[SEGA Genesis Music] Mega Turrican - Full Original Soundtrack OST

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Composed by Chris Hülsbeck with 100% more ümlaüts for yoür pleasüre.
Recorded from real hardware / not an emulator
00:00 Intro
01:54 Stage 1-1
08:04 Stage 1-2
10:56 Stage 1 Secret Area
13:33 Emergency
13:43 Stage 1 Boss
14:33 Stage 2-1
17:53 Stage 2-2
20:33 Stage 2-3
22:38 Stage 2 Boss
24:07 Stage 3-1
27:44 ünknown Track
29:36 Stage 3-2
31:34 Stage 3-3
33:32 Stage 3-4
35:38 Stage 3 Boss
37:04 Stage 4-1
39:30 Stage 4-2
43:03 Stage 4-3
45:54 Stage 4 Boss
46:52 Stage 5-1
51:33 Stage 5-2
53:01 Stage 5 Boss
53:57 Stage Clear
54:02 Boss Defeated
54:09 Game Over
54:15 Ending Theme
NOTES: Stage 4 is the worst. But the rest of this soundtrack is great.

[@DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL]

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[@NeoKad99]

Thank you bots! Enjoy your reports~

[@Syndusias]

From one Dustin to another, thanks for music.

[@lance16O1]

1st stage music = INSTANT GOOSEBUMPS

[@TheSuperPlayer707]

This is a real composer, the only one that can put every sound chip in its maximum glory, this soundtrack, no matter if it's in Amiga, SNES or Megadrive it's a masterpiece. My respects to Chris Hülsbeck, one of the few who can make awesome music with anything.

[@solarflare9078]

Chris is the man! Always the person people should go to for Turrican music!

[@TyTye]

Turrican is a brilliant game, but if you take away the music the game on its own it just 'good'. The music is what brings the magic

[@BoozeAholic]

@@TyTye Mega Turrican is easily the 2nd or 3rd best Run N Gun the Genesis. (Contra Hardcorps being the best of course.) Turrican 2 on Amiga is a classic, coz no other game has been able to perfect the Contra + Metroid formula that it had. Or at least, not until GunLord X came out nearly 2 decades later.

[@Seven71987]

And it's american!

[@rafaellima83]

@@BoozeAholic Gunstar Heroes is the best one. But Mega Turrican is a great game, one of the very few games made in Europe for the Mega-Drive that not only looked great, but also *played* greatly and could stand toe-to-toe with the Japanese efforts. Factor 5 not only had amazingly talented coders, they also knew how to do a good game.

[@franikator2]

Incredible drums from a Yamaha 2612 chip, Amazing!!!

[@tonmasboy]

You meant incredible samples from dac channel

[@cherrystarscollide]

@RedTony if you know how to mix, compression is not really necessary. This is mixed very well.

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

Agreed, it makes it sounded like real drums!

[@BGizzle8098]

Ive never heard drums this good on the sega genesis

[@matiasd.7755]

@@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000 the ym2612 fm chip has a dac output selectable as a replace for the sixth fm channel (you enable dac or fm channel six, only one at a time)... It lets you output sounds sampled from real world... In plain English, you're hearing real drums....

[@MasterLinkuei]

08:04 Stage 1-2 is the Secreat Area Theme 10:56 Stage 1 Secret Area is the Stage 1-2 Theme

[@MechanicalRabbits]

I was confused thinking I somehow managed to always end on the secret area by pure chance, but that clears it up hahaha

[@greglongmore6503]

10:56 Can't say how much this track touches me. I was born in 1980 and grew up playing this (and like, Greendog) with my good friend who passed away. "Nostalgia" doesn't cut it (or I guess it does because that's the word?)

[@noaht2005]

Oh my god that’s so sad…

[@rarchangelo]

One of the nicest things to hear throughout the 16-bit generation. Especially this one 17:53 (close your eyes and just feel)...

[@Nagai1989]

That artwork screams badass and the soundtrack makes it even more badass.

[@Bubba__Sawyer]

Incredible soundtrack. Sounds so much better on the Genesis than on the SNES.

