Ryu Umemoto (梅本 竜) - PC-98 Video Game Music Selection

[@kyokoumemoto3810]

竜ちゃんは私の甥です。 8月が来ると竜ちゃんの事、切なく…思い出します。 命日頃になると「黒揚羽」が庭に飛来。竜ちゃんが長崎の家にきてくれてるのかと思います。皆様に愛されて感謝です。

[@tiivc]

感謝感激 (deepl)

[@9dtrz]

今でも毎日のように梅本さんの音楽を耳にしています。 私の思い出は、昔mixiが流行って居た頃、梅本さんとミク友？になったことです。何処の者かも分からない私に、メッセージ上で親切にしてくださいました😢

[@Deniii4000]

The guy was a genius, and that's a fact. Be in his compositions or programming of the sound chips, he was bar to none. Too sad he's no longer with us.

[@UnseenMenace]

I only discovered his work recently and was blown away as well as saddened to hear he died so young :(

[@pmmm712011]

This guy made the music for EVE and YUNO at around age 18. That's seriously mind-blowing.

[@Akiak7]

the most important vgm composer

[@dorkasaurus_rex]

He's like the Tim Follin of Japan. Amazing music. 🙏RIP a pioneering video game music genius.

[@cardman2401]

どの曲も聞けばすぐああ、梅本さんだって分かるメロディラインとベース あまりにも行くのが早すぎたよ・・・

[@SpiralPegasus]

Is this playlist good? >Yu-No is in it >Reminiscence is featured HELL YES IT IS

[@mylesobrien7477]

Yu-No has a special place in my heart

[@suimin7782]

こういう昔のゲームのSE大大大大好きだから助かる

[@holonholon1141]

Been listening to this for a while but finally took the plunge to get YU-NO. Super worth it for the music alone! Mr Umemoto really was an incredible and unique composer...

[@_buttonmasher]

Rest in Power to one of the greatest to ever do it. Extremely grateful to those who have preserved Umemoto San’s music.

[@user-7.62x39]

デザイアの曲、EVEの曲、ほんとに心に刻まれてます。

[@vtcabbit]

an amazing composer. he may have passed on but his legacy will last for generations

[@ablativeimagery]

WOW... That last track... Such a banger. Thank you for introducing me to this!

[@yourdaysbebright4738]

This still serves as one of my "do things" music selections, popping up a few times each week. Thanks again, for uploading this awesome "sampler" of Umemoto's work.

[@yourdaysbebright4738]

@Czarek7711, I want you to know that this video has been in my daily play list for nearly 4 months now. I LOVE Ryu Umemoto's work and the mix you have uploaded here is a fantastic example of his best work! It's a perfect set of tunes to write code to :)

[@Czarek7711]

Hey thanks! I'm glad to hear that even though the idea behind this video was to serve only as an introduction to Umemoto's music.

[@耳鳴り-x5o]

Desire has the best soundtrack! Best game too

[@rrjanik]

INSANELY GOOD

[@ceciifm]

Thank you! I love Ryu Umemoto and PC-98 tunes!!

[@brianflanagan9509]

Lovely! Thanks!

[@MHidekingable]

Awesome

[@DaBackpack]

Great selection! Looking forward to a part 2 :)

[@rutgermuller]

wow, mood!

[@wizards-themagicalconcert5048]

You got an amazing taste in music mate,thanks for sharing ! Subbed !

[@ahllyks]

finally.. have been waiting for the tunes

[@lukewilliams235]

@@Czarek7711I love your channel! Thanks for the awesome tunes! Ryu Umemoto is a legend and I love his music! YU-NO is coming out 1st October. Desire is my favourite visual novel and has a great soundtrack! Here's a website you can play visual novels on which is cool. tss.asenheim.org/en/ www.siliconera.com/2019/05/22/yu-no-nintendo-switch-playstation-4-and-pc-versions-arrive-in-october-2019/

[@lukewilliams235]

@@Czarek7711 You're welcome! That's cool.

