Nes:Gimmick! Soundtrack 

check out Journey to Silius

That`s not underrated, like this is

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Not only is it underrated, it has quite possibly THE best soundtrack of any NES game..ever.

@@LuigiLaker Journey to Silius sounds like shit.

It's actually almost identical to the AY-3-8910 chip used in a ton of computer's and arcade machines.

From what I understand, Gimmick used a slightly different mapper than other Sunsoft games. And of course, the NES version would've used a Nintendo mapper (MMC 3?) rather than the custom chip used by the Famicom version.

@@jorymil I don't think non-Japanese games can use mappers for sound.

​@@DenkyManner i mean... the mmc5 was a succesor to the mmc3 and japanese contra (afaik) had a vrc3, which also had a succesor with sound (vrc6 and 7). (i'm probably skipping stuff but i hope it gets the point across)

@@jorymilIt most likely used the same mapper, custom NES mapper perms got allowed before Gimmick released on it, but of course, audio stuff still wasn’t possible on the nes

Naoki Kodaka

Tim Follin worked on this?

they're just naming underrated chiptune composers

@@efb1995 no

@@efb1995if he did, this soundtrack would sound more rocky than this one

Same. Crazy to think the very best song didn't even appear in the game!

It's the title of a Philip K. Dick story. "The Long Tomorrow" is also the title of a science fiction novel. It would seem the composer was a fan of sci-fi literature.

It now got a use as the freakin' continue theme on the Arcade remake XD

@@felineki Oh, that's it? And here I thought he was just trying to be emo.

Where in game sound "Strange memories of death"? On which stage or, where?

@@lordlouie3550 MMC5 gives two extra square channels and one PCM channel

You could probably do it with a VRC7 or a N163, although no game really had a chance to abuse the N163.

@@lordlouie3550 don't forget that Naxatsoft, with the help of Nobuyuki Shioda, made the perfect soundtrack by experimenting heavily with the DPCM channel

@@lordlouie3550 I mean Summer Carnival '92 Recca, for the Famicom

Sounds better than most 16 bit games.

+Hermann Cavalcante Sunsoft, Konami, and Capcom were all wonderful.

+Hermann Cavalcante Sunsoft is amazing. However, Tim Follin is probably a more talented composer. Check out silver surfer OST. Granted, the games he made tracks for were all garbage... oh well.

+Hermann Cavalcante Oh yeah, don't forget Capcom

+Robert Anderson natsume did amazing stuff to.

+VHS Headlines - There are a couple of 1 hour 'Best Of' mixes on youtube from his Commodore 64 days... I gotta say, not one of those tracks (save for maybe their work on a couple Bionic Commando tracks) are as memorable to me as the Sunsoft ones (Mr Gimmick in particular). Chris Huelsbeck is where I go digging for the best Amiga tunes.

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the last track at 27:30 labeled 'Unused?' is used for phase 1 of the final boss (phase 2 is Long Tomorrow at 18:13).

Thanks!

Eargasmick!

if your ear could have an orgasm it would

Strange Memories of Ears

11:18

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BLACK HOLE

Yeah. And the only stage the enemies don't attack you. They are living in peace. Fits perfectly.

@@priscillaasagiri4913 No, the tooth-shaped creatures attack you if you kill a bird.

In innocent enemies also don't attack you unless you attack snow man and the cat attacks you

Dillon Bullock Gimmick remake confirmed as a Japanese arcade exclusive, we’ll see how it fares

I've heard some fairly good remixes of some of this music that I think would go well in a remake. BUT it would HAVE to have an option enable to original music.

This comment physically pains me on more levels than I care to list.

well. we have the sequel now.

the "unused?" song is actually the first form, the second is "long tomorrow"

Wait, the best song on the album isn't even in the game? This is madness!

Looks like "Strange Memories Of Death" finally got to be used... as the arcade remake's continue countdown theme.

you can hear Strange Memories of Death in-game by using the sound test. my theory is that it was intended for a final level that got replaced with the floating castle. this game is a slept-on classic for sure. I wouldn't bother with the Scandinavian port, the audio is stripped down and doesn't sound nearly as good as this.

@@WhyDidntIInventYT do you have any video of this "scandivanian" port? there's like no video about it anywhere on the internet it seems

Actually, the reason is known. The president of Sunsoft USA HATED the "quirky" character designs in Mr. Gimmick, and so he decided to cancel the game, releasing a bunch of forgettable licensed games instead. This mentality also affected the US release of U-four-ia: The Saga, as it was cancelled for the same reason. Sunsoft wanted the game to get a full release in Europe, but only one European distributor decided to actually sell the game, and that was Swedish distributor Bergsala AB, who only sold the game in Scandinavia.

The scandinavian version and US prototype also use the neutered sound chip of the NES that affects the music substantially.

Mike DiLoreto The music is too good for your ears?

i have no words for this music. its just perfect.

Nub QuakeGuy/ツDerickFabro 2 Mr. Gimmick needs a modern day remake or re-release it on PC, and it will sell cocaine. :)

Quinn The Quartz Got that right, but I think it will sell even faster like Blue Meth ;-).

