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Title: Video game music
Post by: CodeChef on Sat, 20 November 2010, 11:54:33: Anyone else love video game music as much as I do? Currently I'm quite taken with the Starcraft 2 Terran themes. They are really fantastic. God of War also had some pretty epic music. Obviously Portal was great :P Any other video games with great music?
Title: Video game music
Post by: bsvP585hUO2Y6 on Sat, 20 November 2010, 12:18:34: Well, I've grown out of the video game age by now, but I still
pop my Descend 2 and Wipeout CDs in from time to time just for
playing their CDDA tracks.

Also, Machinae Supremacy might be of interest here. They play
some kind of rock with support from a C64 soundchip. Their
earlier work is available for download on their website (http://machinaesupremacy.com/music/).
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Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 20 November 2010, 13:23:06: My video games don't have any music except for the After Dark Games.
Title: Video game music
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 20 November 2010, 13:31:00: Hum along with Solitaire? That'll take some work.
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Post by: WhiteRice on Sat, 20 November 2010, 13:36:55: Not a valid youtube URL
Final Fantasy 8 had a lasting impression on me. I really connected the the story and characters.

Metal Gear Solid is my favorite gaming franchise.

Xenogears is probably my favorite game of all time. Compelling characters, deep mythos, giant robots.

The great thing is now I can play PS1 games on my psp.
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Post by: Parak on Sat, 20 November 2010, 13:43:49: Quote from: ripster;249758
Total Annihilation. Nothing comes close.

EEEEEE JEREMY SOULE *JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRL SQUEAL*

And now, for something completely different:

Edit: Almost forgot. I shall now commit ritual suicide for this blunder.
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Post by: Twitchy on Sat, 20 November 2010, 14:07:25: The first 3 minutes is videogame music, play a game often enough and you could hum (squeak) along

More seriously though my Amiga was the point when game music started getting good.
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Post by: woody on Sat, 20 November 2010, 15:29:02: You can't go wrong with Bitmap Brothers.

Ripster, click here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM_9As_2VAg).
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Post by: instantkamera on Sat, 20 November 2010, 16:26:33: what about the original quake w/ Trent Reznor soundtrack?
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Post by: ManjyomeThunder on Sat, 20 November 2010, 16:31:35
Title: Video game music
Post by: CodeChef on Sat, 20 November 2010, 17:44:19: MORROWIND OMFG YES!

For some reason I don't remember Baldur's Gate having music (man it's been so long since I've played that game) but it was one of my favourite games of all time.

Some of the old chiptunes from NES games were freakin' sweet.
Title: Video game music
Post by: TheSoulhunter on Sat, 20 November 2010, 18:30:06: If you like classic music,
check the OSTs of Final Fantasy VII/VIII/IX,
especially the orchestral versions n the piano collection!

I also really liked the OST of Wild Arms,
some really nice "acoustic guitar + whistling" tracks... :)
Title: Video game music
Post by: RoboKrikit on Sat, 20 November 2010, 18:39:33: Chrono Cross Soundtrack (this whole game and OST is beautiful)

Gotta have some Mega Man 2 (Guitar mix)

PC Engine/Turbo Duo games had some awesome music

Final Fantasy VIII Liberi Fatali

Final Fantasy IX (whole soundtrack is great)

BlazBlue and Guilty Gear have some good stuff if you like J-metal

Punch-Out... just 'cause

If you ever get a chance, check out Video Games Live (http://www.videogameslive.com/) or especially Distant Worlds (http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/) if you like Uematsu/FF music. I've seen both of these done by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and they were excellent.
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Sat, 20 November 2010, 18:52:20: Quote from: TheSoulhunter;249920
If you like classic music,
check the OSTs of Final Fantasy VII/VIII/IX,
especially the orchestral versions n the piano collection!

I also really liked the OST of Wild Arms,
some really nice "acoustic guitar + whistling" tracks... :)

The piano collections are great; one of my wife's favorite songs to play is To Zanarkand. She doesn't play the games, but she likes the music.

