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Crash Twinsanity
subdirectory_arrow_right Crash Tag Team Racing (Game), Crash Tag Team Racing (Game)
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Attachment Every single song in the Crash Twinsanity soundtrack is fully acapella, regardless of its genre or tone, with no instrumental backing, using human voices for every single instrument, including electric guitars.

The scat group behind Twinsanity's score, Spiralmouth, would return for Crash Tag Team Racing, but the tracks in Tag Team Racing had proper instrumentals with acapella vocals.
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person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 21, 2023
Crash Twinsanity OST: - Examples of electric guitar use would be "Rooftop Rampage" and "Rockslide Rumble" (the latter of which is also attached)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsmvX7FJHho

Crash Tag Team Racing OST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4r-9Ybeeg

Credits for both games:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/38499/crash-tag-team-racing/credits/psp/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/16120/crash-twinsanity/credits/ps2/
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
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Attachment As a reward for contributing a $100+ donation to the game's Kickstarter campaign, backers could choose to join a clan of their choice to appear under in the game's credits. Six "Sword or Whip" Clans (connected to a vote on if Miriam's personal weapon should be a sword or a whip) were dedicated to voting on which Sword or Whip weapon would become the most powerful weapon in the game (the winner being Clan Katana with the Grand Izayoi sword), while the remaining eighteen clans were Community or YouTube Partner Clans, who would receive a code for a clan-specific item.

The Community Clans were represented by two Castlevania fan communities: the Dungeon clan (The Castlevania Dungeon forums), and the Operation Akumajo clan (a Castlevania Facebook group spun off from The Castlevania Dungeon dedicated to promoting the series following its 25th anniversary in 2011). The YouTubers and other companies who participated in the last clan group were associated with Fangamer, a video game merchandising company who managed the Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. To unlock one of the Community/YouTube Partner Clan items, you must enter its respective code as the name for your save file, and as such only one clan item can be unlocked per save file. The participating clans and their codes include:

Community Clans:
•The Castlevania Dungeon: DUNGEONITE - unlocks the Dungeonite sword
•Operation Akumajo: Akuma - unlocks the Dominus sword

YouTube Partner Clans:
•ProtonJon: EGGFARM - unlocks the Guardian Egg Helm (a reference to a line spoken by Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 5)
•chuggaaconroy: chuggaconroy - unlocks the Space Helmet (a reference to the helmet worn by Olimar from the Pikmin series)
•NintendoCapriSun: INTHEBATHROOM - unlocks the Dumping Helmet (a bathroom-themed in-joke from his content)
•JoshJepson: JEPSON - unlocks the Clockwork Blade (origin unknown)
•StephenPlays: STEPHENPLAYS - unlocks the Sicilian Slicer (a pizza-themed sword, Pizza both being the name of his dog and a recurring subject of vlogs)
•SwimmingBird941: swimmingbird - unlocks the Plague Doctor Face (possibly a reference to the anime "Cowboy Bebop", as series protagonist Spike Spiegel is referred to as "Swimming Bird" by a Native American medicine man named Laughing Bull)
•Far From Subtle: AWESOMEVIDEOGAMES - unlocks the Big Mustache (an in-joke from their series VideoGames AWESOME!)
•The Speed Gamers: TheSpeedGamers - unlocks the Final Hour sword (a speedrunning-themed sword)
•Egoraptor: Egoraptor - unlocks Hey I'm Grump (a helmet of Arin Hanson's stylized head from Game Grumps' intro)
•Game Grumps: Grumps - unlocks I'm Not So Grump (a helmet of Dan Avidan's stylized head from Game Grumps' intro)
•Mega64: Jarvis Meower - unlocks the Mega64 Helmet (a collage of various recurring in-jokes throughout Mega64's run)
•Kinda Funny Games: TEAMFAT - unlocks A Kinda Funny Mask (the company's logo, the code being a reference to the #TeamFat in-joke from one of their series)
•The Zaibatsu Clan (Super Best Friends Play): BULLFIGHTER - unlocks The-Baz Mask (a mask based on an original character created by Super Best Friends Play who has made cameo appearances in various indie games)
•AlphaOmegaSin: ALPHAOMEGASIN - unlocks the Darkness Descends sword (possibly a reference to the studio album of the same name by American thrash metal band Dark Angel, which AlphaOmegaSin has described as "one of my go-to albums")
•Game Sack: 8MEGAPOWER - unlocks the Game Sack Strip sword (a reference to an in-joke regarding various novelty power strips)
•Vinesauce: SPONGYVINE - unlocks the Vine Sword (a sword themed around Vinesauce game glitch/corruption content with a green mushroom [Vinesauce's logo, the "Vineshroom"] as the sword's helm). The name of the code is derived from Sponge, a recurring in-joke character from their streams who is depicted as the depressed third Mario brother.
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month November 15, 2023
Bonus codes video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDISF6e4YM