Commodorefan64 This is like the MOST IM[IMPRESSIVE GAME ON THE SYSTEM! From audio and gameplay.

The bassline kicks so much ass

It's _FAMICOM!_ there's a big difference.

Nope. I don't call the absence of the lock-out chip a big difference at all. Much less than the difference between the Master System and the Mark III. Also, Gimmick was also released in Europe. :P

AmstradExin ... _FM Synthesis Chip, less pins..._

Scott B Also, many peripherals of the Mark III mostly won't work like the SG1000 converter and maybe the Card Catcher. Sega never intended to have any backwards compatibility. The FDS indeed works on a NES. All you need is a pin converter for normal Famicom games as seen here. ?v=8cnJZXhpHsU Now back to enjoying the soundtrack. :)

AmstradExin _umm... I understand, but my head is going to explode._

I do so much

I would buy it, I make sure the rest of my plushies don't get jealous, we don't want Mr. Gimmick to have to save another child

@Nathanielnauts I remember my favorite plush toy when I was young, one I received for my fifth birthday. It was a 5-part toy, designed to teach children about the food chain. Each of the 5 plushes were slightly larger than the previous one, and had empty space inside for you to stuff the other ones in, like a turkey. Each one was of a bizarre, vaguely earthy organism, first a tiny tomato looking crab, then a rat, then a squid with 5 tentacles and horns, then a purple mammal, and my favorite, at the top of the chain, at a foot in length, was the one named Sleeb. Sleeb was a legless, grainy green colored, creature with tiny arms that resembled mittens, little antennae on its head, and an enormous toothed jaw, which could fit basically anything smaller than it inside, ranging from dictionaries to boxes to clothes. I don’t think my other, not as beloved toys would even consider about kidnapping me, because their opposition is an enormous devourer of worlds that vaguely resembles Cookie Monster. That sounds... familiar...

That would be really cool

I actually happen to have one and yes, all of the other plushies are quite jealous. I have yet to be taken to another world though.

You hear Rex's bass? I SAID, YOU HEAR REX'S BASS???!!

Thanks for this comment! I always see people thinking the Sunsoft 5B was some kind of sorcery but in reality the bigger deal is the bass samples! You can easily tell this by comparing the European and Japanese versions of Gimmick! The difference is mostly minor.

isakwatz11 except for the beginning of long tomorrow.

The difference is anything but minor ! And that can also be seen on an emulator, if one turns the 5B off while playing the Japanese ROM. Leads or counter melodies were often played on the 5B which square was far more versatile. As for the bass, it wasn't always DPCM ! "Sophia" used the 5B for bass, that's what makes this heavy square. No, really, this chip was wholly contributive to the greatness of the soundtrack. Not to mention, all sound effects - the star, jumping, getting hit... - made use of the 5B as well.

Specifically it was Batman Return of the Joker that used Bass samples. Original Batman game just used the standard 4 channels.

Me too. I just had to find out what that final song he talked over was, and I agree this music is amazing.

I know

Using the sprite limit to your advantage. DANG that's clever.

that's actually genius, I've seen the same thing done in other SNES games and I had no idea how it was done.

ep2

Squaresoft* but agree with your picks!

SNES isn't chiptune

Looks like someone hasn't listened to plok....

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What a man

happy to see people are discovering this amazing soundtrack today, I still remember when I first heard it 20 years ago

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Also used in name entry after time attack

But not in the Original Famicom game...

We'll they did in a way as part of the sunsoft bundle that was released for the ps1

The sound emulation was worse.

How about the Special Arcade Version of Mr. Gimmick?

It's not, it's a Famicom game and the cartridge had extra memory for the music, which allowed for three extra sound channels.

OneUp Well, it only used part of the 5B's capacities and we already got such an amazing result.

The cartridge had no extra memory, it's a sound chip in the memory controller.

Ah, sorry. There were cartridges with extra memory but I see now it wasn't used for this game.

Even with the three extra sound channels, this is an incredible composition. I've heard very little from this era of gaming that sounds anything like this.

za909returns The PCM bass was in pretty much every Sunsoft NES game in the early 90's, actually; Batman and Super Spy Hunter are good examples.

***** Yes, but there were a couple different samples throughout their history. The first one probably being the one in Fester's Quest (and imo that has the crappies bass sample from Sunsoft music) Then there's the very common one you can hear in Journey to Silius, Super Spy Hunter, Ufouria, Shanghai 2, this one and possibly more. Then there is the Return of the Joker one. But I can't recall having heard the slap bass in this one anywhere else.

it *is* a sample actually. The Famicom's DPCM channel is used to play bass samples in late 8-bit Sunsoft games

@@TheZmusicGroup That’s INCREDIBLE. The west was robbed by not getting a disk system! Many SNES samples even sound far inferior.

@@EDBOMINATION The NES was also robbed from audio input on cartridge connector that allowed to use 3rd party synthesizers.

The Famicom version had the Sunsoft 5B audio chip , but NES version didn't. So music is better at FC.

They almost got the title right, the actual title is Untitled.

the actual, actual title is Memories of My Life; that comes from a 1995(?) album re-release of this game's and Hebereke's OST

The actual, actual, actual title is Evidence of My Life.