The 8BtStereo revamp continues strong with one of the best platformers and soundtracks ever done by the Sunsoft team, its Journey to Silius! A soundtrack that is synonymous with many Sunsoft releases that makes use of the infamous "Sunsoft Bass". Just fantastic quality compositions that really shows the Sound Team is getting the absolutely most out of this soundchip, every Stage theme having such a powerful melody and drive, from the banger "Title Screen", the energetic "Stage 1", the melodically beautiful "Stage 2", the never give up vibe of "Stage 3" and the powerful determination of "Stage 4". With "Stage 2: Underground Concourse" become a favorite over the years, also from its incredible 3 minute length before properly looping, becoming a nearly 7 minute track, very rare for an NES soundtrack. Every track is worthwhile and is no wonder it is an example of high quality piece of 8Bit music. This game is also actually Developed by a division of Sunsoft called the "Tokyo Design Center", Tokai Engineering technically counts as a Publisher in Japan so they could put out more games then regulated, a smart move as it helped in giving us more great games from this company! This would actually be the first release that featured the sampling bass in these pitches that would then be used on future Sunsoft titles. While the Sound Driver is based on the first iteration by Akito Takeuchi, this is when Naohisa Morota was credited for his involvement implementing the Bass samples which was from an AKAI S700 Nobuyuki Hara had, and Morota and Hara worked on optimizing the sound source and data size so they could get the most out of the sound without compromising other parts of development of games Sunsoft was working on. Shinichi Seya also helped upgrading the Sound Driver, so technically Sound Driver credit from here on out would be given to "Shinichi Seya & Naohisa Morota". Also for the longest time Manabu Sakota was simply under the alias "Mabochan" until recently discovered the full name, and it is assumed Sakota contributed compositions alongside Kodaka for this OST, always fun learning more about a great soundtrack and the legacy of Sunsoft! :) Thanks to the wonderful division at Tokyo Design Center, we got a game that remained fairly obscure in the NES lifeline, until finally being noticed and praised for its many achievements! Stellar graphics, tight and fun gameplay, and of course, the music. Please, if you have not played this game do so, you will not regret it! :)
Trivia: Journey to Silius was originally meant to be a licensed Terminator game like Sunsoft Batman but negations for the Terminator license broke down and Sunsoft released the game anyway with minor cosmetic changes.
@@Theranthrope Hence why the evil Terrorists are still using killer robots. This is definitely supposed to be about Kyle Reese's war against Skynet in the future of... 2029? Uhoh
@@Theranthrope True! Was gonna include that in the pin comment but so many people are aware of that fact usually when looking up this game, so I kept it exclusive to the music like the Sunsoft Bass (and general samples they used) being implemented by Naohisa Morota and the before unknown alias to "Mabochan" :)
I have a rule. My phone ringtones are all 8-16 bit tracks from my youth, and I switch them every so often. In heavy rotation is selections from FF, FFIV, FFVI, Crystalis, the Castlevanias, Phantasy Star 4, Blaster Master. I had forgotten about Journey to Silius until I stumbled across this Def adding a few of these songs. This hands down is some of the best music ever made on the NES.
Silius is considered one of the best sounding nes games so I don't know how it is underapprecited. Trust me, I was gaming when Silius was realesed, and even back then people noticed the soundtrack, both for it's melodies and it's sound.
And knowing that Journey To Silius was supposed to be a Terminator game, I have no doubt that if the project were continued, it would be much more acclaimed today! Incidentally great soundtrack
Naoki Kodaka clearly has a great talent for composing, and its even better he had such a talented sound team that knew the NES hardware and implemented it into one of the best sondfonts of the 8-Bit era.
"Underground Concourse" is what made me look up and actually play this amazing gem of a game. Smooth, to the point gameplay, decent minimal story, killer ost, yup the footrprint of our beloved sunsoft. 4 minute long song without looping! It conveys the sheer will power of our hero to avenge his father and overturn a corrupted leader willing to slow the progress of man for profit. Cheesy but we love that power struggle, fighting to uncover a truth or overturn injustice. A very power song, maybe its overrated to some but i always find myself listening to this to give myself some hope for the future, granted, if you too, fight for that future.
@@RichardCraigIt’s underrated, the composers and Sunsoft made a bold statement by dropping a massive four minute song on a NES soundtrack, when the standard was barely over a minute for others on the platform. They took their gloves off and art seriously.
This was the first game that had the "Sunsoft Bass" implemented with these specific pitches (This video explains it best: th-cam.com/video/LEgoYUzwabI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_uJ1oY7hvSvstgiv ) and it was standard until pretty much Gimmick, they certainly added a few more near the end ;D
I would personally put this in the Top 10 NES Soundtracks of all time, the sheer talent and memorable compositions on display is top tier NES music quality!
Niko, thank you so much for this ost. The country I live is passing some harsh and horrible times and listening to Journey to Silius help me cope with everything that’s going on. Thank you🇨🇴
Love the remastered stereo that you did for this! It sounds a lot fuller and cleaner! I'll be checking out more of your remastered soundtrack videos, man! Stay safe!
