The Dream Will Never Die - Tales of Phantasia (Studio Version of Theme from Cartridge)

[@ICantStopMakingNoise]

When I initially uploaded this track, it was blocked by one of the media companies shortly afterwards, and I forgot about it. At some point, it became unblocked, and at this point it looks like it's here to stay. I'm glad I was able to make it accessible to all of you guys!

[@aaronborgstrom2696]

thank you.

[@alessandronico3099]

Thanks man :)

[@DumuziTheOriginalGod]

I thought I’d never hear this version again.. ;w; I just found this again.. this is the best version of this song..

[@wetbadger2174]

I can still see myself sitting alone in a room, illuminated only by my CRT television, playing Nintendo all night. I learned then that Aselia is the real world, and ours is just a medium through which we can interact with it.

[@josumillaldeo8848]

By far the best version

[@LeonValCh]

It truly evokes that 90's anime feeling the game had

[@LeonValCh]

This game was WAY ahead of its time, I swear. It was a revelation when I first played it. Back then what prevailed was turn based battles like those in Final Fantasy, and I thought for a long time this was the only way an RPG could be created. Then I play this little jewel in a SNES emulator and with the partial voice acting, the vocal opening theme and real time battle system my mind was simply blown. A shame this game never came out of Japan back then. I still say, had this game arrived to America when it was first released, nobody would be talking about Final Fantasy.

[@marianoz2301]

The tales series is still going strong tho. Tales of arise came out recently and got good reviews and sold well. It still doesn’t rival final fantasy in popularity but it’s still doing well so that’s good.

[@LeonValCh]

@@marianoz2301 It's indeed great the saga is doing well, but again, I feel it could have done better. Tales of Phantasia back then had everything to overshadow Final Fantasy.

[@flygonkerel781]

FACTS.easily one odbthebBEST rpgs on the snes

[@suiken3149]

LOL, Tales can only dream bout being in the heights of FF at its peak. Bamco had every chance to overtake FF during its down years and still couldn't capitalize. And ironically, the FF games with "tales" combat blows and was a shadow of its former turn-based self.

[@LeonValCh]

​@@suiken3149 Although the combat system has little to nothing to do with the quality of their games and it has to do more with subpar writing, it's sadly true that Bamco didn't capitalize to overtake FF during its down years. Overall, they suck huge time at taking any chances shown to them

[@Bvajen]

One of the soundtracks of my childhood. I remember in the early 2000s downloading the ROM, entirely by chance, off one of the many sketchy ROM sites back then. I absolutely fell in love with the game. Still one of my favorites.

[@viniciuscvj]

At the 2000s ToP was the biggest ROMs of SNES, 6MB.

[@hessiankyojin]

Same story for me in the 2010s thanks to Tales of Destiny and fell in love with Phantasia.

[@Locke9611]

Same for me in 2006. I wonder why this game rom so big size. What is good about this game? I have to check it myself. And then after try play I got it all. The most complex RPG dungeons. Never played a game where the dungeons were so complicated in my life before. Also very good and fun conversation in the whole game.

[@Taneuma_563]

I believe this version of the song was used for the ads for the SNES version too

[@superavel]

It was on the SNES version too as the theme. Just obviously 16-bit quality.

[@petitknightcreations7431]

Thank you for finding this version! I'm glad a piece of gaming history can be preserved for posterity!

[@ICantStopMakingNoise]

I'm just glad I was able to find it in my archive, and that the copyright strike was removed!

[@DuwangKaizer]

This track is in the 2015 Tales of Phantasia 20th Anniversary Sound Box CD set.

[@applemauzel]

I thought it is the one random song that plays in the Tales of Phantasia GBA mid-game...

[@theEndermanMGS]

@@applemauzel Various arrangements of this song were used as the opening theme for Japanese releases. It got replaced with a different opening track in the international GBA release, as often happens with international Tales releases.

[@Abigdummy4life]

Ky Kiske: KOGA HAZAN! (TIGER FANG CRUSH SLASH!) Renji Abarai: H-yah! *Fires an arrow* Ky Kiske: *Runs back* Renji Abarai: H-yah! *Fires another arrow* Tomoyo Daidouji: FAAUSUTO EIDO! (FIRST AID!) *Heals the Tree of Life* (They have the same respective voice actors in Japanese)

[@setsuro.splice]

omg WHAT!!!??? after so many years there was this version???? ooooo so pristine! Thank you!

