So I replayed Mother 1 about a month ago and was listening to the OST on UA-cam when this was recommended to me. I've listened to it practically every day since then, I LOVE this. Also I'd totally listen to the Twinkle Elementary remix on loop for hours lmao
Gosh I absolutely loved this! I was unaware of the chip before so to me it sounded like a mix of NES and genesis! Really well done and I’m glad that this out in the world! Very happy anniversary to all!
i love giygas' whistle (or influence, i see it like the noise that starman jr makes so the are animals evil in le zoo) and how its less in the ost here, which could imply giegue was JUST starting his comeback
Played it a few days before. Started crying at the epilouge for no reason. The adventures, the backstory, the characters, the journey... it was all worth it. Thank you... Shigesato Itoi for this amazing game. Thank you... Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka for the amazing music. Thank you... ActualNK for this amazing remix. Thank you... Masahito Sakurai for making the francize popular and thus made me curious to try this game. And a final thank you.... towards the world. Thank you.
Other than the fact that Tense didn't need that much playtime (given it's a very simple loop), this is an amazing compilation and a great work overall.
Fallin' Love is SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL, and I am SOOOOO HAPPY because of it! Fallin' Love is my favorite song in this entire game, and while I've found some awesome remixes of it, yours is one of the best, if not the best, I've ever found!
Very very well done, I love your rendition of the 8 melodies and the epilogue song. And Fallin' Love is also amazingly done, and obviously can't forget about Pollyanna and Bein' Friends. Solid work on this collection, it really feels like a straight improvement over the original soundtrack.
I'm so impressed with this. its clear how much effort you put in because the finished product is incredible! I found my saying "oh wow" or "aw thats cute" at many points while listenibg to this. you should feel very proud!
This is insanely solid work all around. I heard Castlevania 3’s famicom OST years ago and I’ve always wondered what other NES games would have sounded like if they had that same tech. Incredible work, this really deserves more attention.
Of all the beautiful songs in this video, the one that got me to cry was the level up song. It was as if the heavens themselves had blessed me with hope that I am getting stronger on my journey and to not give up. I really needed this. Thank-you.
sorry to hear about the complications. the fact it took you a little over 2 whole years, shows the dedication. not sure why but VRC7 is maybe my least favorite expansion chip. yet, it sounds so great. it really fits the mood. instruments are nice.
Wow, this is all incredible stuff. I'm especially in love with Wisdom of the World. It's probably my favorite track from Mother but I think I like this revision even more. In comparison it sounds less sad and more powerful than the original.
Mother is one of my favorite game stories and soundtracks of all time, and I've always preferred the VRC6 Castlevania 3 OST. So this is like food for my soul! And it's also a window into a world where Mother was made just a little bit later than it was. I'm going to be listening to this version a LOT, I just know it. You did a wonderful job with this! Thank you!!
I can tell an absurd amount of care went into every arrangement. You should be extremely proud of yourself. This is the best famitracker cover of the ost I’ve ever heard. Regardless of chips used or past individual covers by others. Outstanding work.
it's okay Obviously kidding on that front, these covers are really solid, they sound beautiful! As always, hard to pick what track my favorite would be since they all sound really good. (There isn't a Divido dungeon theme equivalent here, basically lol) ...and as always, I hear Pollyanna and I just have to sing the lyrics lol
I listen to Lagrange point almost all the time, and I listen to Mother soundtracks A LOT. This is an amazing experience to me, to see 2 things that I love very deeply mixed together. This will finally be the 2nd soundtrack I've heard using the VRC-7 and it is thanks to you and you work over 2 years. I'm also very sorry that a full Mother fan game project didn't happen :( you did amazing work
Just found this and must say, absolutely fantastic! Mother 1 already had a really good sounding OST for an NES and this steps it up a lot more! Great job!
Yamaha instruments are underappreciated. They also go well with the NES' sound system. Also, it seems one of the audio tracks in Snowman is misaligned, and I don't know how deliberate that is.
