Songs on Gameboy/GBC that just sound incredibly good?

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Songs on Gameboy/GBC that just sound incredibly good? Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 12:37:16 No.3398371 [Reply] [Original]

So there were a lot of charming songs on gameboy games, but I'm looking for songs that just sounded far better than they had any right to be given the technology. This one always stuck out to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlokRNcURKM

The amount of differing sounds here is amazing, the strength of the composition is pretty wild. And that wobbly "dream-like" effect starting at the beginning really adds a lot to the tone

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 12:41:49 No.3398374 >>3398371 very cool

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 12:48:02 No.3398383 >>3398371 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORBnTtnXN-o In what genre does this music falls? Techno?, electronic?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 12:48:13 No.3398384 Warlocked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0s7mTNW60

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 12:57:34 No.3398395 File: 30 KB, 480x360, oracles.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcoK-SxhKwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhGS79bPPCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YulbKBbTsPM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6z3SURMO7w

Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 13:04:01 No.3398404

I've always loved the ending theme to Final Fantasy Legend. There's something haunting and unsettling about it, which fits the tone of the game pretty damn well, and generally is just a very different feel than most you get from most video game music, especially for its time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWE9WH9pwis

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 13:09:37 No.3398415 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ks_IBL83M

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 13:25:21 No.3398435 >>3398371 Obligatory posts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-VyHIx_SY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUeLOAqRgE

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 13:28:04 No.3398438 File: 78 KB, 498x500, 698675-mariotennis_gbc_na.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://youtu.be/7PKS5OJ_m3Q

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 13:34:13 No.3398454 File: 265 KB, 589x422, robert cop.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Ez3OHnrcw

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 14:17:23 No.3398505 There isn't a (good) video of it on YouTube, but a GBC demo called 'Less is More' is really top-notch. Very SID-ish sound. You can find it in the Penultimate GBS Archive.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 14:21:54 No.3398514 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puh-OomYatg

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 14:22:36 No.3398516 File: 16 KB, 958x660, 1466010282970.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3398395 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbo9GLHhDEM Man, Ages and Seasons are probably my favourite games.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 14:24:09 No.3398520 >>3398395 >>3398516 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCg38XkGVco

Anonymous Mon, Aug 1, 2016 16:58:57 No.3398795

Once again the soundtrack of Turok 2 on gbc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-LNuyVHkA&index=3&list=PL9FDAF9D04CFA977A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhneiLIuM4&index=7&list=PL9FDAF9D04CFA977A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=668WsLql73I&list=PL9FDAF9D04CFA977A&index=11

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 01:04:14 No.3399523 >>3398795 Shame that the game was pretty bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 01:17:51 No.3399547 Project S-11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkc63WOwuw

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 01:25:59 No.3399562 File: 721 KB, 446x251, whatswrongwithyou.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >No Tal Tal Heights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtvtZT-PXGk

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 01:59:32 No.3399598 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9eH_lYmbZY&index=6&list=PL5C517BC63577EC07

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 02:23:50 No.3399621 >>3398454 Sounds much better on C64.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 02:41:25 No.3399635 >>3398404 Speaking of Final Fantasy Legend, this song from Legend 2 is fucking brilliant Burning Blood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04T-pUYN1bA

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 02:46:43 No.3399637 You have to give it a bit, but I think this is seriously my favorite song on the GBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgeEbik7ZM

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 02:52:55 No.3399638 My personal all-time-favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak0gqmCQNU0

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 03:10:20 No.3399664 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lL9_jGX78

Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 03:11:54 No.3399668
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For some reason I find this song incredibly emotional. As much as I miss the past, not many things make me feel nostalgic, save for this song and the SMB3 ending tune.

