“The Mario Drawing Song.” This Flipnote drawing tutorial, with original vocal music, was released on the Nintendo Channel a year ago. So why post it now?

Check out this lovely song from Special World 8 of Super Mario 3D Land:

I guess Nintendo borrowed a song from the in-development SM3DL for that Flipnote! And a year ago, we had no idea we were getting a preview of its soundtrack. How fun!

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[Via GoNintendo]

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Spelunker’s music performed by a percussion ensemble. I haven’t had an opportunity to post Spelunker music in a long time! This energetic arrangement should be a great way to start your Turkey Day. 

The only problem is that it makes me want to get back to Spelunker HD … just as I’m leaving home for the weekend.

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[Via @personasama]

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“Gate of Memories” by Motoi Sakuraba, from the Beyond the Labyrinth soundtrack. The Konamistyle page for tri-Ace’s 3DS dungeon RPG features this and nine other previews from the soundtrack, which Konamistyle will bundle with a special edition of the game (and also sell separately).

We’re verrrry sloooowly learning how this game works, something that I guess music samples won’t really help with. Still, it’s more information about this intriguing, kind of mysterious, game.

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Trailer for OverClocked Remix’s “Super Dodge Ball: Around the World” album, featuring 19 tracks from the NES game, rearranged and performed by OCR musicians. I guess I don’t know Super Dodge Ball’s music that well, as these songs sound totally unfamiliar…

Despite the fact that I’m apparently not as much of a fan as I thought I was, I think the music in the trailer still sounds pretty cool! And it’s free to download here.

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[Via Destructoid]

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Trailer for Vampire Variations, a Castlevania tribute coming October 31. Intended as a tribute to the original game with “references” to the others, this album seems to have a lot of guitar-heavy, totally metal reinterpretations of the series’ music, which is completely okay. It even features music by Metroid Metal creator Stemage.

Also completely okay: the album will be released for free. 

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[Via Dtoid]

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“Hietsuki Bushi” by Omodaka, featuring vocals by enka singer Akiko Kanazawa, from the new album Sanosa. Eric linked me to this video this morning and I basically can’t believe how amazing this track is. Who knew traditional Japanese music and chip tracks could go so well together? Who knows how many times I’m going to listen to this today?

The album is available for download from HearJapan. Each of the 20 tracks is ¥100 each, but if you buy the whole album, it’s just ¥1000/$12.85. And then you don’t have to load up YouTube to listen to this song.

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[Via @colettebennett]

tags / chiptunes / holy crap guys this is so good / jc / omodaka / gaming / music / sanosa

“Rockman 5 Darkman Arrange Side-R” from the album “We are Rock-Men!” Capcom will release this arrangement album in Japan on September 21… which just happens to be my birthday. Thanks, Capcom!

The track is pretty dang listenable! And, as a nice bonus, the title of the album reminds me of Takahashi Meijin’s “We are Bomber-MEEEEEN!”, which is just a great thing to be reminded of.

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Remixed Final Fantasy theme from Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, the music-based RPG coming to 3DS from Indies Zero (Retro Game Challenge, Electroplankton).

Andriasang shared some gameplay details:

“You’ll be able to select a title, from Final Fantasy 1 through Final Fantasy XIII. Each title has three stages: ‘field’, ‘battle’, and ‘event’. Each of these stages has different different gameplay systems. You can also select difficulty, making the game suitable for beginners and rhythm masters alike…

Joining the rhythm gameplay, the game has character growth and collection aspects. When you clear a stage, your character will level up, although Square Enix did not say what getting a level up means in the context of a rhythm game. The collection aspects involve collecting music and movie scenes.”

Other songs featured in the title include ”The Sunleth Waterscape” (FFXIII), ”Clash on the Big Bridge” (FFV), “One Winged Angel” (FFVII), and “At Zanarkand” (FFX).

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[Via Theatrhythm’s official site, Andriasang] 

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