[@sjcobra84]

Favourite Megadrive game of all time. Turrican deserves a comeback

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

It got a comeback but in the form of 2 $30 halves of an overpriced compilation.

[@Mingodough]

@@Nathan-rb3qp $30? its $40 lol

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

@@Mingodough Even worse!

[@omegametroyd]

I downloaded a fan made game, called Hurrican. It's rage quit material but so faithful to the soul of Turrican that I love it

[@Music-tg5is]

@@omegametroyd But does it have a soundtrack composed by Chris Huelsbeck? 'Cause that's a make-it-or-break-it when it comes to a Turrican game (or even clone / homage).

[@JuannSito]

10:56 I still hum this song today. =)

[@bondosho]

Chris was just on DFRetro, and said he wished he had more time with the FM sound chip in the Mega Drive. He also noted they used the Z80 as an additional PCM sound channel. Pretty cool.

[@chauha6845]

I think he meant that he software mixed the extra pcm channel for the Z80 to handle.

[@nulevoekrylo2888]

Damn you, Stage 4 rules. Besides, there's little to none "dark ambient"-tracks on Genesis audio.

[@tarasybnios5356]

True I was really surprised when I read that stage 4 is the worst. I consider it one of the best and unique tracks from every Mega Drive, which makes it even better! A true Gem!

[@lewstherintelamon1377]

No kidding. 4-2 is chilling, probably the most powerful piece on the soundtrack.

[@FoxBoy1992]

10:56 is so good.

[@jorgeracingclub8416]

+Yarfy Fox that was always my favorite, this game rocks

[@fiddlebender88]

+Yarfy Fox Oh yes.

[@jakebello7988]

That intro theme kicks EVERY ASS IMAGINABLE.

[@creechrfeechr8094]

I was lucky enough to have both consoles back in the day. SNES won some, Mega Drive won others. Mega Drive won this one, and that's for sure.

[@mind70188]

super turrican 2 was also nice

[@Meteotrance]

Hum Amiga rule guys, because it was the first machine that released this game and it was developed with it !!! but i must admit that Megadrive and Snes version was not bad at all.

[@andyukmonkey]

If my memory is correct this particular game was made for the Megadrive/Genesis first but actually released for the Amiga first. It was easier to get Amiga games published. Turrican 1 and 2 were both made for the Commodore 64 first.@@Meteotrance

[@shaneobrien5214]

@@Meteotrance I grew up with an Amiga 500 and then Mega drive and Mega Turrican is by far the best

[@fabricebacquart]

@@Meteotrance Not true at all. It was made for Megadrive and then ported down to the Amiga. Just because they didn't have a publisher doesn't mean it's an Amiga game. "Factor 5 began the work on Turrican III for the Amiga right after Turrican II was released in 1991. They had a working demo that already had some features from the final game. However, around this time, the Amiga market was already in decline and together with Rainbow Arts, it was decided to develop the game for the Sega Mega Drive instead. The game was completely redesigned for the console and it was co-developed by Factor 5 and members of Kaiko. Development of what was already known as Mega Turrican was finished in spring 1993, but Factor 5 was still lacking a publishing agreement for the title at this point, since Rainbow Arts did not perform direct operations on the console business. Factor 5 had then to shift efforts into presenting the game to various Mega Drive/Genesis publishers in hopes they could sign a definite deal, a process that would end a whole year after when Data East agreed with Factor 5 into publishing Mega Turrican in 1994. Not long after development of Mega Turrican for the Mega Drive was finished, Kaiko approached Rainbow Arts and asked to develop their own version of a third Turrican game for the Amiga. However, development on this version did not get very far and was stopped after a short time. Efforts on a third Amiga version were once again restarted, this time as a conversion of Mega Turrican, which was still an unpublished title on the Mega Drive/Genesis. The programming was done by Peter Thierolf of Neon Studios, formerly of Kaiko (the company was falling apart at the time). This port for the Amiga, rebranded as Turrican 3 (replacing the Roman numerals that the previous Factor 5 project had assigned), was released in Europe in Autumn 1993 by Rainbow Arts and Renegade Software, even before the original version for the Mega Drive/Genesis could find a publishing company for any region."

