The Dream Will Never Die - Tales of Phantasia (Studio Version of Theme from Cartridge)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- Tales of Phantasia was one of the only SFC / SNES games to feature music with a vocal track (the theme song, "The Dream will Never Die / Yume Wa Owaranai"). Of course, the version on the cartridge was pretty crude - but it was still an amazing accomplishment for the time.
More than a decade ago, I'd stumbled across a studio version of the arrangement on the cartridge, featuring what sounds like an identical vocal track - and a much-expanded backing track including electric guitar and backing vocals. However, I lost the file, and since then all I've been able to find on TH-cam is the version with the piano intro that was used in the OVA / PSX (not a bad version by any means, but not the one I was looking for).
Well, I finally found it, and I want to make it easier for others to find. Enjoy.
(Note, I do not own anything related to this video. However, I have been unable to find this recording anywhere - for sale or for streaming - and am making it available simply so that others can enjoy one of my favorite childhood OSTs).
![Tales of Phantasia [PSX] OST - Yume Wa Owaranai](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/T50dMsF8guE/mqdefault.jpg)
![Tales of Phantasia [PSX] OST - Yume Wa Owaranai](/img/tr.png)
I can still see myself sitting alone in a room, illuminated only by my CRT television, playing Nintendo all night. I learned then that Aselia is the real world, and ours is just a medium through which we can interact with it.
I believe this version of the song was used for the ads for the SNES version too
It was on the SNES version too as the theme. Just obviously 16-bit quality.
When I initially uploaded this track, it was blocked by one of the media companies shortly afterwards, and I forgot about it. At some point, it became unblocked, and at this point it looks like it's here to stay. I'm glad I was able to make it accessible to all of you guys!
thank you.
Thanks man :)
I thought I’d never hear this version again.. ;w; I just found this again.. this is the best version of this song..
By far the best version
It truly evokes that 90's anime feeling the game had
One of the soundtracks of my childhood. I remember in the early 2000s downloading the ROM, entirely by chance, off one of the many sketchy ROM sites back then. I absolutely fell in love with the game. Still one of my favorites.
At the 2000s ToP was the biggest ROMs of SNES, 6MB.
Same story for me in the 2010s thanks to Tales of Destiny and fell in love with Phantasia.
Same for me in 2006. I wonder why this game rom so big size. What is good about this game? I have to check it myself. And then after try play I got it all. The most complex RPG dungeons. Never played a game where the dungeons were so complicated in my life before. Also very good and fun conversation in the whole game.
This game was WAY ahead of its time, I swear. It was a revelation when I first played it. Back then what prevailed was turn based battles like those in Final Fantasy, and I thought for a long time this was the only way an RPG could be created. Then I play this little jewel in a SNES emulator and with the partial voice acting, the vocal opening theme and real time battle system my mind was simply blown. A shame this game never came out of Japan back then. I still say, had this game arrived to America when it was first released, nobody would be talking about Final Fantasy.
The tales series is still going strong tho. Tales of arise came out recently and got good reviews and sold well. It still doesn’t rival final fantasy in popularity but it’s still doing well so that’s good.
@@marianoz2301 It's indeed great the saga is doing well, but again, I feel it could have done better. Tales of Phantasia back then had everything to overshadow Final Fantasy.
FACTS.easily one odbthebBEST rpgs on the snes
LOL, Tales can only dream bout being in the heights of FF at its peak. Bamco had every chance to overtake FF during its down years and still couldn't capitalize. And ironically, the FF games with "tales" combat blows and was a shadow of its former turn-based self.
@@suiken3149 Although the combat system has little to nothing to do with the quality of their games and it has to do more with subpar writing, it's sadly true that Bamco didn't capitalize to overtake FF during its down years. Overall, they suck huge time at taking any chances shown to them
Thank you for finding this version! I'm glad a piece of gaming history can be preserved for posterity!
I'm just glad I was able to find it in my archive, and that the copyright strike was removed!
This track is in the 2015 Tales of Phantasia 20th Anniversary Sound Box CD set.
I thought it is the one random song that plays in the Tales of Phantasia GBA mid-game...
@@applemauzel Various arrangements of this song were used as the opening theme for Japanese releases. It got replaced with a different opening track in the international GBA release, as often happens with international Tales releases.
Ky Kiske: KOGA HAZAN! (TIGER FANG CRUSH SLASH!)
