VGM Obscura

Covers and remixes of obscure or underrated game soundtracks that need more love | https://www.youtube.com/@vgmobscura

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Aquas - Star Fox 64 (3D) - Arrangement My YouTube channel will never hold together!

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City of Wind (Windia) (風の町 (ウィンディア)) (Final Fantasy Mystic Quest) - Arrangement I haven't done one these in a while.

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Ocean (4億5千万年への旅立ち…第1章のフィールド) - E.V.O.: The Search for Eden (46億年物語) - Arrangement

This has been sitting in my backlog for years now. It was 90% done, but I wasn't satisfied with that last 10% until now.

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Birdman Contest (Arrangement) - Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge Some of these old licensed games have some great, if short, tunes. Konami had a great sound team back then.

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Couldn't decide on which key to arrange this track in, so I did both. Check out the other arrangement as well: https://www.tumblr.com/vgmobscura/761647098681802752/front-line-base-snes-key-arrangement-un

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Front Line Base - SNES Key (Arrangement) - U.N. Squadron / Area 88 (エリア88)

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Cotton Island (Game Boy Cover) - Plok!

Plok may not have gotten that Game Boy port, but this is the next best thing I can come up with. The important thing is I got a Plok! cover out before a Bubsy cover.

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This April, I wanted to pay homage to the greatest piece of video game music of all time.

Mansion Basement - Resident Evil: Director's Cut - Dual Shock Ver. (PSX) - Arrangement

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Ice Mountain Zone Act 1 - Sonic Advance (GBA) - Arrangement I wanted to make this a medley with the Act 2 theme, but it didn't really work out. I'll probably make Act 2 a separate piece.

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Village - SimCity (SNES) - Arrangement

Been working on a few covers lately, but none of them have been up to standard. I decided to instead cover something short and simple to help get my focus back.

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Boss Battle (ボス戦) - Super Nazo Puyo: Rulue no Roux (す〜ぱ〜なぞぷよ ルルーのルー) - Genesis/Mega Drive Cover

Another boss battle theme that was in my backlog because of its complexity. This track goes pretty hard for a puzzle game. I wonder if it was trying to call back to the game's roots, Madō Monogatari?

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Boss Battle (ボス戦) - Super Bomberman (スーパーボンバーマン) - PC Engine Cover This one has been on my backlog for a long time, started almost right after I made the Area 4 PCE cover. Finally glad to get it done. I wanted it to arrange it in a way to make it sound like the Boss music from Bomberman (PCE), but it didn't work out, so I had to pull in other instruments from the game.

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About 18 years ago, back in my early days of covering video game music as a hobby, I made a cover of Egg Rocket Zone and shared it on Newgrounds (it's still there: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/22467). Later I created an extended version that added in Cosmic Angel Zone, but never uploaded that one anywhere.

I lost both projects due to a hard drive failure several years ago, but now I've decided to remake the extended version from scratch.

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Fillmore (フィルモア) Classic (Actraiser) - Game Boy cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWur2zPvdsU

To commemorate the release of Actraiser Renaissance and the series being pulled out of obscurity one and a half years ago, I made a Game Boy cover of Fillmore. I was actually working on an arrangement of Northwall a while back, but I'm still having arranger's block on that one.

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Yellow Wizard Needs Warmth Badly (Gauntlet Legends (N64)) - Arrangement cover of Erupting Fissure https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3QURhfQDWY&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

My submission to the #RMXJam (https://itch.io/jam/rmx-jam)

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Bravely Advance (勇気ある前進) (Pop'n Twinbee) - Arrangement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2VkHjI2_w

Not to be confused with Bravely Default.

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In-Game ~ Level Complete (Faceball 2000 GB/GG) - Arrangement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Di4RetC34

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