Videogame Music Thread (Part 1)

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The Blind Prophet has a soundtrack that goes all over the place.

A few club bangers:

A completely-out-of-left-field and yet situationally fitting homage to Pink Floyd’s "Money"

And dramatic film score stuff

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@ellaguro posted this song on twitter, but i found this very SB-feeling video in search of an ingame video with the song

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wow Meteo Xavier was a regular lurker on the ocremix forums/irc channel when i went on there and he’d post constantly. it’s always funny when i see those names pop up again as composers for random games.

excellent. also apparently it just passed its 20th anniversary a couple of days ago if this video is to be trusted.

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This title track is kind of a jam. co-composed by Yumiko Kanki of F-Zero fame.

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More Yumiko Kanki/Kameya:

(timestamped for course theme 3)

Song has a great, great bassline, and there’s a “night” version right after which is also very nice. I love these kinds of sentimental, nostalgic melodies. I wish I could define what makes them sound that way though!

Course Theme 5 sounds like a lost Chip’s Challenge tune:

Not an incredible soundtrack but a couple of really good tunes buried in there.

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Hold the god damn phone, a Kirby’s Dream Course prototype? I never knew!

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me neither

…sick

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oh yeah it’s cool, there’s a prototype version from when it was going to be a full release and a Satellaview version that came post-Kirby’s Dream Course. They’re apparently fairly different.

Gonna be honest though I haven’t played either of them.

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I like a lot of James Bennett’s music in the three Love games, especially in context, but this song jumped out at me in particular when I was replaying the second game last night. (The first two games are both included in the third game, along with other prototype levels and things.)

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There have been a handful of volunteer archivists assembling Destiny’s unreleased soundtrack from stems as short as ten second chunks due to its dynamic music system. Most of the music as it plays in the game (hundreds of hours) is never formally released and some of it can no longer be heard in context due to the live game updates.

Bungie issued a manual strike against one of the channels and the whole project is up in the air now.

https://twitter.com/breshi123/status/1486511017148309507?s=21

This also raises questions about Ishtar Collective, a website that archives text strings from the game.

cc @OneSecondBefore

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Mega Man X on the Roland MT-32 sound thingy:

absolutely incredible

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MT-32-compatible_computer_games#Games_that_falsely_claim_MT-32_compatibility

Mega Man X : plays on channels other than 2-10 with inappropriate instruments and missing notes

lmao

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It’s late and I can’t stop laughing at this

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The FM Towns Galaxy Force II soundtrack is fun. A friend recommended it because I like the music in R-Type Complete CD and this one similarly does some unexpected things.

I’ve been trying to find a track list with titles for this particular version with no luck. I’m not familiar enough to identify them myself based on the arcade soundtrack’s list.

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hopy shit

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This is very funky and very weird DAMN.
Club music, fusion jazz, bossanova, ???

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