What is the best music on handheld system (besides Tal Tal Heights)?
On any hand held or just Game Boy Color?
>>2961595
Any.
>>2961578
Face Shrine and Catfish's Maw. Though Tal Tal is ace.
>>2961578
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZBDNQ3gas
obligatory
>>2961607
Still doesnt give very many options if you try to stay retro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmD9WnLYR5I
>>2961578
Mario Land whatever kingdom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb33Qnbw520
Tetris B Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpzQmF_2qwo
Actually Kirby had a bunch of rad tunes too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwgVjhTbtzg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6lz3Akqr_U
and all anon's can appreciate this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UimIrTjuvfE
>>2961626
Hell yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqHkGX6VrUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsT2FiajyLQ
>>2961607
The six Castlevanias on GBA and NDS are pretty sweet.
>>2961578
Sonic on the Game Gear
notably bridge stage.
I always thought this song was really good. Maybe somewhat obscure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8glzeh97CZg
Posting some favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNuWEqK_4P8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUq_SVVAkvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5S9QNboucg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OvVs3ZZ1KI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLKcfHNgO_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JpHmlr1VIo
>>2961663
I'm not a huge fan of the bridge stage music.
Labyrinth Zone however
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwz_EVYRTM4
>>2961636
Man, you beat me to it!
>>2961642
I actually had Sonic 3D Blast 5.
Alberto Jose Gonzalez, easily and outstandingly the best composer on the Game Boy. Could probably fill the top 10 with his tracks alone.
The two Smurfs games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzHTkRLcE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwXl5Fn3gmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x35H3mcTDfM
At least two of the Turok soundtracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-LNuyVHkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhneiLIuM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-K8NWPTL4U
Okay, definitely three Turok soundtracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNe24yzNyGg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2irI6a1MfnY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTfKxMQJWzk
(Asterix &) Obelix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EekRXCiwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0twtupZSOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTbJTjkpjcg
Metal Masters, it's just one track, but fuck it, it's a good track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVpkon8oOSA
Otto's Ottifanten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DZ1ENAX82c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXlpzbIl1Bg
Lucky Luke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpbW7LI1ESw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-4bwCyIP1g
Radikal Bikers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcvjYZBIN-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_knrVvwg4E
I don't even want to stop here, because there is much more brilliant stuff. The Tintin games, the Looney Tunes games, Bomb Jack and more.
>>2961663
>>2961891
You can really hear the composer didn't master the soundchip. It could't naturally produce deep/low notes, but with some tricks it was possible. Guess who found these tricks, Alberto Gonzalez. Best composer on the Game Gear. But I'm surprised how good the Sonic music sounds without it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQbh3gHo6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4xa0LrbCuE
The soundchip is still super weak, but he made it work. Jason Page also figured out how to use it.
If you are impatient, skip to 1:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL8RDpvTi_A
>>2961578
I like the DWM soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuPI3F-6asU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzbrDvl-pk
This one is my favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_yW6ModmcQ
>>2961663
Bridge zone ftw. Also liked Jungle zone. So bouncy!
But no-one has posted the talon theme so I gotta post the talon theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zICpWwRU6I
Not the music actually played on it, but still official (if I'm remembering right):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6s3tY7Lsq4
>>2961636
There's a comment on the video where someone says they thought they must have been hallucinating as a kid thinking this was a thing. I felt pretty much the same way.
Like the time I opened up a crying doll and found a tiny record player inside and on the other side of the disc was The Laughing Policeman.
But my dad backed that up. Apprently scared the shit out of the girl.
Hands down, Mole Mania on the Gameboy.