Thank you, much appreciated. I'm very personally satisfied with how these uploads look and sound now, the Revamps were the best decision I ever made, and I have so many soundtracks to give this treatment of love to! :)
With 9 years since the original first iteration of the design, and 5 years with the slightly upgraded logo and background, this is definitely way more professional. Though, slightly amateur still (aside from the professionally done icon of me, lol), but that's what I like about it, its what you uniquely get from me, and it feels genuine whilst looking better! :D
@@Nikos8BitStereo You’ve come a long way since the WiiGuy days my friend. Your video design (with gameplay which does not go unnoticed) is the most sophisticated I’ve seen yet for a VGM upload. Nothing amateur about it. The only thing I could suggest is featuring the title of the current track in sync with the audio.
In general, SunSoft made memorable music for their NES games and other console games from Batman to even Uncle Festers Quest, lets face It, SunSoft wasn't playing around. Goodtime from years past!!!
A company that damn well knew how to make the best out of that hardware, I'm glad to see they are back now, but I feel like they should have come back earlier around Mega Man 9 & 10 was releasing, and just stuck with making 8Bit sequels or even original games in the 8Bit style, personally they are probably the best developers of the NES console.
Man, it's been like what a decade? Me sometimes listening your stereo mixes, so can i say like they made part of my childhood, and still I'm enjoying, i'ts sound real good a lot of nes music, have a good day and stay safe
Damn you've been around for that long? I can't believe there are still people from 2012 still here and listening, and frankly I'm sure these Revamps took as long as they did because I should have been putting out the best quality stuff from the beginning, but I didn't know I was able to make these OST's sound even better, and I sure as hell wasn't as good at editing. So glad to have improved. Thanks for being around and keep enjoying these OST's and other Video Game Music! :D
Hell yeah, thanks for giving this Revamp version the extra views it deserves! I actually can't believe its already drawn 61K views, of course the Old Mix version is well over half a million, I wish the views of that one would switch with this one, people need to know I give so much more care and love to these soundtracks than my previous Mix!
It was scary during that time when I was only uploading a few OST's every few months, I almost felt I was going to be done with 8BS, back when Twitch was taking over my time for content creation. But I'm more than happy to be back to what I know and love best with these Soundtrack uploads :)
I just love the Boss battle theme. It reminds me of Holy Diver & TMNT. And Stage 2's theme (Underground Concourse) always gets me in the nostalgia feels HARD!!
Its great to see people discovering soundtracks like this for the first time, if you need anymore recommendations I got a lineup that will satisfy the ears for weeks if not months!
J'adore ta manière de mettre en ligne des OST => Playlist/TimeCode/Stream-run du jeu etc. Tellement agréable & collector!!! Bravo & merci pour ton taf/partage^^ Nice format => ""Animation""/Jacket/TimeCode/Playlist etc. So pleasant & collector!!! well done & thanks for your job/share^^ Peace 0/
Seriously, those three uploads are some of my favourites in the console! You couldn't get it more right!.. Well, you can. Let's see if I didn't jinx it
I would consider this Top 20 NES Soundtrack material, I mean of all the Sunsoft soundtracks its tough to pull just one, but for me, this and Super Spy Hunter would be in the list.
I'm glad Naoki Kodaka still decided to keep that reference to there original Terminator development, I wouldn't doubt they had rights to cover the whole original Terminator Theme, but at this point its great this game is its own original property for Sunsoft, otherwise it wouldn't be able to get re-released anywhere if it still had The Terminator license.
The Terminator one released by Mindscape was just an unfortunate victim of being one of Paul Wilkinson's first NES soundtracks, and I believe only had a few weeks to do Compositions, a talent he was not familiar with at all. Unironically though, I think its decent (if the songs were a bit longer and fleshed out it would have been perfect Moody music) and actually fits the mood of that first game. Terminator 2 on NES, now that's just a god damn amazing OST by Geoff Follin, that while doesn't fit the vibe of The Terminator, doesn't matter when the songs are just all killer no killer It would have been great through to have a killer Terminator 1 OST by Sunsoft, along with the killer Terminator 2 OST from a Follin.
Thank you, I'm sorry my idea for the Revamps came as late as it has, also sorry my response to your comment took this long, common pattern I still have it seems XD But still glad to be here, interact with people and help preserve these OST's! :)
I'm happy with this sound and format, I would say now with the mixes for these Revamps, these are among the best quality you can find and listen to that of course isn't the pure original versions from NSF files.
I still smile at the similarities between this, festers quest and of course blaster master. And stage 2 is just epic. I think Sunsoft was one of the few companies that had long tracks.
They at least gave songs around a minute (if not minute and a half) before looping, it is most impressive to seem them make Stage 2 be about a 3 minute-30 second track before looping, those efforts are always appreciated!
When me and my sister were kids, we saw level 4 ONCE. And we played the hell out of this game. I got my vengeance at age 25 though...took me over 50 tries 🤣
This game is certainly a prime example of high quality on all fronts, I don't think enough credit is given to the huge boss sprites that take up large portions of the screen (though funny how the final boss is just a tall cyborg, lol). Though I credit Super Spy Hunter to be a title that pushed the limits of the NES even more by Sunsoft standards, true underrated game and OST.
