the C64, Amiga, or Atari ST, please let me know!

That's slim pickings, but there were a few people in Japan using trackers like Jea (of DJ Sharpnel fame), Tanigon, or Hide. I'm not a huge fan of gabber, but if you like that kind of music then this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zadWyrh2x1E) is probably pretty good.

Also largely forgotten, Ryo Kawasaki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo_Kawasaki) composed a handful of songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdArehl7A38) on the C64. It's obviously not nearly as impressive as later demo scene music, but by the standards of 1984 this is pretty good.

Oh and of course, there is a ton of Japanese demo music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj136EmGAKQ) on the FM Towns, which also uses the YM2612.

That's slim pickings, but there were a few people in Japan using trackers like Jea (of DJ Sharpnel fame), Tanigon, or Hide. I'm not a huge fan of gabber, but if you like that kind of music then this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zadWyrh2x1E) is probably pretty good.

Also largely forgotten, Ryo Kawaski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo_Kawasaki) composed a handful of songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdArehl7A38) on the C64. It's obviously not nearly as impressive as later demo scene music, but by the standards of 1984 this is pretty good.

Oh and of course, there is a ton of Japanese demo music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj136EmGAKQ) on the FM Towns, which also uses the YM2612.

But none of these composers did any VGM as far as I can tell. Thus, they wouldn't have been eligible for the show anyways.

Still, this is all new info for me, and I'll check it out! I'm especially interested in the FM Towns stuff.

Something for the fans of Sharp computers:

Hydlide 3: The Space Memories (Sharp X1 [OPM], 1988, T&E Soft) - The TurboZ soundtrack of this game, compared to the PC-88 version this sounds a little bit better.
The Space Memories (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIeW-pbt_58)

Herzog (Sharp X1 [OPM], 1988, Tecnosoft) - This one is also quite different from the PC-88 version.
Sleight of Hand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301zFudhhRA)

Inindo: Way of the Ninja (X68000, 1991, Koei) - Koei RPG composed by Hiori Wakakuwa.

･C･O･N･T･I･N･U･E･ (X68000, 199x) - Probably a shmup, I've never been able to find this game, but the music is awesome.
Vast Valley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjR81s2nJvw)

Try Jochen Hippel's Amiga soundtracks. Asteroth is one of my favorites.



I think the typical Keygen sound is what was originally called Chiptune on the Amiga: music made with (mostly) single-cycle wave forms. Like ruiner said, much of what Jochen Hippel (Mad Max) did falls into this category. For a quick overview just listen to my podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b45wTTA82_U) about him. Other game soundtracks in that genre:

Hybris
The Plague (especially the in-game music)
Battle Squadron
Captain Dynamo
Ilyad
Nebulus 2
much of Karsten Obarski's music (recommendations: Dyter 07 and Centerbase)

Many Amiga/DOS soundtracks were made by actual demo sceners and as a result sound pretty much like demo music:

Shockwave (Amiga) by 4Mat
Statix (Amiga) by Virgill, Lizard King
Super Space Invaders (Amiga), Thunderjaws (Amiga) by The Judge
Tales from Heaven (Amiga) by X-Ceed, Pink etc
Death Rally (MS-DOS) by Purple Motion
Outer Ridge (MS-DOS) by Karsten Koch

Pretty much every Pinball game on Amiga/DOS also has that distinct demo scene feel to it

Thank you both for your suggestions. The only Hippel soundtrack I'm familiar with is Wings of Death for the Amiga/Atari ST and I must admit it's quite good.

Some of the rarer Chris Huelsbeck soundtracks, that guy seemed to take whatever job he could get...

Danger Freak (Amiga, 1989, Rainbow Arts) - Some sort of stuntman simulator.
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZYjBRwzLtM)

Logistic (Amiga, 1989) - Don't know if this was ever released commercially, probably just some PD game.
Title Screen (https://youtu.be/mrFDUTIiJKo?t=54)

Sunny Shine on the Funny Side of Life (Amiga, 1990, Rainbow Arts) - Aka L&M Adventure, a promotional game developed for Philip Morris and their brand of L&M cigarettes.

HB Car Race (Amiga, 1989, Starbyte) - Unreleased game, probably also of promotional nature (for HB in this case)

Jinn: Eien no Yuushi / Jinn: Eternal Hero (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1994, Tenshindo) - RPG that looks a little bit like Bard's Tale or Might & Magic. The music is by Takahiro Yonemura (Chemool) and Osamu Ishikawa.
We Will Overcome The Obstacle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRxPpqlQwTQ), Sense of Crisis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlrLL0s8GhA)

Beneath a Steel Sky (MS-DOS [MT-32], 1994, Virgin) - Classic DOS adventure
Opening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbaTKNwITI)

Beneath a Steel Sky (Amiga, 1994, Virgin) - The Amiga port, in terms of music it's a bit hit and miss imo. Also included are the tracks from the CD32 version.
Belle Vue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGC3qPYNEPM)

Nice bunch of uploads there, nx666!!

I'm working on retagging and reordering some of your OSTs today, so expect an PM or two from me sometime tonight for some updated tags and track orders! :D

Excellent work on the Jinn soundtrack! However, the Inindo soundtrack could use some work, since the War and battle themes sound off- they don't sound anything like what the SNES version had in terms of notes. Is this because the person who ripped it for Hoot made a mistake?

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I didn't know the Japanese worked on the C64. I thought they hated that computer.

Excellent work on the Jinn soundtrack! However, the Inindo soundtrack could use some work, since the War and battle themes sound off- they don't sound anything like what the SNES version had in terms of notes. Is this because the person who ripped it for Hoot made a mistake?

What are the titles of these tracks in my X60000 rip?

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I didn't know the Japanese worked on the C64. I thought they hated that computer.

I think Ryo Kawasaki used the C64 for his synthesizer software as there wasn't any other computer with a comparable sound chip at that time. He was living in New York in the 80s and was probably very familiar with the US computer market. I don't think anybody in Japan 'hates' the C64, it was just never really a thing over there.

The following soundtracks have been updated with proper song titles and numbering, many thanks to KingTengu for that!

Bermuda Triangle (Arcade) - with four extra tracks from World Wars (the Japanese release), I included both variations of the Continue jingle as they really seem to be different in the two versions of the game.

Superior Soldiers (Arcade), Laydock 2: Last Attack (MSX2), Super Laydock: Mission Striker (MSX2)

XZR: Hakai no Guuzou (MSX2) - now also with more detailed composer information

And, as a bonus, four new arcade soundtracks that somehow managed to escape one of the updates from last week:

Winning Run (Arcade, 1988, Namco) - by Hiroyuki Kawada

Four Trax (Arcade, 1989, Namco) - by Junko Ozawa and Yoshie Takayanagi

Marvel Land (Arcade, 1990, Namco) - by Etsuo Ishii

Hellfire (Arcade, 1989, Taito) - by Tatsuya Uemura

Plus two different versions of an old computer classic:

Ultima III: Exodus (Atari 8-Bit, 1983, Origin Systems)

Ultima III: Exodus (Amiga, 1986, Origin Systems)

sweet lord

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Plus two different versions of an old computer classic:

Ultima III: Exodus (Atari 8-Bit, 1983, Origin Systems)

Ultima III: Exodus (Amiga, 1986, Origin Systems)

snaaaag
(cheers!)

What are the titles of these tracks in my X60000 rip?

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I think Ryo Kawasaki used the C64 for his synthesizer software as there wasn't any other computer with a comparable sound chip at that time. He was living in New York in the 80s and was probably very familiar with the US computer market. I don't think anybody in Japan 'hates' the C64, it was just never really a thing over there.

It was MUS09, and MUS26, I believe.

Ah. I see. The C64 along with the Apple II GS both had good synthesizer chips.

It was MUS09, and MUS26, I believe.

Ah. I see. The C64 along with the Apple II GS both had good synthesizer chips.

Coincidentally (?) they were both designed by Bob Yannes. Too bad the state of Apple IIGS music preservation is absolutely abysmal.

I'll look into Inindo when I have a minute.

Coincidentally (?) they were both designed by Bob Yannes. Too bad the state of Apple IIGS music preservation is absolutely abysmal.

I'll look into Inindo when I have a minute.

OK, And I agree I wish everyone paid attention to the Apple 2 GS more mainly because it contains an Ensoniq synthesizer Chip. Here is a example of the chip in action for the IIGS version of RASTAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iVu2GqrQJg
I say it is even better than the arcade original.

There are some pretty amazing soundtracks on that system, like this pretty rare port of Ys I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4YNETYkBQ) or the original release of The Immortal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEdB2zXnwik).

Did they ever port Murder Club for the IIGS?

I have 3 more suggestions- 1. BIBLE MASTER for the FM Towns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLptz-7Miw0
2: Alvaleak Boukenki (MIDI Only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFahS9e_lKY
3: ZAVAS for the PC98 or X68000 (which ever one is better)

I have 3 more suggestions- 1. BIBLE MASTER for the FM Towns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLptz-7Miw0
2: Alvaleak Boukenki (MIDI Only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFahS9e_lKY
3: ZAVAS for the PC98 or X68000 (which ever one is better)

I looked into Bible Master before, but couldn't find a disk image. If anybody has one let me know. The other two are doable, although the MIDI recording will have to wait as I currently don't have access to my SC-55. The Zavas soundtracks seem to be the same, the X68000 version is stereo though so I'll probably go with that one.

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Did they ever port Murder Club for the IIGS?

no idea

OK.

Aw man, I thought Kyodai did.

What happened to your SC-55 by the way? Because I want to know if you could do the ILLUSION CITY MT32 soundtrack as well as the CM32L version of the Tower of Gazzel both for the MSX.

OK.

Aw man, I thought Kyodai did.

What happened to your SC-55 by the way? Because I want to know if you could do the ILLUSION CITY MT32 soundtrack as well as the CM32L version of the Tower of Gazzel both for the MSX.

I've never seen MIDI sound files for MSX games but the PC-98 version of Illusion City also has an MT-32 soundtrack which would be much easier to do.

My SC-55 is doing fine, thanks for asking. I just don't have it with me right now.

OK. Then I would like the MT-32 version of Illusion City.

Oh.

A few soundtracks people have been asking for:

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (Atari ST, 1989, Origin Systems) - The music for this port was arranged by Wally Beben and is notable for the Stones theme, which has seemingly endless variations in this version. Maybe the arrangements are even procedurally generated for each loop? Anyway, I recorded four different versions for this rip.

The Legend of Kyrandia (Amiga, 1992, Virgin) - Conversion of the DOS soundtrack by Frank Klepacki. All the dynamic changes that the sound driver can do are not really reflected in this rip, but sadly there is not much I can do about that.

Alone in the Dark (MS-DOS [OPL2,CD Audio], 1992, Infogrames) - By Philippe Vachey and Fr�d�ric Mentzen, included is the music from the later CD release, which was also used in the 3DO version of the game.

Zavas (X68000, 1989, Glodia) - By Nobuhito Koise

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It was MUS09, and MUS26, I believe.

I think both of these sound as intended, maybe some of the tracks were redone for the SNES release?

Thanks for Zavas. I don't think they sound as intended- the rip on those 2 tracks are probably messed up on purpose.

Could you get the music from the X68K version of Ys?

Could you get the music from the X68K version of Ys?

You can already get it from ruiner.

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Thanks for Zavas. I don't think they sound as intended- the rip on those 2 tracks are probably messed up on purpose.

Let me see if I can find a different rip and/or sound files.

You can already get it from ruiner.

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Let me see if I can find a different rip and/or sound files. I looked for different rips of Inindo for different systems- such as the PC98 and PC88.
I don't know if there is a rip for the MSX version, but there is one, and I don't know if they sound good.

I looked for different rips of Inindo for different systems- such as the PC98 and PC88.
I don't know if there is a rip for the MSX version, but there is one, and I don't know if they sound good.

Try to download the soundtrack again, some of the tracks have been updated. That's still all coming from the X68000 version though.

OK

A few soundtracks people have been asking for:

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (Atari ST, 1989, Origin Systems) - The music for this port was arranged by Wally Beben and is notable for the Stones theme, which has seemingly endless variations in this version. Maybe the arrangements are even procedurally generated for each loop? Anyway, I recorded four different versions for this rip.

