There’s something profoundly relaxing and sound-bathic about it, spesh with a low pass filter or filtering out all the treble.
The House song from Mother 1 is amazing and so is the rest of the album in this light
Try it; I double-dare you
- Double Dragon 2 - Final Battle 2
- Final Fantasy III - The Crystal Tower
- The Guardian Legend - Forest Fields (honestly the whole OST is amazing)
- Solstice - Title Theme
- Blaster Master - Area 3
- Mega Man 6 - Wily Fortress (seriously people are sleeping on Mega Man post 2)
- Mega Man 5 - Wily Fortress
This might be a weird, obscure game, I think, but I LOVE the Act 1 Part 1 song from Totally Rad and Act 1 Part 2 is my second favorite NES tune. The whole OST is just fire.
https://youtu.be/vLbR-vm-Ry8 - Part 1
https://youtu.be/l-IZG44nfvk - Part 2
The game started as a sort of jrpg sidescroller, but it got… butchered from “Americanizing”. Still gnarly, though (heh).
Also, honorable mention, all the music from The Guardian Legend. All of it. I love that game so much.
The Guardian Legend OST - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEOQ0YA_1DWlqKUJkOJaJL0YB2brVTCFd
One of the best songs - https://youtu.be/W2q0aIql0Qw
Oh shit, and this one (sorry, I’m like a kid in a candy shop trying to pick my favorite when it comes to NES) - https://youtu.be/o_VzSKgTye0
The password entry screen for Metal Gear.
Love that tune. So calming.
I always liked the music from Donkey Kong country 2
Duck Tails. Nothing beats that moon theme.
This immediately started playing in my head when I read the question.
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Gonma be honest, I love the Pictionary theme
Lmao wth. Was not expecting a bump from Pictionary. This is so good.
If you think thats good, listen to this shit
Oh hell yeah. I’ll take Solstice any day. What a legendary game. One of the best platform-puzzle titles for it’s time. You just can’t understand it until you play it.
I never had the manual, so it was confusing as hell for a while. Most stories for NES games came from the manual. NES manuals were half guides, half prologue novels.
You play this song and I will instantly know where its from - https://youtu.be/N3YrrUtQ7-g
It has no business being that good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJwh3erQlyE
EDIT: Someone also apparently sequenced it with newer samples:
https://onlinesequencer.net/838080
EDIT2: A group doing a drum and strings cover:
Thanks for doing all these links :D excellent work
Not nes, but it is 8 bit…
The fez soundtrack, by disasterpeace.
Saved
So good
It’s been awhile, but my first thought was Kirby
Was my first thought too but I didn’t play Kirby til the SNES. Same difference tho
The House song from Mother 1 is amazing and so is the rest of the album in this light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGU8PcZmN64&list=PL72325BBD77D6DBE9&index=25
I’ll do a MIDI render for the heck of it as well to illustrate for anyone else who might have an interest in doing MIDI renders of NES audio tracks.
MIDI render walkthrough
Starting from the
eb0_mother_livehousesong.midMIDI-sequenced version here:https://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/
Use MIDI soundfont Musyng Kite (a more-realistic, not-very-synthy soundfont; there will be ones that’ll be closer to the NES, but this will have the non-synth instruments sound more-realistic) converted to .sf2.
Use TiMidity++ to render to a WAVE file (could just play it directly, too, but I want to upload it):
$ timidity --volume-compensation --anti-alias -in -D10 -S20M -OsS -c ~/.timidity/timidity.cfg -EFresamp=L -EFreverb -EFvlpf -EFchorus=s -EFdelay -EFns -Ow -o eb0_mother_livehousesong.wav $ cat ~/.timidity/timidity.cfg soundfont "/home/tal/m/sw/sf2/Musyng_Kite.sf2" $Convert to Opus-encoded WebM, as Lemmy will accept inline WebM:
$ ffmpeg -i eb0_mother_livehousesong.wav -vcodec vnull -acodec libopus eb0_mother_livehousesong.webmAnd then uploading to catbox.moe.
Referencing the video in a spoiler tag, because I don’t know of an audio-only format that Lemmy is okay with, and the Lemmy Web UI tries making a large video player for WebM:
:::spoiler MIDI render  :::MIDI render
Ninja Gaiden!
Final Fantasy.
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My mom used to use the fishing song from The Black Bass to put me to sleep. Many moons later, I still find it soothing. https://youtu.be/6DDffBpWfnk?t=03m15s
I’d never heard this but now it’s stuck in my head lol
