This game reminds me of the first day of summer break. Waking up knowing that I did not have to go to school and had the whole day to play this amazing game!
Man, that extra sound chip in the Famicon version makes a world of difference.
@enrkm85
3 жыл бұрын
I just got sent here from a comment on the US version. Iv played this game so much and the sound is so amazing! I still like the old bit sound, but this is so much more... Fuller. if you get me.
@mindblow7617
3 жыл бұрын
it could pass as a snes track, this is awesome
@ShadowWolfTJC
3 жыл бұрын
@@mindblow7617 Methinks it would've also passed nicely as a Sega Genesis track.
@mindblow7617
3 жыл бұрын
@@ShadowWolfTJC true!
@masterchain3335
3 жыл бұрын
Do you know if there were any other games that got an extra chip like this, or was this unique in that regard?
@knkracing594
9 жыл бұрын
これがVRC6の底力
@tumtum7584
4 жыл бұрын
Time stamps for mobile: 00:01 - Prelude 01:44 - Epitaph 02:35 - Prayer 02:46 - Beginning 04:36 - Boss fight 06:07 - Boss clear 06:14 - Destiny 06:52 - Clockwork 08:26 - Mad forest 10:05 - Anxiety 12:18 - Rising 14:07 - Stream 15:31 - Dead beat 17:10 - Nightmare 18:48 - Encounter 19:22 - Aquarius 20:45 - Demon seed 22:17 - Deja vu 23:25 - Riddle 24:59 - Pressure 25:37 - Overture 27:41 - Big battle 29:03 - Big battle II 30:15 - All clear 30:25 - Evergreen 31:32 - Flash back 32:44 - Game Over 32:55 - Big battle III
Japanese boys can not forget the impact of this sound from home television even now. I think it was good to live in Japan....
@SpartanFromSpain
4 жыл бұрын
im pretty sure castlevania was not popular in Japan
@ItsCoolFromSaturn
4 жыл бұрын
@@SpartanFromSpain Yours is perhaps one of the dumbest comments I have ever seen in my life.
@ItsCoolFromSaturn
4 жыл бұрын
@@trenchantarchbishop5759 Same question reversed? I can see this becoming cyclical so let's enjoy the nice video game music.
@memberofchat2825
4 жыл бұрын
@@SpartanFromSpain not popular doesn't mean nobody played it
@takaoiwate
4 жыл бұрын
The Castlevania series is extremely popular in Japan. 3DS, Wii, Playstation. .. .. .. It is available on a wide range of platforms. If you think it's a lie, come to Japan! and Let's play together!
@m.3.3.w
8 жыл бұрын
It's sad the Konami we all know and love is gone...
@Iliek
8 жыл бұрын
Komani is just a company, it was the men in that company who made it great who unfortunately are no longer with them that has caused its downfall.
@phuturephunk
7 жыл бұрын
And women. Many of the composers from the music school that they sourced from were actually women. This soundtrack included.
@Jucelegario
7 жыл бұрын
I'm playing Metal Gear Solid V, it says 2016 and it has the Konami quality all over. Can't believe that they only want to sell casual games for smartphones these days. They will turn these huge franchises into pure shit.
@HaveYouTriedGuillotines
7 жыл бұрын
Never again will pantsless Belmonts grace our lands.
@valium445
7 жыл бұрын
submit to the pachinko machines or perish
@kaedrik5064
3 жыл бұрын
This soundtrack single handedly convinced me to import an av famicom and disk system.
One of the greatest Starting Level songs of all time!
@hiyokotd
7 жыл бұрын
FC音楽の金字塔。かっこよすぎ
@JamiePryke
6 жыл бұрын
I love how crisp these old sound chips were. God it's glorious. No hiding behind tons of effects, this stuff was just composed well and sounds better for it.
@lvbboi9
2 жыл бұрын
"No hiding behind tons of effects" I've never seen a game do that.
@MrMarinus18
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe the wrong sound to use as an example. This one has more sound channels and effects than any other famicom game.
@fllthdcrb
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrMarinus18 Well, not "any" other Famicom game. Putting aside other PSGs that were in Famicom carts, as well as the FDS' own sound capabilities, there were two other games using this same chip, both from Konami (since it was their chip): _Esper Dream 2_ and _Mōryō Senki MADARA._ Both of those soundtracks should also be on this channel, and both sound quite nice, though it is perhaps true that _this_ game's is the best sounding of the three.
