The Music of Video Games [389] Akumajou Densetsu
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Uploaded by garudoh on Oct 18, 2008
Entry 389 in an on-going video series that offers a selection of musical tracks from various titles throughout gaming's history.
Akumajou Densetsu
Legend of Demon Castle (tjp)
Castlevania III (alt)
Castlevania 3 (alt)
悪魔城伝説 (jp)
Year: 1989
Platform: Famicom
Developer: Konami Industry Co. Ltd.
Publisher: Konami Industry Co. Ltd.
Video source: virusinfection1
For more info on the game, follow these links:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/castlevania-iii-draculas-curse-
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/home/587180.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akumajou_Densetsu
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Music composed by Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi and Yukie Morimoto.
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The extra sound chip just adds two more rectangle channels and a saw wave channel. It makes for a big difference but i'd hardly call it better then a Megadrive or Snes
The Japanese Mr. Gimmick! has better music.
2 years ago 13
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And even then, Castlevania 3 Jap doesn't even compare to the last game Konami made for the Famicom. Lagrange Point, a space-themed RPG, had the successor to Castlevania 3's VRC-6 chip which is named, of course, the VRC-7. It enhanced the music with 8 FM-wave channels, which literally gave the game the sound quality of a Sega MegaDrive.
2 years ago 10
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I love the way the soundtrack sounds in this version of the game. So awesome...
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the adventures of Trev-... I mean Ralph Belmondo
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The saw wave + the two extra rectangle channels make some musics sound like it is played by an harpiscord and that fit so well with the Castlevania atmosphere. And just for this, Famicom version > NES version.
It's really a shame that Nintendo of America didn't allow third party extra chips on the NES. On top of that, they moved the extra audio pins under the NES... Maybe if they didn't do this second thing, we could have had Castlevania 3 with the 2 extra rectangle channels from the MMC5...
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@wazkatango The VRC7 is also somewhat superior the YM2612 in the genesis at least it's much easier to write music for it and sure theres no real PCM channel like on the genesis only the DPCM which can make very good sounds if used well however those samples took a lot of space on carts so they weren't used much But if you count that there's still the original NES hardware providing assistance and for the Genesis there are only the crappy PSG channels from the master system you see the difference
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@andyukmonkey Off topic from this video, but I feel that I feel that the FC + VRC-6 is actually superior to the SNES's chip, if only because I like synths (clear, crisp sound) a whole lot more compared to crappy sampled music (Not that it was all bad though. Tim Follin did some pretty impressive stuff with that chip, but the sound quality is still crap.).
Also, while I like Mr. Gimmicks music - Sunsoft was awesome- I don't think it's quite as good as this.
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@retread01 THANK YOU!!!!! I'm so glad somebody agrees with me! Only an idiot would argue that the NES version is actually better than this. Now, as far as preference, I do understand that some people *prefer* the US version's dumbed-down music, and that's fine. They are entitled to their opinion. But saying that the NES version of this is BETTER? That's like saying you prefer Bach when played on cheap Casio keyboards.
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Anyone that claims the NES version of this soundtrack is better than the Famicom needs to take off their rose-tinted headphones. I don't care what you grew up with, the Japanese version is objectively much better. NES versions are anaemic failed attempts at trying to capture the VRC6 originals, ending up sounding worse than many native NES arrangements.
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The NES music completely Destroys this.
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@NeoSonicStrike I prefer the Famicom music by far.
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Drums are inferior to the VRC6 version and the extra saw bass is just better than use the triangle channel. Really the sound quality is that good.
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You have already done this. Not the same name, but same songs. Episode 12 of your list of soundtracks is already this. Just that you named it's American name.
mailanbr 3 years ago
Pretty sure I remember the games I cover. I'll let you read the comments made by other users to figure out what this video is.
garudoh 3 years ago 9