Shoot'em Up Music Arrangements

[VanillaLucia]

Greetings,

I have a very heavy impression that I'm placing this in the wrong area, but I have a fondness of shoot'em ups enough that I've been basing most of my studies and interests in the hopes of making more (in that I'm a programmer, artist, and a music composer of sorts just to try and jumble things all together).

As a child, I've grown up with games like Raiden II, and later found my way to Super R-Type and later R-Type III. It was not until recently when I've been able to play the rest of the R-Type games (excluding the Command/Tactics games) and even found my way back towards playing Raiden, Raiden III, and Raiden IV, and finally the original version of Raiden II (arcade) and DX. At the moment, I've not delved too much into some original music (but I have it for those interested, but those are contracted pieces), but most of the music I made for shoot'em ups have come off of R-Type Final's and Raiden II's music as major inspirations.

This is some work that I've done in the past while experimenting and learning to arrange and create music:
[131212A] R-Type Final - AI Competition (Select)
[140320A] R-Type Tactics II - Enemy Turn
[150307A] R-Type Leo - Stage 1 (Paradise Planet)

Given that this is September of 2015 and that one of my favorite shoot'em ups of all time has its 25th Anniversary, I took the time in preparing and trying to finish an arrangement project.
For now, I've created a playlist for the entire project but otherwise I have yet to upload the rest of the works that I have done so far for this project.

Personal Page for the Raiden 25th Anniversary Arrangement Project (for those who wish to download this series of arrangements in an MP3 format)
Raiden 25th Anniversary Arrangement Project Playlist

The Raiden Project - Menu Theme
Raiden - Round 1/4 - Gallantry
Raiden - Boss - Go to Blazes! GS
Raiden - Round Clear - Intermission
Raiden - Round 2/6 - Lightning War
Raiden - Round 3/7 - Rough and Tumble
Raiden - Round 5/8 - Fighting Thunder
Raiden - Continue
Raiden - Name Register

Raiden II - Level 1 - Repeated Tragedy
Raiden II - Boss - Metal Storm
Raiden II - Mission Accomplished
Raiden II - Level 2/8 - Tragedy Flame
Raiden II - Level 3 - All or Nothing
Raiden II - Level 4 - Burnt Field
Raiden II - Level 5 - Depression
Raiden II - Level 6 - Decisive Battle
Raiden II - Level 7 - Flap Toward the Hope
Raiden II - All Clear
Raiden II - Name Entry

Raiden DX - Level 1 - Intro ~ Gallantry
Raiden DX - Extra - Lightning War
Raiden DX - Level 3 - Rough and Tumble
Raiden DX - Level 5 - Fighting Thunder
Raiden DX - Continue
Raiden DX - Result Screen

Raiden III - Level 1 - Lightning Strikes
Raiden III - Mission Accomplishment
Raiden III - Level 3 - Dawn of Sorrow
Raiden III - Game Over for Raiden

Raiden IV - Level 1 - A Stormy Front
Raiden IV - Level 2 - Can't Retrace
Raiden IV - Level 6 - Depression
Raiden IV - Level 7 EX - Repeated Tragedy
Raiden IV - Ending - Brightness of Peace

- VanillaLucia

[Captain]

I liked the one from R-type the most

[KAI]

Impressive work. I've always loved this kind of Techno/trance tunes. Hope you can do more shmup arrangements in the future.

[Aleksei]

I'm enjoying the R-Type Leo arrangement, keep up the good work.

[VanillaLucia]

I am not certain of whether or not I'm breaking the rules, but I've updated the first post with a large project of mine that's still going at the moment.
For those not reading the first message, I'll also have the additions appended:

Given that this is September of 2015 and that one of my favorite shoot'em ups of all time has its 25th Anniversary, I took the time in preparing and trying to finish an arrangement project.
For now, I've created a playlist for the entire project but otherwise I have yet to upload the rest of the works that I have done so far for this project.

Raiden 25th Anniversary Arrangement Project Playlist

The Raiden Project - Menu Theme
Raiden - Round 1/4 - Gallantry
Raiden II - Level 1 - Repeated Tragedy

[Furry Fox Jet Pilot]

I am not certain of wheter or not I'm breaking the rules, but I've updated the first post with a large project of mine that's still going at the moment.
For those not reading the first message, I'll also have the additions appended:

Given that this is September of 2015 and that one of my favorite shoot'em ups of all time has its 25th Anniversary, I took the time in preparing and trying to finish an arrangement project.
For now, I've created a playlist for the entire project but otherwise I have yet to upload the rest of the works that I have done so far for this project.

Raiden 25th Anniversary Arrangement Project Playlist

The Raiden Project - Menu Theme
Raiden - Round 1/4 - Gallantry
Raiden II - Level 1 - Repeated Tragedy

Your Raiden arrangements made my day! While we're waiting for more news of Raiden V, I'm so glad I got to enjoy these amazing arrangements! I especially loved Gallantry, you did a way better job arranging that than Daisuke Nagata did on the Raiden IV bonus tracks. That version doesn't do it justice, but yours does! I'm looking forward to anything else you might be arranging as well!

[Heavy Viper]

Just listened to the Raiden 25th tracks you've done - marvelous work! You've really nailed the '90s "Redbook audio" sound with Menu Theme and Repeated Tragedy. Gallantry really lends itself well to the techno treatment, too.

Looking forward to hearing/seeing more from you!

[amdiggywhut]

Cool stuff. My cat and I are having a mini rave to Gallantry over here.

[VanillaLucia]

I have gone through and added six more pieces for the day for the Raiden 25th Anniversary Project, which have also been added to the first post.

Raiden - Boss - Go to Blazes! GS
Raiden - Round Clear - Intermission
Raiden - Round 2/6 - Lightning War

Raiden II - Boss - Metal Storm
Raiden II - Mission Accomplished
Raiden II - Level 2/8 - Tragedy Flame

Raiden DX - Level 1 - Intro ~ Gallantry

[Captain]

Raiden II - Boss - Metal Storm

Marry me.

[trap15]

These are great, good work.

[rjosal]

That's some awesome work there, thanks for sharing! I gotta say Gallantry is and has always been my favorite Raiden song.

[VanillaLucia]

For today, I have uploaded three more pieces from the three games already started:

- 150914 Added -
Raiden - Round 3/7 - Rough and Tumble
Raiden II - Level 3 - All or Nothing
Raiden DX - Extra - Lightning War

- 150915 Added -
Raiden - Round 5/8 - Fighting Thunder
Raiden II - Level 4 - Burnt Field
Raiden DX - Level 3 - Rough and Tumble

- 150916 Added -
Raiden - Continue
Raiden II - Level 5 - Depression
Raiden DX - Level 5 - Fighting Thunder
Raiden III - Level 1 - Lightning Strikes

- 150917 Added -
Raiden - Name Register
Raiden II - Level 6 - Decisive Battle
Raiden DX - Continue
Raiden III - Mission Accomplishment
Raiden III - Level 3 - Dawn of Sorrow
Raiden IV - Level 1 - A Stormy Front

- 150918 Added -
Raiden II - Level 7 - Flap Toward the Hope
Raiden DX - Result Screen
Raiden III - Game Over for Raiden
Raiden IV - Level 2 - Can't Retrace

- 150919 Added -
Raiden II - All Clear
Raiden IV - Level 6 - Depression

- 150920 Added -
Raiden II - Name Entry
Raiden IV - Level 7 EX - Repeated Tragedy

- 150921 Added -
Raiden IV - Ending - Brightness of Peace

I guess it's somewhat safe to say that I've had too much time to plan this out.