Can't believe I forgot to include a link to this chick. Hahah.
Title: Video game music
Post by: 1839cc on Sat, 20 November 2010, 19:20:28: A few of my favorites:
Zeta 7 (C=)
Star Control 2 (PC)
Sonic 2 (Genesis)
Crystalis (NES)
Delta Man (C=)
Ecco 2: Tides of Time (Genesis)
Title: Video game music
Post by: Megaweapon on Sun, 21 November 2010, 00:34:33: I put Kohina (http://kohina.com/) on from time to time, usually when I'm working on something fun. I like that it has no remixes, just the actual tunes played on the actual hardware.
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Post by: Senor_Cartmenez on Sun, 21 November 2010, 18:03:52: Them Quake themes were definitely ballin.

Trent Reznor u de man!
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Post by: Senor_Cartmenez on Sun, 21 November 2010, 18:10:41: Fallout 2 also had a bunch of awesome tracks.

Like this one:

or this one
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Sun, 21 November 2010, 20:16:32: I forgot all about nin in Quake. Time trip!

Interesting fact: "I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire" was originally set to be the Fallout 1 theme, but they couldn't secure the rights until Fallout 3.
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Post by: KillerBee on Sun, 21 November 2010, 22:06:22: Ohh GODS!! I have that game for the Super Nintendo!! Awsome

When I was 15 or so I used to have my HDD full with video game midis and ATARI XL/XE music in the form of something called SAP I believe it was something like Atari SAP
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Post by: Oqsy on Sun, 21 November 2010, 23:29:08
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Post by: Mith on Mon, 22 November 2010, 07:39:35: ripster, that wololol remix brought back so many memories, thanks! :D

FF VII, golden chocobo days:
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Post by: zmurf on Mon, 22 November 2010, 09:54:04: Demo music from beginning and mid -90ths ... that's the thing.
Title: Video game music
Post by: ironman31 on Mon, 22 November 2010, 10:03:16: haven't played chrono cross yet, but the music for chrono trigger was some of the best I've heard in a game. Here's a symphony orchestra that plays the music from the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iO5U0SI4as (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iO5U0SI4as)
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Mon, 22 November 2010, 10:08:47: Wark! I mean, Kweh!

OCRemix (http://ocremix.org/) is an awesome site for video game music. They put together the remixed themes for Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix (http://ocremix.org/info/OC_ReMix:_Super_Street_Fighter_II_Turbo_HD_Remix_Official_Soundtrack).
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Mon, 22 November 2010, 10:11:51: Quote from: ironman31;250568
haven't played chrono cross yet, but the music for chrono trigger was some of the best I've heard in a game. Here's a symphony orchestra that plays the music from the game:

Video Games Live started doing Chrono Trigger for the first time in the 2010 season. Their set last year was pretty sweet.
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Post by: Lanx on Mon, 22 November 2010, 10:41:13: i have various 8bit nes games as my txt msg tone(i have them on cycling) the first 10s that is, just edit with audacity.
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Post by: CodeChef on Mon, 22 November 2010, 15:47:25: Final Fantasy has some of the best music of all time.

I hadn't heard this song since I was like, 9 or 10 when I played this game... I actually started crying when I heard it. So beautiful.

EDIT: Made link up there an embedded Youtube.
Title: Video game music
Post by: NewbieOneKenobi on Mon, 22 November 2010, 16:44:06: Quote from: CodeChef;249895
MORROWIND OMFG YES!

Hey, some folks out there are Christians or Jews. ;)

Quote
For some reason I don't remember Baldur's Gate having music (man it's been so long since I've played that game) but it was one of my favourite games of all time.

Some of the old chiptunes from NES games were freakin' sweet.

Yeah, Baldur's Gate 1 soundtrack ruled. It had something so deeply involving to it that the BG2 scores, although grander and more epic, did not have (still loved them, though). Icewind Dale 1 music might even have been better.

Agreed on Morrowind, too.

Can't recall Total Annihilation. Can recall AOE2, that was some decent stuff.

Some Mass Effect 1-2 scores were great too, especially the way they were put in the game. Speaking of, I loved how they moulded Louis Armstrong tracks into the Fallout series. That's actually how I got hooked on them.

Can't not mention Warcraft 2. Some of the best scores ever.

What else? There was a kinda-indie game called Blackmoon Chronicles from Cryo.

