Taito PCE chiptunes suck

[spenoza]

Subject says it all. Arkhan got me thinking about this in the Namco thread. I am pretty sure that Parasol Stars is the only Taito PC Engine game with chiptunes that I actually like. All their other stuff sounds super harsh and is a bad translation of Taito's characteristically harsh arcade tunes. When Taito's arcade stuff is good it's great, but when it's not good, it's kind of awful, and their PCE chiptune stuff is, for the most part, pretty awful.

[Arkhan]

EXCUSE ME.

PARASOL STARS IS A WORKING DESIGNS GAME, TYVM.

lolol.

and yea.... Taito's PCE music mostly is kind of garbagey.   Too many harsh instrument choices.  It's like they wanted to be Irem, and succeeded.

[turboswimbz]

Tatsujin isn't that bad . . . I like some of it.

Having a hard time thinking of others. . .

[Arkhan]

Tatsujin isn't that bad . . . I like some of it.

Having a hard time thinking of others. . .

Tatsujin's got that farty blare noise going on though that makes it sucky.

Like, the games soundtrack starts out strong and then just goes BRZZRNZRZR

it turns into Jim Carey in dumb and dumber. 

[turboswimbz]

Tatsujin isn't that bad . . . I like some of it.

Having a hard time thinking of others. . .

Tatsujin's got that farty blare noise going on though that makes it sucky.

Like, the games soundtrack starts out strong and then just goes BRZZRNZRZR

it turns into Jim Carey in dumb and dumber. 

Yeah that's about right, it's the beginning I like.  I mean it's okay though because it's so damn hard you die before the farty BRTZTZTZTS start.  they figured no one is dumb enough to make this far let's just stop fixing the music.

[Digi.k]

Strangely I quite like Cadash it's just moody and takes a while to get into it's groove.

KyuKyoku Tiger
Hana taka Daka ?!
Hit the Ice
Tatsujin
Jigoku Meguri

All these say "Hi ! Check us out"


New Zealand Story can go in the trash can   It's just shit!


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[Arkhan]

Those grngrngrngrnbzrbzrbzr noises are great if they're used carefully, but when the whole soundtrack is like that it's like JFC guys, can you not.

look at how goony Chase HQ and SCI are.   Those games sound kind of awful.   Some of that is because the sound effects basically overtake the music and all you hear is a little bit of weak leads ontop of OK *BLAM BLAM BLAM * SCREEEECH SCREEEECH* *BLAM* WEWEWEOWOOOOWEOEOEEOOO*


but the music isn't so great once you can hear it.

[Arkhan]

KyuKyoku Tiger

I always forget this is a Taito thing.

This is good music.

[Digi.k]

Those grngrngrngrnbzrbzrbzr noises are great if they're used carefully, but when the whole soundtrack is like that it's like JFC guys, can you not.

look at how goony Chase HQ and SCI are.   Those games sound kind of awful.   Some of that is because the sound effects basically overtake the music and all you hear is a little bit of weak leads ontop of OK *BLAM BLAM BLAM * SCREEEECH SCREEEECH* *BLAM* WEWEWEOWOOOOWEOEOEEOOO*


but the music isn't so great once you can hear it.

The onomatopoeia is off the chart!

crazy Dada / Futurist

[EmperorIng]

KyuKyoku Tiger

I always forget this is a Taito thing.

This is good music.

Kyuukyoku Tiger is actually a Toaplan game. Taito only published it. The PCE port was developed by AI, who also developed the PCE ports of Raiden and Super Raiden.

Taito went from making the worst-sounding PCE music (TNZS) to the best (Liquid Kids, Parasol Stars).

[Arkhan]

If it says Taito on the screen, it counts for giving Taito bonus points for not shit soundtracks.

[Black Tiger]

Only Taito chiptunes I like are some/most of Cadash.

[ccovell]

Agreed.  Besides ToaPlan conversions, Taito soundtracks are even a notch below the NES!

(Taito's great music on that system was usually thanks to Geoff Follin or Natsume.)

[Arkhan]

"Lets make it so bad Helen Keller's ears will hurt"

[Digi.k]

There are some elements to Rastan Saga I quite like but it's too high pitched and harsh sounding to get a comfortable listening