Official Nintendo Consoles Music Thread (Thanks for Listening!)

Maybe I need to get some bongos in my hands, then - or just below my hands on the ground, I suppose.

I figured the Balls Man wasn't a fan from the games' conspicuous absence from previous weeks.

I just missed the bongo "thing" when it came around, so I've never played Konga or, more pressingly, Jungle Beat. Didn't want to play it with 'Mote & 'chuk either.

I haven't done Jungle Beat, I will have to get on that at some point.

Drunkalilly wrote:

I haven't done Jungle Beat, I will have to get on that at some point.

A game I also have to get my hands on, always heard good things.


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Anyhow spent an hour or so playing Donkey Konga on Friday & the songs really are incredibly cheese-y but its still tremendous fun to to tap & clap along to them, the less said about the unlockable mini games the better though.

My copy of New Play Control! Jungle Beat kept me happy for hours. I'd love to play the original in the way it was intended to be played.

Question for Jas; did you play it properly or "pro"? I find it much more fun to beat the drums and clap,  but when I went for a high score contest I put my thumbs on the drums with my index fingers on the edges, pressing them like buttons and tapping to clap. I might as well have been using a pad.

Drunkalilly wrote:

Question for Jas; did you play it properly or "pro"? I find it much more fun to beat the drums and clap,  but when I went for a high score contest I put my thumbs on the drums with my index fingers on the edges, pressing them like buttons and tapping to clap. I might as well have been using a pad.

Aye I went with the proper way, I've tried the other way you mention but could never really pull it off that well.

GNamer's Music Week 104
Robots in Disguise Week!

So the new Transformers film is out tomorrow (I'm going to see it at midnight tonight) and I wanted to honour that with my music week. Alas, everyone's favourite transforming autonomous robotic organism war has been poorly served on Nintendo consoles so I can't use the incredible music from the Cybertron games. I did have a lot of fun on the tie-in game from the first film on Wii, but it would be cheating to use Steve Jablonsky's amazing score.

So here's a quality tune from Chibi Robo instead!

I really need to go back and play this for reals. I had it back in the day but it was when I never played my games enough before trading them. And now it's ridiculously pricey on Amazon. Roll on Gamecube VC!

Drunkalilly wrote:

So here's a quality tune from Chibi Robo instead!

APPROVED - actually sounds a bit naff to start with - but when you see all the bits in the game where this is used...   
So... 3/4 Jazz!

I really need to play this game at all. Even having not played it, I can get a good idea of the sort of moments those MIDI strings underline. They're not happy ones.

Jimbob's piece is better, though. Funk on down!

You could of gone for Transformers Prime which was on Wii & Wii U or the many DS games but not sure of the soundtrack quality of any of them. But I think primes intro music is the menu music on the game.

The DS games are all surprisingly playable, actually. The prime game was gash though. Like I said, it would be cheating to just use music from the films and tv series.

But doesn't matter if the game is gash if the soundtrack is okay but yeah is kinda cheating to use tunes from other mediums. The Wii did get some transformers games with one being Cybertron Adventures not sure if it uses the same soundtrack as the other Cybertron games.

Been chilling to some Pokemon remixes this week, by PokeRemixStudio. Cool stuff so I think I'll do a theme batch for once.


Colress theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bn6_XRHZ3U

Cynthia's Battle theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Iy8H7cWNk

Sinnoh gym leader battle theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T3dZFe-E5E

Lance/Red battle theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgZ2lAGu1rc

Sinnoh trainer battle theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pby2KQS5DrY

And lastly, Johto trio battle theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zZY4QzMi0

Notable mentions for the Iris, mt Pyre, and a bunch more.

GNamer Music Week 105
Forgotten Wii Gems Week
This week was going to be Little King's Story, but I still haven't finished that particular beast so it'll probably be week after next now (next week is part two in a continuing series ). However, I have hooked my Wii up in my bedroom now, meaning that I'll be able to sink more time into LKS and meaning I went back and fired up a few of the ol' classics from the Wii days. So this week, here's some tunes from a fun, bizarre little Nintendo experiment I bet you all forgot existed...


Main theme
This game had an epic, Hollywood-esque main theme tune that made it feel like a big summer blockbuster, or the greatest season of 24 never made. Even when Nintendo and Monolithsoft create a weird little project that accidentally parodies the audience it's aimed at and boils down to disparate, almost minigame playstyles, they can't help but do it really, really well.

One hell of a day
Standard music to signify bad things happening, I link to this one mostly because the top Youtube comment decided this was the appropriate way to show their support and solidarity to sufferers of the actual tragic nuclear disaster in Japan three years ago.

Contact
Standard shooty action-scene music, with an undercurrent of AMERICA! The 24 similarities are really apt; the game all took place in one unbelievably unpleasant day, it actually had almost the exact plot of the PS2 24 game and although it's leading man didn't have Keifer Sutherland's gravitas, Raymond Bryce did have a phenomenal chinstrap beard.

Theme of Sadness
You all know I'm a sucker for sad, melancholy music and this game had a really powerful bit in loads of ash.

There was also a bit with a bear.

Is that... NGC's Bad News Bear?  

Great music, too, especially the two "action" pieces. Looks horrible though.

Yep, that's the bear.
When I played this back in the day, I thought it looked and played great. Now... I probably wouldn't recommend it.

Aye, I got Disaster Day of Crisis just a couple of year back, and didn't see why it had ever been mentioned again. It's different on a Nintendo system, but were it on PS3 or 360 it would have hammered by David Jenkins and the rest of that sort of mob with 1/10 reviews and such bollocks.

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Not to hijack the thread, but I completed the fifth Layton game last night and heard this for the first time. Ska in a Layton game was not expected.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cTXGVe7zZE

Oh no, feel free to derail; I totally pulled D:DoC out of my arse at the last minute because I wasn't ready with either of the other two games I wanted to do.

It's a great credit piece, no doubt (one I mentioned in week 22  ).  I personally prefer the vocal version in the Japanese game, and I'm not quite sure whether the Japrish makes it better or worse.

I've got a couple of interruptions to make: perhaps later on in the week I'll do one.

Do you want to do them as weeks? I've got next week and the week after planned, then after that I don't have anything up my sleeve until Super Metroid so if you wanted to squeeze a couple weeks in, that'd be cool.

I could do this coming week, if you'd like?

That'd be when I was planning to Metroid ii, but you could do week 107?

Whenever is convenient, Drunka.  Shoot me an MP that week, and I'll post some "ill choons".