bucky o'hare

dear god, good luck getting through this. be sure to list your favorite obscure selections. I think my favorite recent find is the Otogirisou music.

I find their arrangements to be hit or miss, so they usually have a couple tracks per album that keep me interested. I'll be surprised if this release isn't more of the same. And yes, their vocals make me want to barf. Good thing those tracks are a minority.

Contra 4? Yeah I'm quite stoked for this, even though I won't be owning it any time soon. I've been quite skeptical of some 2.5d remakes. The new rondo of blood, the chibi-ish mega man remake, and even new super mario brothers didn't sit well with me. Nothing about the switch to using 3d graphics seemed like an improvement or desirable in any way... not to me at least. But whatever it is they're doing better for Bionic Commando Rearmed, I think they've won me over.

anywho, back on schedule- cv bloodlines (genesis), flashback (snes), gimmick (nes), and zelda no densetsu (nes) are up.

I don't have high hopes for an explod-ing hitler, but regardless this looks amazing. It's making me wish I had an xbox 360 or a ps3.

archive.org

Woah, way cool! Here, here! I migh adopt some of your tagging methods. I'm a fan of my current set up, using "VG Music" as the artist and the console as part of the album name. But in regards to songs with "official" titles, I fully agree. It'd be nice to clarify when songs are named on a best assumption (world 1, world 2, etc), vs. when the names are official. I know all the song names for Ninja Gaiden 2 are correct because they are taken from the soundtest. It's nice to see we have very similar ideas and concerns, although I'd feel completely overwhelmed by trying to rip an entire collection, including flac, and having mastering down to a universal plan like yourself. I can be quite anal, but it looks like you've outdone me there. Which is why I'm doing these more as 'random favorites', so I can get away with doing things more casually in a 'as they come' kind of way. This is unrelated to vgmusic, but you may be interested in another blog post of mine here. Archive is a place for uploading music you own or have permission to put up, so I don't think vg music qualifies, but if you're not already into archive.org I suggest checking it out-- if there's anything in your collection you want to preserve, that would be the place to do it.

Weird, somehow when I first opened liontamer's linked nsf I thought it turned out the same as the one I had. But now those two tracks decided to show themselves! I'll add those in and retag everything. Thanks a lot! The bird chirping part in world 4's music is incredible. I just added another soundtrack and commenting.

Oh wow, huge thanks man! I'll make the appropriate edits to the article. The version of treasure master I grabbed had the same amount of tracks, it's possible that akumu used kingshriek's version in his archive. I believe Zillion was made concurrently, but I could be wrong. Which is why I vaguely referred to it as a "companion". I love the anime version with the vocals-- I didn't hear it for a while until I was already familiar with the chiptune. Thanks guys, but I imagine I'll remain under the radar with this stuff. There are massive archives full of ripped soundtracks (like zophar, snes music, and project 2616, just to name a few) that make this stuff readily available, out in the open. Until I hear horror stories of nsf archives getting ceast and desists, I'm assuming my little blog will be unnoticed.

http://explod.tumblr.com/ You can read the first post for more information, but I plan on uploading 4 soundtracks every week, by monday or tuesday. I also include various tidbits and mini-reviews for each soundtrack, hopefully to add some life to whatever it is I'm sharing. today I added almana no kiseki (nes), crisis force (nes), treasure master (nes), and zillion (sms). check it out!

magfest 6 was epic

http://www.archive.org/details/Chromelodeon-SpriteSlowdownV2 I played drums on this short vgm tribute, and it was recorded a little over a year ago. With the band having broken up since, and this ep never having a 'proper' release, I decided to put it up for download. It was very much rushed for release at magfest 5 (and never performed prior to recording), but having just listened to it again more recently I appreciate it more than when I first heard it. A bit rough around the edges, but not as bad as I recalled! Some of the track selection may be a bit on the esoteric side, hope you enjoy. Track Listing - 1. Final Fantasy 6 (SNES) 2. Fire 'n Ice (NES) 3. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Atari Lynx) 4. Kenseiden (SMS) 5. Abadox (NES)

Oh, snap...

