VG Arch Rivals Remastered is finally out and available on Bandcamp! If asked about the price, you can just put 0 to get it for free – keep in mind I only have a limited amount of free downloads per month, so if that doesn’t work you might have to wait a bit until the free downloads are refilled (certain perks won’t be available if you get it for free though).

The songs on the album come with some more tweaks and changes compared to the versions I uploaded to YouTube (and in the last post). In addition to that, it comes with 3 bonus tracks: “instrumental” versions of Ken vs Ryu 2021 and Eggman vs Sonic 2021, as well as Eggman Solo, which is an alternative version of Eggman vs Sonic 2021 only featuring Eggman’s Theme. These songs are only available on the album.

And here it is, VG Arch Rivals Remastered:

After the last song, the website was experiencing technical difficulties for several weeks, rendering me unable to upload songs, or post literally anything. So I couldn’t even tell anyone about it here!

But you might notice that everything is working again – so we have a little bit of catch up to do. Although the summary is short enough: VG Arch Rivals Remastered – in the spirit of remastering my old songs, this is an album dedicated to remastering a bunch of song from VG Arch Rivals Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.

And it’s basically done by now, there are seven songs and we’re only a week away from the official album release. So here they are:

Keep in mind that the album versions of the songs might sound different, I’m currently trying to add a little more spice to some of them. The official album release (as usual on Bandcamp) is scheduled for next Sunday. The album itself will be available for free, so I hope you’ll check it out!

It’s time for another new song, today we listen to the Howl of the Snow Wolf!

When making this mix, I thought about combining different themes that would fit a Japanese-themed snow wolf character, which is where the name of the song comes from. Usually I name the song after the tunes that appear in it, but this time I went the other direction. The only actual snow wolf theme in the song, Blizzard Wolfang Stage (Mega Man X6), was actually added “last minute” (not quite that drastically, but I hope you get the idea) to give the song name some sense.

The more prominent themes are Surrender Robot Dharumanyo and Transformed Oedo Castle from Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. I don’t know if the boss theme has an actual name, I couldn’t find any reliable info on that, so I just used the name of the boss. There seems to be some consensus on that idea on the interwebz at least.

Do you know how difficult it was to find a high resolution picture of one the Goemon characters for the video? I was lucky enough to find a great-looking fan art of Yae:

There’s so many songs I started to work on…it’s gonna be difficult to decide which one to finish next.