Soul Blader (Super Famicom) - Lonely Town + Lively Town (Famicom 2A03+Namco 163 Cover)
Channel: Andrew Ambrose
Date: 2023-03-07

About a year ago, I made a 2A03+163 cover of the song Birth of the People from Quintet's debut game ActRaiser. Recently, I finally managed to beat ActRaiser, so I decided to continue where I left off with Quintet's second game, the Super Famicom action RPG classic Soul Blader (or Soul Blazer as it's known in English on the Super Nintendo). Soul Blader shares a lot in common with ActRaiser, even having a jovial orchestra piece similar to Birth of the People known as Lonely Town. This track even has a counterpart to it called Lively Town, which is what plays in its place whenever you're walking around a town whose souls you've successfully liberated. I felt it would only be appropriate to give these two songs the same treatment I gave Birth of the People, using Dn-FamiTracker and Namco's 163 sound expansion (been a while since I did that ;D). In fact, I was delighted to find out while making this cover that Dn-FamiTracker finally got a proper update back in December, which included an improved Namco 163 sound core from the Famicom emulator Mesen. This cover took plenty of work, but it was a joy to make. Unfortunately, TunesToTube was being stupid last night, so I had to wait until today to release this. Either way, I hope you all enjoy it. ^w^

Here are the downloads for this song: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N4cKzE9pjbfvtA9XdFvIOzioL9WxdXPJ?usp=share_link

Composed by: Yukihide Takekawa and/or Kazuhiko "Kazz" Toyama
Famicom Arrangement by: Andrew Ambrose



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