I discovered the Touhou song Flowering night because of two videos that had a bunch Invader Zim clips that had the Night of Nights remix of the song to it I watched again and again when I around 10-11 and it was long before I even knew what Touhou even was to begin with. Make of that as you will I hope you enjoy them.
ナイト・オブ・【 G.I.R. 】 (youtube.com)
ремикс Night of Nights [Invader Zim] (youtube.com)
And of course I'm sending the remix itself just for good measure, have fun. And yes I know it already has more than millions of views on YouTube, but still, I wanted to send it anyway just for the heck of it. Enjoy.
Night of Nights (Flowering nights remix) By COOL&CREATE/beatMARIO - YouTube
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A journey through Sega's marketing machine with the power of the cassette
I know, I know, a bit of a wild stretch to start this blog off without some proper introduction. Hi. I'm archonedd / Nobusuke, and I'm an avid (at the time of publication) 23 year old Sega (and Sonic) nut.
After mercilessly mocking cassettes as some old fad throughout the elementary and high school years as the world started gravitating more and more towards online streaming, I picked up a cassette player in early 2017 no doubt due to the hype surrounding a cassette that Star-Lord was seen playing on repeat on one of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Along with said cassette player, came a Type 1 cassette tape to play. It changed my music experience in ways I'd never imagined, and I even tried substituting my CD-based boombox with one of these and needless to say the equipment left a lot to be desired.
It turns out that modern cassette players just don't have the quality mechanisms that legacy cassette decks used to have, and the number of new cassette-enabled devices seem to be dwindling globally as time goes on. Not to mention, most people's recollections of cassettes seems to border towards "listening to a crappy stream from the car's radio" to "only listening to a film's vision of what cassettes or any other vintage audio format used to sound like".
It sure took a YouTube channel like Techmoan and Retro Core AV as well as several others where my outlook on cassettes (and several vintage audio formats) began to change a little as I learned more about the different types of cassettes, and how cassettes can sound a lot like or even close to a properly mastered CD if given the right budget and expectations. So imagine my surprise when I heard almost 5 years later that Sega even started using distributing cassettes dubbed "Sega Forever Volume 1". My initial reaction was - "Wait a minute. What??"
What is this tape about?
Basically the idea of this was to serve as a promotional item sent out to various YouTubers and Sega-centric content creators prior to the launch of the "SEGA Forever" service on mobile devices. The tracks on these are basically taken from popular arcade and Mega Drive/Genesis titles, some of which are still remembered to this day.
The most remembered ones include the arcade BGM to Space Harrier and Outrun, as well as those from Mega Drive standout classics like Phantasy Star 2, Shining Force 2, and even Vectorman (a Blue Sky Software effort) gets a special shoutout though only Terraport from that game gets represented. Overall, there are 12 songs spread into two sides of six.
The strange thing is some of the Sega arcade titles even got console ports on non-Sega systems usually through third parties like Sunsoft and NEC Avenue.
Here is the complete tracklist in case you may not remember.
For the lucky 512 or so content creators lucky enough to receive this retro blast, the package even included a biro pen just in case your cassette player somehow "ate the tape" and you're on the task to spool the tape back in. You, know, like the old days where cassette enjoyers did it. I personally do not have such a strong nostalgic connection, but I just found it interesting to mention.
What are the technical specifications?
There are four types of cassettes sold throughout the market during the continuing lifespan of these audio wonders.
Type 1 refers to a general cassette you are most likely to buy today. This is known as a "Ferric" tape.
Type 2 known as "Chrome" is a step up from Type 1. While it is a general step up from Type 1 tapes, in the end, quality Type I cassettes have higher midrange MOL than most Type II tapes, slow and gentle MOL roll-off at low frequencies, but less treble headroom than Type II.
Type 3 "Ferrichrome" doesn't really exist anymore as far as I can tell.
Type 4 is the supreme stuff. These are called "Metal" tapes. To play such a high-class tape, your deck or player would have to be rated for metal tape playback. Something that today's modern tapes aren't quite capable of playing now, or at least I don't think so.