[@Max_Daix]

Que hermosos recuerdos de este juegazo! La música la había grabado en caset,es realmente excelente! Gracias por subirla.

[@Max_Daix]

Jeremias Balmaceda Hola,yo conectaba un cable con ficha a la salida de auriculares del Megadrive a un radiograbador con entrada en linea o entrada de Cd y asi grababa. Ahora se puede hacer todo con la Pc,Emulador Sega y grabas con Soundforge,espero te sirva,Saludos.

[@Max_Daix]

Es un placer ;)

[@thorndust5329]

Hay una calidad especial en esta música

[@nickogarrett]

Que bueno ver que no era el unico grabando musica del genesis a cassette jajaja

[@TheZmusicGroup]

I keep coming back to these uploads! It's a pleasure, especially with a good stereo system. Each time i discover new subtleties.

[@franciscooteiza]

Wow Amazing soundtrack, many thanks for this

[@alexanderkulaev541]

Great OST, thank you for uploading it!

[@TheHelium999]

This soundtrack serioiusly kicks ass! I haven´t heard it for a while. Such awesome tunes! Thx for sharing!

[@GtotheNextLevel]

This soundtrack is so freaking good. I dunno, I liked Stage 4's music too; considering the stage it just fits for me, at least. Thanks for this!

[@fiddlebender88]

Thanks for the upload. Great game on the Mega Drive / Genesis.

[@edgarector]

What a magnificent piece of art this is!

[@bonarlizaitis131]

This is so awesome! All that hard work for an epic ending song like on so many games of that era but none so good as this.

[@parallaxcraze958]

The Genesis kicks so much asses, no wonder the amount of butthurts around ;]

[@pinballmonk115]

so cool!!! thanks dustin

[@CrowScareify]

This is the most nostalgic and amazing ost. It reminds me of summers in grade school. Too good

[@sguinn91]

Those drums sound amazing! The rest of the soundtrack sounds incredible as well!

[@Nemcoification]

3-1 all day man, it's so good.

[@TheRage1581]

I'm finally going to do one of those "I'm here because of" comments... I'm here because of Console Wars. I'm glad they pointed out how great the soundtrack was in their video, it definitely lived up to the awesomeness they presented.

[@boom78]

Same here.

[@greenhillmaniac]

Damn, yesterday I asked you for a soundtrack and here it is! You go from a long period of inactivity to posting videos almost daily. Well, keep em coming :D

[@607]

This was awesome!

[@zanegandini5350]

What this game did on the Genesis is nothing short of amazing. If there's a weakness anywhere, I'd like to see it. Great graphics, music, heck even the voice samples were of high quality. It is difficult for sure though, but I don't see that as a flaw at all.

[@xXRenaxChanXx]

Gender Neutral Chibi Thing True that. But SNES fanboys and the like will continue to this day attack the Genesis and exclaim how SNES is the true greatest 16-bit Console ever created and go on and on. (Fun-fact the SNES was a great console too, but so was Genesis and that's despite the secret that the SNES processor is actually 9bits, and not truly 16bits like everyone still claims).

[@zanegandini5350]

Objectified Cross It's so long past fighting about, that should have been left in the 90's. This game wasn't a typical example, though. They really put a whole lot of effort into Mega Turrican, most games didn't showcase the hardware so well.

[@xXRenaxChanXx]

Gender Neutral Chibi Thing I know right? But whatcha gonna do. People are pretty dimwitted these days. And yeah, I know but there were plenty of good ones. Even if they weren't perfect.

[@zanegandini5350]

Objectified Cross Gameplay-wise I've seen many competitors to this, even music-wise. But to be this balanced all around? You better be a top-notch developer.

[@brandonwalker9066]

Objectified Cross The bits don't matter, not really.

[@NecroDouche]

Best soundtrack ever, thank the old ones for having experienced this when i was a little kid 💜

[@chrism2027]

I find these beautiful old soundtracks on the Megadrive or the SNES really cool and listen to me while playing PC on the MUsic always in the background.

