Soundtracks

The Eternal Champions series games have decent and relatively awesome soundtracks. You can see for yourself if you wish. All of the tracks are 320 KBPS MP3's that were ripped from certain sources by me. You can't go wrong with my rips. (then again maybe you can. I don't really know...) 

So, anyway, here we have the original Eternal Champions Soundtrack. These were ripped with Kega Fusion 3.61's wav dump a few months back by me. I can assure you that they are of very good quality. I had to compress them to MP3's sadly but I applied fade outs for most of the tracks. (a few don't have them though because I forgot. One such is Blade's theme. The Biography track's lack of fade out was done on purpose.) 

My personal thoughts on these chiptunes are that while half of them sound good, the other half kind of leave to be desired. I think that the soundtrack could have potentially been better if it wasn't using the Sega Genesis GEMS sound driver which is known to sound quite bad most of the time. A few people have managed to be successful such as composers like, Tommy Tallarico, Jon Holland, Sam Powell, and a few others as well.

The composition attempt here was decent and you should at least listen to them before you take my word for it. I'm just not a fan of how they went about composing for this. If they would have used the SMPS 68K  sound driver (the same sound driver Sonic the Hedgehog 1 uses btw.), I'm pretty sure they could have made the soundtrack sound a lot better. However, most American companies developing Sega Genesis games, used the GEMS sound driver. It was kind of like their most easily obtained one I guess. There are a few decent tracks in here though. The main theme is definitely a good one. That being said, you should still probably listen to the whole thing if you've never listened to it before. Anyway, here's the soundtrack in all of its YM2612 sound chip glory:

Then, in 1995 Sega released this little Gem for Sega CD. The soundtrack is actually quite good, though most people prefer the chiptunes of the original. I myself actually happen to Like the Eternal Champions: Challenge From the Dark Side game's soundtrack a lot. I ripped these from my personal copy of ECCD. They are at 320 KBPS so enjoy. >_^ 

Without further ado, here it is: