Why'd the GBA have such an awful soundchip?

God damn Rainbow Road, even the music for it is shitty.

>not posting the BRAP song
youtu.be/WgHiEDI-U9I

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Apply this x10 to ports and multi game carts where the SD Team didn’t even try

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I AM DYING

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Megaman Zero 2 has one of the best OSTs of all time so I'm going to put it on the people who worked on the chip.

Mother 3 alone proves the chip is fine

Let's compare and contrast.

>Mega Man and Bass (SNES)
youtube.com/watch?v=7Py_QlDnpJ0
youtube.com/watch?v=qoIpGjW7t-k
youtube.com/watch?v=YSPlDSVBvDU
youtube.com/watch?v=aGcFGJaRX4U

>Mega Man and Bass (GBA)
youtube.com/watch?v=LTkctdx6aJ8
youtube.com/watch?v=ie_lXeaQJ3o
youtube.com/watch?v=P7XeXJgaRAA
youtube.com/watch?v=sesnpygCPUM

There's actually a program to extract songs and samples from the GBA and play them back in higher quality.
youtube.com/watch?v=yrUnek6c3Zs

Because Ninty is cheap

Original GBA recording for comparison
youtube.com/watch?v=fihc2ONQ5v0

>tfw genwunner
>this is my favourite pokeman OST
youtube.com/watch?v=Cp-waxoLel8

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They spent most of their money giving it soul.

>meddy
>missing a bn5 track
Here you go
youtu.be/w1daE7EyqOE

>Garbage sound chip
True, but some managed to make it shine
youtube.com/watch?v=mdLpuD4DwDo
youtube.com/watch?v=0CrYf9zyfpg

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youtube.com/watch?v=X_Go9qnqHmw

It was so bad it makes this godlike OST seem even better

Listen to that fucking bass line

youtube.com/watch?v=4PKynjL_f4U
youtube.com/watch?v=tOHWckGtcHs
help

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>That GBA game that has the lowest quality and highest quality GBA sound in the very same game

youtu.be/siIAivGSySs?t=205
youtu.be/siIAivGSySs?t=17882

Who SLAP BASS here?
youtube.com/watch?v=0JiaGi3_KMs
>Not a single fucking Advance Wars remix in Smash
>No official arrange soundtrack with high quality instruments
Kill me.

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In the right hands it’s godly
youtu.be/5CvK5813NI4

youtube.com/watch?v=58yzOMVXsXk

I can't fucking breathe

You just had to know how to use it

youtube.com/watch?v=SQxs-WEFRJY

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youtu.be/SwBP3M9OnIA

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because budget reasons, as with every shitty/ineffective tool people find a way to crank out absolutely great stuff with it

youtube.com/watch?v=94oNS4Ebjqs

That's not REAL brap! Stand aside.
youtube.com/watch?v=3x4V8nYMGGs

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It was mostly the SNES ports, the original GBA titles sounded great. Mario Kart Super Circuit is just a shitty game overall, both in the Mario Kart franchise and GBA.

I know, it smells real bad in here now

I thought Legacy Of Goku 2 had some great songs despite the limitations of the GBA.

I know not everyone likes the Falconer soundtrack, but I was impressed hearing faithful renditions of them through my GBA as a kid.

youtube.com/watch?v=rltG_yVwGck&list=PLC08C057B6B00C9FC&index=2

youtube.com/watch?v=NUh4hXGtGcg&list=PLC08C057B6B00C9FC&index=7

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is that /mycausa/ Tongo?

Fuck off retard

My nigga
youtube.com/watch?v=azPfrL6dynQ

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I prefer the GBA ghost house. The softer noises and out of tune instruments make it sound creepier to me.
youtube.com/watch?v=UhMnq6oI5m0

youtube.com/watch?v=qG2HwH1JkAI

meanwhile us PSchads got this
youtube.com/watch?v=ULabjDuCDGE

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Even if is bad I really like it

Mother 3? Wario Land 4?

I like this one more on GBA too
youtube.com/watch?v=troGQMXTClQ
youtube.com/watch?v=EzEMSgp33Gs

youtube.com/watch?v=j7GyKzAJdrE
youtube.com/watch?v=6nEc3wXaPfI
youtube.com/watch?v=OFRuarYrsoc
youtube.com/watch?v=S3tHIDW8Tgg
And this mofo right here.

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You were one of those kids who played that crap outside because of the lack of any other portable mario kart alternative, weren't you?

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>tfw I bought that and actually enjoyed it because I'd been emulating Super Butoden for years and the game plays almost identically to them
Also the music was fucking kino at least.
youtube.com/watch?v=l-wtFsv7R2U
Hikari no Willpower should be in every fucking DBZ game that features Trunks by law.

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I came to laugh at you
youtube.com/watch?v=21JERW0MTbA

Why does the GBA have such a great soudchip?
youtube.com/watch?v=lu189VJdXj0

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I don’t remember it sounding bad at all.

>SRW
My fucking nigger
youtube.com/watch?v=XAKnqM12qoA&t=24s

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The GBA titles sound much better than the actual Faulconer soundtrack desu

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youtube.com/watch?v=q5d1rrbNo3o

Fuck off zeek, this is an EFSF board
youtube.com/watch?v=Y-q4z5LzBeo

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>because budget reasons, as with every shitty/ineffective tool people find a way to crank out absolutely great stuff with it

This.

It's not GBA, but I feel like it helps prove this point.
youtube.com/watch?v=ypNPxwnppU0&list=LLJZ1J8BRVym0DFZ2UqfrPsw&index=84&t=0s

Mother 3 is cheating, it's in a league of its own

I loved it as a kid. Final Bout was much jankier.
www
youtube.com/watch?v=qVG07DbFJwY

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Ooh, I've never heard that comparison before. I definitely agree with you. I also think the castle theme sounds better on GBA too.