Nintendo had some awesome credits music.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNrtsciBC5M

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 03:39:24 No.3399685 >>3398505 Checked it out. Really impressive technically. Uploaded it to YouTube for the benefit of the collective. https://youtu.be/QYscpzWR5DA Apparently it's a Careless Whisper cover, but sounds really nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 03:56:18 No.3399707 >>3398454 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpW6U8UmLUA Id buy that for a dollar

Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 04:22:41 No.3399728

>>3398371
>discussion on GBC music
>thread is over 12 hours old
>no mention of the fantastic GameBoy 25th anniversary remix album OCR did a few years ago

For shame, /vr/, although to be fair, this is my first time here, so I don't really know how often music-related threads pop-up here, so excuse my rudeness. I don't really have a particular song from the games' of the OG Nintendo handheld that stands out like the OP suggests I provide, but I <i>DO</i> have a remix of the song you posted for comparison (which you can download for free <i>here</i>: http://gameboy25.ocremix.org)

I don't know the policy about posting download links on this particular board, but there you are, and here's that remix as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynzuenrVdew&index=10&list=PLvq7EmItt5BnWd8cvOq3JKBjAm9js7P7I
I felt the need to post this before reading any other suggestions in this thread, so I'm off to catch up. Hope you all enjoy! (for the record I'm not affiliated with OCR in any way, I'm just a big fan)

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 06:29:21 No.3399763 >>3399685 kek, Careless Whispers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 06:47:28 No.3399793 >>3399547 This is fucking unreal

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 06:59:05 No.3399808 >>3399793 well it's sunsoft

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 07:42:18 No.3399858 >>3399808 "Sunsoft is just a band. a band that peddles their music through video games" - anon 2016

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 08:05:53 No.3399881 https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_524685&feature=iv&src_vid=O9WPbCmLmD4&v=wkFhhnApeF4 All I can hear when I listen to it is "play more, work faster, eliminate line, now comrade!" but it always works and spurs me to do better.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 08:34:49 No.3399909 >>3399547 Feels like I turned on one of those old keygens with the funky loud music that I loved, this is great

Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 08:55:33 No.3399929
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I always thought the GBC Beatmania and Pop'n games were overlooked. They had pretty competent sound and gameplay considering the limitations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b35QnNDw80A

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 09:00:52 No.3399942 >>3399664 Huh. For ages I never knew that Richard was a cameo. Wonder if that game's any good.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 10:05:40 No.3399998 File: 9 KB, 320x224, ss1-quote5.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDcwQMB0m78

Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 10:07:34 No.3400003

The whole Jurssic Park gameboy OST is actually amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL4ZAu5HitE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywRGNGRmRws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE9P6voMrTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPb0puVtH8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Iw2SHGO_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XVbXS0JkqI

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 12:49:07 No.3400252 >>3400003 Good lord, that percussion is amazing. How do they do it?

Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 13:59:51 No.3400405

>>3398371
If you liked that, than check out these Gonzalez songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmCHwlfRwbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdxY-C0FJ6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orBHpElvyfg

Easily the best composer on the system.

>>3399808
No, it's Paragon5. They made the game and the music. Also made a couple of homebrews and got another official release.
https://youtu.be/7UrJHNX6sz8
https://youtu.be/0yG-ASwhsUg

>>3399685
Linzner is so fucking good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4IrkW4NSwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h-SJDm7N4A

>>3400252
Probably supported by the triangle wave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd6nyynuzio

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 14:03:13 No.3400407 >>3398371 Wtf is a charming song?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 14:12:40 No.3400428 >>3400405 >>3398371 From Alberto Jose González I also like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtVtKPvfIjA it's pretty impressive

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 15:33:41 No.3400556 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJrFGr8cJiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFuYXKU6Y9I

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 16:18:55 No.3400626 Pretty much the entire OST of the harry Potter GBC games.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 17:19:52 No.3400731 >>3398435 goat

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 17:31:00 No.3400741 >no toki tori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ9ZpSZcoPo

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 17:31:14 No.3400742 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKYl_EyDVA

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 18:53:03 No.3400885 >>3400556 >8-bit music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPRsTxfyZuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR0UjAQIX6E

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 19:10:43 No.3400928 >>3400885 >that first video holy fuck my ears hurt

Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 19:31:44 No.3400985

>>3400405
>Probably supported by the triangle wave.
You're thinking of the NES.

