Rolling Thunder ローリングサンダ Famicom Namco 163 Expansion Audio Orig. Hardware Partial Soundtrack

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Published on December 8, 2019 6:48:25 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9RcUH96MS4

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Rolling Thunder (1986)

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Namco released Rolling Thunder in Japan on March 17, 1989. This version uses the Namco 163 expansion audio chip for its music. When Tengen later released the game in North America, the expansion audio was no longer present but the game is otherwise the same. This game sounds ideal on a pre-GPM Famicom PCB because the GPMs were just being introduced when this game was in development, so it cannot have used those boards to test the volume level between the internal and external audio.

Rolling Thunder does not have a sound test, so I have tried to record music with as few sound effects as possible. There is not a lot of musical variety in Rolling Thunder, it only has about seven pieces of music. I used the password to get to stage 1-3. Of all the Namco 163 games, it is by far the most accessible to western audiences.

Rolling Thunder consists of 10 unique stages, and the same music plays in stages 1-1, 1-2, 1-5, 2-1, 2-2 & 2-5 while another musical piece plays in 1-3, 1-4, 2-3 & 2-4. One or two sound effects might use expansion audio, but most do not. There is a Boss Battle theme and an ending theme which is not captured here, but you have to get to the end of 2-5 to experience them. Maybe if I do a part 2 I'll show those.

I am using my original HVC-CPU-07 Famicom and Rolling Thunder cartridge to record this video.

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