[@Vectormantudeoz]

Uno de los mejores soundtracks de toda la historia de la Sega Megadrive/Genesis

[@rob0nemusic369]

My favorite video game soundtrack. Just perfect by every points ! The level 2 and 5 musics work only to make a dark ambience, they are not great to listen when you're not playing the game but they are awesome when you're playing.

[@boynextdoorman]

Laser, Shield, Multiple, One Up!

[@Apathesis0]

I love the bass on the intro theme music.

[@DeskoDev]

I can't wait for the director's cut! I wonder if we'll finally a full Genesis version of Platform Action...

[@DarKKnightt07]

Amazing soundtrack!

[@nataliagutierrez7737]

Cuando escucho la cancion del primer nivel quiero LLORAR. Me trae tantos hermosos lindos jugando con mis hermanos T.T Como pasa el tiempo...

[@jimmyd8491]

Thank God I grew up with this game

[@ryanprentice]

Amazing!

[@josequiroz9063]

Special soundtrack ...kisses !!!! 👍

[@theconsolekiller7113]

Great music. I have to go back to this one and beat it. I remember when I owned this game many years ago, the 4th stage had this hissing as part of the soundtrack. I found it in this video, but for some reason the hissing was 3D and it sounded crazy to me back then. The hissing actually sounded like it was in another part of the room on my cheap stereo at the time. Playing the tracks now it doesnt create that effect, so maybe it was something to do with those speakers back then.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

This soundtrack is so freaking catchy.

[@jikissgamer]

Wow this soundtrack is fantastic. Absolutely love it

[@Ch1n4m4nn]

This game fired up the Genesis a lot! Graphics, sound and gameplay are almost perfect! I'm playing this game even nowadays. And I also got the original cartridge still for my Genesis.

[@brauliosuarez2805]

This game and músic For some reason summarize all my Childhood.

[@martinaduarte9907]

Que recuerdos lo jugaba de chico ya me parecían buenas canciones la de los niveles zarpadoo!!

[@ivanmustafa4539]

LO MAS BUENO DE ESTE JUEGUITO HERA SU MUSICA MUY LINDO RECUERDOS........

[@fosterglucose3214]

I don't know if i have a liking for bad things, but i like the stage four music, it's really creepy. And those drums with that static is plain unnerving, 4-1 is my favorite out of the stage 4 themes.

[@tarasybnios5356]

Stage 4 music is a masterpiece! Tracks like this one are extremely few on the other hand awesome uplifting tracks can be found easily.

[@matiasd.7755]

31:34 stage 3-3 is definitively my favourite.... Seconded by 46:52 stage 5-1...

[@trailwaver404]

Same!

[@MrVibeless]

Epic!!!!!!

[@theinternetexplorer7873]

I like how stage 4 basically sounds like the beginning part of The Terminator theme.

[@ScrubMyTub]

I just got this game for $15 today and Holy shit I am so amazed

[@BenjamminClark]

The best Turrican

[@tonysly41]

Oh, yes.

[@georgalexan3670]

The best music!!!!!

[@XBladenoJutsu]

Stage 4 hate? what?? It's great. Very unsettling and atmospheric.

[@danielv9574]

The music tracks from Rainbow Arts/Factor5 were amazing from c64 over Amiga to MegaDrive and SNES.

[@kevinstefan6037]

Awesome soundtrack! Also some of the nicer-sounding soundfonts on the Genesis. Does anyone know if Chris Hulsbeck has made any recent soundtracks of the same caliber?

[@FeelingShred]

Giana Sisters... I know, the name sounds stupid, but on top of being a REALLY FUCKING GOOD platformer (some people even claim it to be "the better mario", even though I have never heard of it until a few weeks ago...) and TWO DIFFERENT SOUNDTRACK styles to choose from when playing, the melodies are the same but composed in different styles

[@FeelingShred]

this is the kind of stuff Chris Hulsbeck does... dude wakes up and thinks "Alright I feel like doing two complete soundtracks today"

[@RETROCENGO]

Love Turriican 2 on my Amiga 1200 but the mega drive version music is also mind blowing 🤩😍🤩😎

[@ricardomauricioaraya7625]

I finally played this game this week (on emulators unfortunately) and man it's awesome. But the music is just insane, great soundtrack, and for some reason as I was playing I felt like the music was actually familiar to me, not sure why. Great game, may try to actually buy it some day

[@andyukmonkey]

It does sound similar to previous Turrican games. Possibly even well disguised remixes of older music.

