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2026 Show Notes Addendum:
To round out our second (and final) visit to the realm of backwards VGM (and very closely related non-VGM) on Nerd Noise Radio, let's replay the 2020 original series, which was also a two-parter, but instead of being two "equal billing" parts, it was a one part "episode proper" and then a supplemental Ch F "F-isode" bonus.
In addition to being one of my all-time favorite projects to work on in show history, the series also marked an important turning point in show history as the first installment was our last ever NNR broadcast on the main feed to be produced in GarageBand on MacOS (except for the deliberate call-back that was C1E75 in 2023), and the F-isode was my first ever production in Audacity and Ardour in Linux (then Ubuntu Studio (KDE), now, Fedora (GNOME)).
Original Show Notes below are largely faithful to the original with one MASSIVE exception: the tracklist is now populated with all the relevant track info, where it was originally withheld to keep the mystery and mystique alive.
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Original Show Notes (modified to show track names on 04/20/2026):
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You are tuned to Nerd Noise Radio – Channel F. Today’s “F-isode” is significant not only for being only the second F-isode we’ve had in over a year, when they used to be quite a bit more common, but is also significant for being the first ever production of Nerd Noise Radio of any type to be produced entirely on Linux. Historically, the show has been produced on Mac. With a small backlog of previously-produced, but not-yet-released music blocks that were, of course, produced on the Mac still in reserve for future episodes, it will be some time yet before the Mac presence fades from the show completely. But it is my hope to do the lion’s share of future all-new production on Linux moving forward. So, the shift will be a glide, rather than a snap. But that shift starts...here.
Longtime listeners of the show will know full well what a Channel F F-isode is, but a pair of really beautiful things happened early this month which will have brought new attention to the show, from faces as near and dear as my fellow Des Moinesers (and surrounding communities), to as far-flung as Linux fans all the world over. For an explanation of what Channel F is, and how it relates to Nerd Noise Radio as a whole for the newcomers, as well as the details of who and what the new faces are, and how all that came about, see below. Also, for a descripton of how this F-isode relates to our April Fool’s episode, “Backtracks”, see the blog....or just sit, back, relax, and enjoy, as you listen to.....”The OTHER 50”! Timestamps provided, but track details withheld for now in case anyone wanted to play the guessing game on the tracks. A follow-up blog post on April 30th will provide the entire track list information for both Backtracks and for today’s outing. So, be on the lookout for that. In the meantime, enjoy!
Tracklist (ALL TRACKS ARE PLAYED IN REVERSE - except Intro)!
Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp
A1) Intro – 00:00:00
01) Options - Daffy Duck in Hollywood - Genesis - Matt Furniss – 00:12:13
02) September 2015 - N/A (system menu music - eShop) - 3DS / WiiU - Kazumi Totaka – 00:16:33
03) The Mall - Skate or Die 2 - NES - Rob Hubbard – 00:19:44
04) Evil Dante - Cratermaze - TG16 - Jun Chikuma, Keita Hoshi, Toshiaki Takimoto, Masaru Takahashi, and/or Takayuki Iwabuchi – 00:21:21
05) Character Select - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto – 00:23:01
06) Ethnic Cave and Flame - X-Men - Arcade - Konami Kukeiha Club – 00:25:06
07) Jazz 3 - Sim Copter - PC - Jerry Martin – 00:27:36
08) Reckless Running - Sega Rally Championship - Saturn - Naofumi Hataya – 00:32:38
09) Collision Chaos Zone (Present) - Sonic CD (NA) - Sega CD / Windows 95 - Spencer Nilsen, David Young, Mark Crew, and/or Pastiche – 00:36:45
10) Main Menu - Sonic Mania - Multiplatform - Tee Lopes – 00:40:02
11) Opening 1 - Hisou Kihei X-Serd - PC Engine - Koji Hayama – 00:41:10
12) Brinstar Red Soil - Super Metroid - SNES - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano – 00:42:56
13) Stage 3-3 - Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Iwasaki Taku – 00:46:40
14) Options - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss – 00:50:00
15) The Vile Peaks - Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 / XB360 - Masashi Hamauzu – 00:51:26
16) Twilight Palace (Outside) - LoZ: Twilight Princess - GameCube / Wii / WiiU - Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta – 00:54:49
17) Outside Ref, The Pyramid of Ice - Dungeon Explorer 2 - PC Engine - Masaaki Inoue and/or Akihiro Honma – 00:58:00
18) After the Battle - LoZ: Twilight Princess - GameCube / Wii / WiiU - Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta – 01:00:05
19) The Vertical - Ghost in the Shell - PS1 - Joey Beltram – 01:02:23
20) Spin on the Bridge - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima – 01:08:44
21) Cycle 1 - Streets of Rage 3 - Genesis - Motohiro Kawashima and/or Yuzo Koshiro – 01:13:03
22) Track 11 - Illusion Blaze - PC (AdLib) - D.A.C. – 01:16:12
23) Naruto (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto – 01:18:45
24) Bases 1 & 2 - Contra - NES - c: Kazuki Muaoka / a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada – 01:20:31
25) Imperial Death March - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - NES - c: John Williams / a: Paul Webb – 01:22:05
26) Fly Like a Butterfly - Jet Set Radio Future - XBox - Hideki Naganuma – 01:22:43
27) At Doom's Gate - DOOM - PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince – 01:25:59
28) Alone in Love - Jewel Master - Genesis - Motoaki Takenouchi – 01:29:13
29) Naja - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto – 01:31:26
30) Swamp - Samurai Ghost - TG16 - Gappy, Miyoshi Okuyama, and/or Hiroyon – 01:33:36
31) Segadore Genesid 64 - N/A (non-VGM - original chiptune) - N/A (Genesis sound hardware - attempting to replicate C64 sound hardware) - Mr. Sonic699 – 01:34:43
32) Stage Theme 4 - Shinobi - Arcade - Yasuhiro Kawakami – 01:36:48
33) Title Theme - Double Dragon - NES - Kazunaka Yamane – 01:38:24
34) Field 3 - JJ & Jeff - TG16 - Takeaki Kunimoto – 01:40:05
35) Zena Lan (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto – 01:42:07
36) Bearhattan Transfur - Fist of Awesome - Multiplatform - Brendan Ratliff – 01:44:22
37) Map - Wolfchild - Genesis - Matt Furniss – 01:47:47
38) Tyr (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto – 01:49:03
39) Level 1 - Chip Chan Kick - PCFX - Yoshio Furakawa, Masahara Iwata and/or Hitoshi Sakamoto – 01:50:46
40) Stage Theme 1 - Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six - NES - David Whittaker – 01:55:13
41) S.O.R. Super Mix (Stage Vers.) - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima – 01:58:37
42) Stickerbush Symphony - Donkey Kong Country 2 - SNES - David Wise – 02:04:06
43) Level 3 - Tetris - CD-i - Jim Andron – 02:06:22
44) Unknown City - Doxa - PS4 (Unreleased) - Daniel Capo – 02:08:51
45) Main - N/A (Non-VGM - non-VGM computer program music) - PC (Microsoft Interactive Sampler) - Unknown – 02:10:06
46) Althena's Shrine - Lunar: The Silver Star - Sega CD - Noriyuki Iwadare, Hiroshi Fujioka, and/or Isao Mizoguchi – 02:11:09
47) Zora's Domain (Day) - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch / Switch 2 - c: Kōji Kondō / a: Yasuaki Iwata – 02:12:12
48) Martinis for Two - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo – 02:15:24
49) Ending - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo – 02:21:46
50) Ending - N/A (Non-VGM) - N/A (fan-made covers of Metroid OST played on a battery of analog synths) - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Luminist – 02:25:58
[There is no Outro]
Total Episode Runtime: 02:28:13
About the new faces: Jeff Pitts of Des Moines Cityview Magazine did a mini-vignette on four local podcasters, and reached out to me to be one of them. The mini-article appears in the April Issue of the magazine which can be viewed online (Link below). In addition to that, Jason Evangelho, a tech-writer for Forbes Magazine who focuses on Linux very generously boosted my tweets about my first production in Linux, which went on to become the most liked and retweeted tweet in my history on the platform. I make it a point to look at “the numbers” as little as possible, so I don’t know how many (if any) of the new faces stuck around. But certainly a number of them at least had a peek. If you are a new face, either brought to the show through the Cityview article, or through Jason’s buff of my tweet, get a hold of me to let me know you’re here!