This game is good, it's super cheap and the music alone would make it worth a purchase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yf3g_THRw
The answer is the Dragon Warrior I map theme, plebs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTCAkgychI4
https://desustorage.org/vr/thread/2828589/#q2829003
>>2962531
<3
i fuck** love this guy!
favorite track is Bomb Jack - Game Over (aka "The last sigh") [inspired by the death of one of his friend in a car accident]: https://youtu.be/2mKpw83Qmds
>>2962851
>Mole Mania
My nigga
Also, anything from SUNSOFT on the game boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntbl99JqfRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7FLS0NHm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umSFmYh69U4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH70CwY__Ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSeP9lOXVxw
Deep duck trouble- sega gamegear
>>2961578
'Mana Shrine' from Final Fantasy Adventure/Sword of Mana. Both versions are incredible, and mark the "point of no return" for that game. Sorry I can't link from my phone
>>2961578
are ports cheating?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5gomNT6auU
>>2961634
Mario land whatever kingdom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUeLOAqRgE&list=PL98A39DA93B0BAC05&index=14 though i like this one more becuase of the seal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmw4lzjEqD8
And I was a Tetris Type A normie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S13eCW9BgM
Good on the kirby songs
>"ANON GET OUT!"
>>2962531
Personally I don't really dig this kind of stuff. While it's true that technically it's advanced, it actually hurts the overall music to me in terms of composition. Probably because it's made for the sake being technical (or simply because of it).
In contrast to that, things what I actually prefer is the aforementioned GG Sonic tracks (especially scrap brain).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk4cqQT29qA
>>2962531
Fuck year, keygen music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc4nl1utnfg
This game has oddly good music:
https://youtu.be/c9GZUPAYANk?t=3m
>>2961578
There's a severe lack of Seiken Densetsu/Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest battle themes, let's fix that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kfZrUoSFQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTFclvgbHFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7czE2viWXA
Final Boss theme is my favorite, personally.
Also, Final Fantasy Legend 2/SaGa 2 has pretty cool ones too. It's also the first game I've ever seen with customizable music, you can use ingame jukeboxes to change the background music to whichever track you want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT5Rlp-epVk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y3Q0dBfsGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI5WpnZK1l8
Bonus Track: Dion's theme from Final Fantasy Legend 3/SaGa 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Mq0rskmXQ
>>2961578
mfw they rescued this one in megaman 10
https://youtu.be/huHPHKg8DCs
Pokemon Gold/Silver is probably my top GBC music. The remixes from Pokemon Puzzle Challenge as well.
>>2964408
>it actually hurts the overall music to me in terms of composition
No. No, it absolutely doesn't. It utterly well made, technically and compositionalwise. No Japanese composer ever put anything nearly as good out on the SMS/SGG. Your just nostalgic for Sonic, which is an utterly average composition. Like most of the stuff posted in hear, really.
I don't know why you Americans always get so butthurt, when you have to face the truth that Japanese composers aren't as talented as Europeans.
If you really want to hear something that is style over substance, look into Stello Doussis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjf_kqCFoTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYEPQ85wimA
But even he managed to get it right from time to time and what came out is way better than almost everything on the system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnxHrqibT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBGvJ4IsrMk
>>2965198
>>2965187
>>2964634
>>2963008
>>2962537
These are such average fucking compositions from composers who barely understood the GB. You can really hear that this was made for the NES and would've been way better off with some samples. They don't utilize the amazing wave channel at all. It's weak and average.
Best Japanese music on the GB got to be SML1, Pokemon Red/Blue and Nintendo World Cup. Pokemon rarely uses the noise channel and it's still good.
>>2964641
Manfred Linzner, he is fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4IrkW4NSwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57837mlbOA
>>2965238
>your subjective taste is wrong!
it seems that you're the one who gets butthurt when I simply don't like what they made. fact of the matter is I hate the overuse of "appergios" which most of it seems so proud of, when it simply makes it that much unbearable to hear for me because personally I think it sounds bad. that's all. say what you want about him being uber leet or whatever, but you can't say I don't have any right to dislike his creations.
>>2965187
huh, just realized that was actually dion's theme.
always thought it was "that other talon's theme".
>>2965238
Everyone cares about your opinion and you are correct on the objective superiority of your favourite chiptune artist, congratulations.
>>2965250
>>your subjective taste is wrong!
He/she/it or you claimed the composition would suffer from the technical expertise, which is not just not true, but also an objective assessment of the music and I was arguing that.
It just annoys me greatly when someone brushes off good music because "hurdur music". Most people only judge chiptune by its nostalgic value to them and nothing more.
