♫MIGHTY WINGS (Cheap Trick) SNES Arrangement - NintendoComplete
724This is a cover/remix that I put together of Cheap Trick's 1986 song "Mighty Wings" from the Top Gun soundtrack. The audio has been recorded directly off of a US launch model SNES console.
Since Ken's music from Street Fighter II is so clearly "inspired" by the classic 80s rock song, I thought it would be fun to "remix" the song back into what it was based on. I've been itching to do something from the Top Gun soundtrack. If you like 80s rock, that CD is pretty much heaven. It's awesome.
I wrote the song in OpenMPT, looped and filtered the samples, and then ran it all through SNESCONV, which gave me a nicely packaged .SPC (SNES music format) file. I then put the file on an SD card, plugged it into my SD2SNES flash cart, and recorded the playback.
Most of the samples were taken directly from Street Fighter II, but not all of them. Still, to keep in spirit with the idea, the few that weren't taken from SF2 were pulled from other Capcom SNES games.
The video is just a heavily edited set of clips from U.N. Squadron, with the ketchup covered Ken portrait pulled from Super Street Fighter II Turbo. I have to say, I was super-stoked when I figured out that I could make him rock back and forth in time with the song (and with pain) like he was dancing.
I was pretty happy with how it came out, to be sure, and I hope you like it! By all means, please let me know what you think. Any thoughts or constructive criticism are totally welcome.
Thanks for watching!
-If you're interested, I've done a couple of other "remixes" for consoles somewhat recently:
Toto's Africa (NES Remix):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ3Jij5rRI8
Top Gun: The Second Mission (SNES Remix):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb8z0IExWFA
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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