CM-2113: Konami Music Masterpiece Collection

[Carl]

I kinda wish I hadn't sold off this set...

The title really does fit the contents perfectly, a collection of many masterpieces of early Konami music.

Great classics to be enjoyed for many years.

[Eirikr]

Yeah, I was very excited to get mine. This was around the same time the Famicom Mini CDs were being released. After the Namco set, I was hoping that Konami would follow suit, but I guess it would have been seemingly redundant after this one. It would have been nice to have the NES versions of Life Force, Gradius 2, Contra, Super C, etc all on easy-to-find discs.

[The Gambler]

There, I dissected it (whew!) and I think I found all the origins of the recordings they used for this box. Enjoy the mini-FAQ:

Vol.1 ~Gradius edition~
Track 01 from Scramble [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Track 02 from Super Cobra [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 03~15 from Gradius [AC] 13 tracks as in KMCA-155

Vol.2 ~Twinbee edition~
Track 01 from Twinbee [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 02~04 from Moero! Twinbee [FDS] same three tracks from 140A-7709
Tracks 05~10 from Twinbee 3 [FC] compiled together as in KICA-1007

Vol.3 ~Salamander edition~
Tracks 01~10 from Salamander [AC] 10 tracks as in KICA-7601
Tracks 11~13 from Life Force [AC] 3 tracks as in KICA-7601

Vol.4 ~Parodius edition~
Tracks 01~32 from Parodius da! [AC] tracks 2-33 from KICA-1011

Vol.5 ~Thunder Cross edition~
Track 01 from Time Pilot [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Track 02 from Time Pilot '84 [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 03~15 from Thunder Cross [AC] from 276A-7703

Vol.6 ~A-JAX edition~
Track 01 from Finalizer [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 02~18 from A-JAX [AC] corresponding to tracks 23-39 of K30X-7702, missing three unused tracks

Vol.7 ~Akumajo Dracula edition~
Tracks 01~12 from Castlevania [FDS] 12 tracks as in KICA-1005
Tracks 13~27 from Haunted Castle [AC] 15 tracks, grouped as in K30X-7705, with track 21 compiled in reverse order, as ever.

Vol.8 ~Ganbare Goemon edition~
Track 01 from Mr. Goemon [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: KICA-1055)
Tracks 02~09* from Ganbare Goemon 2 [FC] All seven tracks** from 140A-7704 **see post below

Vol.9 ~Contra edition~
Tracks 01~04 from Contra [AC] corresponding to tracks 48, 49, 50, 60 in SCDC-00472
Tracks 05~20 from Super Contra [AC] first 16 tracks as in K30X-7702, missing four unused tracks; Disc 9 of this box basically has served as basis for this digital iTunes release

Vol.10 ~Comical Action edition~
Track 01 from Pooyan [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Track 02 from Circus Charlie [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 03~22 from Escape Kids [AC] 20 tracks as in KICA-7502

Vol.11 ~Fighting Action edition~
Track 01 from Yie Ar Kung-Fu [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Track 02 from Shao-Lin's Road [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Track 03 from Galactic Warriors [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 04~22 from Crime Fighters [AC] 19 tracks as in KICA-1016

Vol.12 ~Sports edition~
Track 01 from Hustler [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Track 02 from Hyper Olympic [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Track 03 from Hyper Olympic '84 [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 04~19 from Hard Puncher [AC] 16 tracks as in 276A-7708

Vol.13 ~Racing edition~
Track 01 from Road Fighter [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Track 02 from RF-2 [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 03~12 from Hot Chase [AC] 10 tracks as in 276A-7703

Vol.14 ~Puzzle Action edition~
Track 01 from Gattan Gotton [AC] gameplay sound effects (previous recording: 220A-7723)
Tracks 02~11 from Quarth [AC] 10 tracks as in KICA-1016
Tracks 12~21 from Hexion [AC] 10 tracks as in KICA-7605, minus the SE track

Vol.15 ~Famicom edition~
Tracks 01~03 from Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa [FDS] same three tracks from 140A-7709
Tracks 04~10 from Ai Senshi Nicol [FDS] from KICA-1023
Tracks 11~13 from Getsu Fuuma Den [FC] same three tracks from 140A-7709

*note on track 9 of Vol.8, while listed in
the tracklist it is actually not present on the CD.

