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Post by wyrdwad on Jul 18, 2016 18:39:27 GMT -5
This is the first thing that comes to mind, for me: They're not even developed by the same company: Rygar is Tecmo, while Jekyll & Hyde is Bandai. I always wondered why both games use the same track -- has there ever been an explanation given? -Tom Hmmmm... These tracks are indeed eerily similar, but there are some slight pitch, tempo and instrument differences between the two (Rygar's sounds "fuller" than Jekyll and Hyde's, IMO). Maybe they are both based off another, unknown track? Oh, yeah, they're certainly not 100% the same all around, but they do have 100% the same melody. Which is more than simple coincidence, for sure. I assume they must be based off of a freeware track or something, as there's no other explanation I can think of for this happening. -Tom
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Post by ReyVGM on Jul 18, 2016 19:27:40 GMT -5
There's the Top Gear soundtrack which is taken from the Lotus series. And I believe of the tracks was also used on a Genesis sidescroller, but I can't remember the name now. That would be Zool. The thing is that said track from Lotus III, "Space Ninja", is based off of one of the tracks from the original Amiga version of Zool. When Zool got ported to the Genesis, rather than do a version of the original track as all other ports did, the devs instead did a version of "Space Ninja". Amusingly, the Genesis port of Lotus III, Lotus II: RECS, doesn't have "Space Ninja", but it does have a track from another game from the same devs. I mentioned it on an earlier post in this very thread. That's not the one because I do not recognize that track (haven't played Lotus). I remember the song was from either Top Gear SNES or a Kemco SNES game, and one of the songs was used on a unrelated Genesis game. I personally opened the Genesis game on an emu and was shocked when I recognized the music from a SNES game. I believe the track played on the logo/copyright scene. I then forgot about it and haven't been able to remember the game, or if it even was a Kemco game. Quite a strange coincidence that what I'm (mis?) remembering is not that Lotux 3/Zool connection.
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