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Songs That Composers Reuse From Different Franchises

Grunty

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I was listening to some gaming songs on Spotify and noticed that there are some songs from completely different franchises that composers have a tendency to reuse. The most obvious two examples that come to mind are these...

Ocarina of Time Ending. From 9:34-10:00...



And the Starfox 64 Ending. From 4:30-5:10...



And then these: Banjo-Kazooie Stop N Swop Theme. From 0:36-0:41...



And the Donkey Kong 64 Scoff n Troff Theme. From 0:34-0:40...



Anyone have any other good examples?
 
Soulflarz

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The Incarnation of Devil wins this thread quite literally, having been reused across a wall of games from Star Oceans to Radiata Stories to the Valkyrie Profile series.
 
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Plosive Attack form Parasite Eve:



Marginal Beast from Legend of Mana:



Both sountracks were composed by Yoko Shinomura.
 
DrHercouet

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Motoi Sakuraba : The Thread

Not only his motifs are quite similar at times :






But he genuinely plugged FULL tracks from one game to another.






What a magnificent lad. I love him so much.
 
BGBW

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The most obvious example is Totaka's song - an Easter Egg that appears in a multitude of games he was involved in:

 
retroman

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Fantasy Zone, Hot Rod, Super Hang-On and Turbo Out Run all share the same 'Shop' theme.







 
Red Devil

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This is a weird one... The original Spyro trilogy composer Stewart Copeland reused one of its music for Nick's The Amanda Show, for whatever reason.



 
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Omega theme from Final Fantasy XV Royal edition uses Final Fantasy V battle theme and FFV main theme and it's amazing. I dont know if the new songs for Royal edition where composed by Yoko Shimomura or was someone else

Edit: different franchises, well..FF changed a lot in the past years so...
 
Dusk Golem

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This is not the exact same thing, but a notable one.



Megalovania was originally from Toby Fox's Earthbound Halloween Hack, then used it again in Homestuck, before becoming a lot more well known by its use in Undertale.
 
Kain-Nosgoth

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DrHercouet said:
Motoi Sakuraba : The Thread

Not only his motifs are quite similar at times :






But he genuinely plugged FULL tracks from one game to another.






What a magnificent lad. I love him so much.
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That's why i just don't like him anymore, he did some of my favourite soundtrack but these days it just all sound the same between all games it's just boring and uninspired (sure there will be one or two goosd tracks here and there, but overall it's just bad)
 
Firebrand

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Soken took a song from a horror game for the DS he worked and stuck it in Final Fantasy XIV as... a pop idol song. Appropriately creepy! (And one year this FFXIV "Little Ladies Day" festival did have a slightly hidden ghost story quest that was shockingly dark, involving abduction and implied sex trafficking...)


 
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Not exactly what you ask, but Hyakutaro Tsukumo, the guy behind a lot of shoot em ups like thunder force V did a serie of songs that travel between franchise, that all follows the same style, they're called The Justice Ray !

He did 5 of them and they're amazing :




Part 1 is from Blast Wind
Part 2 is from Thunder Force V
Part 3 is from Broken Thunder
Part 4 is from Steel Roar 2
Part 5 is from Armored Hunter Gunhoud EX




I hope he'll do a part 6 someday
 
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Grunty

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Just remembered another one. This one in particular isn't even the same composers...

Wrinkly's Cave In Donkey Kong Country 3...



And Princess Peach's Castle In Super Mario 64...

 

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Wild Arms was one of my favourite games as a child. I must have been around 20 when I first saw The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and couldn't believe my ears.





Edit: maybe not exactly what OP was looking for, sorry!
 
DrHercouet

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poussi said:
Wild Arms was one of my favourite games as a child. I must have been around 20 when I first saw The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and couldn't believe my ears.
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This happened to me too! I watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with my parents YEARS after having played Wild Arms and I gasped so hard I had to explain them why I got so emotional. It was a big deal for me but they kind of dismissed the moment saying "God, we raised a nerd"
 
roguesquirrel

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Roxie Rover said:
Hideki Naganuma did something similar. This track from JSRF gets reused and remixed in an arcade game called Ollie King



Concept of Love also gets a pretty neat remix too!
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Reusing samples isnt really the same thing as reusing an entire song but in another Hideki Naganuma example, Banana Blitz's Smooth Sherbert and Sonic Rush's Raisin Me Up both share vocal samples

 
AtomicShroom

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There's the ever-famous case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Rygar, both on NES and from different companies, sharing the exact same song. Though the same composer was involved in both:






Also David Wise reused an old song from the NES game Pirates!, which he composed, for the King K. Rool theme in Donkey Kong Country:



 
Synth

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BT did a bunch of tracks for Die Hard Trilogy 2, which then also made it into Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions.



 
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