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Assault Suits Valken - Asteroid Blaster

• Release Date: February 2007
• Composer: Opus Corp.

Winner for the 4th round of Akumu's competition, Street Musician.

© 1993 Masaya/Konami. All rights reserved.

Bad Dudes - Stage 2

• Release Date: April 2004
• Composer: Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida

Nothing special.

© 1989 Data East. All rights reserved.

Bubble Bobble - Blow Me

• Release Date: July 2005
• Composer: Tadashi Kimijima

This was a quicky acappella cover I did of the Bubble Bobble theme for the DoD joke tune month. Finished it in like 2 hours, just before the DoD deadline. Pitch shifters rule.

© 1986 Taito. All rights reserved.

Castlevania II - Dwelling of Doom

• Release Date: September 2003
• Composer: Hidenori Maezawa

Oh, boy. This was made for Crimson's contest, "The Dwelling of Duels." The competition was made in response to some jackass on the Minibosses' message board named Slayer, who insisted that he was the greatest guitarist on the board and everyone sucked.

© 1987 Konami. All rights reserved.

Castlevania II: BR - New Messiah

• Release Date: November 2nd, 2012
• Composer: Hidehiro Funauchi, J.s. Bach, Michiru Yamane

This is a metal arrangement of the Crystal Castle Stage from Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge for Game Boy, done as a collaboration with my good pal SnappleMan. I did all of the guitars up until 3:15 (except at 1:05) and the Tragic Prince solo at the very end starting at 4:12. The rest was all SnappleMan.

This was also the winning entry of the October 2012 DoD (Free Month). Pretty happy with how this one turned out, thanks to SnappleMan working his magic. This is the updated mix, so be sure to download this if you still have the DoD version!

© 1991 Konami. All rights reserved.

Castlevania III - Aquarius

• Release Date: April 2004
• Composer: Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto, Yoshinori Sasaki

It's nothing special -- just a straight cover of Aquarius from Castlevania 3.

© 1989 Konami. All rights reserved.

Chrono Trigger - Crossin' Time

• Release Date: January 2007
• Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda

This is the start of something I wanted to be much bigger. As it is, it consists of 7 songs arranged in a medley. My intent was to make a Chrono Trigger medley that sort of told a story as you listened. As I made this during a time when I was really trying to improve my mixing abilities, that's where much of the time I spent on this went to.

© 1995 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Chrono Trigger - Cessation of Mammon

• Release Date: June 2005
• Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda

This is an arrangement of Schala's theme from Chrono Trigger, in the style of Zealous Entropy. I had that arrangement in mind a lot when I was writing the arrangement for this piece. This is also is a vocal arrangement, done by the stellar LuIzA. It's not done yet...Needs a few touch-ups and a redone solo. Here's the lyrics:

© 1995 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Chrono Trigger - Zealous Entropy

• Release Date: September 2004
• Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda

This is by far my highest acclaimed arrangement, of Corridors of Time. I remember getting inspiration from part 6 the album, A Pleasant Shade of Grey, by Fates Warning when dinking around in Reason. I had been working on a remastered version in late 2005, but I want to work on my production skills a bit more before releasing that. Winning entry of the September 2004 DoD.

© 1995 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Chrono Trigger - Battle with Magus

• Release Date: August 2003
• Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda

This was my first decent attempt at a VG cover. A lot of people first heard of me from this. It was the first thing I posted on the pre-VGMix2.0 forums in July 2003.

© 1995 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Chrono Trigger - Morning Sunlight

• Release Date: August 2003
• Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda

I made this short little cover for a flash movie called Mega Kain 2, which was made by me and Crimson.

© 1995 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Chrono Trigger - Undersea Palace

• Release Date: May 2003
• Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda

Nothing special. 8-track era.

© 1995 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time

• Release Date: May 2003
• Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda

Nothing special. 8-track era.

© 1995 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

EarthBound - Onett

• Release Date: October 2003
• Composer: Keiichi Suzuki

This is just a simple, straight-forward cover of the Onett theme from EarthBound. Was supposed to do another arrangement of this for Bound Together, but didn't get around to it. This one's worth the listen.

© 1994-1995 Nintendo/Shigesato Itoi/Ape Inc. All rights reserved.

F-Zero - Mute City

• Release Date: August 2005
• Composer: Naoto Ishida, Yumiko Kanki

Meh. I just tossed this together at the very last minute for August's DoD. Here's what I said in the DoD thread:

"Yeah, I apologize about the quality of my entry. Last Thursday, I
didn't have anything to do before up to Seattle for PAX, so I wanted to
challenge myself to see if I could make an entry before we had to go. I
finished it in a little over 3 hours from scratch. The drums on there
are real time key drumming without any quantization. I'm going to make
it a goal to try and enter every month now, since I have been in every
month since May."