4:00 - In an alternate universe: "The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight..."
I am convinced that if this game had retained the Terminator license, we would have heard remixes of some of these themes in future Terminator films. Which would have almost made the movies after #2 justifiable.
Naoki Kodaka does not get enough attention and praise, hell the whole sound team is often forgotten, without Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya and Naohisa Morota, these games would not sound as amazing as they do.
If you like this soundtrack, I also suggest the soundtrack to "Wings of Death". Both games were released in 1990. But "Wings of Death" was released on home computers, originally the Atari ST and then ported to the Commodore Amiga. Music composed by Jochen Hippel. Here's a link to the original Atari ST version th-cam.com/video/-UJNY25jbHw/w-d-xo.html And here are two links to the Amiga version of the soundtrack: th-cam.com/video/BcH10hcRlxo/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/zipk0egspcY/w-d-xo.html I don't like the title theme quite as much, but beginning at the stage themes, it picks up and I get Journey to Silius vibes.
i've always been a huge fan of this channel ever since i found it. i am not sure what tools you used to create either the old mixes or the newer ones. however, i just wanted to say, there will never be soundtracks like these ever again (and to an extent the SNES). there is a reason they all sound so distinctive. the sounds produced by the original hardware etched its way into human souls and created a genre we refer to now as "8 bit." if you are trying to purify that sound with some new hardware or software, i'm not sure i can agree about it.
Thank you, for a little insight I still use the same tools/method like the old mixes, but I just fine tuned the craft even better to make these Revamped mixes. And yes it's quite true, because we will never be in an era where composers had to use such limited technology and programs, its great that we can still make music like the 8 & 16Bit eras, but its not the same being confined to the limitations of what you knew about the Hardware and Soundchips you were composing for. My go-to phrase for how the best Video Game Music stood out so well is: "Limitations Breathed Creativity", such as here, through the limitations of the NES, the Sunsoft sound team probably worked hours upon hours of fine tuning and trial and error working to maximize the sound and size capabilities of only Kilobytes they had while sharing that same size with graphics and programming to make an entire game on an NES cartridge. And sadly this effort was essentially a thankless job, it probably got praise within the industry and programmers and players that recognized the creativity, but the art of how this was done is often not discussed and brought up enough, Video Game Composers/Programmers forever have my respect for giving us the best knowing they probably will never get worldwide attention, but that's okay, for us who are lucky enough to experience this, I hope the people that made this Music possible know some people are elated and overcome with joy with what they created :')
Absolutely tragic, and so freaking young, and didn't even get to see his praises sung on the work he did in the internet age. That man was an absolute legend, rest well you magician of programming.
It would have been cool to be able to say "Sunsoft's Terminator". And at least the best thing from LJN having the rights specifically to Terminator 2: Judgement Day video game releases (as few different companies got rights for video games based on the first Terminator movie) is they chose Developers with stellar sound teams, Terminator 2 on NES by Geoff Follin remains one of my favorite NES soundtracks of all time.
"Journey to Silius by Tim Follin" would be an insane parallel universe, though its not too far off to actually happen, just need someone to compose JTS in the style of the Follins, aka with the same instrumentation and sound design of Stephen Ruddy's sound driver.
Absolutely, if you check the description there is a download for the NSFe file of the soundtrack, which is essentially the Music in a file format that can be played back on certain programs, while I use Winamp + Notso Fatso plugin, I recommend getting Foobar with the Game Emu Player component, I provide both in this link which also has my current Collection/Archive of all NSFe's: mega.nz/file/wk0h3bQC#SyQtjmp5sE-WcWzd3Z4HeCQMg8IszzDQ3W5Lb1Tzo18 One you get Foobar installed its easy to then drop Game Emu Player into the "components" folder where Foobar is installed, then of course install it within Foobar from the Preferences and then in "View" you should see "GEP control" and should be able to "Enable playback override" which will allow you to pick which specific channels you want playing! Hope this helped and sorry response was late! :)
I have to say, I much prefer your original mix. I've listened to both the new and old a fair amount and while I prefer the more clear and better sounding instruments in this mix, the old mix has WAY better stereo separation. I also like the reverb in the old mix, but I think I would dial it down because that seemed to be a big reason it sounds less clean. On my main monitors in my studio you actually get quite a nice sound stage on the old mix. In this one all the instruments are put near the middle. I think if you can achieve a mixture of both, using the clearer sounding instruments in this mix but achieve the stereo separation in the old one, you will have an amazing mix!
I know this response is hella late, but essentially I was not happy with my Older Mixes, and ever since shifting away from my old username of "WiiGuy" to "NikoTengoku", I knew I wanted to update and Revamp these OSTs in my "Niko Era", and give more attention and care to these videos/uploads, the new 8BS mix sounds so much better and these videos look even better, feels a lot more professional, considering my goal to archive and preserve these soundtracks :)
THE LOST TERMINATOR GAME INSTEAD WE GOT THAT SHIT..PUKE GREEN GRAPHX AND HORRIBLE CONTROLS AND MUSIC. ..... FOR ME THIS IS THE FIRST TERMINATOR GAME ON NES AND ITS A MASTERPIECE.... ITS SUNSOFT SO OBVIOUSLY THE MUSIC IS KICKASS....WHO THE FK DISLIKE THIS? SEND THAT PERSON TO SOME ANOTHER PLANET.