Gallery of all Credits Clan items:
https://imgur.com/a/DRIyHuU

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night weapons vote results:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/posts/1258115

ProtonJon Let's Play of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow with intro about being selected to contribute to Bloodstained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOJLCMAgNik

Operation Akumajo sources:
https://www.facebook.com/operation.akumajo/
https://bloodstained.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Operation_Akumaclan

AlphaOmegaSin tweet:
https://twitter.com/AlphaOmegaSin/status/867957402003361792
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person chocolatejr9 calendar_month November 10, 2023
The Mysterious Murasame Castle
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Attachment In 1986, Nintendo and Fuji Television produced a 70-minute TV special based on The Mysterious Murasame Castle for the weekly one-shot drama series "Getsuyou Drama Land" (Monday Drama Land). The special, like many other episodes in the later years of Getsuyou Drama Land's run, featured members of the popular J-Pop girl group Onyanko Club as cast members, and starred Masaki Kyomoto as the game's protagonist Takamaru. The special aired once on December 8, 1986, almost eight months after the game's release, and never aired again. It was later released on DVD in 2005 as part of the box set "Onyanko Club in Getsuyou Drama Land DVD Box 2".

The special's existence and DVD release flew under the international radar until 2023, when a user named Ruka, after being prompted in a 4chan thread to verify claims that the special was lost media based on an uncited edit on the game's English Wikipedia article, discovered that copies of the box set were actually being offered on Yahoo! Auctions. Ruka subsequently placed a bid and won a copy from the auction, and YouTuber Haruko Please uploaded the special to YouTube the following week. With its rediscovery, it's thought to be one of the first live-action adaptations of a video game, and is also the earliest known product to come from Nintendo's collaborations with Fuji, which after this special's airing continued with Yume Koujou: Doki-doki Panic.
person MehDeletingLater calendar_month November 8, 2023
Star Fox Adventures
subdirectory_arrow_right Dinosaur Planet (Game)
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Attachment Star Fox Adventures has (to say the least) a pretty infamous scene where Fox McCloud, upon visiting the rooftop of Krazoa Palace for the first time, sees the imprisoned and unconscious Krystal and becomes immediately infatuated with her at first sight, all while romantic saxophone music plays in the background.

According to the game's composer, David Wise, the saxophone music was a satirical tongue-in-cheek reference and nod to the Love Theme from the film "Blade Runner", which was composed by Vangelis. The music itself is a remix of the theme that was originally composed for Discovery Falls, an area from Dinosaur Planet that was cut in the transition to Star Fox Adventures, and thus can now be heard in Cape Claw in the final game.
person Dinoman96 calendar_month November 4, 2023
Star Fox Adventures - "She's Beautiful" cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuV0ZlGd23w

David Wise interview:
https://www.raregamer.co.uk/rare-musician-tepid-seat/

Dinosaur Planet - Discovery Falls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf2c8VII3sA?t=57

Star Fox Adventures - Cape Claw music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYYoq4ychjw?t=17
PaRappa the Rapper
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In the Jet Baby theme song, Jet Baby is referred to with female pronouns, but when PaRappa and his friends walk out of the cinema and discuss the movie, they refer to her with male pronouns.
Air Twister
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In an October 5, 2023 interview with the game's director and producer Yu Suzuki published in the Gematsu website, he stated that he was a long-time fan of Dutch musician Valensia when he asked him to compose the game's soundtrack, and thought that his music went really well with fantasy. When the development team had the Air Twister prototype in hand, Suzuki matched up gameplay from it with some of Valensia’s songs and was convinced that it was the best fit. While Suzuki didn't know if Valensia was still active as an artist, he looked him up on social media to get in contact with him, introduced himself, and straight out said he wanted to work with Valensia, leading to the collaboration.
Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Edition
subdirectory_arrow_right Just Dance (Franchise)
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Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Version has a mere 10 songs, the least amount of songs of any Just Dance game.
Wolverine: Adamantium Rage
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Attachment The music track "Tri-Fusion" composed by Dylan Beale for the SNES version of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage is considered by some to be one of the earliest songs in the grime music genre, predating "Crime" by Dizzee Rascal and "Year 2000" by Wiley by 6 years. At the time, Beale was a member of the jungle music duo Rude & Deadly and used his task to write music for the game "as an opportunity to try out a West Coast hip-hop sound, but the faster boss tracks were more influenced by jungle". Beale only had 200kb of sample space to work with due to the limitation of 16-bit game cartridges, resulting in a rough, digital sound comparable to early grime tracks. Describing his work, Beale said: "I basically sampled an orchestral stab and the bass, a hi-hat, snare, a few things like that, then I had to trim them down to minute sizes". In 2023, Beale released the game's soundtrack to purchase on Bandcamp as a digital download or vinyl double LP, alongside an extended version of "Tri-Fusion".
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month October 23, 2023
Buck Bumble
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Buck Bumble composer Justin Scharvona chose UK garage as the genre for the game's soundtrack in response to the genre's under-representation in gaming at the time relative to related musical genres such as trance, techno, jungle, and drum-and-bass.
Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
subdirectory_arrow_right Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (Game), Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (Game), Ogre Battle (Collection)
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The series takes several naming cues from the English glam rock band Queen, who are highly popular in Japan. The name of the series itself, Ogre Battle, comes from a song off of Queen's 1974 sophomore album Queen II; another song on the album, "The March of the Black Queen", is the namesake for the series' first installment. The second game, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, takes its name from Queen's 1976 song "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)", an homage to their Japanese fanbase.