Presuming we did have at least a few stick around, I should give an explanation of what Channel F is, relative to Channel 1, and Archive Super Bonuses, so you know how this show works. I will do so at length on the blogspot version of this episode, where the blog format is more accommodating of lengthiness. But I will give you a brief overview here:
Channel 1: This is “the show proper”. These are “the actual episodes”. On average, 10 fresh episodes a year (with reruns to fill in the blanks). Other than extraordinary circumstances, they follow a standard “enhanced mixtape” format: a short, semi-standard intro, and standard housekeeping outro bookending a winding, twisting journey through sound. We have had quite the spate of non-standard “Channel 1” Episodes of late though, so for the newcomers, I wanted to stress what “normal” looks like. We don’t anticipate having anything else non-standard for several months moving forward.
Channel F: This is my side-outlet for bonuses, betas, extras. It can be virtually anything. And additional mixtape music block (like today), but has been all sorts of things. We even had one that was an exposition on a certain episode’s outro. Anything that doesn’t fit in Channel 1, but that I still want to have full attention (podcast feed, blog, social media, Archive.org, etc) becomes a Channel F “F-isode”.
Super Bonuses: These are for the times where I have something that I felt was worth producing, and felt was worth putting out there, but did not want to clog up the podcast feed, or the blog, or social media with. Generally, it takes the form of remixes and twists on existing content. Since they only come out on Archive, and not anywhere else, and since they’re not really advertised, this creates a nice “underground” quality to them. I usually drop hints inside Episodes and F-isodes if there are any Super Bonuses planned. But beyond that, a person just needs to know to be on the lookout. They will release even less consistently than F-isodes, but will also tend to be in bursts around certain episodes that are rich for alternate twists on their content.
See the blogspot version of this episode if you’d like to know more about these. Link below. Meanwhile, our next all-new episode is planned for August, though I do have some really great reruns lined up for the months between. Even those will still constitute much more of a “return to normalcy” for the show than what our past several months of fresh content offers, so a great chance to “get to know us” I hope you will enjoy! We also have a secondary podcast feed which is dedicated entirely to reruns, which will feature reruns different than the ones on the main feed, if you wish to explore even more Nerd Noise Radio history. It can be found on your podcatcher of choice by the name “Nerd Noise Radio Reruns”.
Cheers!
Link to the Cityview Article:
http://dmcityview.com/CityviewApril2020/html5/index.html?page=1&noflash (page 50)
You can find previous articles by Jeff by searching www.dmcityview.com or as compiled on Muck Rack:
https://muckrack.com/jeff-pitts/articles
Link to Jason Evangelho’s Forbes articles (@killyourfm on Twitter)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/#18ee68a0d36f
Link to Blogspot version of today’s “F-isode” (for the long version the Channels descriptions, etc.)
https://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2020/04/channel-f-backtracks-other-50.html
Wednesday Apr 22, 2026
Wednesday Apr 22, 2026
2026 Show Notes Addendum:
To round out our second (and final) visit to the realm of backwards VGM (and very closely related non-VGM) on Nerd Noise Radio, let's replay the 2020 original series, which was also a two-parter, but instead of being two "equal billing" parts, it was a one part "episode proper" and then a supplemental Ch F "F-isode" bonus.
In addition to being one of my all-time favorite projects to work on in show history, the series also marked an important turning point in show history as the first installment was our last ever NNR broadcast on the main feed to be produced in GarageBand on MacOS (except for the deliberate call-back that was C1E75 in 2023), and the F-isode was my first ever production in Audacity and Ardour in Linux (then Ubuntu Studio (KDE), now, Fedora (GNOME)).
Original Show Notes below are largely faithful to the original with one MASSIVE exception: the tracklist is now populated with all the relevant track info, where it was originally withheld to keep the mystery and mystique alive.
Lastly: in case anyone is wondering what on earth is happening in the outro: I figured since it would be backwards, and nobody would ever hear it forward unless they either took the initiative to reverse the file themselves, or else find the [quote] "UNBACKED" version on Archive.org, they'd never know what on earth was being said, I decided to forego the standard outro script, and just go nuts. I read a chocolate chip cookie recipe I found online on the spot, and included snippets from every previous episode blooper reel in show history to that point as well as various other sound clips, such as slow-mo vids of my kids, and fresh snippets provided by my brother-in-law Brian Peterson. Anyway, that's what's happening in the outro. I wanted it to be as preposterous and baffling and chaotic as possible!
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Today’s broadcast is C1E52 for Wayback Wednesday, April 1st, 2020. It’s April 1st, dear listeners, and we haven’t had a retrospective in AGES! In such dark, uncertain days as we face today, it’s extra important to have a look back at brighter, clearer, saner days as a reminder that as the wheel of time continues to churn, we will inexorably find our way back.
So, sit back and relax as we travel back through 2hrs 25min, and 56 sec of Nerd Noise History and Nostalgia on a program we’re calling “Backtracks”.
It is certain to be an experience unlike any other!
Tracklist (ALL TRACKS ARE PLAYED IN REVERSE - except Intro)!
Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp
A1) Intro – 00:00:00
01) Lifelight (English Language Version) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - Hideki Sakamoto – 00:02:39
02) What About the Future - Jet Set Radio Future - XBox - Richard Jacques – 00:06:25
03) USA Race 4 - Trickstyle - Dreamcast / PC - Richard Beddow – 00:10:32
04) Mirage - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Kemmei Adachi – 00:13:41
05) Colour (AtJazz Remix) - N/A (Non VGM) - N/A (Om Lounge 6 [album) - c: Soulstice / a: AtJazz (aka VGM Composer Martin Iveson) – 00:17:21
06) Ai Suru Hito Yo - N/A (Non-VGM) - N/A (Ai Ga Nakucha Ne [album] - Akiko Yano (featuring VGM composer, and YMO Alum: Riyuichi Sakamoto) – 00:23:51
07) Challenge - Chu Chu Rocket - Dreamcast - Tomoya Ohtani – 00:28:12
08) Area 1 - Blaster Master - NES - Naoki Kodaka – 00:31:09
09) Zena Lan (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto – 00:33:07
10) Stage 4 - Chip Chan Kick - PCFX - Yoshio Furukawa, Masahara Iwata and/or Hitoshi Sakamoto – 00:35:22
11) Rikuo - Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge - Multiplatform - Takayuki Iwai, AkariaKaida, and/or Hideki Okugawa – 00:37:41
12) DA Garden - Sonic CD (JP / EU) - Mega CD - Minoru Kanari and/or Makoto Oshitani – 00:39:16
13) Title Theme - Super Mario World - SNES - Kōji Kondō – 00:43:26
14) In-Game Theme - Ranquest - Hydra Development Kit - c: John Wedgeworth (yes....as in St. John of Nerd Noise Radio) / a: Jay Cook (of Avalon Dreams) – 00:45:10
15) Aitos - Actraiser - SNES - Yuzo Koshiro – 00:47:32
16) Cold Cave - Out of this World - 3DO - Andrew Dimitroff – 00:49:57
17) Stage 4-3 - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss – 00:51:31
18) Coldman - N/A (VGM Karaoke - originally Mega Man and Bass) - N/A (originally GBA) - Original: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta, and/or Akira Kaida / Karaoke written and performed by Deirdre Porter (then "Fischer") (aka the great "Pieness 64") – 00:54:28
19) Yug - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto – 00:56:56
20) Solitary - Shinobi 3 - Genesis - Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Muasaki, and/or Morihiko Akiyama – 00:58:29
21) Forest Funk - Super Meat Boy - Multiplatform - Danny Baranowsky – 01:00:09
22) Titan's Ream - DOOM (2016) - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon – 01:02:50
23) The Reverse Will - Silent Hill 2 - PS2 - Akira Yamaoka – 01:11:56
24) Title Theme - Solstice - NES - Tim Follin – 01:14:55
25) Seven O'Clock - Crackin' DJ Pt. 2 - Arcade - c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / a: Misuharu Fukuyama – 01:17:52
26) Citizens of Luala - N/A (Non-VGM - original chiptune) - N/A (TG16 Sound Hardware) - Strobe (from Battle of the Bits) – 01:19:42
27) In-Game Theme - Youkai Douchuuki - Arcade - Hiroyuki Kawada – 01:22:55
28) Fourth Cause - Psychosis - TG16 - Atsuhiro Moyoyama – 01:25:58
29) Gong Shun Sheng - Dark Legend - Muliplatform - Seiichi Hamada – 01:28:59
30) Stage 5-2 - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss – 01:31:23
31) Norfair - N/A (Non-VGM) - N/A (fan-made covers of Metroid OST played on a battery of analog synths) - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Luminist – 01:33:54
32) Sodden Hollow - Binding of Isaac - Multiplatform - Matthias Bossi and/or Jon Evans – 01:35:22
33) Bloodpool - Actraiser - SNES - Yuzo Koshiro – 01:39:08
34) Unit - N/A (Non-VGM) - N/A (Logic [album] - J-Pop inspirations of VGM) - Logic System – 01:40:29
35) Daisuke - Hotline Miami - Multiplatform - El Huervo (aka Shelby Cinca) – 01:44:56
36) Bulberry Hill - Zool 2 - Amiga - Neil Biggin – 01:47:58
37) King of Speed - Daytona USA - Saturn - Music and Vocal: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi / Lyrics: David Leytze – 01:50:53
38) Trance Parlient in Blue - Night Striker - Mega CD - c: Maasahiko Takai / a: Shuichiro Nakazawa – 01:55:14
39) Cylic (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto – 01:58:32
40) Process Control - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Yasuhisa Inoue – 02:00:27
41) Disrupted Planets (Map 2) - Bomberman '93 - TG16 - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi – 02:04:40
42) Mysterious Island - Landstalker - Genesis - Motoaki Takenouchi – 02:06:11
43) Waltz of Water and Bubble - Liquid Kids - Arcade - Kazuko Umino – 02:08:38
44) Old Man's Prayer - Ogre Battle - SNES - Masaharu Iwata, Hiroshi Sakimoto, and/or Hayato Matsuo – 02:10:25
45) The Serpent Trench - Final Fantasy VI - SNES - Nobuo Uematsu – 02:11:44
46) Menu 2 - Shenmue - Dreamcast - Ryuiji Iuichi, Yuzo Koshiro, Takenobu Mitsuoshi, Osamu Murata, and/or Takeshi Yanagawa – 02:13:41
47) ESPIRIT.WAV - Data Wing - iOS / Android - ESPRIT 空想 – 02:15:16
48) The Blazing Sands - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu – 02:18:26
49) Inside Vah Naboris (1 Terminal) - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch / Switch 2 - Manaka Kataoka Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai – 02:21:38
50) What Can You Do? - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Lenny Ibizarre – 02:23:48
B1) Outro – 02:28:39
Music Block Runtime: 02:25:56, Total Episode Runtime: 02:54:06
Our Intro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Our Outro Music is Malo Mart from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on GameCube and Wii, composed by Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ota, and/or Koji Kondo
The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/
or here
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767
You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org
Our YouTube Channel can be found here:
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Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:
Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.
