it's lovely
EDIT:
The Adventure Island II track is fantastic.
Mmm, nice Ys. Very jaunty.
Glad you like them ^^
I've covered this beautiful song from Ys 1 which unfortunately went unused until the later remakes...
I hope you like it ^^
I didn't know the history of this song (being neglected initially and then finding some love)... but what really intrigued me was this bit (from TubeYou description):
However this is not my favourite version of this theme, that would be the DS version! Legacy of Ys books 1 and 2 is probably the worst version of Ys 1 and 2 in almost every way, but it does shine on the sound department, that version sucks but it somehow manages to have my favourite version of Ys 1 and 2's soundtracks, beating out even the CD quality TurboGrafx-CD versions and the FM-tastic PC-88 originals!
Now I must go and listen to these other versions of the song (especially the DS version, of course).
BUT. there. are. so. many. goddamn. incarnations. of. these. songs. GBA. PS. PSP. PC. Saturn?
I remember being overwhelmed many moons ago (when I found out that Falcom was still in business) with the number of commercial "arrangements" that were available... you can imagine how I feel now that a billion additional remakes/updates/versions of Ys have been released in the past 15 years.
Nonetheless, I gotta listen to all these goddamn PSP and DS and GBA and XaviX soundtracks that I've ignored for so long...
...but there are so damn many... <--a good problem
Umm, I don't think Ys was on GBA at all... Missed opportunity if you ask me >w>';
The PSP version has 3 soundtracks, 2 of them are from the PC versions from 2001 and 2009, and the 3rd (my favourite of the 3) is the PC-88 original...
As for the DS, believe you or not, there are TWO DS versions of the Ys 1 & 2 soundtracks, there's one which I believe to be from a CD, which doesn't exactly sound like what you hear in the game, and then there's the in-game versions, which is the one I'm referring to when I say "The DS version of the soundtrack is my favourite"
The version turboswimbz posted is the proper in-game version!