FamicomBox - Full Soundtrack (Famicom Namco 163 Cover)
Channel: Andrew Ambrose
Date: 2022-06-08

This was 100% unplanned and completely on the spur of the moment, but I'm glad I did it. ;P
For those unaware, the FamicomBox was a demonstration variant of the Famicom used in stores across Japan for people to test out a selection of games displayed on the front of the unit, similar to the NES M82 units seen in stores in North America back in the day. The very interesting thing about the FamicomBox is that it's technically an NES, at least in terms of the branding plus the fact that it used NES carts rather than Famicom ones (though the actual ROMs on the carts were still the Japanese releases of each game). The only other official use of NES carts in Japan that I'm aware of is the data carts in the Disk Writer kiosks. Nintendo music wizard Akito Nakatsuka did some fun ditties for the BIOS of the FamicomBox (including a sort of "variant" of the Famicom Disk System theme for the unit's title theme), and I felt compelled enough by it to make a WSG style cover of it with Namco's 163 sound expansion for the Famicom.

UPDATE 06-28-2022: I've been meaning to do this for a year, but I've finally set up a system for sharing downloads for my chiptune project files! Here are the downloads for this soundtrack: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GF7mQ8l0HKlK0qdrPZ6GaSmZ3NiFK8RV?usp=sharing

Composed by: Akito Nakatsuka
Famicom Arrangement by: Andrew Ambrose



0:00 Title Theme
0:08 Game Selection
3:21 Unknown Track No. 1
3:25 Unknown Track No. 2