[@耳鳴り-x5o]

@@Czarek7711 you should play Desire, the soundtrack and the ending are the best I've ever seen. and the game is funny and has everything (including bad things but that is part of life and makes the ending even better lol) though the censored PS2 and dunno what else versions are better in my opinion

[@Deniii4000]

@@耳鳴り-x5o I had completely forgotten Desire was available on PS2. I almost grabbed the Saturn version many years ago but was short on money. I ended up playing the pc version.

[@Sabocalypse]

Very good

[@glamsan]

XENONの音楽めっちゃ好きやわあ。😊

[@willonastring]

this music is so good for helping me concentrate on homework - thanks so much!

[@cyberholix]

Przekozak. Klimat jedyny w swoim rodzaju, nawet jak na japońskie realia chiptunowe. Spoczywaj w pokoju, Ryu Umemoto.

[@roimar2983]

polish my balls please, jk.

[@김김김-s8d]

세기말감성인가 이것이..

[@Crixer234]

I wonder how many soundcards for the PC-98 was released?, kinda hard to find a common list, also i know Creative released the Sound Blaster for it time ago but never catch on unlike it's PC (in japan terms: PC/AT) counterpart that became defacto standard.

[@seraphinax6449]

Well the most common soundcards (or soundboards as PC-98 users call them) for PC-98 are the "PC-9801-26" which was released in 1985 and containing a Yamaha YM2203 FM Synth supporting 3 OPN FM channels and 3 SSG channels, replaced quickly by the "PC-9801-26k" that works on faster machines. And in the early 90s NEC released the "PC-9801-86" sound board containing a discrete PCM chip and the Yamaha YM2608 FM Synth supporting 6 OPNA FM channels, 3 SSG channels, a PCM channel and various drums channels and that sound board is fully backwards compatible with software supporting the "-26" sound board. There were some clone sound boards like the "Speak Board", "QVision", and more. There were also some other unique soundboards but those aren't really popular. Sound Blaster 16 for example had a socket for a YM2203 for compatibility with software that support the "26k" board but later PC-98 Sound Blasters AWEs didn't have that and only supported Windows.

[@maxabeles]

32:45 japan got the funk!

[@t.k.5972]

"He was a descendant of the 16th-century daimyō Takeda Shingen" how based is that ?!

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

This is giving me va-11 hall-a vibes

[@violaa9092]

Hey there! Just as an initial disclaimer, I'm kinda new to Umemoto's music (as I finished PC-98's YU-NO sometime this year), but hoping that'll change in the future. This compilation was really interesting. Out of YU-NO BGM (and the others, though I wouldn't be able to know), I couldn't help but notice that your selection seems -to me- to follow a clear pattern. As I know virtually nothing about music, I can only describe it as a particular vibe that leaves out "softer" or more melodic songs, which, in my opinion, are more memorable. (I'm thinking of Mio/Ayumi/YU-NO's themes, Contact, Movement themes...). The only exception would be Reminiscence. But, again, I don't know how to describe what I'm thinking of. Apologies in advance. So, my question is, if you have the time and feel like it: would you say this selection is representative of Umemoto's "style"? Or maybe the songs I listed aren't too far from this, and you just didn't feel they would fit? Sorry for the wall of text and vague explanation, but thanks in advance for taking the time to read it!

[@Czarek7711]

Hey, interesting comment, thank you! I don't think I'd agree that this list doesn't contain "softer" or "more melodic" songs. This selection wasn't meant to be representative of Umemoto's style. It's just tracks I particularly enjoyed listening to at that time. I additionally was trying to include max 3 tracks per game. Evidently it didn't work out in case of YU-NO. I could swap them with many others though, including some of those you mentioned (as a sidenote, Ayumi's theme was composed by Ryu Takami).