The Legend of Kyrandia (Amiga, 1992, Virgin) - Conversion of the DOS soundtrack by Frank Klepacki. All the dynamic changes that the sound driver can do are not really reflected in this rip, but sadly there is not much I can do about that.

Alone in the Dark (MS-DOS [OPL2,CD Audio], 1992, Infogrames) - By Philippe Vachey and Fr�d�ric Mentzen, included is the music from the later CD release, which was also used in the 3DO version of the game.

Zavas (X68000, 1989, Glodia) - By Nobuhito Koise

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I think both of these sound as intended, maybe some of the tracks were redone for the SNES release?

sweet. yoink!

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by the way, do you have any more stuff from St�phane Picq planned? (Dragon Lore, Lost Eden, Atlantis etc.)
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,9933/

or by Philippe Vachey? (Shadow of the Comet, Little Big Adventure 2, Twinsen etc.)
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/philippe-vachey/credits/developerId,627/
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Vachey

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Tracklist

01 "Main Theme" - Black Knight 2000 (1989, Pinball) by Dan Forden, Brian Schmidt, Steve Ritchie
02 "Menu Theme" - Pinball Illusions (1994, Amiga) by Olof Gustafsson
03 "Road King USA" - Tilt! (1995, MS-DOS) by Tommy Tallarico Studios, Mark Cooksey
04 "T-9101G_33" - Pinball Graffiti (1996, Saturn) by Pack-In-Video
05 "Main Table" - Dragon's Fury (1991, Mega Drive) by Toshiaki Sakoda, Masanobu Tsukamoto, Toshiharu Yamanishi
06 "Aquatic Adventure" - Obsession (1994, Atari STE) by Per Almered
07 "Multiball" - Whirlwind (1990, Pinball) by Chris Granner
08 "Whispy Stage" - Kirby's Pinball Land (1993, Gameboy) by Tadashi Ikegami
09 "Movement (Muddy)" - The Pinball of the Dead (2002, Gameboy Advance) by Hitoshi Sakimoto
10 "Snooker Champ" - Silverball (1993, MS-DOS) by Robert Allen
11 "Quick Lock Theme 2" - Banzai Run (1993, Pinball) by Brian Schmidt
12 "Bonus Stage 3" - Devil's Crush (1990, PC Engine) by Noriyuki Iwadare
13 "Intro" - Pinball Fantasies (1993, CD32) by Olof Gustafsson
14 "Title Screen" - Advanced Pinball Simulator (1989, Commodore 64) by David Dunn
15 "World Rally Fever 11" - Addiction Pinball (1998, Windows) by Bj�rn A. Lynne
16 "Fun Fair" - Psycho Pinball (1995, MS-DOS) by Tim Bartlett
17 "Jackpot" - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, Pinball) by Chris Granner
18 "Cheep Cheep Pufferfish Battle" - Mario Pinball Land (2004, Gameboy Advance) by Kenichi Nishimaki
19 "The Present Timezone" - Pro Pinball: Timeshock! (1997, MS-DOS) by Jake Burns, Bruce Foxton
20 "The Castle" - 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night (1996, Windows) by Timothy Steven Clarke


...and three new pinball soundtracks:

Pinball Illusions (CD32, 1995, 21st Century Entertainment) - A mix of music from the regular floppy version with some new tracks.

Tilt! / Hyper 3-D Pinball (MS-DOS, 1995, Virgin Interactive) - By Tommy Tallarico Studios and Mark Cooksey

Pro Pinball: Timeshock! (MS-DOS, 1997, Empire Interactive) - Some pretty good hard rock tracks by Jake Burns and Bruce Foxton.

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by the way, do you have any more stuff from St�phane Picq planned? (Dragon Lore, Lost Eden, Atlantis etc.)
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,9933/

or by Philippe Vachey? (Shadow of the Comet, Little Big Adventure 2, Twinsen etc.)
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/philippe-vachey/credits/developerId,627/
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Vachey

The Picq soundtracks are on my to-do list, but that's all pretty time-consuming stuff so I wouldn't expect them anytime soon. You can grab LBA2 from the DOS section and ruiner has the 3DO version of Lost Eden. Shadow of the Comet should be a quick rip, so maybe I can look into that next week.

ah, man, you're an absolute legend. i'm not sure how i managed to miss those, since i've been lurking around both of you guys' threads
and - sweet playlist for the new podcast. i see you've got some of Olof Gustafsson's stuff, he's from my neck o' the woods, so that's revisiting my childhood. this should be awesome

ah, man. scratch that
i already nicked the LBA2 soundtrack (which is how i found out it was by legend Philippe Vachey, cheers for that!), for the record, i meant the first LBA game

Hey nx666, if you are accepting requests at this time, can you rip music from these PC games:

* Civil War Generals
* Civil War Generals 2
* Ningyou Tsukai 2

They all seem Windows.

Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet (MS-DOS, 1993, Infogrames) - Music by Philippe Vachey, I thought this was an easy rip of the floppy version until I saw the expanded soundtrack of the CD release. Anyway, they are both included here, as well as the music from the 'Lovecraft museum' that came with the game.
Welcome to Illsmouth (https://youtu.be/md44Mo8_Qjs?t=180)

Little Big Adventure (MS-DOS [SC88,CD Audio], 1994, Electronic Arts) - Another Philippe Vachey soundtrack. This rip has all the CD audio tracks plus recordings of the MIDI files.
Lba's Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QECdKDMYIo)

Robert E. Lee: Civil War General (Windows, 1996, Sierra) - American civil war-era strategy game, with mostly (exclusively?) contemporary music. The game came with some sort of multimedia history book, that 'soundtrack' is also included here.

Illusion City: Gen'ei Toshi (PC-9801 [OPN,MT-32], 1991, Micro Cabin) - This soundtrack was updated with the MT-32 version, which actually sounds pretty good.

Thanks a lot for the MT-32 version of Illusion City or what I like to call the "Director's Cut Version".

Anyway, I have 4 requests, but the maximum is 3.

First, are the Branmarker games. A company called D.O. made the first one and 2nd one on PC98. I do not know if the music in both versions have any output extensions, such as OPNA or MIDI. Branmarker 2 is also for the FM-TOWNS, but it is rare.

2nd are 2 rare games that I do not know if you can find the images to them- Gunblaze and ABEL for the FM-Towns. If you cannot find them , then I have one more game made by D.O. that I would like to request as an RPG as my 3rd in its place- Crystal Rinal:Ouma no Mekyuu for the PC98. In terms of music, I also do not know if there any other output extensions to Crystal Rinal as well.

A handful of Taito arcade soundtracks, plus one lonely Konami game:

Top Speed / Full Throttle (Arcade, 1987, Taito) - Arcade racing game with an awesome 'metal' soundtrack by Masahiro Takagi. For a slightly cleaner version of the same music check out the X68000 port.

Aqua Jack (Arcade, 1990, Taito) - Crusing around in a power boat while shooting at anything that moves. This was composed by Shizuo Aizawa, the stage themes are all pretty good.

Magical Date EX (Arcade, 1997, Taito) - Dating sim/mini game collection with music by Hiroyuki Misawa and Norihiro Furukawa.

Puzzle De Pon! (Arcade, 1995, Taito) - Similar to the Puzzle Bobble games with bouncy music.

Liquid Kids / Mizubaku Daibouken (Arcade, 1990, Taito) - This plays like a mix of New Zealand Story, Bubble Bobble, and Parasol Stars. The music is by Kazuko Umino.

Rock'n Rage / Koi no HotRock (Arcade, 1986, Konami) - A rock star armed with a guitar battles his way through different time periods. The soundtrack consists mostly of licensed(?) pop songs like the Born in the USA or Rock me Amadeus. I think this was also the very first game Iku Mizutani worked on.

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Thanks a lot for the MT-32 version of Illusion City or what I like to call the "Director's Cut Version".

Anyway, I have 4 requests, but the maximum is 3.

First, are the Branmarker games. A company called D.O. made the first one and 2nd one on PC98. I do not know if the music in both versions have any output extensions, such as OPNA or MIDI. Branmarker 2 is also for the FM-TOWNS, but it is rare.

2nd are 2 rare games that I do not know if you can find the images to them- Gunblaze and ABEL for the FM-Towns. If you cannot find them , then I have one more game made by D.O. that I would like to request as an RPG as my 3rd in its place- Crystal Rinal:Ouma no Mekyuu for the PC98. In terms of music, I also do not know if there any other output extensions to Crystal Rinal as well.

Maybe pick one of these games and then ask for another one once that was posted. MIDI recordings are an option as well, in case you still want Alvaleak Boukenki.

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Hey nx666, if you are accepting requests at this time, can you rip music from these PC games:

* Civil War Generals
* Civil War Generals 2
* Ningyou Tsukai 2

They all seem Windows.

I will post Civil War Generals 2 at some point, but Ningyou Tsukai 2 is too much of an effort for now.

Cytron (Amiga, 1992, Psygnosis) - Plays like a futuristic Gauntlet with puzzle elements. The music is by Matt Furniss, I always liked the ending theme of this game.
Ending (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HeScYNPzfI)

Rogue Trooper (Amiga, 1991, Krisalis) - this was also composed by Matt Furniss
Title Screen (https://youtu.be/yEhyTwsXVKI?t=76)

Civil War 2: Generals (Windows, 1997, Sierra) - More civil war-era music

Miho: Momoiro Byoutou, Menkai Shazetsu! (PC-9801, 1994, Fairytale Red-Zone) - Hentai adventure set in a hospital, music by MUSE
Blow Your Head (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PN_8s6ZGU)

Hi !

Thank you very much. I was trying to search Alone in the Dark and Astaroth: Beware the Angel of Death but format wasn't very useful to play with modern music player (HIPC file :)) And you made MP3 file for this.
THANK YOU AGAIN !

I ask and I hope that you will not be shocked about this but is this possible to have a global archive or better a torrent file for all the systems ? I'll be one of the first seeder on it.

VGM for ever ! :)

Hi !

Thank you very much. I was trying to search Alone in the Dark and Astaroth: Beware the Angel of Death but format wasn't very useful to play with modern music player (HIPC file :)) And you made MP3 file for this.
THANK YOU AGAIN !

I ask and I hope that you will not be shocked about this but is this possible to have a global archive or better a torrent file for all the systems ? I'll be one of the first seeder on it.

VGM for ever ! :)

The main goal of this thread has always been making hard-to-find (and for most people hard-to-play) music accessible to everyone. This is first and foremost a preservation effort, but I don't own the rights to any of the music posted in this thread and I honestly don't mind if people upload this stuff elsewhere. Sites like KHI have been doing that for a while and I would be even more happy if they would drop a line of gratitude every now and then, but in the end that is their problem not mine. There are obviously downsides to this as well, for example I sometimes replace rips with newer versions and these updates probably just get lost in the shuffle.

So the bottom line is, if you want to upload the soundtracks somewhere else then please go ahead and do it. I could probably help you a little bit with the download of the collection by providing links to the individual folders.

Edit: Haha, just had a look at KHI, their front page looks like a carbon copy of this thread.

Edit: Haha, just had a look at KHI, their front page looks like a carbon copy of this thread.

Isn't it sad? So many of my rips have ended up there with all the credits stripped out, except my name is still in the "encoded by" field.

@nx666 : Personally I have many collections of many stuffs including VGM. I like to put my whole collection in a music player to have a random listening for discover new things that I'll put in playlist or categories or something else. But, I totally understand your feeling about some consumption of audio culture.
I will download your links because there are many that I don't have and many that I don't know and I want to discover.
Thanks ! :)

Isn't it sad? So many of my rips have ended up there with all the credits stripped out, except my name is still in the "encoded by" field.

I wish I could encode all of my stuff with 666 kbps, that would be much better than any (removable) tag :)

Like I said above, what bothers me the most is the lack of version control on this. At some point their site will have a lot of outdated soundtracks. I sometimes upload small fixes that I don't even mention in the thread.

Yeah, I want Alvaleak Boukenki. I will wait on the others.

