Episode 050: A Brief History of VGM Podcasts

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

We made it to 50, guys. And they said it wouldn't last. This is a bit self-referential for the VGM podcast crowd, but hey, that's who the show is for in the first place.

Enjoy!

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Mighty Milky Way - World 1 (Space) - NDS - Jake Kaufman
2 - Combo Critters - Planet Jawbreaker - Android, iOS - MAXO
3 - Game and Watch Gallery 2 - Chef - Gameboy - Noriko Nishizaka, Saburo Sasaki, Yoko Mizuta
4 - Lagrange Point - City of Birthday - FC - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi
5 - Thunder Force IV - Omake 5 - Genesis/MD - Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida
6 - Dirt Dash - City - Arcade - Ayako Saso, Hiroto Sasaki, Nobuyoshi Sano, Shinji Hosoe Takayuki, and Aihara Yuri Misumi
7 - Mega Man 10 - Solar Inferno (Solar Man Stage) - Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 - Bun Bun (aka Yasuaki Fujita)
8 - Type:Rider - Pixel - PC, Android, iOS, PS4, Vita - Guillaume Lenost, Julien Joubert
9 - Super Adventure Island - Blue Blue Moon - SNES - Yuzo Koshiro
10 - Mega Man Network Transmission - Zero Gravity Area (StarMan.EXE's Stage) - GCN - Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, Yousuke Yasui
11 - Rent-a-Hero - Everyone, Thank You! - Genesis/MD - Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Episode 049: Space Jams 2: Journey to the Center of the Podcastverse

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

After a bit of a hiatus, i'm back with a VGMJB-styled "dissertation" episode (skits and music), packed with plenty of familiar voices in the VGM podcast community.

Hopefully you enjoy the slight change of pace. Regular episodes return next time (and it's already in the works).

Sit back, relax, and cruise along with the flowing, groovin' Space Jams.

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Same Game Another Character - Unknown Song - SNES - Naoaki Ikehata, JOEDOWN, Hiromichi Furuya, Kazuhiko Sawaguchi
2 - Aqua Rush - Temple (Attract Mode & Stages 3-4) - Arcade - Satoru Kosaki, Akitaka Tohyama, Yoshihito Yano
3 - Bubba 'n' Stix - The Spaceport - Genesis - Martin Iveson, Nathan McCree
4 - Phantasy Star Online - Prenotion - Dreamcast - Hideaki Kobayashi
5 - Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo (YU-NO) - Other World 1 - PC-9801 - Ryu Umemoto
6 - Shatter - Menu Music (Glass Halls) - PC - Module (Jeramiah Ross)
7 - The Shinri Game 2: Magical Trip - 11 In-game BGM 9 - SNES - Kenji Yamazaki
8 - Alcahest - Free Space / Edge of the World - SNES - Jun Ishikawa
9 - FTL - Space Cruise (Title) - PC - Ben Prunty
10 - Star Cruiser - Ending - Genesis - Toshiya Yamanaka
11 - Mario Paint - Mysterious - SNES - Hirokazu Tanaka, Ryoji Yoshitomi, Kazumi Totaka

Episode 048: VGMJBye

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

WHO LET THE DIAD OUT OF HIS CAGE? RUN! HE'S PODCASTIN' AGAIN!

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Ganbare! Golf Boys - Away Back - TG-16 - Atsuhiro Motoyama
2 - Power Strike II - Cyber Road (Boss) - Game Gear - PSG Factory
3 - Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf - Astro Angles - PC/AT - Unknown
4 - Kirby: Triple Deluxe - Bouncing Boss Battle - 3DS - Hirokazu Ando Jun Ishikawa
5 - Mario Golf - Koopa Cup - N64 - Motoi Sakuraba
6 - Air Zonk - Stage 5-3 (Boss Galore) - TG-16 - Daisuke Morishima and Hisashi Matsushita
7 - Super Bowling - Golf Bowl - SNES - Unknown
8 - Chrono Trigger - Last Battle - SNES - Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu
9 - Golf Daisuke! O.B. Club - Office Course - SNES - Unknown
10 - Grounseed - Dynamic (Great Boss) - PC-98 - Ryu Takami & Ryu Umemoto

Episode 047: Story Time with Diad

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

Important show updates today. But also some nice tunesies.

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 And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Undertale - Dating Start! - PC - Toby Fox
2 - Undertale - Another Medium - PC - Toby Fox
3 - Chrono Trigger - Frog Theme - SNES - Yatsunori Mitsuda & Nobuo Uematsu
4 - Super Mario RPG - Beware the Forest's Mushrooms - SNES - Yoko Shimomura
5 - Secret of Mana - A Curious Tale - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta
6 - Mega Man 3 - Shadow Man - NES - Yasuaki Fujita
7 - Mega Man 5 - Charge Man - NES - Mari Yamaguchi
8 - Phantasy Star Online - Pioneer 2 - Dreamcast - Hideaki Kobayashi
9 - Warcraft II - Human 2 - PC - Glenn Stafford
10 - Snowboard Kids - Board Shop - N64 - Tomohiko Sato & Isao Kasai

Mixtape 003: The Diad is an April Fool

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

My family was stricken with sweeping illness, my wife has a week-long business trip, and my parents are in town to visit. All this combined into a perfect storm and left us with a mixtape episode.