[@ICantStopMakingNoise]

I've been sitting on the MP3 for this since 2002, when I dug it up on some anime/vg OST archive. I'm just glad others are able to listen to it, because this is one of my all-time favorite themes!

[@setsuro.splice]

@@ICantStopMakingNoise thank you once again bro! T-T

[@chippytwang]

@@ICantStopMakingNoise Thank you! I remember this mp3 making the rounds on the emulation scene of EFNet around the same time that DeJap released their translation

[@kikujade]

To the members of Dejap translations: thank you, wherever you are

[@LeonValCh]

They were heroes without capes.

[@Pokechao]

Dont forget Phantasia Productions and Absolute Zero too

[@Saintjohn2711]

@@Pokechao I remember Phantasia Productions. I miss them.

[@SwitchZetto]

Yeah, thanks for ruining the only available translation with disrespectful goofs

[@MystM]

You're welcome

[@7DriDri7]

Better than PSX version

[@arturodavidquirozsanchez844]

ayy lmao

[@SeraphCircle]

gurrrrrl the shade

[@enriquerodriguez1100]

kieres peliar prro?

[@heritagekebek3029]

But not better than the SNES version. At least we hear Morrison speach & Mint casting her healing spell on Ygg ^^ Just kidding ;) This one kick ass :)

[@jesusalessio1662]

I agree the psx version is the same classical orchestral shit in every rpg, stop making every rpg orchestral fetch Karen.

[@SaotomeLuna]

This version of the song takes me back to the brightest time of my childhood, when the world still seemed vibrant and hope still flowed in my heart. 懐かしい…

[@ishtarcephei5054]

I know EXACTLY what you mean. It's as that line from Divine Comedy, as if, midway across our collective hourney, we took a turn towards degeneracy and self-destruction.

[@JuanPhantom98]

Strangely, this song always makes me cry, but in a happy way. It takes me to the mid 90’s and makes me feel nostalgia for a time wasn’t even born yet (b. 1998 btw). I love it so much ❤️

[@liberty1212]

same here! that's exactly how it makes me feel, b. 1999. something so beautiful and heart-moving about it...

[@zhainongallzond9630]

That feeling is called Anemoia

[@trinityverso]

todos nós, realmente ela toca no coração de todos, foi feita com carinho na época, artistas raros que pouco se vêem nos dias de hoje. cada vez mais raros.

[@DuwangKaizer]

Someone needs to make a MSU-1 rom hack of Tales of Phantasia With this version of the Vocal Theme!

[@josephangelo9431]

this song made me cry

[@nitemare1004]

had this version in my mp3 player for YEARS, great song, good times

[@Tekman_]

Sounds like an opening for an anime. If there was an anime for this, they should use this song.

[@Gabe_29]

Actually there is an anime for ToP, it is an OVA with 4 episodes

[@gamezvideos2]

Sounds like an anime played in the late 90's or early 00's.

[@dcb99filmz]

the voices for the characters are big name VAs like Takeshi Kusao and Kaneto Shiozawa

[@zacktrever1878]

More like ending of an anime - like Inu yasha

[@carlosbaron8636]

There's an anime of Phantasia, it doesn't cover the entire game but a small part and its opening song is pretty good too

[@jeanpiaget12]

Best tales of , amazing song

[@heribertomartinez9863]

Have you played Tales of Symphonia? It's very good also, and it has some Phantasia references.

[@anthonygerardotorresgonzal6269]

@@heribertomartinez9863 Actually its the Prequel of Tales of Phantasia!!

[@chaosyeshua1137]

Tiger Blade!! Yah!....Yah!! First Aid!!!

[@BardockSkywalker]

Chaos Yeshua DEMON FANG!!! RISING PHOENIX!!! SWORD RAIN!!! LIGHT SPEAR CANNON!!! FLARE TORNADO!!! JUDGEMENT!!! INDIGNATION!!! HEALING CIRCLE!!! NURSE!!! GIGA SHOT!!!

[@chaosyeshua1137]

Bardock SkyWalker Chaos Blade! Distortion Blade! Victory Light Spear! Hell Pyre! Ice Fang! Eagle Shot! Sonic Bash! Giga Fang! Dragon Slayer!!

