This might be one of the best “action game level” tracks I’ve ever heard.
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It’s always so weird to me how much better this soundtrack is on the Mega Drive:
Maybe it’s just that that’s the one I heard first, but the SNES one always sounds so weird to me.
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beyond the tempo difference, i think it’s fascinating how the mixing in the two versions emphasize completely different parts of the composition
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the FM synths the Genesis use have a more jagged, visceral, “electric” quality that the lower quality sampler of the SNES can’t recreate (even tho i think the SNES YS III track does a decent job of it). i think that’s part of where the stereotype that Genesis had better/faster action games and SNES had more “atmospheric”/expansive games came from. ofc composers who actually knew what they were doing and put much more work in with sampling/sequencing could go much further in the soundtracks to SNES games because they had a much greater variety of sounds they could work with. but a lot of stuff that doesn’t do that on the SNES also kinda sounds like ass.
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Oh yeah, I think the SNES Ys III soundtrack tries its hardest, but I also know Falcom were a whole lot more used to doing FM stuff, so the Megadrive is much more comfy for them. I think by the time of Ys V, they had gotten a lot better at what the SNES was good at, so that one has a much better soundtrack. But yeah, that sample-y sound of a lot of SNES tracks just doesn’t have the meatiness of the Megadrive for me, and while it works great for RPGs, more action-y stuff like Ys III never sounds great there. I do think there are great SNES soundtracks, obviously, but just for the generic sound, I love the MD so very much.
It does make me sad that once everything went over to CD/digital audio, the hardware lost that level of uniqueness mostly.
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Im hearing pizza and Gangnam Style in there. Is it supposed to be so soupy?
I was so taken by Kingdoms of the Dump. Such a charming little game with lots of heart. Lots of good tracks too.
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one of my favorite Videogame Towns and also town themes
i love how even though it clearly escalates from day to day, it doesn’t get seriously manic and scary until day 3. Day 2 i associate much more with it being the rainy day in-game, and the vibes haven’t gotten fully apocalyptic yet, everyone is still in a holding pattern and in denial about their impending doom. And i believe that Clock Town day 2 and 3 are the only in-game BGM for Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask that straight up use the ocarina sound samples…? as though the game itself is begging you to play the Song of Time and stop the catastrophe
edit having beaten the game since this post, i remembered the Lost Woods/Saria’s Song also uses the ocarina samples. it’s fitting cuz the Lost Woods theme is canonically Saria playing her ocarina and it echoing thru the woods, and her theme is resonant in MM cuz of the Skull Kid. who also probably felt lost when Saria was no longer in the woods cuz OoT faintly implies that all the Sages are fucking dead and ghosts by the time you get their medallions, and stay that way even when you beat the game and get the “good” timeline (where Hyrule gets flooded)
and the Final Hours theme fittingly sounds like nothing else in the game or really the whole series. like we’ve been having fun, we’re all about fun here at Nintendo in our games about The Legend of Zelda, but fr if you don’t save the world NOW everyone in it is going to fucking die
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Double Dragon (GB)
Composer: Kazuo Sawa
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From the mega man network transmission ost. (Clockwise from top left: shinji hosoe, ayako saso, yousuke yasui)
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most of these uploads are related to the music exclusive to the japanese version of phantom crash (may i include ones released on the international version yet haven’t been uploaded as a full track)
why this happened? 1. maybe copyright. 2. phantagram decided to cut over 100 music tracks because of the japanese overload that may repulse the xbox average audience during that time.
Never occured to me to check if phantom crash had a different soundtrack in japan. Some tracks ended up on SLAI though.
I’m loving this phantom crash scholarship 
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always really liked this one track in particular
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Those little discordant background drones pop into my head from time to time when I’m wandering around the place or stuck in a queue somewhere or just daydreaming… They tickle my brain in such a pleasing way.
I sometimes think about how many people have probably only heard the special edition music (which drops these sounds entirely) and get sad:
Also find the MT-32 version kinda funny in how it interprets these sounds as a choir:
I’ve become so obsessed with the adlib/soundblaster pallette that I’m tempted to pick up one of these old yamaha keyboards built with the same card (they still run relatively cheap on ebay!):
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Sorry I have likely posted this twice already but this song is ssssssssssssssextremely good. Can’t get enough of it, so on-theme.
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