Probably due to the way things were separated and how the instruments of the sound channels came together, plus the general way the echo/reverb was, I get it sounding more "full" or beefy in that case. The original upload will always be there, but personally satisfied how these are :)
It doesn't bc it tanked really, losing the Terminator license meant it couldn't ride the film's wave of promotion n popularity. Therefore it was left in obscurity without a campaign of advertising n way to promote it really. I was lucky enough to have played it a few times as a young child with my cousins and bc I have a good memory I remembered the game n with a little time searching n doing some research I found it. The game I remembered, but the title eluded me. I have it on my Retro Freak n Wii consoles, it is pretty hard too.
@@I-L0ve-sally-197 I'm with you there, would of liked to have seen further releases on later console generations. At least one for the SNES n maybe one for the og Game Boy.
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The 8BtStereo revamp continues strong with one of the best platformers and soundtracks ever done by the Sunsoft team, its Journey to Silius! A soundtrack that is synonymous with many Sunsoft releases that makes use of the infamous "Sunsoft Bass". Just fantastic quality compositions that really shows the Sound Team is getting the absolutely most out of this soundchip, every Stage theme having such a powerful melody and drive, from the banger "Title Screen", the energetic "Stage 1", the melodically beautiful "Stage 2", the never give up vibe of "Stage 3" and the powerful determination of "Stage 4". With "Stage 2: Underground Concourse" become a favorite over the years, also from its incredible 3 minute length before properly looping, becoming a nearly 7 minute track, very rare for an NES soundtrack. Every track is worthwhile and is no wonder it is an example of high quality piece of 8Bit music. This game is also actually Developed by a division of Sunsoft called the "Tokyo Design Center", Tokai Engineering technically counts as a Publisher in Japan so they could put out more games then regulated, a smart move as it helped in giving us more great games from this company!
This would actually be the first release that featured the sampling bass in these pitches that would then be used on future Sunsoft titles. While the Sound Driver is based on the first iteration by Akito Takeuchi, this is when Naohisa Morota was credited for his involvement implementing the Bass samples which was from an AKAI S700 Nobuyuki Hara had, and Morota and Hara worked on optimizing the sound source and data size so they could get the most out of the sound without compromising other parts of development of games Sunsoft was working on. Shinichi Seya also helped upgrading the Sound Driver, so technically Sound Driver credit from here on out would be given to "Shinichi Seya & Naohisa Morota". Also for the longest time Manabu Sakota was simply under the alias "Mabochan" until recently discovered the full name, and it is assumed Sakota contributed compositions alongside Kodaka for this OST, always fun learning more about a great soundtrack and the legacy of Sunsoft! :)
Thanks to the wonderful division at Tokyo Design Center, we got a game that remained fairly obscure in the NES lifeline, until finally being noticed and praised for its many achievements! Stellar graphics, tight and fun gameplay, and of course, the music. Please, if you have not played this game do so, you will not regret it! :)
Trivia: Journey to Silius was originally meant to be a licensed Terminator game like Sunsoft Batman but negations for the Terminator license broke down and Sunsoft released the game anyway with minor cosmetic changes.
Didn’t you already do the “Journey To Silius” OST?
@@Theranthrope Hence why the evil Terrorists are still using killer robots. This is definitely supposed to be about Kyle Reese's war against Skynet in the future of... 2029? Uhoh
@@Theranthrope True! Was gonna include that in the pin comment but so many people are aware of that fact usually when looking up this game, so I kept it exclusive to the music like the Sunsoft Bass (and general samples they used) being implemented by Naohisa Morota and the before unknown alias to "Mabochan" :)
I like the data. Now I know who is really Mabochan!!
Ahh yes, The Termin- I mean, Journey to Silius.
@Retro sack I genuinely wish that I could. xD
this SHOULDVE been the terminator game we got instead of the godawful mindscape/radical entertainment one
I honestly think this game is better than Terminator. The fact that it has been "opaqued" makes it more special and more mysterious.
18:17 All rise for one of the greatest pieces of music. Ever.
cheers
I have a rule. My phone ringtones are all 8-16 bit tracks from my youth, and I switch them every so often. In heavy rotation is selections from FF, FFIV, FFVI, Crystalis, the Castlevanias, Phantasy Star 4, Blaster Master.
I had forgotten about Journey to Silius until I stumbled across this
Def adding a few of these songs. This hands down is some of the best music ever made on the NES.
STILL one of the best NES soundtracks!
YOU are the best, Johnny.
maybe cover this? it's just insane how good it is
Definitely... just sounds like the NES on music roids.
Best terminator game ever.
This game, and channel are both underappreciated
It's niche but deeply appreciated.
Amen
I was so happy when they added it to the Switch NES catalog for Nintendo online.
Silius is considered one of the best sounding nes games so I don't know how it is underapprecited.