>>2965283
Criticism taken.
>>2965376
so tell me then, what's the objectively best music ever made?
>>2965382
death grips guillotine
>>2965382
4'33"
>>2965376
>It just annoys me greatly when someone brushes off good music because "hurdur music"
>good music
But like I said, I don't even find them "good". To you, maybe, but definitely not me. There's nothing nostalgic about not liking what I hear that I hadn't known before.
>CTRL+F Trip World
>0 results
SHAME
https://youtu.be/ibb-RzmocJQ
>>2965238
>These are such average fucking compositions from composers who barely understood the GB.
But they're anything but average, they're pretty great. There is a reason people still remix them nowadays.
>You can really hear that this was made for the NES
Except, you know, that they weren't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh0iy72-_0U
>>2965389
That is pretty good actually.
SPOT (GameBoy)
Hard to find a proper upload even, but it's fucking ace. Made by the legendary Geoff Follin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPymVbc2GFI
>>2965752
>>You can really hear that this was made for the NES
>Except, you know, that they weren't.
I thought the NES and GB had the same soundchip. Do they not?
>>2966478
No, the gb/c just devotes a few pins from the processor to audio, with a dac and some passives.
Not strictly a sound chip, but it still sounds great.
>>2965250
Arpeggios were used due to the hardware only actually being able to output a note at a time - was a shifty way of getting a constant sound going with some very small, slightly noticable breaks. Combine that with the percussion and rhythm layers and you've got a heck of a complex thing going on.
Jonne Valtonen and Aleksi Eeben did an awesome job on "Project S-11". They utilize the GB soundchip in odd ways and produce a very unusual sound. The sound files are 467 kB large btw, many times that of most other games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6oYRW_a-Lc
Doki Doki Cassette??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGa_OAZFY3g
https://youtu.be/enK5lXRY8SU
But it can also be atmospheric.
https://youtu.be/jVCJDEkeq08
https://youtu.be/67djdODJMw0
Catchy and upbeat.
https://youtu.be/nG4XnNYlHxg
https://youtu.be/MTunASxsA08
It even has elevator music.
https://youtu.be/RQAXmGZ_ff8
>>2966478
In terms of pure chiptune, very similar. Each have two puls channels and a noise channel. The fourth channel on the NES is a triangle wave and on the GB/C a freely controllable wave channel, which allows for more C64 like stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8H_gONEp2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boCgMcSCXlI
>>2966503
It's rather amusing that so many people on this board hate arpeggios, but someone will always post Robocop's title theme, which is also one of the most viewed GB tracks and many people think Tim Follin is the god of chiptune, though his compositions are the best example of arpeggio abuse. Even he things his chiptune compositions are a mess. His 16-bit work is way better, be it on Genesis or SNES.
>>2966706
>so the GB and the GBC have the soundchip?
No, they use their processor with a few passive components to make sound.
>>2961626
Thats a nice one dude
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CRbAzmA889c
If you played this game u cannot foeget the soundtrack, u hear it so often but its nice.
>>2963008
The final boss was across the water.
>>2966609
I don't really think so. Gonzalez definitely sounds distinctively European, due to his use of arpeggios and those were common on the C64, but that's a technique that could be used on any system. The sawtooth wave is some typical C64 sound, since the NES couldn't do it.
And Gonzalez was a Speccy artist anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMqODENcp9o
>>2966821
So why do GBC and GB audio sound so different? The GB's audio is insanely full compared to the GBC.
>>2968579
Probably cheaper components, I'd wager. Same reason why model 1 megadrives had better sound than model 2.
>>2966706
>(Alberto Gonzales worked on the ZX Spectrum not the C64; so they have more a "TZX" flavor)
Actually yeah I see what you mean. I was reminded of Daley Thompson's Decathlon (I had the Speccy version) by a few of those tunes yesterday.
>>2966821
So they modulate pins in software to create pulse waves, and put them through digitally controlled filters?
Like how a first order passive RC filter turns a square wave into an exponential ramp?