The Game Boy doesn't have a triangle wave. It has two pulse waves, a custom wavetable channel, and a white noise channel.

From the sound of it, that song's percussion is done only with the white noise, which is fucking incredible.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 2, 2016 20:05:37 No.3401059 >>3400985 >custom wavetable channel Yeah, and the wavetable can do anything. Even samples. What do you think a wavetable does? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoctrlIUJTE Some Europeans also use short arpeggios to enhance the drum sound.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 00:31:06 No.3401565 >>3400742 Already posted on >>3399664

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 03:45:04 No.3401845 >>3401059 Then why did you call it the triangle wave when it can do anything? That song I was talking about doesn't even use triangle waves.

>>	aether !!Xz/VZaTP0Ys Wed, Aug 3, 2016 04:44:25 No.3401904 >>3399547 this is sick

>>	aether !!Xz/VZaTP0Ys Wed, Aug 3, 2016 04:56:57 No.3401909 >>3399728 now you know that html tags don't work in comments. good music anyway

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 05:29:42 No.3401935 >>3400885 >1st vid More like that?

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 13:06:21 No.3402452 Step aside https://youtu.be/uvMJbN-W__A

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 13:25:04 No.3402487 Little Nicky's GBC game's soundtrack is easily a hidden gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfmYnCV0gUo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0RtN1EmCg4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA573lBxEak More tracks from the game are on the dude's channel.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 13:28:39 No.3402490 this was posted last time there was a thread of this kind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnxHrqibT0

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 13:35:44 No.3402502 >>3399598 DQ V wants its theme back.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 13:42:09 No.3402509 >>3402490 This sounds muse as fuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqPVz101nd0

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 14:01:47 No.3402556 >>3398371 I still replay this game just for the music hase some sick tunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e07sWUofyVU&index=7&list=PLf3QV788NeiQd4BgOcy6Ge06J8DJz4503

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 18:21:36 No.3403074 >>3402452 >by Martin Goodall and Paul Tonge I have never heard of them or this game. Need to check them out.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 18:46:12 No.3403114 File: 141 KB, 1024x768, ZAScart_zps367b2870.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Good tune on that one, also a japan shooter for original GB called 'Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS'. Has very good chiptunes.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 19:21:10 No.3403175 >>3399547 Damn, this is fucking fantastic. >>3399909 Holy shit I forgot about that. That shit was awesome.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 20:05:55 No.3403268

Lufia: The Legend Returns has a nice soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcXdL3A-3iY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGbjKp_igAE
^ this one is maximum comfy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epQdhluizXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=544Uh8g4AoY
^this is a version of the ending part in Lufia 2 after you beat the final boss, and, you know, don't wanna spoil it. Wish I could find a better quality version of this.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 21:10:58 No.3403384 The best rendition of Dragon Warrior's soundtrack was on the Game Boy. https://youtu.be/bTCAkgychI4 It's honestly haunting.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 3, 2016 23:14:46 No.3403625

Have a taste of some glorious gb Megaman V

Mercury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK4m_9jTmL4

Neptune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JpHmlr1VIo

Uranus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJKb5lyfpM

Wily Stage (fucking EXCELLENT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b5RMt7U4HU

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 4, 2016 17:40:23 No.3405009 >>3398505 >Very SID-ish sound Not really, no.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 4, 2016 20:29:57 No.3405328 File: 480 KB, 2934x2191, them_poster_04.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3399547 Raw. Anybody else lsdj here? Sounds like most of the leads were made on the wav channel, can anyone confirm?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 4, 2016 23:11:52 No.3405587 >>3405328 Yeah, this was done in a custom sound engine by Paragon 5, and I do belive it uses wav channel trickery to achieve the SID-like filters and arpeggios.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 04:03:32 No.3405963 >>3399547 >>3405328 >>3405587 Visualisation/Oscilloscope view of the song and Bern Jungle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2xLTR2zX1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trtV-eldb8E

Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 04:23:21 No.3405982

This genre of music is called Chiptune. There's many artist that makes awesome tracks on gameboy and many various retro consoles. Also, they performs lots of very fun chiptune party, you should check out for your local chiptune artist and throw a party with him.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 04:25:35 No.3405985 >>3405982 also, check out the "chiptunes win" compilations for lot of modern chiptune

Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 05:12:05 No.3406015

Megaman 3 - Wily Marine Fortress is a really good tune, and amen to that because that stage is REALLY fucking long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PDdC51EDWk

Megaman 4 Wily Stage is alright, not as good as 3 or 5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Jc4j1s__g

MegaMan Xtreme - Spark Mandrill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siP_HxxGN8Y

MegaMan Xtreme 2 - Flame Mammoth
Hearing MMX themes in gb sound is pretty interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WZZto9FYBM

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 11:46:01 No.3406341 Medarot 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-I-SUAHHt8

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 13:44:15 No.3406526 >>3405328 I use LSDJ, i have a modded DMG-01 with a green backlight, prosound mod, and a sound oscillator.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 14:34:04 No.3406584 Everything from Super Mario Land.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 15:09:19 No.3406648 File: 61 KB, 700x630, gfs_45609_1_4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8FH8NI4U4Y

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 15:11:38 No.3406650 File: 16 KB, 400x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTzPj_RcIy4

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 17:59:15 No.3406897 >>3398383 chiptune

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 18:05:50 No.3406909 File: 94 KB, 496x443, 1466008834074.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I always thought this song sounded hella tight even when I was little. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKQhHqTeipw

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 5, 2016 23:22:01 No.3407327 >Gameboy sounds great >Gameboy Advance sounds like shit What happened? https://youtu.be/mJqZw8fVQrs

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 00:34:31 No.3407392 File: 663 KB, 1749x2495, hercules_unchained_poster_08.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3405963 That's the most informative response ive ever gotten here. >>3405587 You were right anon

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 00:37:16 No.3407397 Road Rash had a great soundtrack, especially the main menu theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5nkqvbQGUM only video i could find

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 00:57:46 No.3407427 File: 165 KB, 480x360, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyxh_6-Nw-Q&index=5&list=PLhHcMbVmbwCfNsyTINGY6dBUDJpHS1ZUx

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 02:49:08 No.3407549 >>3407327 midi music is boring and soulless

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 03:02:38 No.3407568 File: 363 KB, 500x501, batman-the-video-game-world.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Batman: The Movie Gameboy game had an awesome soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3A2j7CTLvY

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 03:08:22 No.3407572 >>3407568 >SUNSOFT well no duh.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 03:56:28 No.3407638 >>3398383 castlevania >>3406897 no, faggot

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 04:01:20 No.3407646 >>3399547 boring. nothing to see here.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 04:05:18 No.3407651 >>3405982 chiptune is indie garbage this is retro game music

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 10:43:27 No.3408076 >>3407651 Are you shitting on Dubmood?

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 6, 2016 19:49:13 No.3408910 Is it just me, or do gameboy tunes often sound like they have a ton of reverb?

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 00:24:32 No.3409365 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOezO65uqX4

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 00:32:33 No.3409381 >>3409365 that sounds horrible

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 14:48:46 No.3410361 >>3409381 that's a prog masterwork you uncultured swine

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 15:05:40 No.3410389 >>3410361 Not that guy, but that song has some Master System levels of ear-rape.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 15:08:23 No.3410393 >>3409365 Played this game a lot back in the day. The custom cards were so broken. Thanks for the nostalgia, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 15:15:17 No.3410409 >>3410393 you're welcome

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 15:17:47 No.3410415 >>3407651 lol, that's just your opinion, man. Give it a try. Also, don't be stupid, retro game music IS MOSTLY chiptune.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 15:29:49 No.3410446 >>3398795 all the gbc turok games really pushed it to the limits. rage wars had some wild shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqH1xsld5Jo

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 16:28:14 No.3410553 >>3398383 The sound track to that game absolutely blew me away when I first heard it!

