Shujin Academy VGM Club

It’s a day for deals with JRPG Two for Tuesday, where you’ll get TWO songs for the price of one from a bunch of JRPGs! Supplies are limited, so LISTEN NOW!  Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing over-the-top cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. Other links are on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content. I also occasionally voice esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. Generative AI is not knowingly used to make this podcast. While I think it has some valid uses, they’re far more limited than tech company marketing would have you believe, and the technology should not be used for writing, music making, or image generation.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:07 - Octopath Traveler II - Partitio, the Merchant (composer: Yasunori Nishiki) 03:33 - Talk Segment: Intro / Dungeon Explorer 05:21 - Dungeon Explorer (TG16) - Dungeon 7 (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 06:58 - Dungeon Explorer (TG16) - Dungeon 8 (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 08:55 - Talk Segment: Ruin Arm 09:45 - Ruin Arm (Super Famicom) - Arf Village (composer: unknown) 11:18 - Ruin Arm (Super Famicom) - Overworld (composer: unknown) 15:30 - Talk Segment: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment 16:17 - Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP) - Kasugayama High School (composer: Toshiko Tasaki; arrangers: Toshiki Konishi and Atsushi Kitajoh) 20:04 - Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP) - Mt. Katatsumuri (composer: Toshiko Tasaki; arrangers: Toshiki Konishi and Atsushi Kitajoh) 22:39 - Talk Segment: Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium 23:36 - Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium (Genesis) - Behind the Circuit (composer: Izuho Takeuchi) 25:20 - Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium (Genesis) - Organic Beat (composer: Izuho Takeuchi) 28:26 - Talk Segment - Golden Sun: The Lost Age 30:29 - Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA) - City Theme (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 33:09 - Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA) - Champa (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 34:50 - Talk Segment: Tales of Phantasia 35:29 - Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) - Lake on Ymir (composers: Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura) 38:55 - Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) - Forest of the Treant (composers: Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura) 42:35 - Talk Segment: Romancing SaGa 43:26 - Romancing SaGa (Super Famicom) - Shop Around the Town! (composer: Kenji Ito) 45:12 - Romancing SaGa (Super Famicom) - Theme of Aisha (composer: Kenji Ito) 47:10 - Talk Segment: Bravely Default 47:54 - Bravely Default (3DS) - The Fascinating Flower Country (composer: Revo) 51:35 - Bravely Default (3DS) - The Desert and the Huge Clock Country (composer: Revo) 55:14 - Outro Talk Segment 57:07 - Octopath Traveler II (multiplatform) - Victory Fanfare

After cheating death for the third time in a week, Rando just wants to hide out at the Seedy Eye, his favorite watering hole hidden on a little asteroid in the middle of nowhere. But when a mysterious beauty called the Silver Shadow walks through the door, Rando’s weakness for a lovely lady leads him into his most dangerous adventure yet! Will these 20 grab bag tracks be enough to save him? Listen and find out! Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  The authors of webcomic Penny Arcade, who coined the name Rando Calrissian a very long time ago and from whom I’ve shamelessly stolen it. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  The first music block featured a song from Defender 2000, a soundtrack I discovered through fellow VGM podcast barSILENCE. In addition to doing cover art for my show, Jameson also did an excellent deep dive into this soundtrack on his show, and you can listen to it at https://barsilence.com/episode/57d0fd9e/defender-2000. And if you liked the Einhander track I played in the second block, there’s also a barSILENCE deep dive into that soundtrack you can hear at https://barsilence.com/episode/9cfe2ef1/einhander-after-image. If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at [email protected]. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Interstate ‘76 (PC) - Interstate ‘76 Theme (composer: Arion Salazar; performed by Bullmark) 01:06 - Talk Segment 1 04:59 - Darius II (Arcade) - Olga Breeze (composer: Hisayoshi Ogura) 09:43 - Ninja Five-O (GBA) - Select Menu (composers: Aya Tanaka and Hiroyuki Tsuboguchi) 11:25 - Gundam Wing: Endless Duel (Super Famicom) - City (composers: Hiroyuki Iwatsuki and Haruo Ohashi) 13:53 - Defender 2000 (Jaguar) - Level 5 (It’s a Dream) (composer: Alistair Lindsay) 19:49 - Ehrgeiz (Arcade) - Those Who Fight (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arranger: Takayuki Nakamura) 21:18 - Talk Segment 2 24:21 - Hard Dunk (Arcade) - Round 6 (composer: Hideaki Miyamoto) 26:41 - Lord of Arcana (PSP) - Collection (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 30:05 - Nemo (Arcade) - Unused 2 (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 31:56 - Einhander (PSX) - Factory (composer: Kenichiro Fukui) 35:10 - Persona 5 (multiplatform) - What’s Going On (composer: Shoji Meguro) 37:13 - Grandia II (Dreamcast) - Commercial Town Liligue - Apparent Prosperity (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare) 39:58 - Talk Segment 3 43:53 - Zoda’s Revenge - StarTropics II (NES) - Ice Age World Map (composers: Takashi Kumegawa and Yoshio Hirai) 47:21 - SimCity (NES) - Megalopolis (composer: Soyo Oka) 49:42 - Legendary Wings (NES) - Palace (composers: Tamayo Kawamoto, Manami Matsumae, and Yoshihiro Sakaguchi) 51:09 - Xerd no Densetsu 2 (Game Boy) - Track 28 (composer: unknown)  55:22 - Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (PC Engine CD) - River City High School (composer: Kazuo Sawa) 58:41 - Zero4 Champ RR (Super Famicom) - Function (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi) 1:00:06 - Egg Monster Hero (DS) - Area 4 Map (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 1:02:10 - Outro Talk Segment 1:04:49 - Hot Rod (C64) - BGM 1 (composer: Jeroen Tel)

Since 1999, OverClocked ReMix (https://ocremix.org/) has been a part of the video game music community. It began as a showcase of game music from fans, and it’s grown into a library with years of history and game remixes. The community began releasing themed albums full of songs in 2003, and several of those albums have covered various Final Fantasy games. This is the second of two episodes featuring those albums, and this one focuses on the OCRemix albums for the PlayStation era Final Fantasy games. Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  All the various musicians, remixers, and arrangers on these OCRemix albums. Links to their websites are below.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at [email protected]. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. You can hear my latest appearance on CRT Soundsystem at  https://rss.com/podcasts/crtsoundsystem/2854437/, where I talk all about the soundtracks for the Street Fighter Alpha games with hosts Tom and Reese for a few hours.  If you liked these remixes, and want more awesome songs like these, here are links for the projects and artists featured on this episode. Some artists appear more than once; for those artists, only the first entry includes their links. All songs were originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu. OverClocked Remix (https://ocremix.org/) - All songs featured today are pulled from this website and this community. OCRemix is also home to dozens of other VGM arrangement albums and thousands of tracks.  Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/1/final-fantasy-vii-voices-of-the-lifestream The show opened with “Serenity”, from VGM arrangement legend Mustin. His website is https://mustinenterprises.com/, and he’s got so many links that each one gets a sub-point.  YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/c/MustinEnterprises SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/mustin Bandcamp : https://mustinenterprises.bandcamp.com/ Apple Music : https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mustin/372553927 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/1N06cI80aTy36Z6CWotkoR)      The first song in the first block is “No Such Thing As the Promised Land”, arranged by sephire and SGX.  sephire is the alias of Dan Floyd, who’s active on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/newframeplus and https://www.youtube.com/c/playframeplus.  SGX’s SoundCloud page can be found at https://soundcloud.com/sgxmusic, and there’s a YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sgxmusic/.   The second song in the block is “The Crossroads (Cid's Theme)”, arranged and performed by Jovette Rivera. His webpage can be found at https://www.royalkingdommusic.com/, and his YouTube is at https://www.youtube.com/@Jovette456.  The third song in the block is “Hydrophone Breakdown”, arranged by JigginJonT, who’s better known as Jon Titterington and who’s currently a member of Father John Misty’s band. You can find his SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/jtitterington and you can find his work on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/1WJ6BzhRIR4Bfd0rcfzaOK.   Final Fantasy VIII: SeeDs of Pandora credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/100/final-fantasy-viii-seeds-of-pandora  The first featured song was “Night Shift”, arranged by DJ Orange featuring Gamer of the Winds DJ Orange has chosen to keep the details of their identity a secret, with minimal internet presence, which is a decision that I can respect. Gamer of the Winds is a woodwind player; you can follow him on Bluesky at @gamerofthewinds.bsky.social and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@GameroftheWinds. He’s also done work on a few game soundtracks as a session musician; you can find the list at https://www.mobygames.com/person/1274921/gregory-orosz/  The second featured song was “Longing for the Horizon”, arranged by ZackParrish with contributions from Ian Martyn, KestrelGirl, and E. Jesús Chic Acevedo.  