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Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.
The Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe used in the outro is “Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies” from the Sally’s Baking Addiction blog. You can find the recipe here: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/
Thanks for listening! Join us again in July or August for Episode TBD - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Friday Apr 17, 2026
Friday Apr 17, 2026
This special announcement is intended to give listeners a heads up for what the end of NNR might look like, so that it's not a jarring, sudden, potentially traumatic event for them, as the sudden closure of certain other shows in history had been to me.
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Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Part 2 of a 2 part series.
Okay, pt 1 turned out to be a backwards episode after all, didn’t it (who could’ve predicted?!) But that doesn’t mean that pt 2 has to be that too, right? Maybe pt 2 will be about VGM which uses the fibonacci sequence to reinforce fourier operations in Fortnite. Or maybe a sob story about how a chip shortage on the YM2612 is resulting in poachers hunting and killing Sega Genesis…es… to harvest their YM2612 chips for boutique jewelry. Or heck, maybe it’s just the Excitebike soundtrack. I guess you’ll just have to find out, won’t you?
Tracklist (all tracks are playing in reverse)
Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - From “best-of-year-in-review” episode# (year(s)) - Timestamp
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Trouble Town Tunnels - Lovely Planet Remix - PC - Satsuma Audio - C1R6a (2023) - 00:02:50
02) Main Theme - Mr. Run and Jump - Multiplatform - Fat Bard and/or Andrew P. Masson - C1R8 (2025) - 00:04:56
03) Green Hill Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Masato Nakamura - C1R7 (2024) - 00:06:58
04) The Power of GT - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Yudai Saitoh - C1R7 (2024) - 00:08:38
05) Ending - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - C1R8 (2025) - 00:12:41
06) Evil Bug Judgment Squad - N/A (Battle of the Bits Community Original Chiptune) - N/A (Wildchip) - Diagamblic - C1E55b (2019) - 00:13:57
07) Dice Dance Days - Gunstar Heroes - Genesis - Norio Hanzawa - C1R7 (2024) - 00:16:50
08) The Entrance to Hell - Snatcher - PC Engine - The Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E55b (2019) - 00:19:00
09) Level 1 - Bloody Wolf - TG16 - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, Tatsuta Kiuchi, Hitomi Komatsu, Shuuji Segawa, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuke Takahama - C1E55b (2019) - 00:20:48
10) Main Theme - Youkai Douchuuki - PC Engine - Hiroyuki Kawada - C1E55b (2019) - 00:22:47
11) Velvet Fog - N/A (Battle of the Bits Community Original Chiptune) - Genesis - Warlord - C1E55b (2019) - 00:25:30
12) Gambit - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - C1E70a (2022) - 00:26:48
13) Neo Kobe Steel Factory - Contra III: The Alien Wars - SNES - Miki Higashino, Masanori Adachi, Tappi Iwase, and/or Aki Hata - C1E70a (2022) - 00:30:50
14) The Demons from Adrian’s Pen - DOOM - PC - Bobby Prince - C1R7 (2024) - 00:34:34
15) Metroid Prime Battle - Metroid Prime - GameCube - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Kouichi Kyuma - C1E70a (2022) - 00:37:10
16) Hurry! - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu - C1E70a (2022) - 00:39:55
17) Cabin - Friday the 13th - NES - Hirohiko Takayama - C1E70a (2022) - 00:42:22
18) Marseille City - Kuusou Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy - PC Engine - Kouhei Tanaka, and/or Kazuhio Sawada - C1E55b (2019) - 00:43:54
19) Sirena Beach - Super Mario Sunshine - GameCube - Kōji Kondō, and/or Shinobu Tanaka - C1E70a (2022) - 00:46:17
20) Dry Desert Sky - Two Dots - iOS / Android - Upright T-Rex - C1E70a (2022) - 00:48:33
21) Ghost Valley - N/A (Super Mario Kart Album / originally Super Mario Kart) - N/A (originally SNES) - c: Soya Oka / a: [VGM Cover Band] “The OneUps” - C1E70a (2022) - 00:50:29
22) Nocturne - 3D Museum - LaserActive - Goh Hotoda - C1E70a (2022) - 00:53:40
23) This is your Story - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu - C1E70a (2022) - 00:55:52
24) White Summit Probe Naberius - Phantasy Star Online 2 - Multiplatform - Hideaki Kobayashi, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Kenichi Tokoi, Tadashi Kinukawa, and/or Chihiro Aoki - C1R7 (2024) - 00:58:00
25) Anxious Heart - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:05:24
26) Everything’s Going to be Okay - Prey - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:09:18
27) Home - n++ - Multiplatform - Marcel Dettman - C1R7 (2024) - 01:11:53
28) Surrender - n++ - Multiplatform - Sam KDC - C1E70a (2022) - 01:16:58
29) Moth and Cortisone - 3D Museum - LaserActive - Tasuaki Shimizu - C1E70a (2022) - 01:22:52
30) All About the Girl - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Lenny Ibizarre - C1E55b (2019) - 01:27:08
31) Shower Curtain - n++ - Multiplatform - Planet Boelex - C1E55b (2019) - 01:31:08
32) Love and Peace - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Kemmei Adachi - C1R7 (2024) - 01:37:39
33) Swampy’s Course 1 - Where’s my Water - iOS / Android - Unknown - C1R6a (2023) - 01:41:53
34) Velocity Regression - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - C1R6a (2023) - 01:44:05
35) Industrius - Jazz Jackrabbit - PC - Robert A. Allen and/or Joshua Jensen - C1R6a (2023) - 01:46:26
36) Rusty Ruin Zone: Act 2 - Sonic 3D Blast - Saturn - Richard Jacques - C1R6a (2023) - 01:50:11
37) Starshell - Futuri no Fantavision - PS2 - Soichi Terada - C1R7 (2024) - 01:53:33
38) Splash Down - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - C1R8 (2025) - 01:55:26
39) Busy Flare - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - C1R6a (2023) - 01:58:12
40) Starmine - Fantavision (JP) - PS2 - Soichi Terada - C1R7 (2024) - 02:00:48
41) Flirty Write 1 [Fixy Text] - Jackbox Party Pack 10 - Multiplatform - Kelly Shuda - C1R8 (2025) - 02:04:55
42) Fascination Io Stage - Zero Divide - PS1 / PC - Hideyuki Shimono, and/or Akihito Okawa - C1R8 (2025) - 02:05:55
43) Mission 5 - Shadow Squadron - 32X - Teruhiko Nakagawa and/or Masaru Setsumaru - C1E55b (2019) - 02:08:58
44) Knight’s Guild - Wizards and Warriors 3 - NES - David Wise - C1E55b (2019) - 02:10:38
45) Results Theme (aka Record of Samus) - Metroid Prime - GameCube - c: Hirakazu (“Hip”) Tanaka / a: Kenji Yamamoto - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:12:23
46) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Sega CD - Tsukasa Tawada - C1E70a (2022) - 02:15:19
47) Intro - Fantavision (NA) - PS2 - Soichi Terada - C1E55b (2019) - 02:19:43
48) Vote 2 [Drawful Animate] - Jackbox Party Pack 8 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - C1R8 (2025) - 02:20:13
49) Sudden Beautiful Lie - Danganronpa V3 - PC / PS4 / Vita - Masafumi Takada - C1R7 (2024) - 02:22:17
50) Tear-Stained Eyes - Snatcher - Sega CD / PC Engine - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:26:10
B1) Outro - 02:31:00
Mixtape Runtime: 02:28:18 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:43:33
And with that, we hope you have enjoyed Nerd Noise Radio’s final foray into the April Fool’s series. Special outro music is First time Setup from the Switch 2 - composed by Kazumi Totaka (and might I add, one of the biggest teases in the history of video games for Switch 2 adopters like myself who still missed the music-filled Wii and WiiU system suites and were given a little jolt of false hope by it for the new system).