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 17:21:54 No.3410692 >>3399562 Came to this thread just to post this. I used to turn on my gameboy just so I could hear this tune. I absolutely loved it and to this day it's still my favorite Zelda song.

Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 17:46:51 No.3410768

>>3410446
Way better quality:
https://youtu.be/8x1ybf2SMzc
https://youtu.be/vPxdWubUslk
Can you guess the inspiration of the composer?

>>3406897
That's like saying guitar is a genre.

>>3407327
Well, Nintendo has been kinda shit at sound "engineering". "Their" only good soundchip comes from Sony. But that never stopped composers from making good music. And honestly, I find the widely different uses of the GBA to be fascinating. Sometimes straight up NES and other times better than the SNES. Some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYdHD1XFFaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY5JVkZxuv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP1ktwCFYB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch0P1IF5vJo

>>3408910
Youtube uploads or the actual thing? The first one could be the emulation.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 19:40:34 No.3410990 File: 37 KB, 388x380, b60f9444c1037eaa23f2839708dcf0f0[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >never listened to game boy music because parents always made me turn sound off

Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 20:36:57 No.3411074
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Croc was pretty shite, but it has a good soundtrack. listening to that song make me nostalgic, especially from 52 to 1:22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABTgu9eYoA

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 20:47:14 No.3411090 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F4gG7rXw1s

Anonymous Sun, Aug 7, 2016 21:25:50 No.3411145
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this game's soundtrack is absurdly beautiful. you can tell they got a legit composer to work on it. i remember there was even sheet music in the back of the instruction manual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e2PHGsif9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c54MGZMVPOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkzEbJ0EI7o

Anonymous Mon, Aug 8, 2016 04:30:12 No.3411875

>>3411145
Sounds inferior to pretty much anything in this thread, except for that Yugioh song.
If you want to hear music by a "legit composer", check out Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz' work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YjcX6_G4UI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpW6U8UmLUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toosT2ml1VM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5jReog1_B0

This guy actually understood chiptune.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 8, 2016 04:45:25 No.3411889 Will forever be my favorite version of this overrated theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p9DBX1mNw8

Anonymous Mon, Aug 8, 2016 04:57:01 No.3411897

>>3407651
"Chiptune" seems to have been bastardized to an umbrella term for "all kinds of bleep bloop music" and I hate it.
I'm a purist and my inner autist goes into rage mode whenever I hear a """"chiptune"""" that has the whole square-square-triangle-noise thing going on but then a real guitar or real drums or fucking VOCALS get slapped on top of them.

The only real exception I can think of is something like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR659nEq3w4

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 8, 2016 06:05:08 No.3411975 >>3407327 This is fucking incredible!

Anonymous Mon, Aug 8, 2016 06:21:11 No.3411994

This guy does a great breakdown of the gameboy's midi capabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jxcKPoi5Kc

4 channels, monophonic with pseudo polyphonic capabilities by making use of the two pulse channels plus the third customization channel.

1: Pulse
2: Pulse
3: Customizable (Wave)
4: Noise

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 8, 2016 07:00:18 No.3412015 >>3406897 this

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 8, 2016 15:29:36 No.3412929 >>3398383 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6mftPOyQX0 Great music there.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Aug 8, 2016 16:40:39 No.3413112 >>3411994 >gameboy's midi capabilities

Anonymous Tue, Aug 9, 2016 03:52:50 No.3414580

>>3407327
One problem is that there was no dedicated sound hardware in the GBA.
All sound is processed by the CPU, somewhat similar to the N64.

This lead to many devs opting for using more CPU time for visuals, rather than sound.