Hey nx666, I know requests are technically closed, but I was wondering if you could help me with the last two PC-98 soundtracks I've been looking for: Bacta and Bacta 2 for the PC-98. It's another eroge series, but this time with the pervert male lead replaced with a pervert female lead. I think. Games like this have always fascinated me... Would you be able to recommend any other soundtracks from games with similar themes? Again I understand you're already pretty busy, so do what you need to at your own discretion, and again thank you for all you do for the vgm community :)

Hoot: Bacta (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/sets/pc98/bacta_98.zip)
Hoot: Bacta 2 (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/sets/pc98/bacta2_98.zip)

EDIT: thread > requests

Hey nx666, I know the thread is technically closed, but I was wondering if you could help me with the last two PC-98 soundtracks I've been looking for: Bacta and Bacta 2 for the PC-98. It's another eroge series, but this time with the pervert male lead replaced with a pervert female lead. I think. Games like this have always fascinated me... Would you be able to recommend any other soundtracks from games with similar themes? Again I understand you're already pretty busy, so do what you need to at your own discretion, and again thank you for all you do for the vgm community :)

Hoot: Bacta (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/sets/pc98/bacta_98.zip)
Hoot: Bacta 2 (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/sets/pc98/bacta2_98.zip)

What makes you think this thread is closed? I just had to dial back the requests a little bit, mostly for my own sanity :)

There is also a PC-9821 release called "Bacta 1&2 + Voice" that seems to have OPNA versions of both soundtracks and probably sounds a little bit better than the original OPN music.

I'm not really an expert on eroge games, but vndb has a very extensive tagging system that let's you search for games with 'Childish Violent Heroes', 'Excessive Semen', 'Bloodplay', 'Human Cattle",' just to name a few examples. Did you know that there are over 80 games in the 'Ejaculation Forewarner' category? Illuminating.

Oh my bad, I meant to say REQUESTS are technically closed. oops! I was referring to the note in the original post about requests being closed and wasn't sure how strongly you wanted you enforce that. don't I feel silly :p

Thanks for enlightening me on Bacta 1&2 + Voice, wasn't sure what was going on there, and that would probably be ideal. And yeah, I love vndb. Despite all the easy shots I see people taking at it, I'm incredibly glad it exists and "illuminating" is totally appropriate (turns out your previously-ripped X-Girl kinda falls into the same category of game) Thanks again in advance!

Alvaleak Boukenki / Alvareak Adventure Story (PC-9801 [SC-55], 1993, Glodia) - Mostly orchestral music by Nobuhito Koise and Tenpei Sato.

Bacta 1 & 2 + Voice (PC-9821, 1996, Himeya Soft) - This really just seems to be a combination of the two original soundtracks, unfortunately I could only find tags for the second game.

Yoake no Merry-Go-Round (PC-8801 [OPNA], 1993, Active Gamers) - I have no idea what this is, but the music is pretty awesome. Active Gamers released disk mags and a handful of doujin games in the early 90s but I wasn't able to find any reference to this particular 'game'.

Mindbender (C64, 1990, Gremlin Graphics) - Deflektor clone with music by Georg Brandt.
Main Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFdTIescIzo)

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (Amiga, 1990, Origin) - Nice guitar track by Barry Leitch, that probably gets really grating after a while since it plays throughout the entire game.
Main Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV7tvCxvB8A)

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #019: Mighty Luna

We're back with another un-themed selection of great tunes. An assortment of orcs, bees, evil aliens, and other delightful things is waiting for you on this edition of Audio Panic Room.

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Tracklist

01 "Rolling Man" - CONTINUE (199x, X68000) by NinNin
02 "Title Theme" - Top Gear 2 (1994, CD32) by Patrick Phelan, Neil Biggin
03 "Party Tune" - Demo (1989, Commodore 64) by Reyn Ouwehand
04 "Crisis" - EVE burst error (1995, PC-9801) by Ryu Takami
05 "In the Sky Over Gotham City" - Batman (1990, Mega Drive) by Naoki Kodaka
06 "Time Trial Results" - Konami Krazy Racers (2001, Gameboy Advance) by Sotaru Tojima
07 "Inferno" - Inferno (1994, MS-DOS) by Alien Sex Fiend, Barry Leitch
08 "Name Entry" - Mission Impossibubble (1989, Commodore 64) by Neil Baldwin
09 "The Chase" - Ork (1991, Amiga) by Tim Bartlett
10 "Afternoon Breeze" - Demo (1995, PC-9801) by Daisuke Takahashi (KID)
11 "Sky Swimming" - TwinBee Yahho! (1995, Arcade) by Konami Kukeiha Club
12 "Title Screen" - SWiV (2000, Gameboy Color) by Will Davis
13 "Shiroma's Theme" - Chocobo's Dungeon 2 (1998, Playstation) by Yasuhiro Kawakami
14 "Fireworks" - Demo (1990, MOD) by Martin Wall (Mantronix)
15 "OP Idle Theme" - Bakuretsu Quiz Tatakae! Maitiruna (1994, PC-9801) by Suzunosuke Himekiri
16 "Ending Part 2" - Shadows of Cairn (1994, MS-DOS) by Brian McCulloch, Bob Gumbrecht

Bacta 1 & 2 + Voice (PC-9821, 1996, Himeya Soft) - This really just seems to be a combination of the two original soundtracks, unfortunately I could only find tags for the second game.

I'm a little late, but thanks a ton for this :)

I'm also a little late to talk about your tags too, and while this isn't directly related to them being removed, you might be interested in how I tag you in my library. I'm probably not the only one to use the Comments ID3 field for a custom Label - CatalogNumber tag, but what do you do for a non-commercial rip like this? Technically I should file you under the Label, becoming nx666 - N/A, but we don't do that for the same reason we usually don't include the year of vgm translation over the music's original publishing date. So with that in mind I've been tagging your rips by Publisher - nx666 Rip. Anytime I want to sort a Label from a Publisher, I can tell my smart playlist to filter out Comments ending in Rip (which also covers situations where the ripper is unknown). My thinking is that catalog numbers will often indicate the type of media within the number, but where commercial releases have established terminology for distinguishing CDs from cassettes from records, rips do not, so this is the most faithful solution I could come up with for the moment.

Thank you so much for the two Ultima III soundtracks and the three Ultima V ones! Very big help to my collection! Thank you so much!

I'm a little late, but thanks a ton for this :)

I'm also a little late to talk about your tags too, and while this isn't directly related to them being removed, you might be interested in how I tag you in my library. I'm probably not the only one to use the Comments ID3 field for a custom Label - CatalogNumber tag, but what do you do for a non-commercial rip like this? Technically I should file you under the Label, becoming nx666 - N/A, but we don't do that for the same reason we usually don't include the year of vgm translation over the music's original publishing date. So with that in mind I've been tagging your rips by Publisher - nx666 Rip. Anytime I want to sort a Label from a Publisher, I can tell my smart playlist to filter out Comments ending in Rip (which also covers situations where the ripper is unknown). My thinking is that catalog numbers will often indicate the type of media within the number, but where commercial releases have established terminology for distinguishing CDs from cassettes from records, rips do not, so this is the most faithful solution I could come up with for the moment.

For that last one I actually use the Media Type tag. Normally you would see things like CD, 2xCD, Cassette, Digital, etc. in this field, but for my rips (and those of other people) I put sound source / file format information in there. For example anything recorded from the internal X68000 sound chip is tagged as:

YM2151 (OPM), MSM6258 (ADPCM)

I also distinguish between real hardware recordings and emulation so the above would become:

YM2151 (OPM), MSM6258 (ADPCM) Emulation

For some systems (I have a System tag as well) this might seem a bit redundant, but for arcade games and many computers I find this incredibly useful. Most importantly, this lets me exclude soundtracks with the dreaded X1-010 chip from my playlists. Or I could create a smart playlist for all my favorite Beeper tunes in just a few seconds.

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Thank you so much for the two Ultima III soundtracks and the three Ultima V ones! Very big help to my collection! Thank you so much!

Which ones are you still missing?

Which ones are you still missing?

Ultima III's Atari ST, PC-8801, PC-9801, MSX2, and FM Towns versions. My Apple II copy lacks the tracks "Rule Britannia", "Alive", and "Fanfare", so those would be appreciated, but I understand if you can't get them. (The game was also ported to Fujitsu FM-7, Sharp X1, and Macintosh, but I don't know whether or not these ones have soundtracks or not.)

Ultima IV's Atari 8-bit, PC-8801, PC-9801, MSX2, NES, Master System, and FM Towns versions. (Ports also exist on Fujitsu FM-7 and Sharp X1, but, again, not sure whether or not they have soundtracks.)

Ultima V's FM Towns and NES versions. Various Apple II versions using sound/MIDI cards that might've been installed upon it would be appreciated, but are completely unnecessary as I already have copies both of the Mockingboard and Dual Mockingboard Apple II soundtrack.

Fan made upgrade patches for the IBM-PC ports also added in music, so those would be nice, but aren't really necessary. (If you do get them, the Adlib sound card is preferable, but any average IBM-PC sound card will do. Again, this one isn't really necessary.)

I know that's an absolutely ridiculously huge request, so please don't feel rushed to upload them on my account. I'm very patient and will gladly wait for you to upload them in your own time. :)

Ultima III's Atari ST, PC-8801, PC-9801, MSX2, and FM Towns versions. My Apple II copy lacks the tracks "Rule Britannia", "Alive", and "Fanfare", so those would be appreciated, but I understand if you can't get them. (The game was also ported to Fujitsu FM-7, Sharp X1, and Macintosh, but I don't know whether or not these ones have soundtracks or not.)

Ultima IV's Atari 8-bit, PC-8801, PC-9801, MSX2, NES, Master System, and FM Towns versions. (Ports also exist on Fujitsu FM-7 and Sharp X1, but, again, not sure whether or not they have soundtracks.)

Ultima V's FM Towns and NES versions. Various Apple II versions using sound/MIDI cards that might've been installed upon it would be appreciated, but are completely unnecessary as I already have copies both of the Mockingboard and Dual Mockingboard Apple II soundtrack.

Fan made upgrade patches for the IBM-PC ports also added in music, so those would be nice, but aren't really necessary. (If you do get them, the Adlib sound card is preferable, but any average IBM-PC sound card will do. Again, this one isn't really necessary.)

I know that's an absolutely ridiculously huge request, so please don't feel rushed to upload them on my account. I'm very patient and will gladly wait for you to upload them in your own time. :)

I just uploaded these two, there are a few others that can probably done pretty easily as well.

Ultima III: Exodus (PC-9801, 1989, Pony Canyon) - There are two releases of Ultima 3 for the PC-98, I'm not sure if the original Starcraft version even has any music though.

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (PC-8801 [OPN], 1987, Pony Canyon) - I've seen hints that there is also an OPNA version, but I haven't had time to investigate this further.

Most importantly, this lets me exclude soundtracks with the dreaded X1-010 chip from my playlists.

Thanks to you I have the melodies for like every X1-010 game forever burned into my brain. I'll be ninety years old and still waooohhhwww waaooohhhhww waaooohhh gonna break it dooooo-ooooowwwwwnnnn

Thanks to you I have the melodies for like every X1-010 game forever burned into my brain. I'll be ninety years old and still waooohhhwww waaooohhhhww waaooohhh gonna break it dooooo-ooooowwwwwnnnn

Still the best (https://youtu.be/PowlWO1yxYY?t=107)

Still the best (https://youtu.be/PowlWO1yxYY?t=107)

I agree. I wish they made a lot more arcade games using that sound chip.

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #020: Thalamus

Thalamus was a British publisher, mostly known for their small, but fine selection of C64 releases, which included some of the most impressive games on the system. Equally impressive were their soundtracks, composed by an assortment of SID legends, like Rob Hubbard, Jeroen Tel, Martin Walker, Matt Gray, or Steve Rowlands. This podcast features a selection of some of Thalamus' best tracks on the C64 and Amiga.