I haven't looked into homebrew games yet, but I have moonshell set up on my DS. It is a linux based gui (not that I know shit about the technical workings of linux, or computers in general), which essentially acts your desktop/browser of sorts. http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/archives/nds/ http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/MoonShell If functions as a sort of multimedia browser- basic image types are supported but it seems that videos have to be converted to another format, which I haven't tried yet. The best part about it, for me, is that it plays nsf, spc, and mod files. Because ripping tons of emulated soundtracks to mp3 would be insane, moonshell effectively turned my DS into my portable NSF player. I also went through and replaced all the standard moonshell images with a little smb3 theme I came up with. There's one thing left I have in mind to make it look a little nicer, but I'm happy with how it looks- Browsing NSFs Listening to some Metroid. The Power Meter is the progress bar You would think that with the stylus and all there'd be a decent flash/ swf player for the DS, but a working one doesn't seem to exist yet. I'd like to get some flash games on here.

For me, there is a nostalgia in chiptune and older vgm music formats, regardless if the tune or game its from are familiar to me. I've picked music from games I've never played for my band to cover... they're only a minority, but the homage still feels worth it. More are on the way too. But the original question was if you've bought soundtracks to games you've never played before. Can't say I have. If I like a more modern soundtrack, it is probably because I played the game. And there's a good chance that if I played the game, I own it (I don't go out and game with friends enough). In which case, I'd just play the game to hear the music... or do like I did when I was a little kid and record the audio I REALLY like from the game (nevermind ripping the data or anything fancy like that).

I wouldn't be, because regardless of how the 3d/2d remake looks, the original is still on there. Sounds like a win/win situation (what bahamut said). Between this and MGS my interest in the PSP is growing... but I can't warrant buying one anytime soon. Isn't it just a direct port? edit: Ah, with full screen and re-translations (maybe they'll remember to switch malachi and cthulu's names around).

Right on, sir. That game is all sorts of shitty. My brother and I attempted playing through it a couple times a while back, but always got bored. We had a sort of a love/hate relationship with the game. The in-game humor is just awful and awkward ("who's zooming who"..." coming up... its another... ZOOM TUBE ACITVATED), and of course the gameplay isn't all that interesting. Plus you hear ALL of the game's music within the first couple minutes, so it gets very aggrivating. So eventually we went back determined, with the 4 score set up, and two controllers to each of us. We beat it, and somehow it almost felt worth it. Almost. We enjoyed it with some sort of ironic distance.

This album is great! Excellent.

Within the first series too- Metal Gear 2 MSX > Metal Gear (1) MSX/NES, by a longshot. Solid Snake, not to be confused with Snake's revenge, made the subsistence release all the more worth it.

If this wasn't posted with a source, I probably would've thought it was a joke. Props for doing something different!

That is beautiful.

To bring you up to speed more.

Kinda sounds like it for the ringtone thing. While I don't know where to find any statements from the owner, this is getting closer- From a thread on Something Awful entitled "Timbaland ripped off a track from my buddy" (page doesn't load half the time, so here goes) I never thought I would see a post about amiga scene music and nelly furtado at the same time, pretty epic.

I'm not going to dismiss the work Timbaland put into it, but that's not the point. Calling him talentless and the like is not only silly, but irrelevant. Putting that aside, I'm sure we can agree that this is a bit over the top and beyond the acceptable boundaries of sampling w/out giving credit. This is an a whole different plane than the "mj made sonic music" thing, I'm not sure why that was brought up. The original was sampled into Do It, meaning that the sonic comparison would only be relevant if you actually heard the genesis/megadrive music sampled into Michael's work or vice versa. I would like for this to spread around the net. Even if Tempest can't open a case and win, it's a good idea to share this. I know people who like making chiptunish music. The way I see it, is it could've been any one of them. I mean I don't even "hate" Timbaland now or anything... Tempest just needs some credit, and I think it's worth pointing this out. Hahah, exactly.

Shawn Phase! His march of the pigs cover was awesome. He also did ducktales 2, which was bitchin'.