Also, that song you posted sounds like a remix of one of Purple Motion's songs.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 9, 2016 04:13:30 No.3414598 Jimmy White's Cueball is ridiculously good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9GZUPAYANk&feature=youtu.be&t=3m1s

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 9, 2016 04:47:45 No.3414635 Koto Battle has some good battle themes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ICvkH00tM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1WdUaRviU

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 9, 2016 05:23:13 No.3414669 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lFLk8Adht4 Better than the original/orchestrated versions.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 9, 2016 17:04:21 No.3415618 >>3398435 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmw4lzjEqD8 my favorite GB song

>>	Anonymous Tue, Aug 9, 2016 19:32:52 No.3415937 Did any Gameboy carts have special sound chips in em?

Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 00:47:15 No.3416398

Stello Doussis is a God in my opinion. He's the only GB/GBC composer who's entire GB I find flawless
https://youtu.be/nVnxHrqibT0
https://youtu.be/DRejS-izaZo

Very honorable mentions
https://youtu.be/rlrRJPXZutw?t=42m58s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enK5lXRY8SU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPymVbc2GFI
https://youtu.be/yCdSM0VPR4A?t=6m
https://youtu.be/z6QZQJv9wpc
https://youtu.be/vHNm2q5H3Wg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywRGNGRmRws
https://youtu.be/Lrl8mqSleY0
https://youtu.be/HJnHyC2APAo

Noteworthy composers for me are:
-Alberto Jose Gonzalez(The last 2 Turok games in particular do some crazy wavetable magic. If you pull them apart using the GBS to FTM converter you can give it a look)
-Manfred Linzner
-Johnathan Dunn
-Thomas Mogensen (Some of his work that's not on youtube is crazy)

>>3411994
>gameboy
>midi

Maybe if you're running LSDJ but I wouldn't call a native hardware tracker "part of the game boys midi capabilities"

>>3415937
I do believe one of the pins on the card edge connector for the carts was to take in audio from the cart and mix it with the Game Boys sound. It was sadly never used though.

>>3400405
Man I was about to post most of what you have then I saw your post. Excellent taste.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 00:58:45 No.3416408 >>3410768 I'm not the same guy but I heard somewhere that the inspiration for that track was Yuzo Koshiro? (I'm not too familiar with his work)

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 01:58:36 No.3416465 >>3416398 Good thread man. It's such a refreshing change of pace to hear someone who has a genuine knowledge of what they are talking about.

Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 04:00:34 No.3416556

>>3416465
Haha thanks. I'm really into C64 and Game Boy chiptunes but my interest is mainly historical and technical in nature. A good suggestion for anyone hunting for good Game Boy soundtracks that aren't just a playing on your nostalgia (Pokemon I'm looking at you and your ear wrenching wave tables) is to look through a .gbs archive. I suggest this one: http://gbs.joshw.info/ It's the most complete archive that I know of. There's an android app called ZXTune that can easily access this archive.

For anyone who wants to do that be warned. I trudge though hundreds of .gbs soundtracks, for every 100 nausea inducing sound tracks there might be a decent sound track and for every 20 or so of those you'll find a hidden gem. Be prepared to hear the same shitty licensed sound engine used over again, but that makes it so much more worth it and satisfying when you find a good one. Plus it makes you appreciate good stuff that you might have otherwise not put much thought into.

Here's some more interesting sound tracks I've found, but I wouldn't call them my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgaERzs03rs&index=6&list=PLB0xooEkKbSZmRYwwpOgWSRxzExk96l19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75HoXTxNWgw (Anyone interested in Game Boy sound will find this one a bit interesting. It uses some pulse width modulation in the wave table channel to emulate the C64)

https://youtu.be/gyS1wh6h_eY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQC5QAhTmuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrWEvn5mNg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mLE3nDgdNI(Alberto Jose Gonzalez fans might like this one. It's pretty close to his musical style if you're into that.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYhZ1B6pgEs (really impressed with the whistling of course it's from Allister Brimble, who I forgot to mention in my last post)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXpE6tvucss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYoOVzb72VU

I have a ton more but most of them can only be found from their roms or .gbs files.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 05:01:28 No.3416586 >>3416398 >Thomas Mogensen isn't that the maniacs of noise guy?

Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 05:08:35 No.3416595

>>3416556
>I have a ton more but most of them can only be found from their roms or .gbs files.

You know, now that you mention it, how permissive is the YouTube API?
Maybe we should ask someone from /g/ to make a bot that:
>uses PUGBSA (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/gbs/)) as a database
>Takes GBS, extracts all songs as WAV with one loop + fadeout
>Parses WAVs to MP4s with black background and game name and track number in white text as the 'video'
>Auto-uploads to a dedicated channel
>Makes a playlist of each GBS where each track is a video

Would it be feasible?
I mean, listening to authentic GBS' is great but it's such a chore when there isn't a catch-all solution for listening to them.
>winamp plugins
Not everyone has Windows

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 05:08:50 No.3416596 >>3398383 Chiptune. For example, check out Lukhash... they use GB and C64 to create tunes. >>3407638 No, faggot

Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 08:41:11 No.3416749

>>3416408
That's right! Gonzalez said that he only listened to chiptune, for better or worse, and he loved Streets of Rage. Some guy claimed he showed the Turok soundtrack to Koshiro and he liked it.

>>3416398
>Excellent taste.
You too, except well maye:
>Stello Doussis is a God in my opinion. He's the only GB/GBC composer who's entire GB I find flawless
I think he released 3 good, no, amazing songs onto the GBC: Area 5, Zoo and Vorstadt. I don't like the rest, but his unreleased GBC soundtrack is pretty nice and I enjoy some of his many SID tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcEAOVsod84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJxirt_lFOo
And you posted a low quality version of Spirou. Here is a better version with timestamps!
https://youtu.be/xMdfpebJw0Y

>>3416556
> I trudge though hundreds of .gbs soundtracks, for every 100 nausea inducing sound tracks there might be a decent sound track and for every 20 or so of those you'll find a hidden gem.
That's why you sub to youtube channels who dedicate themselves to upload good chiptune.

>>3416595
Like this guy did with every SID track?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qhjzQ5qfoRotF-3J1N2cw/videos

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 10:44:37 No.3416871 >>3416749 >Like this guy did with every SID track? jesus, wow, thanks for the link! I tried a quick search for some of the more obscure SID tunes I've heard ages ago on HVSC, and yes, they're on the playlist! But yes, exactly like that.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 14:09:47 No.3417136 For some reason, the credits music for Hamtaro for gbc is ridiculously good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRaEF-toqtQ

Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 15:43:15 No.3417332

>>3416749
>Some guy claimed he showed the Turok soundtrack to Koshiro

That guy who was a guest on retro video game audio? I don't really know too much about Koshiro but I did remember that mention from that guy who was a guest for the Alberto episode. Do I know you by chance haha?

>except well maybe

Intro/Area5 and Vorstadt are definately my favourtes but the rest of his music is really good. Someone really popular like Alberto G. always has quite a few songs that I think are rather boring. The entirety Stello Doussis's work on the Game Boy is at the very least above average, though it could be me just being a fan boy over his work. He does some crazy stuff if you pull those .gbs files apart. C64 styled instruments, full ADSR(some how no loud pops) and some neat wave table magic. Probably all due to the sound engine he made that's tracked from .xm files.

>That's why you sub to youtube channels

I find it more fun looking yourself. Plus those YouTube channels might miss something that you like. Plus you'd miss "GEMs" like these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBFzwMubVJc
https://youtu.be/dSRfZ8iSW7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37v073g6qA

>>3416871
>>3416595
That would be amazing.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Aug 10, 2016 16:04:42 No.3417395 >Check entire thread >No Sunstar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-28STtwBIe8

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 17:13:27 No.3419762 Does anyone know why Pokemon RBY music uploads to Youtube have reverb? It's always made me curious, because they're dry in game. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axKDCZd4Mfc

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 17:39:43 No.3419810 >>3398438 Oh god. That match against Sami is brutal!

