February 8th, 2010 niki
If you were pirating software back in early 2000’s, you’ve probably already heard Dualtrax’s music. This awesome chiptune artist composed many rocking keygen tunes for various release teams, including the infamous Orion. Dualtrax’s website has been down for a while, and it’s sad, so I decided to share the mp3s I did from the .xm files he used to have hosted there. You’ll find keygen music in there, as well as many other bouncy chiptunes. I left the filenames formatting and structures as close to the original archives as possible. Thought it was more in the spirit. :3
… where the stars come out at night …
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December 10th, 2009 niki
Here is one of the few remaining never-released-on-disc Falcom pieces. While Revival Xanadu 1 music was published on the Falcom Special Box ‘96, Revival Xanadu 2 just never appeared anywhere, eventhough a lot of it’s music are original pieces. What we have here are epically melancholic progressive chiptunes, often quite reminiscent of Brandish. Hope you like them !
Recorded from Hoot’s OPNA set.
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December 10th, 2009 niki
If you’re familiar with Falcom, you’re probably familiar with the Sorcerian series. If you don’t, Sorcerian was one of Falcom’s early game, ranking 5 in the Dragon Slayer timeline. The game was basically divided in several scenarios, and you got to play as one of your typical RPG class, recruiting new members in Pentawa, the main town of the game. Yuzo Koshiro, Mieko Ishikawa and a few others scored this game, and it was a great success.
So much that Falcom decided to release additional scenarios to the game. This time, Mieko Ishikawa did all the music by herself. You can find some arrange versions of her work on Sorcerian Super Arrange Vol.2 and Vol.3. Those are actually the only official releases you’ll find music from those titles on.
And there come those PC88VA game recordings I found on Share years ago. In this first archive, you’ll find music from Sorcerian Additional Scenario Vol.1, Vol.2 AKA Sengoku Sorcerian and Vol.3 AKA Pyramid Sorcerian. It’s full of pretty rawking Mieko Ishikawa chiptunes, so I hope you’ll enjoy them ~
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December 8th, 2009 niki
Something that needed to be done for a while. Yes, there is a pre-Final Fantasy Uematsu, and here’s the first part of these unknown gems. This first volume focuses on the Japanese retro PC releases, while the second will be about the Famicom ones. Warpstar recorded Genesis, Alpha and Blassty some years ago, and I completed his work with recordings from King’s Knight Special PC88 version from Hoot, and a wave write of Aliens 2 KSS archive.
Enjoy these rare pieces of the most famous video game composer on earth ~ ^^
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November 16th, 2009 niki
Soooo I’m finally back with an internet and my first action will be to post Drick’s Novastorm high quality rip he posted in the comments of Bobske’s original release.
Many thanks to him for his hard work ! <3
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June 5th, 2009 niki
Another game I used to play as a kid. I was very surprised to notice the music was that good when I launched it again a couple years ago. The music was composed by Alberto Jose Gonzalez, who’s starting to get some recognition in a number of chiptune niches. The style of Mr. Gonzalez is definitely typical of the European VGM scene, and I would even say some of the structures and melodies of his songs make me think of European medieval compositions (while remaining catchy as hell). I definitely need to rip more of his Game Boy works.
The best track (to me?) in this rip is obviously the insanely epic BGM 09 which was, I think, played on the sled stage. The Nes and Master System ports are neat as well, but the Game Boy version is definitely the most powerful. Maybe I’ll upload those as well later ~
Anyway, enjoy !
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Alberto Jose Gonzalez on Bucky’s Corner: 01 / 02
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May 30th, 2009 niki
A tiny, tiny rip this time ! Me and my brother used to play that game a lot, and as such it deserved a rip hehe. Probably won’t interest those who didn’t play it, but I think many people got this back in 1990 ~
Enjoy !
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May 18th, 2009 Emperor Udan
When I was about 8 years old, my dad often give me a coin to play Arcade Machine on sunday. The nearest Arcade Machine near my home was Toki, also know as Juju Densetsu in Japan.
I loved this game even if it was very difficult to me.
Years later, I trie Toki on Megadrive/Genesis but this version is far away from the Arcade version (too far, crap I mean).
I now will take my revenge on this game, buying the Jamma version for my beautiful New Astro City! ^^
Musics are from Yukihiko Kitahara for the Jamma version, the Megadrive version was adapted by Pierre-Eric Loriaux from Ocean French team and he make a great job, but it’s not exactly the same taste to me.
Hope you enjoy this piece of my childhood memory .
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May 18th, 2009 niki
I never played Novastorm. I’ve been familiar with some of it’s music for years though, via the French magazine game music CD I posted a while back. Having re-listened to it recently, I decided to finally seek the complete soundtrack for it, convinced from the quality that I would find a CD-DA redbook easily. Mistake ! Turns out the game’s audio is embedded into some complex compression system and that there’s no way to easily rip or even record it ! Player One Magazine must have received master tracks from Psygnosis themselves when they made that CD in 1994.
Anyway, searching around on the web, you soon notice that this soundtrack left a strong impression on those who played it. Youtube gameplay videos are full of music requests and lamentations over the lack of an official soundtrack. Among these, I noticed a person called Bobske who was claiming he actually recorded the game audio and could send it to anyone wanting it. And he did ! This is his work I am sharing here.
Sadly, I soon noticed the recording contained many skips and clicks. When I asked him about it, here was his answer:
”Yeah, that’s the problem with running old games on new hardware. Had to use DOSBOX to run the game. It works, but it isn’t perfect. The game had some slight delays and little distortions. I edited out most of the audible distortions but unfortunately, I couldn’t fix them all.”
So that’s it ! This version is pretty much the best it can get, unless someone goes through the trouble of running the game on an old ‘94 PC, or the master tracks are finally released by Psygnosis and Rik Ede, the composer.
Anyway, great music. Techno-ish sci-fi atmospheres, both epic and hypnotic, quite typical of the old European game music scene. Level 4 Stage 1 remains one of my favourites. Really too bad they didn’t choose CD-DA support !
Many thanks again to Bobske, and enjoy the music ~
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!!! edit: Dricks has since then completed a high quality game rip ! Get it >> here <<
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May 18th, 2009 niki
I recorded this tiny rip from a nicovideo.jp sound test video. The music is by Hitoshi Sakimoto, and there are indeed neat melodies here and there. And hey, it’s a Game Gear RPG ! That alone made it deserve a recording …
Enjoy !
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