Msx: Salamander Soundtrack 

Muy cierto!

はい、エキサイティングなゲームでした。今日も音楽を聴いて興奮しています。

Amen. 🙏

Heey je bent niet de enige die fan is van MSX ik ben er ook een. Heb het zelf bijna met alle Japanse video games tot jaren 80 naar heden. Mijn favoriete tracks van Salamander is Poison Of Snake Boss BGM. Heelaas ben ik geboren in 1992 en de Firato tijdperk nooit beleeft. Weet wel dat mijn Vader samen met zn Oom in de Firato 1987 was bij de productie van Nemesis II. En juist ook dit spel samen met Penquin Memory. Pap's meeste grote indrukking was de Firato 1983 met de komst van de CD sterker nog Pap heeft de CD Speler van Philips de CD 500 direct in 1985 gekocht. Mijn ouders hadden nooit Video Games gespeeld. Daar hebben ze niet de geduld en snelheid voor om levels verder te gaan maar mijn broer zusje en ik kunnen het wel super goed. Sinds de 21ste eeuw hebben we ook geleerd over Netwerken zoals bij de Wii Riiconnect24 en Wiimmfi en dat bij Nintendo DSi ook zelfde voor meerdere Private Servers.

ik ook, had msx 1 en 2, alle konami spellen, nemesis 1-2-3- salamander, helemaal gek gespeeld..super msusic..toen waren spellen echt spellen, nu is het money making lol.....andere favorite usas, vampire killer zanac etc etc..toen kwam Nintendo en playstation.:) good times.

+The Best of Nerd Noise Radio I was just thinking of this track. Love those flat V chords.

You know, the more time passes, the more I become a "wavetable first" kinda guy! Back in the day as a pre-teen and a teen, I was so pro-SNES, not just in audio, but for our purposes, in audio, as an "ADPCM first" guy. Then in the early-mid 2000's, as a 20-something, I began to favor the Genesis and by the end of the 2000s, had really become an "FM-first" kinda guy, and not just Genesis, but all FM, and in fact, in the world of 80's and 90's video game FM, there are quite a few platforms that do it better than Genesis. Now that we're in the mid 20teens, and now that I'm old enough to run for president, I'm feeling myself beginning to shift yet again, as I said up front, this time towards favoring wavetable synth, most notably PCE/TG16 and MSX SCC. It's so interesting how our tastes change as we get older. Then again, I got the SNES in 92, the Genesis in 93, and didn't get a TG16 til late 2000, when I was already going on 21. And on top of that, I didn't REALLY start plumbing the wavetable synth VGM world til really only a few years ago...so maybe it's just that my exposure to this world didn't come til so much later. Who knows? In any case, my point is that while I love Prophet Fire for what it does musically, equally important to me is the soundscape created by these wonderful SCC wavetable voices! It's just the total package, you know? By the way, another thing I love about this track musically that I didn't mention before is that bass! While the voice itself isn't too similar, the bass run itself is almost "Joe Jackson's 'Steppin' Out' levels of irrepressible catchiness" :-) Cheers!!!

The main reason I come back to this video

I got the same thought It would be nice to integrate it into the arcade like a bridge from one stage to another. More like a transition phase.

これはギトギト音楽かな？

And that's really saying something given an already awesome OST.

Agreed! The MSX soundtrack gave the already great tunes some much needed punch and new life.

This is with added stereo and reverb

@@Alianger if you listen to the cartridge in a fairly normal living room from a fairly normal TV, it sounds exactly like this.

I wanna play Salamander with this specific OST, but don't really want to play the MSX version itself. Wish there was a modern version with different music options.

Indeed the Konami 051649 2212P003 Sound Creative Chip plays a major role in this upgrade.

MSX1/MSX2 music PSG+Konami's special poliphonic sound chip "SCC"... ;-)

Yeah the MSX version was amazing... and ridiculously difficult lol.

you were probably playing life force, the north american version of this game. the music there is more 8-bit and definitely more 80's sounding

So I looked into the SCC chip and it uses Wavetable Synthesis much like the Namco WSG and the PC Engine's sound chip. I love the unique sound of WTS so much, if only there was a sound program to take advantage of it.

Wavetable Synthesis has a unique texture not found on PSG or FM chips.

@@SpongeMagic Yeah you beat me into it

Kerakerakera! Okelampa! It's Hikari Sentai Maskman? Haha.

Very similar to Turtles 1 enemy soundtrack..I guess Venom bmg @12:42, like the rest is also good..

Oh yes that Turtles song has the same kind of vibe indeed.

Agreed @bkuuzin helped me out picking my MSX of choice, Panasonic MSX2+ A1WSX BTW

Have you ever heard an MSX song with the "Moonsound" sound expansion? It's actually an OPL4. Talk about 8-bit performance. ;-)

*That means you have an extra stage to go over, huh?*

@@CelestialReturner yep

fionnmaccumhail76 What happened to them?

My mother..................... thought was rubbish and threw away :(

Oh no... OMG... :'-(

John Hassink Not enough, after my Hit Bit, went out my Amiga500+ I need to find a good MSX emulator and all the games (also all the Amiga games)

I would scold her so bad.

Which music from MMZ?

It's my favorite part too!

Sounds like you could remake that into a modern day jazz song for Street Fighter or something

Yes, it has SCC chip in those Konami classics cartages.

Right on! It’s my favorite track

Life Force is the overseas name, Salamander is the original.