>bad quality chip
>they made this youtu.be/Fp4VvJl20wQ

Maybe they where just lazy to make God tier soundtrack

Here's the DS version for compassion,there's not much difference

youtu.be/VnPmafeR3xE

Also let's be honest even if most of them are bad they have soul

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Back off, the best GBA track coming through
youtube.com/watch?v=jaUQM4TC9wg
Close second
youtube.com/watch?v=B77hKKI4SbI

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GBA has great music though

youtube.com/watch?v=KA7T9AURPgQ

youtube.com/watch?v=Z5o4o0y4E4I

youtu.be/Fp4VvJl20wQ

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Here's a song I'm sure we can both enjoy then
youtube.com/watch?v=n3q-vUksRoQ

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how about fuck off
youtube.com/watch?v=q5d1rrbNo3o

DKC3 GBA had a whole new OST by David Wise to accommodate the GBA soundchip. DKC1 GBA and DKC2 GBA just had weaker versions of the SNES soundtracks.

youtube.com/watch?v=VlgA4Dv6sVI

He really went full prog, it's still amazing

man I got stuck on some fucking number puzzle on the moon(?) in Boktai and never finished it

but that shit was cool

My negros
youtube.com/watch?v=PvM5YCvdUZM
youtube.com/watch?v=7HRI0ToU49w

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The GBA did sound pretty awful, but Castlevania still managed to have some good tracks.
youtube.com/watch?v=wxFWgilSyAE
youtube.com/watch?v=KqQPr3ZcbtE
youtube.com/watch?v=SQxs-WEFRJY

>Posts the two best girls
Based, Tenia on SUICIDE WATCH

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gen 3 soundtrack is genuine kino
youtube.com/watch?v=jaUQM4TC9wg

>still no ace attorney ITT
youtube.com/watch?v=v7PzgNYmh3

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>oh sweet SNES Rainbow Road
>mfw

I didn't remember how bad it was holy shit.

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>nobody's posted this yet
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HevM1Nu871E

>how can it be shit if i enjoy this one thing from it
>soul
go back to twitter.
stop trying to fit in.

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patrician
youtube.com/watch?v=-J0H5ah1G7A

RSE tracks fucking slap

youtu.be/6hGWPmW4OxI

youtu.be/5XbAj4xMCWA

Yeah, soul youtu.be/GlpGuRPWSkY

no x and y buttons worked better for super mario world, honestly.
Spin jump being mapped to the shoulder was much better.

>not the all time classic
youtube.com/watch?v=t93s5gHcIrE

The Battle Network games were the king of the GBA soundchip.
youtube.com/watch?v=xET8DT0Cy7w

>he didn't play with headphones.

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Ruby sapphire had some very good tracks.
youtube.com/watch?v=5rRBVHQu36Y
youtube.com/watch?v=00fY1guhC_0

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good god what were they thinking

>Heart of Fire plays while fighting Julius
>That part where he does Grand Cross and you see bits and pieces of Dracula's Castle fall off

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they were thinking
>HOLY SHIT WE CAN DO TRUMPETS

One of the main reasons I didn't like Gen 3 that much is because of the music. It has some very good themes but god if it was ear-grating on the GBA, everything sounded so fucking muddled, like you were listening to the music underwater (no pun intended). I know I can get a lot of hate, but the ORAS versions were overall superior, especially the Archie/Maxie theme, that was a massive improvement, 0:14 gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it.

youtube.com/watch?v=jaUQM4TC9wg
youtube.com/watch?v=Xv7ZGS3Nkbo

youtube.com/watch?v=UBVwtashteQ
youtube.com/watch?v=0QKzlIgcIz8

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>let's make a good soundtrack

Yea Forums thinks its filled with soul

I remember being blown away by just the title theme when I first played it.
youtube.com/watch?v=3SyM8oThJvk

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That OST was some exquisite shit
youtu.be/dUozK4yYwOY

I like it.

Are you hating on RSE's OST?
youtube.com/watch?v=zCvccmNwFV8

Ah, I see you're a reploid of culture...

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eh, Awe of She was kinda good even though Arcsys has to literally use a few extra bytes just to keep the soundtrack remotely decent.

youtube.com/watch?v=TKpBLiGOFac

I know Knight of Lodis also had a good soundtrack:
youtube.com/watch?v=bkGxYig0IuU
youtube.com/watch?v=IpJA1uIVWOc
youtube.com/watch?v=VX7uc3J9Ivw

consider suicide, listen to how fucking weak the ORAS version of the legendary battle sounds
youtube.com/watch?v=-HUaLZyBNeY
youtube.com/watch?v=5V0kzLYkYTM

>Yea Forums thinks its filled with soul
because it is
youtube.com/watch?v=c7pBcKlONnA

>didnt own the headphones that plugged into the power port
i came into this thread just to call you a retard

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GBA has a 3.5mm jack and the SP adapters weren't hard to find at all. You were just a basic bitch.

One of the things I liked about Deoxys is just how alien his theme sounds. Sounds more like you were battling to fight an alien invader more so than catch a space pokemon.

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youtu.be/PKYCyDiS9ZU
Zoomer opinion OP

youtube.com/watch?v=6hGWPmW4OxI

the gym leader theme is so much worse in the remake.

bass-ed

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youtube.com/watch?v=mvD2zQkKoWU
youtube.com/watch?v=v0rqglpGfO0&t=60s

>that piano

Megaman Zero overall had godlike music.

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>not posting best theme.
youtu.be/JyzCDg6NYNc
you disappoint me

Is this the GBA banger thread?
youtu.be/Aud5JNaG1BM

>He didn't get the free GBA headphones for re-upping his Nintendo power

Speaking of pokemon.
Real nigga shit coming up.
youtube.com/watch?v=7zkR6Sp_kMU
youtube.com/watch?v=-gLy71SQu8U
youtube.com/watch?v=bf1SCUWaZV4
youtube.com/watch?v=fsaFingSYp4
youtube.com/watch?v=nRd3f5g8950
youtube.com/watch?v=lAbL3r4-ES4

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Ironic considering the ORAS version uses parts of the original RSE theme.

youtube.com/watch?v=sQ1ualgWITQ

i want someone to make a snes version of this ost

You forgot the best one.

youtube.com/watch?v=prDOCQW0ZrU

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Now this is some good GBA Pokemon music.

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fuk u wario land 4 and minish cap had godly soundtrack

Imagine the smell in Valley of Bowser GBA.

youtu.be/WgHiEDI-U9I

Based MDfag

GBA is zoomer core retard

>shitty

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nah senpai
youtube.com/watch?v=4PqlOkxcI-8

GBa can't have nice musi-

youtu.be/JtpHcdiVkm0

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this reminds me of infinity mijinion or the final countdown

youtube.com/watch?v=Kp9uSUsa0eM
youtube.com/watch?v=v0rqglpGfO0
youtube.com/watch?v=aiANryc2ujo
youtube.com/watch?v=pEq9QprjFZc
youtube.com/watch?v=ZnKHjCx6HWk
youtube.com/watch?v=OQXGzmOICnA
youtube.com/watch?v=sQ1ualgWITQ
youtube.com/watch?v=kGeXFJioSv8
youtube.com/watch?v=hZKhoKX2VoY
youtube.com/watch?v=xET8DT0Cy7w
youtube.com/watch?v=NLj1LhSMbsw
youtube.com/watch?v=5bojt_YZxhU
youtube.com/watch?v=aVGLWZoTxME

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I know this pain all too well.

