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- names:
    en: VGM Days
catalog: N/A
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Arrangement
composers: []
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  - names:
      English: Egg Kick
    track_length: 0:12
  - names:
      English: Parodius 2
    track_length: 0:23
  - names:
      English: Gouketuji Ichizoku
    track_length: '2:24'
  - names:
      English: Exhaust Heat
    track_length: '1:44'
  - names:
      English: Farland Story
    track_length: '1:56'
  - names:
      English: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu
    track_length: '2:59'
  - names:
      English: Pop N Twinbee
    track_length: '2:34'
  - names:
      English: Super Mario World
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  - names:
      English: Kirby Super Star
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  - names:
      English: Axelay
    track_length: '1:39'
  - names:
      English: Final Fantasy V
    track_length: '3:19'
  - names:
      English: Wonder Project J
    track_length: '2:01'
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      English: Itadaki Street 2
    track_length: '4:26'
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      English: Super Mario Kart
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      English: Sparkster
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      English: Albert Odyssey 2
    track_length: 0:28
  - names:
      English: Final Fantasy IV
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  - names:
      English: Wagyan Paradise
    track_length: '2:09'
  - names:
      English: Super Formation Soccer
    track_length: '2:14'
  - names:
      English: Kamaitachi no Yoru
    track_length: '1:09'
  - names:
      English: Castlevania V
    track_length: '2:20'
  - names:
      English: The Shadow
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  - names:
      English: A Link to the Past
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  - names:
      English: Tetris Attack
    track_length: '3:49'
  - names:
      English: Dragon Quest II
    track_length: '4:02'
  - names:
      English: Mario 3 (All Stars)
    track_length: '3:19'
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lyricists: []
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meta:
  added_date: 2026-01-21T18:34
  edited_date: 2026-01-24T10:01
  fetched_date: 2026-06-07T00:31
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 129
name: SNES Days - Volume 3
names:
  en: SNES Days - Volume 3
  ja: SNES Days - Volume 3
  ja-latn: SNES Days - Volume 3
notes: 'From bandcamp:

  Compiled in December, 2006

  Remastered in August, 2014

  "In early 2006 I purchased a modified Sega Dreamcast that could emulate older game
  consoles. It also included a music player that read the musical data from all 822
  worldwide releases for the NES. The sequence of events that followed began with
  the obvious. I loaded up the music from Super Mario 2, Final Fantasy, Skyshark,
  and all the other games I remember playing as a kid with soundtracks I loved.

  Then I started exploring, loading up the soundtracks of NES games I had never heard
  of, Japanese only releases, and the deep recesses of games I thought I knew. What
  I found was a wealth of lost composition - an entire generation of named and nameless
  Japanese composers who had worked professionally within the limitations of the Nintendo
  Entertainment System''s crude sound synthesis technology. Entire symphonies composed
  with no more than 3 notes occurring at any given time.

  When I was younger I made mixes of video game music by placing Sega CD and Sega
  Saturn games directly into a CD player, but I never had access to the musical data
  of cartridge based systems. I connected the Dreamcast audio into my tape deck and
  over that first weekend I made the video game music mixtape, ''NES Days 2006.’ I
  began to explore the music from other video game consoles and started making mixes
  on my computer.

  For me and my musical partner in crime, Tech Honors, this was like stumbling upon
  the Library of Alexandria. Tens of thousands of songs we had never heard! It was
  a time in our lives as musicians when we were beginning to pinpoint exactly what
  it was that moved us in music - learning the "tricks" that would lay the foundation
  of our compositional engines.

  I combed through hundreds of soundtracks for NES, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis
  games, looping the tracks in a way that made them feel like a single musical thought.
  Each track selected for these mixes contained something that resonated with that
  developing compositional sense. Relatively unknown composers like Naoki Kodaka were
  placed shoulder to shoulder with game music legends like Koji Kondo and Koichi Sugiyama
  - all that mattered was how moving the compositional content was.

  Throughout 2006 I made 9 VGM mixes. The NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis were each given
  3 volumes that were a major part of what life sounded like in my early-to-mid 20’s.
  The Days mixes were passed around the Dayton, Ohio circle of musicians - their popularity
  perhaps culminating with Yakuza Heart Attack regularly covering a track from that
  first NES Days mix, from the Japanese game Captain Tsubasa Vol. 2.

  Those mixes resonate in our music even today. For a long time I wanted to share
  these volumes online, but the rudimentary software I used back then resulted in
  uneven volume distribution and even some painful sounds on a few tracks. As an audio
  mastering exercise, I’ve gone back to those original files and applied modern production
  techniques to "remaster" them.

