What is the best song from an NES game?

[AkaneJones]

Try this
YouTube - Abarenbou Tengu Music [ Tengurila ]
YouTube - NES: Arumana no Kiseki (FDS) HQ STEREO SOUND
YouTube - Final Mission / S.C.A.T OST - (PAL) NES / Famicom
YouTube - Ufouria - Cave

[lol_pc]

YouTube - Classic VGM 66: Contra - Jungle Theme
YouTube - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - Bloody Tears

These may not be very complex but they're so awesome I had to post them, every stage in Contra had an awesome tune and Simons Quest had a lot to offer too. Fantastic music

[Darth Alec]

That's a pretty nice tune, but it's fucking boring. I can appreciate the complexety and that it uses the the NES music for what it's worth, but I can't find myself listening to this. For all it's excellent technical use, it's a boring tune.

Comparing the less technical The Moon to this, The Moon is simply more interesting to listen to.

A song doesn't have to be technical to be good.

[Mr.bomb]

Originally Posted by downphoenix

I dare you to tell me what song on the NES is better than this:

YouTube - Best VGM 423 - Journey to Silius - Stage 2 (Underground Concourse)

This is THE BEST SONG I think I have ever heard from an NES game, and I will explain why:

1) The use of instruments. It is SO well done, this song sounds like its from a Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo game due to how well they were implemented. Due to the Limitations of the audio hardware, most NES games only utilized 1 or 2 instrument sets. sometimes 3. Also, most songs in an NES game at loops that range from around 15 to 30 seconds long. This game utilizes more instruments in a single track than anything else I have heard, allowing for a complex song that is rarely achieved on the NES. This song has instances of up to 5 instrument sets simultaneously, which I think is technically THE MAX that the NES can do due to having only 5 audio channels total, though usually 3 is the most you'll hear in a game due to the limitations on the chip.

2) This is one of the longest songs ever to appear in an NES game. The only song I can think of that is longer is the stage 1 theme from Cheetahmen 2, clocking in about 4 minutes. However, that song utilizes only 3 instruments total, less than this one, and technically it repeats itself at the 2 minute mark but makes it seem like its not by removing 2 of the 3 instruments and playing the same melody that it did for the 1st part of the song, and this one manages to be just shy of 4 minutes, clocking in at 3:40ish. Basically, one of the few songs on the NES that actually has a long enough length to be as long as a song you'd hear on the radio.

3) The drum and bass tracks used here are dynamic, the composer didnt stick to just using simple, repeating beats on a short loop with no real variation, but used stuff that you would expect to hear in said radio songs.

4) A catchy melody. A lot of NES games have that, but that's pretty much a required thing for the best NES song to ever have. However, there are multiple catchy melodies.

5) The quality of everything just sounds good, no annoying sounds. It just sounds so damn epic.

Oh, and dont even bother posting songs from a Nintendo made game, basically all of them are 30 second loops that use 2 instruments at most usually. If you have one though that even comes close to the quality of this, post it.

The Dungeon in Star Tropics 2 sounds better.

[OPETH]

Originally Posted by lol_pc

YouTube - Classic VGM 66: Contra - Jungle Theme
YouTube - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - Bloody Tears

These may not be very complex but they're so awesome I had to post them, every stage in Contra had an awesome tune and Simons Quest had a lot to offer too. Fantastic music

agree 100%