Trust me, I was gaming when Silius was realesed, and even back then people noticed the soundtrack, both for it's melodies and it's sound.
@@GerginationI glad a community exits for even niche people such as myself.
And knowing that Journey To Silius was supposed to be a Terminator game, I have no doubt that if the project were continued, it would be much more acclaimed today! Incidentally great soundtrack
Source?
@@venomtang in the games graphic files, there's unused graphics that say the terminator
@@incognitiosaystransrights source?
@@venomtang start the game up and look at the CHR. It says the terminator
terminator 1 soundtrack had good synth IMO
Every single track in this is pure gold. These composers tapped into some real magic when writing this.
It's staggering how good it is.
Naoki Kodaka clearly has a great talent for composing, and its even better he had such a talented sound team that knew the NES hardware and implemented it into one of the best sondfonts of the 8-Bit era.
"Underground Concourse" is what made me look up and actually play this amazing gem of a game. Smooth, to the point gameplay, decent minimal story, killer ost, yup the footrprint of our beloved sunsoft.
4 minute long song without looping!
It conveys the sheer will power of our hero to avenge his father and overturn a corrupted leader willing to slow the progress of man for profit.
Cheesy but we love that power struggle, fighting to uncover a truth or overturn injustice.
A very power song, maybe its overrated to some but i always find myself listening to this to give myself some hope for the future, granted, if you too, fight for that future.
Not at all overrated, Underground Concourse is a genuinely brilliant song.
@@RichardCraigIt’s underrated, the composers and Sunsoft made a bold statement by dropping a massive four minute song on a NES soundtrack, when the standard was barely over a minute for others on the platform.
They took their gloves off and art seriously.
Underground Concourse is still one of my favorite NES melodies💙
Before things like TH-cam existed, I used to get to that stage and just leave it idle. Lol
Rare for an NES song to have three verses.
@@backdoorwolf666 definitely. I think it was a sunsoft thing. I’d have to listen to blaster master again but I’m pretty sure they were lengthy tracks.
The bass on this one is soooooo good
This was the first game that had the "Sunsoft Bass" implemented with these specific pitches (This video explains it best: th-cam.com/video/LEgoYUzwabI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_uJ1oY7hvSvstgiv ) and it was standard until pretty much Gimmick, they certainly added a few more near the end ;D
I never played this game when was a child with 8-bit console, but i fell in love this OST from 1st notes.
The same as OST of "20xx".
Same here, first heard of it in a nes music compilation
This is the best OST on the NES.
Mega Man 2 and Battletoads would like a word
Castlevania 3: am I a joke to you
Probably one of the best NES soundtracks. I love it.
I would personally put this in the Top 10 NES Soundtracks of all time, the sheer talent and memorable compositions on display is top tier NES music quality!
Niko, thank you so much for this ost. The country I live is passing some harsh and horrible times and listening to Journey to Silius help me cope with everything that’s going on. Thank you🇨🇴
Happy it helps you out in these times, hope for better times for you and your country, much love dude
this & gimmick are STILL some of the best video game soundtracks ever made.
Ahh, I loved this game. The sound processor for the NES was amazing.
Sunsoft really knew how to make it sing
Great game and one of the best NES OST’s... you still can see and hear the overt Terminator references throughout. Thanks swole Niko! 😜
Swole Niko will continue to make sure these soundtracks are heard, praised and loved forever! ;D
Hot damn those DPCM drums, who says the NES can't do meaty drumlines?
Bass is sampled instead of „regular“ Famicom/NES triangle baselines. Drums this time are regular oscillator and noise channels.
Love the remastered stereo that you did for this! It sounds a lot fuller and cleaner! I'll be checking out more of your remastered soundtrack videos, man! Stay safe!
Thank you! We've got a long way to go with these uploads, so strap in! And right back at ya! :)
My favorite nes soundtrack!!!!
Great OST. I love the subtle stereo treatment on this, as well as all your uploads. Thank you and keep 'em coming!
Thank you, much appreciated. I'm very personally satisfied with how these uploads look and sound now, the Revamps were the best decision I ever made, and I have so many soundtracks to give this treatment of love to! :)
Love the new design, very professional
With 9 years since the original first iteration of the design, and 5 years with the slightly upgraded logo and background, this is definitely way more professional. Though, slightly amateur still (aside from the professionally done icon of me, lol), but that's what I like about it, its what you uniquely get from me, and it feels genuine whilst looking better! :D
@@Nikos8BitStereo You’ve come a long way since the WiiGuy days my friend. Your video design (with gameplay which does not go unnoticed) is the most sophisticated I’ve seen yet for a VGM upload. Nothing amateur about it. The only thing I could suggest is featuring the title of the current track in sync with the audio.
One of the best soundtracks, 1:st stage is a masterpiece ❤
Sunsoft were among the best, killing it on all fronts with Gameplay, Graphics, and Music!
In general, SunSoft made memorable music for their NES games and other console games from Batman to even Uncle Festers Quest, lets face It, SunSoft wasn't playing around. Goodtime from years past!!!