In some cases I like the GBA better than PSP version of songs.
youtube.com/watch?v=XeX_s4K4FUA
youtube.com/watch?v=dhZy9lhzdnE
Those horns are just too good

so this is the power of abused sega programmers whoh

imagine reading the fucking thread before posting retard

>18 years old
>Zoomer core
It's literally older than most of them

youtube.com/watch?v=sG7ePxwp0zk

is it ironic? ORAS as a whole is just a soulless knockoff of the original, the music is no different.

Surprised no one has posted Sonic Advance trilogy tracks yet
youtu.be/rgX9wA9OJAU
youtu.be/UDY6Kuicnv8
youtu.be/JtpHcdiVkm0

>people itt acting like the SNES soundchip wasn't already terrible
kek

>soulless

Maybe you should try to form words without using buzzwords, but surely it adds to your shitty hearing anyway.

I may be a retard, but at least I'm not a nigger.

>Sonic advance
my fucking brother.
youtu.be/EfK0lAactYU
youtu.be/nLvHxd5JcjM
youtu.be/O8ABNL6w1uo
youtu.be/co8kNHQXsBE

I usually despise soulless as a descriptor, but it fits ORAS to a T.

/thread

A lot of the SNES music is a lot smoother, while the GBA music is rough. I don't think that the GBA songs are terrible, but there isn't a single one that I prefer over the SNES songs.

Although, I actually might like the GBA version of Cold Man just as much as the SNES version. I like how the tink sound stands out. It has a nice contrast.

>sanic tier

He didn't add a 3.5mm jack to his ags-101

Battle had some good stuff too
youtube.com/watch?v=BZaq33r1Rbs
youtube.com/watch?v=9KdWTzJAT2k
youtube.com/watch?v=v_w3GtT5x6s

This music is sample heavy, and you can hear the low sampling rate used. It might be 22050 Hz or even 16000 Hz.

Digging Shaman King's tunes though.

What the fuck? This is incredible.

>not even the best one
youtube.com/watch?v=RWN9NjB9XW4

On it
youtu.be/eVv7GlfAmPQ
youtu.be/5zmBYZOCl_8
youtu.be/FGlIA2YnyUY
youtu.be/60jZ67t5XnU
youtu.be/AY6WjFf0D6w
youtu.be/AY6WjFf0D6w
youtu.be/ZJCj-UTBl8I

Fuck yea. I was about to post that, these one's the fucking tits.

youtube.com/watch?v=70IoRYKNJiU
youtube.com/watch?v=im0wp66baHk

youtube.com/watch?v=mDNxU_51UzQ
youtube.com/watch?v=VyDL72BZLic
youtube.com/watch?v=bJvNZVlvNiA

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trumpets

Jesus, this actually sounds almost about on quality with his PS1 output.

I was waiting for that to be posted. 10/10

something about gen 3 music makes me so fucking erect

None of you have posted brap music

THIS is brap music

youtube.com/watch?v=qG2HwH1JkAI

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youtu.be/tjfWpI2TjJc
Amazing mirror was so fucking good, i still hope for the day we get another game like it

>This music is sample heavy, and you can hear the low sampling rate used. It might be 22050 Hz or even 16000 Hz.
i don't follow

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And yet those are the best parts of that version.

youtube.com/watch?v=GNX9OgSAjng
youtube.com/watch?v=vlCRu5DlBRQ
youtube.com/watch?v=nRd3f5g8950
youtube.com/watch?v=eoD8nvXDUZI
youtube.com/watch?v=7zkR6Sp_kMU
youtube.com/watch?v=7J9ZEOXM6Yg

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That exact video was already posted, dingus

>all these niggers who never played Golden Sun
youtu.be/bKQYZIEY_I0

youtube.com/watch?v=XvvGYEjloOg

Golden Sun will forever hold my heart.

As if that song even mattered. Most people didn't even get to hear it because you had to go to some shitty irl event just to fight him

I'm still mad.

I played like the first 30 minutes of the original but never got around to actually sitting down to play it.

youtube.com/watch?v=dKMTzrG92TE

pokemon mystery dungeon was better than it had any right to be

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The difference between chip-generated sounds (music that you hear for most of the game) and sampled sounds that are modified to create an instrument (credits music)

Came here specifically to see if someone posted that. Thanks for dispelling the thread's disappointment

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Only because the GBA couldn't play the original OST for shit.

You are the disappointment for you falseness.
youtube.com/watch?v=OsW_BCoeQZA

>the intro & title screen
youtube.com/watch?v=7zjnhlvFvS8
f-fuck

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youtube.com/watch?v=4PqlOkxcI-8

the good shit

Ds version sounds much better tho

ITT: OP absolutely btfo.
The GBA soundchip itself wasn't crap, just the devs who refused to adapt. This was especially true for the ports.

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Except it didn't.

Don't they sound basically the same?
youtube.com/watch?v=B5n-s2JKCq4

>Why'd the GBA have such an awful soundchip?
The GBA literally did not have a dedicated sound chip, which was the problem.

That's not a route theme.
you're welcome
i think he actually wanted a GBA music thread and he didn't know how to do it other than baiting

the gba needed to sacrifice sound quality for higher fidelity visuals and vice versa.

dont ever fucking call me a dingus cunt

Some later GBA games put emphasis on chiptune melody, which I liked.

I fucking loved what Sonic Advance 3 did with some of its tracks.
youtube.com/watch?v=T3gCo7fzuqU
youtube.com/watch?v=zNal9YTEEiA

you absolute donut

The sad reality is you can't start a thread here with positivity and if you want to discuss something you need to shit on it and hope that people take the bait and defend it, thus creating a normal conversation in which everyone believes they are blowing up the OP.

It's really sad.
I want to talk about videogames because I love them, I don't want to shit on them to attempt starting a conversation that can be derailed with a single twitter post of a nobody talking about minorities.

Well excuse me, dingleberry.

