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GaMetalloween gets a wondrous expansion… with a brand new remix of Mad Monster Mansion!

Mad Monster Mansion has been somewhat of a long-running joke in the GaMetal Patreon community. Not the song itself, it’s awesome, just the concept of doing it for Halloween.

It was a part of the first ever GaMetal Patreon Halloween Poll back in 2016, which it lost, then would later be a part of two other Halloween Polls which it.. also lost.

This year I decided to finally put an end to the madness and just do it outside of polls, so here it is. Enjoy! 🎃

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We’re headed to the Southern Swamp for this remix of the Deku Palace theme from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask!

You’d think after 15 years, I’d have done a Majora’s Mask song or two… but I haven’t done any. So what better time to finally do one than Halloween season?

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We just got a new Rivals of Aether game, so here’s a song from the first game to celebrate! Coincidentally any way, as this was a random GaMetal Patreon song pick.

Sort of sounds likes a TMNT song, doesn’t it?

 

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You’ve dealt y’self a full hand; but I’m all aces! Here’s another timely Patreon request fulfillment, considering Gambit’s recent popularity resurgence thanks to Deadpool & Wolverine.

I felt like one of the most important parts of the original was the sexy sax line in the song’s final section, so I had to invest in some better sax software (I never learned to play the reed instruments lol) to get that part as best as I could.

Fun fact: I played Marvel vs. Capcom a lot when I was younger, and my main two was Gambit and Mega Man.

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This song goes to infinite… and beyond!

Bombs Away could’ve easily been an April Fools Day song, but sometimes the Patreon Request List forces a licensed gem like this one into the song lineup any way. This is one of those good licensed games by the way, with a banger soundtrack as well.

The original was already full song length, so not much had to be added. The original also has a cool jazzy breakdown mid song that I like a whole lot.

Not sure what else to say, it’s an awesome song so give it a listen!

 

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With a name like “Metal Beat” from a game titled “Metal Masters”, it was just begging for Metal Cover, right?

This song was composed by Alberto José González and is considered one of the best songs to come from Game Boy hardware. It’s the only song in the game, but it’s really the only song the game needed.

It was more like a song that came with a game. 😉

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Break out the butta’, we’re gonna make toast!

Crash Bandicoot is another one of those series I’m regularly asked why I don’t cover more songs. I have no great explanation for that, so instead, I give you this remix.

I’ve based this one mostly on the arrangement from the N-Sane Trilogy remake, with a few hints of the original thrown in here and there.

 

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The first song I’ve taken from the 2024 GaMetal Song Ballot is none other than Prince Mush’s battle theme from the Paper Mario: TTYD remake!

In said ballot, it placed #4 overall. I didn’t plan on doing another TTYD so soon after Cortez, but after giving this a listen after it’s great ballot placement, I determined it must be done.

This song is already quite awesome with plenty of different sections, so I didn’t do much in the way of new additions. The biggest change here is the addition of a guitar/synth solo duel in the second loop.

There are other potential new TTYD songs from the remake we might have to get to sometime!

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Esaka? What do you mean Esaka?????

I’m not sure why the song name is presented as a question. I never actually looked into it, but I always read it with a ‘wtf’ tone in my head.

I heard rumors that I don’t cover enough fighting game material (these rumors are true), so I thought I’d hit up an iconic fighting series that I get requests for quite a bit: Ballz 3D.

Then I thought to myself the world isn’t quite ready, plus we just did briefly did a B3d song in that last SNES Medley, so I went for the next best thing: The King of Fighters.

This is one of the most popular songs from the series, with a few different variants and 100 other songs with “Esaka” in the title (though a lot of these are completely different songs). I based this cover off of the “Arrange Sound Trax” arrangement, which includes a guitar solo and just fleshes out the track more as an actual “song”.

This one’s for you FGC!

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It’s time for a bit of spectral trickery as we enter the world of Ghost Trick!

You know I like to do my funky/groovy songs every now and then. Ghost Trick recently got a remaster, and ever since I’ve kept this one in the back of mind to hit up eventually.

Technically this is an arrangement of the credits theme, Finale: The “Night” Ends, which includes the entire Ghost Trick theme and adds an entire new section. Hence the credits footage in the video.

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Hell yeah, this song rules.

Every year for my birthday, I make a completely 100% biased song choice. Doesn’t have to be anything relevant or a request fulfillment, just something for myself. I mean, sometimes I do this any way… but those can come at random, but I’ll always drop one of these on or around my birthday.