And the Dune 2 tracks. Come on. Even on PC Speaker. The atmosphere...

Europa Universalis, as boring as it was, had some great tracks precisely because it employed real music of the times. I particularly liked playing the game to the 15th century Triste Espana tunes and those saddish court dances. I'd love the nerdy joy of bringing them to a party.

A similar trick was pulled off in Pirates! Gold with those Haendel midis. Sid Meier's Pirates! from 2004 feature real court dances that you actually have to catch the rhythm of as a mini game. The governor's daughter is giving you some helpful hints with her hand gestures but you've got to be quick on higher difficulty levels, especially if you want to pull off a fancy step (which is more difficult than just not flunking it).

Red Alert 3 isn't bad either. Very good music in some places, even though the game itself was too cheesy and had too little substance for my taste.

I liked the use of real Latino music in Tropico. I'd rank it with good rather than spectacular perhaps, but still deserving a mention.

You can probably tell by now that I'm a really busy hard-working person. :P
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Post by: woody on Mon, 22 November 2010, 18:20:12: Hehe, Battletoads is too cool game.
Title: Video game music
Post by: RoboKrikit on Mon, 22 November 2010, 18:31:53: Battletoads pause music
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Post by: woody on Mon, 22 November 2010, 18:39:28: Sometimes I'd play the SNES version. This game is all about memorizing patterns.
RARE were naughty boys.
Title: Video game music
Post by: intealls on Tue, 23 November 2010, 01:43:59: Not strictly game music related, but the chip section at http://www.mazemod.org (http://www.mazemod.org) is totally awesome.
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Post by: Half-Saint on Tue, 23 November 2010, 05:13:24: I'm surprised nobody mentioned the good old SID and Commodore 64!
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Post by: microsoft windows on Tue, 23 November 2010, 18:03:04: I don't really like the music in After Dark Games (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22after+dark+games%22&aq=f) as much as my country.
Title: Video game music
Post by: Parak on Wed, 24 November 2010, 12:12:24: Quote from: NewbieOneKenobi;250798
Quote from: CodeChef;249895
MORROWIND OMFG YES!
Hey, some folks out there are Christians or Jews. ;)

What do Christians and Jews have against Morrowind? :(
Title: Video game music
Post by: woody on Wed, 24 November 2010, 17:07:30: Seeing "Typing of the Dead" in another thread, I just remembered about the nice soundtrack of "House of the Dead - Overkill" game.

A++ game.

EDIT: more (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hotd+overkill+music&aq=f).
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Wed, 15 December 2010, 15:00:36: This is my 256th post, so here is some 8-bit music.
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 15 December 2010, 16:50:59: I like the Super Mario 2 music, but the game sucks... The real Super Mario 2 was only originally released in Japan, but now it is available as a Virtual Counsel game for the Wii. It looks very similar to the original Super Mario Bros. except it was much more difficult... Thats why it was never released outside of Japan, Nintendo thought it would be too hard for Americans to beat... Random fact of the day there...
Title: Video game music
Post by: RoboKrikit on Thu, 16 December 2010, 00:30:57: I like our Doki Doki Panic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yume_K%C5%8Dj%C5%8D:_Doki_Doki_Panic) SMB2 as well as the legit Japanese SMB2. They're both pretty decent games IMHO, though our funny version does lack a little bit of the Marioness of the other 2D SMB titles.
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Post by: Lanx on Thu, 16 December 2010, 12:13:44: difference between the mario world and the doki doki panic world
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Thu, 16 December 2010, 12:57:40: Hahah, poor Yoshi can't catch a break.

(http://i.imgur.com/8w9oR.jpg)
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Post by: Lanx on Thu, 16 December 2010, 18:37:12: Quote from: RoboKrikit;264106
Hahah, poor Yoshi can't catch a break.

Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/8w9oR.jpg)

mourn yoshi
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Post by: Mercen_505 on Thu, 16 December 2010, 19:45:18: Just dropping in for a moment.

Surprisingly, Ar Tonelico II has some very catchy music. Same thing for FF: Four Heroes of Light.
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Post by: Pylon on Thu, 16 December 2010, 19:46:13: Donkey Kong Country had some awesome music.

