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Dude, legendary game and soundtrack. Both Mother and Mother 2 (earthbound in the us) soundtrack's were composed by none other than Hip Tanaka, creator of the Game boy's sound chip and countless other soundtracks. He's truly a legend. I would go so far as to say that your album reminding me of Mother is the equivalent to saying someone reminds you of Jesus. Hahaha.

I wasn't trying to say my music was better. I was just saying, if this guy, who is an actual musician (and a pretty good one at that) that makes actual money and has actual fans, and his album is only approximately better than anything I can ever hope to make, then I feel better about myself.

I guess I can see the reasoning behind this track. I mean, it just sounds like he's making straight up house on a gameboy, which is cool and not really done a ton. And the relative simplicity of the track was also encouraging to me. It's possible to make decent music without "crashing my gameboy because I had so many crazy tables going on at once".

But at the end of the day, it just sounds like a track he whipped up on a plane ride, and then sort of forgot about it till one day he played it through and amp and called it good. No doubt in my mind he could make a truly killer and impressive release if he wanted to, he has more musical talent than I have in my pinky toe. But he just didn't. It's half way there, and within the context of this release, it's totally fine.

Really I guess I'm glad he's releasing it. I think too often great stuff goes unreleased because it's not up to an artist's quality standard, and I think we lose a ton of really cool interesting stuff there.

Is it horrible if I actually sort of like this? Totally not 8 bit by any means, but it has that kitsch appeal of midi rips. Reminds me of buying ringtones on my cell phone back in the day.

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What a great writeup. I too had this game as a kid, and had absolutely no clue how to play it. I do remember the music. It was so very rewarding to get to a save point and hear basically the only true melody in the game, then back to wasteland. I also remember how textured the metroids sounds when hit with a missile. I mean, that very well could be what some kind of alien life form sounds like when hurt.

On a side note, there's a pretty decent remake under active development. After seeing this post I played it for about an hour and a half and haven't reached the end yet. I think it's about 50% finished so far.
http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/

Here is an imgur album of all the tests' output: http://imgur.com/a/fj9e6