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ITT: Gaming songs that are better due to hardware limitations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1sTdewueiY&feature=share

>> No.5302874

https://youtu.be/MrQKCB8EJKw

King K. Rool theme

>> No.5302894
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5302894

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTlm7Pc1Ko

>> No.5302932

>>5302874
dude epic reverb

>> No.5303012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTqPIWd5MWc
I've heard both fan remakes and the official one from the DS version, yet none of them properly capture the raw despair conveyed in the original 8 bit version.

>> No.5303056
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5303056

Gameboy rendition of the NES rendition of the Blues Brothers' rendition of the Peter Gunn theme
https://youtu.be/aOyULzX4hcE

>> No.5303072

>>5303012
The OST is part of the reason why I prefer the NES version. I almost barfed when I heard that horrendous Tower theme rendition on the DS version.

Really, I feel that this was the last great DQ OST. When the SNES came out and was able to produce orchestrated sounds, that was when DQ music died. Everything after DQIV just sounded the same in that series outside of the GBC games - which, again sounded good because it didn't have that samey orchestra sound due to limitations.

>> No.5303078

>>5302868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6mftPOyQX0
syncopated pulse waves

>> No.5303090

>>5302868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6HBlXLmSeA

The intro is chill-educing. Great stuff.

>> No.5303105

>>5303072
8's North American version soundtrack was pretty good because it was an actual orchestra performing it.

>> No.5303167

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vxk4m2Efk-0
Tchaikovsky

>> No.5303761

>>5302868
Fuck yeah, this is THE BEST version of this song, the end. So clean and beautiful

>> No.5304243

>>5302868
Dude I just discovered how amazing this song was yesterday and spent an hour listening to covers on YouTube. Goosebumps for real. Gonna learn it on piano and if I have the motivation arrange it in a way I like as none of the covers really did it for me (too much metal bs) but there are some great ideas out there.

>> No.5304279

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5FFDj7vH6E

I much prefer how much emphasis there is on the trumpets in the SNES version. To me, it's always sounded a frog hopping along to a march which really suited the character. In the OST version, they fade into the background.

>> No.5304327

>>5303078
My jaw dropped when I heard this song for the first time. It's too bad the game is so easy.

>> No.5305581

bump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irow85m9Uvw

>> No.5305825

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXaDv4B6EW8

Donkey Kong '94 on Game Boy, theme for the penultimate boss fight. The fight is so easy that most people only get to hear the first few bars and never actually hear the full track, but it's pretty incredible, especially when you consider it's just a 4 voice system.

>> No.5306107

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REo7dIW9NEM
vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uzqibllme0

>> No.5306145

This right here was (still is) the tits. Always thought the opening riff was strikingly similar to Master of Puppets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8KzqqWF2PM

Full game music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psSamm93uCE

>> No.5306157

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9lfq3KSISc

>> No.5307831

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

>> No.5307851

Some fatal fury special songs have better arrangements on SNES
Arcade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXz3-vVRHzo
SNES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUVQN46_RCQ
That part at around 1:12 is only on this version and it's great. I also actually like the instrumentation better despite being low bitrate samples.

>> No.5307889

>>5302868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQ9zUWVG4o

>> No.5307926

>>5307851
The geese was leese

>> No.5308049

>>5302868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnIlSgBrbRM

>> No.5308051

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOadAaGiq4

>> No.5308202
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5308202

Tim Follin is god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUpvQEfMJsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8dAVybwq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T42WuUpBuHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MmtyN36bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9hPOUvgKTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulss1-2bx-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MozqL_HkHF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWkGNnWTwIU

>> No.5308237

>>5308202
cant forget Ghouls 'n Ghosts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz36JWHTk-A

>> No.5308242
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5308242

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

>> No.5308409

Maybe a remix could do it well but I haven't heard such a remix yet.

https://youtu.be/55Q1Rj9Kri8

>> No.5308412

>>5302874
The remix in Smash Ultimate is pretty fuckin headbagin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNdBAlncDA

>> No.5310193

>>5307851
came to post this, another example:
arcade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhu8GNd3JHI
snes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2DkmePzXeE
It's not even the same song, but the SNES one is much better, it's a medley of the AoF themes.

>> No.5310370

>>5303078
based wavetable channel

>> No.5310371

Famicom Disk System is the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-nqx8TBTRo