Faxanadu (Famicom) - Town Theme - Famicom 2A03+163 Rearrangement by Andrew Ambrose (2-11-2022)

My first Namco 163 chiptune!
This was absolutely unplanned, but while working on my latest YouTube Poop, I all of a sudden got curious and decided to finally start doing some tinkering with Namco's beautiful 163 sound chip. I've been listening to the epic soundtrack from Hudson Soft's 1987 Famicom & NES classic Faxanadu (a Famicom spinoff of Nihon Falcom's 1985 action RPG hit Xanadu) quite a bit recently, so I ended up doing a rearrangement of the game's town theme in the style of Namco's early-80s arcade classics, which usually used their 3-sound-channel Wavefrom Sound Generator (WSG) for the music and sound (though I still kept in the original percussion for the sake of consistency and rhythm). It took quite some work, but it was a fun little spur-of-the-moment project, and I'm happy to share it with you guys (and remember kids, don't forget to set different wave positions for each waveform instrument)! ^w^

Composed by: Jun Chikuma
Rearrangement by: Andrew Ambrose

Embed