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Tracklist

01 "Thalamusic" - Demo (1991, MOD) by Matt Simmonds (4-Mat), comp. Rob Hubbard
02 "Intro" - Snare (1989, Commodore 64) by Martin Walker
03 "In-Game" - Venom Wing (1990, Amiga) by Ramon Braumuller
04 "Load Next Level" - Hawkeye (1988, Commodore 64) by Jeroen Tel
05 "Creatures Title Remix Dance" - Demo (2001, Remix.Kwed.Org) by CZ-Tunes, comp. Steve Rowlands
06 "Title Screen" - Delta (1987, Commodore 64) by Rob Hubbard
07 "Level 5: The Metal Base" - Borobodur: The Planet of Doom (1992, Amiga) by Reinier van Vliet
08 "Ballonacy (Torture Screen 6)" - Creatures 2: Torture Trouble (1992, Commodore 64) by Steve Rowlands
09 "Ending" - Venom Wing (1990, Amiga) by Ramon Braumuller
10 "Ending" - Armalyte (1988, Commodore 64) by Martin Walker
11 "Skate School, River Patrol, Ski Patrol (Stages 1,4, & 6)" - Winter Camp (1992, Amiga) by Reinier van Vliet
12 "Title Screen" - Creatures 2: Torture Trouble (1992, Commodore 64) by Steve Rowlands
13 "Quedex (Infected Leads)" - Demo (2009, Remix.Kwed.Org) by PowerTrace, comp. Matt Gray
14 "Aggressor Theme" - Walker's Warbles (1988, Commodore 64) by Martin Walker
15 "Title Screen" - Hawkeye (1988, Commodore 64) by Jeroen Tel

No new soundtracks, but something much, much better!

For all the fans of X68000 music, here is a little project I have been working on for a while: an archive of X68k music based on the latest Hoot release. This comes with support for 542 games including over 150 new sets that you won't find anywhere else.

hoot20160515-X68k (https://mega.nz/#!OExUAACT!6NvFm-Q4iOUmsBKdwDQQgwxvSAO1jZDiJK9c7DEbIzI)

Just unzip the folder somewhere on your hard drive and start Hoot.exe, no need to install anything else.

While working on this, I also recorded some new X68000 soundtracks, which I will post here over the next few days.

Thanks so much! :D

What's a hoot?

What's a hoot?

Why don't you see for yourself? It's going to blow your mind :)

As promised, a truckload of new X68000 soundtracks:

Xak II: Rising of the Redmoon (X68000, 1992, Takeru) - Pretty much the PC-88 version on steroids.

Spindizzy II (X68000, 1991, Arsys Software) - A port of the awesome Spindizzy Worlds on the Amiga. This version has an exclusive soundtrack by Arsys veteran Toshiya Yamanaka and the music is pretty great.
Eternal Move (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC9SwfBdmc), Canal Side (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2xrjcqLB5Y), Oily Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUquBer1o7Y)

Air Combat: Yuugekiou II (X68000, 1990, SystemSoft) - A flight simulator, ported from the PC-98.
Intro (https://youtu.be/GR_CmSd3QgU?t=9)

Quarth / Block Hole (X68000, 1990, Konami) - Arcade port
The Theme from Quarth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lPFTpTxG_w)

Fantasy Zone (X68000, 1989, Micomsoft) - Also an arcade port, this one also comes with an arranged version of the original soundtrack.
Dreaming Tomorrow (Arrange) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHFLafvtoIc)

Nekketsu High School Dodgeball Club: Soccer (X68000, 1990, Sharp) - Port of the NES game aka World Cup Soccer. Like with the other games in this series, the soundtrack consists of mostly blues / surf rock pieces.

Drinky & Smokey (X68000, 1994, Dream Staff) - Doujin game that plays a little bit like Lemmings with music very similar to the Nekketsu games.

Dragon Knight II (X68000, 1991, Elf) - By far the longest soundtrack in this series. This one was composed by Manabu Kunieda and Yuki Ushimaru.

Jotei Senki LV3: The Queen of Fighters (X68000, 1994, Linner System) - A doujin fighting game with an all-female cast. Most (all?) of the characters are based on other video games, and the soundtrack mostly consists of arrangements as well.
Psycho Soldier Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryb8Qks2w34)

Jotei Senki LV4: Heroines Forever (X68000, 1995, Linner System) - the sequel

Little Chinese Final Edition (X68000, 199x, Takeboo) - Music by Takahiro Yonemura (Chemool)
Junkyard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufOZ-_1DZQ0)

The last four games were composed by Kenichi Arakawa. This is all pretty awesome stuff.

Animahjong V3 (X68000, 1993, Sogna) - Port of the PC-98 game

Viper-V6 Turbo (X68000, 1994, Sogna) - Visual novel

Viper-V8 Twin Turbo (X68000, 1994, Sogna) - Visual novel
Too Cold (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z25dOHnrUc)

Jewel Bem Hunter Lime 11 (X68000, 1994, Silence) - There are 12 installments in this series, but some of the games don't seem to exist anywhere on the Internet. From the ones I could find, this one seems to have the most complete soundtrack.
Storm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutZL4AV_o8), Iconoclast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2Vx5l0fpM)

As promised, a truckload of new X68000 soundtracks

Don't you mean, an American Truckload?

...sorry :p All jokes aside this is really stunning. Thank you for continuing to shine light into the darker corners of vgm history.

No new soundtracks, but something much, much better!

For all the fans of X68000 music, here is a little project I have been working on for a while: an archive of X68k music based on the latest Hoot release. This comes with support for 542 games including over 150 new sets that you won't find anywhere else.

hoot20160515-X68k (https://mega.nz/#!OExUAACT!6NvFm-Q4iOUmsBKdwDQQgwxvSAO1jZDiJK9c7DEbIzI)

Just unzip the folder somewhere on your hard drive and start Hoot.exe, no need to install anything else.

While working on this, I also recorded some new X68000 soundtracks, which I will post here over the next few days.

WHOA. Incredible. Thanks, dude!

Oh, here's a little trick, too:

If you open hoot.ini in a text editor, you can add a semicolon to the beginning of the "language=japanese.lng" line, and restart Hoot. All of the menus will now be in English! So it should look like this when you're done:

;language=japanese.lng

Easy peasy!

WHOA. Incredible. Thanks, dude!

Oh, here's a little trick, too:

If you open hoot.ini in a text editor, you can add a semicolon to the beginning of the "language=japanese.lng" line, and restart Hoot. All of the menus will now be in English! So it should look like this when you're done:

;language=japanese.lng

Easy peasy!

I didn't even notice that I left the menus in Japanese. The only shortcuts you really need are CTRL+R and CTRL+W anyway :)

I have a request- Rune Worth for the MSX. Hopefully it is the WHOLE soundtrack that was on the PC-98, PC88 and X68000 versions.

If you're accepting requests can you do Touhou Kaiiden ~ Mystic Square for PC-9801?

If you're accepting requests can you do Touhou Kaiiden ~ Mystic Square for PC-9801?

You can grab that one from ruiner's thread.

Thanks for your Civil War Generals OSTs and others. If more requests are open, try ripping at least one of these:

Cyber Fantasy Abel RPG - Shin Mokushiroku Taisen (FM-Towns) - Ruiner9 ripped its voice samples, but not BGM.
RayXanber (FM-Towns) - Some internal sound chip songs are missing like Stage Clear for instance.
DENGEKI NURSE (FM-Towns) - This one might be as hard as Abel.

Thanks for your Civil War Generals OSTs and others. If more requests are open, try ripping at least one of these:

Cyber Fantasy Abel RPG - Shin Mokushiroku Taisen (FM-Towns) - Ruiner9 ripped its voice samples, but not BGM.
RayXanber (FM-Towns) - Some internal sound chip songs are missing like Stage Clear for instance.
DENGEKI NURSE (FM-Towns) - This one might be as hard as Abel.
I too would love the ABEL RPG with the voice samples and BGM. I also want all of Data West's soundtracks on the FM Towns, including the internal chip songs and CD audio. Yasuhito Saito's sountracks are awesome.

＞hoot20160515-X68k

BIG THANKS!! :)

Thanks for your Civil War Generals OSTs and others. If more requests are open, try ripping at least one of these:

Cyber Fantasy Abel RPG - Shin Mokushiroku Taisen (FM-Towns) - Ruiner9 ripped its voice samples, but not BGM.
RayXanber (FM-Towns) - Some internal sound chip songs are missing like Stage Clear for instance.
DENGEKI NURSE (FM-Towns) - This one might be as hard as Abel.

Abel is not necessarily hard, but a very time-consuming rip. All the Towns music players for Windows were clearly not designed for humans. The other two would require some research but I'm afraid I don't have time for that either right now.

Abel is not necessarily hard, but a very time-consuming rip. All the Towns music players for Windows were clearly not designed for humans. The other two would require some research but I'm afraid I don't have time for that either right now.

Damn. That's OK. I have one more request- What about Power Slave for the PC98?

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #021: Kenichi Arakawa

Kenichi Arakawa is mostly known for his work on visual novels like Jewel Bem Hunter Lime or the Viper series. He got his start composing in the doujin scene, contributing music to a number of PC-88 disk mags under the alias Thomas Brown, before moving on to (mainly) work for Silence and its adult brands Sogna and C-Class. This podcast spotlights this early part of his career, featuring music composed for the FM sound chips of systems like the PC-98 and X68000.

Download Episode #021: Kenichi Arakawa (https://c732487858a5c78f2ba1ae90414928eca5907c62.googledri ve.com/host/0B6lNbn9SHhVYZHN0NUZHMkxEeGM/AudioPanicRoom%20Episode%20%23021%20Kenichi%20Arak awa.mp3) (77 MB, mp3) here
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Tracklist

01 "Jewel Bem Hunter LIME" - Jewel Bem Hunter Lime 11 (1994, X68000) by Kenichi Arakawa
02 "Queen in the Dark Night" - Rusty (1993, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
03 "Step by Step" - Demo (1990, PC-8801) by Kenichi Arakawa
04 "Opening" - Animahjong V3 (1993, X68000) by Kenichi Arakawa
05 "Give Me A Feeling" - Jewel Bem Hunter Lime 11 (1994, X68000) by Kenichi Arakawa
06 "Blue Flight" - Viper-V12 (1995, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
07 "Nami's Theme" - Viper-V16 (1995, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
08 "MA10" - Animahjong X (1994, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
09 "Shake Hip" - Viper-V12 (1995, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
10 "MILK10" - Exciting Milk Dai 1 Wa (1996, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
11 "Midorix" - PMD98 (1993) by Kenichi Arakawa
12 "Shooting Star" - Rusty (1993, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
13 "High Time" - Mahjong Elegance (1994, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
14 "Arabesque Rock" - Viper-BTR (1996, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
15 "LA09" - Lemon Angel (1995, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
16 "Much Difference" - Viper-V12 (1995, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
17 "Dear Takako" - Viper-V16 (1995, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa
18 "Ending 2" - Totsugeki! Mix (1994, PC-9801) by Kenichi Arakawa


So now that you have listened to the podcast and are left wondering where you can find all of these soundtracks, look no further! I posted some of Arakawa's X68000 music with the last update, so here is the majority of his work on the PC-98:


Exciting Milk Dai 1 Wa (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1996, Silence) - Brought to you by the makers of Thrilling Potatoes and Inspiring Kale.

Exciting Milk Dai 2 Wa (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1997, Silence) - The sequel, most of the music actually comes from the first game though.

Jewel Bem Hunter Lime / Homa Hunter Lime (PC-9801 [OPN,OPNA], 1994, Silence) - My rip includes the music from all 12 games.

Mahjong Elegance (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, C-Class)

Mahjong Sports Line (PC-9801 [OPN], 1996, C-Class)

Lemon Angel (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1995, Fairy Dust)

Viper-V10 RS (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1994, Sogna)

Viper-GTS RS (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1994, Sogna)

Viper-V12 (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1995, Sogna)

Viper-V16 (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1995, Sogna)

Viper-BTR (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1996, Sogna)

Viper-CTR (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1997, Sogna)

And finally two non-Arakawa soundtracks:

Fechi / Fetish (PC-9801, 1994, Cat's Pro) - By Akira Sato (MUSE) and Yuki Nakayama (PANDA)

Mesuneko Hishoshitsu (PC-9801 [OPN], 1995, Melody) - By Yuki Nakayama (PANDA)

I have one very last request- it is for the SHARP X68000- History of Eithlead- all of the tracks, including the opening.