Another Queen reference in The March of the Black Queen can be found with one of its regions, the Rhyan Sea. The area's name comes from "Seven Seas of Rhye", a song which appears in an unfinished instrumental form on Queen's 1973 self-titled debut and was later completed with vocals on Queen II.
Danganronpa: Live or Die
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The idea of giving each of the characters a favorite song was inspired by another Danganronpa fangame, Danganronpa V4 Rocky Restarts.
Dance Dance Revolution A20
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As of October 8th, 2023, "MAX 360"'s Singles Challenge Chart holds the record for highest note count of all DDR songs (excluding long versions of songs), at 1,000 steps.
person aa1205 calendar_month October 9, 2023
RemyWiki Page for the song:
https://remywiki.com/MAX_360

MAX 360 Challenge Chart:
https://youtu.be/s3-fp5Mnme4?si=1YkekY_o-kvRl5MQ
Sound Voltex: Vivid Wave
subdirectory_arrow_right Dance Dance Revolution A20 (Game)
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The song "Bi" (び, pronounced like "bee") is notable for containing an 8-measure long, 16th note jackhammer section (a section of hitting the same button continuously) in its Maximum Chart. Fittingly, the jackhammer in question is the B Button.

When brought over to Dance Dance Revolution A20, and later A20 Plus, the Challenge Chart for the song references this section, using down arrows for its jackhammer, mirroring the position of the B Button in Sound Voltex.
person aa1205 calendar_month September 30, 2023
RemyWiki page for Bi:
https://remywiki.com/Bi

Sound Voltex Maximum Chart for Bi (Starting at Jackhammer):
https://youtu.be/CSXebF3hNdw?si=q69n0YJsJU2SH2Xs&t=75

Dance Dance Revolution Challenge Chart for Bi (Starting at Jackhammer):
https://youtu.be/Ik3Sa3U9m4U?si=e67wUQ0z3hgTBziE&t=75
Pop'n Music 11
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The song "Space Dog" is based on Laika, a Russian dog who became the first animal to orbit Earth from the Sputnik 2 spacecraft in 1957, and also died in the process.
This is further referenced in the song's genre "UCHU-RYOKOU" (ウチュウリョコウ), which is Japanese for "space journey".
person aa1205 calendar_month September 30, 2023
RemyWiki page for the song:
https://remywiki.com/Space_Dog