@MrMarinus18
2 жыл бұрын
@@fllthdcrb I do know there were other chips used but I do know this one had more sound channels added than any other since it was one of the last dedicated chips for the Famicom. My main point was that this is not really an indiciation of the sound capabilities of the Famicom. It was far beyond it.
@Margatroid
2 жыл бұрын
@@Cue-Ball. LOL, "shouldn't be stigamtised." You're like one of those little Pod People whose entire vocabulary consists of whiny histrionic internet meme phrases. The contents of your mind have 0% relation to physical reality. And you can't even use English correctly. The phrase "a uneducated boomer" is the most ironic thing I've heard in a while. It's _an,_ you little choad. _An._ Learn to speak properly before you open your mouth. And beyond that, have something interesting to say. No one's interested in your insecure, narcissitic hyper-reactive verbal diarrhea. You aren't a "composer." You're a child.
i dont think i can ever listen to the US versions again
@sudacagamer
6 жыл бұрын
Some of them sound "better" on the US version. Password theme, Boss theme, Destiny, Clockwork and Pressure come to mind
@troywright359
6 жыл бұрын
DISAGREE. STRONGLY. The US version is not some totally separate OST by design choice, like Sonic CD. It is butchered from the original due to technical reasons. So unlike Sonic CD US version which can still be it's own thing, the US Castlevania 3 is forever inferior
@sudacagamer
6 жыл бұрын
yeeeeah, so Castlevania 3 OST was for decades one of the best (if not the best) NES OST ever but suddenly it`s bad because of the technically superior japanese version that no one ever listened until a couple of years ago. GTFO.
@troywright359
6 жыл бұрын
This isn't about patriotism, "stars and stripes forever over those inferior weebs" it's really not
@jknintendo
6 жыл бұрын
The Japanese version beats out the US version always with the one exception of Clockwork
@たなかたなか-s9x
4 жыл бұрын
やはり、beginningが神曲すぎる、、、
@WilfredBrimleyGaming
8 жыл бұрын
This is really well done. If you're gonna play this via emulator get the japanese version patched to english to experience the enhanced audio
@ScatterbrainPete
7 жыл бұрын
kaabiimaster No, it isn't. You need a patch. Or you can just download 'Legend of Demon Castle' from emuparadise, which is basically the same thing but with the Japanese rom included and ready to be played on an emulator.
There are a total of 4 composers in this album. The Japanese version is Hidenori Maezawa (前沢秀憲), Jun Funahashi (船橋淳), Yukie Morimoto (森本幸恵), the US version is Yoshinori Sasaki (佐々木嘉則)
@williamdrum9899
3 жыл бұрын
I feel kinda bad for Sasaki, his job was basically to take this awesome sound track and make it poopoo. Wasn't his fault, he was porting it to a system with weaker hardware
@Azel954
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. Kudos to Konami for having 4 composers on an 8-bit title. Is there information about the composers for more of their Famicom games? I know some of their names are hidden in the credits/staff rolls.
@camulodunon
2 жыл бұрын
@@williamdrum9899 I actually prefer much of the NES soundtrack over this.
@Rhannmah
Жыл бұрын
@@williamdrum9899 He did an incredible job. The Castlevania 3 NES OST is no slouch.
@williamdrum9899
Жыл бұрын
@@Rhannmah True but the Famicom soundtrack is so much better
@Heathenfidel
3 ай бұрын
The NES version had better music than most Super Nintendo games. This version has better music than most video games. If this doesn't get your toes tapping, check your pulse; you may be dead.
When I first played Castlevania III in the 80s, It has always held a special place in my heart.
@Adamchevy
2 жыл бұрын
8:26 Mad Forest is one of the best chunes I have ever heard and is totally rad!!
@AdrianoSnake
5 жыл бұрын
Riddle theme is absolutely fantastic, this is the best soundtrack of all castlevania versions,not to mention the intro theme ,damn looks like its telling you a story .Simply amazing!!!