ZackParrish’s SoundCloud can be found at https://soundcloud.com/zack-parrish. He’s also got a YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/CBlockDis, and he’s done soundtrack work for several games, which you can find at https://www.mobygames.com/person/1055258/zackary-parrish/credits/    Ian Martyn’s full list of links can be found at https://linktr.ee/IanMartyn, including a Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/ian-martyn and a Bandcamp page at https://ianmartyn.bandcamp.com/, along with YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/MooglePower and a presence on Bluesky as @ianmartyn.bsky.social. He’s also co-head of operations for GameGrooves, which puts out a lot of game music remixes at https://gamegrooves.com/. KestrelGirl’s game music covers can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@OrKestrelGirl, on AppleMusic at https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kestrelgirl/1564548824, and on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/2lTvP4hsaNi7QATxymXGR5. E. Jesús Chic Acevedo can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/CairdeanFolk  The third featured song was “A Wounded Spy”, arranged by Vylent. Vylent’s work can be found on their SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/silent-ice and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@Vylent_.  This episode’s promo segment used “Proposition and Clamor”, arranged by APZX. You can find his work on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/apzx  Final Fantasy IX: Worlds Apart credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/66/final-fantasy-ix-worlds-apart  The block’s first song was “Moguo's Knife Party”, arranged by Ben Briggs. Ben Briggs and his music can be found on Bandcamp at https://benbriggs.bandcamp.com/ and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/bbriggsmusic, and you can follow him on Bluesky at @downbaddad.bsky.social. The block’s second song was “Vamo alla Django”, arranged by AndyP and Fishy, featuring Dan Bryant AndyP and Dan Bryant both don’t have much of a web presence outside of their work on OCRemix. Fishy can be found on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/cainmccormack and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/Fishy1618, and you can follow them on Bluesky at @fishy-vgm.bsky.social.   The block’s third song was “Bibliotheca ~ Dreamer in the Library”, arranged by katethegreat19 and Chaeley. katethegreat19 can be found on Bandcamp at https://erutan.bandcamp.com/ and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/katethegreat19. Chaeley is credited with lyrics for this track, and their web presence is minimal. Final Fantasy: Random Encounter credits: The full album can be downloaded at  https://ocremix.org/album/39/final-fantasy-random-encounter  This block starts with “The Beginning of a Legacy” from The Dual Dragons featuring Brandon Strader. The Dual Dragons are Norwegian brothers Dan and Frank Johansen, and you can find them on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/FrankDanJohansen, https://www.youtube.com/@danjohansenmusic, and https://www.youtube.com/@FrankTheDoomriderJohansen.   This block’s middle is “The Crumbling Facade”, arranged by Brandon Strader featuring halc.  Brandon Strader’s website can be found at https://bstrader.net/. You can also find his work on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/brandon-strader) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@bstrader). His work is also available to stream on Spotify.  halc’s work can be found on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/halc, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/halc9bit, and on Bandcamp at https://halc.bandcamp.com.  This block’s ending is “If I Could Sail the World”, arranged by TheoConfidor featuring Eric Golub. I cannot find a definitive web presence for either individual credited here. Audio Engineering: A Tribute to Cid credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/54/audio-engineering-a-tribute-to-cid  The show closes with “Al Bhed Ec Faent”, an arrangement of “Oui Are Al Bhed” from Final Fantasy X, arranged by Theory of N. He’s also known by the name Dustin Lagaly, and he’s got a SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/theoryofn I mentioned the Simpsons episode where they go to Branson Missouri and see dual marquees: “Andy Williams Presents Glen Campbell! Glen Campbell Presents Andy Williams!” You can experience that for yourself at https://youtu.be/vgFgaV_-KfA, and I can testify that Branson Missouri was really like that in the late 1990’s. There were a lot of celebrities who retired to Branson to get away from touring, and nowadays, the only one remaining is Yako

Since 1999, OverClocked ReMix (https://ocremix.org/) has been a part of the video game music community. It began as a showcase of game music from fans, and it’s grown into a library with years of history and game remixes. The community began releasing themed albums full of songs in 2003, and several of those albums have covered various Final Fantasy games. In this first of a two-episode series, we’ll be looking at the OCRemix albums covering NES and SNES Final Fantasy games. Special thanks for this episode goes out to: All the various musicians, remixers, and arrangers who worked on these OCRemix albums. Lots of links for them are below, alongside links to download each of today’s four featured albums Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at [email protected]. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. If you liked these remixes, and want more awesome songs like these, here are links for the projects and artists featured on this episode. Some artists appear more than once; for those artists, only the first entry includes their links. All songs were originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu. OverClocked Remix (https://ocremix.org/) - All songs featured today are pulled from this website and this community. OCRemix is also home to dozens of other VGM arrangement albums and thousands of tracks.  Final Fantasy II: Rebellion credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/64/final-fantasy-ii-rebellion The show’s opening track was “Preluematsude”, from Jeff Ball. You can find his website at https://jeffballmusic.com/ and his BandCamp page at https://jeffball.bandcamp.com/  The first song in this block was “Grind My Crank”, from XPRTNovice, also known as Joe Zieja. You can find his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@JoeZieja, where he talks about gaming and voice acting, and you can find his website at https://joezieja.com/.  The second song in this block was “Rebellion”, from Brandon Strader, Chernabogue, and Detective Tuesday.  Brandon Strader’s website can be found at https://bstrader.net/. You can also find his work on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/brandon-strader) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@bstrader). His work is also available to stream on Spotify.  Chernabogue / Alex Mourey can be found on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/chernabogue), on Bandcamp (https://chernabogue.bandcamp.com/), and on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/Chernabogue) Detective Tuesday / Anton Corazza can be found on his website at https://antoncorazza.com/. You can also find his work on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/antoncorazza), on Bandcamp (https://antoncorazza.bandcamp.com/), and on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/antoncorazza) Today’s show finishes with “Finally”, arranged by a mysterious individual known only as “Hat”. This person has no links on the OCRemix website and is nigh impossible to search for, so godspeed unto them. They had their reasons for anonymity, and I shall respect it.  Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/14/final-fantasy-iv-echoes-of-betrayal-light-of-redemption The first song in this block was “Fighting for Tomorrow”, from OA and Nutritious.  OA is also known as OceansAndrew, or by his birth name of Andrew Luers. You can find his SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/user-120330359, and his YouTube is at https://www.youtube.com/failinghope.  Nutritious is the nom de remix of Justin Medford, and you can find his SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/nutritiousmusic. He’s also got a YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/NutritiousMultimedia  The second song in this block was “Golbez 'N Goblins” from bLiNd, also known as Jordan Aguirre. Find his YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@brailleaudio/videos and follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/blindedm  The third song in the block was “Metal Mage”, from Cyril the Wolf, Lil' Wolfie, and OA.  Cyril the Wolf is the alias of Connor Pelkey, and his SoundCloud page is at https://soundcloud.com/cyrilthewolf. His Bandcamp page is at https://cyrilthewolf.bandcamp.com/ and you can find his YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/CyrilRufus  Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors credits: Part 1 of this project can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/20/final-fantasy-v-the-fabled-warriors-i-wind.  Part 2 of this project can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/73/final-fantasy-v-the-fabled-warriors-ii-water The first song in the block was “In the Shadows ~Theme of Thief~”, from Mattias Häggström Gerdt, and it’s found on the “WIND” album.  Mattias Häggström Gerdt’s SoundCloud page can be found at https://soundcloud.com/anosou, and he’s also got a YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/anosoumusictube. He’s also done soundtrack work for multiple indie games; his MobyGames at https://www.mobygames.com/person/387430/mattias-haggstrom-gerdt/ lists all of them.   The second song in the block was “La Princesa de Taikun ~Theme of Lenna~”, from Sixto Sounds, and it’s on the “WATER” album. Sixto Sounds is also known as Juan Medrano, and you can find his SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/sixtosounds and his YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/ocrsixtosounds  The third song in the block was “A Silver Light Shines ~Theme of Mystic Knight~”, from DarkeSword, and it’s also on the “WATER” album. DarkeSword is also known as Shariq Ansari, and you can find him on BlueSky at https://bsky.app/profile/darkesword.com. He’s also on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/darkesword.  Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/46/final-fantasy-vi-balance-and-ruin  The first song featured from this album is “There Will Be Blood”, arranged by Anti-Syne, who is also known as Jack Lewis. You can find his SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/jack-lewis.  