Galaxian -- Hidden Music Easter Egg

Update: Well, we know what two of them are. Now if we just knew the rest. (Annotations provide details and links to respective songs.)
Galaxian for the NES has a little-known secret, not that it's hard to understand why.
To view this, you have to reset the console 44 times, and then hold A+B and do it again. To change tracks, you had to reset it another 45 times. Fun!
This morning I spent some time trying to dig out all the information about it I could, resulting in this script -- it takes all the pain out of viewing it. :)
The sprite at the top that scrolls horizontally has no meaning. The sprite at the left does -- its position is that of the position in the song, and its tile represents the notes it is playing (although it's hard to tell).
My script removes the garbage between music tracks and automatically jumps to 1 from 5, since they seem to fit together pretty well.
If you open it in a tile viewer, you'll likely find a lot of garbage tiles among the rest of the graphics; this is some of the game's text (like the scoring table), as well as the music here. :) Sneaky ones, they are.
This script will be available with FCEUX, hopefully.

[@JMNTLRDRX]

Wow, this was my childhood. I accidently tripped with the console and this thing appeared on screen. lol I know this thing existed. Almost 20 years the last time I listened to it.

[@DrozGodhammer]

happened to me too!!!

[@stefanmadethen5359]

ok but for real since the new ad policies have come into effect .... i can't finish this sentence to fathom how youtube wants us to use yt premium

[@sonicandtails]

Insanity, to be honest. Who would have thought this level of obscurity would be found? It's things like this where I wish we could contact the original team and ask them...Why?

[@Fironnathedarkelf]

Was the first song from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (song 2)

[@Xkeeper0]

@ikyokyo If you're interested in this kind of thing, google the Cutting Room Floor Wiki. It's a site I run that aims to catalog all of this stuff, and you might be interested in helping us with research.

[@MorphcatGames]

Interesting. The rough simplicity of these tunes is beautiful, no volume envelopes or whatsoever.

[@mailanbr]

Wow, I had no idea about this. :O

[@Xkeeper0]

I am not affiliated with Staples in any way. I just like buttons.

[@Xkeeper0]

Famicom (Family Computer) is just the Japanese version of the NES; they all play the same ROMs. (The only distinction is FDS, Famicom Disk System images; those are a different format from the cartridges)

[@carrie.c.c]

i went there because unused things/ easter eggs are my thing

[@Xkeeper0]

If you read, I know there are 5 songs; just two of them fit together as one.

[@Wreckscalibur]

I've actually been trying doing this the hard way with my Galaxian ROM. No such luck. I don't know if I should use Hard or Soft reset or what.

[@Akira625]

Nausicaa in Galaxian?

[@XaneMyers]

What's the format these songs use? I notice the higher npotes use the first part of th hexadecimal number going down from F and the lower notes use the second aprt,going up from 0, and where do the songs get their speed (0F) from?

[@Titanic4]

As far as I can see the first four bits are used for first channel, the last four bits are used for second, the song speed is probably the delay between notes affecting the note length as well - see the first song shown in this video and compare it with next one. It seems that the very last byte determines the song's speed.

[@Sgt_Viper000]

Hmm... This kind of sounds like the Opera House theme from Namco Museum Vol. 5.

[@samvalicenti5182]

Does the same thing work for Super Mario Bros?

[@Xkeeper0]

Soft reset. What emulator are you using? If it's FCEUX, you can go to Debug -> Hex editor and watch 0x0115; that will give you the internal reset counter. You'll want to make sure that at 2D (2C?) you hold A+B and then soft-reset. It'd be best to take a savestate every few resets to make sure you don't have to do it all over again if you screw up.

[@Xkeeper0]

Yes, it's from Disgaea. The first game, to be specific (Male warrior). I'll just assume the last part of that reply was a typo.

[@Xkeeper0]

Video games for the Famicon were released in Japan under the moniker Namcot (with the letter t at the end). -- Wikipedia

[@ikyokyo]

Well...Maybe I can explain why there are hidden Easter Eggs in some early games.Back in FC/NES games, they are strored in ROM of the cartrige. ROM always comes in some actual size,64KB,128KB,and so on. If a game was completely and perfectly developed and nothing to improve recently, but still not fill all the rest ROM space, those're wasted.Eg, If a game is totally 72KB but ROM is 128KB, the rest 56KB do nothing.So they fill it with Easter Eggs or garbage or sth like that to make ROM fully used.

[@Trogdorbad]

Well well well. I learned something new today.

[@joeds_]

Of course, because you will be sent to the menu screen if you reset the console.

[@gabxrevolution05]

@Xkeeper0 Not only at Famicom... In NEC PC-Engine and SuperFamicom too.

[@Trogdorbad]

Lol @ "namcot" on the title screen.

[@lovenigma777]

I believe he was quoting Meatwad, from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

[@nrz666]

This doesn't work on multicarts, does it?

[@御代官]

同じギタータブ譜無いですか？

[@Titanic4]

A+B in second player controller.

[@OmegaWarrior]

I do recognize that tune. It's from a Miyazaki film; I think it's from either Laputa or Naussica.

[@VectraVortex14]

It's from first Studio Ghibli movie in 1984: "Nausicaa"

[@barsov0078]

looooolll

[@NatnatGaming101]

Imagine that galaxian was first planned to be a puzzle game but the category didnt fit well so it turned into a simple shoot em up game.