galaxy quest!

these are for a NES-ish adventure game

you may need to turn the volume up

let me know what you think :)

overworld theme:

http://driftingsailfish.webs.com/GQTHEME2_OVERWORLD1.mp3

(new) underworld theme

http://driftingsailfish.webs.com/THEME3_UNDERWORLD.mp3

menu theme:

http://driftingsailfish.webs.com/GQTHEME1_TITLESCREEN.mp3

what do you use to get that 8 bit sound?

They're both good but I can't really picture the first one as a menu theme, but that's just me

oh, heh I titled them backwards. I fixed it

I used a special soundfont made by TheEighthBit.

I got it here: the_nes_soundfont_by_TheEighthBit.SF2

It's mediafire though, so the link could stop working

thanks for the support :)

Hey Ness. I grabbed em both, and I think the Overworld theme is pretty good. It has enough variation to keep interesting but it isn't intrusive, although around the 1:40 mark it does seem to lose a bit of focus. Before then it was quite catchy and enjoyable, but it kind of trailed off I thought.

I can't really say I liked the menu theme, it felt quite unstructured, and I don't think it's a style that works with such old school sounds. There isn't much you can do with 8-bit without it just sounding like a lot of noise, so your best bet I find is to go for something more obviously melodic.

On the other hand you did a good job of keeping the sounds separate, it is very easy with 8-bit stuff to let each instrument blend into the others and make it wail horribly. You avoided that well, so nice one on that front.

Hope that was helpful to you.

Fox

hey, thanks for the critique

yeah, whenever I write longer songs I tend to get carried away and write whatever I want. I'll try to focus more on keeping to one structure throughout from now on. I'm planning to make a few more of these, I'll see if I can put your advice to good use!

This does sound like the old NES game music.

Can imagine myself playing the older game system games while listening to both of the two pieces.

I didn't lose interest at all.

:D

thanks, wendell :)

I wrote another piece, an underworld theme

it's in the first post now