Just download this for fun. It's basically a straight cover. I wanted a challenge to see how fast I could make this from scratch. Thanks to SnappleMan for the uber soundfonted bass :-P

© 1990-1991 Nintendo. All rights reserved.

Fighting Golf - Bogus Bogey

• Release Date: January 7th, 2012
• Composer: Aran Lee Shige

This one's a smooth jazz arrangement of one of my favorite VG songs ever from Fighting Golf, the Japan course music. Despite not having done any covers in years, I entered the MAGFest 10 DoD. I only spent one day making this before my flight left, and it was on a crappy computer, heh. Special thanks to SnappleMan for processing my sequenced drum/bass tracks.

I'm pretty glad how this one turned out considering the circumstances. Hope you enjoy!

© 1989 SNK/Nintendo. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy III Medley

• Release Date: December 2008
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

This was done for tempsoundsolution's album, Now You're Playing With Powar 8, released December 24, 2008. The high harmony speedy guitars were done by me. Apparently housethegrate also recorded guitar for this, but I can't hear it. The rest was all ShawnPhase.

The first song is the Battle Theme, or track 33 on the NSF. The second song I think is another battle theme, track 38 on the NSF. I performed this twice at MAGFest with TSS. Very intense guitar on this, as with all songs I do with ShawnPhase.

© 1990 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy IV - Lunaric Sonority

• Release Date: May 2006
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

I had been planning this arrangement for several months, starting out in Sept 2005 when I was jamming keydrums to "The Lunarians" from FF4. I was getting some cool grooves out of it, and I just envisioned this whole 5/4 arrangement with really heavy guitars. This is my first arrangement featuring my new JCM2000 DSL401 amp. Recorded up in norg's studio.

© 1991 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy IV - Loungin' in the Giant

• Release Date: March 2005
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

This was my March DoD entry. It's an arrangement of "Within the Giant." I first came up with the arrangement for this in July of 2004, when I first started using Reason. I was listening to "Summer Madness" by Kool and the Gang, so I got inspired to make this arrangement. This is one of my favorite game songs, as this is my 3rd attempt at arranging it.

This is a bit different from my normal style. I was going for a hip, fusion sound. It's been several months since I recorded this and released it on DoD. I've wanted to wait on releasing the real thing because I wanted to get more familiar with using Cubase (this was my first recording in Cubase).

© 1991 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy IV - Illusionary World

• Release Date: February 2004
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

I started working on a cover of this, but didn't finish cause I didn't like how it was turning out.

© 1991 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy IV - Red Wings

• Release Date: February 2004
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

Nothing special.

© 1991 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy IV - Battle Theme

• Release Date: September 2003
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

This one came out decent. Rockin' just like the original.

© 1991 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy IV - Hey, Cid!

• Release Date: September 2003
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

A decent, simple cover. Uses all clean guitar.

© 1991 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy IV - Giott, the Great King

• Release Date: September 2003
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

Nothing special.

© 1991 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy VII - It's Hard to Stand on Both Feet!

• Release Date: May 2016 [Demo]
• Composer: Nobuo Uematsu

This is pretty much just a straight cover of "It's Hard to Stand on Both Feet!" from Final Fantasy VII, one of my favorites from the soundtrack. This was an unreleased demo, but I like how it turned out. I wasn't trying anything ambitious with this track, that bass line is just really fun to play. I'll probably redo this when I revisit FF7.

© 1997 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - Red Cap Assault

• Release Date: July 2004
• Composer: Ryuji Sasai

I just cut the battle section out of my FFMQ medley because it was the only thing from it that I wanted to release at VGMix. This was also my first release at VGMix since I got in that feud with Chaos and left in July 2003. Here's what I said there:

It's the battle theme from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. This was ranked 2nd place in last month's Dwelling of Duels. The production quality on it is pretty sub-par in comparison to what I've learned after recording it (with much thanks to Ailsean :) ). Pretty muddy. The samples were sequenced in Fruity Loops and the guitar and bass were recorded in Cool Edit Pro with a GT-6 FX processor, And Line6 Bass POD.
Due to the fact that Cool Edit Pro is teh worst multitracking program on the face of the earth, this is all I could squeeze out without CEP crashing everytime I tried to make a change :(K

Original comments from June 2004 DoD medley:

Man, did I have a pain with this one...It was my entry for the May-June 2004 DoD free month. My original intention was to do all of the songs in this medley here, plus the other two battle themes from the soundtrack.
I had something like 90-100 tracks in my Cool Edit Pro session, which inevitably led to CEP crashing every time I tried to export it. I had to manually use Total Recorder to record sections of the wave file that weren't corrupt. It was awful.
There were so many tracks because I overdubbed every track 6 times and panned it around the stereo field. This technique inspired me to write my rhythm guitar tutorial. Anyway, the CEP session got messed up and that's why I never finished this.