The second featured song is “Blackjack's Breakup Bossa”, arranged by Calum Bowen with vocals from Xarnax42. Calum Bowen’s SoundCloud page can be found at https://soundcloud.com/calumbowen. He’s composed several game soundtracks, and you can also follow him on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/calumbowen and https://www.youtube.com/@boenyeah  Xarnax42 is also known as Jesse Deacon, and his SoundCloud is at https://soundcloud.com/xarnax42. His YouTube is at https://www.youtube.com/Xarnax42   The third featured song is “La Montana de los Caballos Jovenes”, arranged by XPRTNovice, whose details can be found above.  The fourth featured song is “A Glimmer of Hope”, arranged by Joshua Morse with help from Jeff Ball and Laura Intravia.  Joshua Morse’s website is https://jmflava.com/. He’s also got a Bandcamp page at https://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com/ and a SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/joshuamorse.  Jeff Ball’s details can be found above. Laura Intravia’s website is https://www.lauraintravia.com/. Her list of game credits can be found at https://www.mobygames.com/person/572991/laura-intravia/, and she’s got a YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/flutelink.  Finally, on the subject of arranged game music, you can listen to fellow game music podcast RE-VGM for an entire show devoted exclusively to game music remixes. RE-VGM’s website is at https://re-vgm.blubrry.net/ and you can find the show on most major podcast platforms. Tell Martyrus that Professor Tom sent you. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Final Fantasy II: Rebellion - Preluematsude (Prelude) [arranger: Jeff Ball] 04:10 - Talk Segment 1 09:13 - Final Fantasy II: Rebellion - Grind My Crank (Tower of the Magi) [arranger: XPRTNovice] 13:14 - Final Fantasy II: Rebellion - Rebellion (Dead Music, The Rebel Army) [arrangers: Brandon Strader, Chernabogue, Detective Tuesday] 17:44 - Talk Segment 2 19:52 - Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption - Fighting for Tomorrow (Fabul) [arrangers: OA, Nutritious, The Fabul Men's Choir] 25:19 - Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption - Golbez 'N Goblins (Golbez, Clad in Darkness) [arranger: bLiNd] 30:01 - Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption - Metal Mage (Palom and Porom) [arrangers: Cyril the Wolf, Lil' Wolfie, OA] 32:15 - Talk Segment 3 36:32 - Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors ~I. WIND~ - In the Shadows ~Theme of Thief~ [arranger: Mattias Häggström Gerdt] 39:46 - Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors ~II. WATER~ - La Princes

There are sunglasses. They are cool sunglasses. So cool that you’ll need them while you vibe through these seventeen cool songs. If you liked this episode, there are a few other recent VGM podcast episodes you may want to check out.  Fellow VGM podcast Pixel Beat just did an episode featuring songs with a cool vibe, and you can hear it at https://pixelbeatpod.buzzsprout.com/1797351/episodes/18961132-177-more-vibin If you liked the track from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All, there’s a recent CRT Soundsystem episode where they did a deep dive into the Phoenix Wright DS trilogy, and you can hear it at https://rss.com/podcasts/crtsoundsystem/2630834/ or on the CRT Soundsystem Patreon.  Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  All of you awesome listeners who’ve helped the show get to 10000 downloads If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at [email protected]. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight (PS4) - Colorful Lights (composer: Ryota Kozuka) 02:00 - Talk Segment 1 04:54 - Final Fantasy XIII (multiplatform) - Can’t Catch a Break (composer: Masashi Hamauzu) 10:09 - Racing Lagoon (PSX) - C1-WARRIORS (composers: Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi) 11:55 - Bomberman Hero (N64) - redial (composer: Jun Chikuma) 13:43 - Lam-Mal (X68000) - Town A (composers: Hideaki Takashita and Ryu Takami) 17:38 - Viewpoint (Neo Geo) - BE YOUR AGE! (AREA 3) (composer: Megumi Matsuura) 20:03 - Talk Segment 2 22:51 - R4 / Ridge Racer Type 4 - LUCID RHYTHMS (composer: Tetsukazu Nakanishi) 26:15 - Mega Man 8 (Saturn) - Aqua Man Stage (aka Underwater Stage) (composer: Shusaku Uchiyama) 28:10 - Tekken 3 (Arcade) - King (composer: Nobuyoshi Sano) 30:38 - Alpine Racer (Arcade) - Extreme Slope (composer: Takayuki Ishikawa) 34:25 - Ultra Street Fighter IV (multiplatform) - Theme of Ibuki - Twilight (SSFIV Arrange) (composers: Hideki Okugawa; arranger: Hideyuki Fukasawa) 38:13 - Talk Segment 3 43:12 - Persona 5 Royal (multiplatform) - Phantom (composer: Shoji Meguro) 45:25 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All (DS?) - Shelly de Killer ~ The Whim of a Murderous Gentleman (composer: Akemi Kimura) 46:54 - Shin Megami Tensei - Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army (PS2) - The Lazy Detective Agency (composer: Shoji Meguro) 50:07 - The Outfoxies (Arcade) - City of Bule (composer: Masahiro Fukuzawa) 55:06 - Miami Chase (Amiga) - New York (composer: Jimmy Fredriksson) 58:36 - Outro Talk Segment 1:01:10 - Golf Magazine Presents 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples (32X) - Music Test 01 (composers: Ron Saltmarsh and Andy Warr)