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Minibosses Rock Nostalgic

Posted by emmett on from the insert-coin-to-continue dept.

skia writes "Chock full of yummie old-school NES goodness and metal guitar/drum beats, The Minibosses play your favorite songs from Metroid, Castlevania, and even Contra!" I've been listening to this for the past hour or so, and it's very cool. They've been around for a while. My friend Erik says he heard of them on Zophar's Domain.

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  1. Don't forget the Aphex Twin! by rogerbo · · Score: 4

    Want more video game beats?

    Find Aphex Twins, "Pac man power pill" and
    "tetris medley".

    Knowing this guy he's probably done some more
    video game inspired music but those are the only two I know of.

  2. Karma etc. ? by Biggy · · Score: 3

    Is there a way on Slashdot to find out who has moderated you up or down? If not,I think that it would be a cool feature to expand upon our interrealtionship on slashdot.

    Biggy

  3. Oh man, it would have been so timely... by Sludge · · Score: 3

    ... if I had continued work on my code until it was completed. As it is, it's only pre alpha.

    I'm talking about the midi to guitar tab software I was writing around six months ago. You plug a midi in, and it outputs the guitar tab for any given midi track. Even drum. :)

    It's command line GPL'd software, written in C, compiles with GCC. Just like it should be. This is the first time I've released this piece of software, so have at it, my friends.

    Be sure to e-mail me any changes.

    Midi To Tab converter

    Last year, some friends and myself got together to perform Super Mario Brothers songs for the school talent show. We dressed up as the characters and did a medley, which included Hammer Brothers, Underground, The Castle Song From Mario 1, the water tune from smb3 and a few others. It was pretty obvious that a program like the one I've written would have been a great help. :)

    Play your ass off.

  4. Contra! by Ermit · · Score: 3

    Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A, select, start...

    awwww yeah, 30 lives.

    oh how I miss the good old days..

    ~Steve
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  5. video game music = real music by ism · · Score: 3
    sometimes when i play my music, people will comment how it sounds like a video game, and intend it as an insult. i find it amusing how movie scores are considered "real" music while video game music often is not, although they do the same thing -- create an atmosphere. in fact, video game music composers have a harder time in the respect that the timing and length of the 'scene' is variable.

    i loved the music from contra, and contra 2 even more. in fact, i wrote in to konami to ask if they had sheet music. i didn't get a reply. =(

    best music from a video game, i think, would be ninja gaiden 2.

  6. MAME emulates sound too. by Gridle · · Score: 3

    The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (also XMAME available) project includes sound emulation support for just about every classic arcade game that it emulates. Not to even mention that its sound cores seem to be the best ones available, for example the YM-2151 emulation is the most accurate sound simulation ever written.

    Check out also Qplayer (For standalone playing of CPS2 system games' sounds and music) and NeoJukeBox (For standalone playing of Neo Geo music and sounds).

  7. Game music is goood!! by Krilomir · · Score: 5
    Most people don't even consider it music, but I do. You don't believe it if you haven't tried, but you can download tons of game music from mp3.com or napster. Just try a few search for Final Fantasy, chrono trigger, super mario, metroid, zelda, etc.

    Unfortunately, most of the napster stuff is copyrighted and only sold in Japan and from expensive import websites.

    Here are a few good links to sites that sells game soundtracks:
    Game Music Online
    SoundtrackCentral
    synSONIQ

    I haven't bought anything yet, but I consider buying a few ablums from Game Music Online.

    Before I knew about these sites or napster, I downloaded MANY game midi files from the web. Believe me, they sound great with SBlive! if you have the right soundfonts installed.
    Videogame Music Acrhive - more than 10.000 midifiles I think, PC, SNES, NES, Genesis, Commodore 64 - you name it!.

    I'm glad to see people like Minibosses do some game music and make some of it free. Can't wait to here it (I'm a big fan of the Metroid soundtrack!).

    1. Re:Game music is goood!! by DrEldarion · · Score: 3

      For those who are interested, there are some people redoing some of Nobuo Uematsu's greatest works at kfssstudios.com... they have some samples there, and, IMO, they sound great.. only problem is that they still need a little funding...

      -- Dr. Eldarion --
      It's not what it is, it's something else.

  8. It's All About The Melody by Effugas · · Score: 3

    Video game music grew out of a restricted environment--literally where only a few extremely simple instruments had to be chained together to create music compelling enough to encourage continued playing.

    This is no small thing--if you've ever seen a scene out of a movie without music, you know how critical music is to setting an environment. And if you've ever heard any of the last boss music that Nobuo Uematsu has hacked together over the last decade, you know: Kick Ass Music Makes A Difference. And in my mind, unique melodies make the song.

    Think about what you hum when you remember a tune. You ain't humming the beat, though the lyrics might stick in your head. It's the melody that grabs you. And, to be blunt, early video games didn't have the resources to have anything *but* melody. I think my favorite quote out of Nobuo lately is something along the lines of, "Sure I could spent a bunch of time looking through directories finding the perfect trumpet sample...or I could just create a new melody."

    That's not to say, mind you, that orchestration is not a beautiful thing. I'm listening to the Minibosses' doing Castlevania, and I'm enjoying myself greatly. (Incidentally, the fact that they have a FAQ question on Mega Man 2 and no other game is awesome.) Considering Castlevania is probably one of the world's most remixed soundtracks(up there with Final Fantasy and Street Fighter 2), these guys have done a standup job.

    Orchestration applied to a song with core melody that rocks rocks. Orchestration for the sake of orchestration alone(unfortunately, many film scores) is empty.

    Then there's this ridiculous remix of Fithos Lusec from Final Fantasy 8. This is just in a whole 'nother category.

    Yours Truly,

    Dan Kaminsky
    DoxPara Research
    http://www.doxpara.com

  9. Some of my favorites... by pb · · Score: 3

    Look, everybody, here's a legitimate use for Napster and Gnutella! Anyone who got these songs want to mirror/share them, 'cause I can't get them from the site!

    Now on to my rantings...

    Boy, those games rule...

    Anyone remember that the NES emulator from Japan for Windows ("PasoFami", I think) used MIDI for its output? It let you change the samples for the four channels, and at the time I also had a software midi synthesizer, so let's just say that Mario and Zelda sounded kinda funky, in a good, remixed way. :)

    Later, I 'ripped' the intro music from Zelda (as a .WAV, using Nesticle, back when I ran DOS natively...) and converted it to an mp3. (hey, chill, I bought the game fair and square when it came out. :)

    Who can forget the music from Final Fantasy, especially seeing as how the "Battle Victory Music" hasn't really changed! I love those songs in all of their incarnations, but I think I have a soft spot for FF2. (FF4J for the purists, not NES, I know, I know...)

    I saw that they had music from Castlevania, but what about Castlevania 2? That had some awesome music, especially for 'night-time'.

    ("WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE")

    Also, yes, Metroid ("JUSTIN BAILEY") had some awesome music, and especially Super Metroid, although that doesn't count here. :|

    Also, I loved Megaman 2, and I've heard some techno remixes from that and some of the others. (some *much* worse than others, but Flash Man was funky. :)


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  10. more videogame mp3s by neurocide · · Score: 3
    check out http://remix.overclocked.org. for a bunch of remixed video game music.. grabbed everything from there myself, tons of really great stuff.

    neuro/efnet/#cnm