Thought you might get a kick out it. Thanks for listening, enjoy.

© 1992 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Final Mission - Untitled

• Release Date: July 2004
• Composer: Kyouhei Sada

This was a collaboration I did with Shawn Phase for his album, Now You're Playing With Power 4, as a hidden track. I did all of the guitar tracks. This was around the time I was hurtin' BAD to get that Jarzombek tone...

© 1990 Natsume. All rights reserved.

G.I. Joe - Untitled

• Release Date: February 2004
• Composer: Nobuyuki Shioda, Yusuke Takahama

Done with Temp Sound Solutions.

© 1990 Taxan/Hasbro. All rights reserved.

Killer Instinct Medley

• Release Date: February 2004
• Composer: Robin Beanland, Graeme Norgate

There's a funny story that goes along with this one. After submitting my first DoD in February, I decided to make an entry for the next month, which would be the Fighting Games month. I recorded this all in Sony Acid, and it was the first recording I did on a computer with decent production. This would have been DoD's first megamedley.

As for the funny story...I was checking the Shizz one day as normal, and I look to find a thread posted for March's duel. I had completely forgotten about the deadline, and didn't submit. So I never finished this, like recording a guitar solo for the intro theme. I think it's worth a listen though.

© 1994 Nintendo/Rare Ltd. All rights reserved.

Lufia Medley

• Release Date: July 2003
• Composer: Yasunori Shiono

Back in the day before DoD, Ryan8bit had a project called the VGCD, which would just be a full length CD comprised of covers by people in the scene. But hardly anyone was dedicated, so the project died. I finished this crazy 13-14 minute Lufia medley in a weekend.

© 1993 Taito. All rights reserved.

Lufia II - Battle 2

• Release Date: March 2007
• Composer: Yasunori Shiono

This was done as a birthday song for SnappleMan at his request. I submitted it as an alternate to the DoD March free month. This is as far as I got with it and I'm calling it finished.

© 1995-1996 Taito/Natsume. All rights reserved.

Lufia II - Battle 3

• Release Date: September 2003
• Composer: Yasunori Shiono

My old buddy nietslaf recommended I do this song. Hey, I knew it could rock, so this is what came out. It was mostly done, but never considered finished.

© 1995-1996 Taito/Natsume. All rights reserved.

Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily Stage 1

• Release Date: September 2003
• Composer: Manami Matsumae, Takashi Tateishi

Nothing special.

© 1988 Capcom. All rights reserved.

Mega Man 2 - Metal Man

• Release Date: March 2003
• Composer: Manami Matsumae, Takashi Tateishi

I saw a song request thread on the Minibosses message board, and a lot of people requested Metal Man from MM2, so I decided to make a cover of it as an introduction of myself. It sucks.

© 1988 Capcom. All rights reserved.

Mega Man 3 Medley

• Release Date: April 2003
• Composer: Harumi Fujita, Yasuaki Fujita

This is one of my old covers that I'm not hugely embarrassed of. I made it in a couple days. This was back when I thought medleys could be songs back to back with a pause between. :)

© 1990 Capcom. All rights reserved.

Mega Man X - Boomer Kuwanger

• Release Date: January 2004
• Composer: Makoto Tomozawa, Setsuo Yamamoto, Toshihiko Horiyama, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara

This was my first entry for the fourth ever DoD which ended up winning. It was also the first recording I ever did on a computer, which was my new computer. It was also the second cover I've done with a guitar solo in it.

© 1993-1994 Capcom. All rights reserved.

Madara - Movement 3: One Golt Coin

• Release Date: January 10th, 2013
• Composer: Konami Kukeiha Club

This is the second DoD I've ever done with my brother, housethegrate, and the first collaboration we've worked on in over 7 years. On Christmas, about a week before the due date for DoD, we decided we wanted to do something together again, and it was so fitting because this DoD month was "Capcom vs. Konami". The last Madara arrangement we did was for Konami month in May 2005. This was a MAGFest DoD, so we knew it had to be rockin, which is why we skipped Movement 2.