I started this on the Castlevania collection and my wife said “is that the end of the game? It sounds so epic.” I said “this is just the intro!” I loved Castlevania 3s music anyway, but when if we’d got this superior version, I would have lost it. Imagine if Mega Man II s soundtrack was like this!!!
Holy F------S---. I had no idea how much better this sounds with the Famicom sound chip.
@hallomeinnameistkarl216
4 күн бұрын
The Echo effect makes this Even Better
@SupermanMobius
6 жыл бұрын
ホント、BGMとして重宝する。 ただただ素晴らしいとしか言えない!
@isozo-i3v
8 жыл бұрын
It’s a VRC6 !
@mtunayucer
6 жыл бұрын
V R C 6 E F F E C T
@eddievhfan1984
4 жыл бұрын
I think this is just stock Famicom Disk System Audio. Which is still impressive, IMO.
@binguloid
4 жыл бұрын
no, the fds one is castlevania 2
@flyinyoku3543
4 жыл бұрын
@@eddievhfan1984 This is on the Famicom (or FDS, not sure which) and the game itself has a VRC6 chip that allows it to have more audio channels. The stock FDS audio (like in Zelda 1 and Castlevania 2) has more orchestral-sounding samples. This one has 2 extra square wave channels, with extra pulse width settings, and a sawtooth wave channel.
THIS SOUNDTRACK IS BANGING! Why is it so much better than ours? Like, a million, billion times. This soundtrack has depth, and energy, and is actually kind of spooky. Japanese music is just so good.
@davidchirinos1366
4 жыл бұрын
It’s due to the Famicom Disk System. It was an add on to the Famicom and, thanks to it, you could play games in the form of special disks that the tray could read, and this lead to games bigger in size compared to cartridges. However, one defining feature was the additional sound channels. Think of it as Sunsoft’s additional chip inside their cartridges that contained the bass samples; it’s the same here, only this time every game could make use of it because the add on has it inside. The Castlevania series on the NES is an example of that.
@RichKnight36
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidchirinos1366 Thanks for that!
@SuperpopeGaming
4 жыл бұрын
From Wikipedia: The Japanese cartridge contains a specialized "VRC6" coprocessor chip. The game's audio programmer, Hidenori Maezawa, assisted in the chip's creation. This chip added two extra pulse wave channels and a saw wave channel to the system's initial set of five sound channels. The majority of the music combines the channels to imitate the sound of a synthesized string section. Western versions of the NES did not have the ability to support external sound chips, so the North American release replaced the VRC6 with Nintendo's Memory Management Controller 5 (MMC5). The MMC5 chip's sound channels cannot be used with the NES, and the game's music had to be downgraded by Yoshinori Sasaki to comply with the NES's standard five channels.
@davidchirinos1366
4 жыл бұрын
SuperPope Gaming So wait, does the Disk Drive not include the additional sound channels, but they’re inside the cartridge? I thought they were the other way around :/
@SuperpopeGaming
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidchirinos1366 This music is from what we know as Castlevania 3. It wasn't on the disk system, only a cartridge with a special sound chip. What you said about the disk system is true, but it doesn't apply to this game.
@ibarrarzkyt
6 жыл бұрын
25:37 for some reason when I hear this song it makes me feel excited, some kind of flashbacks or good moments spinning in my mind when i was aged 8 years old, now I'm 30... The whole OST is a master piece
@アトチス
7 жыл бұрын
ファミコンの音楽は好きだけどこれは格別だな
@mr.reasonable4027
7 жыл бұрын
Wow, the robustness and fidelity of this soundtrack is incredible for the 8-bit era.
@blazi2293
5 жыл бұрын
The fact that this come from a NES game is just mindblowing. This is some Genesis level, and pretty close to a SNES
@cyan.6399
5 жыл бұрын
It was the Japanese version, which was on the Famicom. The FamiCom was superior to the NES despite technically being the same thing due to having the ability to put in more sound chips inside individual cartridges.
@cyan.6399
5 жыл бұрын
You have the VRC6 chip to thank for this.
@alexlush87
2 жыл бұрын
This is a masterpiece and famicom sounds like an orchestra with that additional sound chip in the cartridge!
@alistairblaire6001
3 жыл бұрын
I had no idea the JP version had different sound. This sounds incredible.
