Yeah, but Sunsoft is known for that awesome bass sound they pulled off on the NES, way better than on any other company's games. I Can't link an example but look up Journey to Silius. That sound.
Sunsoft did great music in general, Super Fantasy Zone and Superman for Genesis also have fantastic music. Journey to silius used a sampled bass i think, pretty impressive but that's not PSG.
Guy A. Person Known for bloody excellent games in general. And yeah Kodaka-san is (was?) such a talent. He also did Albert Odyssey but he wasn’t heard from again after that
Same here! The best of of this game, and one of the best musics from mega drive I think. Incredible how retro-soundtracks can stick to your mind and new videogame generation orchestral soundtracks don't.
I think this is one of the Mega Drive / Genesis soundtracks which require a real YM2612 for correct playback, because the aliasing noise of the flawed DAC design was used as part of the sound design. On emulators, the instrumens fade away too quickly, while on a real YM2612, the decay phases are much longer audible. Btw, truly great channel, thank you very much for taking the time to make high quality recordings on real hardware, so that people can actually experience what the real hardware sounds like. All YM2612 software emulations out there do NOT emulate the real characteristics of the DAC.
+Alianger Off the top of my head, the decay at the end of the Streets of Rage title theme is one. You can also kind of abuse it by setting patches to low volume and detuning them between two channels to get a pretty convincing chorus effect. I think the DAC stuff isn't emulated yet because it's not well understood. If you set Genesis Plus GX to have 7 bit output, you get a pretty close approximation though.
***** Does the 2612 really use floating-point internally? Seems sort of wasteful when it just gets truncated down like that. There exists a FM synth VST plugin (Dexed) that can be set to an "OPL" mode where it uses a sine look-up table based on OPL3 to get the values of the sine waves used in the synthesis. It sounds pretty good--I use it in my own music. It makes me wonder if 2612 emulation could be implemented in a similar way. Aside from that you'd need to simulate more than just a low-pass filter. There is also the nonlinearity of op-amps to consider. I also think a truly great emulator would be able to authentically reproduce the awful sound output of a Model 2 VA1.8 with the terrible overengineered LM358 based amplifier. :)
First game I ever played on the Genesis, 22 years ago. Hearing the OST immediately brings back all those memories. It aged pretty well, the music is still awesome.
+Robert Bledsaw III The Stage 6-1 theme sounds like a remix of the stage 3 theme of Batman for the PC Engine, which also has excellent music considering the hardware.
My first Sega Megadrive Game, was japanese imported version, was expansive for that time, something like 100 dollars, but i fell in love very fast with magistral music and super gameplay, the levels with the batmobile and jet were super also, what a game!!!!! Love Sunsoft, underrated Company.
I always thought I was the only one to notice that! Glad I wasn't alone! If you really listen the whole game soundtrack is an amalgam of the Prince Soundtrack and Danny Elfman's Score.
I remember crying when I beat the joker and he falls from the rooftop down to the street and then that picture of him laying at the ground after death made me feel so pity at him specially with that ending ost lol
@@solarflare9078 Okay then. Honestly, I *_kinda_* liked the SNES version of Batman Returns, despite how monotonous and repetitive it is, especially compared to much better beat 'em ups like Streets of Rage 2 or something.
Up until now, I had no idea that Batman was available for the Genesis, when I had the NES version. Had I known, I would've bought it in a heartbeat! Both the Genesis and NES music are just nostalgic!
This is one of the best ost of all Batman games in history! and this OST stay in my top 10 of the best MD/GEN OSTs, along with SOR 1&2, Revenge of Shinobi, Shinobi 3, Skitchin', Sonic 3D, Adventures of Batman & Robin, MK 1&2 and the Road Rash series.
I'm very nostalgic for this game. Honestly, the game is pretty average, but everytime I fire it up and always end up playing it to the end for the sole reason of the amazing music. I play and find myself tapping my feet and jamming out to the beats. Awesome soundtrack, right up there with the 1st streets of rage
This game is not a prime example, this game was average but had great music! I think more good licensed games were made in Japan, but Goldeneye was developed in the English countryside and was better than this and maybe even sounded as good.
