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This week, I’m getting back to the game soundtrack I had to pull an audible on – Star Trader for the X68000! I originally thought the soundtrack for this version was the same as the original version of the game on the PC-88. As it turns out, I was way off! The original version of the game was made by Falcom, with Meiko Ishikawa (as part of Falcom Sound Team jdk) handling the composition duties. The X68000 version contains two of Ishikawa’s pieces, but the rest are unique to this version of the game composed by Yasuo Ito, Hiroya Hatsushiba, Takeshi Maruyama, and Keishi Yonao.
I wouldn’t have learned all this if it wasn’t for two people. First, is Josep, who runs the Falcom Music Channel on YouTube. The other person is The Spoony Bard, who has a great cover album on Bandcamp of this version of Star Trader’s soundtrack, except done on the SNES.
I reached out to both of them on Twitter and both were very incredibly helpful in letting me know who worked composed the soundtrack. This episode is largely due to them, so go support them however you can!
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And finally, here’s the track listing for this episode.
-Sortie (Title)
-Visual Scene 1 (Start Demo)
-The Logic of Shooters (Stage 1 Zone Silva)
-Ugly Beauty (Stage 2 Zone Oguma)
-Moon Scape (Stage 3 Zone Lufa)
-The Vision (Stage 4 Zone Vaha)
-Else (Stage 5 Zone Molgana)
-Visual Scene 2 (Before Stage 6)
-Tyle (Stage 6 Zone Fire)
-Half Tone (Stage 7 Zone Hugi)
-Visual Scene 3 (Ending)
-Intention to Mystery (Staff Roll)
-The Another Place (Game Over)
-Unused Track 1
-Love Silence (Unusued Track 2)
-In the Darkness (Unused Track 3)
-Built-up Fighting Spirit (Unused Track 4)
