SAMPLING in Video Game Music

Well, did you learn anything new? I don't wanna hear that French Horn ever again... 📯 (Song List below) 0:06 EarthBound - Your Name, Please 0:13 John Philip Sousa - The Liberty Bell 0:17 EarthBound - Sound Stone 0:19 John Lenon - Give Peace A Chance 0:20 EarthBound - The Cave of The Past 0:24 The Beach Boys - Dierdre 0:31 James Brown - The Funky Drummer 0:34 The Powerpuff Girls - Intro Theme 0:41 Zelda Link to The Past - Title Screen 0:43 Zelda Ocarina of Time - Title Screen 0:46 Super Mario World - Level Select 0:47 Chrono Trigger - Secret of The Forest 0:48 EarthBound - Buy Something, Will Ya? 0:51 Chrono Trigger - Secret of the Forest 0:56 Super Mario 64 - Pirahna Plant Sleeping 0:59 Yume Nikki - Working... please wait... 1:02 Undertale - Home (Music Box) 1:05 EarthBound - Venus Performance* 1:08 UNDERTALE - Ghost Fight 1:10 OMORI - Space Boyfriend's Tape - I Want Nothing More 1:20 Zelda Ocarina of Time - Treasure Chest Open 1:22 Zelda Twilight Princess - Treasure Chest Open 1:33 Conker's Bad Fur Day - Surf Punks 1:35 Tekken 3 (PS1) - Jin Kazama's Theme 1:40 Pokemon RSE - Opening Selection 1:42 Mother 3 - Unfounded Revenge 1:43 Super Mario 64 - Snow Mountain 1:45 Zelda Twilight Princess - Ending Credits Theme 1:56 ToffeeBun - NES Sampling Demo (unreleased) 2:23 Zelda Link's Awakening - Inside the Houses 2:42 Super Mario Bros. 3 - World Map 1 3:00 Kirby's Adventure - Overworld 4 3:04 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone 3:34 Super Mario Bros. - Overworld/Level 1-1 3:40 Super Mario All Stars - Mario Bros. Overworld/Level 1-1 4:30 Yoshi's Safari - Ending 5:17 ToffeeBun - Air ( soundcloud.com/toffeebun/air ) 5:36 Smash Mouth - All Star 5:53 DOOM (1993) - At Doom's Gate 6:15 Pokemon RSE - Opening Selection 6:20 Mother 3 - Unfounded Revenge 6:23 Super Mario 64 - Race Fanfare 6:28 Super Mario 64 - Snow Mountain 6:33 Kirby's Epic Yarn - Vs. Yin Yarn 6:36 Zelda Twilight Princess - Ending Credits Theme 6:39 Mario Kart Super Circuit - SNES Koopa Beach 6:42 Mario Kart Wii - Rainbow Road 6:57 Zelda The Wind Waker - Forsaken Fortress 1/Approaching Forsaken Fortress 7:10 Pokemon RSE - Route 104 7:24 Super Smash Bros. Melee - All Star Rest Area 7:28 Pokemon RSE - Shop Theme 7:31 Mario Kart 64 - Results 7:35 Super Smash Bros. Melee - Fire Emblem 7:43 EarthBound - Onett 7:47 Crash Bandicoot - Title Screen 7:50 Donkey Kong Country - Cranky's Theme 7:54 Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island - Opening Story 7:59 Zelda The Wind Waker - Reunion with Sister 8:02 Paper Mario - Kammy Koopa 8:08 Animal Crossing - Save Your Game 8:12 Zelda Twilight Princess - Palace of Twilight 8:17 Super Mario 64 - Pirahna Plant Sleeping 8:26 Yume Nikki - Working... please wait... 8:31 UNDERTALE - Home (Music Box) 8:46 ToffeeBun - CAT SPIN ( soundcloud.com/toffeebun/cat-spin ) 9:16 EarthBound - Giygas Intro 9:22 Super Mario 64 - File Select 9:39 Super Mario 64 - Peach's Letter 9:46 Mother 3 - Mom's Hometown 9:53 Super Mario World - Mario Dies 9:58 Chrono Trigger - Chrono Trigger 10:09 - Kirby Super Star - Corkboard 12:00 ToffeeBun - Discord Call Sound Meow Version (unreleased) 