c64 music - R-type by C. Huelsbeck & R. Vaca

[ymoaeye]

NICE!

[DaMaster1983]

I cant get to this level with 128 polyphonic haha

[metroidfannumber1]

and now to do the super r type remixes

(crosses fingers)

[NatoDiNuovo]

THAT's a REAL 8 bit sound!!! Love C=64!

[Pokpal178]

"ELECTRIC DREAMS" "RAINBOW ARTS" Hmm...

[TronPachioftheDynamo]

C64? Having good music? Waaaaat!?

[SoanosBarcoded]

@TronPachioftheDynamo You'd better believe it. ;)

[VITRUVVII]

Great bass line!!!  =)

[Goddot]

the alien looks kinda cute. It looks like it's trying to say hello.

[birckrenan]

Rather awesome, specially considering its age and the limitations of the hardware employed.

[giovannibulgari]

1:19 transition! FUuuukkkk

[YAMAHA2612]

sweet!



[morttivertti]

I used to play this game again and again just to hear all this great music.

[morketsmakt]

better then sex

[sys64738anotherone]

The first time, I saw this intro's alien, i just said "wow". The same goes for the tune.

[ntt688]

superb, the intro

[blade004]

I can't watch these video's of the old C64 games too much, the music gets me all emotional (and this a 36 year old man writing this) which doesn't do my adrenal function much good ;)

I got R-Type on Cassette Tape when i was about 13 or 14 years old... simply beautiful :)

[liekmudkip]

Damn I remember playing this game through more than one night back in the days when c64 was the one machine to have.

[NARFNra]

Woah, Level 7 is... epic in this version O.o

[WallyBangerC]

I honestly think these sound better than the original arcade versions. They're so upbeat and full of energy, plus the melodies really stand out.

And that title screen music, oh my God.

[Veyoun]

Oh HOLY God! I used to play this game hours and hours back in my younger days ^^ I still LOVE this game and the Music is EPIC like nothing before :) This brings back so many great and loved memorys :)

[licksers]

sooo powerful tune this one!!! the bass is just amazing!!

[Turrican0815]

For all the younger viewers. These songs were created at a time without: Internet, mobile phones or electronic dance music ... C64 / SID = Legendary !

[kojiki1976]

Very nice compilation of all the themes! I wish someone would do the same for the ST version...

[lasercult]

Epic track is epic.

[siipikarja]

Thanks for uploading. Brilliant stuff. :)

[inphanta]

I love the title tune from this game! Great upload. :)

[OnlyGoodCommie]

These tunes sound even better played through Sidplay in high quality stereo sound.

A REAL SID panorama opens out then.

[einokeino303]

c64 audio is mono by default and this is why I recorded these tunes in mono.

The stereo option in Sidplay artificially separates channels in a sid track and assigns these to left and right audio channels (much like Amiga does naturally). This option is most useful if you wish to record samples from sid tracks for your own songs.

I would imagine that one would require two separate sid chips to produce true stereo sounds on a c64.

[blade004]

@einokeino303 Keeping it mono is the better option anyway, we need to keep it authentic but it doesn't need stereo because it sounds incredible regardless ;)

[Maronatis]

@einokeino303 Jeri Ellsworth did that -> watch?v=_7Ze8X9rQdI

[ivoman7]

Truly amazing. Most defenatly the best video I will see on youtube today. No kidding! AWSOME!

[hyraxaus]

What was truely amazing about the C64 port was that they pulled the music off using only two channels (except the for the title music) and the third channel was used for in-game sound FX. They had to speed up the tempo a bit to "fill" the music a bit, but I reckon Ramiro did a brilliant job and gave the C64's port a very unique feel to it, retaining the arcade feel and excitement.

[einokeino303]

What you said is absolutely true, In most c64 games you had to choose between music and fx. In this one you could have both at the same time and all this with only three channels. Pretty amazing indeed.

[BassGoesBoom1]

@hyraxaus

i think there was an extra channel for white noise

[Enysvar]

This is great, good memories in this one :D

[Laoch111]

Awesome example of the C64 SID chips power.