Best music on a HuCard

[Michirin9801]

F1 Triple Battle's music - Hidden gem ?  Plus sampled drums <3

Pretty awesome!

[Black Tiger]

Mednafen emulates the effect used in Human's and other misc games, which produces an FM sound style effect.

I'm not a fan of most of them. Fire Pro Wrestling 2nd Bout is the best.

[Digi.k]

MR II anyone ?



Every time I hear the music on this game I'm transported to Outrun and then I think why didn't NEC Ave use sound fonts like these on their port...

[ClodBuster]

From the few Hueys I've got (most of my PCE games are on CD/SCD), I'd choose Bomberman 94. Both the battle mode theme as well as the world 1 theme are pretty catchy... too catchy.

Plus, it has got penguins in the ice battle stage dancing to the rhythm of the music. My better half thinks they're adorable.

[esteban]

I love MotoRoader and MotoRoader II soundtracks. Different, distinct works, but both quite nice.



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[lukester]

Dungeon explorer intro
Fire pro wrestling 3 intro
Aero blasters stage 2
Ninja warriors "daddy mulk"
Street fighter ii credits theme
Air zonk stage 2
Bonk 1 desert
Bonk 2 waterfall
Bravoman credits
Ninja gaiden intro
Liquid kids tree level

[nopepper]

A: Dragon Spirit

Indeed. Such a haunting soundtrack that engulfs your senses and totally puts you in the zone whilst playing.

Dungeon Explorer and New Adventure Island are up there as well.

[esteban]

A: Dragon Spirit

Indeed. Such a haunting soundtrack that engulfs your senses and totally puts you in the zone whilst playing.

Dungeon Explorer and New Adventure Island are up there as well.

Haunting. Perfect word.



Dungeon Explorer is in my Top 10 of all time...the songs in Dungeon Explorer really complement the gameplay and settings.

Two more games, which are very different, but feature songs that completely evoke the perfect atmosphere: Legendary Axe II (Ankoku Densetsu) and Legendary Axe  (Makyo Densetsu).

PC Genjin 1 & 2 do this very well, too (evoking the perfect atmosphere).

[EmperorIng]

The best-sounding music I've heard on the PC Engine (excepting some already mentioned here, like Tatsujin) is probably Parasol Stars. The boss theme is legendary.

I gotta give props to Taito though. They went from having some of the worst-sounding HuCards on the system, to some of the best.

Other than that, Metal Stoker. FACE made many mistakes and terrible games on the PC Engine.* Luckily they struck it out of the park with some NEO HARDBOILED SHOOTING! - audibly and visually speaking. And the game is good too, a shocker for their non-arcade outings.

*I just had to remind myself of how f*cking terrible Alice in Wonderdream/Fushigi no Yume Alice was. Blech. At least it had a good soundtrack. It's not enough to actually go and play the game (aside from a curiosity on an emulator), but it's something!

[gilbert]

Fantasy Zone Seriously, they did nearly everything in that game right, but messed up horribly in the sound department. The original compositions were LEGENDARY and even the SMS version sounded much better, not to mention the Famicom version sounded AWESOME. I think this was NEC Avenue's first published game, but still this is unforgivable.

As I'm sort of a collector of CD games I haven't tried many HuCard games, but I remember that Cyber Core had some nice tracks (probably not stellar, but still nice), and the arrangements in Salamander held up well compared to the Arcade version.

[seieienbu]

Dungeon Explorer has possibly my favorite Hucard soundtrack.  The music is very fitting to the atmosphere and makes an already great game even better.

I thought Atlantean had a fantastic soundtrack.  Nice job, Arkhan.

A few of my other favorites:
Magical Chase,
Legendary Axe 2,
Blazing Lazers,
SF2 (though I much prefer the Q Sound version),
Alien Crush
Devil Crush

Last but not least, honorable mention goes to Legend of Xanadu for sweet chiptune music.  It would be on the main list except it's not a Hucard, so it's disqualified.

[esteban]

Fantasy Zone Seriously, they did nearly everything in that game right, but messed up horribly in the sound department. The original compositions were LEGENDARY and even the SMS version sounded much better, not to mention the Famicom version sounded AWESOME. I think this was NEC Avenue's first published game, but still this is unforgivable.

As I'm sort of a collector of CD games I haven't tried many HuCard games, but I remember that Cyber Core had some nice tracks (probably not stellar, but still nice), and the arrangements in Salamander held up well compared to the Arcade version.

Cyber Core’s songs have very short loops, but they are pretty damn nice.

There is the DISCO POWER track that I especially love because I blast it whilst speeding downhill on bicycle.

Also, whilst driving fast on rural roads:

 http://junk.tg-16.com/audio/Cyber_Core/Level_8.mp3

[nopepper]

That tune's synth riff reminds me of RType's 5th level's "you have reached your doom" song.

[Michirin9801]

Oh wow, this Cyber Core song sounds amazing! I'm gonna have to rip wavetables from it ;3

[turboswimbz]

Cyber Core ...

Yea, CYber Core doesn't get enough love for some of the wonderful sounds it does have. one of my favorites