A company that damn well knew how to make the best out of that hardware, I'm glad to see they are back now, but I feel like they should have come back earlier around Mega Man 9 & 10 was releasing, and just stuck with making 8Bit sequels or even original games in the 8Bit style, personally they are probably the best developers of the NES console.
Man, it's been like what a decade? Me sometimes listening your stereo mixes, so can i say like they made part of my childhood, and still I'm enjoying, i'ts sound real good a lot of nes music, have a good day and stay safe
Damn you've been around for that long? I can't believe there are still people from 2012 still here and listening, and frankly I'm sure these Revamps took as long as they did because I should have been putting out the best quality stuff from the beginning, but I didn't know I was able to make these OST's sound even better, and I sure as hell wasn't as good at editing. So glad to have improved. Thanks for being around and keep enjoying these OST's and other Video Game Music! :D
One of the BEST Soundtracks ever made!!!
Listening to this at least once a day. Cheers.
Hell yeah, thanks for giving this Revamp version the extra views it deserves! I actually can't believe its already drawn 61K views, of course the Old Mix version is well over half a million, I wish the views of that one would switch with this one, people need to know I give so much more care and love to these soundtracks than my previous Mix!
I just managed to beat the game today.
Great soundtrack, especially stage 4.
Congrats! Even after 30 odd years I still cant. Maybe I should try again.
Glad to see that this game's music is favourite of many till now.
Good to see my favourite NES ost channel is alive :)
It was scary during that time when I was only uploading a few OST's every few months, I almost felt I was going to be done with 8BS, back when Twitch was taking over my time for content creation. But I'm more than happy to be back to what I know and love best with these Soundtrack uploads :)
Thanks, this one of the best!
this soundtrack made my NES grow chest hair.
I just love the Boss battle theme. It reminds me of Holy Diver & TMNT.
And Stage 2's theme (Underground Concourse) always gets me in the nostalgia feels HARD!!
That Boss tune goes pretty damn hard, in like a good dark tone, really contrasts well with the melodic vibes of the Stage themes.
Thank you so much for your work, I play guitar and I use your channel all the time to learn songs, again much appreciated!!
Nice on dude and thanks happy to hear you use these as such! :)
I'd honestly never heard this soundtrack before, at least not that I can remember. This slaps.
Its great to see people discovering soundtracks like this for the first time, if you need anymore recommendations I got a lineup that will satisfy the ears for weeks if not months!
J'adore ta manière de mettre en ligne des OST => Playlist/TimeCode/Stream-run du jeu etc. Tellement agréable & collector!!! Bravo & merci pour ton taf/partage^^
Nice format => ""Animation""/Jacket/TimeCode/Playlist etc. So pleasant & collector!!! well done & thanks for your job/share^^ Peace 0/
I never played this game as a kid but the soundtrack is amazing.
Seriously, those three uploads are some of my favourites in the console! You couldn't get it more right!..
Well, you can. Let's see if I didn't jinx it
Oh this was just the beginning of all the fantastic soundtracks on the console, I've just only scratched the surface :D
Epic soundtrack
Amazing, awesome, eternal!
I think this is my favorite NES soundtrack...
I would consider this Top 20 NES Soundtrack material, I mean of all the Sunsoft soundtracks its tough to pull just one, but for me, this and Super Spy Hunter would be in the list.
Sunsoft killed it with NES soundtracks!
4:56 Just in case you didn't know this was supposed to be a terminator game, now you know.
I'm glad Naoki Kodaka still decided to keep that reference to there original Terminator development, I wouldn't doubt they had rights to cover the whole original Terminator Theme, but at this point its great this game is its own original property for Sunsoft, otherwise it wouldn't be able to get re-released anywhere if it still had The Terminator license.
It´s nice music and YOUR NEW IMAGE WITH THE KUNKO-KUN STYLE.
I gotta say, this is a hell of a lot better than the music in the actual Terminator nes game
The Terminator one released by Mindscape was just an unfortunate victim of being one of Paul Wilkinson's first NES soundtracks, and I believe only had a few weeks to do Compositions, a talent he was not familiar with at all. Unironically though, I think its decent (if the songs were a bit longer and fleshed out it would have been perfect Moody music) and actually fits the mood of that first game. Terminator 2 on NES, now that's just a god damn amazing OST by Geoff Follin, that while doesn't fit the vibe of The Terminator, doesn't matter when the songs are just all killer no killer
It would have been great through to have a killer Terminator 1 OST by Sunsoft, along with the killer Terminator 2 OST from a Follin.
glad to see you active bro, your mixes are simply awesome
Thank you, I'm sorry my idea for the Revamps came as late as it has, also sorry my response to your comment took this long, common pattern I still have it seems XD
But still glad to be here, interact with people and help preserve these OST's! :)
Niko really knows how to bring out the best of the best out of the awesome 8bit NES!!!!!!
I'm happy with this sound and format, I would say now with the mixes for these Revamps, these are among the best quality you can find and listen to that of course isn't the pure original versions from NSF files.
Final Fantasy VII: I have the best boss battle theme
Journey to Silius: Hold my beer 9:00
Man..stage 2 underground is one of the best tracks on the NES...
I still smile at the similarities between this, festers quest and of course blaster master.
