The guy was a genius, and that's a fact. Be in his compositions or programming of the sound chips, he was bar to none.
Too sad he's no longer with us.

@UnseenMenace

3y↑17

I only discovered his work recently and was blown away as well as saddened to hear he died so young :(

@pmmm712011

2y↑9

This guy made the music for EVE and YUNO at around age 18. That's seriously mind-blowing.

@yourdaysbebright4738

12w↑1

This still serves as one of my "do things" music selections, popping up a few times each week. Thanks again, for uploading this awesome "sampler" of Umemoto's work.

@mylesobrien7477

3y↑22

Yu-No has a special place in my heart

@Akiak7

3y↑21

the most important vgm composer

@_buttonmasher

1y↑8

Rest in Power to one of the greatest to ever do it. Extremely grateful to those who have preserved Umemoto San’s music.

@vtcabbit

2y↑9

an amazing composer. he may have passed on but his legacy will last for generations

@SpiralPegasus

2y↑9

Is this playlist good?
>Yu-No is in it
>Reminiscence is featured

HELL YES IT IS

@yourdaysbebright4738

4y↑28

@Czarek7711, I want you to know that this video has been in my daily play list for nearly 4 months now. I LOVE Ryu Umemoto's work and the mix you have uploaded here is a fantastic example of his best work! It's a perfect set of tunes to write code to :)

@Czarek7711

4y↑6

Hey thanks! I'm glad to hear that even though the idea behind this video was to serve only as an introduction to Umemoto's music.

@user-7.62x39

3y↑7

デザイアの曲、EVEの曲、ほんとに心に刻まれてます。

@insanelyheinousbeefer

3y↑18

god this is so sick. i feel cheated that i never experienced pc-98 era game/music

@wizards-themagicalconcert5048

30w

You got an amazing taste in music mate,thanks for sharing ! Subbed !

@JanikFilms

3y↑3

INSANELY GOOD

@user-fw1gh5ff3c

3y↑9

Desire has the best soundtrack! Best game too

@brianflanagan9509

4y↑3

Lovely! Thanks!

@ceciifm

5y↑8

Thank you! I love Ryu Umemoto and PC-98 tunes!!

@DaBackpack

5y↑6

Great selection! Looking forward to a part 2 :)

@rutgermuller

5y↑5

wow, mood!

@glamsan

14w

XENONの音楽めっちゃ好きやわあ。😊

@MHidekingable

4y↑4

Awesome

@ahllyks

5y↑4

finally.. have been waiting for the tunes

@lukewilliams235

@Czarek7711I love your channel! Thanks for the awesome tunes! Ryu Umemoto is a legend and I love his music! YU-NO is coming out 1st October. Desire is my favourite visual novel and has a great soundtrack! Here's a website you can play visual novels on which is cool.
https://tss.asenheim.org/en/
https://www.siliconera.com/2019/05/22/yu-no-nintendo-switch-playstation-4-and-pc-versions-arrive-in-october-2019/

@lukewilliams235

@Czarek7711 You're welcome! That's cool.

@user-fw1gh5ff3c

3y↑2

@Czarek7711 you should play Desire, the soundtrack and the ending are the best I've ever seen. and the game is funny and has everything (including bad things but that is part of life and makes the ending even better lol) though the censored PS2 and dunno what else versions are better in my opinion

@Deniii4000

3y↑1

@耳鳴り I had completely forgotten Desire was available on PS2.
I almost grabbed the Saturn version many years ago but was short on money. I ended up playing the pc version.

@Crixer234

2y↑2

I wonder how many soundcards for the PC-98 was released?, kinda hard to find a common list, also i know Creative released the Sound Blaster for it time ago but never catch on unlike it's PC (in japan terms: PC/AT) counterpart that became defacto standard.

@seraphinax6449

Well the most common soundcards (or soundboards as PC-98 users call them) for PC-98 are the "PC-9801-26" which was released in 1985 and containing a Yamaha YM2203 FM Synth supporting 3 OPN FM channels and 3 SSG channels, replaced quickly by the "PC-9801-26k" that works on faster machines. And in the early 90s NEC released the "PC-9801-86" sound board containing a discrete PCM chip and the Yamaha YM2608 FM Synth supporting 6 OPNA FM channels, 3 SSG channels, a PCM channel and various drums channels and that sound board is fully backwards compatible with software supporting the "-26" sound board.

There were some clone sound boards like the "Speak Board", "QVision", and more. There were also some other unique soundboards but those aren't really popular. Sound Blaster 16 for example had a socket for a YM2203 for compatibility with software that support the "26k" board but later PC-98 Sound Blasters AWEs didn't have that and only supported Windows.

@Sabocalypse

4y↑2

Very good

@kot32_fake

Quick question, where exactly did you get the rips for DESIRE and how did you get it to work with Hoot?

@user-nf2lu5oj6e

3y↑5

세기말감성인가 이것이..

@cyberholix

5y↑4

Przekozak. Klimat jedyny w swoim rodzaju, nawet jak na japońskie realia chiptunowe.
Spoczywaj w pokoju, Ryu Umemoto.

@roimar2983

3y↑1

polish my balls please, jk.

