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Mega Man 4 (1991)

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That's a 9th MegaMan Music Marathon in the books as we have arrived at the final song for the 2020 MegaMan Music Marathon, the track I usually reserve to close out a particular year's marathon. This year, the game that gets the honor is RockMan 4 Complete Works, and with a 15 Minutes of Video Game Music+ clip nearly hitting 16 minutes as the song itself has ending notes that aren't usually heard in-game, but are audible in the unlockable sound test.
After the complete insanity that was the 2019 MegaMan Music Marathon (essentially 7 MegaMan Music Marathons in one with the need to revise all uploads from the 2012-2017 MegaMan Music Marathons plus the new tracks for 2019), the 2020 MegaMan Music Marathon was more of a return to normal with a few reuploads sprinkled in to replace some tracks in the 2018 MegaMan Music Marathon that weren't sourced from a hardware recording, make a few corrections to previously-featured tracks that had technical errors which went unnoticed and tie up the remaining loose ends from 2019's barrage of reuploads. The tally this year is 42 songs with requests being fairly quiet and, as usual, dominated by Pikangs_Futaba leaving a big list. But hey, there's no limit to what MegaMan tracks you can request or who can request it, so long as I can provide a recording from the hardware the game was made for, that's what matters. I can't stress this enough: it's important to me to be able to provide the exact sound of a particular song as it comes out of the hardware as this is what you and I as players would experience playing the games on the consoles, computers and arcade PCBs these games were made for. Using anything else leaves the door open to way too many potential inaccuracies or little bits that color the sound which go missing such as low-pass filters as in the case of a MegaDrive or a set of registers altering how a song sounds due to its volume getting blasted as in the case of the PlayStation and the RockMan Complete Works series.
With that little ramble out of the way, enjoy one final MegaMan track for 2020 with Ending from RockMan 4 Complete Works for just under 16 minutes.

Recorded off my PlayStation (SCPH-5501).

It's been a fun ride this year as has been the case every year since June 18, 2012, and next year is going to be quite the milestone for the MegaMan Music Marathon as it will be the 10th edition between June 18 and July 18, 2021. It's going to be more difficult to pick out good songs to feature with there being, as of this video, 479 MegaMan songs on the channel, but as always, I will bring in my picks for MegaMan music I enjoy and let you, the viewer, have a say in what gets uploaded. Here's hoping the 2021 MegaMan Music Marathon manages to match or exceed the success of the inaugural one in 2012 with a total of 84 tracks featured. Get your requests ready for the 2021 MegaMan Music Marathon and I'll see you then! Until that day, stay safe and take care of yourselves amid the craziness going on out there.

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