Same concept as the Ys 1 & 2 one posted a while ago. This contains all music from the Ys 3 PC Engine game, including the Japanese redbook tracks, the PSGs, and the US dubbed redbook tracks. Maybe my favourite Falcom work ever ! =D
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.
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 ~
Among Falcom’ successful series, Brandish is one of those that gets the less attention. Perhaps the fact it’s actually not a part of the Dragonslayer timeline is to blame ? Who knows …
Anyway, Brandish music, while still having that particular Falcom sound, is a lot more melancholic and dark than it’s fellow trademarks. I personally love the resulting atmosphere and melodies, especially in Brandish 1 which got some of my favourite Falcom tunes (oh Mieko Ishikawa <3).
Those 2 recordings were given to me by a Japanese guy I met on Last.fm. They sound different from the original soundtracks (different hardware I guess) and are actually looped twice.
Enjoy ~
(ps: cover above is actually the Renewal edition, but I think it rawks so heh ~ )
Here’s the PC88 music from a 1986 Falcom game: Asteka 2. The game was also released on NES and you can find a game log at Slick Productions (search for Tombs and Treasure). A remake was also made for Sega Saturn’s Falcom Classics 2, which contained an audio bonus CD.
The music here is pretty simple and nice and composed by the great Takahito Abe.
This is part of a huge series of Falcom retro PC game rips I found on Japanese P2Ps. I have no way to be sure, but considering some of the material I found, I’d say most of those are actual hardware recordings.
Enjoy ~
And there goes a first Falcom release. Falcom PC Engine games are famous for their redbook audio (CDDA tracks), which were most of the time handled by Ryo Yonemitsu. However, the music generated by the PCE itself remained, at that time, unavailable (game logs were made possible since then, though). Anyway, this archive consists of both the redbook tracks and the chiptunes.
Enjoy ~