  I''m please to present "SNES Days - Volume 3,” the final mix of the series, compiled
  in December of 2006. The rest of the series will soon follow! I owe so much to the
  tireless work of these composers, many tragically forgotten by music history."

  Egg Kick / Kazuhiko Uehara, Hideyuki Eto / Hidehito Aoki, Misaki Okibe / Masanao
  Akahori / Tomoo Kasahara / Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, Junko Yokoyama, Kunihiro
  Someya / Kazuhiko Uehara, Masahiro Ikariko, Keroppi Inoue, Tomoya Tomita, Nobuyuki
  Akena, Masae Nakashima, Saiko Miki / Koji Kondo / Jun Ishikawa, Dan Miyakawa / Taro
  Kudou, M. C. Ada / Nobuo Uematsu / Akihiko Mori / Kyohei Tsutsumi, Takane Okubo,
  Koichi Sugiyama / Minako Matsuhira, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka / Naoki Kodaka
  / Yoshinori Kawamoto, Eriko Imura / Hiroya Niwayama, Hironori Tanaka, Masamichi
  Yamazaki, Tetsuji Ohtani / Kojiro Nakashima, Kota Kato / Masanari Iwata, Harumi
  Ueko, Masahiko Kimura / Jonathan Dunn / Masaya Kuzume, Yuka Tsujiyoko'
organizations:
- &id001
  names:
    en: VGM Days
    ja: VGM Days
    ja-latn: VGM Days
  role: publisher
performers: []
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platforms:
- SNES (Super Famicom)
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    ja: Power Instinct
    ja-latn: Power Instinct
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  names:
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    en: Farland Story (SFC)
    ja: ファーランドストーリー (SFC)
    ja-latn: Farland Story (SFC)
- names:
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    en: Pop'n TwinBee
    ja: Pop'n ツインビー
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- link: product/415
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    en: Super Mario World
    ja: スーパーマリオワールド
    ja-latn: Super Mario World
- link: product/726
  names:
    en: Kirby Super Star
    ja: 星のカービィ スーパーデラックス
    ja-latn: 'Hoshi no Kirby: Super Deluxe'
- link: product/6051
  names:
    en: Axelay
    ja: アクスレイ
    ja-latn: Axelay
- link: product/178
  names:
    en: FINAL FANTASY V
    ja: ファイナルファンタジーV
    ja-latn: FINAL FANTASY V
- names:
    en: 'Wonder Project J: Kikai no Shonen Pino'
- names:
    en: 'Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign wa Bara-iro ni'
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  names:
    en: Super Mario Kart
    ja: スーパーマリオカート
    ja-latn: Super Mario Kart
- link: product/10797
  names:
    en: Sparkster (SNES)
    ja: スパークスター (SNES)
    ja-latn: Sparkster (SNES)
- link: product/2143
  names:
    en: 'Albert Odyssey 2: Jashin no Taidou'
    ja: アルバートオデッセイ2 邪神の胎動
    ja-latn: 'Albert Odyssey 2: Jashin no Taidou'
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  names:
    en: FINAL FANTASY IV
    ja: ファイナルファンタジーIV
    ja-latn: FINAL FANTASY IV
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    en: Wagyan Paradise
    ja: ワギャンパラダイス
    ja-latn: Wagyan Paradise
- link: product/14531
  names:
    en: Super Soccer
    ja: スーパーフォーメーションサッカー
    ja-latn: Super Formation Soccer
- link: product/308
  names:
    en: Kamaitachi no Yoru
    ja: かまいたちの夜
    ja-latn: Kamaitachi no Yoru
- link: product/10780
  names:
    en: 'Castlevania: Dracula X'
    ja: 悪魔城ドラキュラXX
    ja-latn: Akumajo Dracula XX
- names:
    en: The Shadow
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  names:
    en: 'The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past'
    ja: ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース
    ja-latn: 'Zelda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Triforce'
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  names:
    en: Tetris Attack
    ja: パネルでポン
    ja-latn: Panel de Pon
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  names:
    en: 'Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line'
    ja: 'ドラゴンクエストII: 悪霊の神々'
    ja-latn: 'Dragon Quest II: Akuryo no Kamigami'
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    en: Super Mario Bros. 3
    ja: スーパーマリオブラザーズ3
    ja-latn: Super Mario Bros. 3
publish_format: Doujin/Indie
publisher: *id001
related: []
release_date: '2014-08-25'
release_events: []
release_price:
  price: Free
reprints: []
stores:
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  name: Bandcamp
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votes: 0