Our original plan back in 2005 was to release several "movements" (medleys) of the soundtrack, and we're now deciding to follow through with the rest of them. This one's got a heavy arabian theme, as the first 3 songs are really arabian sounding. The title was inspired by a line from a character out in the desert in King's Quest V. Most of the solos were written by house. Here's a list of the original NSF tracks:

0:00 - Track 9
1:29 - Track 12
2:39 - Track 18
3:14 - Track 14
4:13 - Track 21

Credits:
Ashane: Arrangement, Production, Bass, Guitar (panned right), Keyboard
housethegrate: Arrangement, Guitar (panned left), Keyboard, Hand Drums

© 1990 Konami. All rights reserved.

Madara - Movement 1

• Release Date: May 2005
• Composer: Konami Kukeiha Club

This is an arrangement I did in collaboration with my brother, housethegrate, for the May DoD, Konami month. We divided up the guitar tracks between us, while house did most of everything else. Our plan is to release a 30 minute megamedley of the entire game's soundtrack. We have the song order all figured out. That's why this was called "Movement 1", although it wasn't intended to be made into movements. We just didn't finish in time for DoD.

© 1990 Konami. All rights reserved.

Ninja Gaiden II - Ninjascape

• Release Date: December 2004
• Composer: Keiji Yamagishi, Mayuko Okamura, Mikio Saito, Ryuichi Nitta

Just a hard rock cover of "The Parasprinter". This is the remastered version that I released on VGMix. The mixing on the DoD version was awful, but still got 1st. I'd say this is my first decently produced song. It's also the only song I submitted to OCRemix.

© 1990 Tecmo. All rights reserved.

Secret of Mana - Winter Madness

• Release Date: May 2007
• Composer: Hiroki Kikuta

I did this for the May '07 DoD Fire vs. Ice month, as a collaboration with my good friend, Zoast. He did the drums, among a few other tracks, all of which just turned out great. The arrangement is of two songs from Secret of Mana -- "Eight Ringing Bells" and "A Wish", both songs from ice areas in the game.

The arrangement itself is pretty laid back, and you won't find much in the heavy metal department. I chose the title for this in tribute to one of my all time favorite instrumental songs by Kool and the Gang: Summer Madness. I feel this is one of my greatest accomplishments to date and I hope you'll check it out!

© 1993 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Secret of Mana - Rose of Solemn

• Release Date: October 2005
• Composer: Hiroki Kikuta

This is one of my best arrangements, I believe. I'm glad with how it turned out, with the exception of the poorly mixed distorted guitars in the later heavy section. This song needed an epic feeling, since it's such a great melody and only a little over a minute long. I wanted something really synthy and ambient but still rockin'. Hope you enjoy. Winning entry of October 2005 DoD.

© 1993 Square-Enix. All rights reserved.

Snafu - Main Theme

• Release Date: August 2003
• Composer: Russell Lieblich

I used to play Snafu on Intellivision with a buddy a mine. The little melody is so catchy....I had to record a cover of it!

© 1981 Mattel. All rights reserved.

Sonic & Knuckles - The Doomsday

• Release Date: November 2006
• Composer: Howard Drossin, Jun Senoue, Masaru Setsumaru, Masayuki Nagao, Sachio Ogawa, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Tokuhiko Uwabo, Tomonori Sawada, Yoshiaki Kashima

Done with SnappleMan and norg for OCRemix's Project Chaos. I did most of the guitars, keyboards by norg, and the rest SnappleMan. I think of all my covers this one has gotten the most exposure by far.

© 1994 SEGA. All rights reserved.

Sorcerian - Village

• Release Date: November 2006
• Composer: Hiroshi Kubota, Tokuhiko Uwabo, Yuzo Koshiro, Mieko Ishikawa

This is a short cover of the Village theme from the Genesis version of Sorcerian. It was submitted for the November DoD free month.

© 1987 Falcom/1990 SEGA. All rights reserved.

Sorcerian - Dawn of the Desert

• Release Date: August 2006
• Composer: Hiroshi Kubota, Tokuhiko Uwabo, Yuzo Koshiro, Mieko Ishikawa

This is the first part of what is supposed to be a Sorcerian medley (PC version). If you haven't checked this soundtrack out, grab it somewhere. It's great. This arrangement is of the "Cursed Oasis".

And trust me when I say it's still very rough. I had to resort to using Guitar Rig 2 for my tracks because I couldn't get the time for recording my amp (the rhythm guitars suck!). And yes, sorry for how short it is...It's all I had been able to accomplish for DoD in time.