>>2968601
Does it also use an integrator circuit to generate a triangle too?
>>2968587
My understanding is that the GB uses 4 batteries, so there's no need to step up the voltage, while the GBC uses 2 batteries, which need to be stepped up (3v to 5v).
The buck converter used to step the voltage up introduces noise.
Also, the GBC may use a cheaper audio amp.
>>2968601
Pretty much.
The two pulse channels are just bitbang'd out of the pins to a filter.
The noise channel is pretty much the same, but the output is just semirandom noise, shaped by a filter.
The fourth channel is 4-bit PCM, with 4 pins going to a DAC.
>>2968603
No, the GB does not have hardware triangle waves.
Instead, the PCM channel cycles through samples to approximate a triangle wave.
Unreleased goodness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEg7WrANdfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_VrnMw22k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJuoOJZcg3Q
>>2968976
>Instead, the PCM channel cycles through samples to approximate a triangle wave.
Isn't that also a wave channel for general purposes?
>>2961626
Ranch or Cool Ranch?
Some of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XjouKSkSeM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgMHWxN2U_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lj1aw4J8ZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VXcML6Hf0 (Also from Link's Awakening)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyUEDgQSO8
>>2961785
Avenging Spirit is a hidden gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlU7o8sLcyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywRGNGRmRws
>>2965238
those last 4 videos are so fucking good dude. you know your gameboy music shit lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzZab0uEd1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mBkrRDFB28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgGxQGd4I4
>>2962531
>Alberto, who the fuck is this guy-
>Hear first track
>WHY THE FUCK IS THIS SO GODDAMN FAMILIAR TO ME HOLY FUCK I NEVER HEARD THIS TRACK AND YET IT SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR
>Lucky Luke among one of these videogame soundtracks
Jesus fucking christ, my childhood
Right in the fucking feels
>>2961578
im very glad this song gets the recognition it deserves, it stood out so much when i was little
>>2961630
WonderSwan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UMQjwO6jf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM_WRqPe66g
NeoGeo Pocket Color
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFavaYTduzQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wifVLG2O3OU
Does anybody know what they are capable of, in terms of chiptune. Like, how many channels and what waves could these produce? They both sound super simplistic.
>>2973150
According to tha wikipizzle:
>NeoGeo Pocket Color has 3 squares, noise, and 2 limited PCM channels
>WonderSwan has 4 wavetables with very limited features
>>2973352
Is there a difference between PCM and wavetables?
>>2973397
Wavetable will always loop what it's given, making it a lot harder to use for drums, etc, but good for melody.
Just PCM implies lower-level access, which may be more intensive but also more flexible.
>>2973407
So it's both just sending samples of n-bits to a DAC?
>>2965261
To be honest it fooled me too, because the first time you hear it, is when you get introduced to the Falcon at the beginning of the game.
>>2973397
>>2973421
Better explanation:
The wavetable can only take in a 32 samples, so it can really only be used to make melodic sounds with various timbre. It also uses frequency and volume information to play it back as a note.
The "PCM" in this case is access to a DAC like you said, but there's no indication that it can be used to create melodies, which means it's probably only good for sound effects or rhythm.
>>2973736
>The "PCM" in this case is access to a DAC like you said, but there's no indication that it can be used to create melodies, which means it's probably only good for sound effects or rhythm.
Or you'd have to do it in software. Which, presumably, would be resource-hungry.
>>2973754
Or with big/complex samples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgoYUzwabI
>>2973807
This guy has an awesome channel btw. I'd recommend it for anyone into music on limited hardware.
>>2962531
Love that dude
Owned the Smurfs, Asterix and Lucky Luke for the GB as a kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmiOls5kW48
>>2961578
SD1/Final Fantasy Adventure
>>2973807
If you like Sunsoft's music, you can read this 800 pages dissertation on that.
http://www.academia.edu/15400351/Chiptune_music_An_exploration_of_compositional_techniques_as_found_in_Sunsoft_games_for_the_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_and_Famicom_from_1988-1992
>>2973839
Too bad he fucked up the Game Boy music. The channels don't play at the right volume. At least he put them up though.