Runescape had some decent tunes.
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Thu, 16 December 2010, 22:01:33: Quote from: Julle;264266
Lately, I've been kind of obsessed about Cheetahmen. I had to try the game out, it's possibly the worst ever published, but there's something about the main theme that caught my attention. The Japanese seem to love it, and have made a ton of remixes of it.

Those are great. I like the OC Remix one; their stuff is usually decent. You could drop that funky chillout mix into the Gran Turismo menus and nobody would blink an eye.
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Post by: cometbus on Wed, 02 February 2011, 07:16:47: Since I'm new around here, I've been poking around some of the somewhat older threads and found this. I listen to a huge range of music, but lately I've been on a NES/SNES chiptune kick, particularly some Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden:

Then of course there are Uematsu and Mitsuda with Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger/Cross music, but anyone who'd be interested already knows how great they are, I'd hope. :P

Edit: Had the Youtube urls wrong, fixed!
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Post by: EverythingIBM on Thu, 03 February 2011, 07:16:19: <-- tempo too high btw

Some random ones.

Tried to pick less known ones :p
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Post by: Jerri on Thu, 03 February 2011, 08:06:37: I listen often to Chiptunes :). Totally addicted to the Descent Soundtrack!
I like Monkey island, too but i ain't got no Roland MT-32, and with the SC-55 in MT-32 Mode it doesn't sound that awesome.
Oh yeah and i of course got a big smile, if i play my snes!

Damn am i to stupid, to link a youtube video?
Anyways, here's some stuff: Click! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYBtwwzd_lg)
and the other -> clicky clicktality! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KggpA9xPvhU)
Jerri
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Post by: cometbus on Thu, 03 February 2011, 14:25:26: Quote from: Jerri;289257

Damn am i to stupid, to link a youtube video?

I actually spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out how it works with BbCode, I feel your pain. :P

To embed your first video the code would be:

[ youtube ]wYBtwwzd_lg[ /youtube] (without the spaces inside the brackets.)

I loved Descent! I haven't played that in ages though, now I might have to fire up DosBox...
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Post by: Jerri on Fri, 04 February 2011, 07:11:47: Quote from: cometbus;289405
I actually spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out how it works with BbCode, I feel your pain. :P

To embed your first video the code would be:

[ youtube ]wYBtwwzd_lg[ /youtube] (without the spaces inside the brackets.)

I loved Descent! I haven't played that in ages though, now I might have to fire up DosBox...

Thanks, i'll try that next time.
Well, i recorded the Descent Music with my Roland SC-55 II, well a part of it. Spent three hours to do that. Theme, Briefing, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4 and Credits. Maybe i'll upload them today evening :).
I only can record until Level 7, because i only got the Shareware, i don't have the retail anymore.
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Post by: Jerri on Fri, 04 February 2011, 15:52:05: So here it is, uploaded it. Recorded as "hi-fi" as i could with a preamp to get Line level without any distortion, but yeah youtube screwed the quality.
Hope some of you will enjoy that! Afaik the Midis were composed on a SC-55, so it all sounds well, no instruments are "off".

Jerri

Edit: Yay, the code worked :). If someone wants for example a title as MP3, just leave a PM, i can send it via mail!
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Post by: kill will on Fri, 04 February 2011, 16:00:05: ya man way to geek it up !
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Post by: HaaTa on Fri, 04 February 2011, 16:06:16: Damn, I have a copy of Descent somewhere. Not with me atm though...
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Fri, 04 February 2011, 17:59:24: Awesome, nice job. I used to have a different Descent midi theme on each page of my first website (shush). 'Course it sounded entirely different on a Sound Blaster.
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Post by: kill will on Fri, 04 February 2011, 19:10:35: ive never played or even heard of descent but these midis make me want to do awesome things haha
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Post by: muchadoaboutnothing on Fri, 04 February 2011, 22:50:54: Ocarina of Time had some excellent music in my opinion. One of my favorite games of all time though, so it might be nostalgia.