[@Abigdummy4life]

KOGA HAZAN! MAJINKEN! HIEN RENKYAKU! SHISHI SENKOU! SHUGO HOUJIN! SENKUU REPPA! HOU'OU TENKU! SHUUSOU RAIZAN! AKISAZAME!

[@chaosyeshua1137]

@@Abigdummy4life Sylph! Gnome! Undine! Efreet! Maxwell! Luna! Aska! Shadow! Pluto! Pac-Man

[@Lamine14112]

Thank you very much ! Exactly what i was searching for.

[@eraea9179]

IDK why but if this played in a disco I'd dance to this. This version's instruments are good at evoking motion while the PSX version's a bit more on the anime opening side

[@patricioalejandrohermosill376]

It's a great work. Sounds like a Snes Catridge but more professional. Sorry for my bad english, thanks for your work!!

[@AlarmClockBritain]

Perfect.

[@rakshas6925]

you sir, are a hero. thank you.

[@SilverLightRain]

Thanks for archiving this for future generations.😁

[@MusicJunkie37]

This song is amazing. Glad its on youtube again, was blocked for me before.

[@ICantStopMakingNoise]

I've been sitting on the MP3 for this since 2002, when I dug it up on some anime/vg OST archive. The video was blocked for ages, but then the copyright strike was voided and it was listed again.

[@MusicJunkie37]

This is straight fire.

[@evertondanilo9658]

Always seen soo nostalgic when I hear this song. My first Tales of and the one I love the most. Second MAYBE for Tales of Berseria, because of the history.

[@JohnnyLeven]

Cool to randomly see this after listening to your Bezos 8-bit cover. I remember looking this song up a few months back but I couldn't ever find the version I remember as a kid, and now here it is.

[@sarioferreiraescritor]

Beatiful version!

[@gi_nattak]

damn this song is catchy as hell, I cannot stop looping it! send help!

[@StevenMcFlyJunior]

Dude. DUDE! You fawking rock! TYSVFM for this! SNES for this alone was impressive but this is siiiiiic

[@mugen8studios]

this song is incredible!

[@lucasreis6310]

Perfeito .

[@neos1425]

Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful song!

[@canalultimateattack3169]

Mahiru no sora tsuki ga Anata no me wo sarau Zutto matteta kono toki Mo namida owaraseru yoake ni Mabuta tokeru hizashi Tooi asu no kioku Koko ni mezame no toki oriru Mitsukete "your dream" koware kaketa Toki ni umoreta sono chikara ni kizuite Mitsukete "your dream" doko e ite mo Kikoeteru omoi zutai KISS KISS KISS Anata no mita yume wa Genjitsu demo mirai Ai-na koboreru demo hira Mo soraba osorenai yoake wo Kaze ni mijibi kareru Senaka mitsume nagara Nido to aenai nara iu yo Mitsukete "your dream" donna toki mo REDO mae no ika ni kisenai wa negai wo Mitsukete "your dream" toki ga kite mo Oboeteru toki mo koete KISS KISS KISS Mitsukete "your dream" koware kaketa Toki ni umoreta sono chikara ni kizuite Mitsukete "your dream" doko e ite mo Kikoeteru omoi zutai KISS KISS KISS

[@olmo4767]

please folks, donwload this track so it can be preserved in the event of this video being taken down. I already did it

[@Fimbulvetr]

Miraculous that this is still up after 7 years. Bamco was aggro about taking this song down.

[@estereofobia]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS

[@AxellSlade]

This is the version that played on the ads for the SNES release in Japan, if not mistaken.

[@zacktrever1878]

Played this on emulator Surprised the super famicon could play this track

[@Chrisalcubo]

amazing version 10+

[@anime4evershiny]

I can't believe 1995 Namco has good memories of Pac-Man and other characters😔❤️

[@goldentiramisu7935]

FAAAASTOO AAAAIDO!

[@mjolnir6685]

Rizzo Reccc Sonnnn

[@hitmangfx7162]

No question, this one is so much better. More "poppy" I guess, but the arrangement is more fun and enjoyable. Thank you for the upload.

[@matthewwasson2906]

That moment when you realize the horse in this pic has six legs

[@dalton2k538]

It's cool. It can also fly, so.