this is really incredible. wish a lot of other NES games could get this sort of treatment. if there's any one that deserves it, though, it's this one. good job 👍
I love this so much, I listened to the original Mother OST a lot when doing homework and this has really become one of my go-tos for getting things done Magicant and And Fallin' Love are two of my favorite tracks from any game and your renditions are just perfect
Huh, go figure. Your take on the Mother soundtrack using the VRC7 expansion chip is much different from my take on it, but no less elegant in its execution. I actually like some of the custom patches you've used here, actually. Very nice. :)
@@actualnk358 I never intended for my take to become so popular, actually. Mother fans are just really enthusiastic about music. If I were to do it again, I'd definitely do some things differently, but I am glad people still greatly enjoy my work. BTW, I see you didn't do the US staff roll theme, an easy miss. No big deal though. Glad to have found this. :)
Covering the entire soundtrack (and making it sound good) was a monumental task to begin with, so by the time I was done with it, I didn't want to deal with it anymore, despite my strong connection to Mother. I'll definitely be uploading a US staff roll cover, just not anytime soon. Still, I'm happy you enjoy my work and vice versa. It's a real treat seeing you here. :)
@@actualnk358 Yeah, you don't have to tell me. It was a task for me just to get it done. Funny enough, I was the only one to have found a very, very, very missable theme that's kind of a variation of the "Tense" theme. It only occurs in the cave at the top of Mt. Itoi at the very end of the game, so it's forgotten by most. The only real difference is just the bassline. But I added it anyway. Anyways, keep doing what you're doing. Always great to hear how other people remix game music.
I guess arranging the OST is already half the battle. Maybe I'll eventually give it a shot, just replacing the game's code and data seems really intimidating.
Can someone explain to me what VRC7 is? Do I have it correct, that it's a chip which added additional channels and ws only used on one Konami game? Lastly, do any hard copies (fan-made, obviously) exist of Mother/Earthbound Zero|Beginnings with this chip, and this music?
Not really. In fact. No real fan project has been successful in converting the MMC3 mapper to that of the VRC7. The former is what houses the Mother 1 ROM. I got into contact with one person who was successful in getting an MMC1 game to run using the VRC7 mapper. He said any undertaking of making Mother 1 work on the VRC7 mapper is a very difficult undertaking and it doesn't help that I myself, a very woefully experienced assembly programmer could even grasp what goes on in the cpu as it reads to the MMC3 mapper. I'd have to have the technical expertise of konami themselves whom successfully made Castlevania III run on the MMC5 mapper in the first place.
Also to answer your other question. The VRC7 chip was a mapper chip that was made and used exclusively by Konami that added 6 additional FM sound channels. These sound channels produced exclusively from the chip almost resemble the sounds of real musical instruments similar to that of the SEGA Genesis or other 8 and 16 bit computer systems and keyboards at the time in exception to the SNES which used exclusively digital sounds. The chip was developed late into the famicoms lifespan and only used in 2 games. One of which is capable of using the additional 6 sound channels of the VRC7, known as Lagrange Point. Nintendo of America's strict licensing and 3rd party development policies would have restricted the sales of games using 3rd party mappers which would have prevented the sales of Lagrange Point from arriving to Japan unless the game utilized Nintendos own in-house mappers such as the MMC series, which none of them use any type of FM capabilities of the VRC7. Plus any system outside of Japan did not house any additional sound support which would have made the audio not function for those systems. This happened to be a case with the release of Castlevania III which houses the MMC3 mapper. While it's Japanese counterpart released months earlier housed the VRC6 which is another mapper capable of producing additional sounds from the standard five channels that the majority of games used.
@@superex1118 No, I really enjoy an explanation like this, even if it makes my head spin! I didn't know the VRC7 did more than just add additional audio channels, and I also didn't know that the SEGA Genesis had the capability of emulating real instrument sounds. But then again, I don't know what you mean by that. I guess it seems obvious when I think of the arena organ sounds in the NHL series, etc., but I had basically thought of it like: SNES emulated real instruments, Genesis' sound system was a couple of synths programmers could *try* to get to sound like real instruments, but the best Genesis soundtracks came from the composers/sound programmers embracing FM synth and making magic out of that.
I used Dn-FamiTracker! It's a little confusing and even intimidating to use at first if you've never used a tracker before, but it replicates the NES/Famicom audio (and its' limitations) near-perfectly. Give it a shot if you're that interested! :) github.com/Dn-Programming-Core-Management/Dn-FamiTracker/releases/tag/Dn0.5.0.0
I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough in ROM hacking to say, though if someone were to disassemble Mother 1's ROM and ask me for my Famitracker module, I'd gladly send it their way.