And stage 2 is just epic. I think Sunsoft was one of the few companies that had long tracks.
They at least gave songs around a minute (if not minute and a half) before looping, it is most impressive to seem them make Stage 2 be about a 3 minute-30 second track before looping, those efforts are always appreciated!
23:42 🎵🎵Yooooo, soy rebelde porque el mundo me hizo así...🎵🎵
what a wonder 😃❤️✨
best terminator game by far
This game probably had the most Sunsoft tracks of all the NES and are pretty much some of the best
This game was SO HARD that I never saw any of the other levels past level one until I became an adult and found a playthrough on TH-cam.
When me and my sister were kids, we saw level 4 ONCE. And we played the hell out of this game. I got my vengeance at age 25 though...took me over 50 tries 🤣
@@joenitrate at least you beat it. I STILL haven't haha
@Occasional Commenter I made it as far as whatever level came when you hit the warp in the Turbo Tunnel. It was pretty much over after that 🤣
@Occasional Commenter yea that level where you ride the speeder bikes.
@Occasional Commenter 🤣🤣🤣omg I totally thought we were talking about Battletoads. My bad, yo 😬😬😬
I think the only nes game i never played, never is too late, but thanks to let me know, the music is amazing!
Oh shoot! Another mix? Wow!
This gsme was one of the few if not the only one that pushed the NES to its limit, specially with its sound track. Compare it to any other NES game.
This game is certainly a prime example of high quality on all fronts, I don't think enough credit is given to the huge boss sprites that take up large portions of the screen (though funny how the final boss is just a tall cyborg, lol). Though I credit Super Spy Hunter to be a title that pushed the limits of the NES even more by Sunsoft standards, true underrated game and OST.
I used to shred this game with my brother, one of the only things we ever did together.
4:00 - In an alternate universe: "The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight..."
In that universe, it was the best licensed video game ever produced and changed the paradigm for what they could be.
I am convinced that if this game had retained the Terminator license, we would have heard remixes of some of these themes in future Terminator films. Which would have almost made the movies after #2 justifiable.
18:17 "Stage 3: Terrorist Headquarters" is the lost classic epic video game theme that the world missed out on...
That first song sounds like a mix of OG Megaman and X.
I listened to the entire song before i actually play TBH.
Futuristic
18:17 GOAT
from the same guy who brought us Batman NES and Genesis, Blaster Master, and, later on, Albert Odyssey Sword of Eldean.
Naoki Kodaka does not get enough attention and praise, hell the whole sound team is often forgotten, without Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya and Naohisa Morota, these games would not sound as amazing as they do.
MUITO BOM!!!!!!
If you like this soundtrack, I also suggest the soundtrack to "Wings of Death". Both games were released in 1990. But "Wings of Death" was released on home computers, originally the Atari ST and then ported to the Commodore Amiga. Music composed by Jochen Hippel. Here's a link to the original Atari ST version th-cam.com/video/-UJNY25jbHw/w-d-xo.html
And here are two links to the Amiga version of the soundtrack: th-cam.com/video/BcH10hcRlxo/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/zipk0egspcY/w-d-xo.html
I don't like the title theme quite as much, but beginning at the stage themes, it picks up and I get Journey to Silius vibes.
They didn't have to go _this_ hard on the title screen out of all things.
man the soundtrack is just so amazing.. but sometimes i wish this could have been Star Tropics 3 has almost the same feeling.
В своё время, после проката игры raf world, пошёл и купил эту игру. А игра должна была называться terminator.
i've always been a huge fan of this channel ever since i found it. i am not sure what tools you used to create either the old mixes or the newer ones. however, i just wanted to say, there will never be soundtracks like these ever again (and to an extent the SNES). there is a reason they all sound so distinctive. the sounds produced by the original hardware etched its way into human souls and created a genre we refer to now as "8 bit."
if you are trying to purify that sound with some new hardware or software, i'm not sure i can agree about it.
Thank you, for a little insight I still use the same tools/method like the old mixes, but I just fine tuned the craft even better to make these Revamped mixes. And yes it's quite true, because we will never be in an era where composers had to use such limited technology and programs, its great that we can still make music like the 8 & 16Bit eras, but its not the same being confined to the limitations of what you knew about the Hardware and Soundchips you were composing for.
My go-to phrase for how the best Video Game Music stood out so well is: "Limitations Breathed Creativity", such as here, through the limitations of the NES, the Sunsoft sound team probably worked hours upon hours of fine tuning and trial and error working to maximize the sound and size capabilities of only Kilobytes they had while sharing that same size with graphics and programming to make an entire game on an NES cartridge.
And sadly this effort was essentially a thankless job, it probably got praise within the industry and programmers and players that recognized the creativity, but the art of how this was done is often not discussed and brought up enough, Video Game Composers/Programmers forever have my respect for giving us the best knowing they probably will never get worldwide attention, but that's okay, for us who are lucky enough to experience this, I hope the people that made this Music possible know some people are elated and overcome with joy with what they created :')
I read Nobuyuki Hara died at 25 from a disease.
Absolutely tragic, and so freaking young, and didn't even get to see his praises sung on the work he did in the internet age. That man was an absolute legend, rest well you magician of programming.
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It sounds good to me.
The true Terninator game on the NES, not the shameful LJN abominations.
It would have been cool to be able to say "Sunsoft's Terminator". And at least the best thing from LJN having the rights specifically to Terminator 2: Judgement Day video game releases (as few different companies got rights for video games based on the first Terminator movie) is they chose Developers with stellar sound teams, Terminator 2 on NES by Geoff Follin remains one of my favorite NES soundtracks of all time.
I originally thought Tim Follin composed this soundtrack
"Journey to Silius by Tim Follin" would be an insane parallel universe, though its not too far off to actually happen, just need someone to compose JTS in the style of the Follins, aka with the same instrumentation and sound design of Stephen Ruddy's sound driver.
Is there anyway to get the separate channels / tracks of Stage 2 and others? Like Just have the bass, lead, etc.
Absolutely, if you check the description there is a download for the NSFe file of the soundtrack, which is essentially the Music in a file format that can be played back on certain programs, while I use Winamp + Notso Fatso plugin, I recommend getting Foobar with the Game Emu Player component, I provide both in this link which also has my current Collection/Archive of all NSFe's: mega.nz/file/wk0h3bQC#SyQtjmp5sE-WcWzd3Z4HeCQMg8IszzDQ3W5Lb1Tzo18
One you get Foobar installed its easy to then drop Game Emu Player into the "components" folder where Foobar is installed, then of course install it within Foobar from the Preferences and then in "View" you should see "GEP control" and should be able to "Enable playback override" which will allow you to pick which specific channels you want playing! Hope this helped and sorry response was late! :)
Wer'e on a Journey to Silius!
To this day I still chuckle at the choice of SILIUS, but it really does stand out when saying the full name.
I have to say, I much prefer your original mix. I've listened to both the new and old a fair amount and while I prefer the more clear and better sounding instruments in this mix, the old mix has WAY better stereo separation. I also like the reverb in the old mix, but I think I would dial it down because that seemed to be a big reason it sounds less clean. On my main monitors in my studio you actually get quite a nice sound stage on the old mix. In this one all the instruments are put near the middle. I think if you can achieve a mixture of both, using the clearer sounding instruments in this mix but achieve the stereo separation in the old one, you will have an amazing mix!
Anyone who has tried to put in the stage select code at the title screen knows that song all too well.
Would like to hear Mastodon cover Game Stage Boss Battle
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Не слышал о такой. Never heard 'bout this one.
An incredible soundtrack. Why the reupload though?
@Oh Ok oh ok
I know this response is hella late, but essentially I was not happy with my Older Mixes, and ever since shifting away from my old username of "WiiGuy" to "NikoTengoku", I knew I wanted to update and Revamp these OSTs in my "Niko Era", and give more attention and care to these videos/uploads, the new 8BS mix sounds so much better and these videos look even better, feels a lot more professional, considering my goal to archive and preserve these soundtracks :)
9:00 ❤️🔥
RAAAAFFFFF WORRRRLDDDD))))
Neato, but it would've been more epic to have the Boss theme and etc. before the Ending theme.
can sunsoft come back
Looks like your wish came true, I would never thought I'd live to see Sunsoft come back and make a sequel to Gimmick and Ufouria: The Saga.
@@Nikos8BitStereo sunsoft was dope
THE LOST TERMINATOR GAME INSTEAD WE GOT THAT SHIT..PUKE GREEN GRAPHX AND HORRIBLE CONTROLS AND MUSIC. ..... FOR ME THIS IS THE FIRST TERMINATOR GAME ON NES AND ITS A MASTERPIECE.... ITS SUNSOFT SO OBVIOUSLY THE MUSIC IS KICKASS....WHO THE FK DISLIKE THIS? SEND THAT PERSON TO SOME ANOTHER PLANET.
Mm, I vastly prefer your original rendition of this OST, it just sounds so BEEFY.
Probably due to the way things were separated and how the instruments of the sound channels came together, plus the general way the echo/reverb was, I get it sounding more "full" or beefy in that case. The original upload will always be there, but personally satisfied how these are :)
This The Reason Why i here 11:20
This is best experienced on 5.1 suround sound!!!!!!! I can't spell souround.
@LNR Axzon Sir Ound
What is the credits music in this game?
Why dose this game not have a sequel
It doesn't bc it tanked really, losing the Terminator license meant it couldn't ride the film's wave of promotion n popularity. Therefore it was left in obscurity without a campaign of advertising n way to promote it really. I was lucky enough to have played it a few times as a young child with my cousins and bc I have a good memory I remembered the game n with a little time searching n doing some research I found it. The game I remembered, but the title eluded me. I have it on my Retro Freak n Wii consoles, it is pretty hard too.
@@ignacioleon4560 oh that still sucks tho
@@I-L0ve-sally-197 I'm with you there, would of liked to have seen further releases on later console generations. At least one for the SNES n maybe one for the og Game Boy.
Where's the DL link for the older tracks?
If youre asking me, the new version is not bad but i miss the chrisp sounding highs of the old version.
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