PSX Adventure of Little Ralph - PSG [retro style] Selected Loud Remix OST ちっぽけラルフの大冒険 BGM
20At one point in time classic 2D style games were quite rare on the original PlayStation. One reason is obvious - Sony built a focus on 3D hardware and wanted to push those types of games. Adventure of Little Ralph was an exception to the rule and fully old school 2D action platforming game. Now it is a bit of a collector's item and increasing in price as people realize how unique it was.
It is actually a pretty orthodox platforming game but very fun: stages don't overstay their welcome, there is a deep scoring system built in and it is sort of speed runner friendly with lots of tricks to navigate the stages. The stages feel challenging but not unfair. It is a great game overall.
The game was originally going to be released on X68000, probably was stuck in development long enough that they lost the window to release there. There are two whole separate soundtracks inside the game you can select from in the options menu. You can feel the love they put into it because they included a special PSG mode that sounds closer to retro game music (PSG = Programmable Sound Generator, basically like coding instead of redbook CD audio). Also the item you collect in the game that is a "Computer" is obviously a Sharp X68000 and you also receive 68000 points for collecting it. The rights to Little Ralph are now owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collavier_Corporation who acquired the IP of the developer's new company (Ertain). See http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/New for the complicated history of the developer. One can only hope that a modern port comes out for this game.
Composers:
Hiroshi Kuronuma 黒沼弘
Hideki Satou 佐藤英樹
Naoki Tsuchiya 土屋直樹
Naoki Tsuchiya not only did the sound and created the sound effects, but also provided the voice for the main character, Ralph, and other characters were all done by members of the production staff as well. Naoki did a Q and A with pixelatedaudio where he confirms the PSG version was created in his words "because I felt PSG was a real representation of game music in the 80s and I wanted to respect that history".
The official publisher for the soundtrack in Japan is Project Egg https://www.amusement-center.com/project/emusic/cgi/eggmusic_catalog-detail.cgi?product_id=8872 who have done a great job making music and old games available in convenient and well tested formats (you could think of them like the GOG of Japan). Now I really want to find a copy of this game too!!
Selected / re-ordered songs:
0:00 Opening - Nightmare Begins
1:45 Stage 1-1 - Departure
4:30 Stage 1-2 - Casua Watersupply
6:50 Stage 2-1 - Casua Aqueduct
9:10 Stage 2-2 - Casua Trap-Cellar
11:40 Stage 3-1 - Into the Darkness
14:00 Stage 3-2 - Resonance of Pyramid
15:42 Stage 4-1 - Lost Continent Donan
19:02 Stage 4-2a - Ruins of Donan
21:32 Stage 4-2b - Truck of Fire
24:25 Stage 4-2c - Flying Truck
26:15 Stage 5-1 - Holy Battle
28:43 Stage 5-2a - Revenge of Wiki
29:53 Stage 5-2b - Iceboard
31:53 Stage 5-2c - In the Citadel of Ice
35:08 Stage 5-2d - Ice Skeleton
37:20 Stage 6-1a - Great Battleship Queen Desta
40:05 Stage 6-1b - Escape from the Battleship
40:30 Stage 7 - Daybreak in the Sky
42:45 Stage 8-1a - Rush into Broaver Castle
45:05 Stage 8-1b - Ghost Den
45:23 Stage 8-2 - Zombie's Bridge
45:50 Stage 8-3a - Broaver Castle
48:17 Stage 8-3b - 13th Corridor
50:22 Stage 8-3c - Death Knight
52:01 High and Alone
55:06 Mt Etona
57:21 Versus Mode Lets Begin the Battle
59:06 Boss Anxiety
59:43 Boss 1 - Killer Tool Obal
1:00:52 Boss 2 - Little Bat Wiki
1:01:40 Boss 3 - Sphio the Great
1:02:40 Boss 4 - Travant the Big Lizard
1:03:36 Boss 5 - Valgo the Artistic Murderer
1:04:31 Boss 5 - Valgo Easy Mode
1:06:29 Boss 6 - Jugler the Bone Dragon
1:07:42 Boss 7 - Ferica the Sad Goddess
1:08:49 Boss 8 - Magic Destarroza
1:10:42 Boss 8 - Destarozza True Form
1:12:05 Ending - Little Hero's Story
1:13:59 Ending - End of Nightmare
1:15:22 Ultimate Gamer Name Entry
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