Nope, if you've listened to the official soundtrack, you'd know how horrible it is, primarily because of the horrendous pitching, poor looping moments, and missed potential. So don't even try to say that "It just needed proper love" bs.
I know most people here didn't like Mega Man II (at least the original version, people seem to love Quint's Revenge), but you cannot deny that the title theme was godly. Earrape pitch aside, the piece itself is an amazingly underrated Mega Man song.
I agree, for some reason i am fascinated with the story behind Megaman 2 Gb. Dr Wily travelling into the past to capture and transform Megaman into Quint, and the present Megaman needing to stop Wily again in space with rebuilt Robot Masters. It could be made into a great story if put into media.
Tracks 0:00 Title 2:14 Stage Select 2:46 Stage Start 2:51 Metal Man 4:46 Wood Man 7:00 Air Man 8:37 Crash Man 10:12 Wily's Castle 10:21 Top Man 11:55 Hard Man 14:04 Needle Man 15:45 Magnet Man 17:27 Boss 19:40 Quint 21:32 Wily's Space Base 21:44 End of Time 23:42 Credits
***** Y'know, I'm surprised that no one has ever tried to do an actual remake of the game! With this soundtrack, they'll have the music down pat already and there wouldn't be any problems. A few classic games either got remade or remastered, so I don't see why some people shouldn't make an effort in making this game better.
"Yes, hello. I was wondering if you could play that song again." "Hmmm...which one, man?" "The one that goes 'bee-boo-boo-bop, boo-boo-beep.' " (Like if you get the reference. 1st person to get it gets a free cookie.)
It's amazing how you managed to turn a soundtrack with a few decent songs that suffered from bad instrumentation and ungodly high pitched sounds into something truly amazing.
This was the first Megaman game I ever owned; listening to all those high pitch tracks all the way through. Your take on it is above original and super. This was the only game out of the five that gave all the robot masters stages new themes, and its good to know that Megaman II is getting the love it deserves, even though it's Inafune's most hated game out of the bunch. lol
MakotoTsuguri you too, huh? Now I know I'm not alone! I used to have it complete. I kept my GameBoy boxes, but I guess the folks tossed them years ago.
I feel that there really are a lot of people out there that truly did appreciate the OST of MM II GB. True the original instruments were awful which everyone can probably agree on but the melodies themselves were always really good.
In the summer of 92 my family moved from Michigan to Alaska. A good part of the road trip, for me, was playing MM2 on gameboy... and I recall loving the music, how the melodies were great, and listening to weapon select over and over. Looking back, the melodies are still great, to this day.
MM II GB has that awesome sad nostalgic melody, and I always loved it. The songs deserved more appreciation. I'm glad that people are making more remixes and more people are enjoying those remixes now.
MMII is the VGM equivalent of a beautiful woman who has a bad drug habit. She's pretty, but she needs someone to treat her good and abandon the bad stuff, so she can shine like the little beautiful star she was meant to be. Your sound is smooth to the ears and feels good. You have talent, I recognize that when I see it. Just downloaded the album, loving it. Especially that Air Man remix, I love that one.
21:44 You use your final E-tank, the boss is at 1/4 of it's health. Your weapons are all out of energy and the boss can take down your health in just a few hits.
It's one of my favorite Megaman games. It got that strange special magic obscure alien lacking-in-context early Megaman feeling that was simply lost after 3 when it turned into the epic we all know and love, but it lost that "go figure" appeal it had early. Now you knew who was who what was what what's going on with dialogues... forever.
Hands down the best reinterpretation of this game's music I've ever heard. Totally realizes the potential the soundtrack had, especially to become one of the darkest-sounding OSTs in the classic Mega Man series. And thank you, THANK YOU for giving the final stage a remix rather than the exact same track as the title. This is 100% how it should've been in the first place. 10/10, am listening again and again!
Agree on the dark undertone compared to the NES. It fits the game's premise more if you ask me - Wily just wanted to take over the world in the first game, but this time round is the first game in the series where he is looking to actually destroy Mega from the start
Hearing this confirmed for me what I already knew--that this was a great sound track that was just poorly programmed. Thank you for dusting it off and revealing there really is a gem in here. Some remixers over at OCRemix need to have the vision to see this needs the full OCRemix album treatment!
Can we all agree that Air-Man's theme has to be the most sad, and also the one that tries to make you feel better? Crash-Man's is an ABSOLUTE BOP THOUGH
Especially with the Magnet Man and Hard Man remixes you've finally given these songs the realization they deserve. Thanks and have a nice holiday season!
Urvy1A By "saddest" you mean "bad" or actually sad? Because yours is not the first comment that I've read in which someone refers to MM2GB's music as sad. And if so I can agree. Mega Man 1's Wily 1 Theme (which is damn near impossible to find) I always thought of as a very melancholic track.
SpiralPegasus I have the same feeling with Wily's 1st stage theme from Mega Man 1. It's the very opposite of the upbeat from Mega Man 2. In fact, I think the other Wily theme in Mega Man 1 is very depressive and dark for some reason.
Amazing how adjusting the pitch makes a load of difference. Btw, can anyone who knows the inner workings of the game explain how a bug caused the music to be so high pitched in the first place?