@@actualnk358 i just replayed Mother 1 yesterday on Estrogen HRT.. the Teddy's injury on Mt. Itoi, the Fallin' Love Ninten & Ana dance, and the epilogue hit way too hard... they were right with this "no crying until the ending" tagline... the new hormones made me cry a river of tears over some fictional kids😭
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17:14 EARTHBOUND MOTIF ♥ ♥
The fact that I share the same birthday as the Mother series makes me hold it closer to me more than anything. This was very nice :)
Awwwww, that's awesome!! :D
I share a birthday with earthbounds release (in Japan anyway)
AWESOME....i share the exact birthday with mother 1 + 2!!! maybe the compressed gba ost isn't the greatest, but they really went all out for the merch
my birthday is two days before earthbound beginnings release (to clarify, my birthday is in the 29th of the same month earthbound beginnings released)
So I replayed Mother 1 about a month ago and was listening to the OST on UA-cam when this was recommended to me. I've listened to it practically every day since then, I LOVE this.
Also I'd totally listen to the Twinkle Elementary remix on loop for hours lmao
Flippant Foe is really groovin, that one's probably the best one out of the whole track.
Oh Lord help me. Fall In Love made me cry like a little baby. Its such an amazing rendition of the game's version.
It gave me chills just making it. :)
Gosh I absolutely loved this! I was unaware of the chip before so to me it sounded like a mix of NES and genesis! Really well done and I’m glad that this out in the world! Very happy anniversary to all!
The alternate Twinkle Elementary is REALLY nice
i love giygas' whistle (or influence, i see it like the noise that starman jr makes so the are animals evil in le zoo) and how its less in the ost here, which could imply giegue was JUST starting his comeback
If you compiled this into a soundtrack I would totally pay money for it. It’s that good.
Played it a few days before. Started crying at the epilouge for no reason. The adventures, the backstory, the characters, the journey... it was all worth it.
Thank you... Shigesato Itoi for this amazing game. Thank you... Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka for the amazing music. Thank you... ActualNK for this amazing remix. Thank you... Masahito Sakurai for making the francize popular and thus made me curious to try this game. And a final thank you.... towards the world.
Thank you.
Mother 1 (and by extension, the entire series) is too good for words. Glad to see that you enjoy this!
Other than the fact that Tense didn't need that much playtime (given it's a very simple loop), this is an amazing compilation and a great work overall.
your fallin love remix is fucking amazing easily my favorite fan rendition of this theme on youtube
Fallin' Love is SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL, and I am SOOOOO HAPPY because of it! Fallin' Love is my favorite song in this entire game, and while I've found some awesome remixes of it, yours is one of the best, if not the best, I've ever found!
Very very well done, I love your rendition of the 8 melodies and the epilogue song. And Fallin' Love is also amazingly done, and obviously can't forget about Pollyanna and Bein' Friends. Solid work on this collection, it really feels like a straight improvement over the original soundtrack.
I'm so impressed with this. its clear how much effort you put in because the finished product is incredible! I found my saying "oh wow" or "aw thats cute" at many points while listenibg to this. you should feel very proud!
This is insanely solid work all around. I heard Castlevania 3’s famicom OST years ago and I’ve always wondered what other NES games would have sounded like if they had that same tech. Incredible work, this really deserves more attention.
This is vrc7 not vrc6
You mean Lagrange Point? not Castlevania 3?
Of all the beautiful songs in this video, the one that got me to cry was the level up song. It was as if the heavens themselves had blessed me with hope that I am getting stronger on my journey and to not give up. I really needed this. Thank-you.
sorry to hear about the complications. the fact it took you a little over 2 whole years, shows the dedication. not sure why but VRC7 is maybe my least favorite expansion chip. yet, it sounds so great. it really fits the mood. instruments are nice.
Wow, this is all incredible stuff. I'm especially in love with Wisdom of the World. It's probably my favorite track from Mother but I think I like this revision even more. In comparison it sounds less sad and more powerful than the original.
Cave of the tail sounds gorgeous. Incredible work on these covers.
Mother is one of my favorite game stories and soundtracks of all time, and I've always preferred the VRC6 Castlevania 3 OST. So this is like food for my soul! And it's also a window into a world where Mother was made just a little bit later than it was. I'm going to be listening to this version a LOT, I just know it. You did a wonderful job with this! Thank you!!
I can tell an absurd amount of care went into every arrangement. You should be extremely proud of yourself. This is the best famitracker cover of the ost I’ve ever heard. Regardless of chips used or past individual covers by others. Outstanding work.
it's okay
Obviously kidding on that front, these covers are really solid, they sound beautiful! As always, hard to pick what track my favorite would be since they all sound really good. (There isn't a Divido dungeon theme equivalent here, basically lol)
...and as always, I hear Pollyanna and I just have to sing the lyrics lol
I listen to Lagrange point almost all the time, and I listen to Mother soundtracks A LOT. This is an amazing experience to me, to see 2 things that I love very deeply mixed together. This will finally be the 2nd soundtrack I've heard using the VRC-7 and it is thanks to you and you work over 2 years.
