Topic: If this game can be on the virtual console,

Why can't EarthBound?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1fwadTZxhc
Listen to level 1's music...

Umm, okay. What about the music? Doesn't sound especially familiar to me, nor has it since i first played it way back when. Am i missing something?

It sounds like Wipe Out by the Surfaris.

doesn't sound like Wipe Out to me... not the Wipe Out i remember, anyway, lol

The song in level 1 sounds similar to the song that plays when you fight New Age Retro Hippies...
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Yes I already know about that.

Umm, no. It doesn't.

And even if it did, the long-since gone, one hit wonders The Surfaris =/= The Beatles (the reason for Earthbound's trouble) in terms of litigiousness.

He is making an valid point here. The first level music is similar to an well-known song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5D07c0dJuQ

However, it's just the first level, so no wonder why they got off with an VC release of this game, and that it wasn't so good.

I'm sorry, no. It does not sound like Wipe Out, at least not beyond the basic 12-bar-blues structure, which is the foundation of virtually every modern rock song.

It's similar in that it's the same general style of music, but that's it. the dudes who did Wipe Out don't hold the copyright to all music done in the same style, lol... there's no violation here.

edit: what the shpydar said, lol

That's a VERY common blues chord progression, used in a lot of different songs. There were a lot of "surfer bands" who used that same walking bass line in many of their songs; it's not like the composer is ripping anything off, other than trying to emulate that style of music. The melody doesn't sound at all familiar to me.

EDIT: shypdar already said pretty much what I was trying to say, so...that.

NES:

1. Megaman 5
2. Megaman 6
3. B-Wings
4. Batman
5. Popeye
6. Legendary Wings
7. Jackal
8. Cabal
9. Contra Force
10. Chip n’ Dale Rescue Rangers
11. Battletoads
12. Paperboy
13. Base Wars
14. R.C. Pro Am
15. Final Fantasy
16. Final Fantasy II
17. Final Fantasy III
18. Bomberman
19. Track & Field 2
20. Yie Ar Kung-Fu
21. Kung Fu
22. Super Spike V’Ball
23. King of the Beach
24. Skate or Die
25. Caveman Games
26. M.U.S.C.L.E.
27. Joust
28. Monster Party
29. Adventure Island II
30. Adventure Island III
31. Circus Charlie
32. Arkanoid
33. Warpman
34. Earthbound Zero
35. Rollergames
36. T & C Surf Designs

SNES:

1. Megaman X
2. Megaman X2
3. Megaman X3
4. The Lost Vikings
5. The Lost Vikings 2
6. Capcom’s Soccer Shootout
7. Top Gear 2
8. Yoshi’s Island
9. Dino City
10. Joe & Mac
11. Chrono Trigger
12. Star Fox
13. Killer Instinct
14. Mortal Kombat
15. Mortal Kombat 2
16. Mortal Kombat 3
17. Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse
18. NBA Jam Tournament Edition

Simple. Earthbound is forbidden by intergalatic law to be on the Virtual console

For comparison's sake:
[youtube:T1fwadTZxhc]
[youtube:UofdWQG346k]

So.

um...

...yeah.

Having watched Chicken's videos I can confirm that the two songs are identical - amazing what they could do on the NES back in the day!

First twenty seconds: Wipe Out
Second twenty seconds: something else (from the fifties?)

Are you serious? Not even close. The renegade music on that one screen is just a simple cheesy blues progression....very generic really hate to even call it blues. There's a million songs like that, as well as a billion kids starting out on the guitar playing the same things in their bedrooms every day lol...the melody doesn't even sound the same.

agree with grenworthshero, spot on.

I think he was being sarcastic. Honestly, EB is not on the VC because no one gives a crap about that developer, but Nintendo is a big company with lots of money waiting to be taken from them

I don't really care about the game........like at all lol:) Wasn't trying to be snippy at all to Sean, I really hope you weren't serious lol..I wonder the same thing about the thread..... shpydar called it.

First 20 seconds: definitely not Wipe Out
Second 20 seconds: 20 more seconds of something that sounds absolutely nothing like Wipe Out
Third 20 seconds: OMG TOTALLY WIPE OUT

Honestly, I don't think ANY of the music in EarthBound sounds anything like the music siad to be infringed upon and that the whole Starmen report is bogus, for more than that reason. (Hello? FANSITE?! Not exactly reliable with inside info, y'know...)

There is no good excuse for EarthBound NOT to be out on Virtual Console right now, unless Nintendo is still gunshy from their first attempt at a North American release... Japan, on the other hand, is a bit perplexing, unless people just don't wanna bother with it anymore.