I Remember is when this Game was first brought to me by my Father, and first came to the world of games - To say that I lost SLEEP at night I am talking about the time of "1998" .. If anything after first love 8bit Game 🕹😥 [ I played a lot day after day and night after night ]
2:40 track resembles night time Moscow in 90's! Allot of pop music in Russia was inspired by video game music back then. Very close sound association with this track! Even the level kidna resembled it too.
is this an actual song? the track at 2:40 Gotham city streets is one of my fave tracks, one that sounds better than most video game music. so good that I'm playing around with remixes and 80s. rock versions.
на мой взгляд трек на 10:30 прям буквально звучит как инструментал с русской эстрады 90-ых, что-то прям оч знакомое. и саундтрек в целом. согласен полностью.
I'm gonna buy this game tomorrow. Just got here to listen the music to ease my pain. Have to get the NES version too and a console to play it with. Thank you very much from the upload. Cheers! Edit. Got that NES Batman and NES a while ago. Mission completed. :D
One of the best scores for a video game! It is also interesting watching this game box desing, on the back you can clearly see that the images are not from megadrive port, but from the NES version of Batman which was also great. Thanks for sharing!
The great thing about this game was the difficulty. I remember being like 5 or 6 and not being able to get past the Museum. Frustrating, but the music BUMPED. Then when I did, it was the car level that had me for a while. Cool soundtrack, but again, frustrating. Then I got to Gotham Streets three, and was treated with yet another bomb song. And when you get to the first cathedral level, it's like "woah this is the end stretch, now!" What I'd give to go back be six years old again.
P. H. G. F. Both versions music were made by the same composer. As much as I prefer the NES version. The Genesis version is one of my favorite Genesis games. I just love it. It's sad that its short... but still. Loveable.
Loved the game as a kid.. Have Gotham streets as a ringtone... ppl of my age heads turn like a lost memory has been awakened. A few have asked where it came from... I told them and I get a life story...obviously I say I dunno most of the time lol.
The music here is so good . Back im the 90s megadrive and c64 music was often so good it was listenable on its own . Some MD music is incredible simply
If most Mega Drive games have had ost's as perfectly designed for the sound hardware as this one, nobody would ever say this console is inferior sound-wise to the snes.
It is incredible that a budget Yamaha FM chip can sound as good as this. In a kind of early released game. Incredible. They did a pact with the devil or something! ha ha. Best wishes.
I love the music in this game, even though it makes me picture Batman powerwalking through the streets beating up thugs. Not saying the music is too leisurely, because it is badass and makes me want to fight... but just look at the way the Batman sprite is moving. XD
WAIT... THE GENESIS COVER HAS THE NES VERSION SCREENSHOTS???????? Well, SNES and the Genesis shared screenshots between covers and manuals in Mortal Kombat 3, but I didn't expected they to use screenshots of a version for an inferior console.
@@aninhaprsouza Hola Ana! Buenas noches, recién veo tu mensaje. Estos tontosnde UA-cam nunca me notificaron de tu mensaje. Ah, sí, también. Es bellísima la canción. Que lindo sería hacer un video con esa hermosa canción de fondo, ¿no crees? ,¿que opinas?
Les meilleurs musiques de la megadrive sans conteste, street of rage et revenge of shinobi , thunder force 3 et 4 compris. La megadrive son processeur sonore est un regal pour les oreilles
This game always made me wish, they made more megaman games for the Megadrive. Like Stage 4-1 just screams later Wiley Fortress or Sigma Fortress to me :).
well my experience of these classic batman games are that they get very frustrating at times and require patience at time. But the music to all these classic batman game's are great and very catchy
Thats really an amazing sound track. The NES one is great too. Im not sure what SunSoft was using back in the day but it made all the other sound tracks on games sound like shit. Really made the genesis shine here. wow
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You mean on Sega Megadrive
Batman megadrive soundtrack
5:28 This was my favorite song on the soundtrack. This was thirty-two years ago. Time has flown.
Time is an abstraction. Like a kilometer or centimeter. It doesn't actually exist. So it can't go anywhere.
Foolish reply
@2:11 “I’m Sega Lord X, and I will catch you next time...”
Literally just came here from Sega Lord X's latest video.
"...from, jail folks. I've broken the law yet again, for sucking ass."