© 1990 Falcom. All rights reserved.

StarCraft - ProgCraft

• Release Date: August 2007
• Composer: Glenn Stafford

The theme for DoD was PC games, so being a huge fan and regular player of StarCraft, I couldn't resist the opportunity to arrange a song from the soundtrack. I enlisted fellow musicians Zoast, who did the trumpets and acoustic guitar, and pingosimon, who did the bass and violin section. The rest is me, but the drums are sequenced.

© 1998 Blizzard Entertainment. All rights reserved.

Star Cruiser - Cruisin' the Stars

• Release Date: January 2015
• Composer: Toshiya Yamanaka

I made this for Dwelling of Duels.

© 1988 Arsys Software/1990 Masaya. All rights reserved.

Street Fighter II - Eye of the Tiger

• Release Date: August 2004
• Composer: Isao Abe

This is an arrangement I will never finish, because it's so dated, I was learning how to use Reason and Drums From Hell, Vegas, and it's just a cover looped 4 times with a couple different solos. Here's what I said at VGMix:

Well, I wanted to leave something I did for people to listen to while I go on vacation for a couple weeks.
This is something I've been working on For a month or so on and off. Really all I need to do is record two more solos, and write one of them, work on the mixing a bit, add the room-mic samples for all the drum hits, tweak the reverb a bit on the guitars, compress the bass a bit more, maybe use a different sample for the strings, re-record a few guitar parts, and then EQ the final mix.
The sequenced tracks, drums and strings, were done in Reason. The drum samples are Drums From Hell, and the strings are off a crappy soundfont from HammerSound (I need to use Reason's factory samples). The bass was recorded with a Line6 bass POD, the guitar was recorded with a Boss GT-6, and the multitracking program used for recording is Vegas 4.0. I also used Waves plugins for effects.
Lots of time for feedback while I'm gone. Thanks.

© 1991 Capcom. All rights reserved.

Street Fighter 2010 - Untitled

• Release Date: December 2005
• Composer: Junko Tamiya

Collaboration with Shawn Phase for Temp Sound Solution's Now You're Playing With Power 5.

© 1990 Capcom. All rights reserved.

Super Mario 64 - Sonic Depths

• Release Date: July 2005
• Composer: Koji Kondo

An entry for the July 2005 Dwelling of Duels "Super Mario Brothers" Theme. The Story:

This arrangement of Dire Dire Docks was sort of an accident. Ashane, Crimson, and norg were tampering around with Skype one night discussing the July month and the fact that nobody planned on entering anything. Oddly enough, Ashane and norg were both jamming away at Dire Dire Docks on separate instruments at the same time for no apparent reason. The end result? A collaboration to rock the docks, so to speak. We place blame for this song, in its entirity, solely on the shoulders of our lost brother Crimson.

Ashane did electric lead and rhythm guitars, as well as keeping norg from getting lazy in the mixing process. norg did other stuff.

This is an updated version from the DoD release. There are a couple of updated drum fills, the mix is slightly updated, instruments get their day in the sun, norg fixed his acoustic guitar part to be more accurate, and overall this version is sonically superior to that of the original entry.

We hope you enjoy listening to this piece as much as we enjoyed making it.

- Ashane & norg

© 1996 Nintendo. All rights reserved.

Super Mario Bros - Main Theme

• Release Date: July 2004
• Composer: Koji Kondo

Made with Eric's Little Shack. He did the bass and drums and I did the guitar. We faked this as an all girl video game cover band named abugraib for kicks.

© 1985 Nintendo. All rights reserved.

TMNT II - Technodrome

• Release Date: July 2003
• Composer: Keizou Nakamura, Kinuyo Yamashita, Y.Manno

This is a collaboration between me, housethegrate, and Shawn Phase, under the name of "Sidescroller". house and I split up the guitar tracks 50/50, he did the bass, and Shawn played the drums. This was the first VG cover collaboration that I can recall of.

© 1990 Konami. All rights reserved.

TMNT IV - Let's Kick Shell

• Release Date: October 2006
• Composer: Harumi Ueko, Kazuhiko Uehara, Mutsuhiko Izumi

I did this for the Sega month theme in DoD. It's a medley of the songs: The Gauntlet, Sewer Surfin, and Star Base. Not much to say about this one. I used my DSL401 amp for all of the guitars. Also note that I stole the song title from SnappleMan without even knowing it :)

© 1991-1992 Konami. All rights reserved.