VGM Hall of Fame: Flame Zapper Kotsujin - Into the Last Battle (PC-98)

[@SpiralPegasus]

Just now noticed that the ship is meant to look like a skull. That's fucking metal.

[@partonmax9881]

I still can’t believe this was made on the YM2608

[@yousefslimani99]

I really wish they port this game in SEGA Genesis to see what it sounds like on YM2612

[@GaliMercury]

You know a song is good when it sounds like a mix of Toshiharu Yamanishi and Hitoshi Sakimoto.

[@danmakuman]

Damn you are right! XD

[@jordanjackson6151]

The Thunder Force is with this one......

[@ristar9340]

I.C. Kaze's music is amazing. I wish more of his stuff was uploaded so I could hear how he improved over time (his earlier stuff can be pretty rough around the edges).

[@ThunderingRoar]

Nooouu forsaaaaaan

[@blazingsoulhunter2862]

Say, who is the mystery girl with blue hair? I honestly don’t have a clue. Aside from that, this track is freakin’ awesome and futuristic sounding as well!

[@zrem4574]

forsenGa

[@yousefslimani99]

One of my fav song in the game and the entire pc 98 era! I wonder how the song will sounds like on SEGA Genesis/Megadrive YM2612?!

[@SeppelSquirrel]

1 of the 4 good games for PC98 that didn't get ported to another system.

[@fhornmichaelmac]

9 if you count 2hu

[@aliasmcdoe]

You could just have said you haven't played more than 4 games for the system lol

[@SeppelSquirrel]

@@aliasmcdoe I've played a *lot.* I've sort of been on a quest to find the gems that have been lost to time, and there's almost none. If it died on the PC-98, it was for a good reason 98% of the time.

[@aliasmcdoe]

@@SeppelSquirrel Sounds like a you problem, bro. There's a lot of great PC-98 games.

[@SeppelSquirrel]

@@aliasmcdoe Rusty Flame Zapper Kotsujin Totsugeki Mix Touhou ????????? Name any other good PC98 games that were never ported to another system.

[@yahirthevyond]

Very Genesis sounding

[@yvk_2000]

Woa! Who is this I.C. Kaze? What a track.

[@Elrinth]

I.C.KaZe also made a super sick remix of Castlevania / Akumajou Dracula - The Tower of Dolls for X68000. Check it out!

[@MylstarElectronics]

Turns out, it's _nothing_ here. I.C.KaZe = Nobuhisa Shinoda (篠田 信久)

[@ristar9340]

As far as I know, a doujin composer who has been a part of some doujin albums, such as Firecracker Music Collection. I'd love to see a fleshed-out timeline for his music, since he went from making "okay" songs to bangers like this.

[@DragonMachida]

forsenPls

[@yamakovsky]

Which sound board was used to process this?

[@davidchurchill5557]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM2608 plus, I believe, some PCM capability

[@yousefslimani99]

I think it’s called soundblaster 86!

[@thesubinion]

@@davidchurchill5557 nope, no ADPCM was used here, just FM drums panned to each side. It doesn't even use the OPNA drums! Source: try playing the vgz file of this track in foobar while muting and enabling several channels.

[@alienspacebat5218]

This image makes me think of... what do I call it? A poem? Prose? They told me I had six months or less to live. The accident had been all my fault, so I began to reluctantly embrace the end. But then they told me there was a way to keep me alive. To plug me into the ultimate fighting plane. I gladly accepted, little knowing what would happen to me. If they unplug me, I'll die pretty much instantly. That's awkward. And now I'm drop dead gorgeous somehow, I have servants to do everything for me, and lately people are even worshipping me as a goddess. But hey, at least I'm alive, right? Oh, and my hair is blue, but that's the least of my concerns at this point. I keep on fighting for peace, day after day, but it refuses to come. Now I gaze up at the darkness in search of answers to my crimes, but they too refuse to come. Because when war and purging is all a good girl knows, it's all she does.

[@alienspacebat5218]

Oh no, that's just something I made up looking at the picture.

[@willsnephew7389]

how do u hear this and think of cancer

[@valium445]

Wish i got back the time i wasted reading this

[@krisdabrowski5420]

this is low key fire

[@MylstarElectronics]

Who is him⁉️ | I.C.KaZe = _Nobuhisa Shinoda (篠田 信久)_