If you can't easily rip any of my previous requests, is it easy enough to instead rip these soundtracks?

Mobile Suit Gundam Hyper Classic Operation (FM TOWNS )
EVE Burst Error (PC-98 and Windows versions)

If you can't easily rip any of my previous requests, is it easy enough to instead rip these soundtracks?

Mobile Suit Gundam Hyper Classic Operation (FM TOWNS )
EVE Burst Error (PC-98 and Windows versions)

Here is EVE burst error (not my rip though):

EVE burst error (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1995, C's Ware) - I'm not sure where I originally got this from, but I *think* this is based on the EGG release. The music is by Ryu Umemoto with Ryu Takami also contributing a handful of tracks and it goes without saying that this is totally awesome stuff.

The Windows version has a MIDI soundtrack that sounds pretty good as well, but I don't have the the time to record the 50+ tracks right now. Maybe something to keep in mind for later though.

Damn. That's OK. I have one more request- What about Power Slave for the PC98?

There you are!

Power Slave (PC-9801, 1995, Umitsuki Production) - Music by Naoto Ishikawa and Jirou Kida

I only have one simple and easy request to make. There's one arcade shmup game by Taito that I feel it's music is a bit neglected, and that is Asuka & Asuka. If you have the time, can you upload it?

Thanks, buddy! :D

How about some new Amiga soundtracks?

Creatures (Amiga, 1993, Thalamus) - Conversion of the C64 music by Tim Bartlett
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvfYJn9Uz3k)

Abandoned Places 2 (Amiga, 1993, ICE) - 3D dungeon crawler, also by Tim Bartlett
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IixvXkba3Rs)

Putty Squad (Amiga, 1994, System 3) - The original Amiga version of this game that remained unreleased until 2013. Music by Jason Page.
New (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8MPKLuIhM)

Fuzzball (Amiga, 1991, System 3) - Single-screen platform game with chiptune music by Tomas Dahlgren (Uncle Tom) and John Carehag (Ziphoid).
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cU0ntHC0SY)

Last Ninja 3 (Amiga, 1991, System 3) - Like the C64 version, this was composed by Reyn Ouwehand, but the music is entirely different.

Ultima VI: The False Prophet (Amiga, 1992, Origin) - Conversion of the DOS music by Matt Furniss
Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=132lDhM8qQs)

Renegade (Amiga, 1992, Imagine) - The computer port of Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun with original music by Tim Follin.
Main Theme (gameplay) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYr1-s97WU)


And two arcade games:

Asuka & Asuka (Arcade, 1988, Taito)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Arcade, 1991, Midway) - Music by Chris Granner, there is some overlap between this and his soundtrack for the T2 pinball game.

WHOA. Incredible. Thanks, dude!

Oh, here's a little trick, too:

If you open hoot.ini in a text editor, you can add a semicolon to the beginning of the "language=japanese.lng" line, and restart Hoot. All of the menus will now be in English! So it should look like this when you're done:

;language=japanese.lng

Easy peasy!

how do you figure something like that out..?

Hi, it's me again. I have an MSX Soundtrack request. Did you remember the PC-88 version of Last Armageddon? Well, now i'm searching for the MSX version of the Soundtrack. Could you help me with this please? :)

Hi, it's me again. I have an MSX Soundtrack request. Did you remember the PC-88 version of Last Armageddon? Well, now i'm searching for the MSX version of the Soundtrack. Could you help me with this please? :)

How about this?

Last Armageddon (MSX2 [OPLL], 1988, Brain Grey) - Not sure what is the definitive version of this soundtrack. Some tracks here sound better than the PC-88 release, others worse.

Hi no Tori: Hououhen / Firebird (MSX2, 1987, Konami) - Although based on the same manga, this is different from the Famicom release. Music by Motoaki Furukawa and Yoshinori Sasaki.

Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom (FM Towns, 1990, Sir-tech Software) - Pretty impressive soundtrack played by a real orchestra. This was composed by Kohei Tanaka and is one of the few games he's worked on.
Credits (https://youtu.be/8qAPNsiqT9k?t=48)

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how do you figure something like that out..?

I think the versions released by Knurek always had this, but I don't know if he was actually the first one to use it.

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AudioPanicRoom - #022: Game Music History ~1989~

We close out the 80's with a look at the state of game music in 1989. As usual, the playlist is ordered by release date.

Download Episode #022: Game Music History ~1989~ (https://archive.org/download/AudioPanicRoomEpisode022GameMusicHistory1989/AudioPanicRoom022VGMHistory1989.mp3) (159 MB, mp3) here
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Tracklist

01 "Main Theme" - RoboCop (1989, Commodore 64) by Jonathan Dunn
02 "Mid-Garts" - Mid-Garts (1989, PC-8801) by Masaaki Uno
03 "Main Theme" - Lightning Vaccus: The Knight of Iron (1989, X68000) by Koji Hayama
04 "Title Screen" - DNA Warrior (1989, Commodore 64) by Thomas Petersen,Kim Christensen
05 "Ready to Go / Captain Lancer" - Hellfire (1989, Arcade) by Tatsuya Uemura
06 "Title Screen" - R-Type (1989, Amiga) by Chris H�lsbeck
07 "Town 1" - Valna (1989, PC-8801) by Manabu Saito
08 "Title Screen" - Stormlord (1989, Commodore 64) by Johannes Bjerregaard
09 "B-Type Music" - Tetris (1989, Gameboy) by Hirokazu Tanaka
10 "Running Up! (Solo I)" - Dirt Fox (1989, Arcade) by Shinji Hosoe
11 "Rubble [Area 9]" - Gunhed (1989, PC Engine) by M.Miyamoto,JTS,M.Tsukamoto,S.Inoue,Ozono,K.Takeuch i
12 "Polyanna (I Believe In You)" - Mother (1989, NES) by Keiichi Suzuki
13 "Loading Tune" - Dominator (1989, Commodore 64) by Matt Gray
14 "Ravine" - Area 88 (1989, Arcade) by Manami Matsumae
15 "Main Theme" - Kult (1989, Amiga) by St�phane Picq
16 "The Moon" - Duck Tales (1989, NES) by Hiroshige Tonomura
17 "Title Theme" - The Colonel's Bequest (1989, MS-DOS) by Ken Allen
18 "Flood of Power" - Midnight Resistance (1989, Arcade) by A.Hara,H.Yoshida,T.Kiuchi,H.Komatsu,Fuse
19 "In The Dark Passages" - Shadow of the Beast (1989, Amiga) by David Whittaker
20 "Mission 3" - Fire Hawk: Thexder The Second Contact (1989, PC-8801) by Hiromi Ohba
21 "Space Quest Theme" - Leisure Suit Larry III (1989, MS-DOS) by Mike Dana
22 "Ending" - Emerald Dragon (1989, PC-8801) by Nobuhito Koise
23 "Opening" - Dual Targets: The 4th Unit Act.3 (1989, FM Towns) by Yasuhito Saito
24 "Title Screen" - Turbo Outrun (1989, Commodore 64) by Jeroen Tel
25 "Town of Normana" - Xak: The Art of Visual Stage (1989, MSX2) by Tadahiro Nitta,Ryuji Sasai
26 "Intro and Title" - Battle Squadron (1989, Amiga) by Ron Klaren
27 "Sunrise Blvd." - The Revenge of Shinobi (1989, Mega Drive) by Yuzo Koshiro
28 "One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue" - Knight Arms: The Hyblid Framer (1989, X68000) by Toshiya Yamanaka
29 "Level Select" - Ilyad (1989, Amiga) by Fr�d�ric Hahn
30 "Fire Scramble" - Gradius III (1989, Arcade) by J.Kaneda,S.Fukami,M.Higashino,K.Nakamura,M.Izumi
31 "Stage 5" - Abadox: The Deadly Inner War (1989, NES) by Kiyohiro Sada
32 "Go with the Stream" - Herzog Zwei (1989, Mega Drive) by Naosuke Arai,Tomomi Otani
33 "Ruins of Moondoria" - Ys Book I & II (1989, PC Engine CD) by Ryo Yonemitsu
34 "Beginning" - Castlevania III (1989, NES) by Hidenori Maezawa,Jun Funahashi,Yukie Morimoto
35 "Title" - Budokan: The Martial Spirit (1989, MS-DOS) by Rob Hubbard
36 "Laboratory of Madness" - Batman: The Video Game (1989, NES) by Naoki Kodaka
37 "Title Theme" - Ghouls'n Ghosts (1989, Amiga) by Tim Follin

How's it going on the X68000 soundtrack of History of Elthlead?

How's it going on the X68000 soundtrack of History of Elthlead?

I managed to create the raw WAV files, but then I got sidetracked by other things. It's not an overly long soundtrack though, so hopefully I can post it at some point this week.

I managed to create the raw WAV files, but then I got sidetracked by other things. It's not an overly long soundtrack though, so hopefully I can post it at some point this week.

OK. Cool. :D I just wish NCS made more games on the X68000 besides the game I mentioned, Lightning Vaccus and Signatory, but I guess it was because it was a very expensive computer to develop software for back then.

History of Elthlead (X68000, 1989, NCS) - Strategy game that is sort of a precursor of Masaya's Langrisser series.

Dinosaur (FM Towns, 1991, Falcom) - Wizardry-like dungeon crawler with music by Mieko Ishikawa and Masaaki Kawai. The FM Towns music sounds a little bit better than the OPN soundtracks of the PC88/98 releases.

Is there any chance to get the PC-Engine version of Last Armageddon? Sorry if i still request the same game in different versions :(

Is there any chance to get the PC-Engine version of Last Armageddon? Sorry if i still request the same game in different versions :(

You can download the CD tracks from here (http://hes.joshw.info/l/Last%20Armageddon%20(TCD)(1990-08-31)(Brain%20Grey).7z). I don't think anybody has created sound files for the rest of the music though. And in case you don't already have it, there is also a release on 3 CDs for the FM Towns (http://fmtowns.joshw.info/l/Last%20Armageddon%20CD%20Special%20(1989)(Brain%20 Grey).7z).

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AudioPanicRoom - #023: FM Metal

Lock up your daughters, get out the air guitar, and crank the volume up to eleven! This is FM Metal, a collection of some of the finest metal tracks to ever grace FM sound chips.

Download Episode #023: FM Metal (https://archive.org/download/AudioPanicRoom023FMMetal/AudioPanicRoom023FMMetal.mp3) (81 MB, mp3) here
�or watch it on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw73wj85aw8)

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Tracklist

01 "Badu's Menace" - Xak: The Art of Visual Stage (1990, X68000) by Ryuji Sasai, Tadahiro Nitta
02 "Calling on the Dark Dragon King" - Elemental Master (1990, Mega Drive) by Toshiharu Yamanishi
03 "Main Theme (La Grange)" - The Getaway: High Speed II (1992, Pinball) by Dan Forden
04 "Critical Tune" - Knight Arms (1989, X68000) by Toshiya Yamanaka
05 "Maisoun" - Brandish 3: Spirit of Balcan (1994, PC-9801) by Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.
06 "The Black Body" - Genocide 2 Square (1993, FM Towns) by Zoom Sound Team
07 "Omake BGM#2" - Dragon's Fury (1991, Mega Drive) by Toshiaki Sakoda, Masanobu Tsukamoto, Toshiharu Yamanishi
08 "Resolve to Win" - Overtake (1992, X68000) by Hideyuki Shimono, Naoyuki Kimura
09 "Stage 1" - G-LOC Air Battle (1991, Mega Drive) by Matt Furniss
10 "Stages 2, 4, and 6" - Mad Motor (1989, Arcade) by Mitchell
11 "Autism" - Demo (1998, PC-9801) by Wiz.
12 "Creeping Thing" - Battle Mania Daiginjou (1993, Mega Drive) by Y.Hamada, S.Masuko, Y.Suzuki, F.Tamayama
13 "Run a Red Light" - Full Throttle (1988, X68000) by Kazunori Takahashi
14 "Offensive Overdrive" - Musha Aleste (1990, Mega Drive) by Toshiaki Sakoda
15 "Stage 1" - Dokkaebi-ga Ganda (1995, MS-DOS) by Senori Box
16 "War Like Requiem" - Thunder Force IV (1992, Mega Drive) by Takeshi Yoshida
17 "Battle Field" - Jinn: Eien no Yuushi (1994, PC-9801) by Takahiro Yonemura, Osamu Ishikawa
18 "Battlefield - Shiver" - Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (2008, Nintendo DS) by Yuzo Koshiro
19 "Final Boss" - Metal Head (1995, 32X) by Jun Senoue

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AudioPanicRoom - #023: FM Metal

Lock up your daughters, get out the air guitar, and crank the volume up to eleven! This is FM Metal, a collection of some of the finest metal tracks to ever grace FM sound chips.

