Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Blood on the Asphalt
You've gotta give Capcom some credit; when a bunch of amateur remixers decided they wanted to remix the classic Street Fighter II BGMs as part of a community project, mostly just for their own fun, it was a big success. And when Capcom was ready to release the "Hi-def" version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo, they came to these amateur remixers and asked them to contribute their tracks, reworked to be less stand-alone music samples and more something that could work in the context of a game (i.e., don't get too creative with changing the mood or tone of the piece, since it works with the character and background art to create a single, unified "feel", make sure that none of the pieces stand out as too outre and that they all fit coherently together, while still maintaining the diversity that was part of their charm all along, and make sure that the tracks can loop properly and speed up for the dramatic "someone's almost KOed" sound effect.)
Involving a fan project so prominently like that was a cool and classy move. Go, Capcom! Just for that, I fired up my Street Fighter Alpha Anthology last night a bit and played around with it. I had a lot on my mind, so I didn't play for too long, but I've had this growing sense of wanting to reconnect with this hobby again after getting distracted by an absolutely crazy fall schedule.
Involving a fan project so prominently like that was a cool and classy move. Go, Capcom! Just for that, I fired up my Street Fighter Alpha Anthology last night a bit and played around with it. I had a lot on my mind, so I didn't play for too long, but I've had this growing sense of wanting to reconnect with this hobby again after getting distracted by an absolutely crazy fall schedule.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Krizalid
I know I just made another BGM related post, but the Arranged version of the soundtrack for King of Fighters '99 is one of the best video game music CDs that I have (which is good; it took quite a bit of tracking down to find.) And amongst the best music on that soundtrack are the two Krizalid themes. Although the two tracks on the CD are tracked so that they flow seamlessly from one to the other, I haven't been able to find that anyone on youtube has actually merged the two files. I might yet do it myself. In the meantime, here's the two parts of the Krizalid theme. If you listen to them back to back, you'll see what I mean. The first part is "Mechanical Bless", and the second is "My Dear Falling Angel".
Then, for fun, I've included the King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match remake of the song, which is retitled "Cutting Edge."
Monday, August 16, 2010
K'
One of my favorite songs from the King of Fighters series. This is the Original Soundtrack version of the K' team, in the game where they first appear.
Unusually, I actually like this OST version better than the Arranged soundtrack version. Not a huge fan of that artwork, though.
Unusually, I actually like this OST version better than the Arranged soundtrack version. Not a huge fan of that artwork, though.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
PS2 woes are over
I'm happy to be the "proud" owner of another PS2 that works now, so... yeah! The new one is silver, which actually surprised me when I pulled it out of the box.
I wonder if I can do anything with the black one? Maybe I'll mess around with it and see if I can get the discs to read.
In any case, in celebration, I broke out several of my PS2 games and played with them a bit: Street Fighter Alpha 3 (the "Upper" version with more characters and a few other improvements), King of Fighters XI and King of Fighers '98 (the Ultimate Match version.) I found myself a little overwhelmed again when I first got it back again, actually. So many games to play, that I found it hard to focus on one. Even while I was playing, I was thinking about other games that I wanted to play too, so it was a little bit of a schizophrenic night, and that's without me even touching my Fatal Fury titles!
Once I settle down a bit, I can get a little more serious about actually playing some of the games and getting back into the groove with them.
Anyway, for part of the time, I was in Training Mode in KoF98, re-teaching myself some of the character moves. I picked Orochi Yashiro as my foe so I could listen to this song while training:
I wonder if I can do anything with the black one? Maybe I'll mess around with it and see if I can get the discs to read.
In any case, in celebration, I broke out several of my PS2 games and played with them a bit: Street Fighter Alpha 3 (the "Upper" version with more characters and a few other improvements), King of Fighters XI and King of Fighers '98 (the Ultimate Match version.) I found myself a little overwhelmed again when I first got it back again, actually. So many games to play, that I found it hard to focus on one. Even while I was playing, I was thinking about other games that I wanted to play too, so it was a little bit of a schizophrenic night, and that's without me even touching my Fatal Fury titles!
Once I settle down a bit, I can get a little more serious about actually playing some of the games and getting back into the groove with them.
Anyway, for part of the time, I was in Training Mode in KoF98, re-teaching myself some of the character moves. I picked Orochi Yashiro as my foe so I could listen to this song while training:
Thursday, January 28, 2010
BGM
One often overlooked aspect of fighting games is the BGM---background music. Because I'm a bit crazy about this genre, I've actually gone and tracked down imports of most of the soundtracks to most of the games I really like, including the various Street Fighters, the various Marvel and Marvel vs. games by Capcom, and the King of Fighters and Fatal Fury soundtracks by SNK.
It's probably pushing it to say that the music tracks are really good to listen to in their own right from a music appreciation angle, but I still frequently like having them on anyway. Some of the soundtracks are pretty good, or at least have good tracks, but mostly it's good in a sense that it evokes the games and can serve as interesting background music while you're doing something else. In particular, whenever I'm reading my UDON Street Fighter collections, I like to listen to this kind of stuff. Although I also throw it on while writing, or while puttering about the house doing something else.
Anyway, I've attached one of my favorite tracks, "Dust Man" which is Mr. Big's themesong. This version is the "Arranged" soundtrack version from King of Fighters '96... and it's quite long, but worth listening to all the way through, because it does actually do more than just repeat itself. It's a pretty decent piece of ambient electronica in its own right, too.
It's probably pushing it to say that the music tracks are really good to listen to in their own right from a music appreciation angle, but I still frequently like having them on anyway. Some of the soundtracks are pretty good, or at least have good tracks, but mostly it's good in a sense that it evokes the games and can serve as interesting background music while you're doing something else. In particular, whenever I'm reading my UDON Street Fighter collections, I like to listen to this kind of stuff. Although I also throw it on while writing, or while puttering about the house doing something else.
Anyway, I've attached one of my favorite tracks, "Dust Man" which is Mr. Big's themesong. This version is the "Arranged" soundtrack version from King of Fighters '96... and it's quite long, but worth listening to all the way through, because it does actually do more than just repeat itself. It's a pretty decent piece of ambient electronica in its own right, too.
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