>>2973864
Funny thing is, that song plays in a autoscrolling level that is around 40 seconds long, but the track is 80 seconds long, without any loop.
Alberto also gets mentioned in this guys >>2973807 videos and even in the dissertation I posted above.
https://youtu.be/Jd6nyynuzio?t=2m2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjZXguqmKM
Fucking magnificant that guy.
>>2973407
>Just PCM implies lower-level access, which may be more intensive but also more flexible.
What do you mean by intensive?
Harder to program or taking more CPU time?
>>2974451
Both, in a way.
Getting PCM to do what you want requires you to program so.
To make a wavetable, one has to program it to cycle through a set number of samples.
To use it to play sampled sound effects, voices, or music requires one to program a way to stream the samples through the channel.
Naturaly, this means the processor has to devote some resources to the PCM.
A pure hardware wavetable just takes a set number of samples and cycles through tham at the appropriate speed, no need for the cpu to give it the samples every cycle.
Some more Gonzales:
V-Rally - Car Select
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG9f3b5Mykc
I'm always surprised that noone seems to enjoy the Nintendo World Cup soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlaSGbv0658
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3XOCUzAoeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmTVVYed2k
Kazuo Sawa, fantastic guy.
>>2961578
MABE VILLAGE IS SUPERIOR
HOLY SHIT SHUT THE FUCK UP OP
>>2976593
They're both damn fine songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1zeHdhrvkk
Tintin on the Moon, main theme
https://youtu.be/b39O1WkWdYc
>>2961634
I whistle this at work all the time.
>>2961891
Reminds me of Side Pocket on the NES
>>2976976
>Nasu B
another of hers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh_5VsYgUak
It's SMS, but the exact same song appears for the game gear "Tengen World Cup" game.
I love all of these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eQszC9A4d4
>>2977031
Also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRvPg0FSzIg
>>2976990
Whoa, surprisingly catchy for a licensed DOS game. Shouldn't have expected anything less from Tintin, though.
>>2962632
I would have told everyone in this thread to commit mass suicide if this wasn't posted. Good thing it was.
>>2965238
Japanese (and some western) composers have true understanding of melody, harmony, and rhythm, while Euros just made them brlbrlbrbtbtbtrlbtt and called it a day because muh technique. The fact is the former compositions are much better and thus still widely listened to and remixed, compared to the latter.
>>2961634
The Super Mario Land overworld/birabuto kingdom theme carries this really odd nostalgic vibe.
I never even played the game when I was younger, the first time I did I was 16, but even so, it's oddly...well nostalgic. Not sure why either.
>>2961634
>first Kirby pick is Castle Lololo
I like you.
>>2977663
>And that is a C64 game scored by Jeroen Tel, master of SID and all chiptune.
Was gonna say >>2976990 didn't look like a PC display mode to me. This monstrosity, on the other hand, brings back bad memories of when I had a crappy CGA 386 thrown together by my dad in an original IBM PC case - while everyone else had an Intel Inside Pentium Multimedia Super Information Motorway Drive with MMX FMV 4x CD-ROM Fully Interactive Enhancements running 7th Guest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdIoDgURbvw
>>2977663
>Jeroen Tel, master of SID and all chiptune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0s7mTNW60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkmxfiU9PkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGENZfw3ak0
>>2976947
NO
SHUT UP
MABE VILLAGE AND INSIDE THE HOUSES ARE THE BEST
LOOK AT THESE MODERN COVERS :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLXOQA6fJC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z483RyU2neg
:DDDDDDDDD
>>2961578
Just found this gem, i think this music was shared with the gbc Turrican...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ3UCmSFhoc&index=32&list=RD9UYYyTjvq9Y
Cosmo Tank is really good when the music kicks in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upNbTEHqbvw
https://youtu.be/2FrQWnq27sE
>>2982184
Not from the GBC...
>>2961578
Tal Tal Heights is one of the best video game songs of all time, and I get emotional every time I hear it.
So strange.
WHAT!?
So far down the thread and no mention of Face Ball 2000?