Here is a link to a document which contains details (and links) on every previous NNR April Fools outing:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2I0F04kBy4vEAKLAfY3QrIEHVvr9uOIuTJBepoI39c/edit?usp=sharing
As well as this link to the spreadsheet I used to plan out these two episodes (apologies for the partially corrupted data. I’m not even sure how that happened). :-D
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sVAx-IQdvs1gXuB0nA7bJX1yepXAx47fTb5Y5GsPNlQ/edit?usp=sharing
NOTE: I had intended to pull from not just “St. John” episodes, but from every best-of episode 2019-2025, but ran into my 100 before even getting to the non-St. John episodes. I’ll include reversed copies of each mixtape (both used and unused) on this spreadsheet as SUPER BONUSES over on Archive as well as “Backtracks UNBACKED” and “Backtracks - Back-to-Front”. So you can hear everything I heard in the process of putting this together.
Intro and outro recorded on Shure SM7B dynamic microphone running through a Cloudlifter Preamp through the Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB audio interface into a mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux.
Pt 1 released simultaneously to Pt 2.
Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Part 1 of a 2 part series.
What’s better for a brisk, sunny 1st of April than taking a great big look back at music we featured in the respective “best-of-year-in-review” St. John’s Picks episodes from 2019-2025? Definitely not another backwards episode. Nope. No sir. Uhuh. Just six years esion tseb eht fo. [editor: who did that?!]
Tracklist (all tracks are playing in reverse)
Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - From “best-of-year-in-review” episode# (year(s)) - Timestamp
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Funky Radio [In-Game version] - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - B.B. Rights - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 00:02:10
02) Thin Holidays - Rage In Peace - Multiplatform - Peonies - C1R6a (2023) - 00:05:32
03) Sky High - Daytona USA - Saturn - Tanobu Mitsuyoshi and David Leytze - C1E55b (2019) - 00:08:14
04) Signs of Love - Persona IV - PS2 - Shoji Meguro - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 00:12:47
05) Suitcase - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - C1R6a (2023) - 00:15:40
06) The Beginning - Vampire Survivors - Multiplatform - William Davies, elrond504, PlayOnLoop, Daniela Zandara, Filippo Vicarelli, and/or Lorenzo Floro - C1R6a (2023) - 00:17:46
07) Bonus - Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore - Multiplatform - Button Masher (aka Jake Silverman) - C1R8 (2025) - 00:20:20
08) Results Parade - Check Mii Out Channel - Wii - Kazumi Totaka C1E65a (2020/2021) - 00:22:16
09) Mission 2 - Double Dragon 2 - PC Engine - Hiroyuki Togo - C1E55b (2019) - 00:24:21
10) Club Tigre - Final Vendetta - Multiplatform - C1R7 (2024) - 00:27:23
11) USA Race 2 - Trickstyle - Dreamcast / PC - Richard Beddow - C1E70a (2022) - 00:30:44
12) Gettin’ Freaky - Friday Night Funkin / aka Music Battle - iOS / Android - Kawaii Sprite - C1R8 (2025) - 00:33:54
13) Lobby [Monster Seeking Monster] - Jackbox Party Pack 4 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - C1R8 (2025) - 00:36:40
14) Menu - Fast Fusion - Switch 2 - Bjulin and/or Francisco Cerda - C1R8 (2025) - 00:39:33
15) Endscreen - Final Vendetta - Multiplatform - Futurecast and/or Utah Saints - C1R8 (2025) - 00:42:57
16) Toad’s Turnpike - Mario Kart 64 - N64 - Kenta Nagata, Taroh Bandoh, and/or Yoji Inagaki - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 00:45:39
17) Jus’ Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Mr. V - C1E70a (2022) - 00:48:29
18) Eccentric Detective - Lucid 9 - PC - Breezee - C1R8 (2025) - 00:55:57
19) Disrupted Planets (Map 2) - Super Bomberman 3 - SNES - c: Jun Chikuma / a: Keita Hoshi - C1R6a (2023) - 00:58:45
20) Fonction - n++ - Multiplatform - Broca - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:04:41
21) [SLOW*] Fonction - n++ - Multiplatform - Broca - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:11:33 (*= Slowed version from C1E57: “Slow Jams” - April Fool’s 2021 episode of slowed down VGM).
22) Stage 2-2 - Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Iwasaki Taku - C1E55b (2019) - 01:21:25
23) Non-Linear Reliance - Blue Reflection: Second Light - Multiplatform - Hayato Asano - C1R8 (2025) - 01:24:12
24) Earth - Lords of Magic - PC - Keith Zizza - C1R8 (2025) - 01:28:15
25) Electrifying Tension - Lucid 9 - PC - Breezee - C1R8 (2025) - 01:32:19
26) Voices of Urdak - DOOM Eternal - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:34:57
27) The Icon of Sin - DOOM Eternal - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - C1E70a (2022) - 01:41:04
28) Mission 6 - Double Dragon 2 - PC Engine - Hiroyuki Togo - C1E55b (2019) - 01:46:27
29) Snif City - Paper Mario: The Origami King - Switch - Shoh Marakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Moishita, and/or Fumihiro Isobe - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 01:49:07
30) Stage 1-3 - Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Iwasaki Taku - C1E55b (2019) - 01:52:03
31) Attack the Barbarian - Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzu Koshiro - C1R7 (2024) - 01:55:33
32) Firestarter (Instrumental) - WipEout XL - PS1 - The Prodigy - C1R6a (2023) - 01:58:30
33) Jurassic Dope - Contra: The Hard Corps - Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi - C1R6a (2023) - 02:03:07
34) Kraft und Licht - n++ - Multiplatform - Len Faki - C1R7 (2024) - 02:06:13
35) Norfair - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - c: Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:12:56
36) Freak You Out - Vay - Sega CD - Shigeki Sako - C1E70a (2022) - 02:15:27
37) Balom Dungeon - Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch / Switch 2 - Masato Ohashi, Manaka Kataoka, Chisaki Hosaka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, Ryotaro Yagi, and/or Azusa Kato - C1R8 (2025) - 02:17:24
38) Forest of Elrond - Wizards and Warriors - NES - David Wise - C1R7 (2024) - 02:20:27
39) Got Well Soon - Life is Strange - Multiplatform - Breton - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:22:28
40) Zebra Bananza - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - C1R8 (2025) - 02:27:09
41) PerfecT Shape - to a T - PC / XBSX - c: Sakai Asuka and/or Keita Takahashi / v: Sam Bird - C1R8 (2025) - 02:29:22
42) Star Guitar - Lumines II - PSP - The Chemical Bros. - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:30:53
43) Quiet - Edge - Multiplatform - Richard Malot - C1R6 (2023) - 02:37:02
44) Prime #5 - Echochrome - PSP / PS3 - Hideki Sakamoto - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:39:32
45) Kara Kara Bazaar - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata - C1E65a (2020/2021) - 02:42:45
46) I Came I Saw - N/A (Battle of the Bits Community Original Chiptune) - SNES - KungFuFurby - C1E55b (2019) - 02:44:43
47) Heleosphere (Menu Music) - N/A (System Music) - A500 Mini - Chris Smith - C1R6a (2023) - 02:50:11
48) Taste of Blood - Portal - Multiplatform - Kelly Baily and/or Mike Morasky - C1R7 (2024) - 02:53:50
49) Kris VR - Burn Cycle - CD-i - Simon Boswell - C1E6a (2023) - 02:56:48
50) Dreiton - Minecraft - Multiplatform - C148 - C1R6a (2023) - 03:01:06
B1) Outro - 03:08:50
Mixtape Runtime: 03:06:51 / Total Episode Runtime: 03:21:24
Our now customary April Fool’s episode outro music is Malo Mart, from LoZ: Twilight Princess on GameCube, Wii, and WiiU (and maybe eventually, Switch 2) composed by Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Kōji Kondō.
