Members AnalogGuy Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 Many times when playing games of my old trusty 8-bit Nintendo I am many times surprised how great music the composers were able to make, and how creative they truly were as NES music put some serious limitations! First of all the music of nes consist of these elements; - 2 voices of square/pulse waveforms (melody, accompanist) - 1 voice for triangle waveform (bass, kick and percussions) - 1 voice for white noise (effects, hi-hats, snare enhancement) - 1 voice for very rudimentary PCM samples in most cases one voice of square/pulse was sacrifice in order to emulate reverb/delay for melodies and so many times they managed to make BOTH bassline AND bass kick with same single voice! Here's my ultimately favourite NES tunes which I think are pretty amazing at their own: Power Blade. Notice the emulation of Simmons toms! The second song is also very groovy which is pretty rare at NES... wait, did I hear a real whistle sound there? [YOUTUBE]OZZF-quBUA4[/YOUTUBE] Werewolf, the last warrior. IMHO these are the BEST drum sounds of NES! [YOUTUBE]K88EqLQvYjQ[/YOUTUBE] (still makes my hair raising... this game and specially this music was so creepy when I played this as a kid) [YOUTUBE]gg-_6mdKlhA[/YOUTUBE] so COOL tune and drums! [YOUTUBE]iofX0TwzBcQ[/YOUTUBE] Batman, return of joker. The stage 1 music is so memorable. [YOUTUBE]-bNCGR1D9WE[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 The intro of Solstice (the rest of the game/music wasn't great) ypNPxwnppU0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xpander Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 this one is permanently etched into my brain: [YOUTUBE]gA_e0QpVdLc[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members llamastorm Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members LameAim Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9imwRvEDM&feature=related Pretty much the first 4 or 5, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Hamburglar Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 At the risk of being trite, I think the greatest are the original mario, zelda (main theme is as good as it gets and no version ever topped the 8 bit), and kid icarus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sad Darwin Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 I love this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sad Darwin Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 Oh, and btw: [YOUTUBE]m1pchpDD5EU[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]RK19z06WMU4[/YOUTUBE] I want one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LePera Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 I played mostly RPG's and thought most of the music was Classic Progressive Rock.Especially the Final Fantasy series I played from NES to Super Nes and beyond.Solstice above is 100% prog Rock.JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thorhead Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 And the cake goes to: Shadow of the ninja! [YOUTUBE]RmlU0SHI5ls[/YOUTUBE] 2nd place Double dragon 3: [YOUTUBE]rQbJXiyjvo4&feature[/YOUTUBE] And some fun: [YOUTUBE]kMg6_IXCjo4[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sad Darwin Posted October 30, 2010 Members Share Posted October 30, 2010 Wait, wait, wait...... how has nobody mentioned Metroid so far? [YOUTUBE]RZnEzNDktdE[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members liliththekitten Posted October 31, 2010 Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 Solstice is great. So is Metroid. Though Super Metroid owns it, despite SNES soundchip not being as interesting... Also try having Aphex Twin SAW vol.2 on in the background of Super Metroid. Some NES faves: nXefXfB6IKI ...the whole game really, but I've played this on Amiga and Gameboy as well and the first level always gets me. ErRZPpT2Tz0 ...developed by Ocean, don't really care for their NES games but they had great music... another one with only bits and pieces... 1RyyRUwVHT8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members liliththekitten Posted October 31, 2010 Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 Sega games with Yamaha soundchips are my fave though... feel teh power of 4op FM!... sVYx0OgWdbE ...also Yuzo Koshiro! c8_h_MnMk0k ...one of the greatest, and one of the greatest games ever! and from the arcade of course, {censored}ing classic: yN29mw-ZNAE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RichF Posted October 31, 2010 Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 Some of my favorites: Castlevania (especially III) all Marios/Zeldas, most of Koji Kondo's work Metroid Final Fantasy Ducktales Double Dragon (better than the arcade music) Batman (Sunsoft- great drums) Blaster Master Adventure Island Shatterhand Wizards N' Warriors Ninja Gaiden Little Nemo Nerdy admission #1: I can play most of these on command. #2: The Flash Man stage from Megaman II mashes up really well with Fleetwood Mac's "Chain." It's only about 1-2 bpm difference, and in the same key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AnalogGuy Posted October 31, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 Sega games with Yamaha soundchips are my fave though... feel teh power of 4op FM!... Althought this is offtopic, but yeah, I agree. Just listen these. I am still absolutely stunned how beautiful music they made with sega mega drive from the very first experience in my childhood and I still remember how these songs haunted me for a very long time: World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck: [YOUTUBE]ZpEUg6JJoyA[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]fADYJqP24xI[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]b4hQROMFsYA[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]AEt2lhyqsDw[/YOUTUBE] and specially this magical tune, absolutely wonderful![YOUTUBE]Hy2KhrdXs0w[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted October 31, 2010 Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 If we're including the Genesis: BcfAwgPhMko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AnalogGuy Posted October 31, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 If we're including the Genesis Sorry but we're not. These are totally offtopic from NES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Purity_Control Posted October 31, 2010 Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 this one is permanently etched into my brain: god only knows how many 10p's i stuffed in one of those in the 80s, and never got that far in it, cira 2001 i played it for about 6 hours straight on my console thingy on a flight back from NY and didn;t do any better. actually it is stupidly difficult to finish in MAME even with cheats enabled, and when i finally did manage, you get a message telling you that you haven't finished because the whole thing was an illusion sent by satan, and then you go back to the beginning... just couldn;t face going through it again by that point to find out if there is really a proper ending:facepalm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members liliththekitten Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 yeah, offtopic I know hehe... Genesis/MegaDrive is really the height of chipmusic for me. SNES had some great music though, less interesting soundchip. those Disney ones (and Ecco) are so nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xpander Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 god only knows how many 10p's i stuffed in one of those in the 80s, and never got that far in it, cira 2001 i played it for about 6 hours straight on my console thingy on a flight back from NY and didn;t do any better. i know that feeling- a year or 2 ago i went to a friend's company picnic day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (which hosts the bay area's most epic arcade from Pong to modern). they opened early for the business party's guests with the arcade on free-run. i played Dragon's Lair nearly 99 credits worth without getting even vaguely passable at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zzzxtreme Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 yes the composers were genius. i love the theme for Dig Dug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zzzxtreme Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 "Namco ported Dig Dug to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, but it was not released in North America." Didn't know that. anyone played Dig Dug for NES ? the cutest music[YOUTUBE]mrvmDJxq86I[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xpander Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 never did. going to japan next week, i'll bet i can hunt down the Famicon version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MuzikB Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 i know that feeling- a year or 2 ago i went to a friend's company picnic day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (which hosts the bay area's most epic arcade from Pong to modern). they opened early for the business party's guests with the arcade on free-run. i played Dragon's Lair nearly 99 credits worth without getting even vaguely passable at it. I've always been a Space Ace guy myself. Dirk the Daring or Dexter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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