Download Episode #023: FM Metal (https://archive.org/download/AudioPanicRoom023FMMetal/AudioPanicRoom023FMMetal.mp3) (81 MB, mp3) here
…or watch it on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw73wj85aw8)

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Tracklist

01 "Badu's Menace" - Xak: The Art of Visual Stage (1990, X68000) by Ryuji Sasai, Tadahiro Nitta
02 "Calling on the Dark Dragon King" - Elemental Master (1990, Mega Drive) by Toshiharu Yamanishi
03 "Main Theme (La Grange)" - The Getaway: High Speed II (1992, Pinball) by Dan Forden
04 "Critical Tune" - Knight Arms (1989, X68000) by Toshiya Yamanaka
05 "Maisoun" - Brandish 3: Spirit of Balcan (1994, PC-9801) by Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.
06 "The Black Body" - Genocide 2 Square (1993, FM Towns) by Zoom Sound Team
07 "Omake BGM#2" - Dragon's Fury (1991, Mega Drive) by Toshiaki Sakoda, Masanobu Tsukamoto, Toshiharu Yamanishi
08 "Resolve to Win" - Overtake (1992, X68000) by Hideyuki Shimono, Naoyuki Kimura
09 "Stage 1" - G-LOC Air Battle (1991, Mega Drive) by Matt Furniss
10 "Stages 2, 4, and 6" - Mad Motor (1989, Arcade) by Mitchell
11 "Autism" - Demo (1998, PC-9801) by Wiz.
12 "Creeping Thing" - Battle Mania Daiginjou (1993, Mega Drive) by Y.Hamada, S.Masuko, Y.Suzuki, F.Tamayama
13 "Run a Red Light" - Full Throttle (1988, X68000) by Kazunori Takahashi
14 "Offensive Overdrive" - Musha Aleste (1990, Mega Drive) by Toshiaki Sakoda
15 "Stage 1" - Dokkaebi-ga Ganda (1995, MS-DOS) by Senori Box
16 "War Like Requiem" - Thunder Force IV (1992, Mega Drive) by Takeshi Yoshida
17 "Battle Field" - Jinn: Eien no Yuushi (1994, PC-9801) by Takahiro Yonemura, Osamu Ishikawa
18 "Battlefield - Shiver" - Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (2008, Nintendo DS) by Yuzo Koshiro
19 "Final Boss" - Metal Head (1995, 32X) by Jun Senoue


THIS is why FM will always trump over PSG in terms of sound and music.

THIS is why FM will always trump over PSG in terms of sound and music.

Well, if you want to be pedantic, then most of these tracks actually feature a mix of FM, PSG, and PCM. But yes, this IS great stuff.

Well, if you want to be pedantic, then most of these tracks actually feature a mix of FM, PSG, and PCM. But yes, this IS great stuff.
Oh. Well, I apologize. Damn, must I always offend you and everyone else here?

I haven't had much time lately for new rips, but things are looking a bit better this week. So if anybody has any requests then let me know until Thursday.


Oh. Well, I apologize. Damn, must I always offend you and everyone else here?

I just wanted to point out that it was technically not 100% pure FM. But I didn't mean to belittle your opinion in any way.

Is the Gundam game for FM TOWNS by Ryu Umemoto still WIP?

Well, I wanted to post two different batches of three requests, but since I am running out of time and there is only one day left until requests are closed again (and also due to the fact that I won't be online this site as much up until the weekend), I'm gonna have to combine my two batches into a single six requests thing (much to our chagrin, of course, but anyways...)

- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragons of Flame (FM Towns, if possible; if not, then ignore this.)
- D' (aka D-Dash) (MSX. I think I've requested this before (or maybe to ruiner), but my memory is vague (I just had my 32nd birthday a few weeks ago, lol).)
- Feedback (MSX, Technosoft's attempt at Space Harrier.)
- Flying Shark (FM Towns, an adaptation of the Toaplan shmup.)
- Kabuki Z (Arcade, developed by Kaneko and published by Taito.)
- Kyukyoku Tiger (FM Towns, another Toaplan arcade adaptation.)

Again, my apologies for these, but I won't be online as much often until the weekend, and today's my only day off.

Anyways, take care for now, nx666! :)

That was an EXCELLENT APR! FM metal is one of my favorite genres, and you nailed it with the selections. I'm happy you put some Elemental Master in there, too. :)

Small request, would it be possible to get the Amiga and FM Towns of Turbo Outrun?

What's up with all these FM Towns requests? Just as a heads-up, while CD audio soundtracks are not a problem, things are looking pretty bad when it comes to anything using the internal sound chip. These soundtracks generally require a lot of manual work, so there is a bigger chance that I have to give them a pass.

Anyway, here are three of the more straightforward requests:

Turbo OutRun (FM Towns, 1989, CRI) - Pretty good CD arrangements of the arcade soundtrack.

Turbo OutRun (Amiga, 1989, U.S.Gold) - The Amiga conversion by Dave Lowe. Half of the arcade soundtrack is missing, and was is there doesn't sound too great either.

Flying Shark (FM Towns, 1993, Ving)

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That was an EXCELLENT APR! FM metal is one of my favorite genres, and you nailed it with the selections. I'm happy you put some Elemental Master in there, too. :)

That was actually one of the easiest playlists to make, I had enough material to fill another 3 or 4 podcasts with similar awesome tracks.

I haven't had much time lately for new rips, but things are looking a bit better this week. So if anybody has any requests then let me know until Thursday.



I just wanted to point out that it was technically not 100% pure FM. But I didn't mean to belittle your opinion in any way.

Oh. Well, I apologize.

What's up with all these FM Towns requests?

I guess it just happens to have some cool arrangements! Thanks for filling the requests anyway.

More requests:

Kabuki-Z (Arcade, 1988, Taito) - Kaneko-developed beat'em-up with music by Tatsuya Watanabe

Kyukyoku Tiger / Twin Cobra (FM Towns, 1994, Ving) - This comes with the original arcade soundtrack plus an arranged version that sounds pretty good. There are a few extra tracks as well, but I couldn't figure out how (or if) they are used in the game.

Feedback (MSX2 [OPLL], 1988, Tecnosoft) - The FM Pac version of this soundtrack, composed by Tec(h)nosoft veteran Naosuke Arai

D' (MSX2, 1988, Tecnosoft) - This sounds pretty basic, at least compared with the PC-88 version. The original compositions are by Arai, but I don't know if he did the MSX implementation as well.

Metajo (PC-9801 [86], 1996, Anjin) and Zai Metajo (PC-9801 [86], 1996, Anjin) - Two strategy RPGs that remind me a little bit of the Langrisser series. The music is really good and has a slightly electronic feel to it.

TFX (MS-DOS [CD Audio], 1993, Ocean) - For the most part this is an arrangement of the MT-32 soundtrack plus a few new tracks. Pretty awesome 80s synth by Barry Leitch and Dean Evans.

One last request:

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hyper Classic Operation (FM Towns, 1992, Family Soft) - An early Ryu Umemoto soundtrack

All the FM Towns games now have their own section.

Metajo (PC-9801 [86], 1996, Anjin) and Zai Metajo (PC-9801 [86], 1996, Anjin) - Two strategy RPGs that remind me a little bit of the Langrisser series. The music is really good and has a slightly electronic feel to it.

♡♡♡Metajo! ♡♡♡nx666!
Thank you for your kindness!!

Well done! Many special thanks! Here is an interesting fact about Gundam:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chinese-gundam-%E5%A4%A9%E9%83%B72%E5%8F%B7

Well done! Many special thanks! Here is an interesting fact about Gundam:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chinese-gundam-%E5%A4%A9%E9%83%B72%E5%8F%B7

I've read about this. Man, they like to bootleg everything don't they?

Grand Striker: Human Cup (Arcade) has been updated with new tags, thanks to KingTengu for that!

Also, I've uploaded a new version of Zai Metajo (PC-9801) that fixes some issues with one track.

One last request:

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hyper Classic Operation (FM Towns, 1992, Family Soft) - An early Ryu Umemoto soundtrack

All the FM Towns games now have their own section.

That's wonderful! If only I can get the soundtracks that Data West have made for the system- the music that their composer, Yasuhito Saito is awesome.

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #024: Human Insects

Another mixtape with no particular theme. This time we are hanging out with the titular human insects, swing down the highway of funk, and brave the data storm while harboring forbidden feelings for King Golli.

Download Episode #024: Human Insects (https://archive.org/download/AudioPanicRoom024HumanInsects/AudioPanicRoom024HumanInsects.mp3) (76 MB, mp3) here
�or watch it on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfiUt8OvKY)

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Tracklist

01 "Title Screen" - Datastorm (1989, Amiga) by Timm Engels
02 "No Regrets" - Kimi Dake ni Ai o... (1991, X68000) by Akira Sato, BAKI, Ryu Takami
03 "Easy Control" - Demo (1994, MOD) by Micha� Baczek (Timer)
04 "Main Theme" - Sidewize (1987, Commodore 64) by Keith Tinman
05 "Miyuki Theme" - Demo (1996, PC-9801) by OTU
06 "Our Heroes, Dadandarn" - Monster Maulers (1993, Arcade) by Yoshihiko Koezuka
07 "Field - Emergency" - Metajo (1996, PC-9801) by Yoji Takahashi, Takehiro Nakai, Masaomi Hada, Toshihiro Takagi
08 "They Call Me Swinger" - Interstate '76 (1997, MS-DOS) by Arion Salazar
09 "Rockabilly King Golli" - Demo (X68000) by Utabi Hirokawa (Utabi), Z.Takeuchi
10 "Sabaku BGM" - Dragon Scroll: Yomigaerishi Maryuu (1987, NES) by Kouji Murata
11 "Ambient Zing" - Demo (1993, MOD) by Martin Larsson (Liquid)
12 "Highway" - Go Go Ackman 3 (1995, SNES) by Kojiro Mikusa
13 "When Grieving Ends, the Fight Begins" - Dinosaur (1991, FM Towns) by Mieko Ishikawa, Masaaki Kawai
14 "The Docks" - Rolling Ronny (1991, Commodore 64) by Markus Schneider
15 "Main Menu" - One Must Fall 2097 (1994, MS-DOS) by Kenny Chou
16 "BGM #09" - Ningen Konchuu: Nozoki (1997, PC-9801) by Kyouko Anderson
17 "End Titles" - The Last Express (1997, MS-DOS) by Elia Cmiral

Here is a bunch of new C64 soundtracks:

1942 (C64, 1986, Elite) - Mark Cooksey

Baby Blues (C64, 1990, Virgin Mastertronic) - Geoff Follin

Bangkok Knights (C64, 1987, System 3) - Rob Hubbard, Matt Gray

Black It! (C64, 1995, CP Verlag) - Matthias Hartung

M.A.C.H. (C64, 1987, Starvision) - Johannes Bjerregaard

Mega Starforce (C64, 1993, CP Verlag) - Thomas Detert

Mikie / High School Graffiti: Mikie (C64, 1996, Imagine) - Martin Galway

Rambo III (C64, 1988, Ocean) - Jonathan Dunn

Starforce (C64, 1991, CP Verlag) - Thomas Detert

Stone Age (C64, 1992, Eclipse) - Thomas Detert

Subway Vigilante (C64, 1989, Players Premier) - Johannes Bjerregaard

ThunderCats (C64, 1987, Elite) - Rob Hubbard

And there are also a few updated C64 rips:

One Man And His Droid, Neverending Story, Kong Strikes Back, Wizball, Warhawk, The Human Race, The Last V8

I have a request- that is if you have the time. Could you upload all of the X68000 WOLFTEAM MT-32 versions of Arcus Odyssey, Granada, Ryu naki no Yori, Dino Land, Final Zone and Sol-Feace? If you have already done some of them, just let me know, and that is fine. By the way, any good suggestions for RPG and strategy game soundtracks for the X68000, PC88 and PC98 that I have not mentioned that has good music?