I’m a few weeks late this year (moved to a different place around the beginning of the month and had no time), but here it is nonetheless, a song that has become one of my favorite boss battle themes over the last few years: La-Mulana 2’s Reproduction of Power.

This song is outstanding. It has it all. Prolonged intensity but without enough changeups that it always stays fresh, awesome riffs, a crazy Guitar and Synth solo duel, even a callback to the original La-Mulana’s Interstice of the Dimension in the guitar solo (did you catch it?). I didn’t even have to really change anything, I practically just performed it how it was written.

Phenomenal pair of soundtracks within the La-Mulana series. Also, if you’re looking for a cult classic hardcore puzzle solving experience, be sure to check out the series!

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Last but not least, wrapping up our first Medley Song Madness event is Someday from The World Ends With You, featuring the amazing Lacey Johnson on vocals!

This was the other extra song I confirmed for the medley song lineup along with Captain Falcon. It too was outvoted in the public vote (by Showtime!) for the DS Medley category, but placed #1 in the Patreon vote.

When this song was randomly selected for DS Medley, I threw Lacey a quick message because I felt she’d be a good fit for it. I still knew that’d be the case for a full version, so I reached back out when this won the Patreon vote and we got crackin’ on the full version for you all.

We wanted to give this song a thrash/pop-punk spin and I think that turned out exactly how we envisioned it!

Fun fact: TWEWY was one of the most requested “new to GaMetal series” from the 2023 GaMetal Song Ballot… so we can consider this a song for those voters as well. 🙂

 

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Forever he will be MY hero! What about you?

It’s in my nature to be both overzealous and eager to please the GaMetal community as much as I can, so I pre-confirmed two additional songs for our first Medley Song Madness event, starting with Captain Falcon’s Theme from F-Zero GX/AX.

As mentioned in previous posts, two forms were made available for the event for people to submit their most wanted songs from past GaMetal medleys for full remake contention, a public form and a Patreon form.

For the GameCube Medley category, the public overwhelmingly voted for the Super Smash Bros. Melee Opening theme. Interestingly, the SSBM Opening theme performed fairly average in Patreon voting, where Captain Falcon managed to snag the top spot instead.

The original sounds straight up like a Christian rock song. You could easily play this in any youth church group and no one but the most astute F-Zero fans would be suspect. I attempted to heavy up this arrangement a bit, while still keeping the soul of the original.

As seen in the video, I’m joined by the one and only Samurai Goroh on vocals, with additional backup from Black Shadow. It turns out they really don’t hate Captain Falcon and rather look up to him. I always knew Goroh hated on Falcon a little too hard…

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Huehuehue….

I mentioned back in the Death Match post that there were 2 forms for our Medley Song Madness event this year: a public one that was posted here and another Patreon exclusive form that had 2 extra categories for NES Medley(s) and all other medleys combined (ie. Genesis, Game Boy, GaMedley, etc). Death Match won the NES Medley vote, and Stardust Speedway (Bad Future JP) won the other/misc medley vote.

This arrangement combines elements from several versions of Stardust Speedway Bad Future JP, namely the original (CD), Mania, and Generations.

For those wondering why I chose not to include any nods to the US version of Stardust Speedway Bad Future, it’s because I don’t like it. Nah I’m just kidding, the two songs just sound so completely different to me that I’d rather an arrangement focus on their particular version. Perhaps someday, we’ll visit the US version of Stardust Speedway Bad Future. 🙂

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And here’s the most voted song for a full remix from the public vote for the GBA Medley category: Battle! Frontier Brain from Pokémon Emerald!

I almost didn’t include a GBA Medley category, but since it did surprisingly well in one of the polls I posted on the YouTube community page asking about medleys, I decided to throw it in last minute.

I actually did this full song in that medley, which made this a fairly easy one to put back together. To help spruce it up a bit, I threw in a key change for the second loop, because who doesn’t like a good ol’ fashioned key change, right? 🙂

 

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SHOWTIME!

This one was most voted song from the public vote for the DS Medley category in this year’s Medley Song Madness event.

When I was putting that medley together, I knew I wanted to have an M&L song in there, and was deciding between this one and Bowser’s battle theme from M&L: Partners in Time. I decided to go with this one because it’s tempo fit in an area of the medley that I needed a spot to fill a bit more than the other.

I completely recreated the “SHOWTIME” sample from the intro just incase we ever get lucky and can get this licensed for streaming some day. I mean…. Puppet Bowser redid it for us. Yeah it was him.