Special thanks to St. Jodee, St. August, and St. Wyatt for joining me in the outro. Intro was recorded on Shure SM7B dynamic microphone running through a Cloudlifter Preamp for superior sound quality. Outro was recorded on AudioTechnica AT2020 condenser microphone for better ability to pick up sounds further away from the mic (important when capturing four different people standing or sitting varying distances away from it). All were recorded using the Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB audio interface into a mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux
Pt 2 releases simultaneously to Pt 1.
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Wednesday Feb 25, 2026
Wednesday Feb 25, 2026
Today’s broadcast is C1R8 for Wayback Wednesday, February 25th, 2026. Today’s episode will be our "best of year-in-review" for calendar 2025, covering C1E91-C1E100 and a number of important Ch F "F-isodes". As Season 8 (calender 2025) was the final regular season of Ch 1, that also makes this our final "best of year-in-review" episode.
Tracklist
Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Originally Selected By / Originally from Episode(s) / Timestamp
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Earth - Lords of Magic - PC - Keith Zizza - St. John - C1E96 - 00:04:34
02) Balom Dungeon - LoZ: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch - Masato Ohashi, Manaka Kataoka, Chisaki Hosaka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, Ryotaro Yagi, and/or Azusa Kato - St. John - C1E93 - 00:08:41
03) Ending - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - St. John - C1E100 - 00:11:45
04) PerfecT Shape - to a T - Multiplatform - c: Sakai Asuka and/or Keita Takahashi / v: Sam Bird - St. John - Ch. F (“Channel Trey”) - 00:13:03
05) Fascination Io Stage - Zero Divide - PS1/PC - Hideyuki Shimono, and/or Akihito Okawa - Electric Boogaloo - C1E99 - 00:14:34
06) Bonus - Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore - Multiplatform - Button Masher (aka Jake Silverman) - St. John - C1E92 - 00:17:39
07) Eccentric Detective - Lucid 9 - PC - Breezee - St. John - Ch. F (“Lucid 9 Soundtrack”) - 00:19:28
08) Rap Loop 15 [from Mad Verse City] - Jackbox Party Pack 5 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - St. John - C1E94 - 00:22:16
09) Endscreen - Final Vendetta - Multiplatform - Futurecast and/or Utah Saints - St. John - C1E91 - 00:23:10
10) Gettin’ Freaky - Friday Night Funkin (aka Music Battle) - iOS / Android - Kawai Sprite - St. John - Ch. F (“One for Wyatt”) - 00:25:53
11) Menu - Fast Fusion - Switch 2 - Bjulin and/or Francisco Cerda - St. John - C1E98 - 00:28:33
12) Shame (aka “The Shameful Last Minute”) - Edge - Multiplatform - Romain Gauthier - St. John - C1E96 - 00:31:59
13) O.M.I.S.E. - Super Hydlide - Genesis - Shigeru Tomita - St. John - C1E91 - 00:35:01
14) Main Theme - Mr. Run and Jump - Multiplatform - Fat Bard and/or Andrew P. Masson - St. John - C1E96 - 00:36:49
15) Zebra Bananza - Donkey Kong Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui - Trey Johnson - Ch. F (“Channel Trey”) - 00:38:50
16) Horizons Unbound - Sea of Stars - Multiplatform - Eric W. Brown - Jeshua Lack - C1E99 - 00:40:56
17) Ending - Gunstar Heroes - Genesis - Norio Hanzawa - St. John - C1E100 - 00:44:05
18) Promoted Attack - Shining Force II - Genesis - Motoaki Takenouchi - St. John - C1E95 - 00:47:39
19) Level 1 [from Velgress] - UFO 50 - Multiplatform - Eirik Suhrke - Trey Johnson - Ch. F (“Channel Trey”) - 00:48:50
20) Aqueduct - Lagrange Point - Famicom (VRC7) - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi, Aki Hata, Makoto Kawamoto, Kenji Nakamura, and/or Tadashi Sawashita - St. John - C1E98 - 00:50:40
21) Norrin Swamp [B-Side] - Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore - Multiplatform - Button Masher (aka Jake Silverman) - St. John - C1E92 - 00:52:47
22) Fire Temple Phase 2 - LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi, and/or Masato Ohashi - St. John - C1E98 - 00:54:51
23) Whimsical Waypoint - Two Dots - iOS / Android - Upright T-Rex - St. John - C1E98 - 00:58:16
24) Hollow - Lucid 9 - PC - Ultra Kitsune - St. John - Ch. F (“Lucid 9 Soundtrack”) - 01:00:21
25) Lobby [from Split the Room] - Jackbox Party Pack 5 - Multiplatform - Brian Chard - St. John - C1E94 - 01:03:56
26) Maridia (Drifting Sands) - Super Metroid - SNES - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano - St. John - C1E97 - 01:06:40
27) Electrifying Tension - Lucid 9 - PC - Breezee - St. John - Ch. F (“Lucid 9 Soundtrack”) - 01:10:35
28) Attacking Vah Rudania - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata - St. John - C1E98 - 01:13:22
29) Non-Linear Reliance - Blue Reflection: Second Light - Multiplatform - Hayato Asano - St. John - C1E93 - 01:15:52
30) Hinterwald Dungeon Explore - Dungeons of Hinterberg - Multiplatform - David Zahradnicek, and/or Markus Zahradnicek - St. John - C1E96 - 01:19:57
31) Title - Cyber Shadow - Multiplatform - Enrique Martin - Justin Regan - C1E99 - 01:23:14
32) Gerudo Town Night - LoZ: Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom - Switch / Switch 2 - Hajime Wakai, Manaka Kataoka, and/or Yasuaki Iwata - St. John - C1E98 - 01:26:05
33) Komorebi - Minecraft - Multiplatform - Kumi Tanioka - St. John - C1E93 - 01:29:19
34) North Point Mall - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - PS2 / PC - Lex Horton - St. John (originally submitted for Hearts of Space “Game Scores 2” candidacy by Hugues) - C1E98 - 01:33:46
35) Credits [from Fibbage 3] - Jackbox Party Pack 4 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - St. John - C1E94 - 01:38:06
36) Lobby [from Monster Seeking Monster] - Jackbox Party Pack 4 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - St. John - C1E94 - 01:40:39
37) Delirious Acting - Pseudoregalia - PC - potatoTero - St. John - C1E96 - 01:43:36
38) Type 2 - ThunderBlade - Arcade - Koichi Namiki - St. John - C1E93 - 01:45:33
39) Ending Theme - X-Men - Arcade - Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano , and/or Ayako Nishigaki - St. John - C1E100 - 01:48:36
40) Flirty Write 1 [from Fixy Text] - Jackbox Party Pack 10 - Multiplatform - Kelly Shuda - St. John - C1E94 - 01:50:56
41) Splash Down - Ristar - Genesis - Tomoko Sasaki - St. John - C1E98 - 01:51:59
42) Vote 2 [from Drawful Animate] - Jackbox Party Pack 8 - Multiplatform - Andy Poland - St. John - C1E94 - 01:54:44
43) Lively Town - Shining Force II - Genesis - Motoaki Takenouchi - St. John - C1E91 - 01:56:47
44) Royal Capital of Grancel - Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Multiplatform - Wataru Ishibashi - Trey Johnson - Ch. F (“Channel Trey”) - 02:00:12
45) Buy Mode 1 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo - St. John - C1E95 - 02:03:24
46) Shop (Japan) - Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone - Arcade - Akira Inoue and/or Takaro Nozaki - St. John - C1E93 - 02:06:03
47) Equanimity - Lucid 9 - PC - Breezee - St. John - C1E96 / Ch. F (“Lucid 9 Soundtrack”) - 02:07:32
48) Water Temple 1 - LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch / Switch 2 - Manaka Kataoka, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, and/or Tsukasa Usui - St. John - Ch. F (“Lucid 9 Soundtrack”) - 02:12:04
49) Into the Darkness - Astal - Saturn - Tatsuyuki Maeda, and/or Tatsuya Kōzaki - Electric Boogaloo - C1E99 - 02:14:22
50) ZENITH - MAKRANA (pre-release) - Multiplatform - Matt Miller - Matt Miller - Ch. F (“MAKRANA Soundtrack”) - 02:17:36
B1) Outro - 02:20:53
Music Block Runtime: 02:16:28 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:37:51
Our customary Channel 1 intro and outro music, which did not appear today is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio, on the Sega Dreamcast - composed by BB Rights. Our special year-in-review intro and outro music are, respectively, Results Theme from Metroid Prime on the GameCube, composed by Kenji Yamamoto, and Results Parade, from the Check Mii Out Channel on the Wii, composed by Kazumi Totaka.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) gaming laptop. Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface!
