Metal Masters - Metal Beat (Game Boy, 1993) by Alberto J. González (McAlby) published on 2014-09-05T09:16:04Z Metal masters was a Game Boy port of the Atari ST and Amiga 500 game with the same name. It took years to produce because it went through several graphic changes and there were other games developed in between (mainly Asterix for the Game Boy and NES). It was released only in the USA, years later. The game had only one track, but 3 versions of it with different starts. I remember composing it close to the time when I programmed the sound driver and soundtrack of Asterix for the NES. At that time we were all working at the back of a swim-suit shop (long story). How to forget that! This was a short time before we founded Bit Managers and we were still known as New Frontier. The long driving sound at the start is synchronized with the intro of the game, in which a pilot walks slowly and takes a lift up to the robot. The "explosion" part sounds when a big arm is attached to the robot, and the subsequent noises and glitches previous to the melody (0:29) where inspired by something I listened in a Terminator 2 remix at the time (I think). The random blips and notes came actually from setting one channel of the sound driver to play a random ROM address, and tweaked it until I found the sweet spot. I thought it was cool at the time. The track intro and drums make use of the limited stereo capabilities of the console, so listening with headphones is recommended! Recorded from AJGB, my own GB emulator ^^ Originally I composed another track for the game long time before, which can be found here along other details: https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/vintage-8-bit-metal-masters Genre Chiptune Comment by Sadmile In all the years I've been listening to video game music, this tops every other song I've ever heard, Mr. González, I don't know if you still use this account, but I just have to thank you for composing this song. 2024-04-21T08:52:09Z Comment by Pixelboy127 I Played Megaman OP for the plot 2022-03-16T19:47:25Z Comment by Sombrλ SR What's the BPM? 2019-12-22T21:48:43Z Comment by TheNooblvl100 I have been listening to this almost every day for 3 months now. I don't know why, but I always need to come back to it. 2019-12-19T20:17:35Z Comment by ThunderMite42 How to properly clean your metal computer 2019-03-23T13:09:04Z Comment by Craniotomic Hey alberto, big fan here but i have a question, i see you've made yourself an emulator, probably most aimed at accurately emulating the sound of the gb hardware. So i was wondering, is there any way to get your emulator? I wanna use it for LSDJ 2019-03-18T09:55:52Z Comment by Alberto J. González (McAlby) @michael-buehler-704973893: Thank you! 2018-11-03T17:01:39Z Comment by . The best GB chiptune and official BGM. I love it! Also do you have a xm/it file of this for OpenMPT? That would be awesome y'know! :D 2018-07-13T09:25:30Z Comment by That one profile, y'know? This sounds like the ass-kicking theme to end all ass-kicking themes. 2018-02-26T02:34:49Z Comment by HellboundMemelord how to properly make a good ytpmv 2018-01-23T23:45:28Z Comment by TurboJ This track is incredible. 2017-05-17T18:27:25Z Comment by citrusfruitt Classic Alberto. 2017-03-18T00:45:21Z Comment by DevEd Alberto Jose González at his finest. 2015-04-10T13:17:16Z Comment by strgg metal shoe 2015-01-14T20:24:55Z Comment by Tulip <3<3<3<3<3... 2014-09-08T11:26:47Z Comment by DJ_PAYPIG kurdish masters 2014-09-07T04:26:59Z Comment by Alberto J. González (McAlby) Check the info for some details about the game and the track! 2014-09-05T09:44:20Z