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 18:04:28 No.3419864 >>3417136 Hamtaro on the gbc was the shit!

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 18:21:24 No.3419883 >>3398383 >electronic >a genre

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 18:25:11 No.3419887 >>3419762 Probably because they're not direct game rips but taken from the officially released soundtrack which added the reverb to create a stereo sound. I'm just guessing on that last part though.

Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 18:38:55 No.3419912

>>3398383
Most people I know who love old vidya game tracks, I can usually get into French electro or electro house. What do you think of these?

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCnJ2_xN2jU

SebastiAn - Jackwire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEenRS4BQi4

Justice - Valentine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4UJWQXaVw

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 18:41:05 No.3419916 >>3399942 It is yeah, Richard in Zelda was the reason I played it in all honesty.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 18:42:39 No.3419920 >>3419887 That's a weird solution; they could have just used something like the Haas effect to get a stereo phenomena without affecting the sound of the tracks.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Aug 11, 2016 20:41:51 No.3420160 >>3419887 The fuck are you talking about? The tracks are already in stereo. The Game Boy supported stereo sound. The reverb does literally nothing but be reverb-y.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 12, 2016 18:54:50 No.3422304 >>3420160 Which does not mean they actually took advantage of that.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Aug 12, 2016 23:17:19 No.3422754 Final boss theme in Donkey Kong '94 is badass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXaDv4B6EW8

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 13, 2016 01:38:31 No.3422961 >>3398371 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQ3zdd47CE

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 13, 2016 02:03:46 No.3423002 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczMckCwLB0

Anonymous Sat, Aug 13, 2016 17:03:22 No.3424247

>>3416556
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75HoXTxNWgw [Embed] (Anyone interested in Game Boy sound will find this one a bit interesting. It uses some pulse width modulation in the wave table channel to emulate the C64)

The interesting thing is, this and O'leary Football Manager are supposedly the same game, but you find two seperated soundtracks for them on snesmusic. Both are very similar in style, but both lack credits and I can't seem to find any on the internet. Could be a game without a credit screen.

Sounds like the work of Frederic Motte to me. Brimble and Will Davis are also possible.

Anonymous Sat, Aug 13, 2016 17:15:19 No.3424286

I never understood why the sound in Link's Awakening was all mono.

>inb4 "game boy only had a mono speaker"
So what, sound was stereo internally, and the system had a stereo output jack. Not utilizing that is a waste.

>inb4 "stereo chip tunes sound like shit anyway"
Not necessarily. Music of Seiken Densetsu 1 (elsewhere Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest) was all stereo and sounded great, it would have lost some of its quality if it were downmixed to mono.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 13, 2016 17:18:29 No.3424295 >>3424286 >"stereo chip tunes sound like shit anyway" I'm pretty sure nobody ever said that. Stereo makes a lot of Genesis tracks sound even better.

>>	Anonymous Sat, Aug 13, 2016 17:46:53 No.3424379 File: 2.33 MB, 1370x1370, nba-3-on-3-featuring-kobe-bryant-usa.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhTpLOXa4Q4 this game was the tits

Anonymous Sun, Aug 14, 2016 14:18:27 No.3426296

>>3417332
>Someone really popular like Alberto G. always has quite a few songs that I think are rather boring
I a can agree to that. He made a lot of tracks that I don't care about, but you gotta think. He made 20~ soundtracks and Doussis only 2. If you took his 2 best works, it would look different. Like, Turok Rage Wars and Ottifanten. And Gonzalez' unreleased game sounds better than Doussis'!

>>	Anonymous Sun, Aug 14, 2016 15:07:34 No.3426423 >>3416556 >(Pokemon I'm looking at you and your ear wrenching wave tables so basically, I'm a pleb for liking Gen 1 and 2 music?

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