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #025: CP Verlag Chronicles

In the early 90s the C64 gaming market started to dry up as most developers had moved on to 16 bit computers and consoles. This gap was partially filled by a number of disk magazines, like those issued by German publisher CP Verlag. And while the games on these disks were usually nothing to write home about; their soundtracks, often created by people from the demo scene, were a last hurrah for game music on the C64.

Download Episode #025: CP Verlag Chronicles (https://archive.org/download/AudioPanicRoom025CPVerlagChronicles/AudioPanicRoom025CPVerlagChronicles.mp3) (52 MB, mp3) here
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Tracklist

01 "Menu Music" - Magic Disk 64 (10/89) (1989, Commodore 64) by Markus Schneider
02 "Title Screen" - Ballfever (1993, Commodore 64) by Thomas Mogensen (Drax)
03 "Intro" - Tube Madness (1991, Commodore 64) by Stefan Hartwig
04 "Title Screen" - Roll Over (1994, Commodore 64) by Matthias Hartung (The Syndrom)
05 "Ending" - Sysiphus in �gypten (1992, Commodore 64) by Stefan Woltran
06 "Main Theme" - Puzzle Shuffle (1990, Commodore 64) by Reyn Ouwehand
07 "Title Screen" - Enforcer (1992, Commodore 64) by Markus Siebold
08 "Upscene Production Logo" - Mastermind (1994, Commodore 64) by Tom Hoffer (MAC2)
09 "Title Screen" - Gordian Tomb (1990, Commodore 64) by Thomas Detert
10 "Title Screen" - Paranoimia (1989, Commodore 64) by Michael Hendriks
11 "Choice" - Snake Mania (1991, Commodore 64) by Klaus Gr�ngaard (Link)
12 "Title Screen" - Twin-Down (1992, Commodore 64) by Carl Gustaf Liebe (Yaemon)
13 "Menu Music" - Game On (11/89) (1989, Commodore 64) by Markus Schneider
14 "In-Game BGM" - Adrenalin (1991, Commodore 64) by Marvin Severijns, Michel de Bree
15 "Title Screen" - Black It! (1995, Commodore 64) by Matthias Hartung (The Syndrom)
16 "Title Screen" - Wobbler (1990, Commodore 64) by Rudolf Stember
17 "In-Game BGM" - Underground (1989, Commodore 64) by Chris Ammerm�ller (Beat Machine)

I have a request- that is if you have the time. Could you upload all of the X68000 WOLFTEAM MT-32 versions of Arcus Odyssey, Granada, Ryu naki no Yori, Dino Land, Final Zone and Sol-Feace? If you have already done some of them, just let me know, and that is fine. By the way, any good suggestions for RPG and strategy game soundtracks for the X68000, PC88 and PC98 that I have not mentioned that has good music?

I think these are rips of the OSTs, but I'm not entirely sure:

FZ Senki Axis (X68000 [OPM/MSM,MT-32,CM-64], 1990, Telenet)

Granada (X68000 [OPM/MSM,MT-32], 1990, Telenet)

Sol-Feace (X68000 [OPM/MSM,MT-32,CM-64], 1990, Wolfteam)

I'm not sure which games you have mentioned so far, but from what I remember there was a pretty big list at some point :) There are still quite a few RPG/strategy games for these systems in my backlog, hopefully I will be able to post them at some point.

I think these are rips of the OSTs, but I'm not entirely sure:

FZ Senki Axis (X68000 [OPM/MSM,MT-32,CM-64], 1990, Telenet)

Granada (X68000 [OPM/MSM,MT-32], 1990, Telenet)

Sol-Feace (X68000 [OPM/MSM,MT-32,CM-64], 1990, Wolfteam)

I'm not sure which games you have mentioned so far, but from what I remember there was a pretty big list at some point :) There are still quite a few RPG/strategy games for these systems in my backlog, hopefully I will be able to post them at some point.


Well, from what I checked on Hoot, Gulf War, three Ten-bu games on the PC-98, and other games on it also use the MT-32. The other games I have mentioned are Arcus Odyssey, Ryu Naki no Yori and Dino Land. There are a lot of games that use the MT-32 on the PC-98 too as well on the X68000 that WOLF TEAM composed. I would like those.

As long as we're talking about Wolf Team, anyone know where can I find Final Zone II? You'd think with the infamous "localization" it'd be a little more accessible, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere. I know you don't handle really handle PC Engine stuff but as long as we're on the subject I figure someone here would be able to point me in the right direction. And yes Final Zone II isn't Wolf Team, but it's close enough :p

As long as we're talking about Wolf Team, anyone know where can I find Final Zone II? You'd think with the infamous "localization" it'd be a little more accessible, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere. I know you don't handle really handle PC Engine stuff but as long as we're on the subject I figure someone here would be able to point me in the right direction. And yes Final Zone II isn't Wolf Team, but it's close enough :p

Forgive me for being weird, but I liked Telenet's localization of Final Zone II and Last Alert on the PC-Engine. And WOLF TEAM would've still be around if Telenet didn't screw up on their sales and their games. THEY would've been the ones to publish AND develop Tales of Phantasia instead of giving it to a famous company like Namco. But they had no choice because Telenet kept messing up and screwing up on their games and sales.

As long as we're talking about Wolf Team, anyone know where can I find Final Zone II? You'd think with the infamous "localization" it'd be a little more accessible, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere. I know you don't handle really handle PC Engine stuff but as long as we're on the subject I figure someone here would be able to point me in the right direction. And yes Final Zone II isn't Wolf Team, but it's close enough :p

Here is an old rip that I made a few years back. In terms of quality this should still be ok (it's all CD audio), and I updated the tags to match the newer soundtracks. To be honest, the vast majority of the early CD games have pretty hilarious voice acting and vocal songs. Come to think of it, that would actually be a pretty good idea for a podcast: cheesy vocal themes from early CD games. There are some real gems out there.

Final Zone II (PC Engine CD, 1990, Telenet)

To tell the truth, I like the hilarious voice acting. I find it better than the voice acting done by the famous voice actors.

Just wanted to jump in here and say that I love Audio Panic Room. Found it through itunes and I'm loving it. Thanks for putting together some great playlists.

P.S. I also found the B.Rap Boys soundtrack you put together on youtube. THANK YOU! I was looking for a good rip of that very hard a couple of years ago. Just wish we knew a bit more about the composing of it.

Just wanted to jump in here and say that I love Audio Panic Room. Found it through itunes and I'm loving it. Thanks for putting together some great playlists.

P.S. I also found the B.Rap Boys soundtrack you put together on youtube. THANK YOU! I was looking for a good rip of that very hard a couple of years ago. Just wish we knew a bit more about the composing of it.

Thanks, glad you liked it! Regarding B.Rap Boys: check out the comments under the video, if you haven't. There is some discussion about the origins of the soundtrack.

Hi nx666. You did well with everyone's requests. We thank you.

If you need more suggestions, try checking out every home computer version of every game by Right Stuff as mentioned in this album:

http://vgmdb.net/album/4952

I thank you as well, nx666. I don't know what I can do to repay you for these great tunes! and I agree with you, 1983parrothead- Foresight Dolly and Revery are a couple that I want the PC-98 soundtracks for.

Thanks guys. I wish I had more time for new rips but sadly that hasn't really been the case lately. I'm also currently sitting on a pile of half-done soundtracks that I wan't to finish before I start anything new and I hope to get at least some of that done this week. Things are looking a bit better for December though so maybe I'll be able to fit in another round of requests.

Thanks guys. I wish I had more time for new rips but sadly that hasn't really been the case lately. I'm also currently sitting on a pile of half-done soundtracks that I wan't to finish before I start anything new and I hope to get at least some of that done this week. Things are looking a bit better for December though so maybe I'll be able to fit in another round of requests. OK. Good luck.

Let's start with some C64 soundtracks that were supposed to be posted together with the podcast. Most of the games here ended up being featured on the playlist, so this is all pretty good stuff.

Roll Over (C64, 1994, CP Verlag) - Matthias Hartung
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X864YmVDKQ)

Wobbler (C64, 1990, CP Verlag) - Rudi Stember
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNfCq4pOv4)

Suprallay (C64, 1990, CP Verlag) - Rudi Stember
Main Theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAos6yffMjQ)

Twin-Down (C64, 1992, CP Verlag) - Carl Gustaf Liebe (Yaemon)
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO5sCekaJBU)

Paranoimia (C64, 1991, CP Verlag) - Michael Hendriks
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCNcOJme9gY)

Breathalyzer (C64, 1991, CP Verlag) - Mario Laugell (Steel)
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnw3V2sZGxE)

Metal Force (C64, 1989, CP Verlag) - Jens Blidon
Title Screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA8wdQuq2kM)

Thanks, glad you liked it! Regarding B.Rap Boys: check out the comments under the video, if you haven't. There is some discussion about the origins of the soundtrack.

Oh wow, that's awesome! Really, thank you for posting it. There's no way I would've learned any of this without your help.

Some more backlog cleaning with a handful of new PC soundtracks:

Sub Culture (Windows, 1997, Ubi Soft) - This was a pretty awesome game, kinda like Elite in an underwater setting. The music is fantastic as well, if you like the Ecco soundtracks then you should definitely check this one out.

Commander Blood (MS-DOS, 1994, Microfolie's) - The sequel to Captain Blood, composed by St�phane Picq and Philippe Egret. Some great tracks, the only downside is the poor sound quality of the source files.

Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (Windows, 1996, Disney Interactive) - Most people are probably more familiar with the console versions of this soundtrack by Michael Giacchino. The PC release features the same compositions re-arranged in CD audio quality.

SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest (MS-DOS, 1995, Maxis) - There are some pretty interesting electronic tracks in this game, something you wouldn't necessarily expect from a Sim-type release of this era.

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #026: Hiroaki Sano

Hiroaki Sano spent much of his early career composing for visual novels of publishers like Discovery or Studio Twinkle. As a master of both FM synth and MIDI arrangements, his soundtracks are pretty good showcases for the stylistic diversity within the music of this genre. This podcast features a selection of tracks that he composed for the PC-9801.

Download Episode #026: Hiroaki Sano (https://archive.org/download/AudioPanicRoom026HiroakiSano/AudioPanicRoom026HiroakiSano.mp3) (79 MB, mp3) here
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Tracklist

01 "At the End of a Fleeting Dream" - Hinadori no Saezuri (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
02 "Deep Sky Submarine " - Valkyrie: The Power Beauties (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
03 "G413" - GaoGao! 4th Canaan: Yakusoku no Chi (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
04 "Lets Dance the GOGOGO" - Division Guardian: Twinkle-Star (1993, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
05 "Inside My Heart" - Hinadori no Saezuri (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
06 "Eagle Windeed" - Mime (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
07 "Cold Words Wet My Cheek" - Hinadori no Saezuri (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
08 "Sea Side Step!!" - Marine Rouge (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
09 "Departure Ceremony" - Armored Flaghip Atragon (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
10 "G410" - GaoGao! 4th Canaan: Yakusoku no Chi (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
11 "Night Safe 777" - Mime (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
12 "Distortion" - Marine Rouge (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
13 "Silicon Lover" - Valkyrie: The Power Beauties (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
14 "Mother..." - Mime (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
15 "Beyond Several Nights" - Miwaku no Chousho (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
16 "Reverse by Death" - Mirage 2: Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken (1994, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
17 "Ending" - Possessioner (1994, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
18 "Shigamu Magic" - Mirage 2: Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken (1994, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
19 "G406" - GaoGao! 4th Canaan: Yakusoku no Chi (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano



And there are also a few more of his soundtracks:

2 Shot Diary (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Mink)

Diver's (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Mink)

Marine Rouge (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1995, Discovery)

Mirage 2 (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1994, Discovery)

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AudioPanicRoom - Episode #026: Hiroaki Sano

Hiroaki Sano spent much of his early career composing for visual novels of publishers like Discovery or Studio Twinkle. As a master of both FM synth and MIDI arrangements, his soundtracks are pretty good showcases for the stylistic diversity within the music of this genre. This podcast features a selection of tracks that he composed for the PC-9801.

