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catalog: N/A
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Arrangement
composers: []
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  name: ''
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      English: Starship Hector
    track_length: 0:21
  - names:
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  - names:
      English: Dragon Quest II
    track_length: '2:32'
  - names:
      English: Mega Man II
    track_length: '1:24'
  - names:
      English: Castlevania III
    track_length: '1:07'
  - names:
      English: Super Mario Bros. 3
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  - names:
      English: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    track_length: '1:22'
  - names:
      English: Uninvited
    track_length: '2:02'
  - names:
      English: Solar Jet Man
    track_length: '3:02'
  - names:
      English: Captain Tsubasa Vol. 2
    track_length: '1:37'
  - names:
      English: Gauntlet
    track_length: 0:34
  - names:
      English: 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch'
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  - names:
      English: 'Zelda II: Adventure Of Link'
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  - names:
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  - names:
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  - names:
      English: Donkey Kong
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  - names:
      English: Journey To Silius
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      English: Duck Tales
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  - names:
      English: Mega Man III
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      English: Fire Emblem Gaiden
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  - names:
      English: Metroid
    track_length: '2:16'
  - names:
      English: 'Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II'
    track_length: 0:24
  - names:
      English: Goonies II
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  - names:
      English: 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
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  - names:
      English: Super Mario Bros. 2
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      English: Super Mario Bros. 3
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  - names:
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  - names:
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  - names:
      English: Fire 'n' Ice
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      English: Wrestlemania
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      English: Super Mario Bros. 2
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  - names:
      English: Solstice
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      English: Starship Hector
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lyricists: []
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meta:
  added_date: 2026-01-21T18:37
  edited_date: 2026-01-24T10:03
  fetched_date: 2026-06-07T00:30
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 136
name: NES Days - Volume 1
names:
  en: NES Days - Volume 1
  ja: NES Days - Volume 1
  ja-latn: NES Days - Volume 1
notes: 'From bandcamp:

  Compiled in early 2006

  Remastered in February, 2015

  "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 pleased to present "NES Days - Volume 1,” the original mix of the series, compiled
  in early 2006. This all-digital monophonic version of the mix came after the original
  Dreamcast/cassette tape version, correcting a few errors and adding a new closing
  track from Gremlins 2: The New Batch. The original tape can be heard here: vgmdays.bandcamp.com/album/nes-days-2006-cassette-rip-2  

  Kinoko Kunimoto, Takeaki Kunimoto / Tim Follin / Koichi Sugiyama / Yoshihiro Sakaguchi,
  Manami Matsumae, Takashi Tateishi / Kinuyo Yamashita, Kenichi Matsubara, Yoshinori
  Sasaki, Yukie Morimoto / Koji Kondo / Jun Funahashi, Miki Higashino / Hiroyuki Masuno
  / David Wise / Keiji Yamagishi, Mayuko Okamura, Mikio Saito / Hal Canon, Earl Vickers
  / Nobuyuki Hara, Naoki Kodaka / Akito Nakatsuka / Masatomo Miyamoto, Takeshi Santo
  / Nobuo Uematsu / Hideki Kanazashi / Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / Yukio Kaneoka / Hiroshige
  Tonomura / Yasuaki Fujita, Harumi Fujita / Yuka Tsujiyoko / Hidenori Maezawa / Mark
  Van Hecke / Jeroen Tel / Ryuichi Nitta / Yoko Shimomura / Kenzou Kumei / Masaaki
  Iwasaki, Shogo Sakai, Yuji Suzuki / Kumi Yamaga / Kyouhei Sada / Tsukasa Masuko'
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- &id001
  names:
    en: VGM Days
    ja: VGM Days
    ja-latn: VGM Days
  role: publisher
performers: []
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platforms:
- NES (Famicom)
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    ja: 飛翔鮫
    ja-latn: Hishouzame
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    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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  names:
    en: Mega Man 2
    ja: ロックマン2 Dr.ワイリーの謎
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    ja: 悪魔城伝説
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    ja: スーパーマリオブラザーズ3
    ja-latn: Super Mario Bros. 3
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  names:
    en: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)
    ja: 激亀忍者伝 (NES)
    ja-latn: Gekikame Ninja Den (NES)
- link: product/7484
  names:
    en: Uninvited
    ja: 悪魔の招待状
    ja-latn: Akuma no Shoutaijou
- names:
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    en: 'Captain Tsubasa II: Super Striker'
    ja: キャプテン翼II スーパーストライカー
    ja-latn: 'Captain Tsubasa II: Super Striker'
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    ja: Gauntlet (NES)
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    ja-latn: 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch'
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    ja: リンクの冒険
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    ja: ガーディック外伝
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    ja: 空中要塞
    ja-latn: Kuuchuu Yousai
- link: product/2140
  names:
    en: Dr. Mario
    ja: ドクターマリオ
    ja-latn: Dr. Mario
- link: release/14217
  names:
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    ja: ドンキーコング (NES)
    ja-latn: Donkey Kong (NES)
- link: product/7270
  names:
    en: JOURNEY TO SILIUS
    ja: ラフワールド
    ja-latn: rΛf World
- link: product/6055
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    ja: わんぱくダック夢冒険
    ja-latn: Wanpaku Duck Yume Bouken
- link: product/2072
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    en: Mega Man 3
    ja: ロックマン3 Dr.ワイリーの最期!?
    ja-latn: 'Rockman 3: Dr. Wily no Saigo!?'
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    ja: ファイアーエムブレム外伝
    ja-latn: Fire Emblem Gaiden
- link: product/58
  names:
    en: Metroid
    ja: メトロイド
    ja-latn: Metroid
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    ja: 'Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II'
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    ja: グーニーズ2 フラッテリー最後の挑戦
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    ja: ダックハント
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    en: Tetris
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    en: Disney Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
- names:
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    ja-latn: RoboCop
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  names:
    en: WWF WrestleMania (1989)
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    ja-latn: WWF WrestleMania (1989)
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- link: release/34282
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    ja: '1943: The Battle of Midway (NES)'
    ja-latn: '1943: The Battle of Midway (NES)'
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  names:
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    ja: ヘクター'87
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- names:
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    en: 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch'
    ja: グレムリン２　新種誕生
    ja-latn: 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch'
publish_format: Doujin/Indie
publisher: *id001
related: []
release_date: '2015-02-12'
release_events: []
release_price:
  price: Free
reprints: []
stores:
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  name: Bandcamp
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/156573?perpage=99999
votes: 0
