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If, say, I had a gimmick account called "JamesE" that somehow got banned, I would post something like this in this thread:

[Lick Meth]

[Loki Laufeyson]

i am currently in the college library, downloading thunderforce iv music from galbadia hotel. i already have most of the tracks, as .wavs i ripped from fusion, but still.

[another coma]

Ranger X - I like listening to that haunting "mission objective" music. it works even better in the context of the game actually, where I dare say the mission briefing computer could be mistaken for a sci-fi movie.

and rest of the soundtrack doesn't slouch either, the opening stage is fantastic in particular.
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[aderack]

[GMB]

Hopefully not embarassing myself too bad here (and hoping no one mentioned them before me) I'd suggest both Alisia Dragoon and Gain Ground make good use of the Genesis' sound chip.

Also, if it's not too much of a heresy, I'd suggest that Strider's soundtrack worked to much greater effect on the Genesis than it did in the arcade. I don't know how it works out exactly, but it's a little quieter and moodier than I found the arcade music to be, being made as it was in the late-80's "everything must be loud and boisterous" era of Capcom arcade games.
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[aderack]

No, I'd agree on Strider. Same with Ghouls 'N Ghosts, actually. Maybe. I'll have to directly compare sometime when I feel like it. Perhaps I'm just more familiar with it, is all.

Also, though again not a Yuzo Koshiro deal (odd that he's so associated with Shinobi, despite only having done the one game... plus the Game Gear ones that nobody played anyway), Shadow Dancer's soundtrack is pretty hep. It's got voice samples, which makes it 1990-awesome!

Decapattack has some neat stuff going on as well.

[Red_venom]

Shadow Dancer is definitely rad. And an underlooked Genesis/Shinobi game as well imo

[aderack]

No, last I looked I don't think it was a sweet potato. More of a russet, really.

[kiken]

[GMB]

[somewhere_else]

I'm rather partial to Gleylancer's soundtrack. The stage 1 theme and its accompanying boss theme are particularly pleasant to blow stuff up to.

"Stick to it, and believe in your power!" Indeed.

[lolipalooza]

So just now I was playing Golden Axe 3 on my PSP and



this is a pretty good song!

Let's use this thread again to talk about Mega Drive music? I know that some of you guys are particularly fond of this sound chip, as I am. And nowadays there's a lot more youtube music videos to populate the thread than in 2007, for those who don't wanna meddle with players and plugins.

Speaking of them, is there a .vgm player/plugin for android?

[Deets]

Deflemask!!!!!

[Sniper Honeyviper]

I bought a 1989 Model 1 Genesis specifically for the better sound chip.

[notbov]

Lemme poke through my youtube history...



If I ever get around to finally playing this, it'll be because of this song



Ristar has a bunch of really great tunes that do an awesome job of evoking settings

Worth a mention: Anything from Toejam & Earl
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Toejam & Eaaaaaaarl
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[Loki Laufeyson]

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[shnozlak]

Im glad this is here, we end up having an axe thread about this about twice a year.

[Loki Laufeyson]

the saturn game is a sequel, yes. it's slightly more puzzly (only slightly) and also has a lot of ugly prerendered sprites. it's still good, though.
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[Clumo]

This theme from Puyo Puyo is better in the Genesis than in the SNES.


Sparkster - Level 1-1
High Seas Havoc - White Frenzy
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[Minarae]

There's a plugin for foobar2000 that plays vgm's along with a few other game console related formats:
http://kode54.foobar2000.org/?v

You can also record to standard audio files for playing back on a portable player.

Motoi Sakuraba's hand clappy genesis works set the mood in game pretty well, but its a stretch to call the stuff listenable out of context. See El Viento and Granada

EDIT: Also, what's up with Yuzo/Ancient making an indie game on Xbox?

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Minarae, the XBLIG game is called Mamotte Knight/Protect Me! Knight.

[Teflon]

That bassline! Those meaty thuds whenever a bullet hits! The way the SFX eat into the BGM make it seem like you're actually fighting the soundtrack and killing lots of shit is drowning out its oppressive drone. Unintentional adaptive BGM.

[Persona]

This thread has lead me to hear this and of that I am infinitely grateful:


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[lolipalooza]

Persona, that's amazing. Apparently done on the YM2151, but still!

Battle Mania 2 has one of the best soundtrack of all Mega Drive shooters, which is no easy task! My personal favorite:

[gooktime]

peter gabriel

[lolipalooza]

Speaking of Langrisser, here's something interesting:

Langrisser II - Imelda

Streets of Rage 3 - Fuze

[diplo]

Shining Force 2 has fucking spectacular music. Super-bummed that Takenouchi doesn't do vgm anymore

"Battle 2" (00:58 to 1:11 is so brilliant omg)
"Battle 3"
"Town"
"Promoted Attack"
"Sad Theme"
"Shrine"
"Castle"
"Mithril Diggers"
"Elven Town"

[spectralsound]

hi5 anyone who mentioned Battlemania 2 in this thread
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[another coma]

[Clumo]

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[notbov]

I love MWIV's soundtrack, as it does a particularly good job of remixing and arranging the main melody into fitting the mood of the stage. In fact, it's probably one of the best examples of such an approach to BGMs.
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[OffalAl]

[ionustron]

It's okay B coma I hate trackers as well! But the option for Genesis specific formats that isn't trackers is very glitchy. Not a big deal though.

It's not Genesis but it's FM and I've been meaning to post this here for diplo for a while now. It's prolly the least broken version of Hoot I've seen wrapped up with a pretty fantastic gateway set of soundtracks. Seriously, just about everything here is a winner.

some favorites I can find on youtube:


(Yonao)


(Sakamoto And Friends Music)

(seriously go listen to Spindizzy 2 it completely destroys whatever crap everyone remembers on the Amiga or SNES or whatever. Toshiya Yamanaka is a god at this.)

for something Genesis...



(this'll prolly need to be curated to hyperlinks later.)

---also----

some large mdx archives found...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xk435m looks pretty well tagged into English.

this is the biggest archive of stuff possibly with some FM Towns or PC98 stuff in there too. unfortunately most of it will crash unless you have Japanese fonts installed or rename the files or something. Also might need to relink some of the pcm files with some sets.

I'm finding XMplay rather nice and lightweight for about all format playback now. I'm sure there's plugins for Foobar as well.

[zombieman000]

[Rei]

[Rokkan]

aw man all my faves have been mentioned. I need to re-mention the Shining Force series (especially Shining Force 2), how the heck did they manage to do such an orchestral-sounding soundtrack with the Mega Drive's FM synths is beyond me, so good.

Knuckles Chaotix didn't get mentioned though, and this is a very good soundtrack! I think the 32X adds some enhancements to the Mega Drive's FM capabilities but i'm not entirely sure. Still, FM, Mega Drive, should count!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-axPO7pwgg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwmWZMp8L8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZEfV1dV69M

and there's this awesome re-arrangement of the Knuckles Chaotix credits medley using the instruments from Ristar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsmoidmeKmM

[zombieman000]

Chaotix has a cool detailed sound test that breaks down which FM/PSG channels are playing which notes of the track. I've only seen this done on the later PS2 Sega Ages volumes.

[ionustron]

[Persona mobile]

Whoa, this guy has some awesome stuff, including (an arrangement? a recreation? the original?) songs from the Telenet version of Megami Tensei! How obscure!

Also Thunderforce 2 yeaaahhhh http://youtu.be/2MqJKlozuQI
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