[Roanoke]

Nice one weatherop,  was wondering when a few SNES/NES titles would get a foot in the door.

The themes from Mario games, the absolutely wonderful music from Starwing on the SNES, almost every track in Super Mario Kart, a good chunk of music from Super Probotector and lest we not forget, Street Fighter 2.

The music from Soul Calibur was also fantastic.

oh if we're talking SNES:
Mario Kart, Super Probotector, Starwing, Cybernator, Super Castlevania, Street Fighter 2, Super Aleste, Axley, F-Zero, Legend of Zelda, Super Bomberman (the original, not sequels). Probably think of some more in a bit too.

****in' love my snes
*pets his snes*
*goes on to ebay to shop for more snes games*

[Goober5000]

Nice one weatherop,  was wondering when a few SNES/NES titles would get a foot in the door.

Never, considering the thread title?

[Col. Fishguts]

The themes from Mario games, the absolutely wonderful music from Starwing on the SNES, almost every track in Super Mario Kart, a good chunk of music from Super Probotector and lest we not forget, Street Fighter 2.

Well, the thread was excluding consoles . But now that you mention it, the Starfox/wing music was very good, especially the track in the asteroid belt level (on the 'easy' route), had sort of an Star Wars-ish epic feel to it.

[Polpolion]

tyrian

[redsniper]

Well since SNES games mysteriously count as PC games now I must mention that FF6 has some of the best video game music EVER. Good overworld theme, good boss fight music, good everything else music. Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid must be mentioned too.

[Ghostavo]

You people need to play OutCast

[StratComm]

ROFL that SMB and FF_ aren't considered PC games, and yet Halo 2 is

Especially since I can play the former two on my comp, but not the latter.

[Deepblue]

Halo was built on a PC codebase before being ported to the Xbox, so it doesn't really count as a port when it was released on the PC.

[WeatherOp]

Nice one weatherop,  was wondering when a few SNES/NES titles would get a foot in the door.

Never, considering the thread title?

Whoops.

And yeah, Roanoke, I forgot ALTTP, that had awesome music as well.

[Rand al Thor]

Too be honest the music is something that I most easily disregard or fail to notice yet I know it hugely effects the atmosphere of a game. Ones that do stick in my mind are definately Myth and freespace (2 moreso than 1 in both cases). I haven't played Tie Fighter yet, it's in a pretty big queue of games sitting beside my computer, so I'm going to have to go with X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter. I know its the same old music  but it never gets old for me and that the first star wars game I bought.

Homeworld was good (mainly remember Adagio, I'm a big fan of that, and the Yes written song at the end credits I liked as well) and so was Halo, one of its far better aspects, certainly more so than level design or voice acting or weapons or...

Anyone know of a site that hosts old console games music? Mario IS class. Been humming it fairly regularily ever since I saw the forward of the guy playing them all on a piano a couple years back. Memories!

[Grug]

So its open to consoles now?

Besides halo there are few really good music examples I can think of for the xboxs. There is some good music, but few great music examples.

[Stealth]

i think HL2 had great music too

[Galemp]

American McGee's Alice... Diablo II Expansion... Shadow of the Colossus. Can't forget SimCity 3K and Donkey Kong Country.

[Mefustae]

I know it's console, but...

Space Station Silicon Valley[/b][N64]! The greatest soundtrack ever to grace a video-game. Evar.

[Dark RevenantX]

Myth 2: Soulblighter

Every single piece of music fit with the game and just WORKED when they were played.  I was hooked on bungie stuff ever since Myth 1 and 2.

[watsisname]

I like all of the Descent games' music, but if I had to choose one then I'd go with Descent 1 for it's utter creepiness and how well it added to the atmosphere of the game.
Both Freespace 1 and Freespace 2 had really great music.  For FS2 I especially liked Endgame, Numbers, Joshua chapter 2, and whatever the briefing music for the mission "Slaying Ravana" was. 

And I could go on and on for music from nintendo games, but I won't. 

[StratComm]

Halo was built on a PC codebase before being ported to the Xbox, so it doesn't really count as a port when it was released on the PC.

Of course you'd respond to that   First, the way Halo runs on a top-of-the-line PC would surely indicate that it was not finalized on the PC platform, but rather ported back to it.  It does count as a port.  Secondly, please note that I said Halo 2, a game which, as far as I know, was designed exclusively to the XBox.  Halo:CE is a PC game, at least in port, so does count, Halo 2 is a console exclusive, and so by the reasoning shown to that point in the thread, should have recieved the same response as Mario or Metroid.

That said, shortly after my last post in this thread, a girl who lives upstairs from me was passing by and her phone rang with the Mario Bros tune.  I had to stop her to tell her how awesome it was, nerd that I am.  So yeah, SNES classics FTW.

[Nix]

Well since SNES games mysteriously count as PC games now I must mention that FF6 has some of the best video game music EVER. Good overworld theme, good boss fight music, good everything else music. Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid must be mentioned too.

Ya'll can beam me for that one, mentioning FF7..  But since you mentioned it... 
Cefca's mischevious theme is my favorite from FF6. Not "Dancing Mad", the final battle theme, but Cefca's own theme, played when he storms Figaro Castle and Doma Castle in the World of Balance.

No love for FF7?  *cries* - Remarkably well done even though the whole soundtrack was done in MIDI, and sounded like a completely different soundtrack if you didn't use the included XG Synthesizer.  I need to build my old Win98 box for that game again, just for the synthesizer.  I've had major problems getting it to work under XP, that is without having to pay for it (if they still offer it at all).

That said, shortly after my last post in this thread, a girl who lives upstairs from me was passing by and her phone rang with the Mario Bros tune.  I had to stop her to tell her how awesome it was, nerd that I am.  So yeah, SNES classics FTW.

My phone will play MIDI files for ringtones which I can load onto it via a bluetooth link, and I've got the Briefing track from Descent 1 set for whenever my boss calls me... 
I also have Levels 1, 2 and 12, the Simulator tracks from Terra Nova, Medical and Cyberspace tracks from SS1 on my phone, but none are actual ringtones. 

You have been out-nerded.  

[CP5670]

Is that the SYXG50 thing? I have that on my retro game computer. It came bundled on the driver CD for an old Asus motherboard. I really wanted to get it working on XP as midis sound awesome with it (I recorded many of the better ones from D1 and D2 off that computer), but it only works on 98/ME and NT4 and won't install correctly on XP.

[Nix]

Yes, that's it, cept it was like... SYXG 70 or something.  This particular version was included with FF7 PC, and it was a better build than the XG Lite synth you could get for free online from Yamaha.  There was the SoftXG and XGLite, to my ear, I liked the SoftXG better, probably because it had a richer patch kit with it.  I share the same woes with you, cause the awesome XG tracks are completely different from the General MIDI tracks.  In fact, there were tracks included for General MIDI, AWE32, and XG synths, which I thought was awesome to have, instead of being stuck with just the GenMIDI tracks.  You just don't see that anymore today with music, then again, with the ability to play back digital audio, music can be heard the way it was intended to be heard, or at least as close as possible.