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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #90 on: August 24, 2020, 11:42:04 PM »
Okay, I'm finally going to catch up on feedback, since I'm quite behind:

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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #91 on: August 25, 2020, 01:44:03 AM »
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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #92 on: August 26, 2020, 11:43:32 AM »
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3) Heck yeah, more RCT! I definitely prefer the original's menu music over the second one's.
Interesting, another one who does!

3) Birabuto Kingdom! Proof that the original Game Boy could have great music (Plus Tetris)
Or just listen to any of Alberto J. Gonzáles' work on Game Boy (and GBC). ;)
Considering it's a world based on trash, the music is gorgeous.
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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #93 on: August 26, 2020, 01:08:04 PM »
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3.2 I'd recommend Claw to you. It's a  platformer with beautiful, even mesmerising, 2D graphics (it is tough as nails, though!); the main character is voiced by Stephan Weyte (listen here) whose work was featured in several Humongous Entertainment games, and he did the famous voice of Caleb in Blood! The game itself can be downloaded here: https://captainclaw.net/en/downloads.html

4.1 You could say that! The actual game and Mr. Nutz are precious, though.

4.2 I think it'd be a challenge to find a weak track in the DKC2 OST!

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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #94 on: August 26, 2020, 11:25:20 PM »
Sixth Round!

This time the round has been created by 607:

1) Music with unusual sounds
2) Favorite music that plays in a cave or underground area
3) Music that is technologically impressive (for the system it's on)

Round will end on August 31 at 18:00 UTC

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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #95 on: August 27, 2020, 09:55:41 AM »
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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #96 on: August 27, 2020, 07:10:02 PM »
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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #97 on: August 27, 2020, 08:51:38 PM »
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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #98 on: August 28, 2020, 03:20:55 AM »
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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #99 on: August 28, 2020, 06:42:34 PM »
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I'm going to hold off on the last one for now. I need to think a bit more about what would qualify a piece as technologically impressive, I think. Knowing how something was done can make something that didn't seem technically impressive become technologically impressive, but it can also make something that seemed superficially technologically impressive suddenly become a lot less impressive.

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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #100 on: August 30, 2020, 07:52:45 PM »
I'm going to hold off on the last one for now. I need to think a bit more about what would qualify a piece as technologically impressive, I think. Knowing how something was done can make something that didn't seem technically impressive become technologically impressive, but it can also make something that seemed superficially technologically impressive suddenly become a lot less impressive.
Understandable! I did not consider that this prompt will be difficult to answer for people that do not know much about the technology behind video game music, as I do.
I will reflect more on my own prompts after going through all people's picks.

But first, let me make some myself. ;)

6.1: Hm... Okay, I'm thinking of three things right now. :P
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6.2: Ah, this one I know!
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6.3: So when I had thought of this prompt, I immediately thought of something I could use for it. However, after seeing
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The best thing is that the music itself is great too! :thumbsup:

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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #101 on: August 31, 2020, 09:01:45 PM »
Understandable! I did not consider that this prompt will be difficult to answer for people that do not know much about the technology behind video game music, as I do.
I will reflect more on my own prompts after going through all people's picks.

Eh, eventually there was going to be one that I didn't have a good answer for. It happens. Although in my case it's kind of the opposite - I do know a lot about the technology, but I tend not to be all that impressed by it, possibly from observing from now and not as it was created? Probably each upgrade in the hardware would have been impressive at the time it was released, but now, it's not so impressive anymore unless it really breaks my notions of what the hardware is capable of. Somewhere out there, someone managed to get an NES to play this .mod file (albeit at a bit lower quality) using a generally unused ability the system had to play PCM (DPCM, however, was commonly used), but I can't find the post again. There is, however, a reason that the functionality was generally unused: it took too much CPU. For that reason the only game I'm aware of that used it (Battletoads) only used it on the pause screen. Allegedly, this song on the SNES required some tricks to get working, but I can't really verify it due to not knowing enough about that particular system's exact capabilities (i.e. I know it uses sampled audio and has 8 channels, but I don't know any finer details than that about the limitations). It's a nice song, for sure, but it also doesn't seem that technologically impressive without knowledge of what they had to do to make it work. It's discussed as part of this video, but it has a number of inaccuracies overall, so I'm not really sure how credible the specific claims about the song are.


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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #102 on: September 03, 2020, 08:02:42 PM »
Somewhere out there, someone managed to get an NES to play this .mod file (albeit at a bit lower quality) using a generally unused ability the system had to play PCM (DPCM, however, was commonly used), but I can't find the post again. There is, however, a reason that the functionality was generally unused: it took too much CPU. For that reason the only game I'm aware of that used it (Battletoads) only used it on the pause screen.
Waiit, on the NES? :o I thought you were saying on the SNES! I was going to say that the Toy Story menu theme on Mega Drive also plays a .mod. Just listened to the Battletoads NES pause screen music, though, and that is cool! That reminds me, I also have a GBC game that uses PCM samples. I think you can hardly call the music music though, as besides the title theme, it's only percussion, there's no melody. I can't actually find that soundtrack anywhere, though! You can see footage from the game here, though. https://youtu.be/_Qg5mi3wgSI I would call the soundtrack and the game itself technologically impressive, even though I dislike both. ;)

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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #103 on: September 05, 2020, 05:02:35 AM »
Once again I've been slow, but then again, the game has also been slow in moving on :P

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Re: The Video Game Music Challenge [Official Game Thread]
« Reply #104 on: September 05, 2020, 07:59:39 PM »
Well, I'm naturally quite curious to see people's picks for round 6!

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