LINK TO SPREADSHEETS:
1) List of every single track featured in calendar 2025 (which, despite the 2026 release date, includes this episode). 560 total tracks, 508 unique tracks. Also includes details on the offer to produce a "Best of 2025 – Listener Picks" F-isode given sufficient listener will and engagement:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nXPBlCjKp2q0HKjmRG3JUPjLTfLpoRX24Wk2Os938hg/edit?usp=sharing
2) Spreadsheet showing St. John's journey trying to narrow said 508 tracks down to the just 50 track limit of this episode. Also contains info about a few Archive-exclusise SUPER BONUS episodes, which, combined, contain all 265 tracks in St. John's original "grab everything [from the 508] that sounds good" list. To see the details on the potential SUPER BONUSES, continue scrolling right beyond where it looks like the spreadsheet ends:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12l6fdL71EV_ZdRmq-CK_JLvNPXM5b4J66kcvmlAQleA/edit?usp=sharing
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Thanks for listening! Join us again sometime in the next few months for C1F1 (Channel 1, Finale 1): "The Diamond Episode - pt 1: "popular picks" (my best attempt at emulating a "Listener Picks" episode) focusing on Episodes 51-100, its sister episode, C1F2: "The Diamond Episode – pt 2: Personal Picks" (an unabashedly "St. John's picks" outing on the same subject), and a pair of relevant reruns from 2019 on the history of episodes 1-50 in a nearly identical format, where, between the four episodes, the entire history of Nerd Noise Radio – Channel 1 will be covered! Lastly, be on the lookout (and keep your guard up) for a probable F-isode....suspiciously releasing on April 1st - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
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Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
2026 Show Notes Addendum:
Our last [for now] Ch 2 rerun (our last Ch 2 rerun specifically shared with incoming NintenDomain listeners in mind in the wake of the recent Ch F "Channel Trey" one-off)
This was the first episode of the last season of Ch 2 - the one where we announced to the listeners that Ch 2 would be shutting down, as well as the episode where I revealed my then very recently discovered African and Jewish ancestry. This episode also has the distinction of being my personal favorite episode in Ch 2 history with perhaps the lone exception of the 5 1/2hr long "C2F: 'Finally our Final Finale'" series retrospective. You can also hear our very last non-retrospective Ch 2, C2E20: "....all good things...." if you look back to the NNR Dec 2025 podcast feed.
And with that.....NintenDomain fans now have had a great look at the seeds to what went on to make "Channel Trey", while long-time NNR fans get a look back on a handful of really great moments in Ch 2 (and "quasi-channel 2") history. Enjoy this last [for now] installment! :-)
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Today’s Broadcast is C2E16 for Theme Thursday, March 7th, 2024. Today’s theme is vocal music from video games, on a program we’re calling “Songs with Words”. BE SURE TO CATCH OUR SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TOWARDS THE END OF THE EPISODE!! (It’s highlighted in the show notes!)
Tracklist
Track# / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Vocalist / Selected by
01) Shenhua (Vocal Version) - Shenmue - Dreamcast - c: Ryuji Iuichi (music) and Yumi Asada (lyrics) / a: Hayato Matsuo (orchestration) - Ioli - Hugues
a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
b) Music - 00:00:08
c) Introduction - 00:04:12
d) Top of Show Business - 00:04:39
e) Discussion - 00:14:56
02) Connected (Yours Forever) - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John
a) Music - 00:18:28
b) Discussion - 00:24:03
03) Melodies of Life (English Version) - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu (music) and Hioyuki Ito (lyrics) / a: Shiro Hamaguchi - Emiko Shiratori - Hugues
a) Music - 00:28:34
b) Discussion - 00:34:30
04) Sky High - Daytona USA - Saturn - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (music) and David R. Leytze (lyrics) - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi - St. John
a) Music - 00:40:45
b) Discussion - 00:45:33
05) Instructor Mooselini's Rap - PaRappa the Rapper - PS1 - Izumi Amano and/or Ryu Watanabe - John Simpson III and Saundra Williams - Hugues
a) Music - 00:50:35
b) Discussion - 00:52:43
06) My Intellivision - Intellivision Lives - Multiplatform - Tom Kahelin and/or Michael Schwartz - Michael Schwartz (?) - St. John
a) Music - 00:56:50
b) Discussion - 01:01:33
07) Sea of Love - It Came from the Desert - TG16 - Kenneth Melville - Terence Kirby - Hugues
a) Music - 01:05:28
b) Discussion - 01:07:51
08) Volver a Comenzar - Little Big Planet - PS3 - Cafe Tabvca - Cafe Tabvca - St. John
[NOTE: I failed to sync this track up to the vocal portion where we do the "this part right here" thing. My apologies! - St. John]
a) Music - 01:14:01
b) Discussion - 01:22:18
09) A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic - Katamari Damacy PS2 - Asuka Sakai - Ado Mizumori - Hugues
[NOTE: Same as the above track - missed the "this part right here" thing. - St. John]
a) Music - 01:25:23
b) Discussion - 01:30:01
10) Sonic Boom (Ending Version) - Sonic CD (N/A) - Sega CD - Spencer Nilsen, Mark Young, and/or Pastiche - Pastiche - St. John
a) Music - 01:33:16
b) Discussion - 01:37:02
11) Sora wo Miagete (Ending Version) - Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PSP - c: Takahiro Unisuga / a: Yukihiro Jindo - Kanako Kotera - Hugues
a) Music - 01:41:18
b) Discussion - 01:47:26
12) Always Been but Never Dreamed - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John
[NOTE: This time I caught the "this moment right here" thing. Hooray! - St. John]
a) Music - 01:51:04
b) Discussion - 01:55:38
13) Everything's Alright - To the Moon - PC - Ken Gao and/or Laura Shigihara - Laura Shigihara - Hugues
a) Music - 02:01:12
b) Discussion - 02:04:46
c) End of Show Business - 02:14:40
d) Oddie HD Updates - 02:19:42
e) MOAR End of Show Business - 02:20:37
f) *****OUR BIG CH 2 ANNOUNCEMENT***** - 02:22:36
g) EVEN MORE End of Show Banter - 02:26:12
h) Closing Track Discussion - 02:30:35
i) Sign-Off - 02:32:12
14) Still Alive - Portal - Multiplatform - Jonathan Coulton - Ellen McClain (as GLaDOS) - St. John
a) Music - 02:32:42
b) Outtakes - 02:35:35
c) [Audio-Only] The Debut YouTube Video of Oddie HD (the complete, unabridged audio) - 02:43:51
Total Episode Runtime: 02:54:34
Retro Game Club can be found here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680
You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.
Hugues’ blog can be found here:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
Referenced Article about “Sea of Love”: https://www.tg-16.com/Lyrics_for_It_Came_From_the_Desert.htm
You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory.
You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).
Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for C1E82: “Run and/or Gun”! Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds. And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Wednesday Jan 21, 2026
Wednesday Jan 21, 2026
2026 Show Notes Adendum:
This was the very first "official episode" of Ch 2 - approx 9 months after Hugues and I's "fun one-off", which at the time had no strings attached!
PRODUCTION CAVEATS:
Just like the 2019 one-off, this was recorded using an M-Audio MobilePre XLR-to-USB audio interface and AudioTechnica AT2020 condenser mic, and was recorded down in a very echoey basement room. Also, I hadn't [yet] started editing out the "ums" yet. However, unlike the 2019 one-off, I had moved onto Linux by this point, so it was produced in a mix of Audacity and Ardour, rather than in GarageBand and was produced on a 2017 Dell Latitude 7480 laptop (docked to an external monitor, KBM, and sound system) rather than on a 2014 Mac Mini.
