Best 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.
i hope that you have seen the video. it will probably be the basis of my nightmares tonight. :’(
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.
You think Zelda would be a good game to remake the video using the cover?
-It’s like listening to an extended Prost8′s theme! Rock!
Virt, this is huge stuff! Wish I could do the same on the PC Engine ;_;
Superb job! Even goes right along with the singing exceptionally well!
amazing. perfect in fact
Bravo! Maestro, virt. Excellent work.
6-bit what?!
i love swedish dicks
So when is your new stuff coming on Nectarine? ;P
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.
Tight NES cover song! I’m very impressed!
This is terrifyingly good.
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. ;-)
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!
this is the product of talent gone haywire.
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? :)
Great! I admire your skills! You must Be a MASTER! And I don’t really speaked Engrihs! A great song, just like always. ;)
virt you got it wrong again. Billie Jean is obviously the best pop song ever
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!
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.
Have a cover of thriller I did on a motif 6
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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
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.
Excellent work! I lol’d at the ending, so great! A fitting tribute to the song, AND the time period!
Jake, do you have an NSF version of this? Amazing stuff.
Thriller Videos are always great, i love those dancing zombies “
have you seen those Thriller Video with the prison inmates, geez those are very nice ..`
Intriguing tactic. I’m suprised I could not notice this on this large news sites to start with. Nicely played!
THANK FOR YOUR POST MAN
You’re very vivid person!
My favorite pop artist and my favorite vgmusic composer! I love this, so much that I might post a hip-hop dance video to this (with your permission.) I used to post on the vgmusic forums but you probably won’t remember me, I was just getting into writing music when I posted.
Great work, I especially liked the side by side comparison. :)
Wow, I enjoyed your neat post.
Great job, virt.
FT or pMMCK?
nice posts and nice site Great post man! Keep it up!