12:10 Final Fantasy VI/III - Opening Theme 12:20 Super Metroid - Ridley/Draygon Theme 12:22 Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambience 12:25 Mega Man X - Zero Enters 12:29 Final Fantasy VI/III - Victory Fanfare 12:33 Final Fantasy (NES) - Victory Fanfare 12:37 Zelda Ocarina of Time - House 12:46 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - Menu 12:52 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - Unsane - Committed 13:05 ToffeeBun - Air ( soundcloud.com/toffeebun/air ) 13:17 Zelda Ocarina of Time - Inside Jabu-Jabu's Belly 13:24 Tekken 3 - Nina Williams 13:36 Sonic Adventure 2 - Pumpkin Hill 13:52 Crash Bandicoot - N.Sanity Island 14:06 Final Fantasy 7 - Barret's Theme 14:27 Silent Hill - Silent Hill 14:27 Silent Hill - Talking to officer (will add actual song name) 14:41 Resident Evil 2 - Intro Cutscene 14:44 Resident Evil 2 - Raccoon City 14:47 Devil May Cry 1 - Public Enemy 14:53 Final Fantasy X - Battle 14:57 Kingdom Hearts 2 - Tension Rising 15:08 Sonic Heroes - Power Plant 15:15 Super Mario Sunshine - Delfino Plaza 15:17 Luigi's Mansion - Training 15:19 Zelda The Wind Waker - File Select 15:21 Zelda Twilight Princess - File Select 15:23 Animal Crossing - 5PM 15:26 Pikmin - The Forest of Hope 15:30 Wii - Menu 15:34 Zelda Twilight Princess - Courage 15:44 Mario 3D Land - Super Bell Hill (Live Recording) 15:49 Mario Kart 8 - Title & Menu (Live Recording) 16:02 Persona 5 - Life Goes On 16:28 Super Smash Bros. Melee - Intro 16:33 Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Intro 16:38 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Lifelight (Intro) 16:45 Super Smash Bros. Melee - Menu 1 16:53 Splatoon - Splattack! 17:00 Donkey Kong Country Returns - Krazy Kart ~Mine Cart Madness Returns~ 17:13 Persona 5 - The Days When My Mother Was There 17:32 Persona 5 - Have A Short Rest 17:40 Mother 3 - Alec's Log House 17:49 Super Smash Bros. Melee - Mute City 17:57 UNDERTALE - She's Playing Piano 18:00 UNDERTALE - Last Goodbye 18:07 UNDERTALE - UNDERTALE 18:31 Kingdom Hearts 2 - Dearly Beloved 19:05 Kikuo feat. Aosaki Shinzuki - Universe Cat Drowning 19:13 Sonic Heroes - Power Plant 19:36 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Act 1 Boss 19:50 Tekken 3 - Nina Williams 19:56 Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 - Character Select 20:03 Capcom Vs. SNK 2 - London Stage 20:09 Persona 3 - Iwatodai Dorm 20:17 Zelda Majora's Mask - Last Day 20:23 Resident Evil 4 - Bingo Cutscene 20:30 Silent Hill - Game Result 20:52 Luigi's Mansion - Luigi Whistling 20:55 Mario Kart Double Dash!! - Luigi Circuit/Mario Circuit/Yoshi Circuit 20:59 Super Mario 64 - Slider 21:02 Mario Kart Wii - Wario's Gold Mine 21:22 Devil May Cry 1 - Lock & Load 21:51 Dragonball Z Budokai - Warrior From An Unknown Land 21:56 Shin Megami Tensei 3 - Dante Battle 21:59 Pokemon (JP) Opening EP 241-276 22:15 ToffeeBun - Town ( soundcloud.com/toffeebun/towntown ) 22:57 ToffeeBun - Cozy Cat Menu ( soundcloud.com/toffeebun/cozy-cat-options-menu ) 23:35 ToffeeBun - thanks for watching ( soundcloud.com/toffeebun/toffeebun-outro

WHOA This is really well documented. Thanks for your effort!