Even on the Genesis, Sunsoft were absolute masters at bass.
Yeah, but Sunsoft is known for that awesome bass sound they pulled off on the NES, way better than on any other company's games. I Can't link an example but look up Journey to Silius. That sound.
Sunsoft did great music in general, Super Fantasy Zone and Superman for Genesis also have fantastic music.
Journey to silius used a sampled bass i think, pretty impressive but that's not PSG.
+Guy A. Person True, though this one's all FM (and PSG) - no samples were used.
Guy A. Person agreed. Especially the plot's theme. Which is hugely atmospheric. And amazing!
Guy A. Person Known for bloody excellent games in general. And yeah Kodaka-san is (was?) such a talent. He also did Albert Odyssey but he wasn’t heard from again after that
12:49 I played this game for the first time 20 years ago and till today this melody is printed in my mind.
Som fodão sem dúvida!!!
I knorwright? it's really catchy. That and Gotham Cathedral are my favourite ones
Is that the yamaha2612 and sn76489 singing together
Same here! The best of of this game, and one of the best musics from mega drive I think. Incredible how retro-soundtracks can stick to your mind and new videogame generation orchestral soundtracks don't.
@@VitorKormann yep
12:49 Honestly one of the best tracks I've ever heard, period. What an infectious melody.
It's just too bad that the gameplay could not live up to the amazing soundtrack.
100% agree
replay level!!!
@@Victory-in-YAHUSHA gameplay was fantastic
@@bepohal Almost every youtube review of this game will say otherwise but the gameplay certainly isn't the worst.
I think this is one of the Mega Drive / Genesis soundtracks which require a real YM2612 for correct playback, because the aliasing noise of the flawed DAC design was used as part of the sound design. On emulators, the instrumens fade away too quickly, while on a real YM2612, the decay phases are much longer audible.
Btw, truly great channel, thank you very much for taking the time to make high quality recordings on real hardware, so that people can actually experience what the real hardware sounds like. All YM2612 software emulations out there do NOT emulate the real characteristics of the DAC.
+porcorosso81 Any standout example of that? Haven't noticed it myself.
+Alianger Off the top of my head, the decay at the end of the Streets of Rage title theme is one. You can also kind of abuse it by setting patches to low volume and detuning them between two channels to get a pretty convincing chorus effect.
I think the DAC stuff isn't emulated yet because it's not well understood. If you set Genesis Plus GX to have 7 bit output, you get a pretty close approximation though.
***** Does the 2612 really use floating-point internally? Seems sort of wasteful when it just gets truncated down like that.
There exists a FM synth VST plugin (Dexed) that can be set to an "OPL" mode where it uses a sine look-up table based on OPL3 to get the values of the sine waves used in the synthesis. It sounds pretty good--I use it in my own music. It makes me wonder if 2612 emulation could be implemented in a similar way.
Aside from that you'd need to simulate more than just a low-pass filter. There is also the nonlinearity of op-amps to consider.
I also think a truly great emulator would be able to authentically reproduce the awful sound output of a Model 2 VA1.8 with the terrible overengineered LM358 based amplifier. :)
porcorosso81 x men had this beat
You can emulate the YM2612 now with the right emulator.
7:36, 10:27, 12:49 themes are too awesome to be true...
Another great, great, great Sunsoft soundtrack. They really had a winning streak back then.
thanks to Naoki Kodaka
First game I ever played on the Genesis, 22 years ago. Hearing the OST immediately brings back all those memories. It aged pretty well, the music is still awesome.
As soon as the video came to 2:10, I got goosebumps! Gotham City Streets is easily one of the Sega Genesis songs ever
That’s the song I came here for. I was 14 yrs old playing this 30 years ago!
Facts gets me hyped lol everytime
Though Sega Megadrive is better.
The nes Version Sound is amazing
Right Man
That Boss Theme is a remix of the NES Boss Theme...excellent.
Those bells on the final boss theme...wow.
Damn! You're right! Those tubular bells say 'fight-to-the-death'!
It's badass and exhilarating!
***** Stage 3 is also a remix of NES's Stage 2. And I believe Stage 4-1 is loosely based on NES's Stage 3.
+Robert Bledsaw III The Stage 6-1 theme sounds like a remix of the stage 3 theme of Batman for the PC Engine, which also has excellent music considering the hardware.