Absolutely phenomenal, a game that really, truly needed this to showcase its actually kickass melodies that most people never are able to get past the instrumentation to appreciate. And so very close to your MM2 set? Unheard of. You've earned rest for sure, but perhaps for the next of these you might consider MMVGB with some Punk and Ballade loves since their respective games are 90% the NES equivalents' OSTs, you've already done so good by Enker and Quint and they're technically featured in the game anyway?
Of all the Gameboy megaman games MM4 got the closest to being spot on with it's nes counter part songs. However MM2 on GB had a fantastic music set, in fact all the GB games had great music...well save for MM3. MM2 was good because they didn't try replicating the MM2 nes songs... they made them new and unique for the most part.
Mega Man V on the gameboy was the most unique, since it had it's own story, all original robot masters instead of one or two new characters with the rest being ones from the NES, and all unique music.
19:40 You're about to face Wily, when the room goes black. A second, helmetless Mega Man fades in. His helmet constucts around him, fins jutting out the front, and his glasses lower. The Boss health meter does its thing. The battle starts. After the fight, he doesn't leave. He explodes like normal, dropping an I.C. Chip like the MM1 Bosses that upon landing, cracks. This is why X needed to be created, Future Classic was removed from the timeline. EDIT: Also, this is between MM3 and MM4. Fuck Sakugarne. He has the Charge Buster from MM6. The crack leaves it in its MM4 state.
Woodman's theme outshines the other amazing themes here. It is so epic and melancholic. Well-done sir. Like: Rushjet1 will make more astonishing remixes. Comments: Rushjet1 will show you his full potential.
My first Megaman Game, and my second Game Boy game. Enjoyed it, but even though I can see nowadays why it's the easiest Mega Man game, I couldn't beat any of the stages for the longest time originally and I actually began to wonder if they were programmed to be literally impossible XD
This was my only Gameboy game for quite some time. I know this music backward, and forward. I love that Crash Man's music was already fire, so the only thing to do was speed it up a bit.
You know, when I listened to the original soundtrack without seeing any track titles or anything I thought Needle Man's music was the Wily Stage music and the credits music was the final boss music (with the unused beta credits theme being the actual credits theme).
It's very rare that a soundtrack makes me stop in my tracks, completely drop whatever I'm distracted by, and listen to the entire goddamn thing. Truly impressive. Thank you for this.
Wuh? No final boss theme? You could've made something like a combined mix of the boss theme, Quint's theme and the final stage theme. It could've been glorious... ;_;
Ever since I heard your remake of Topman 5 days ago, I have listened to it about 9 times everyday. It's like crack, but feels good (to all my holes, ears especially) I love this song!
This goes to show what the right arrangement can do to compositions. This is epic. I really didn't like the original soundtrack, I think you achieved to get out what the composer originally had in mind.
This was perhaps my favioret of the Game boy megamans, followed by the gameboy MM1 and MM5 as close second. The music was fantastic and fresh and the fact that capcom didn't try copying the nes versions music was a good move.... MM3 on GB was a riddled with poor music clones.... though they did perfect the music cloning in MM$ for GB. But they wouldn't go rouge again till MM5 for GB where everything was new. The remix you made is great. It's like having an old VHS tape brought to HD, we can finally hear these songs without the glaring screeches that was in the original works. Thanks for making this.
i really loved the idea of the soundtrack, it made the game feel like the most dramatic one yet, but it felt rushed in execution. thank you for giving it the love and care it deserved all this time
Man, i did not expect a game boy game to have the best MM ost ive heard in a while, air mans theme was already good in MM2 (nes) but in this its such a different, more driven feel.
Love this soundtrack. It had a much more somber tone as I think would be appropriate in a world where the robots meant to serve it had gone rogue and were trying to destroy it. You have done it great justice!
The lore of the game boy games is very dark and sad..... Because at one point Dr light will die and wily reprogrammed mega man because "GRRRR I need to take over the world sooner? I know! Send quint back in time!! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!?
I...... Just LOVE THIS remake!!! For years i could never remember which tunes from any mega man game I've had stuck in my mind, They were from this game. The songs i had stuck in mind were the stage select tune, the selected theme, Magnet man and a few others. I absolutely love the bass line this remake has :) (BTW, i do like the originals, just not the screeching pitches the original versions had)
Sounds awesome, the GB mega man soundtracks are great. I especially like MM5 for GB. I'm very happy with how Needle Man's theme turned out in this, one of my favorites from this game.
god, the composer who made this game's soundtrack tackled it so vastly different than that of the nes version. every song in the gb version sounds foreboding and sad for no reason. at least the nes version was more dynamic with it's use of minor scale tones
Holy shit, amazing job on top man and wood man. Favorite tracks. That crescendo on top man's theme though. GOD LIKE! I had no idea I was listening to the composers musical score on the remake of GB mm2. I actually listened to this album first before watching that play through. So i was loosing my shit hearing your work. It's soooo good. You know how to play with sounds
These covers, while good (I really like the instrumentation), are too mired in the low registers. I know the original OST is reviled by some for being too high pitched, but this feels like an overreaction to the point that it accomplishes the same thing as the original, but in the opposite direction. Theres a certain desperate, urgent tone conveyed by higher registers that has been lost here.
I didn't haven an NES back as a child - But boi was I happy when I saw that mega-man games also existed for the Gameboy. =w= I remember noting down game-over passcodes.... XD
Of all the awesome remixes here, Hard Man's theme is pure bliss. Sounds a bit sad, yet quietly serious. Personally prefer it to his NES theme, I think it suits him better.
