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I stand corrected. I don't really find the quality in those GB drums to be that glorious. Drums sound weak and it doesn't even have tom toms. There are Game Boy games with much more impressive percussion, like Trip World.

3xOsc is lightyears more effective than magical 8bit plug as described in the links I provided earlier in this thread.

You should have noticed he said he uses Peach and Triforce, but I wouldn't recommend either of these. For NES sounds you might want to use 3xOsc. This and this thread goes into much further depth in this subject.

Alright, here are 25 wav files of a few games. Download Me - 380 KB Sampled drums from Indiana Jones by Tim Follin, Mega Man 5 and TMNT III.

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It's up to the listener to decide what is interesting or not. If one is new to video game music, there is no reason to jump on the bandwagon. Good music is good music, which disproves that it is nostalgia alone that makes it enjoyable.

Not really. The article is incomplete at best. For one, nobody should be going to Zophar's Domain for NES/Genesis music. This place is more complete and accurate for NES osts. There is a 7z file there that has all soundtracks available. And then there is Project 2612 with a larger collection of Genesis material. The guide doesn't tell people where to find C64, Amiga music, et cetera. Yet it clearly knows where others should get SNES soundtracks in a specific website which makes it looks like the article is based on nostalgia rather than actual insight.

So it wasn't written for people who are interested in pursuing game music info. It was written just to please the fans. They should realize there's more to vgm than Koji Kondo and Nobuo The chip mentioned in the image caption is definitely not a sound chip. That is from Pilotwings for stuff like scaling and rotation.

DSP-1 is not a sound chip. Pretty sure you mean SPC700. Anyway, your article has too much Nintendo/Square and very little from others. There are plenty of great music soundtracks you probably never heard (not only from other systems, but also from the SNES itself). Don't expect to make informative guides without a careful research.

Good boy! Wanna go for a walk?

Eating food from the floor restores your energy. (Final Fight)

It's a medley of the , The Subway and maybe other songs I don't recognize.

The first game is better. Every single battle in Phantasy Star 2 without exception takes place on a blue grid while in Phantasy Star 1 the battle graphics changed depending on where you were and they were richly detailed and animated. They definitely took a step backwards in the gameplay department from the original game as well. For one, each character has their own inventory so you must cycle through tons of different screens instead of just one giant inventory collection to get to an item.

PS is one of the absolute best games of the 8-bit generation, and in my opinion the best Phantasy Star game aside from part IV. Part 2 was a good game as well, but it just didn't have the cool graphics of part 1.

If your song features non-game music for a brief period, then it would be ok (Mr. Pink Poncho's Western Rock Band and Disconnected are good examples).

Shh. Don't tell any tracker lovers!

Link is broken. Might want to fix it --> http://cerrax-rant.blogspot.com/2010/08/rant-titlecheating-chiptunes.html Anyhow, I use this thread as reference (and then there's this neat thread on 8bitcollective) to make NES music in FLStudio. Here's a recreation of Magnet Man from Mega Man 3 (though I didn't bother adding drums yet).

Haha, you nailed it. I have a habit of replicating intros from others songs to help make things interesting in my mixes. I wasn't really planning on submitting this, just found it again and wondering what others were thinking of it. Thanks for the comment tho!

Better later than never. Found it on LastUnicron's website (same guy who did the Alisia Dragoon mix posted in OCR). It was rejected by the judges a loooooong time ago! Not perfect, but it does the original justice and that's all that matters: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1409948/mp3/Castlevania_4_Stop_the_Castle_%28IWannaGetOff_Mix%29.mp3

Virt made a remix of Metal Slug which didn't appear on OCR: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1409948/mp3/virt_-_Rocket_Lounger%28Metal_Slug%29.mp3

This is from 2009 (pretty old), but I figured I should post it somewhere so it don't just gather dust on the hard drive. Wish I could replace a few samples here and there. Sadly, source file was lost in a HDD failure. http://www.tindeck.com/listen/uyvt Guitar by Rodrigo Nepomuceno from 8 Bit Instrumental. I almost lost this one but he sent it to me again.

OLR own the A cappella scene.

Nah I think it sounds cool. I meant that in a good way! Oh yeah, now I can hear the glockenspiel playing the original melody toward the end, but it's not much.