Lucky you. My dad would have come stomping down the stairs screaming at me about why the f I was playing video games instead of doing my homework. I ended up overhand-throwing my NES at his head and it exploded on the concrete wall of the basement after I'd had enough of that. Fortunately for him he dodged it.

I remember grandpappy sleeping on the sofa, stomping his feet in his sleep to the soundtrack. He'd wake up whistling the tune and not even know why. Me and bro laughed and laughed. Then we went and played He man outside and bro was Skeletor. He didn't care much none for always having to be that villain, but I was older by a whole 13 months so i had final say! When he got bigger and tried to fight me, I choked him out with the nes controller wire. ....i don't remember much, I guess I kinda blacked out. But I went to stay with a foster family for a while. Good times.

How is this necessary? Are video descriptions at the bottom on mobile? I can't remember.

@@jacobkline6146 It's easier to find a certain time in a video by just clicking a link instead of manually scrolling for it.

@@jacobkline6146 No but at one point, time stamps in descriptions didnt work for mobile (they do now though)

Thank you for making up for the fact that youtube on mobile is SHIT.

how?

@@Tracequaza Minimal composition, arpeggiated melody, repetitive rhythmic structure, monster 8bit sound. Vibes, bruh.

@@adizmal Hahaha necro'd a post and you responded... With a great reply. Awesome! :)

tcrpgfan I have that version and an imported Japanese copy, which is one of my prized posessions, the other one being my NES.

Does the 3DS version contain the FDS music or the NES music?

@@TackyRackyComixNEO FDS, but it's the stereo version, which starts at 12:17

The Famicom Disk System had a bit of extra audio hardware on it that augmented the console's own sound chip, so FDS games tended to have more complex music than their cartridge counterparts. A lot of disc modules for earlier consoles boosted some other capability; the 64DD made similar augmentations to the N64's sound card and the SEGA CD gave the Genesis the ability to do Mode 7 graphics.

And red book audio

Well that comes with CD territory, I imagine.

When Nintendo has succesfully licensed Sony for the CD-ROM addon Device for SNES. We actually hadnt any kind playstation! ;) Only Satellaview was released as addon device.

G4mm4G0bl1n Satellaview is an interesting concept, but sounds sort of frustrating. SEGA did this in the US as well. If I recall, that was the only way to get Mega Man: The Wily Wars/Rickman Megaworld here.

There are lots of orchestral covers of K.I. songs on KZfaq, not to mention the orchestral versions of certain K.I. songs featured in Super Smash Bros (Brawl and 4) and Kid Icarus: Uprising.

+alienspacebat I'm not sure why though, I think the games used the extra FDS channel for sound effects, so the only time they used it in the music was when absolutely no sound effects could ever play.

za909returns Might not have been the best choice, as Zelda 1 was one of these games too and some sound effects sounded notably sillier on the Disk System. I don't know about other games, but probably so for them too...

+alienspacebat The FDS version of Castlevania II does use the extra FDS channel when there's action, although the cart version sounds better (it even has PCM drums!)

cuba200614 The FDS version has a sampled kick drum, but it's not all that great. Of course that was Konami, and I presume the game never used the FDS channel for sound effects, only the standard ones.

cuba200614 Yeah, Konami did things differently than Nintendo. They used the extra channel as part of the music and kept sound effects on the classic noise channel. I think that was a better choice.

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vinceandlilly The FDS actually had additional sound channels, one of them being a wavetable lookup. Because of the infinite wisdom of NOA, they decided to map the 16 pins used on the Famicom for external sound chips TO THE BOTTOM of the console, which was never used for anything. This is why many Family Computer games have superior music to their Nintendo Entertainment System counterparts.

vinceandlilly Scary!

Mister BluntSA That's because the extra channels were in the Disk System, thus not being in the NES and there was no NES Disk System, therefore not having the channels.

Jacob Bramer I am aware of that. The wavetable hardware and extra channels were on a PCB inside the cartridge that (was hardwired to the Disk System, and) attached to the Famicom itself. Think it either had 32 or 64KB of RAM to hold floppy data as well.

+Mister BluntSA There is actually only one extra channel, but it is a wavetable like you said. It's similar to the wavetable channel of the Gameboy, except it has a 6-bit wavetable whereas the Gameboy has a 4-bit one.

I hated those as a kid!

Oh yeah totally

I agree

That's really subjective. Personally I love the aesthetic of classic 8-Bit grandly, but I know it's just my nostalgia talking.

@@the-NightStar It's not just nostalgia. Older game music is much more memorable because of an immensely strong focus on melody. Often, like in the case of Stage 2 music here, multiple interwoven melodies across multiple instruments. Melodic music is what humans seem to remember best. Modern game music is often more emotive, more focused on giving you a specific feeling for a specific scene, but is much less memorable. In fact, its primary function is to not be memorable to not deter from the events onscreen. But at the same time, the music by itself doesn't bring up half the emotions that old game music will. New music is a storytelling tool, old music is a story in and of itself.

I assume they left the FDS channel for sfx like in Metroid

+Zach Michaels try again!

Don't be a dick! Watch the video and you'll know what I mean

+Zach Michaels It's the whole soundtrack again. That's awesome, you don't have to press the repeat button yourself XD.

+joietyfull64. I thought so but wasn't sure

It just starts over again

The game originally came out on the Famicom Disk System (FDS), just like other classics of the era, most notably the first Zelda and Metroid games. The FDS had an extra sound channel that could produce more complex wave forms, opening up new alleys for composers. However, most games - including this one - used this channel primarily for sound effects, which means that it was only part of the music in tracks where there are none, such as the title theme, stage clear theme, game over theme or ending theme.