Child please https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ei-bZ3y9b8
On the subject of Link's Awakening, did anyone ever notice this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E29uwKZJbUI
A couple nostalgia favourites of mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0j9AOEhzO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ThLS_aCk_g
Oh, the memories...
>>2970745
>Ranch or Cool Ranch?
What is this meme?
>>2986581
http://kotaku.com/5885431/what-do-robocop-washing-machines-dilbert--lil-b-have-in-common
O! listening to this pokemon track sure brings back many memories of my childhood, especially the excruciating pain of not being able to save my progress because my bootleg copy didn't come with a working battery.
My all time favorite handheld OST is from the Sonic 2 for the game gear, specifically the Scrap Brain Zone tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSUZZXGbipc&list=PL0AAB36AE22942BF8&index=6 [Embed]
This song evokes a feeling of hope against the destructive forces of greed that bleed dry nature. As Sonic enters this stage, you are faced with a dystopian-like red background that reeks of the putrid smell of a dead nature, killed by concrete and artificial lights and the song conveys this ominous atmosphere. I can't decide whether or not the PAL version is better, I think the faster pace of the NTSC version is a bit more likeable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B9lI9_pth8 [Embed]
>>2986635
So you finally got your head around posting the pic and its accompanying text at the same time, then?
>>2986619
The only thing that article forgot to mention was Space Station 13, which also uses a remix of Robocop for it's title theme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2xkpz-26jM
Cool Spot is always cool, be it on Game Boy or Gear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S92uRpqbxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNrFaHVxDCg
I'd say the Game Gear version is actually better, because it hits those deep notes. Don't know how Matt Furniss managed to do that, but he did. Incredible composer. But then again, the track is way to short.
Loopz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh_6tfxrfDc
Volley Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kciNacSDa8
No good thread without Prehistorik Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFasnPiOt-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGWxgqwkWY4
And let's add another cave man to it, Chuck Rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo6YG_Vku4Q
>>2986635
>Sonic 2 for the game gear
>Scrap Brain Zone
>>2990763
>Prehistorik Man
Was gonna post this, fuck yea
Came across Trip World yesterday, haven't played the game but music is pretty cool
https://youtu.be/WOzzzoymPUI
>>2992485
I need to complete this game one day.
>>2961578
>Tal Tal Heights
thx OP for reminding me how awesome this song is, it took me back to when I first held a gameboy and played this epic game.
mfw I realize they don't make stuff like this anymore =_=
STEP ASIDE NIGGERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUO3WRlLMNU
>>2961578
I've never understood what the hell those weird borders around the edges of cliffs in LA/OaA/OaS are supposed to be. They look like stone walls or something. Also, Egg Utopia Act 1, even if it's not retro.Then again, that wasn't part of the question.
>>2996335
>mfw I realize they don't make stuff like this anymore =_=
Spot the newfag.
I will say I am a little surprised to see no mention of Pokemon TGC (or the Japan-only sequel for that matter). That soundtrack is nothing short of stunning.
Not only is every single track a winner, but you also get legendary songs like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucQ6rLeRxyg
Do you see this? This is a song that almost takes 3 minutes before it loops again. On the fucking GBC. It's longer than some "actual" songs with lyrics there! Simply amazing.
And like I said, the sequel is just as good. Here is one especially notable track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoPz3DQv3R0
I don't know anything about analysing music or compositions or whatever. But these songs HAVE to push the GBC to its musical limits. There is no way they could not.
>>2961634
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UimIrTjuvfE
Anon, get out!
>the prince's adventure hasn't been posted yet
Fucking disgusting
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lL9_jGX78
Some other great songs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UMgcgRPR8qs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL1C98B0A7CD0170CB&v=I6mftPOyQX0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VXcML6Hf0
>>2966521
It's really amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2xLTR2zX1o
>>2997307
name a few
I recall Earthworm Jim for the classic Game Boy sounding pretty impressive at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgFVYdeT7gw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwUTuECTYw
Din's dance and Nayru's song from Oracle of ages/seasons
>>2976465
Based Kazuo Sawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U82vAgJc9Vo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI0C3zvgVyQ