Renji Abarai: H-yah! *Fires an arrow*
Ky Kiske: *Runs back*
Renji Abarai: H-yah! *Fires another arrow*
Tomoyo Daidouji: FAAUSUTO EIDO! (FIRST AID!) *Heals the Tree of Life*
(They have the same respective voice actors in Japanese)
To the members of Dejap translations: thank you, wherever you are
They were heroes without capes.
Dont forget Phantasia Productions and Absolute Zero too
@@Pokechao I remember Phantasia Productions. I miss them.
Yeah, thanks for ruining the only available translation with disrespectful goofs
You're welcome
omg WHAT!!!??? after so many years there was this version???? ooooo so pristine! Thank you!
I've been sitting on the MP3 for this since 2002, when I dug it up on some anime/vg OST archive. I'm just glad others are able to listen to it, because this is one of my all-time favorite themes!
@@ICantStopMakingNoise thank you once again bro! T-T
@@ICantStopMakingNoise Thank you! I remember this mp3 making the rounds on the emulation scene of EFNet around the same time that DeJap released their translation
Better than PSX version
ayy lmao
gurrrrrl the shade
kieres peliar prro?
But not better than the SNES version. At least we hear Morrison speach & Mint casting her healing spell on Ygg ^^
Just kidding ;) This one kick ass :)
I agree the psx version is the same classical orchestral shit in every rpg, stop making every rpg orchestral fetch Karen.
Strangely, this song always makes me cry, but in a happy way. It takes me to the mid 90’s and makes me feel nostalgia for a time wasn’t even born yet (b. 1998 btw). I love it so much ❤️
same here! that's exactly how it makes me feel, b. 1999. something so beautiful and heart-moving about it...
That feeling is called Anemoia
This version of the song takes me back to the brightest time of my childhood, when the world still seemed vibrant and hope still flowed in my heart. 懐かしい…
I know EXACTLY what you mean. It's as that line from Divine Comedy, as if, midway across our collective hourney, we took a turn towards degeneracy and self-destruction.
Someone needs to make a MSU-1 rom hack of Tales of Phantasia With this version of the Vocal Theme!
this song made me cry
Sounds like an opening for an anime. If there was an anime for this, they should use this song.
Actually there is an anime for ToP, it is an OVA with 4 episodes
Sounds like an anime played in the late 90's or early 00's.
the voices for the characters are big name VAs like Takeshi Kusao and Kaneto Shiozawa
More like ending of an anime - like Inu yasha
There's an anime of Phantasia, it doesn't cover the entire game but a small part and its opening song is pretty good too
had this version in my mp3 player for YEARS, great song, good times
IDK why but if this played in a disco I'd dance to this. This version's instruments are good at evoking motion while the PSX version's a bit more on the anime opening side
Best tales of , amazing song
Have you played Tales of Symphonia? It's very good also, and it has some Phantasia references.
@@heribertomartinez9863 Actually its the Prequel of Tales of Phantasia!!
It's a great work. Sounds like a Snes Catridge but more professional. Sorry for my bad english, thanks for your work!!
This is the version that played on the ads for the SNES release in Japan, if not mistaken.
This song is amazing. Glad its on youtube again, was blocked for me before.
I've been sitting on the MP3 for this since 2002, when I dug it up on some anime/vg OST archive. The video was blocked for ages, but then the copyright strike was voided and it was listed again.
I can't believe 1995 Namco has good memories of Pac-Man and other characters😔❤️
Tiger Blade!!
Yah!....Yah!!
First Aid!!!
Chaos Yeshua DEMON FANG!!! RISING PHOENIX!!! SWORD RAIN!!! LIGHT SPEAR CANNON!!! FLARE TORNADO!!! JUDGEMENT!!! INDIGNATION!!! HEALING CIRCLE!!! NURSE!!! GIGA SHOT!!!
Bardock SkyWalker
Chaos Blade!
Distortion Blade!
Victory Light Spear!
Hell Pyre!
Ice Fang!
Eagle Shot!
Sonic Bash!
Giga Fang!
Dragon Slayer!!
KOGA HAZAN! MAJINKEN! HIEN RENKYAKU! SHISHI SENKOU! SHUGO HOUJIN! SENKUU REPPA! HOU'OU TENKU! SHUUSOU RAIZAN! AKISAZAME!