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youtube.com/watch?v=7ALinzMh3cc
>they even got the church bells

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red sounded better than Blue desu. Shame there's no good rips of the thing.

yeah no ORAS version is kino
Maybe the Rayquaza version is more your speed
youtube.com/watch?v=_jXNiy68kIM

(you)
youtube.com/watch?v=YhhTWytQR2Y

The GBA version is a bit fuzzier, but it really isn't a deal-breaker

please just kill yourself and put us out of your misery

>It's a monster house!
youtube.com/watch?v=RSwTCgqgnJE

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PTSD is real

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Someone is taking a deuce the size of the moon here.

God damn Capcom impresses once again

Cope

>it's an "Aerodactyl used Agility!" episode

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Video game music is often sequences in a MIDI format or similar.
Using music sequencing, you can playback audio samples, which are short recordings of instrumental sounds. Sometimes you will pitch shift them, play them longer or shorter, etc.
Audio samples take up a small amount of space individually, you're limited to how much you can use when considering the code and graphics and the finite space you would have on a game cartridge, but audio sampling would take up far less space than a pre-recorded (CD quality) audio track.

When producing audio, you produce it at a sample rate which describes at what frequency a length of audio should be played over time.
Standard audio is typically 44100 Hz or 48000 Hz, but a lot of GBA audio was 22050 Hz which has to describe the same amount of audio in half as much detail.

If you ever play around with emulator sound settings, try dropping the output from 44Khz to 22Khz or lower, and you will see the drop in quality.

Yeah. Best use of GBA Sound Chip, bar none.

YESSSSSSSSSS
FUCK I LOVE THE WATER MAP THEMES! This is, for my money, best music of the entire series.

>tfw stuck with AGS-001

youtube.com/watch?v=TmPR2AMC-T4

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seethe

Look, outside of hostilities, I personally never enjoyed the RSE battle themes, they all sounded way too samey and muffled. They are supposed to hype you for the battle but instead made me wish I was playing something else. The only themes that I can agree are superior in the original are Steven's and the Battle Brain battle themes. ORAS somehow made those a bit too tame and they lose their impact. The BW2W version of Steven's is the best of them all though.

youtube.com/watch?v=5XbAj4xMCWA
youtube.com/watch?v=EPTPz-u96WE

Mother 3, Golden Sun and Drill Dozer, though.

>This thinly veiled music request thread
youtube.com/watch?v=8YP4RrYJ95M

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>all these retards who keep conflating the quality of composition with audio quality

There are tons of GBA games with excellent scores. They all, universally, sound awful, because of the garbage bit rate. They are objectively low quality sound.

For fuck's sake they had to do sound mixing using CPU cycles, since there literally wasn't any dedicated audio hardware in the damn system. Most games are only use an 11khz rate. The highest I've seen is 22khz. Compare that to the SNES, which is 32khz standard. Nintendo went cheap and we all suffered for it. Thankfully they fixed that with the DS.

>GBA music thread
>Nobody posted the TRUE classic GBA banger yet
time to fix this
youtube.com/watch?v=VOC0ig2Rk1g

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i still don't understand why you nitpick at shaman king for having lower sampling

The music in the Sonic Advance series got progressively better with each game. There was some good shit in 1, more of it in 2, and 3 was pretty across-the-board excellent

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Only to highlight the GBA's awful sound chip and the limitations of low ROM size, nothing else.

youtu.be/ELEOWEm4hh8?t=2774
youtu.be/ELEOWEm4hh8?t=4078
Unironically my favourite versions of these tracks, GBA soundfont rules. Not even played the game.
Aww yeah.

youtu.be/1cZgDCRDRfo

The bitter irony of this is that the quality of the audio samples used to construct this music was often higher than any SNES game. But because it was being mixed through 2 8-bit DACs, with no dedicated DSP, it's all lost in the mix, literally.

There are ways to circumvent Nintendo's SAPPY audio library, and hear what's actually on the cartridge. Mother 3 is a great example.

Here's what's on the cartridge, hidden from us by the GBA's garbage bin DAC:
youtu.be/0pSe2XhlsMw

Notice how clear that is, free of distortion and hiss? That's because this isn't being mixed through the GBA.

Because it ruins what's otherwise a fine composition.

Good ol' Valley of BRAP

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Another GBA game by GameFreak
Sequel never ever
youtube.com/watch?v=_a7uYPZq8bc

Move over, nigger

youtu.be/KyIOgjniohA

need more brap tunes lads

You know it's bad when they manage to make the GBA version of a tune SOUND worse than the original Game Boy version.

Harmony of Dissonance:
youtu.be/flxI_3fM5zE

Legends:
youtu.be/PgmkCme5wLg

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I only had yugioh games on my gba but I liked some of the songs there

youtube.com/watch?v=A0ly0D-7djs

youtube.com/watch?v=bLAtlVb7vM4

youtube.com/watch?v=T_F6hCvmzVE

youtube.com/watch?v=lAQ-c95ov6k&t=1s

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This is literally Yea Forums's theme song.

Wario Land 4 was peak musical performance.
So many kino songs.
youtu.be/vQuK6nwq__E
youtu.be/ytuiy4O8Ik8
youtu.be/dUozK4yYwOY
youtu.be/jocrNBs09Ao
Golden Sun also had some pretty fantastic songs.
youtu.be/c7pBcKlONnA
youtu.be/iyL74_FzQcM
youtu.be/g3vKQYX0bu0
youtu.be/KyIOgjniohA
Soul
Soulless

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>soul vs soulless

What a bad take. I'll take the high quality audio that the devs actually recorded and put into their game over the disgusting dogshit the GBA spat out any day.

Kaiba had a lot of variatons of his theme song and all of them were pretty cool, really gave you the boss theme feeling from it

youtube.com/watch?v=m5dDQWHB7jY
youtube.com/watch?v=G6MnTxTQmhE

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If we're talking Wario musical kino, though...
youtu.be/-TjfgEUw18Q

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Yeah, I just came in and don't want the thread dead yet
Anyway

>Megaman
>Pokemon
>Sonic
>Golden sun
>Castlevania
Cmon, let's move past the usual suspects, aye?

youtube.com/watch?v=knrlrUIC3P4
youtube.com/watch?v=O6UOa22akeY
youtube.com/watch?v=3uGyedwvm2E&list=PLnwiJOnr1KHAnfW26lbolLx9UDnLYXsRq&index=32
youtube.com/watch?v=aF7vENx0GLE&index=23&list=PL6akIKaXBeU3n9u4Bu-MDM5Pel7H-3psi

This entire ost doesn't get enough love, honestly:
youtube.com/watch?v=tNR-LFGdOIQ&list=PLvsZ_uZZSNHY16BLmsHvqJ5fQxs78QvRb&index=21
youtube.com/watch?v=YivDoYWrAIY&list=PLvsZ_uZZSNHY16BLmsHvqJ5fQxs78QvRb&index=10
youtube.com/watch?v=E0nciAX_XfA&list=PLvsZ_uZZSNHY16BLmsHvqJ5fQxs78QvRb&index=24

Sounds fine out of the GBA speaker, but yeah it does sound bad when played through a normal one.