The jams are still smooth and cool, but the Diad is lacking. Hope you can enjoy it anyway!

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Winning Run - Theme from Winning Run - Arcade - Hiroyuki Kawada
2 - Foxy 2 - Ending 2 - PC-98 - Manabu Kunieda, Yuki Ushimaru, and/or Yasuhiro Taguchi
3 - Konami Hyper Soccer - Music 1 - NES - Atsushi Fujio (?)
4 - Cray-5 - Title Theme - ZX Spectrum - Wyz Augustoruiz (“WYZ”)
5 - Vixen 357 - Track 48 - Genesis - Opus Studio Inc. (credited as GOBLIN SOUND)
6 - Rall III - Pinch - PC-98 - Ryu Umemoto
7 - Metal Eye - Mei Faye's Theme A - X68000 - Manabu Kunieda, Hiroaki Sano, and/or Witch (Tsuyoshi Fukutomi, Go Oami, Youichi Shimizu, Masaki Sugou)
8 - Frederik Pohl's Gateway - Track 37 (Unknown 2) - PC - Glen R. Dahlgren, Arfing Dog, Michael Lindner
9 - Battle Grand Prix - Race Theme 4 - SNES - Yusuke Takahama, Nobuyuki Shioda
10 - Twintris - We’re the Devils - Amiga - Tor Gausen

Episode 046: Everybody Salsa!

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

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The links I promised:

Interview with Harumi Fujita

And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Clockwork Knight 2 - Salsa de Pepperouchau Fiesta de los Amigos - Saturn - Hirofumi Murasaki
2 - Mega Man 3 - Gemini Man - NES / FC - "Harumi Fujita (credited as ""Mrs. Tarumi)"
3 - StarTropics - Cave - NES / FC - Yoshio Hirai
4 - The Incredible Machine 3 - Salsa - PC - In Drive
5 - The Sims 2 - Dance the Dawn - PC - Kirk Casey
6 - Animal Crossing - K.K. Salsa - Nintendo 64 - Kazumi Totaka Kenta Nagata Toru Minegishi Shinobu Tanaka
7 - Party Quiz Mega Q - Salsa de MQ - Genesis / MD - Hirofumi Murasaki
8 - Aerobiz - Latin America - Genesis / MD - Taku Iwasaki
9 - Zelda Link's Awakening - Player Select ZELDA - Game Boy - Minako Hamano Kozue Ishikawa
10 - OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast - Radiation - Xbox / PlayStation 2 - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Fumio Ito, Richard Jacques

Episode 045: Presentin’ Year 2: Electric Boogaloo

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

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On Stoe, On Stoe
On On On On On... Stoe

Welcome to Year 2: Electric Boogaloo.

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Laser Invasion - Aerial Combat Mode - NES - Shigeru Fukutake
2 - The Adventures of Kid Kleets - Title - SNES - Matt Furniss
3 - "Genesis - Dawn of a New Day" - Title Theme - ZX Spectrum - Wyz Augustoruiz
4 - Blue Almanac - Bipartite Planet Sharil Daril - Genesis / Mega Drive - Ken Suzuki Noriyuki Iwadare Yoshiaki Kubotera Hiroshi Fujioka Isao Mizoguchi
5 - Donkey Kong Land - Kremlantis - Gameboy - David Wise Graeme Norgate
6 - Donkey Kong Land 2 - Hornet Hole - Gameboy - Grant Kirkhope (arr)
7 - Spindizzy II - Nice Day - X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka, Tetsuya Nakano
8 - Einhänder - Earthlight - PSX - Kenichiro Fukui

Episode 044: 1-Year Anniversary!

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

The night seemed to fade into blossoming dawn
The sun shone anew but the dance lingered on
Could we but recall that sweet moment sublime
We'd find that our love is unaltered by time

It's the first anniversary "year end review" episode! Thank you to everyone for giving the show a chance, I hope you all find more of what you love in 2018.

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



 And the track list below:

NOPE.

Listen to the episode, bub. I live a spoiler-free lifestyle.

Episode 043: Hot Like

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

We're back to normal this week. Hope you all keep me in your heart as your very special valentine. My gift to you is beautiful VGM.