@@Abigdummy4life Sylph! Gnome! Undine! Efreet! Maxwell! Luna! Aska! Shadow! Pluto! Pac-Man
Always seen soo nostalgic when I hear this song. My first Tales of and the one I love the most. Second MAYBE for Tales of Berseria, because of the history.
That moment when you realize
the horse in this pic has six legs
It's cool. It can also fly, so.
That Is sleipnir
It was based on Sleipnir, Odin's steed in Norse mythology. It also had 6 legs
キャラデザの藤島氏の話だと、8本足のスレイプニルという神話上の白馬に乗っている姿を描いてくれとオーダーを受けたそうですね
Thank you very much ! Exactly what i was searching for.
please folks, donwload this track so it can be preserved in the event of this video being taken down. I already did it
Thanks for archiving this for future generations.😁
Perfect.
This is straight fire.
It's funny to think about the fact that Barkley Shut Up and Jam apes so much of this game's ideas. Like, not in terms of artistic theft, but just the way that parody will usually end up. I don't regret actually playing the SNES version, that moment where you run into the buried city and it's talking about a nuclear apocalypse. There's something really neat about that contrast that this and Xenogears did. Something you can't really achieve unless you don't take the piss lmfao.
damn this song is catchy as hell, I cannot stop looping it! send help!
you sir, are a hero. thank you.
Dude. DUDE! You fawking rock! TYSVFM for this! SNES for this alone was impressive but this is siiiiiic
Cool to randomly see this after listening to your Bezos 8-bit cover. I remember looking this song up a few months back but I couldn't ever find the version I remember as a kid, and now here it is.
Miraculous that this is still up after 7 years. Bamco was aggro about taking this song down.
The version played in the commercial!
This is the best version of this song.
Too bad it's owned by Victor Entertainment. Those guys are stingy assholes
Somehow, their copyright strike expired, and the video came back.
this song is incredible!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS
No question, this one is so much better. More "poppy" I guess, but the arrangement is more fun and enjoyable. Thank you for the upload.
Beatiful version!
Perfeito .
Played this on emulator
Surprised the super famicon could play this track
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful song!
Mahiru no sora tsuki ga
Anata no me wo sarau
Zutto matteta kono toki
Mo namida owaraseru yoake ni
Mabuta tokeru hizashi
Tooi asu no kioku
Koko ni mezame no toki oriru
Mitsukete "your dream" koware kaketa
Toki ni umoreta sono chikara ni kizuite
Mitsukete "your dream" doko e ite mo
Kikoeteru omoi zutai KISS KISS KISS
Anata no mita yume wa
Genjitsu demo mirai
Ai-na koboreru demo hira
Mo soraba osorenai yoake wo
Kaze ni mijibi kareru
Senaka mitsume nagara
Nido to aenai nara iu yo
Mitsukete "your dream" donna toki mo
REDO mae no ika ni kisenai wa negai wo
Mitsukete "your dream" toki ga kite mo
Oboeteru toki mo koete KISS KISS KISS
Mitsukete "your dream" koware kaketa
Toki ni umoreta sono chikara ni kizuite
Mitsukete "your dream" doko e ite mo
Kikoeteru omoi zutai KISS KISS KISS
FAAAASTOO AAAAIDO!
Rizzo Reccc Sonnnn
I'm not too big in anime but this song makes me want to be an anime geek.
Ironic since it's a video game tho
@@aloisssssss Well, it did have an anime OVA.
@@BloodrealmX True, but Tales game are still mostly video-games, their anime counterpack are too short to adapt all of the story
the mana cannon being indispensible notwithstanding the dream will still never die.
amazing version 10+
This games was ahead for it’s time with audio streaming (something unheard off at the time since most snes games just simply used 100% synthesed music) but this games uses sound streaming for it’s voice samples,something wich is very common these day’s BUT on the snes it was supposedly impossible since the snes wasn’t made with audio streaming in mind,no game developers did had to deal with the 64KB in mind and squeeze every sound and a instruction into it,BUT thanks the flexible voice driver engine it became possible to bankswitch audio samples in & out on the fly to get around that 64KB limit,thus extending the capabilities of the snes soundchip🙏👍
Now what if we will hack all snes games with the sound driver in mind to stream higher quality audio samples trough the snes soundchip and without an external sound chip😁
You are the MVP
The Sign of a Hero reminded me of it.
Beautiful!