[@BPDario]

That Is sleipnir

[@LeonValCh]

It was based on Sleipnir, Odin's steed in Norse mythology. It also had 6 legs

[@yartuiazu2276]

キャラデザの藤島氏の話だと、8本足のスレイプニルという神話上の白馬に乗っている姿を描いてくれとオーダーを受けたそうですね

[@WIzzardark]

It does not often happen this way: A cassette is available, but the console has been left in the house of my childhood long ago (at the other end of the Earth.) ... unfairly ... curious - is the battery for Saves - alive? =_=

[@chaosyeshua1137]

TheLiNk Natsume if your talking about the Internal Batteries that cartridges have, yes. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald also used the Internal Battery for clock-based events such as the time for the Ice Cave and Mirage Spots

[@Longlius]

It's probably dead. SRAM batteries like those usually only last about ten years.

[@ICantStopMakingNoise]

I think you will need to open the cartridge and replace the battery. Your saves are almost certainly gone (unfortunately), but replacing the battery can prevent corrosion from damaging the rest of the PCB.

[@abdurrahmanf.a.5624]

You are the MVP

[@kamerondonaldson5976]

the mana cannon being indispensible notwithstanding the dream will still never die.

[@NoelComiX]

The version played in the commercial!

[@josedavidrojasmadriz4559]

Beautiful!

[@ArctheLadder]

It's funny to think about the fact that Barkley Shut Up and Jam apes so much of this game's ideas. Like, not in terms of artistic theft, but just the way that parody will usually end up. I don't regret actually playing the SNES version, that moment where you run into the buried city and it's talking about a nuclear apocalypse. There's something really neat about that contrast that this and Xenogears did. Something you can't really achieve unless you don't take the piss lmfao.

[@kalewvieiraoliveira8494]

Isso me lembra minha infância,jogando aquele DVD que vinha muitos jogos de supernintendo, e dentre eles tinha Tales Of Phantasia❤

[@johneygd]

This games was ahead for it’s time with audio streaming (something unheard off at the time since most snes games just simply used 100% synthesed music) but this games uses sound streaming for it’s voice samples,something wich is very common these day’s BUT on the snes it was supposedly impossible since the snes wasn’t made with audio streaming in mind,no game developers did had to deal with the 64KB in mind and squeeze every sound and a instruction into it,BUT thanks the flexible voice driver engine it became possible to bankswitch audio samples in & out on the fly to get around that 64KB limit,thus extending the capabilities of the snes soundchip🙏👍 Now what if we will hack all snes games with the sound driver in mind to stream higher quality audio samples trough the snes soundchip and without an external sound chip😁

[@ikagura]

The Sign of a Hero reminded me of it.

[@trinityverso]

Conseguiram colocar uma "música nítida audível de voz cantada natural" e "vozes dubladas" num jogo de 4 megabytes, detalhe, ainda tinha a programação toda do jogo rsrrsr. E ainda meteram um sound Test pra gente apreciar a obra. Quando é feito com carinho marca pra sempre o coração das pessoas. Poucos artistas fazem jogos assim pensando em marcar o coração do jogador com detalhes.

[@dumpling3309]

I'm not too big in anime but this song makes me want to be an anime geek.

[@aloisssssss]

Ironic since it's a video game tho

[@BloodrealmX]

@@aloisssssss Well, it did have an anime OVA.

[@aloisssssss]

@@BloodrealmX True, but Tales game are still mostly video-games, their anime counterpack are too short to adapt all of the story

[@dcb99filmz]

the SNES version x20

[@AUC.90s]

I´m crying.... :_ )

[@ranmasaotome2640]

me encanta este tema de este juegazo de super nintendo

[@NayrZetto]

Question about this was the track on a cassette or something or was this whole track just in the data on the SF cart. I know the original has a vocal opening but like you said crude and I can’t imagine this fitting on the cart.

[@xyujuqz0997]

It was from an album contains all existing soundtracks of Tales Of Phantasia from SNES, GBA and PS1. That includes the songs recorded straight from the studio. vgmdb.net/album/53313

[@Left4JokerRPG]

I LOVE YOU

[@outlawscar3328]

What a find! Thank you so much for uploading. It's beautiful.

[@UltLuigi1]

Lloyd in Smash better come with a remix of this song

[@superdrew3688]

great

[@trinityverso]

A poesia recitada em Japonês no original com voz dublada, antes de tocar essa lenda musical. "Na verdade, se o mal existe nesse mundo,. ele reside no coração da humanidade". Edward D. Morrison.-

[@adonisds]

Do you have a flac version you could share?