Let's step it up with some true ear rape. Gentlemen, I present you with Need for Speed Most Wanted GBA.

youtu.be/2AVnvSKvbDU

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I'm not just gonna let a GBA music thread slip by without Drill Dozer.

youtube.com/watch?v=z6A0q6TyQXk
youtube.com/watch?v=wHOQxf_cg5o
youtube.com/watch?v=56vDTnMM7qA
youtube.com/watch?v=GtYGWs5V8zk

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>gameboy advance had better sound hardware than the gameboy col-
*blocks your path*

youtu.be/AkYC9AhMLgw

youtube.com/watch?v=uCKEuqRmLKo

Movin' all the people to the...

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*blocks your path*
youtu.be/fGv2Ua74Ils

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youtube.com/watch?v=BZaq33r1Rbs
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>Spurn Orb
>It's now a manhunt to find what mons have items

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the fuck, i didn't expect an actual good song out of that link

My Super Robot Niggers
youtube.com/watch?v=TvY1sZIUQ0M
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youtube.com/watch?v=Q-_M7ZYSRfs

This is the answer OP, it has to use the regular CPU to play sound.

That's why Castlevania: HoD sound so awful, CPU was so busy the GBC HW inside had to handle the sound.

what, what is this?
and why does it sound good?

totally this
youtu.be/Dro_RfKbfOs

SRW J's soundtrack was perfection
youtu.be/A1rLVlNRYks

>implying
youtube.com/watch?v=yERQqvP0598

It was still great for SNES ports. Most games didn't fully use the SNES controller in any way that you couldn't creatively reduce. The sound chip was garbage but it didn't detract from having portable SNES quality games that much

Oh god, it sounds like a Genesis is being rhythmically tortured.

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Not posting superior

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youtube.com/watch?v=GHvj5P9UDLU

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youtube.com/watch?v=6ekMq6dMHcs

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The WSC tracks were actually pretty amazing considering the sound processor wasn't much better than the GB

mother 3 had the weakest soundtrack of the series, and all of its songs sound tinny.

FFTA2 version of this song is clearly higher quality but I still think FFTA is better, not sure why

youtube.com/watch?v=ml4Huzgn2gU

youtube.com/watch?v=N0rK2aSVaRw

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i think mother 2 ripped that first song off.

Wonderswan had a nice soundchip all-around desu.

youtube.com/watch?v=7gA57HI3QCs

youtube.com/watch?v=7UMQjwO6jf4

>No one of /vp/ actually posted the best song from Gen 3
youtube.com/watch?v=h92NII_daio

Also, now that I'm here let's spice things up
youtube.com/watch?v=cI5pEB5EFMo
youtube.com/watch?v=wb_zLitqH1o
youtube.com/watch?v=7qDvmZoJFVY
youtube.com/watch?v=_91pG0XZiAQ

Best GBA OST imo
youtu.be/4Bhft6GcmQE
youtu.be/YI_CNOL97A4
youtu.be/VtnXVbs26o0

Except to my ears the grain and hiss gives it charm.

Battle Network had the best GBA soundtrack.

youtube.com/watch?v=8wKTn6z1qr4

>doesnt think the Sharp LR35902 is a superior soundchip

seriously user?

Cool, you should exclusively listen to music on 8-track to take advantage of its unparalleled hiss and general speed instability.

The bass on the gba makes me fucking cum when composers actually bother utilizing it.

way ahead of you, i enjoy many analog mediums for their unique characteristics. you think all music should be perfectly replicated digitally? its impossible, even the most expensive converters will impart character. even your ears have a resonating frequency.

>mfw 50 seconds in
whew memories

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The NeoGeo pocket had good beep boops

youtu.be/wvxK41prz5c

It didn't have any sound chip to call its own.

It had the original Game Boy Color sound hardware, of course. You could use that in pretty much the same way as it always worked.
But apart from that you only have PWM channels which must be manually driven by the CPU. Which means less CPU time for the gameplay.

I am sorry to everybody in this thread, but all that stuff you posted, IT AINT GOT SHIT ON DRAGONS FURY!

youtube.com/watch?v=WkcckqXLmvE

>been playing red rescue team on the wii u for 12 hours straight a day for like 4 days now
holy fucking shit i love this game so goddamned much, and being able to play it on a big tv only makes it better.
all i have left to do now is recruit jirachi and maybe attempt purity forest, only ever completed it once a few years ago with rescue code cheesing. already recruited all other legendaries and fuck actually recruiting/evolving every single pokemon.
any other niggas doing a playthrough of their own?

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As far as i understand the original gameboy also drove all oscillation from the cpu. so i dont think the gba had the same soundchip, i think it might have had the same instruction set plus some.

>it had actual joystick with microswitches

You better be playing Explorers of Sky next.

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already did, hombre. played sky in the exact same setup like a year ago. i didnt bother with getting all the legendaries though, i only completed the darkrai postgame dungeon and called it good. i dont know what it is, but i just dont really like explorers nearly as much as i like rescue team.
rescue team>explorers=super>gti

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I repair vintage audio equipment as a hobby, I'm well aware of the charm of analog audio. To try to equate an 11khz audio bitrate to the unique characteristics of analog formats is wrongheaded at best and disingenuous at worst.

I actually really like 8 tracks and wish they lasted long enough as a format to benefit from the improvements cassettes got

When you sample sc-88 pro everything sounds good.
youtu.be/uXx0IWcNw_s

Nah, it's pretty well documented.
akkit.org/info/gbatek.htm#gbasoundcontroller
>The GBA supplies four 'analogue' sound channels for Tone and Noise (mostly compatible to CGB sound), as well as two 'digital' sound channels (which can be used to replay 8bit DMA sample data).
The registers for the four CGB channels are all documented, and it's all pretty self contained. On the other hand the two new channels boil down to periodically copying sound data the CPU generated.