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It’s the Dawning of a new Era! You are Tuned to Nerd Noise Radio – Channel 2! Today’s inaugural installment is C2E1, for Theme Thursday, Sept 17th, 2020. Today’s theme is “Songs of the Pandemic”.
Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Selected By – Timestamp
01: The Runaway (City on the Horizon – Instrumental) - 198X – Multi – Daniel Rosenqvist and/or Anton Dromberg (UFD?) - St. John
a: Music / Intro: 00:00:00
b: Conversation: 00:03:47
02: Overdrive – Saturday Morning RPG – Multi – Vince DiCola and/or Kenny Merideth - Hugues
a: Music: 00:11:05
b: Conversation: 00:13:19
03: Unholy Impact – Mother Russia Bleeds – Multi – Fixions – St. John
a: Music: 00:19:10
b: Conversation: 00:24:28
04: The Abyss – Trails in the Sky the 3rd - PC / PSP – Hayoto Sonoda - Hugues
a: Music: 00:27:28
b: Conversation: 00:30:04
05: They’re Back – Streets of Rage 4 – Multi – Yuzo Koshiro – St. John
a: Music: 00:35:17
b: Conversation: 00:38:24
06: Power or Technique – Trails of Cold Steel III – PC / PS4 / Switch – Hayato Sonoda - Hugues
a: Music: 00:42:17
b: Conversation: 00:45:27
07: Friend Select – Air Zonk – Turbografx16 – Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita – St. John
a: Music: 00:48:43
b: Conversation: 00:49:44
08: Bar – Dungeon Explorer – Turborafx16 – Tsukasa Masuko - Hugues
a: Music: 00:53:18
b: Conversation: 00:54:59
09: Demons Undulate – Alien Crush – Turbografx16 – St. John
a: Music: 00:58:35
b: Conversation: 01:01:00
10: Mako Reactor – Final Fantasy VII Remake – PS4 – c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Masashi Hamauzu - Hugues
a: Music: 01:06:59
b: Conversation: 01:10:29
11: Behind the Cosmic Curtain – Samarost 3 – iOS / Android – Floex – St. John
a: Music: 01:19:32
b: Conversation: 01:22:09
12: Beneath the Mask (Rain – Instrumental) - Persona 5 – PS3 / PS4 - Shōji Meguro - Hugues
a: Music: 01:26:20
b: Conversation: 01:29:59
13: 10pm – Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Switch - Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, and/or Masato Ohashi – St. John
a: Music: 01:32:40
b: Conversation: 01:35:03
14: Results (Golf) - Wii Sports – Wii – Kazumi Totaka - Hugues
a: Music: 01:45:29
b: Conversation: N/A (Included in previous conversation)
15: Blooper: 01:48:21
Total Episode Runtime: 01:48:55
LINKS:
retrogameclub.net
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680?mt=2
nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio/id1191401173
Twitter: @NerdNoiseRadio
Facebook: facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadio/
This is our LAST CALL for track submissions for December’s Channel 1 “Best of 2019 – listener picks!” Here is the list of eligible tracks!
https://archive.org/details/nerd-noise-radio-best-of-2019-eligible-track-list-simplified
Please get us tracks as soon as possible. Deadline is 09/30/2020!
On Archive dot org, there is a Super Bonus – music only! All the music from this episode, without any of the talking. This will be something we do with every Channel 2 episode moving forward! We also went back in time and created a parallel Super Bonus from last December’s “Episode Zero”: “Nerd Noise Game Club”. So, go check those out!
Lastly, make sure you catch the blog post, as it contains a lot of additional notes about Channel 2! Here’s the Link:
https://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2020/09/nerd-noise-radio-channel-2-episode-1.html
Thanks for listening! Join us again in December for C2E2: Holiday / Wintry Theme [Episode Title TBD]
Thursday Jan 15, 2026
Thursday Jan 15, 2026
2026 Show Notes Addendum:
If you're a NintenDomain listener who is new to NNR from Trey and I's "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel Trey" one-off simulcast collaboration, then this rerun should be uniquely interesting to you!
So, "Channel Trey" was a one-off between Trey and I, in the style of an episode of the now-defunct "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2" which I used to do with Hugues Johnson of Retro Game Club (so, another "so and so Johnson" out of Chicago), only with Trey at the mic instead of Hugues. It was in the exact style and format of Channel 2.
Well, funnily enough, what went on to become Channel 2 also began life as a similar fun one-off between Hugues and I all the way back in December 2019. And here is that 2019 one-off. Hugues and I's 6yr earlier parallel to Trey and I's recent outing. This was before I knew I was AuDHD (Autistic + ADHD), and before I knew I possessed African and Jewish ancestry. It was also before I started editing out the "ums". But it's remarkable to me how "different yet the same" it feels to our official Ch 2 episodes which came later, or "Channel Trey" which rose from the ashes of the now-defunct Ch 2.
PRODUCTION CAVEATS: At this point, I had not switched from Mac to Linux, so I was using Garageband in MacOS on a late 2014 Mac Mini. Also, I had not yet upgraded to the Focusrite 4i4 (3rd Gen) XLR-to-USB interface, still using the lesser M-Audio MobilePre, and had not yet upgraded to the RODE Podmic dynamic microphone, let alone my current Shure SM7B, but was still using my original AudioTechnica AT2020 condenser mic, and lastly, was recording in a very very echoey room with no noise cancellation.
But apart from inferior hardware, software, and production techniques, and apart from this being my very first time ever doing something even remotely like this, the seeds of all NNR Channel 2 episodes, as well as the seeds of "Channel Trey" are all very much present here! This is where it all started: Channel 2, Channel Trey.....all of it!
My intent for this month is to also rerun not only our very first official Ch 2 episode from Sept 2020, but also C1E16: "Songs with Words", the first episode of the last season, and what in my personal opinion is the very best Ch 2 episode of all, perhaps save for C2F, our "series finale". Also, if you look back to December 2025 on the NNR podcast feed, you can also catch C2E20: "...all good things...", our final non-retrospective episode of Ch 2. So, if your first experience with Nerd Noise Radio was "Channel Trey", then you'll get to hear a lot of the context behind that episode!
In any case, enjoy the rogue one-off that became an entirely new Nerd Noise Radio program, which would ultimately culminate in yet another rogue one-off with Trey Johnson of NintenDomain!!
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St. John of "Nerd Noise Radio" and Hugues Johnson of "Retro Game Club" (and "The Retro League" alum) join forces to cover and discuss some of their favorite pieces of VGM from the 2010's. It's about what you'd expect if you put Retro Game Club / The Retro League, Nerd Noise Radio, Legacy Music Hour, and an entire decade of VGM in a blender....ooh, or maybe the hadron collider!
For the time-being, this is just a one-time "one-off" special, but if there is enough demand from either, or especially both of our respective listener pools, then we're open to making this an ongoing (albeit occasional, and likely irregular) thing. "Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2", maybe? ;-) Anyway, the power is yours, listeners! Make your voices heard! In the meanwhile? Enjoy!