It seems more likely that Sega Forever Volume 1 cassette is a Type 1 metal tape with no noise reduction to speak of. These days, Dolby noise reduction may be no more, but substitutes such as DDi Codec will be able to alleviate that.
Sega Forever....
Let's talk about Sega Forever. Sega Forever was a then-new initiative to get its best retro games available for a mobile audience that's still going today. Very similar to what they are already doing with Sega Mega Drive Classics on multiplatform experiences via PC, PS4 and XBOX. This cassette was to coincide with the launch of the Sega Forever platform on smartphone on 21 June 2017, with the initial lineup being Altered Beast/Jyuohki, Comix Zone, Chameleon Kid, Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and Phantasy Star II.
Unfortunately it had a somewhat rocky launch. With the exception of the rebooted Sega Forever Sonic the Hedgehog mobile conversion handled by Stealth (the same guy that demoed what Sonic could look like on the GBA compared to the half-baked effort Sega of America pumped out in 2006), almost the entirety of the selection ran poorly despite modern hardware enhancements. It seemed to be a middleware problem as Sega reportedly failed to reach an agreement with the people behind the Retroarch project, instead settling for a Unity-based emulation solution.
Since then, Sega have upped the quality of the emulation for the smartphones of our time.
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Sonic comic lyric dialogue
This long after Frontiers' release, and no sign of it's song lyrics in the IDW comics' dialogue. I feel at some point, somebody has to say some of the following:
"You can throw me to the wolves, 'cause I am undefeatable!"
"I've been here waiting for the longest time; I can't believe it's real!"
"Will the whole world know your name, when we dance with destiny?"
"With my life I fight this fear! In my hand I hold the ones I love!"
"We're only at the beginning of this one way dream!"
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Corpse Party Vocal Collection
So, im trying 2 put together a video on youtube with chapters, timestamps, and names for all the vocal songs in corpse party, but i wanted to make sure i got them all. pls let me know if any are categorized or if im missing one!!!
songs below!
BLOODCOVERED:
Requiem for a Dream - Nari Amatoya
Eternal Prayer - Nari Amatoya
Crimson Sign - Noriko Mitose
REPEATED FEAR:
Shangri-La - Asami Imai
Yami ni Nureta Catastrophe - ARTERY VEIN
Yami ni Nureta Catastrophe -ARTERY solo(Eri Kitamura)
Yami ni Nureta Catastrophe -VEIN solo(Asami Imai)
Confutatis no Inori - ARTERY VEIN
WHISPER OF THE NIGHTMARE ♂SCORPION♂:
Opera of Darkness - Tetsuya Kakihara
Yesterday to Tomorrow - Hiro Shimono & Nobuhiko Okamoto
kill me again - Tsubasa Yonaga
WHISPER OF THE NIGHTMARE ♀TARANTULA♀:
Akanesasu - Rina Sato & Asami Imai
Sparrow Kiss - Yuuka Nanri
Lady Go! - Sumire Uesaka
TORTURED SOULS:
Hoshikuzu no Ringu - Asami Imai
Shiroi Fūkei - ARTERY VEIN
Hotarubi - Yumi Hara
CORPSE PARTY(2015):
BABYLON ~before the daybreak - Asami Imai
BOOK OF SHADOWS:
Hana no Saku Basho - Asami Imai
☆Twinkle☆Girls☆ - ☆Twinkle☆Girls☆
Pandora No Yoru - ARTERY VEIN
BOOK OF SHADOWS(2016):
Sabaku no Ame - Asami Imai
SWEET SACHIKO'S HYSTERIC BIRTHDAY BASH:
Limited Love - Asami Imai
Sora no Kurenai - Yumi Hara
HANABI - Yumi Hara ft. Asami Imai
Getsugen - ARTERY VEIN
BLOOD DRIVE:
In the rain - Yumi Hara
Keshin - Asami Imai
Translucent days - ARTERY VEIN
Shangri-La (Ballad Version) - Asami Imai
DEAD PATIENT:
Kegashi no Mori - Itsuki Sawada
Edit 1: TorTwirl on Reddit found the name of the person who did vocals on Requiem for a Dream and also the song Eternal Prayer!
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