How is nobody going to bring up Advance Wars?
youtube.com/watch?v=VYlEd5JwKmQ
youtube.com/watch?v=6OiJYmZC0Lk

I havent touched these games since the first one, is this a good one to play next

Explorers is literally just Rescue Team but with everything improved. Sky is the typical Pokemon third version with all the features of the previous two plus some extra content.
Friend zones are gone though.

I own 5 vintage samplers and appreciate their different down sampling. I don't find comparing an Akai s-712 or indeed the GBA to a vinyl or 8 track disingenuous or wrongheaded at all, in fact i find it a quite apt comparison.

Definitely, Explorers of Sky is a must-play and a huge rollercoaster. Play Sky since that's the "third version" of Time and Darkness.

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I havent played them since launch so I dont remember anything besides the ending being a tear jerker,

Playing KH Chains of Memories right now and it's uncanny how some sounds are from the original game but on a very low quality

Oh boy if Rescue Team's ending put a tear on your eye, Explorers will make you bawl like a little girl.

That's a recurring pattern for the series. Give it a whirl and see if you still enjoy it.

>Yea Forums is now nostalgic over the gba and not the based game boy. i even saw a halo thread with nothing but nostalgia in it

its over im done fuck you all

you say that but this part of the game still gets to me the most
youtube.com/watch?v=YBXBDqaIL28

So many GBA sound bad meanwhile Wario Land 4 has an opening song with vocals, and it came out in the beginning cycle of the handheld. Based Wario.

Good riddance.

>wtf bros why does time move forward?

I mean, you're comparing a 16-bit sampler to an analog format with frequency response up to 15khz to two 8-bit DACs with no DSP. I still don't think it's an apt comparison.

To each their own, though. I know personally for my analog medium usages, my preference is to try to minimize the faults of the format while maximizing its strengths. So if I'm recording to tape, I'm using chrome or metal tape driven hard from preferably NM or better vinyl or lossless digital.

Best results come from proper remastering though

Original
youtube.com/watch?v=Qv_8KiUsRTE

Remastered
youtube.com/watch?v=-2AV0Owpu8A

HoD had quite a few tracks with good composition, it was just mangled by the super low sampling. When CotM and HoD were made Konami decided to either spend the CPU cycled on sound (CotM) or graphic (HoD). Took till AoS before the engine was refined enough to do it all.
youtube.com/watch?v=DwHAgObH6JE&index=4&list=PL713F890B7C7018C0

No platform can stop that franchise from having godlike OSTs: youtube.com/watch?v=5I5mUeRKOhg

Should have posted the enhanced version.

youtu.be/uXx0IWcNw_s

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Oh yeah, the composition was not the issue, it's the sound quality.

I also just wanted an excuse to post Legends' OST, that's a gem.

Because it was designed for a shitty little speaker instead of a TV's stereo system.

That being said, there are some pretty nice sounding games on it.

youtube.com/watch?v=dBbI-GypN_A

alright im gonna be real with u niggas, the sound chip for the GBA is trash for most games, and the ost from this game is trash too. but somehow they got the whole ost to play on it pretty faithfully, lyrics and all. you could do some pretty impressive stuff with that hardware.
youtube.com/watch?v=8wm9gGV937o

I am not talking about clear reproduction, i am talking about the unique feel of the medium, and as such, there is a huge basis for comparison. An 808 hihat on a vinyl will sound specific, as will an 808 hihat sampled through a GBA. The engineer resampling the hihat for the GBA could play up to its strengths by applying a notched lopass filter at the right spot to create pleasing foldback through the nyquist frequency. Thats just one example, there are a ton of ways to manipulate sound through shitty converters and create soul.

But I thought the GBA didn't have a soundchip, just like the n64?

came here to post it

Yup. Thats more or less the case. It has a DAC with no DPS at all, everything has to be controlled with the CPU. Interposition, which the SNES's DPS could do for free is super CPU expensive on the GBA, that's why it almost never is done, and why so many games sound so rough (along with low sampling, etc, etc.)

But that's from a game where the creator literally didn't know how to use it. Great composition, but the sample quality is shit.

Thats not samples, thats PWM's and Noise

those are pretty good but don't leave out the no-anime game
youtube.com/watch?v=3C6S1kh49ls

youtu.be/P9jbpNrAU_8

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U
Wow this takes me back

absolutely based, advanced adventure is one of the most underrated gba games

>still not posted yet

youtube.com/watch?v=j3AeUoash2Y

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>even moreso
youtube.com/watch?v=G7GHrsnc5nU

>he thinks basic oscillating waveforms are samples

hahahahaha

Make way for the king.

youtube.com/watch?v=UnnhXBfngs0

Is Game Boy music allowed?
youtube.com/watch?v=nvvDOB-bSXM
youtube.com/watch?v=YPymVbc2GFI

The original Mario Kart soundtrack was trash to begin with, awful samples with ridiculous reverb that sound nothing Mario-like at all, what did you expect it to sound like on a GBA

I was kinda upset that despite being confirmed to be some crazy timeline convergence, we never saw the four sword in breath of the wild

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I already hate early sampled based chips like the SNES, but since SONY was obviously not gonna be doing the SNES soundchip for them any longer so they essentially tried to reverse engineer it and did a terrible job at it. And that's the GBA soundchip. A bad knock-off of an already bad soundchip.
Before anyone sperges out because I called the SNES soundchip bad, it obviously has great music, good composers always manage to make a good job even out of bad hardware. Hell even the GBA soundchip has some great examples, mostly from the Golden Sun games. But fuck those low bitrate sample chips.

it is now nigga
youtube.com/watch?v=I8v2tZUmXg8

youtube.com/watch?v=oE1MNajtrXM
youtube.com/watch?v=BE5lSQ0SRFs
youtube.com/watch?v=XRulCAvoWLw
youtube.com/watch?v=s0S5UHxIqQA
youtube.com/watch?v=-F4gG7rXw1s

youtube.com/watch?v=Or0qv44SVmo

youtube.com/watch?v=04OO-c5N7lA

Might i inquire as to why you dont like low bitrate?

Why would anyone like muffled sounding samples? Kind of a self defeating proposition. Would you prefer high bitrate or low bitrate?

youtube.com/watch?v=2WoWd12vUEs

Low bitrate has its place. Artifacts due to foldback under the nyquist frequency can be quite harmonically pleasing. Hiss due to bit loss can create atmosphere.

youtube.com/watch?v=gJdGc-CPzZY
youtube.com/watch?v=3jG8od_b2ig
youtube.com/watch?v=l7qiGzHMIfw
youtube.com/watch?v=R_h9TGsp8SI
youtube.com/watch?v=qYqJ3fuaySE

Who would have expected this kind of music from a Smurfs game?