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



Here are some resources I used for the episode:

http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Namco_163_audio#Channel_Update 

https://tcrf.net/Erika_to_Satoru_no_Yume_Bouken 

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2007/12/column_might_have_been_telenet.php 

http://www.reference.tg-16.com/telenet_japan_back_catalog.htm 

http://snesmusic.org/motoisakuraba/static/Telenet_Japan.html 

https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Riot+(Telenet+Japan)

And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - F.I.R.E. - Title - ZX Spectrum - Frantisek Fuka
2 - King of Kings - Title - FC - Hirohiko Takayama
3 - Erika to Satoru no Yume Bouken - Field Map - FC - Hirohiko Takayama
4 - Foresight Dolly - Track 30 - PC-98 - Tadashi Sawashita
5 - Doomsday Warrior - Daisy ~ Dancing Plant - SNES - Junta
6 - Doomsday Warrior - P-Lumb ~ Fatty Bomber - SNES - Junta
7 - Twilight Princess - Zora's Domain - Gamecube - Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ota & Koji Kondo
8 - Mega Turrican - Ending Theme - Genesis - Chris Huelsbeck

Episode 042: A Periodic Guest

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

Well this is certainly different... Strap in for a less-informative, more goofy episode of the Diad Presents with a very special guest.

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



And as promised, here are some examples of my WWF No Mercy Mods:

Here are some "AKI-style" mods of a couple familiar wrestlers:

And here is a "Hi res" version of another wrestler:

And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Kirby Superstars - The Great Cave Offensive - SNES - Jun Ishikawa
2 - Rhythm Heaven Fever - Ringside - Wii - TSUNKU♂ Masami Yone Shinji Ushiroda Asuka Ito
3 - Quizzes and Dragons - The Flatfields - Arcade - Isao Abe
4 - Quizzes and Dragons - Beast Mountain - Arcade - Isao Abe
5 - Fire Pro Wrestling D - Menu Theme - Dreamcast - Unknown
6 - Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour - Coin Attack - Game Cube - Motoi Sakuraba
7 - Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball - Game Theme Player ?? - NES / FC - Unknown

Gaiden 001: Live on Tape from Washi Con 2018!

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

This episode was made to "broadcast" at a panel during Washi Con 2018. The format is pretty close to typical episodes, but it is a whole lot longer than normal.

Another special thanks to all the folks at Washi Con for the invite! Enjoy!

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:


And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
Disney Block
1 - Mickey Mousecapade - The Woods - NES - Takeaki Kunimoto
2 - Little Mermaid - Prologue Theme - NES - Yasuaki Fujita
3 - Aladdin - The Desert - Genesis - Donald Griffin Tommy Tallarico
4 - Kingdom Hearts - Destiny Islands - PS2 - Yoko Shimomura
Saturday Morning Cartoon Block
5 - The Smurfs Nightmare - The Mysterious Planet - Game Boy - Alberto Jose Gonzalez
6 - Ducktales 2 - Bermuda - Game Boy - Yoshihiru Sakaguchi (arr.)
7 - Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers - Zone F - NES - Harumi Fujita
8 - Darkwing Duck - Wolfduck Stage - NES - Yasuaki Fujita
Anime Block
9 - Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiya Densetsu - Battling Gravity - SNES - Unknown
10 - Uchuu no Kishi: Tekkaman Blade - BGM 1 - Game Boy - Norihiko Togashi
11 - Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars - Les Vagas - Wii / Arcade - Yasumasa Kitagawa, Kota Suzuki, Akihiko Narita, Reo Uratani
12 - Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World - Dragon Ball Party - PS2 - Hironobu Kageyama
TMNT Block
13 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project - Scene 3 - NES - Yuichi Sakakura, Tomoya Tomita & Kozo Nakamura
14 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade) - Scene 02 Stage 02 - Arcade - Mutsuhiko Izumi, Miki Higashino & Kozo Nakamura
15 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time - Neon Night Riders - SNES - Mutsuhiko Izumi & Kozo Nakamura
16 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions - Training Room - DOS (Roland MT-32) - Mike Sokyrka, Chris Hatlelid, Brian Plank & Dan Scott

Quick Update! (tl;dr: New Ep. Saturday)

Quick update. Check the audio for deets.

Episode 041: Games of the Year

Welcome to The Diad Presents!

Happy New Year! I totally forgot to mention that on the show...

Also, I had some bad info while I was putting together the episode. What I thought was "Unused Track 3" is actually called "After the Battle" and appears in game. I'm guessing it's a staff roll or credits track.

The show can be downloaded here,

or streamed here:



I wanted to link to all the magazine scans I used, but I'm worried about legal repercussions of doing so. If you are so inclined, you can find them on your own!

And the track list below:

# - Game - Track - System - Composer
1 - Wonder Dog - Track 04 - Sega CD - Martin Iveson
2 - Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge - Title - ZX Spectrum - Jonathan Dunn
3 - Starglider - Title - ZX Spectrum - Dave Lowe
4 - Metroid Prime - Menu Select Theme - Gamecube - Kenji Yamamoto, Kouichi Kyuma
5 - Double Dragon - After the Battle - Arcade - Kazunaka Yamane
6 - Ghouls n’ Ghosts - Ending - Arcade - Tamayo Kawamoto
7 - Final Fantasy VIII - The Man with the Machine Gun - Playstation - Nobuo Uematsu
8 - Final Fantasy VII - J-E-N-O-V-A - Playstation - Nobuo Uematsu