I'm convinced that some of the best music ever has come from my Super Nintendo.

also, Zelda themes are incredibly emotional, like post-Celine even

You can't beat: Rygar, Castlevania, Metroid, Zelda, Mario Bros., Vectroman and Lunar. To name a few. There is a cool band called the Minibosses that recreates videogame music...only punk rock. Its very cool & fun. Check it out.

And Chrono Trigger's score is excellent in the most excellent way possible under the definition of the word "excellent."

Here you are, then. Of course, this soundtrack is by no means bad. I also used to resent videogames having actual bands soundtrack them (see: terrible Rob Zombie songs in my lovely Jet Grind Radio. "Dragula"? Get the hell out of here!!) until I played this game. Nothing with "Raining Blood" on it can ever be dud, EVER.

www.minibosses.com/

Yes, but soundtracks with "big name bands" on them are a fairly recent phenomenon. Most of these older soundtracks were simply game music in cd format or rearranged versions of this same game music.

Capcom really has it hands down on the greatest original video game music, though. The Mega Man series has killer tunes throughout, esp. on the NES; Bionic Commando songs still get stuck in my head on a regular basis; and more recently their music for the various Street Fighter versions has also made me sit up and take notice.

Sega once released a CD of dance remixes of various Genesis tunes. It was terrible. (I keep admitting the most embarassing shit on this board. I should stop.)

Video game OSTs are about one step away from becoming as significant as those for film. I hereby nominate Capcom's musical staff of the NES era as the Morricones of games. Fucking Bionic Cammando Levels 3 & 5 kill me every time.

I think the biggest soundtrack for me was always "Super Mario Bros. 2", not only because the game itself was such an uncompromising bastardization of the Mario series, but because it expresses with infinite clarity and poetry exactly how fragmented and generally f***ed up this game truly was. Here you had a pair of Brooklyn plumbers, a medieval princess, and a strange toad-pygmy sort of creature, running around a tropical/desert/ice/ethereal dream-world, fending off hoards of masqued death midgets and dinosaurs that shoot eggs and giant mice that throw old-fashioned bombed, etc. etc. I could go on forever. The opening theme is ragtime. The character select screen is game show theme music. The overworld theme is dixieland calyspo. The underworld theme (when you enter pipes) is Egyptian boogie-woogie. And boss music is heart-stopping industial death-crush. It's truly the love of my life...

(p.s. sorry to do this, but I kind of feel obliged now to plug Super Madrigal Bros. which is medieval music done with NES samples, so there! our site is down at the moment but we have some info up at Momus's site http://www.demon.co.uk/momus....)

Game completio theme to Actraiser 1!

The hostel/overnight/beddy-byes music of RPG ever!

A Link to the Past!

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I wish it was the past now :-(

OTM. Corridors of Time is the shit.

this is fucking awesome.

"SKATE.... OR.... DIE!! SKATE SKATE SKATE SKATE OR DIE!!! DDDDDDDDDDIE DIE DIE!!"

i was wondering if anyone remembers a somewhat bizarre but completely entrancing SNES RPG called Earthbound. It's greatest fame comes from the fact that its main character, NESS, is in Super Smash Brothers. If you haven't played it, you're missing out, it's awesome. The music from that game is some of my favorite music of all time. it's trippier than an olivia tremor control Vs. comets on fire faceoff.

Unfortunately these won't download fast for me. Oh, but if only they did...

Neptunes go gamelan: "The Legend of the Hero: Zelda Wind Waker".

If you want a certain song but can't find it anywhere, there are utilities for the NES and SNES that can extract the songs from game ROMs, and play them in winamp using a plugin.

100% agree

http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/LilFlip/

It's amazing how some of these melodies and compositions really hold up...

http://www.theadvantageband.com/

www.5rc.com

(I'm sure the minibosses are pissed someone stole their schtick but these guys are just a flat out better band...way better drummer and a little more inventive in the arrangement dept)

^ Plugins for winamp that allow you to play rsn files

HELLA + VIDEO GAMES

Whoa I came in this thread to mentionn that song. Kudos.