Great, now you got me in the mood for SSF2 music on GBA.

That was fucking cool. I'll pay it forward with some more kickass music
youtube.com/watch?v=B1MEOaTNz1A
youtube.com/watch?v=fKymzvR4hE0
youtube.com/watch?v=z7DGj4boS0o

Good shit man!

If you liked the mainboard tune you should check the whole OST, its prime rib.

That shin megami ps1 tune is dope as fuck!

youtube.com/watch?v=MkMXOWFgB5M

user GET OUT

>330 posts
>Only 1 mention of Summon Night: Swordcraft Story
You people don't know what's good. They even had the Contra composer on board, and it shows, it's like chiptune from the future.
youtube.com/watch?v=8YoJNYZVe3o
youtube.com/watch?v=UOaceL2ZT_E
Sugar is best girl
youtube.com/watch?v=TyspcHlBWco

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>megaman battle network
aww user come on, that's cheating

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Thats nothing special.

This however

youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlLl2j5THQ

>nothing special

Nobody's special besides Tim Follin. That man was like putting all of Yes into one man, and making him develop for the Comodore 64 for a hundred years.

Summon Night deserves props for getting to Shovel Knight's "Knightly Chiptune" one decade early.

Dude, you gotta play with sound off to save battery!!!

in the same vein:

youtube.com/watch?v=irTxv_kkee4

any company that was smart enough to utilize square waves for music on the gba was fucking smart.

Tim Follin did some amazing stuff with the NES soundchip. Shame he was almost always stuck working on shit games. Solstice is fun, though.

>same guy who did Metal Masters and the GBC Turok games
Based

youtube.com/watch?v=2irI6a1MfnY
youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-LNuyVHkA
youtube.com/watch?v=x-uIV78kidg
youtube.com/watch?v=SqnnMI43XJE
youtube.com/watch?v=vPxdWubUslk
youtube.com/watch?v=_otOmvdPY1I
youtube.com/watch?v=1ahV0MMnn0U

based, came here to post this game

Sounds pretty shitty and is extremely forgettable, just like the game it's from.

There's a problem with that argument.
The devs didn't actually record anything. GBA plays MIDIs. It plays music on the fly off a music sheet using samples, just like most video game devices before it, and even some after it. Very rarely was music actually recorded as an audio file.
Even taking that mistake into consideration, the argument is still flawed since these MIDIs were constructed with the GBA's sound hardware in mind. Using the method to extract the midis and samples, and then playing them back in higher quality will result in oddities.
The GBA itself is quite literally the way these songs were intended to be listened to.

I don't get it, what's wrong with those?

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Listen to the originals and then tell me if the GBA versions aren't some absolute trash:

youtube.com/watch?v=CNXW37DGQgM
youtube.com/watch?v=k1MUx-AiLek NES Version
youtube.com/watch?v=lZFUJ_jfxqU All Stars Version

Well these are better, still think the GBA ones are good enough though.

I never played that one, and it's a shame, I heard that it was good

>This whole thread
Yea Forums can be pretty alright when the kiddies are asleep. I guess I'll contribute.

youtube.com/watch?v=AG4vXHAIsUg

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Strangely enough the gba soundchip actually helped Megaman and Bass.

youtube.com/watch?v=yC-lOdD1Gbw

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damnit, I just finished the X collection, now I have to go through all of this?

The resolution for the GBA was much lower than the SNES, which meant sacrifices had to be made in viewing area or sprites. Furthermore, the lack of a backlight on the original GBA forced them to make the graphics brighter, which cause too many GBA games to look pastel or washed out.

That's because Wario Land 4 is a tech demo for using audio samples on the GBA, like how F-Zero and Pilotwings on SNES served to show off Mode 7 scaling and rotation.

Time for gba audio kino
youtu.be/JA_VeKxyfiU

I don't remember the "clear" version being on the cartridge, I seem to remember it was released early online as part of a promotion leading up to the release of Mother 3 in Japan way back in 2006. There are other "HQ" versions of GBA soundtracks (like Wario Land 4) but those aren't from cartridge data, they're remixed with the same soundfonts from the GameCube.

the SP didn't have a headphone jack??

LOOK AT THIS DUDE
OH NO NO NO NO

Why did Genesis sound so much better with such a crappier chip than SNES

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proof it

awesome, has anybody extracted the castlevania games?

>legacy of Goku
>Gohan's not the main focus on the cover

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>Why did Genesis sound so much better
It didn't. The only Genesis tracks that were good had to be specifically composed for it, and even Genesis' best works have a distinct industrial sound to them. The Doom 32X soundtrack actually used the Genesis' hardware, and we all know how it sounds like squeaky clown noses and a series of farts because we all that saw that AVGN episode.

The best Genesis tracks are far better though. Or maybe it's just the composition being so good

>Only ever played the GBA version of SMW.
>Looks up SNES version for comparison.
HOLY SHIT they fucked up this ost.
youtube.com/watch?v=LNEs_N2iBhg

I'm actually surprised by how decent Genesis was at emulating songs with real instruments with it's fart sounds

youtube.com/watch?v=1cKV8SF-oSo
youtube.com/watch?v=oV2gEuEbQfg

But maybe posting Sonic is cheating

Why then is there a discrepancy between the samples themselves and playback? That compression that occurs through the GBA is murder.

youtube.com/watch?v=AY6WjFf0D6w
This one is trying its best & its pretty good

dont know if its been posted yet
youtu.be/lAbL3r4-ES4
youtu.be/4PqlOkxcI-8

red rescue team makes good use of the sound chip, making white noise as symbols and percussive stuff.

I could post stuff from kirby but thats cheating

more superstar saga pls
also opinion on 3DS versions? i liked it but the art style fucked me up

Composition is everything.

Both systems developed their own unique music style.
Genesis excelled with rock and club-styled music.
While SNES excelled in recreating live music instruments.

god i forgot how fucking puny the L and R buttons were on the sp

Bullshit. You can extract raw GBA music files from ROMs, usually in .minigsf form for GBA, just like you can extract music files from other ROMs. And they all sound like crap because they were all compressed to begin with. There's a composer that worked with GBA that has posted uncompressed soundtracks but he only worked with largely crappy third party games.

