Thriller (VRC6 Cover)
Posted by virt on August 19th, 2004 filed in Chiptunes, Other ArrangementsBest pop song of all time, hands down. I figured it had to be the one song I’d allow myself to use vrc6 sounds to cover, since doing it with the normal 2A03 channels would have been much more simplistic and arpeggiated. If all that is greek to you: This is a cover of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, NES style, with a few extra harmony voices courtesy of a special add-in chip used in such games as Castlevania 3 (japanese version only). It sounds thicker than a normal nintendo chiptune, if only by a little.
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August 28th, 2004 at 10:47 am
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August 19th, 2004 at 2:23 am
i hope that you have seen the video. it will probably be the basis of my nightmares tonight. :’(
August 19th, 2004 at 5:30 pm
what do you mean you havent hearned nsf yet?!?!?!
also, you should have done an extended “video mix” as well, but i suppose this is ok.
August 19th, 2004 at 9:44 pm
You think Zelda would be a good game to remake the video using the cover?
August 19th, 2004 at 10:13 pm
-It’s like listening to an extended Prost8’s theme! Rock!
August 20th, 2004 at 6:51 am
Virt, this is huge stuff! Wish I could do the same on the PC Engine ;_;
August 20th, 2004 at 8:35 am
Superb job! Even goes right along with the singing exceptionally well!
August 20th, 2004 at 9:44 am
mmmmm… videogame music
August 20th, 2004 at 9:45 am
mmmmm… videogame music
August 20th, 2004 at 4:34 pm
amazing. perfect in fact
August 20th, 2004 at 7:21 pm
Bravo! Maestro, virt. Excellent work.
August 21st, 2004 at 2:26 am
got game music?
Jake Kaufman is amazing with a 6-bit sound chip, the Konami VRCVI chip to be precise. The chip contained sounds that were used in Konami games for the Famicom such as Castlevania and Madara. Jake has used the same sounds…
August 21st, 2004 at 3:10 pm
6-bit what?!
August 23rd, 2004 at 8:11 pm
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August 29th, 2004 at 3:54 am
So when is your new stuff coming on Nectarine? ;P
August 29th, 2004 at 7:24 pm
uhh i don’t know. you tell me! all of my stuff that’s there was submitted without my permission by somebody else. i don’t really care, but i never would have put up half the stuff that’s there, and a lot of information/conjecture is incorrect (like what’s tracked/sequenced, and one guy accuses me of “ripping” various things that are clearly marked as covers on my site.)
i’m happiest when my music is taken in all at once here, instead of bits and pieces of joke tunes at a euro-scener site. it’s irritating when people judge things out of context.
September 5th, 2004 at 7:29 pm
Tight NES cover song! I’m very impressed!
September 8th, 2004 at 2:37 am
This is terrifyingly good.
September 15th, 2004 at 9:57 pm
Extremely well done, as always! I’d have to make a case for “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel as the best pop song of all time, though. ;-)
September 29th, 2004 at 6:09 am
Oi, how bout u do cover o’… errm, lezze see. Megaman 2 – Airman (xm-style or sumthin) OR Golden Axe½! Yeah, no one’s done a great Golden axe remix!
September 30th, 2004 at 12:21 pm
this is the product of talent gone haywire.
October 2nd, 2004 at 8:03 pm
Wow, this is simply awesome. Now all someone needs to do is make the entire Thriller video in flash with little NES sprites dancing around to this music. How awesome would that be? :)
October 3rd, 2004 at 9:01 am
Great! I admire your skills! You must Be a MASTER! And I don’t really speaked Engrihs! A great song, just like always. ;)
October 18th, 2004 at 8:20 pm
virt you got it wrong again. Billie Jean is obviously the best pop song ever
December 20th, 2004 at 8:10 pm
Wow. That’s really impressive… your previous pop-to-chip conversions were really amusing, but certainly not what I’d call *good* music. They were jokes, really. But this one, if I didn’t know the original, I wouldn’t have any trouble believing this came from a game. And yet, knowing the original, it also sounds pretty much like the same song. That’s an impressive feat, and I hope to see more like it in the future!
January 28th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
My brother burned this to a CD and plays it frequently in the café where he works. People generally love it in a ‘what the fuck?’ kind of way.
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October 25th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Have a cover of thriller I did on a motif 6
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September 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
how i can download it?? i press free download mp3 and it send me to a internet page with a quik time aplication, but i can download it to my computer
May 1st, 2009 at 2:21 am
This has to be the best Thriller cover… and also the best chiptune cover I’ve ever heard.
It’s so amazingly accurate from the music being pretty much note for note perfect, envelopes, use of timbre, melody is spot on up to the Michael Jackson gasps and vocal effects, the howling of the wolves and the delay, the door slam, it’s all there. Just wow.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Excellent work! I lol’d at the ending, so great! A fitting tribute to the song, AND the time period!
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