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May 19th, 2009 | Audio Stuff, MOTHER 1, Videos
I came across this a few weeks ago. I don’t know the full details, but a long while back there was a “Famicom Band” that played music from the classic Famicom/NES games. I came across a video of them playing a big medley of stuff, including some stuff from MOTHER / EarthBound Zero. Here’s that specific part (with a tiny bit of Zelda at the beginning):
If you want to see the whole thing, here’s part 1 and here’s part 2.
If you want an MP3 of the EB0 music, here you go!
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17 Comments to EarthBound Zero Orchestrated
 | Shaon said on May. 19, 2009 |
Is one of the clarinets in a dog costume? WTF?
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| 22hunter said on May. 19, 2009 |
No mp3? This is beautiful
 | Mato said on May. 19, 2009 |
OK, I added an MP3 of it.
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| Miles Vialpando (PK ELECTION) said on May. 19, 2009 |
This is lovely. Thanks.
 | LucasTizma said on May. 19, 2009 |
I love this! 
Any knowledge of a CD or DVD (or higher quality video) available from this group?
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| LucasTizma said on May. 19, 2009 |
I did find their videos on Nico Nico Douga if anyone’s interested (and has an account): http://www.nicovideo.jp/tag/ファミコンバンド
P.S. Mato, why is “n” used for “m” in katakana as well? O.o I thought Famicom would be ファミコム or something like that.
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| Rockin'Ness said on May. 19, 2009 |
@Shaon: There’s a piano player wearing a cat costume too! Also, this is beautiful music! It’s awesome!
 | santiagoff said on May. 19, 2009 |
@LucasTizma: the term famicon comes from family computer. Family is famirii , and computer is konpyuuta. Famikon , family computer.
And I know you didn’t ask me , but still.
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| LucasTizma said on May. 19, 2009 |
@santiagoff: No, that’s fine! 
Thanks for the response. Now that I think about it, it DOES make sense because I did know that computer = コンピュータ. I guess it just seemed like ファミコム would sound better, but I’m a n00b at Japanese still. XD
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| santiagoff said on May. 19, 2009 |
@LucasTizma: I’m not exactly a pro , thanks. And yeah , famicomu would make more sense. Another word that uses this kind of portmanteu is パソコン , Pasocon. It uses personal (パーソナル-paasonaru) and computer (コンピュータ-konpyuuta).Pasocon. It just sounds so strange XD
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| santiagoff said on May. 19, 2009 |
BTW , the guy dressed as a Dog is the dog from Duck Hunt XD
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| kenisu3000 said on May. 19, 2009 |
Aww, only Pollyanna and Eight Melodies? I was hoping for an orchestrated Mt. Itoi theme!
Oh well, at least they didn’t throw in Snowman for the umpteen-billionth time.
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| LucasTizma said on May. 20, 2009 |
@santigoff: I guess their commonly take two foreign words and combine them into a shorter version? Like Smash Brothers = スムブラ? Always thought that was weird…
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| LucasTizma said on May. 20, 2009 |
@santiagoff, rather…
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| Phil L said on May. 22, 2009 |
Yeah, the dog was from a Duck Hunt segment, where the costumed player jumped behind a cardboard bush.
I loved the Fire Emblem, Balloon Fight, and Kid Icarus renditions in there as well as the Earthbound Zero stuff!
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| LucasTizma said on May. 23, 2009 |
Yeah, it seems like it would be really fun to go to these concerts. I watched a couple on Nico Nico Douga, and it’s so funny how the performers are slowly all in costume toward the end as they each perform little skits.
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Nicely nice. I’d love to see something like this performed live one day. A CD of their performance wouldn’t be too bad, either. It could balance out all of the electronic/midi CD releases.