@funknotik

What soundboard is used to proved these synths? Is it the onboard sound of pc98? Sounds great

@Czarek7711

1y↑1

Yes, PC-9801-26K, PC-9801-86 and Speak Board. Although of course here they are emulated using hoot.

@maxabeles

2y↑1

32:45 japan got the funk!

@loganjones4650

5y↑1

What is the most accurate emulator for PC-98 ym2203 and ym2608 sound? Is it Hoot with its low-pass-filter simulation?

@Czarek7711

5y↑1

I couldn't tell you, I'm not that knowledgeable on the subject. Personally I don't use LPF settings in hoot, only sampling rate.

@himmelhero

@Czarek7711 Would you happen to know where I could attain the Cheap file seems like links are down everywhere.

@Czarek7711

@himmelhero I'm not aware of any Hoot tutorials. The best you can do is try to figure it out based on a working hoot setup, like mine - https://github.com/czarek7711/hoot. And if you have any specific questions I can try to help. I've never used Cheap myself, and as far as I know HootFavoritter is a similar and superior software.

@marcusaaronliaogo9158

26w

This is giving me va-11 hall-a vibes

@violaa9092

3y↑1

Hey there! Just as an initial disclaimer, I'm kinda new to Umemoto's music (as I finished PC-98's YU-NO sometime this year), but hoping that'll change in the future. This compilation was really interesting.
Out of YU-NO BGM (and the others, though I wouldn't be able to know), I couldn't help but notice that your selection seems ~~to me~~ to follow a clear pattern. As I know virtually nothing about music, I can only describe it as a particular vibe that leaves out "softer" or more melodic songs, which, in my opinion, are more memorable. (I'm thinking of Mio/Ayumi/YU-NO's themes, Contact, Movement themes...). The only exception would be Reminiscence. But, again, I don't know how to describe what I'm thinking of. Apologies in advance.

So, my question is, if you have the time and feel like it: would you say this selection is representative of Umemoto's "style"? Or maybe the songs I listed aren't too far from this, and you just didn't feel they would fit?
Sorry for the wall of text and vague explanation, but thanks in advance for taking the time to read it!

@Czarek7711

3y↑2

Hey, interesting comment, thank you! I don't think I'd agree that this list doesn't contain "softer" or "more melodic" songs. This selection wasn't meant to be representative of Umemoto's style. It's just tracks I particularly enjoyed listening to at that time. I additionally was trying to include max 3 tracks per game. Evidently it didn't work out in case of YU-NO. I could swap them with many others though, including some of those you mentioned (as a sidenote, Ayumi's theme was composed by Ryu Takami).

@violaa9092

@Czarek7711 Ah, thanks a lot for replying so quickly.
Gotcha @ everything, I now see where you're coming from. As usual, I was overthinking things, haha. And, for the record, I wasn't trying to be at all confrontational! I think your mix is pretty fine, and it serves its purpose well.
(Also: I didn't know about Ayumi's! Thanks for sending me down an evening-long rabbit hole)

PS. Wikipedia doesn't list any source for this, but apparently Umemoto was a descendant of Sengoku's Takeda Shingen ¿¿?¿?¿?¿?¿ woah

@Deniii4000

@Czarek7711 Who composed the song "Memories" in Yu-No?
It's my favorite song in but I don't know who composed it.

@Czarek7711

3y↑1

@Daniel Galipo Ryu Umemoto. Vast majority of the tracks were done by him.

@Deniii4000

@Czarek7711 Thanks for the reply!

@Emzy2608

How do you get hoot to display the operators for FM#2?

@Czarek7711

4y↑1

You need to add the option "<option name="showfm3ex" value="1"/>" in the xml entry.

@Emzy2608

@Czarek7711 Is there a tutorial online for that? I can't find where to put it.

@Czarek7711

4y↑1

@Emzy There isn't. You need to find the xml file inside which config info of the soundtrack you're trying to edit is stored. It's probably named after the publisher of the game. There you need to find <game> node for your game, and put the showfm3ex option inside <options> node. If there's no <options> node then you need to add it, can be under <driveralias> node. Save the file, open hoot and press Ctrl + R to reload music config data. Hopefully you can get it working now. And remember that this option works only for OPN based soundchips.

@Emzy2608

@Czarek7711 Thank you so much! I got it working now!

@MegaTheman25

15w

Hoot would be the perfect player if you could skip around to certain sections like foobar2000

@LeKikoojap

With hoot I could make Umemoto-sounding tracks?

@r3nsk1

3y↑1

hoot is a sound hw emulator & replayer. You could check out BambooTracker.

@lightspeedmurphy7546

Do you accept any requests for PC98 rips?

@lightspeedmurphy7546

@Czarek7711 Someone had videos for all 4 Cybernetic Hi-School games but for some reason he took them down along with all of his other game music rips

@siskavard

3y↑12

Why do all the porn games have the best soundtracks?

@potatoname8714

2y↑6

Because big anime like attack on Titan, mushoku tensei and steins gate are inspired by eroge's

@siskavard

2y↑1

@potato name what

@potatoname8714

@mental slime Yes

https://youtu.be/Eh5qzH8K_eE

https://youtu.be/w53HFaHXits

@sirmiluch6856

1y↑3

Porn games. Lol. Did you even play any of VNs? The stories and characterization in these games are often blowing out everything that western popculture produced in past 30 years.