@EpicTyphlosionTV
Жыл бұрын
It has an audio expansion chip in the cartridge. The Konami VRC6 chip to be exact.
@rubenssalvador9885
9 жыл бұрын
VRC6 at its finest
@GMKalandar
8 жыл бұрын
+Rubens Salvador indeed ... this is the best soundtrack in the NES... it's gorgeus !!!!!!!!
@noelrivera4695
8 жыл бұрын
This is a great ost but check out Journey to Silius and Gimmick!
@rubenssalvador9885
8 жыл бұрын
Noel Rivera Indeed. Sun Soft rocks too
@Alianger
7 жыл бұрын
Too bad it's drenched in reverb and stereo effects
@Henchgirls
7 жыл бұрын
VRC6 on like... one of the few occasions it actually was used :P
What a horrible night for a curse...a curse that enables you to stay up all night listenting to these tracks...
@robintst
3 жыл бұрын
Pure VRC6 goodness. Konami had phenomenal music composers back then.
@rubendarioreymartinez2073
4 жыл бұрын
bueno yo jugé la version americana y es excelente juego, con el tiempo supe que la version japonesa tenia en su interior un chip dsp mejorado exclusivamente para reproducir esa banda sonora tan espectacular. gracias por el video. saludos desde colombia.
Fuck yeah man, it is good to know that games comming out in 90's had really good sound tracks :)
@Unperceived
8 жыл бұрын
It came out in 1989... It even says so on the title screen... That's even more impressive.
@suptestman
8 жыл бұрын
It is indeed impressive, But it sounds slightly better because of the Reverb that was added in!
@markkoetsier6475
8 жыл бұрын
Actually, 00:34:10 onwards (which is a 1:1 rip without any post effects) still sounds mighty impressive. This game _really_ doesn't need the reverbed versions to spice things up, 2A03 + VRC6 (with its quadruple pulse channels) is more than capable of simulating reverb on its own. Which the real tracks clearly demonstrate.
@suptestman
8 жыл бұрын
Mark Koetsier yeah still pretty good
@ぜろ-r1o
8 жыл бұрын
時計台ステージのメロディー最高。
@samza9233
5 жыл бұрын
Beginning, Clockwork, Riddle, Aquarius, Big Battle, ... nah damn it, it's all amazing.
@emefcue
Жыл бұрын
Ive been coming back to this soundtrack for years. I swear thousands of those plays are me 😂
@MadHatter015
Жыл бұрын
This is a completely different experience that the NES version. Unbelievable.
I used to play Castlevania with my son. Good old times...
@TheClaudinho2010
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jetfire507, He grew up playing the games and now works with computer science... ;)
@95ville95
7 жыл бұрын
TheClaudinho2010 You should play it with him again! I think you both would love it
@giovannyalpizar5351
6 жыл бұрын
You sir, have gone up a great step in parenthood and has reached this boy some classic gaming history. Teaching him some of the greatest Akumajou Dracula games at such an age. But was this long ago? Or was this recent, like ten years ago up to now?
@onairoffsetpodcast4013
5 жыл бұрын
Jomar Machado you “used to play with your son”?......fuck how old are we!?!?!?!
@AdrianoSnake
4 жыл бұрын
Back here almost one year after last time i posted about this masterpiece and still can't get enough of this even being a sega fan.The best soundtrack ever this japanese version.Just woowwwww!!!
@AppleCider56
4 жыл бұрын
02:46 Legit probably the best video game track of all time
@hernanrojas6749
4 жыл бұрын
Absolute masterpiece for the VRC6. All tracks amazing, but for me it is 25:37, can't get enough of that drum beat in 11/4 (4+4+3?) and harmony reminiscent of the intro to Pink Floyd's "Sheep" (but even more exciting, all due respect). Can't even begin to describe the amazing transition back to the start... Lost for words.
@kimmolaine8069
8 жыл бұрын
This sounds so damn good that I wanna marry this album.
@CowVersion9.03
3 жыл бұрын
Same bro...
@KingLich451
Жыл бұрын
@viniciusvbf
7 жыл бұрын
I can't believe this is a NES' game music. It's one of the best OST i have ever heard in a videogame.
@andylabardy242
Жыл бұрын
To be more precise, the Japanese NES itself: the Famicom ;)! Hehehe
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