Game - System - Track - Composer - Year - Selected By - Timestamp
- Earcatcher: 00:00:00
- Retro City Rampage - Multiplatform - Do or Die - Norrin Radd - 2012 - Hugues
Music: 00:00:03
Intro / Discussion: 00:00:39
- Shovel Knight - Multiplatform - Strike the Earth - Jake Kaufman - 2014 - St. John
Music: 00:04:25
Discussion: 00:08:07
- Tokyo Xanadu - Vita / PS4 / Windows - My Blaze, My Truth - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Mitsuo Singa, Takahiro Unisuga, and/or Koji Sekiguchi) - 2015 - Hugues
Music: 00:12:45
Discussion: 00:16:07
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Switch - Norfair - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro - 2018 (orig. 2008) - St. John
Music: 00:19:32
Discussion: 00:22:06
- Kirby's Epic Yarn - Wii / 3DS - Dino Jungle - Tomoya Tomita - 2010 - Hugues
Music: 00:26:35
Discussion: 00:28:57
- Art of Balance - Multiplatform - World D - Martin Schjøler - 2010 - St. John
Music: 00:32:17
Discussion: 00:34:41
- L.A. Noire - Multiplatform - Noire Clarinet - Andrew and/or Simon Hale - 2011 - Hugues
Music: 00:39:17
Discussion: 00:43:49
- Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Process Control - Yasuhisa Inoue - 2017- St. John
Music: 00:46:40
Discussion: 00:50:18
- Final Fantasy XV - Multiplatform - What Lies Within - Yoko Shimomura - 2016 - Hugues
Music: 00:55:55
Discussion: 01:01:04
- n++ - Multiplatform - Fonction - Broca - 2015 - St. John
Music: 01:04:15
Discussion: 01:11:21
- Ys VIII : Lacrimosa of Dana - Multiplatform - One Dream, One Reality - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayoto Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Mitsuo Singa) - 2016- Hugues
Music: 01:15:28
Discussion: 01:19:09
- Monument Valley - iOS / Android - The Garden - Stafford Bawler - 2014 - St. John
Music: 01:23:45
Discussion: 01:28:34
- To the Moon - Multiplatform - Having Lived - Ken Gao - 2011 - Hugues
Music: 01:31:33
Discussion: 01:34:10
- Prune - iOS / Android / Windows UWP - To The Stars - Kyle Preston - 2015 - St. John
Music: 01:39:01
Discussion: 01:46:41
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - Mipha's Touch - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 2017 - Hugues
Music: 01:50:11
Discussion: 01:53:42
- So Many Me - Multiplatform - Outskirts - Christopher Geehan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough (HyperDuck Soundworks) - 2014 - St. John
Music: 01:59:47
Discussion: 02:05:52
- The Last Story - Wii - Theme of Last Story - c: Nobuo Uematsu / a: Yoshitaka Suzuki - 2011 - Hugues
Music: 02:09:10
Discussion: 02:14:10
- ARMS - Switch - Get ARMS - Atsuko Asahi and/or Yasuaki Iwata - 2017 - St. John
Music: 02:18:22
Discussion: 02:21:22
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II - Multiplatform - Heated Mind - Falcom Sound Team jdk (Hayato Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga, Yukihiro Jindo, and/or Toshiharu Okajima) - 2014 - Hugues
Music: 02:24:26
Discussion: 02:27:02
- Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Mirage - Kemmei Adachi - 2010 - St. John
Music: 02:28:52
Discussion: 02:33:04
- Bravely Default - 3DS - Land of Light and Shadow - Revo - 2012 - Hugues
Music: 02:35:37
Discussion / MiiTopia Discussion / Outro: 02:38:05
- Miitopia - 3DS - In That Holiday Mood - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinji Ushiroda, Yumi
Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue - 2016 - St. John
Music: 02:44:56
Total Episode Runtime: 02:46:43
LINKS to our respective shows:
Retro Game Club:
retrogameclub.net
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680?mt=2
Nerd Noise Radio:
nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio/id1191401173
Twitter: @NerdNoiseRadio
Facebook: facebook.com/NerdNoiseRadio/
e-mail: nerdnoiseradio@gmail.com
Merry Christmas, and/or whatever other holidays you celebrate, and a happy new year, from Nerd Noise Radio, and Retro Game Club!
Cheers!
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Today's broadcast is a fun one-off between Trey Johnson of NintenDomain and W.A.R.T. Radio fame and myself in the style of a Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2 epiosde with the theme of "tracks we discovered in 2025".
Apologies for the absurdist length - but if you miss Ch 2, I think this one will scratch that itch for you! Also reminder that what would eventually go on to become Channel 2 also started as a fun one-off between Hugues and I, so you never know what the future holds! (I'll re-run that 2019 Ch F between Hugues and I later this month for contrast).
Tracklist:
Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Selected By
01) Zebra Bananza - DK Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui, Noato Kubo - Trey
a) Introductory Earcatcher - 00:00:00
b) Music - 00:00:03
c) Introduction - 00:02:13
d) Top of the Show - 00:03:56
e) Discussion - 00:20:09
02) PerfecT Shape - to a T - Multiplatform - c: Sakai Asuka and/or Keita Takahashi / v: Sam Bird - St. John
a) Music - 00:26:25
b) Discussion -00:28:12
03) When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars - Persona 3 Reload - Multiplatform - c: Shoji Meguro / a: Atsushi Kitajoh / v: Azumi Takahashi - Trey
a) Music - 00:45:00
b) Discussion - 00:48:37
04) Starview Peak - Mario Kart World - Switch 2 - Maasa Miyoshi, Takuhiro Honda, Yutaro Takakuwa, and/or Atsuko Asahi - St. John
a) Music - 00:54:59
b) Discussion - 00:56:50
05) Kronos Island (First Lap) - Sonic Racing Crossworlds - Multiplatform - Takahiro Kai, Tae Fujimoto, Kanon Oguni, Hidekuni Horita, Iona Takashima, Hiroki Kiriyama, Satoshi Okamura, Makoto Tokuyama, Satoshi Oike, Keisuke Tsukahara, and/or Saki Tsuda - Trey
a) Music - 01:03:48
b) Discussion - 01:06:17
06) Race Music 2 - New Star GP - Multiplatform - Benjamin Rooker, Alistair Edmond, Viraj Ramsharan, Giovanni D'Ambrosio, and/or Declan Birchall - St. John
a) Music - 01:19:49
b) Discussion - 01:22:11
07) Captain Falcon - F-Zero GX/AX - Game Cube - Hidenori Shoji - Trey
a) Music - 01:29:33
b) Discussion - 01:33:03
08) RedWood Forest - Fast Fusion - Switch 2 - Bjulin, and/or Francisco Cerda - St. John
a) Music - 01:39:32
b) Discussion - 01:43:17
09) Fury Green - Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Switch / Switch 2 - Kenji Yamamoto - Trey
a) Music - 01:49:22
b) Discussion - 01:52:35
10) The First Day - Dungeons of Hinterberg - Multiplatform - David Zahradnicek, and/or Markus Zahradnicek - St. John
a) Music - 02:02:12
b) Discussion - 02:06:18
11) Lumiose City (Day) - Pokemon Legends Z-A - Switch / Switch 2 - Minako Adachi, Hiromitsu Maeba, Carlos Eiene, Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Sasō, Takahiro Eguchi, Hitomi Sato, and/or Shota Kageyama - Trey
a) Music - 02:14:02
b) Discussion - 02:18:05
12) Eggshell Hotel - DK Bananza - Switch 2 - Daisuke Matsuoka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, and/or Tsukasa Usui, Noato Kubo - St. John
a) Music - 02:28:24
b) Discussion - 02:32:20
13) Royal Capital of Grancel - Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC - Multiplatform - Wataru Ishibashi - Trey
a) Music - 02:42:02
b) Discussion - 02:45:28
14) Pull of the Light - God of War: Ragnarok - PS4 / PS5 / PC - Bear McCreary - St. John
a) Music - 02:51:32
b) Discussion - 02:53:16
15) Black Tar - Xenoblade X - WiiU - Hiroyuki Sawano - Trey
a) Music - 02:59:13
b) Discussion - 03:05:27
16) First Time Setup - N/A (System Music) - Switch 2 - Kazumi Totaka - St. John
a) Music - 03:10:40
b) Discussion - 03:13:09
17) Level 1 (Velgress) - UFO 50 - Multiplatform - Eirik Suhrke - Trey
a) Music - 03:21:01
b) Discussion - 03:22:49
18) Okada Clan HQ - Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons - Multiplatform - Arman Aspromonti - St. John
a) Music - 03:28:33
b) Discussion - 03:31:24
19) Pride from Despair - Yakuza Kiwami 2 - PS4 / XB1 / PC - Hidenori Shoji, Yuri Fukuda, Chihiro Aoki, Saori Yoshida, and/or Takiya Kuroda - Trey
a) Music - 03:40:36
b) Discussion - 03:45:06
c) End of Show - 03:56:07
d) Closing Track Discussion - 04:01:09
e) Final Self-Promos - 04:03:05
f) Sign-off - 04:05:56
20) Credits Song (Legends of Trivia) - Jackbox Party Pack 11 - Multiplatform - Nate Sandberg - St. John
a) Music - 04:06:22
b) Outtake - 04:09:35
Total Episode Runtime: 04:17:38
You can find NintenDomain here:
https://nintendomainpodcast.com/
And you can find the NDM Episode 500 link here (where I make a cameo in the final 3/4 of the episode):
NintenDomain can also be found on the podcatcher of your choice, as well as on most social media platforms!
As for Nerd Noise Radio, be on the look out for that 2019 Ch F rerun, probably a proper Ch 2 rerun, and of course, C1R8 - our Channel 1 "2025 best of year in review episode". Delicious VGM, on Nerd Noise Radio - and wherever you are.....Fly the N!