Very good video

16:10 - you're telling me that the game that inspired me to learn bass actually used VST bruuuuuuuh 💀

As an Audio Engineer, Music Producer, Game Developer working for a certain company... I gotta say this video is delightful! Incredibly well done! It is great to see someone putting so much effort into explaining, recording, editing and showing off how the whole thing actually works! By the way, fun fact, you can just use all those synths using D.A.Ws and VSTis (Like M1 by Korg, Kontakt by native Instruments, Addictive Keys by XLN Audio, Omnisphere by Spectrasonics, Trilian also by Spectrasonics). And if you want to get that "old school generation" sounds like 8 to 32 bits generation try using any Plug-In that can run this effect "Bit Crushing", then try adding some Compression (using any FET Compressor), a lil bit of Reverb (Small Room), and finally some Equalization to "Mod" the frequencies of the sound the way you want.

fun fact: the WarioWare series keeps sequenced music alive to this day (due to the game needing to speed up the music as you keep playing) so even vocal tracks like Tomorrow Hill or Penny's Theme are actually sequenced and chop up the vocals into a bunch of individual short samples

7:00 Shoutout to the Finger for making me laugh for two consecutive minutes.

This is my most favorite video of 2023. The day this video came out I saw it back to back two times and have already rewatched it like 3 times since then. I listen to a lot of VG soundtracks and seeing how the osts from different genres and franchises are connected and influenced from the same source is truely intriguing. Also, The editing just screams creativity and novelty, It makes me fully engage in the video since I can see that the creator has thought about how to present every shot and frame in a fun and unique way

This is VERY HIGH-QUALITY content! I'm looking forward to your future works!!

ur channel is phenomenal!! i’ve been learning so much :D

This video was informative and adorable! I hope you make more videos like it! ❤

One of my favorite examples of sampling is the recent Pizza Tower game, using real recordings of bass and overdrive guitar, blended with samples from tons of GBA games, specifically WarioLand 4. There’s also voice samples! Not to mention the composer knew exactly how to make the coolest beats and most memorable medleys. Overall, Pizza Tower is a melting pot of sound that takes you right back to the fresh early-2000’s and I can’t recommend it enough.

Can't believe the Roland SC-88 French Horns are like Among Us for video game music fans This is such a well-done video, I've wanted this kind of video essay content on old gaming soundtracks for a while now, and I'm happy to say that you absolutely nailed the topic. Lots of old gaming OSTs bring unique sounds you don't get often, and are the best examples of "limitations breed creativity." (I personally think the original Super Smash Bros for the N64 is a REALLY good demonstration of this, both Final Destination and Meta Crystal in particular have very special sounds.) I'd be so down to hear even more of your VGM discussions, this and the UT video are crazy good!

it's crazy that the identity of decades of video game music was coming from these midi modules and Sample CDs! XD

I'm a musician for 20 years. I'm also an old gamer almost in my 40s. This video is an absolute gem. The information that I already knew was so well put together it was a pleasure to revisit. And the content I didn't know was informative and delicious to watch.

Wow, never would I have thought to find inspiration to make music from a video essay about music sampling by a bunny who I would find through a video talking about gaster's leitmotif being in other songs in deltarune

Wow! This is a VERY well made video on this subject. Ever since I got into the scene in early 2020, and founded the Church of Kondo in early 2021, I've always wanted a video like this to be made on the matter. Thank you for bringing attention to the research and the work we as a community have done on this very subject, and please keep up the excellent work! ~Infomaniac95, leader of the Church of Kondo

A few years back, I stopped a movie I was watching with some friends because the shimmering sound from Wind Waker was in it. Nobody was a big enough Zelda nerd to hear it but now I have confirmation and an explanation! Thank you 🙏✨

The SC-88 Pro French Horn is always hilarious to notice, I adore that Toby Fox even brought it back to Pokémon with Leon's Battle Tower theme in Sword & Shield. It's just so funny

That dang french horn!