>tfw the beat drops
youtu.be/dUozK4yYwOY

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Tfw no Nintendo Atlantis
>Gba graphics in '90s

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How did they manage this?

holy fuck lmao

haha

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>clicked on the pic of wolf's ass just as the first toot came through in the song
had a giggle

I forgot how much they butchered SMW's OST on GBA good LORD

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It's the GB soundchip plus a sampled audio channel that functions on black magic.

>Not sharing Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga music

youtu.be/eH79b2u12XM

/thread
Golden Sun has the best OST of any GBA game.

>not reading the thread

Top tier post.

Seething liberal from resetera

Still better than Sega Genesis soundchip with the majority of games sounding like crap.

>still with the GENESIS WAS THE BRAP FART EAR RAPE MACHINE

Ehem

DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL is your friend

youtube.com/watch?v=46-mGN1D9z8

youtube.com/watch?v=WqNc9irgZGE

youtube.com/watch?v=Q1l44L30gH8

Get educated and fucked!

Post more BRAPcore

youtube.com/watch?v=g2oyweqZ7WM

You can skip 1 if you really want to.
And I guess also 4, but I wouldn't recommend it. Just tough it out for one playthrough and move on after that. The real suffering is the NG+ runs.

Half of Wario Land 4's cartridge size was put towards all the sound samples used in the music. Most publishers wouldn't want to budget that due to cartridge space being a premium without paying up for a larger size.

youtube.com/watch?v=omx2520L9F8

youtube.com/watch?v=z06uLad6Tak

youtube.com/watch?v=_y9lvbLltZ0

youtube.com/watch?v=GvQT4jTrM4g

youtube.com/watch?v=XKrsJw1dxYc

youtube.com/watch?v=shpVgXPewZY

youtube.com/watch?v=KMiQdEK7kkE

youtube.com/watch?v=Lb7LvHpOy98

Feels like Golden Sun heavily uses that echo effect to mask the sound sample quality for the better. Not sure why other composers didn't pull a similar stunt.

youtu.be/VQ_xwr9yGsc

too bad most genesis music in the US sounded like this

youtube.com/watch?v=HFSZoe0N3zs

give Dustino credit tough, this is an actual console rip with the music properly ripped.

The Fire Emblem installments on GBA have some really fucking good tunes. Way too much to fucking link here so I'll just post some random ones
youtube.com/watch?v=elQ-sqW9mo8
youtube.com/watch?v=kitjLs_bdPo
youtube.com/watch?v=4okMCBcr0Qk
youtube.com/watch?v=wgk8SGwX2Dc

youtu.be/IGra4AFjgCg

Fuck I forgot how bad rainbow road was in that game

It makes me mad that there really isn't an all-encompassing Best GBA out there. The closest we have is a backlit OG GBA but it's like $120+ total for just the system, and it still runs off AAs. The AGS-101 would be best but the form factor of the SP sucks, and the Micro's cool but for a lot of people it's comically cramped and there's no GBC support. There's also the Revo K101+ but that also lacks GBC support and the screen isn't properly sized so you either get letterboxing, an uneven scale or a 4:3 squish.

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>have two pink DS Lites I got for cheap
>too lazy to get a speaker and whatever else needed to turn one into a Gameboy Macro
>no more cheap ones on eBay (or I forgot what I searched to find the cheaper ones)

youtube.com/watch?v=ce0iCLWJXro
youtube.com/watch?v=8b8t7sJysjY
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>awful
Fuck off, it sounds raw as fuck

DS Lite if you could find a model that didn't suffer the hinge problem.

youtube.com/watch?v=rEKqiZxssjE#t=18m28s

youtube.com/watch?v=Pgk3FKkaQ-E#t=26m27s

youtube.com/watch?v=QH1FNnxOdRY#t=44m55s

youtube.com/watch?v=Z226qjJiyNw#t=28m13s

youtube.com/watch?v=fxs3ee1CVUk#t=12m36s

youtube.com/watch?v=KyJI2hEiVhE#t=16m55s

Still no GBC support, plus the buttons are too squishy.

My fav
m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=knrlrUIC3P4

genuinely crying laughing

This one is 10/10.
youtu.be/NvNuMWUiVD0

My bros. I've been playing through them recently
youtube.com/watch?v=A26Z6ui_81k&list=PL22AAED56B4387479&index=9

this
99% of my fondness for the faulconer score comes from playing legacy of goku 2 and buu's fury

Game Boy has almost no games actually worth playing. It was the Game Boy Color that had a really solid library. Most people lump these two together and think the GB library is way better than it actually is.

I still have my cartridge of Red Rescue Team. I always used to get Mudkip as a kid, but never got past the Buried Relic. Grew up a bit, and my chill-ass Bulbasaur finally let me tie up Gengar's story. Years passed, and my save was gone. Trying to create new saves on my DS Lite or GBA involves holding the cartridge with my palm so the game never freezes until I can save. I only got as far as Bottomless Sea before my latest save mysteriously disappeared. I know I can always emulate, but it won't feel the same. It's like losing friends before I can even say goodbye. I know it'll stop working someday, but I don't want to see that. I just want to complete it once before it dies.

These are the RPGs with real-time 2D-plane action combat when you attack, right? As in, it's turn-based, but you have complete control during the attack? That sounds really interesting if so. As somebody that is a lab monster in fighting games, single player games that reward that exact mentality really interest me.

This music is motivating me to look into it a lot sooner.

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It's top-down in the overworld and battles are a 2D plane action combat. No Turns. Also there's Weapon durability, but unlike other games where it exists purely to spite you It's like second health bar when fighting Human characters.

>The closest we have is a backlit OG GBA but it's like $120+ total for just the system, and it still runs off AAs
It increases the cost further, but there are rechargeable battery mods out there. Not that price should matter when deciding the best of something, as the best things almost always carry price premiums anyway.

>Micro's cool but for a lot of people it's comically cramped and there's no GBC support
Don't forget the washed-out colors.

Abysmal taste.

>We will never get another 2-D Zelda game in the same vein as A Link to the Past/Minish Cap

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Cadence of Hyrule looks a bit like Minish Cap. Considering how lolretro the original CotN was it may be a intentional homage to gba era spritework.

youtu.be/84nHg2EuS24

>tfw bought an AGS-101 recently

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youtu.be/PJagdIquOKU
I played the HELL outta this game. Always impressed me how it had all the console version's music.

>fill
the ds has more

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Don't mind me, just posting the greatest GBA soundtrack to ever exist.
youtube.com/watch?v=Xo8ykwFxVL0

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