The song in question:
https://youtu.be/K2MDIMrodZY
Street Fighter 6
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According to English voice actor Aleks Le in his YouTube video "LUKE SINGS TMNT THEME SONG (OFFICIAL) SF6", he stated that in February 2023, he had dinner with the game's director Takayuki Nakayama, who said that he and his team really loved Aleks' passion and watching at all the cool and funny things Aleks did with the character both in-game and online. Nakayama then asked Aleks if he could get Luke to sing a song, to which he replied: "Me? No, I don't know how to sing... But Luke? Even if he's bad..." Nakayama's idea was to recruit Aleks to sing the lyrics to a new arrangement of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song, arranged by CAP-JAMS to promote Street Fighter 6's TMNT DLC. Aleks commented that this performance was his first time trying to sing and that his vocal coach for the recording sessions was Jason Miller, who provided vocals for the song "Rules of Nature" from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 28, 2023
Dance Dance Revolution A
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Attachment The song "First Time", despite being credited as "BEMANI Sound Team 'Metal Stepper'", does not reflect this in the song's jacket, simply referring to the composer as "Metal Stepper".
This suggests that the song's jacket was created prior to the BEMANI Sound Team rebranding.
person aa1205 calendar_month September 28, 2023
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
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In an interview with the game's music supervisor Keiji Kawamori published on the PlayStation.Blog on September 14, 2023, he was asked what he could reveal about the soundtrack and music for the game. He responded that because the game's world is much larger than Final Fantasy VII Remake, the team made a variety of new music to go alongside it and also expanded the variety of musical genres used, so he thought there would be a lot to enjoy. They also made many re-arrangements of classic tracks from the original Final Fantasy VII, and Kawamori hoped fans would enjoy comparing both iterations of the same song to see what's the difference. He cited the Release Date Announcement trailer's music being a re-arrangement of the Final Fantasy VII main theme as a battle music track as an example of this to give players a taste of the direction the team chose to take in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
Pop'n Music: Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume
subdirectory_arrow_right Sound Voltex IV: Heavenly Haven (Game), Bemani (Franchise), Konami (Company)
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The Pop'n Music songs "Dance to Blue (Respect Style)" and "Mychronicle", along with the Sound Voltex song "GERBERA" were all initially credited to "BEMANI Sound Team" (Or "伊藤賢治 Remixed by BEMANI Sound Team" in the case of "Dance to Blue (Respect Style)").
These songs marked the first usages of such a moniker in BEMANI games.
It wouldn't be until December 2017 that these songs received the altered credits "伊藤賢治 Remixed by BEMANI Sound Team 'PON'", "BEMANI Sound Team 'positive MAD-crew'", and "BEMANI Sound Team 'TAG'" respectively.
Since then, all in-house BEMANI songs have been credited as BEMANI Sound Team "Artist Name".
Though no official breakdown for the BEMANI Sound Team moniker has been given, some theorize the change was either to distinguish in-house composers from commissioned artists (i.e. kors k and Ryu☆), or due to policies from a pachinko company merger with Konami, mandating reduced visibility of staff.
person aa1205 calendar_month September 26, 2023
RemyWiki page on BEMANI Sound Team:
https://remywiki.com/BEMANI_Sound_Team

RemyWiki page on Dance to Blue (Respect Style):
https://remywiki.com/Dance_to_Blue_(Respect_Style)

Pop'n Music footage of Dance to Blue (Respect Styel) with BEMANI Sound Team credit:
https://youtu.be/5ttNrmlyApU?si=XoBpYu99YFNM7nzn

RemyWiki page on Mychronicle:
https://remywiki.com/Mychronicle

Pop'n Music footage of Mychronicle:
https://youtu.be/lPAyl856a8g?si=2fXsyAuHC75V-8RR

RemyWiki page on GERBERA:
https://remywiki.com/GERBERA

Sound Voltex footage of GERBERA:
https://youtu.be/-10mmR24P_0?si=KTfLSB7eqCpD-CRi
Metroid Prime
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According to programmer Zoid Kirsch, the reason why Metroid Prime had elevators were because, as a mainstay of the 2D Metroid series, they were used for three primary technical reasons that were also present in the series' first 3D game: world maps could only be up to a certain size, sound banks needed to be changed, and the transitions helped to clear up any memory fragmentation.

1. The world size limit was due to floating point precision. If Samus got too far from the origin, her movement would start stuttering since the values would get too large. When this story was originally posted to Twitter in 2022, Robin Lavallée, a former lead programmer at Ubisoft, suggested that Retro Studios could have shifted floating points where after a certain distance, everything would be shifted back closer to origin, citing this as something done during the development of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. However, Kirsch replied back that the team deliberately avoided doing this out of concern that it would cause bugs. Instead, Samus moves consistently through the world as it loads around her.

2. For the sound banks, the MusyX sound system can stream music but it couldn’t for sound effects. Each world had a different set of sounds that were loaded while the elevator cut scene is running.

3. The GameCube doesn't have any virtual memory and everything is allocated from the physical RAM. The elevator loads caused all memory to be freed between the worlds, cleaning up any fragmentation.

One of the game's tech leads Jack Mathews hardcoded the different elevator cutscenes into the game. It's not a "room" at all, nor is it a prerendered video file, but it's coded directly in C++ and does not run through the usual game systems for camera control, etc. They also feature crossfades since it had fixed rendering, one of the only places the developers could afford to render overlapped scenes.
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