I'm also very sorry that a full Mother fan game project didn't happen :( you did amazing work
I think I almost went with N163 audio initially, then I felt like VRC7 audio would work much better for Mother. Turns out that it did.
Just found this and must say, absolutely fantastic! Mother 1 already had a really good sounding OST for an NES and this steps it up a lot more! Great job!
Yamaha instruments are underappreciated. They also go well with the NES' sound system.
Also, it seems one of the audio tracks in Snowman is misaligned, and I don't know how deliberate that is.
NAILED IT. Nice work, this really shines!
this is really incredible. wish a lot of other NES games could get this sort of treatment. if there's any one that deserves it, though, it's this one. good job 👍
I love this so much, I listened to the original Mother OST a lot when doing homework and this has really become one of my go-tos for getting things done
Magicant and And Fallin' Love are two of my favorite tracks from any game and your renditions are just perfect
Nice VRC7 cover of the soundtrack!😄🤩😎👌
YO DJ! TURN THAT SHI UP!!!
Edit: This is just a minor nitpick but kinda bummed the U.S. only staff roll ain't here
Isn’t the U.S. staff roll the same as the airplane ride?
@@ImCrowned76 yes
Factory theme is so fire wtf
Oh hey Twinkle Elementary has a little bit of the melody from the GB Camera Ending!
Huh, go figure.
Your take on the Mother soundtrack using the VRC7 expansion chip is much different from my take on it, but no less elegant in its execution. I actually like some of the custom patches you've used here, actually. Very nice. :)
I completely forgot about your cover! I really liked that one, too.
Nice to see ya here! :D
@@actualnk358
I never intended for my take to become so popular, actually. Mother fans are just really enthusiastic about music.
If I were to do it again, I'd definitely do some things differently, but I am glad people still greatly enjoy my work.
BTW, I see you didn't do the US staff roll theme, an easy miss. No big deal though. Glad to have found this. :)
Covering the entire soundtrack (and making it sound good) was a monumental task to begin with, so by the time I was done with it, I didn't want to deal with it anymore, despite my strong connection to Mother. I'll definitely be uploading a US staff roll cover, just not anytime soon.
Still, I'm happy you enjoy my work and vice versa. It's a real treat seeing you here. :)
@@actualnk358
Yeah, you don't have to tell me. It was a task for me just to get it done.
Funny enough, I was the only one to have found a very, very, very missable theme that's kind of a variation of the "Tense" theme. It only occurs in the cave at the top of Mt. Itoi at the very end of the game, so it's forgotten by most. The only real difference is just the bassline. But I added it anyway.
Anyways, keep doing what you're doing. Always great to hear how other people remix game music.
This is incredible, amazing work!
Oh wow, just the main title theme had me welling up with how good it is. Those harmonies are beautiful! ;v;
0:00 the memories...
13:09 This one is closer to the SNES version ("Buy Somethin', Will Ya'?")
Thank you very much for this. You seem quite skilled.
THIS IS SO GOOOOOOOOD OH GOSH i love this
Hey I appreciate this so much thanks you mean a lot to us =)
49:00 This part...
can you upload "And Fallin Love" as a separate youtube video? I love jamming to it and I would really like to put it on repeat while I work haha
11:59 Earthbound
This is great stuff, you should be really proud! :)
Less than a day later and I'm already at my third listen, with many listens to come I'm sure!
wow. this is quite amazing. well done
THIS WHOLE OST RIPS
THE WHOLE TRILOGY'S OSTS RIP
@@actualnk358 HELL YEA IT DOES
Beautiful.
based
holy shit, queen mary herself? it's an honor!! :D
even more based
I liked the flippant foe
39:46 Easter sounds like Sega Mega Drive version of Paula’s theme
This goes so hard i am in love with you
woah woah woah what the hell was that twinkle elementary alt version
GB camera credits that’s fuckin awesome
Wow… It’s beautiful…
The Twinkle Elementary alternate version is really good! Seems like there's an interpolation of Just Like Heaven by The Cure in there?
NGL It's actually the credits for GB Camera. Go have a listen because it sounds similar.
@@meanshape101 oh wow, really interesting
too good...way too good
I love this.
you did a wonderful job!
You should make a rom hack with this arrangement
I guess arranging the OST is already half the battle. Maybe I'll eventually give it a shot, just replacing the game's code and data seems really intimidating.
@@actualnk358 You should talk with an expert of this manner
Wonderful all around ❤
Excellent job.
