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i was so honored to be asked by the doodle team to do music for their extremely ambitious doodle, celebrating the life of pioneering game tech developer jerry lawson (aka the man responsible for inventing the exchangeable game cartridge, leading the way for the NES, SNES, megadrive/genesis and so on!)

i approached each in-game track with limitations suitable for the time (so the 8bit track and 16bit track are at least somewhat within range of what would be feasible on equivalent hardware of the time)--while the "edit mode" and "menu" tracks are meant to be "outside" the machine, set in jerry lawson's workshop, an optimistic and happy creative mood!

please check out the doodle and read more about jerry lawson's history here: https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday

In Game (16bit Version)

Xenogears OST, track #29 (#4 on Disc 2)
Original Name: October Mermaid
Revival Name: October Mermaid
Unofficial Name: June Mermaid
Japanese Name: 神無月かんなづきの人魚にんぎょ (Kannazuki no Ningyo)


It plays as (SPOILERS) the battle music against Crescens (Emeralda's Gear) at Sargasso Point, as well as in the immediately prior and subsequent cutscenes. In addition, it also plays during the following cutscenes:

-Elly briefly remembers her past life and awakens Emeralda in the ruins of Zeboim.
-Emeralda and Elly go to the Mass-driver Facility in order to disperse Taura's Limiter-removing nanomachines.
-Dan finds Fei frozen in carbonite in Shevat.
-Fei remembers and has flashbacks of his past life as Kim in Zeboim.



DISCLAIMER: Copyright to their respective owners!
Music: October Mermaid
Game: Xenogears
Platform: Playstation
Composed by: Yasunori Mitsuda
Copyright: Square Enix

Xenogears OST #29 October Mermaid

A Nintendo-inspired chiptune album exclusively using SNES samples!
Art by Pixel Jess: https://www.pixeljess.com/

Super Marvelous World

16 Bit Lolitas - Personal Space (Guy J Remix) [microCastle]

Revamped music from the SNES version of Shadowrun.

Originally it was planned for a 'remake' of the SNES game, but the project died very quickly.

Since I had 3 or 4 songs completed, and the excitement of working on each of them was so freaking great, the end result was the whole music library from the game.

I tried to stay true to the original songs keeping their theme intact.
However I tried as well to be re-inventive, fresh and original on each of them.

So if you find them good or bad, awesome or awful, just leave your most honest opinion.

I'm really willing to read what your critics and comments are.

Hope you enjoy them :)

Credits:

Marshall Parker - THE mastermind and composer of the awesome SNES songs.

Beam Software: Developers of the SNES game.

Dataeast: Publisher of the SNES game.

FASA: Creators of the Shadowrun universe.

12 - Morgue - Shadowrun

Game composer and guitarist. Always looking for new projects, feel free to contact me via my website!

Super Marvelous World

Josh Cominelli