Every song in this game's soundtrack is gold!
The Batmobile's soundtrack stage is very,very cool! :)
если бы я не купил эту игру, я бы не знал что у неё такие классные саундтреки!
Sunsoft always on their A game when it comes to music.
My first Sega Megadrive Game, was japanese imported version, was expansive for that time, something like 100 dollars, but i fell in love very fast with magistral music and super gameplay, the levels with the batmobile and jet were super also, what a game!!!!! Love Sunsoft, underrated Company.
God. That ending theme is a masterpiece! Such great harmonies. It sounds lively and full, which I why I love it so much!
It is actually a variation of a song by Prince called "Scandalous" which is on the batman movie soundtrack
That is really damn cool.
I always thought I was the only one to notice that! Glad I wasn't alone! If you really listen the whole game soundtrack is an amalgam of the Prince Soundtrack and Danny Elfman's Score.
cripes....hearing these songs again brings back so many early 90s memories. I wish I could go back and live in the 90s. Glorious decade for me.
This and It's NES counterpart are Amazing
Batman is one of my favorite Genesis games of all time.
GB one is no slouch either!
I love how the cover uses a couple screenshots from the NES version.
And when you start the game you see the true 16-bit masterpiece .
i'm so glad this recording exists
I remember crying when I beat the joker and he falls from the rooftop down to the street and then that picture of him laying at the ground after death made me feel so pity at him specially with that ending ost lol
So freakin' good! This and the NES-version have such amazing soundtracks.
Mega Drive's Batman and Adventures of Batman and Robin are the greatest Batman Video Games ever made + the best soundtrack!
P. H. G. F. You must play batman returns megadrive
el rincon de Hyrule in my opinion. That game is crap. Especially when compared to the SNES version.
Auf Sega CD ist das Ganze noch ne Nummer besser.
@@turricanrocks1552 That game is crap in general. Dunno why he brought it up
@@solarflare9078 Okay then. Honestly, I *_kinda_* liked the SNES version of Batman Returns, despite how monotonous and repetitive it is, especially compared to much better beat 'em ups like Streets of Rage 2 or something.
I used to play this on my CD player in my car in the early 2000s. Recorded to a cassette in the 90s. Bumping the MP3s to this day.
1 of the Best ost in SEGA - This part 1 - 02:10
One of my favorite Genesis games of all time and the music is Marvelous.
Up until now, I had no idea that Batman was available for the Genesis, when I had the NES version. Had I known, I would've bought it in a heartbeat! Both the Genesis and NES music are just nostalgic!
Genesis version is very good too....played it all the time when I was young.
Sega X Lord brought me here and he was right Sunsofts custom music driver is kick ass
me too. it sounds like a whole different system.
This is one of the best ost of all Batman games in history!
and this OST stay in my top 10 of the best MD/GEN OSTs, along with SOR 1&2, Revenge of Shinobi, Shinobi 3, Skitchin', Sonic 3D, Adventures of Batman & Robin, MK 1&2 and the Road Rash series.
Ohh my childhood...that ending melody is what I always remember
I'm very nostalgic for this game. Honestly, the game is pretty average, but everytime I fire it up and always end up playing it to the end for the sole reason of the amazing music. I play and find myself tapping my feet and jamming out to the beats. Awesome soundtrack, right up there with the 1st streets of rage
Severely underrated soundtrack, kinda prefer this to the NES one.
Japan has ALWAYS made the better licensed games. This game is a prime example.
This game is not a prime example, this game was average but had great music! I think more good licensed games were made in Japan, but Goldeneye was developed in the English countryside and was better than this and maybe even sounded as good.
I wouldn't say always, but mostly of the time, sure. For example, 007 GoldenEye on the N64 was a masterpiece and it was made on the UK.
They had plenty of mediocre or crappy licensed games for their local franchises. We just didn't get them in the West.
Batman Returns on Sega CD. Batman and Robin on Genesis.