Es hermoso 💖
its this or the mother encore soundtrack.
Impressive, very nice.
hey, can i use this soundtrack for an earthbound beginnings related project i have in mind?
Epic
Can You Upload The Entire OST 🙏
Can someone explain to me what VRC7 is? Do I have it correct, that it's a chip which added additional channels and ws only used on one Konami game? Lastly, do any hard copies (fan-made, obviously) exist of Mother/Earthbound Zero|Beginnings with this chip, and this music?
Not really. In fact. No real fan project has been successful in converting the MMC3 mapper to that of the VRC7. The former is what houses the Mother 1 ROM. I got into contact with one person who was successful in getting an MMC1 game to run using the VRC7 mapper. He said any undertaking of making Mother 1 work on the VRC7 mapper is a very difficult undertaking and it doesn't help that I myself, a very woefully experienced assembly programmer could even grasp what goes on in the cpu as it reads to the MMC3 mapper. I'd have to have the technical expertise of konami themselves whom successfully made Castlevania III run on the MMC5 mapper in the first place.
@@superex1118 Wow! Well, thanks for the explanation.
Also to answer your other question. The VRC7 chip was a mapper chip that was made and used exclusively by Konami that added 6 additional FM sound channels. These sound channels produced exclusively from the chip almost resemble the sounds of real musical instruments similar to that of the SEGA Genesis or other 8 and 16 bit computer systems and keyboards at the time in exception to the SNES which used exclusively digital sounds. The chip was developed late into the famicoms lifespan and only used in 2 games. One of which is capable of using the additional 6 sound channels of the VRC7, known as Lagrange Point. Nintendo of America's strict licensing and 3rd party development policies would have restricted the sales of games using 3rd party mappers which would have prevented the sales of Lagrange Point from arriving to Japan unless the game utilized Nintendos own in-house mappers such as the MMC series, which none of them use any type of FM capabilities of the VRC7. Plus any system outside of Japan did not house any additional sound support which would have made the audio not function for those systems. This happened to be a case with the release of Castlevania III which houses the MMC3 mapper. While it's Japanese counterpart released months earlier housed the VRC6 which is another mapper capable of producing additional sounds from the standard five channels that the majority of games used.
@@kjuergens1985yw! Also sorry for the long and arduous history lesson btw lol
@@superex1118 No, I really enjoy an explanation like this, even if it makes my head spin! I didn't know the VRC7 did more than just add additional audio channels, and I also didn't know that the SEGA Genesis had the capability of emulating real instrument sounds. But then again, I don't know what you mean by that. I guess it seems obvious when I think of the arena organ sounds in the NHL series, etc., but I had basically thought of it like: SNES emulated real instruments, Genesis' sound system was a couple of synths programmers could *try* to get to sound like real instruments, but the best Genesis soundtracks came from the composers/sound programmers embracing FM synth and making magic out of that.
W pfp
I love this, I was wondering what you used to make it so I could make a song with similiar sounds?
I used Dn-FamiTracker!
It's a little confusing and even intimidating to use at first if you've never used a tracker before, but it replicates the NES/Famicom audio (and its' limitations) near-perfectly.
Give it a shot if you're that interested! :)
github.com/Dn-Programming-Core-Management/Dn-FamiTracker/releases/tag/Dn0.5.0.0
@@actualnk358 sweet, I will!
Good luck then!
Thinking this should be in 432hz...
GameBoy Camera
lmao
Will there be a rom hack featuring these revisioned osts?
I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough in ROM hacking to say, though if someone were to disassemble Mother 1's ROM and ask me for my Famitracker module, I'd gladly send it their way.
@@actualnk358 Will you be able to release the soundtrack as an NSF?
Is this a Romhack
43:49
sound like midi
it IS fm, so it kinda makes sense.
These segments should not be there. 13:34 14:06
Is there a download link?
Uhm
i wish this wasn't a overlay.
what???
Please .FTM and .NSF
Oh, a fellow transgender Earthbound fan? Thought I'm the one of the few, but there's more I see.
Huh, really? And here I thought there were quite a few.
@@actualnk358 i just replayed Mother 1 yesterday on Estrogen HRT.. the Teddy's injury on Mt. Itoi, the Fallin' Love Ninten & Ana dance, and the epilogue hit way too hard... they were right with this "no crying until the ending" tagline... the new hormones made me cry a river of tears over some fictional kids😭
Awwwww... I myself am not on HRT yet, but I feel ya. Even when I've played the game multiple times, I get emotional..