[@ricardomauricioaraya7625]

The thing is that I had never played any other Turrican game before... I think the sound may have a vibe that brings memories from who know when... I don't know, it's a weird feeling...

[@sethmartin2588]

This game was one of the highest points of ownership of a Genesis and to this day one of the best of all time in my opinion 👏 👍 👌 🙌 🤘🤘🤘🤘💥💥💥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@socialengineering2539]

Wow yamaha thanks sega Im for 24:10 31:34

[@bigfoot5185]

Same 👆👍

[@thorndust5329]

11:25 - The lead here sounds kinda like something you'd hear on the TG-16 sound chip.

[@soulreaver1983]

Awesome game! 😎👍

[@stripedhyenuh]

Not many composers outside of Japan put serious work into bringing out the MD's full audio potential thanks to the ubiquity of GEMS, but Chris Hülsbeck's work is one of the best on the console.

[@jacobemilsson8868]

Stage 4 sounds great, love that military drum. sounds great while reading something scary.

[@germannz233]

Terrible intro papá, me encanta.

[@charvelgtrs]

27:44 Straight up Swedish Melodic Death Metal.

[@sergaddd1428]

Настольгия)

[@ericmsandoval]

31:34 unbelievably good

[@datboidre2212]

Stage 1-1 rocks and intro

[@DNSKILL0]

I would love to see this game make a comeback, even something simple like how MM9+10 were setup to be like the classic NES games.

[@4esnok]

Как будто вчера это было. Дождливый вечер. Магазин с играми. И Мегатурикан в коробке за 170 рублей. И ничего этого уже не вернуть.

[@senna7811]

24:10

[@FuZhixiang]

Randomly I dropped here but this is what I was amazed.

[@ModernRetroGuy]

Stage 4 is not the worst. It has a cool alien vibe to it

[@cristianobb13]

i actually think the song at 10:56 (Stage 1 Secret Area) sounds way better on the amiga port because here it seems like it was sped up quite a bit, like it was meant to be PAL but its playing in NTSC or some :p

[@OSTvideosOk]

31:34 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

[@ChileanSpartanUSA]

Incredible song. Lots of memories!

[@davidarielleiva8765]

cuántos recuerdos! stage secret area

[@drakonhey]

This is the proof that the megadrive could actually make nice music.

[@arcluna]

Such a great soundtrack. Thanks so much! You don't happen to have this to download separately by any chance?

[@LuciferianLight88]

Bruh this doesn't even sound like it's on the genesis... So good.

[@MarianoDevourment]

stage 1-1 music at 1.1 speed, perfection... it sounds like a jason becker song.

[@touhouguyII]

47:22, oh fucking yeah!

[@thorndust5329]

Man, WHAT is up with the samples in this game? There's more than one goin' on at a time!

[@xboyindahouse]

Stage 3-4 sounds like the music from Escape From New York and Big Trouble in Little China.

[@xashmak1892]

ha little china so much for that name

[@sparkster7744]

This whole 20 second sequence starting at 0:18 (to 0:38) reminds me of Scooby doo for some reason

[@thehumbleone1983]

👍🔉🔉🔉🔉👍

[@Vectormantudeoz]

Stage 4 no es malo, de hecho la música ambiental es magistral (Comparable a un Metroid clásico) Aparte de ser unos de los niveles más vistosos del juego.

[@brazilmugenteam]

01:54 It's just a classic!

[@pg8835]

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER on MD was literally a re-skinned Turrican

[@horadelachechona427]

14:36 👍

[@CheapCreep]

Some of these soundtracks are very similar to those of "Hyper Light Drifter".

[@TyTye]

The gameplay is okay but the soundtrack is amazing.