Picture related to video games but disturbing:
(http://i.imgur.com/OgUtp.jpg)
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Post by: Jerri on Sat, 05 February 2011, 04:05:04: Quote from: ripster;289924
Awesome job dude. On my Sennheisers this sounds GREAT!
Show Image
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=2409&d=1241763378)

Yay, i'm Geek Girl approved :high5: .

I'm glad that you all like it. It wasn't hard at all, more like play descent and hit the Record button on audacity. Of course finding the right input and output gain, checking the levels, check the recording on my hifi stereo took a bit of time.
Believe it or not, the "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" is an emulation of the Roland SC-55 i used. Ofcourse the Microsoft Synth has the same "vibe/timbre", but the samples are much shorter and the effects are ignored.
Anyways, here are the last two ones of the Descent Shareware... i have all descent midis here, but they sound a bit different, if i would play them on Winamp.
When i was a kid my favorites were level 2 and 3!

Maybe i'll do the Descent II Soundtrack (only 4 levels were made in Midi music) in a few days. I think on those two Soundtracks the SC-55 really shines.
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Sat, 05 February 2011, 04:37:13: Sweet, thanks for putting those up.

Listening to Gate of Thunder soundtrack.
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Post by: db_Iodine on Sat, 05 February 2011, 05:20:43: Nobuo Uematsu rocks.
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Post by: Ekaros on Sat, 05 February 2011, 05:21:48: Hmm, this one?

Generaly AO was hailed for it's musics... I think they used same type of tech than LucArts in MI2
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Post by: Jerri on Sun, 06 February 2011, 07:21:06: And here's the Descent II Soundtrack! I hope you like that, too!
Enjoy... and prepare for Descent!

Jerri
PS: Maybe i'll upload the mp3s in a zip file or something.
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Post by: cometbus on Sun, 06 February 2011, 14:04:23: I love the Descent music Jerri, thanks for your work getting those up!

Lately I've been reminded of a guy, lonlonjp that arranges his own versions of a lot of popular songs, mostly video-game related, to play on guitar. IMO, one of his most impressive videos was his version of "Time's Scar," which was originally written to be performed by a full orchestra. Here is the original:

And Lonlonjp's version, it's roughly around 1:10 that I started to be blown away:

Had to link this as well for good measure:

What I love is this guy is ridiculously nice, and just an average office worker, that happens to be extremely talented, and does these videos and arrangements for his own and others' enjoyment.
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Post by: Jerri on Mon, 07 February 2011, 07:46:00: Thanks man! I would have done that for a long time. Because sometimes it could be very useful for people, who search for Midi Synthesizers!
When i bought the Roland i thought, well lets look on youtube and hear some examples, but there weren't any! You get the idea, what i mean.
And i think the SC-55 really shines on descent. Like the MT-32 shines really on Monkey Island!

Anyways, if somebody likes them really much, here is the Download link of the MP3s (much better quality than youtube, especially the highs!):
click here for Download! (http://rapidshare.com/files/446648516/D_D2.rar)
The file is ~120megs, the password is midigeek

Yeah i know it's more about the vgmusic itself, but now i've done that, what i were to lazy for ;) .
Have fun!
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Wed, 09 February 2011, 19:37:09: Laid back Uematsu.
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Post by: FireSlash on Wed, 09 February 2011, 20:24:20: One of my favorite TG16 tracks:

Also surprised nobody has generally linked http://ocremix.org yet... as a community member there I'm somewhat obligated to inform you how awesome OCR is. :P
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Post by: RoboKrikit on Wed, 09 February 2011, 21:24:02: Thanks for reminding me of Devil's Crush, haven't thought of that in a while. Unfortunately my PCE/CDROM² power supply died a couple weeks ago; gotta find another one. :[

Quote from: FireSlash;292622
Also surprised nobody has generally linked http://ocremix.org yet... as a community member there I'm somewhat obligated to inform you how awesome OCR is. :P

I linked it on page 2! OCR is sweet.
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Post by: shortround on Sun, 13 February 2011, 23:14:08: Ninja Gaiden mine shaft.
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Post by: Metalix on Mon, 14 February 2011, 04:53:21: I played to this game sooo much back in the old days.. not only it is a great game but some soundtracks are just awesome to listen like this one:

Donkey kong "Stickerbush symphony"