[@violaa9092]

@@Czarek7711 Ah, thanks a lot for replying so quickly. Gotcha @ everything, I now see where you're coming from. As usual, I was overthinking things, haha. And, for the record, I wasn't trying to be at all confrontational! I think your mix is pretty fine, and it serves its purpose well. (Also: I didn't know about Ayumi's! Thanks for sending me down an evening-long rabbit hole) PS. Wikipedia doesn't list any source for this, but apparently Umemoto was a descendant of Sengoku's Takeda Shingen ¿¿?¿?¿?¿?¿ woah

[@Deniii4000]

@@Czarek7711 Who composed the song "Memories" in Yu-No? It's my favorite song in but I don't know who composed it.

[@Czarek7711]

@@Deniii4000 Ryu Umemoto. Vast majority of the tracks were done by him.

[@Deniii4000]

@@Czarek7711 Thanks for the reply!

[@knogu1523]

菅野ひろゆきの作品は、この人の音楽があってこそ、だったんだよねぇ……

[@funknotik]

What soundboard is used to proved these synths? Is it the onboard sound of pc98? Sounds great

[@Czarek7711]

Yes, PC-9801-26K, PC-9801-86 and Speak Board. Although of course here they are emulated using hoot.

[@kot32_fake]

Quick question, where exactly did you get the rips for DESIRE and how did you get it to work with Hoot?

[@MegaTheman25]

Hoot would be the perfect player if you could skip around to certain sections like foobar2000

[@loganjones4650]

What is the most accurate emulator for PC-98 ym2203 and ym2608 sound? Is it Hoot with its low-pass-filter simulation?

[@Czarek7711]

I couldn't tell you, I'm not that knowledgeable on the subject. Personally I don't use LPF settings in hoot, only sampling rate.

[@himmelhero]

@@Czarek7711 Would you happen to know where I could attain the Cheap file seems like links are down everywhere.

[@Czarek7711]

@@himmelhero I'm not aware of any Hoot tutorials. The best you can do is try to figure it out based on a working hoot setup, like mine - github.com/czarek7711/hoot. And if you have any specific questions I can try to help. I've never used Cheap myself, and as far as I know HootFavoritter is a similar and superior software.

[@insanelyheinousbeefer]

god this is so sick. i feel cheated that i never experienced pc-98 era game/music

[@LeKikoojap]

With hoot I could make Umemoto-sounding tracks?

[@r3nsk1]

hoot is a sound hw emulator & replayer. You could check out BambooTracker.

[@lightspeedmurphy7546]

Do you accept any requests for PC98 rips?

[@lightspeedmurphy7546]

@@Czarek7711 Someone had videos for all 4 Cybernetic Hi-School games but for some reason he took them down along with all of his other game music rips

[@siskavard]

Why do all the porn games have the best soundtracks?

[@siskavard]

@potato name what

[@sirmiluch6856]

Porn games. Lol. Did you even play any of VNs? The stories and characterization in these games are often blowing out everything that western popculture produced in past 30 years.

[@siskavard]

@@sirmiluch6856 No I don't play animuuuuu games

[@roskiart8750]

@@sirmiluch6856 Are they? Or are you just a degenerate?

[@unparalleledaesthetics7346]

​@siskavard then why you on this video its anime. Don't write it off. Amazing art and music. Better than most visual novels and games Ive seen come out today. Especially American games

[@Emzy2608]

How do you get hoot to display the operators for FM#2?

[@Czarek7711]

You need to add the option "" in the xml entry.

[@Emzy2608]

@@Czarek7711 Is there a tutorial online for that? I can't find where to put it.

[@Czarek7711]

@@Emzy2608 There isn't. You need to find the xml file inside which config info of the soundtrack you're trying to edit is stored. It's probably named after the publisher of the game. There you need to find node for your game, and put the showfm3ex option inside node. If there's no node then you need to add it, can be under node. Save the file, open hoot and press Ctrl + R to reload music config data. Hopefully you can get it working now. And remember that this option works only for OPN based soundchips.

[@Emzy2608]

@@Czarek7711 Thank you so much! I got it working now!