Isso me lembra minha infância,jogando aquele DVD que vinha muitos jogos de supernintendo, e dentre eles tinha Tales Of Phantasia❤
It does not often happen this way: A cassette is available, but the console has been
left in the house of my childhood long ago (at the other end of the Earth.)
... unfairly ... curious - is the battery for Saves - alive? =_=
TheLiNk Natsume if your talking about the Internal Batteries that cartridges have, yes. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald also used the Internal Battery for clock-based events such as the time for the Ice Cave and Mirage Spots
It's probably dead. SRAM batteries like those usually only last about ten years.
I think you will need to open the cartridge and replace the battery. Your saves are almost certainly gone (unfortunately), but replacing the battery can prevent corrosion from damaging the rest of the PCB.
the SNES version x20
Question about this was the track on a cassette or something or was this whole track just in the data on the SF cart. I know the original has a vocal opening but like you said crude and I can’t imagine this fitting on the cart.
It was from an album contains all existing soundtracks of Tales Of Phantasia from SNES, GBA and PS1. That includes the songs recorded straight from the studio.
vgmdb.net/album/53313
me encanta este tema de este juegazo de super nintendo
Gumball: My, my, I was hoping that I would see this 'cuz we're fans of RPG here.
I´m crying.... :_ )
great
Well boys we did it, the copyright strike is no more.
I don't know what caused it to be released, but I'm glad.
Lloyd in Smash better come with a remix of this song
When Every Tales of Protagonists Dance Together in a Children Anime Style Intro!! (Yes Every Tales Main Character) and then in the ending show silhouttes of Alphen and Shionne in Black!!
Bro, how in God's green earth they got to put voice lines and a full song on a snes cartridge?
By coding a custom audio driver that swapped the samples to play into the console's memory on the fly mid song, enabling the Super Famicom to do the impossible.
Do you have a flac version you could share?
Yo why does this sound like a lost theme song to the FIFA World Cup
SUBARASHI!!! Wait, Does This Wingless Pégasus Has 8 Feet Or Is It Just For Walking Effect?
I think it does have 8 feet.
In the SNES version it has 8 feet. The PS1 and GBA version reduced it to 4 winged feet
Chaos Yeshua Ok.... I Know It's A Phantasy Game (I Mean For God Sake, It's Called *TALES OF PHANTASIA* For A Reason, People) But How Does He Fly?
Arche's broom also doesn't have wings. How does it fly?
Juliana C. Magic... I Should Have Knowned...
What music genre is it?
Why didn't they use this for the PS1 version?
Please, create MSU-1 version of this game for Super Famicom.
I can not find a subbed version of this theme.
👍
Everyone please rise for the Tales Of National Anthem. 🙏
Snes the best
Similar a into anime 90s
Who’s the singer?
Yukari Yoshida
Thank you!
Super Famicom Nintendo version
Me acabo de fijar que el caballo tiene 4 patas delanteras jajaja Pues bueno...
A mí también me llamo la atención, en total tiene 8 patas.
Y pues con una búsqueda rápida, resulta que no es caballo sino un "Sleipnir".
un caballo-pulpo, qué interesante... 😅😂@@MajorTom_
魔神剑
What a find! Thank you so much for uploading. It's beautiful.
When I first heard the music I thought it was Dragon Ball z
Would it be heresy to say I like the PSX version better?
It was heresy for them to change Motoi Sakuraba's music in PSX.
I much prefer the PSX version, because it fits with the melancholic parts of ToP.
While this song fits to the adventure, hope and their bonding parts of ToP.
@@Jujucristine They didn't though. You can easily recognize his style
@@SwitchZetto Looking back on this comment 2 years later I feel it was too heated. But still, they did change it. The basic composition is the same but the musics were not just remastered, like they did with the remake of Seiken 3, they changed them. The quality is better but I prefer the snes version of many. Some were kept mostly the same and those are okay. I mean, just compare this song to the PSX version. I kinda like both for Yume wa Owaranai but Fighting of the Spirit is one that feels very meh.
@@Jujucristine Yeah, I don't know how to explain, I feel there is more life in the SNES soundtrack. PSX version got drenched in reverb most of the time
Victor Necromancer t
Kind of clumsy key change at 4:00 , but I like the dance tempo of this version a lot. I think the melody was written for this tempo. Couldn't possibly decide which one I like the best.