Download Episode #026: Hiroaki Sano (https://archive.org/download/AudioPanicRoom026HiroakiSano/AudioPanicRoom026HiroakiSano.mp3) (79 MB, mp3) here
…or watch it on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-kiiMFyEEc)

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Tracklist

01 "At the End of a Fleeting Dream" - Hinadori no Saezuri (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
02 "Deep Sky Submarine " - Valkyrie: The Power Beauties (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
03 "G413" - GaoGao! 4th Canaan: Yakusoku no Chi (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
04 "Lets Dance the GOGOGO" - Division Guardian: Twinkle-Star (1993, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
05 "Inside My Heart" - Hinadori no Saezuri (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
06 "Eagle Windeed" - Mime (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
07 "Cold Words Wet My Cheek" - Hinadori no Saezuri (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
08 "Sea Side Step!!" - Marine Rouge (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
09 "Departure Ceremony" - Armored Flaghip Atragon (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
10 "G410" - GaoGao! 4th Canaan: Yakusoku no Chi (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
11 "Night Safe 777" - Mime (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
12 "Distortion" - Marine Rouge (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
13 "Silicon Lover" - Valkyrie: The Power Beauties (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
14 "Mother..." - Mime (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
15 "Beyond Several Nights" - Miwaku no Chousho (1995, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
16 "Reverse by Death" - Mirage 2: Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken (1994, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
17 "Ending" - Possessioner (1994, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
18 "Shigamu Magic" - Mirage 2: Torry x Neat x Roan no Daibouken (1994, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano
19 "G406" - GaoGao! 4th Canaan: Yakusoku no Chi (1997, PC-9801) by Hiroaki Sano



And there are also a few more of his soundtracks:

2 Shot Diary (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Mink)

Diver's (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Mink)

Marine Rouge (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1995, Discovery)

Mirage 2 (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1994, Discovery)

I think my favorite soundtrack he did was Possessioner.

I think my favorite soundtrack he did was Possessioner.

Having just listened to all of his PC-98 soundtracks over the last two weeks, I think the picks of the bunch are Hinadori no Saezuri, Mime, Yakusoku no Chi (for MIDI) and Valkyrie (for FM). But that's splitting hairs, pretty much all of his soundtracks range from good to spectacular. Possessioner is awesome as well, although half of the tracks were composed by Masahiro Kajihara. So I guess that actually makes it double awesome :)

Also, if anybody has any requests then feel free to post them until Sunday

Here's my 3 requests:

Chase HQ (FM TOWNS)
Dungeon Hack (PC-98)
Revery: Izanai no Masuishō (PC-98)

Having just listened to all of his PC-98 soundtracks over the last two weeks, I think the picks of the bunch are Hinadori no Saezuri, Mime, Yakusoku no Chi (for MIDI) and Valkyrie (for FM). But that's splitting hairs, pretty much all of his soundtracks range from good to spectacular. Possessioner is awesome as well, although half of the tracks were composed by Masahiro Kajihara. So I guess that actually makes it double awesome :)

Also, if anybody has any requests then feel free to post them until Sunday

This is probably a long shot, but I guess it won't hurt to ask. I have a video game music channel on YouTube and someone recently asked me if I could upload music from Gunbee F-99: The Kidnapping of Lady Akiko for the Commodore Amiga. I couldn't find the soundtrack anywhere and I would like to ask if it's possible for you to rip it.

EDIT: It appears to be a homebrew game that is still commercially sold. Nevermind then.

This is probably a long shot, but I guess it won't hurt to ask. I have a video game music channel on YouTube and someone recently asked me if I could upload music from Gunbee F-99: The Kidnapping of Lady Akiko for the Commodore Amiga. I couldn't find the soundtrack anywhere and I would like to ask if it's possible for you to rip it.

EDIT: It appears to be a homebrew game that is still commercially sold. Nevermind then.

Too late!

Gunbee F-99: The Kidnapping of Lady Akiko (Amiga, 1998, APC&TCP) - For the most part this is a pretty competent port of Detana TwinBee. The soundtrack is completely different though, including a Devo cover for the first stage. This game was made in Peru, which also makes this the first South American soundtrack to be featured here.

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Here's my 3 requests:

Chase HQ (FM TOWNS)
Dungeon Hack (PC-98)
Revery: Izanai no Masuishō (PC-98)

I can't find a disk image for Dungeon Hack. Going by this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StUQz_oVNI) the intro music is the same as in the DOS version (which had very little music to begin with), but I don't know if they made any other changes to the PC-98 soundtrack. Anyway, all I could offer you at this point is the DOS soundtrack which has Adlib and MT-32 versions. Let me know which one (if any) you want.

I have a few WOLFTEAM soundtracks-
Arcus Odyssey (MT-32) version for X68000
Gulf War Soukouden (MT-32) PC-98
Tenbu Limited / Mankan Zenseki (MT-32) PC-98
Shinsengumi: Bakumatsu Genshikou (MT-32) PC-98
Goh 2 (MT-32) PC-98
Tenbu Spirits Sangokushi Seishi (MT-32) PC-98
Jimmu Denshou (MT-32) PC-98
Ryu naki no Yori (MT-32 X68000


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Ah. I think my favorite one that Kajihara composed was YU-NO.

Let's go with both for MS-DOS Dungeon Hack. Hopefully, the PC-98 one will be found soon.

I got some requests. I was going to request some yesterday, and then another request Saturday before the deadline for requests stopped on Sunday, but I never had the time to do so, so I will combine these into one (my apologies for it, too).

- Guardian (Arcade; an unusual Taito beat-'em up where you travel to various planets and beat up aliens.)
- Holosseum (Arcade; an unusual fighting game by Sega that utilises four different fighting styles. Made with the same technology they used for Time Traveler.)
- The Karate Tournament (Arcade; a strange fighting game by Mitchell. Your player is based on the legendary Andy Hug apparently.)
- The Persian Gulf Inferno (Amiga; an unusual game where you go and stop terrorists at an oil rig.)
- Robo Army (Arcade; SNK beat-em up with cyborgs and the like.)
- The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth (Commodore 64; the second video game to feature the Robots in Disguise. Is it possible to include the narration that plays at the beginning of the game, just to make it feel complete?)

Too late!

Gunbee F-99: The Kidnapping of Lady Akiko (Amiga, 1998, APC&TCP) - For the most part this is a pretty competent port of Detana TwinBee. The soundtrack is completely different though, including a Devo cover for the first stage. This game was made in Peru, which also makes this the first South American soundtrack to be featured here.[COLOR="Silver"]


Thank you so much. I hope you didn't have to actually buy the game to rip this soundtrack.

Here's the first batch of requests:

Dungeon Hack (PC-9801 [OPN], 1995, Right Stuff) - found a vgm file for this

Chase H.Q. (FM Towns, 1991, Ving)

Goh 2 (PC-9801 [MT-32], 1992, Wolfteam)

Gulf War Soukouden (PC-9801 [MT-32], 1993, Telenet)

Guardian / Get Star (Arcade, 1986, Taito)

Holosseum (Arcade, 1992, Sega)

More stuff:

Tenbu: Sangokushi Seishi (PC-9801 [MT-32], 1991, Wolfteam)

Tenbu Limited / Mankan Zenseki (PC-9801 [MT-32], 1992, Wolfteam)

Revery: Izanai no Masuishou (PC-9801 [OPN], 1994, Right Stuff)

Roby Army (Arcade, 1991, SNK)

The Persian Gulf Inferno (Amiga, 1989, Innerprise) - This also includes the extended soundtrack of the German version (North Sea Inferno)

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Jimmu Denshou (MT-32) PC-98


Which game is this, Jinmu Denshou the Space Harrier clone on PC Engine?

Here are the last of the suggestions from this week. Karate Tournament is still too much work (and had been requested before) and Arcus Odyssey will have to wait until the next round of requests.

Shinsengumi: Bakumatsu Genshikou (PC-9801 [MT-32], 1991, Wolfteam)

Ryu: Naki no Ryuu Yori (X68000 [MT-32], 1991, Wolfteam) - I added this to the already existing FM version of the soundtrack

Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth (C64, 1996, Activision) - The most remarkable thing about this game is the intro that spans a whole disk side and contains almost 2 minutes of speech. The track that I included here has all the loading pauses removed though.

Some C64 suggestions:

*Barbarian
*Barbarian II
*Castlevania
*Gradius
*Gryzor (aka Contra)
*Mayhem in Monsterland
*Nemesis (the shoot'em up that is, not Nemesis the Warlock, which is already in the list)
*Total Recall
*Transformers (the Ocean game)
*Ultima IV
*Yie Ar Kung Fu 2

I'm honestly surprised not to see Barbarian I & II, Mayhem in Monsterland, and Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 on the list, as they're considered C64 classics with great music. Castlevania, Gradius, Gryzor, Nemesis, and Ultima IV are not very well-known in their C64 versions, but would be a nice treat to hear for fans who know these classics on other systems. Anyway, some suggestions I hope you consider, would be awesome to hear these in SID stereo. :)

I'm honestly surprised not to see Barbarian I & II, Mayhem in Monsterland, and Yie Ar Kung Fu 2 on the list, as they're considered C64 classics with great music. Castlevania, Gradius, Gryzor, Nemesis, and Ultima IV are not very well-known in their C64 versions, but would be a nice treat to hear for fans who know these classics on other systems. Anyway, some suggestions I hope you consider, would be awesome to hear these in SID stereo. :)

There is still a lot of good stuff missing in the C64 section; I currently have a backlog of about 200 soundtracks that I want to add eventually. And that's without even trying to make complete collections for some of the big-name composers. I also had to put some games on hold (like Castlevania, Metal Gear, or Barbarian II) because they are incomplete/missing in SOASC. They are currently running recordings for the latest version of HVSC, so hopefully I can post these soundtracks at some point.

There is still a lot of good stuff missing in the C64 section; I currently have a backlog of about 200 soundtracks that I want to add eventually. And that's without even trying to make complete collections for some of the big-name composers.

OK, I figured as much. Didn't mean to sound ungrateful by the way, you've done some awesome work compiling all this stuff.


I also had to put some games on hold (like Castlevania, Metal Gear, or Barbarian II) because they are incomplete/missing in SOASC. They are currently running recordings for the latest version of HVSC, so hopefully I can post these soundtracks at some point.

Hmm... I thought at least Castlevania was complete at SOASC? From the longplays I've seen of the game, it seems like they have all the music (I could be wrong, though).

Anyway, if I could put in just one request in this thread, I'd say Barbarian (the first one) on C64. Its a classic with a very good "Conan-meets-SID"-vibe soundtrack. Consider it.

New stuff:

Yanyan no Gekitou Dousoukai (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1995, Tenshinden) - Takahiro Yonemura (Chemool)

Waver: The Seeker 2 (PC-9801 [OPNA], 1996, Tenshinden) - Takahiro Yonemura (Chemool)

Lam-Mal (X68000, 1992, Fairytale) - Akira Sato

Dragon City X Shitei (X68000, 1991, Fairytale X-Shitei)

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Anyway, if I could put in just one request in this thread, I'd say Barbarian (the first one) on C64. Its a classic with a very good "Conan-meets-SID"-vibe soundtrack. Consider it.

Let's start with these two, if I have time I'll post a few more next week.

Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior (C64, 1987, Palace Software) - One epic track that exists in three variations that are essentially just different starting points of the loop.

Gryzor (C64, 1988, Ocean) - The C64 port of Contra, only two tracks of the arcade version survive in this version.