[Ch 1] ”Noise from the Hearts of Nerds” - “C1E85: FaceOff Friday – vol. 6”

Today’s broadcast is  C1E85 for FaceOff Friday, May 31st, 2024 Today’s broadcast will be FaceOff Friday – vol 6, a collection of "this version vs that version" of various pieces of Delicious VGM! 

 

A1) Intro - 00:00:00 

 

01) Super Mario Bros. - Overworld Theme - Koji Kondo  

 - SNES [Super Mario All Stars] (a: N/A) - 00:02:35 

 - NES (a: N/A) - 00:05:26 

 - PC 88 [Super Mario Bros. Special] (a: Fumihiko Itagaki and/or Megumi Kawamata) -           00:09:48 

 

02) Fatal Fury – Howard Arena (Tung Fu Rue) - Kazuhiro Nishida, Yoko Osaka, Muraisan, Toshikazu Tanaka, Yasuo Yamate, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Michael Beard, and/or Goodam Kakaree 

 - Neo Geo AES / MVS (a: N/A) - 00:11:59 

 - Genesis (a: Kazuyuki Oikawa and/or Kōjirō Mikusa) - 00:14:56 

 - SNES (a: Hiroshi Ebihara) - 00:17:40 

 - Neo Geo CD (a: Unknown) - 00:21:02 

 

03) Shinobi - Yasuhiro Kawakami 

 - Arcade (BGM 2) (a: N/A) - 00:26:03 

 - PC Engine (BGM 2) (a: Unknown) - 00:27:28 

 - Mastersystem FM [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:28:55 

 - Mastersystem PSG [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:30:18 

 - NES [level music] (a: Unknown) - 00:31:03 

 

04) Double Dragon V – Character Select - Robert Atesalp  

 - Jaguar (a: Byron Parks) - 00:33:05 

 - SNES (a: N/A) - 00:34:48 

 - Genesis (a: N/A) - 00:36:35 

 

05) Ninja Warriors – Daddy Mulk - Hisayoshi Ogura 

 - Arcade (a: N/A) - 00:38:27 

 - Amiga (a: Ronald Pieket-Weeserik) - 00:42:46 

 - C64 (a: Tony Williams) - 00:46:54 

 - PC Engine (a: Unknown) - 00:51:02 

 - Mega CD (a: Junichi Kawaguchi) - 00:55:15 

 

06) Tetris (SEGA) Tetramix A - Yasuhiro Kawakami 

 - Arcade (a: N/A) - 01:00:10 

 - Genesis (a: N/A) - 01:01:56 

 

07) Ninja Gaiden Series Boss Music - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa 

 - Ninja Gaiden 1 (NES) (a: N/A) - 01:03:55 

 - Ninja Gaiden 2 (NES) (a: Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura) - 01:05:42 

 - Ninja Gaiden 3 (NES) (a: Sugito Miyashiro, Kaori Nakabai, and/or Rika Shigeno) - 01:07:28 

 - Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES) (a: Unknown) - 01:09:14 

 

08) Streets of Rage 1 vs Streets of Rage 2 (Boss Music 1) - Yuzu Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawasshima 

 - SoR 1 (Attack the Barbarian) (a: N/A) - 01:11:06 

 - SoR 2 (Never Return Alive) (a: N/A) - 01:13:51 

 

09) Y's III: Wanderers from Ys – The Winged Boy (aka “The Boy’s got Wings” or “Winged Boy”) - Mieko Ishikawa 

 - PC98  (OPN) (a: N/A) - 01:17:24 

 - X68000 (a: Masaki Kawai) - 01:19:27 

 - Famicom (a: Osamu Kasai, Masaaki Harada, and/or Michiharu Hasuya) - 01:22:04 

 - MSX2 (a: Unknown) - 01:23:56 

 - SNES (a: Michiharu Hayusa, Masaaki Harada, and/or Osamu Kasai) - 01:26:00 

 - Genesis (a: Yoshiaki Kubotera and/or Noriyuki Iwadare) - 01:27:32 

 - PC Engine (a: Masaaki Inoue) - 01:29:35 

 - PS2 (a: Unknown) - 01:31:37 

 - Oath in Felghana (a: Yukihiro Jindo) - 01:34:18 

 

10) Metroid  - Norfair - Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka  

 - Wii [Super Smash Bros. Brawl] (a: Yuzo Koshiro) - 01:37:29 

 - GBA (a: Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano) - 01:39:50 

 - NES (a: N/A) - 01:43:40 

 

B1) Outro - 01:45:51 

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:33:13, Total Episode Runtime: 01:54:12 

 

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. 

 

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux* on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! 

 

*=or Windows 11 since the transition back to Fedora on the Zephyrus happened midway through this episode's production 

 

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