Even over two years after finishing it, I listen to the Chrono Trigger soundtrack regularly as concentration/chill out music. There are some seriously lovely things on there, especially Corridors of Time and Wind Theme.

If anyone's a fan, I've made a Spotify playlist of Chrono Trigger music, with some Earthbound and Final Fantasy VI stuff thrown in: https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/1LArAWIwZLQmH7tnhS0ZnO?si=Fs0hDblDTICIuRMlo391ig

great revive

(I mean it this time, thanks for this!)

Cool, glad to be of service. The only rubbish thing about this is that Spotify now thinks 'TPR' is my all time favourite artist and 'Wind Theme' is my all time favourite song (which it is, I mean)

'Wind Scene' I should say. It's perfect. Those pizzicatos get me every time. It's a SNES game.

Corridors of Time is all-time for sure

Subscribed! This is A+ fan service DL, thanks much!

corridors of time is an all time classic even if logic did rap over it

i'm absolutely worse off for having heard that

if I had to hear it so does everyone else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPY4BD8IzI

there's also this

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

I have logged way more hours with the Xenogears soundtrack than the game itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFbVhFlqt3k

(that song is one of a couple that Mitsuda says came to him in a dream)

i have never played xenogears or even listened to the soundtrack but i guess i really should give it a listen

in a better world there would be dozens of remixes of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmI93WqFLXQ

wow, I've never heard a video game theme that sounded more like Jethro Tull than that it's awesome

I have a lot of love for the SNES era of VGM but Mitsuda was on such another level than everyone else. I love the Xenogears soundtrack despite never having played the game

hahaha, Mitsuda's wikipedia page is kinda unintentionally hilarious, it is super-Japanese in tone:

He took piano lessons beginning at the age of five, but was more interested in sports at the time and did not take music seriously, quitting by the age of six.

but it did confirm for me that he was a big time Vangelis fan

i quite like the secret of mana soundtrack. not as much as my brother, who has the opening theme played by a flautist at his wedding

https://youtu.be/T6YAiLHXw_c

man, I need another snes jrpg to get hooked on. sadly I've completed what I believe to be the best ones: Chrono, Earthbound and Ff6. Not sure I really got on with Mana,the text was hard to read and I didn't like the handling, plus the storyline felt a bit arbitrary but maybe I shod give it another shot

i quite like the secret of mana soundtrack. not as much as my brother, who has the opening theme played by a flautist at his wedding

https://youtu.be/T6YAiLHXw_c

― findom haddie (jim in vancouver)

i got super into the seiken densetsu iii soundtrack, hiroki kikuta just got completely _into it_, like you can tell listening to it that this is music made by somebody who has given up on sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6W_6pqUDA&list=PL4649F0DBF0FC09E3&index=29&t=0s

ah fuck i forgot ilx doesn't do playlists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6W_6pqUDA

secret of mana is frustrating because it has an excellent soundtrack but kind of sucks as a game (partly because it apparently got gutted significantly during development, but still)

I really enjoyed it. I was about 9 and played the thing through on coop with my brother-he was main dude,I was the sprite

even Earthbound is really frustrating to me - fantastic music, writing, general atmosphere etc. but the gameplay itself is pretty mediocre and frustrating with weird difficulty spikes even by the standards of SNES RPGs

I love Chrono Trigger et al but all JRPGs are unbearable slogs to me nowadays

At one point when I was thinking about making a dark Super Mario World hack I made a youtube playlist of creepy, atmospheric, Super Nintendo tracks with a little bit of high-BPM boss music and "the journey will be tough but tonight we rest" songs.

SMW Music - Dark And Demented With Moments Of Respite

(not snes, but mother 3 fixes a lot of the gameplay/tonal consistency issues)

Romhacking.net has a lot of Secret of Mana tweaks like equipment progression balance. If I ever attempt a play-through again I will probably use a few that are compatible. I have often started (on an emulator) and given up because I died a lot and I don't have time for that.