I Remember is when this Game was first brought to me by my Father, and first came to the world of games - To say that I lost SLEEP at night
I am talking about the time of "1998" .. If anything after first love 8bit Game 🕹😥 [ I played a lot day after day and night after night ]
One of the greatest stage 1 themes on the mega drive
2:40 track resembles night time Moscow in 90's! Allot of pop music in Russia was inspired by video game music back then. Very close sound association with this track!
Even the level kidna resembled it too.
is this an actual song? the track at 2:40 Gotham city streets is one of my fave tracks, one that sounds better than most video game music. so good that I'm playing around with remixes and 80s. rock versions.
на мой взгляд трек на 10:30 прям буквально звучит как инструментал с русской эстрады 90-ых, что-то прям оч знакомое. и саундтрек в целом. согласен полностью.
I'm gonna buy this game tomorrow. Just got here to listen the music to ease my pain.
Have to get the NES version too and a console to play it with.
Thank you very much from the upload. Cheers!
Edit. Got that NES Batman and NES a while ago. Mission completed. :D
Beautiful music throughout!!😊
05:28 I never played this game, but this one particular theme is my favorite
i was humming to it on my way home after iam done with school runs, best track ever!!
One of the best scores for a video game! It is also interesting watching this game box desing, on the back you can clearly see that the images are not from megadrive port, but from the NES version of Batman which was also great. Thanks for sharing!
The great thing about this game was the difficulty. I remember being like 5 or 6 and not being able to get past the Museum. Frustrating, but the music BUMPED. Then when I did, it was the car level that had me for a while. Cool soundtrack, but again, frustrating. Then I got to Gotham Streets three, and was treated with yet another bomb song. And when you get to the first cathedral level, it's like "woah this is the end stretch, now!" What I'd give to go back be six years old again.
Awesome . This soundtrack here , thunderforce 4 , streets of rage 2 ... and cyborg justice , best megadrive soundtracks for me
My very first Batman Game was undoubtedly the Batman game on the NES back in 1989/1990. Never got to play this one when I was young.
AMAZING soundtrack!!!
1 NES fanboy disliked this video
+P. H. G. F. NES has great OST too. Also NES Batman much better than this one.
arseniy Yeah! Great game, but i disagre :)
+P. H. G. F. Both games are Awesome
That would be stupid, because both soundtracks were made by the same great composer.
P. H. G. F. Both versions music were made by the same composer. As much as I prefer the NES version. The Genesis version is one of my favorite Genesis games. I just love it. It's sad that its short... but still. Loveable.
I love this soundtrack so much! Good memories
i just learn today, 29 years after buying Batman for Genesis, that they used NES screen shots on the back. Well I'll be dipped.
This has a very similar feel to the NES version but somehow even more awesome
Loved the game as a kid.. Have Gotham streets as a ringtone... ppl of my age heads turn like a lost memory has been awakened. A few have asked where it came from... I told them and I get a life story...obviously I say I dunno most of the time lol.
“Hey, where’s that from?”
“It’s from my Batphone.”
The music here is so good . Back im the 90s megadrive and c64 music was often so good it was listenable on its own . Some MD music is incredible simply
Sonic work of art, really... Sonic 1 music as well btw... A marvel considering the hardware and the amount of available memory.
Best music at all
Batman and street of rage 1
and revenge of shinobi sega, elemental master, and echo sega cd
Yes, thunder force 3 et 4, elemental master, street of rage sont des exemples que la megadrive peut envoyer du lourd en son midi
that title theme really gave me the chills as a child, really glad i still have my childhood cart
Sunsoft may not have handled the transition to 16-bit the best, but this soundtrack was one hell of an exception!
The Superman game soundtrack was great too
Could never get past the museum and that platforming part, but was still the funnest game to play and listen to. especially the chemical plant.
The music to level 2 is epic!!
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
YOU WANNA GET NUTZ??? COME ON.....lets get nutz!!!
Never rub another man's rhubarb!
what about YOU, ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
He's a little hot under the collar.
THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA!
The second best, if not THE best soundtrack for the Sega Genesis!
The first stage theme is FUCKING AWESOME!!!
O tema da primeira fase é simplesmente AWESOME!!!
This brings back good memories. Such an amazing soundtrack and awesome game.
i just found about this version on a mix of sega mega drive, holy shit this sounds even better.