[@anthonygerardotorresgonzal6269]

When Every Tales of Protagonists Dance Together in a Children Anime Style Intro!! (Yes Every Tales Main Character) and then in the ending show silhouttes of Alphen and Shionne in Black!!

[@RazorEdge2006]

Why didn't they use this for the PS1 version?

[@GumballDarwin-nw5iv]

Gumball: My, my, I was hoping that I would see this 'cuz we're fans of RPG here.

[@nicolastinoco1321]

Well boys we did it, the copyright strike is no more.

[@ICantStopMakingNoise]

I don't know what caused it to be released, but I'm glad.

[@우리나라-g5y]

👍

[@treble_gospel]

Please, create MSU-1 version of this game for Super Famicom.

[@mrjoe332]

Bro, how in God's green earth they got to put voice lines and a full song on a snes cartridge?

[@BloodrealmX]

By coding a custom audio driver that swapped the samples to play into the console's memory on the fly mid song, enabling the Super Famicom to do the impossible.

[@000adrianelpiola000]

I can not find a subbed version of this theme.

[@miriamalmeida6687]

Snes the best

[@agromchung]

Yo why does this sound like a lost theme song to the FIFA World Cup

[@BardockSkywalker]

SUBARASHI!!! Wait, Does This Wingless Pégasus Has 8 Feet Or Is It Just For Walking Effect?

[@Jujucristine]

I think it does have 8 feet.

[@chaosyeshua1137]

In the SNES version it has 8 feet. The PS1 and GBA version reduced it to 4 winged feet

[@BardockSkywalker]

Chaos Yeshua Ok.... I Know It's A Phantasy Game (I Mean For God Sake, It's Called *TALES OF PHANTASIA* For A Reason, People) But How Does He Fly?

[@Jujucristine]

Arche's broom also doesn't have wings. How does it fly?

[@BardockSkywalker]

Juliana C. Magic... I Should Have Knowned...

[@ikagura]

What music genre is it?

[@victornecromancer]

[@eddiemercer7017]

Victor Necromancer t

[@JimmyTVu]

Who’s the singer?

[@selami32]

Yukari Yoshida

[@JimmyTVu]

Thank you!

[@SuperDuperCooper08]

Everyone please rise for the Tales Of National Anthem. 🙏

[@Akabane.77]

Similar a into anime 90s

[@xiiiroxas6435]

魔神剑

[@红威辛村]

Super Famicom Nintendo version

[@koldoriobarbosa4703]

Me acabo de fijar que el caballo tiene 4 patas delanteras jajaja Pues bueno...

[@MajorTom_]

A mí también me llamo la atención, en total tiene 8 patas. Y pues con una búsqueda rápida, resulta que no es caballo sino un "Sleipnir".

[@koldoriobarbosa4703]

un caballo-pulpo, qué interesante... 😅😂@@MajorTom_

[@nameisnotimportant6219]

When I first heard the music I thought it was Dragon Ball z

[@DanielFuller91]

Would it be heresy to say I like the PSX version better?

[@Jujucristine]

It was heresy for them to change Motoi Sakuraba's music in PSX.

[@xyujuqz0997]

I much prefer the PSX version, because it fits with the melancholic parts of ToP. While this song fits to the adventure, hope and their bonding parts of ToP.

[@SwitchZetto]

@@Jujucristine They didn't though. You can easily recognize his style

[@Jujucristine]

@@SwitchZetto Looking back on this comment 2 years later I feel it was too heated. But still, they did change it. The basic composition is the same but the musics were not just remastered, like they did with the remake of Seiken 3, they changed them. The quality is better but I prefer the snes version of many. Some were kept mostly the same and those are okay. I mean, just compare this song to the PSX version. I kinda like both for Yume wa Owaranai but Fighting of the Spirit is one that feels very meh.

[@SwitchZetto]

@@Jujucristine Yeah, I don't know how to explain, I feel there is more life in the SNES soundtrack. PSX version got drenched in reverb most of the time

[@outlawscar3328]

Kind of clumsy key change at 4:00 , but I like the dance tempo of this version a lot. I think the melody was written for this tempo. Couldn't possibly decide which one I like the best.

[@EndlessDream]

This is the best version of this song. Too bad it's owned by Victor Entertainment. Those guys are stingy assholes

[@ICantStopMakingNoise]

Somehow, their copyright strike expired, and the video came back.