To recap, this box uses materials from these previous releases:

Mar'88 K30X-7702 = Music from Super Contra & A-JAX (This one has split tracks for A-Jax, unlike the 28XA-201(*) which was released ten days before it) [A-Jax; Super Contra] Motoaki Furukawa; Motoaki Furukawa & Kazuki Muraoka
Aug'88 K30X-7705 = Konami Game Music Collection Vol.1 [Haunted Castle] Kenichi Matsubara
May'89 140A-7704 = Ganbare Goemon 2 [Goemon 2] Michiru Yamane, Kouji Murata
May'89 276A-7703 = Thunder Cross [Thundercross; Hot Chase] Prophet Fukami, J_KANE; Kingoro
Jul'89 140A-7709 = Famicom Memorial 1 [Upa; Moero; GetsuFuma] Prophet Fukami; ?; Michael Maezawa
Jul'89 276A-7708 = Konami Game Music Collection Vol.0 [Hard Puncher]
Dec'89 220A-7723 = Senryobako 1. The third disc of this box, "Konami Game Sound History 1980-1985" is the source for all the brief, SE-embedded tracks of pre-1985 arcades that are used to open the Masterpiece discs.
Mar'90 KICA-1005 = Akumajo Dracula Famicom Best [Castlevania FDS/NES] Kinuyo Yamashita, Satoe Terashima
Apr'90 KICA-1007 = Famicom Memorial 2 [Twinbee 3]
Jul'90 KICA-1011 = Parodius da! Shinwa kara Owaraihe [Parodius Da!] Dokuo Umeno, Cameo Matano
Aug'90 KICA-1016 = Konami Game Music Collection Vol.2 [Quarth; Crime Fighters] Playback Hanzawa; IZUMI
Feb'91 KICA-1023 = Famicom Memorial 3 [Ai Senshi Nicol] Tonma-kun's Papa
May'91 KICA-7502 = Konami Game Music Collection Vol.3 [Escape Kids]
Dec'91 KICA-1055 = Senryobako 3 The third disc of this box, "KONAMI GAME SOUND HISTORY 1986~1987" is the source for the lone [Mr. Goemon] track
Mar'92 KICA-7601 = Salamander Again (of course Salamander music was published way before this, but this is the first "10 split tracks + 3 lifeforce split tracks" release I've found on the db) [Salamander; Lifeforce] MIKI-CHANG
Sep'92 KICA-7605 = Konami Game Music Collection Vol.5 [Hexion] Junya Nakano, Yuji Takenouchi, Satoko Miyawaki
Apr'02 KMCA-155 = Gradius Arcade Soundtrack (what I said for Salamander Again applies here too) [Gradius] Miki Higashino

(*)Nov'05 SCDC-00472 = Scitron reprint of 28XA-201, splits each BGM into a separate track. This was released one year later than the Masterpiece box, however it was supposed to be in print since 2001. Since this one has split [Contra] tracks, I used it as a reference. It seems Contra is one of the very few abriged soundtracks in the box (if you consider the fifteenth disc as a sort of bonus disc). [Contra] Kazuki Muraoka

[The Gambler]

** While checking this boxset, I discovered that the OST for Goemon 2 is indeed complete.
It has all the seven compiled tracks from the original 140A-7704 album.

The album note states:

*note on track 9 of Vol.8, while listed in
the tracklist it is actually not present on the CD.

But that's incorrect. I suggest the following correction:

Disc 8 has a label error: track 6 "GM #2" doesn't exist. The soundtrack is complete with tracks 2-5 and 7-8.

Also, I tried to edit the tracklist by canceling tr.6 minute's length, but for some reason it doesn accept that and just copies the length of the following one, tr.7. Is it possible to have a blank track in the middle of the album?

[Secret Squirrel]

Thanks for finding and correcting this mistake. I got rid of the extra track with an SQL query, since the only other way to do it would have been to delete it and resubmit.

[The Gambler]

Thanks for that. By the way, Disc 3 does indeed contain the three Lifeforce tracks. For some reason the tracklist stopped at track 10. I added them to the english one, but not to the Japanese one.

[The Gambler]

Seanne approved my composers field edits, but for some reason it's still "Konami Kukeiha Club" ...?

[LuxKiller65]

According to the outer box, the price should be 7,865Y, right?

http://i.imgur.com/EV3dwEG.jpg

[Nisto]

Originally Posted by LuxKiller65

According to the outer box, the price should be 7,865Y, right?

7,875Y!

[LuxKiller65]

dats a typo yeah