Brutal OST, among the best ones for Genesis
17:59 Scandalous! Talkin' 'bout you and me.
If most Mega Drive games have had ost's as perfectly designed for the sound hardware as this one, nobody would ever say this console is inferior sound-wise to the snes.
I remember all of this. Lots of memories in it
I always thought that "Ending Theme" is inspired by the track "scandalous" by prince of the Batman (1989) OST.
+Chico Azevedo I think you are right
The Joker's theme...
*Incredible* (even after so many years).
The one were you fight him on top of the cathedreal to save Gotham city of Joker's toxic chaos and hazardous massacare he plans to do ?
It is incredible that a budget Yamaha FM chip can sound as good as this. In a kind of early released game.
Incredible.
They did a pact with the devil or something! ha ha.
Best wishes.
thank you very very much for uploading this OST
You can feel the Naoki Kodaka style on the soundtrack. I can imagine hearing this on the NES
I love the music in this game, even though it makes me picture Batman powerwalking through the streets beating up thugs.
Not saying the music is too leisurely, because it is badass and makes me want to fight... but just look at the way the Batman sprite is moving. XD
Stage 1 Gotham City Streets 1 make you feel so heroic.
Stage 3 is my favorite! That beat sounds so awesome. I have decided to add this to my workout songs list
WAIT...
THE GENESIS COVER HAS THE NES VERSION SCREENSHOTS????????
Well, SNES and the Genesis shared screenshots between covers and manuals in Mortal Kombat 3, but I didn't expected they to use screenshots of a version for an inferior console.
I know you all came for this 10:27 Awesome driving music!
19:59 La canción más triste de la historia. The song saddest of the hystory.
:,-(
Pero muy linda también.
@@aninhaprsouza Hola Ana! Buenas noches, recién veo tu mensaje. Estos tontosnde UA-cam nunca me notificaron de tu mensaje.
Ah, sí, también. Es bellísima la canción. Que lindo sería hacer un video con esa hermosa canción de fondo, ¿no crees? ,¿que opinas?
@@aninhaprsouza si correcto
Desde maruecos noth di africa
Mi gusta batman ost
Fantastic music
Awesome, thanks.
Les meilleurs musiques de la megadrive sans conteste, street of rage et revenge of shinobi , thunder force 3 et 4 compris. La megadrive son processeur sonore est un regal pour les oreilles
Best megadrive soundtrack
This game always made me wish, they made more megaman games for the Megadrive. Like Stage 4-1 just screams later Wiley Fortress or Sigma Fortress to me :).
When the drum and bass kicks in during the first song, the melody sounds like "Flash Man' from Mega Man 2.
well my experience of these classic batman games are that they get very frustrating at times and require patience at time.
But the music to all these classic batman game's are great and very catchy
I used the ending theme for a song, absolutely loved playing this game as kid!
Axis Chemical Factory is tremendous!!!!
Imagine this with Sunsoft bass guitar on the NES now. It would be otherworldly. This is still fantastic though!
Wonder what this would sound like in the 8 bit version. Too bad the 89 game never made it to SNES.
Some of the best music on the system in my oppinion but my list is long I love the game music of the SEGA Megadrive/Genesis
Beautiful!
Music by Naoki Kodaka 小高 直樹
Also composed music for Super Spy Hunter and NES Sunsoft Batman games
and Hebereke and Journey to Silius and Super Phantazy zone and Gremlins and one need more?
God this soundtrack was always so goddamn amazing!!!
The ending theme has no business in a Batman game but it is incredible.
Thats really an amazing sound track. The NES one is great too. Im not sure what SunSoft was using back in the day but it made all the other sound tracks on games sound like shit. Really made the genesis shine here. wow
Top!
♥ Jon Lord (God of keyboards) would have been proud. R.I.P
Cidade de Gotham ruas e no céu de Gotham(10:27) é sensacional demais...
E parabéns pelo vídeo.
So fucking awesome, best track no doubt when you drive on gotham streets.. museum also nice.
good old memories 😭 11:07
I always loved the Cathedral track...had a very 80s New Wave Vibe...kinda Tears for Fears or Depeche Mode.
Glad to see you're back
Super soundtrack and game action, a masterpiece!!