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Game name:           Shadow Warriors (W) /
                     Ninja Gaiden (U) /
                     Ninja Ryukenden (J)
System:              Ninja Gaiden
Music hardware:      2xYM2203, OKIM6295

Music author:        Mikio Saito,
                     Ryuichi Nitta
Game developer:      Tecmo
Game publisher:      Tecmo
Game release date:   1988 (W/U) / 1989 (J)

Package created by:  Dario011
Package version:     2.01

Song list, in approximate game order:
Song name                           Length:
                                    Total  Loop
01 Insert Coin                      0:04   -
02 Game Start                       0:07   -
03 Shadow Soldier (L.A Stage BGM)   2:56   2:48
04 Sumo Wrestler (L.A Stage / Grand
   Canyon Stage - Boss BGM)         2:00   1:20
05 Round Clear 1                    0:03   -
06 Pat (N.Y Stage BGM)              1:48   1:15
07 I Am Man (N.Y Stage /
   Transcontinental Railroad Stage
   - Boss BGM)                      2:03   1:30
08 Round Clear 2                    0:05   -
09 Casino (Las Vegas Stage BGM)     3:04   2:55
10 Na-n-to (Las Vegas Stage - Boss
   BGM)                             2:36   1:56
11 Round Clear 3                    0:04   -
12 The Sun Rises Over the Hills
   (Grand Canyon Stage BGM -
   Overseas Version)                1:45   0:53
13 Round Clear 4                    0:05   -
14 Chasing Him Until the Very End
   (Transcontinental Railroad Stage
   BGM)                             2:38   2:23
15 Round Clear 5                    0:05   -
16 Humming of the Devil (Final
   Stage BGM)                       2:22   1:20
17 Last Fight (Final Boss BGM)      4:27   2:16
18 Time Up                          0:06   -
19 Game Over                        0:04   -
20 689, Everybody Likes...
   Sukiyaki? (Game Clear ~ Ending)  1:48   -
21 The Most Unexpected Thing in the
   World (High Score Entry BGM)     1:22   0:20
22 Nature's Symphony (Grand Canyon
   Stage BGM)                       4:01   3:04
23 Round Clear 1 (JP)               0:05   -
24 Round Clear 2 (JP)               0:05   -
25 Round Clear 3 (JP)               0:06   -
26 Round Clear 4 (JP)               0:06   -
27 Round Clear 5 (JP)               0:06   -

Total Length                       34:00  56:00
Total Length (W/U)                 29:30  48:26
Total Length (J)                   33:39  55:38


Notes:
Notes from Sonic of 8! (fixed for consistency):
Two bootlegs exists with diffrent configuration
of sound chips: Master Ninja (uses 2xYM2203
without the OKI chip) and Dragon Bowl (uses a
YM2151 plus a OKIM6295 chip).

Track 14 plays only on non-japanese versions.
Track 22 plays only on japanese versions. But
for me, Track 22 is better. Both of them is
used on Stage 4.

Notes from Dario011:
According to both albums, Mikio Saito and
Ryuichi Nitta (in addition to an interview
he had) were the composers for this game,
Saito made the music for almost all the
stages of the game, while Nitta made the
ones used when passing the stages and the
song of stage 4 for the International Version,
of the other composers (besides seeing
the most recent album of this game,
"Ninja Gaiden The Definitive Soundtrack"),
you do not see their names, which leaves me
that they should only have contributed
with the other sound effects.

I also added for the sake of having the
pack complete, I added the Japanese versions of
the Round Clears (with the "Ninja Ryukenden"
voice), I applied the order of the album
backwards, first the songs (For Stage 4
and Round Clears without the voice)
that are used in the International Version,
and then the Japanese ones, and that's why I
made other playlists, the Japanese follows
the original album, while the international
are in another order.

Track Names and Composer Breakdown are from:
"Ninja Ryukenden -G.S.M. TECMO 1-" (D28B-0013)
and "Ninja Gaiden The Definitive Soundtrack
Vol. 1" (GS-003).

This pack was re-ripped using
MAME 0.244 VGM Mod.

Size Reduction:
vgm_sro: 21.2 MB -> 14.8 MB (70.1 %)
vgm_cmp: 14.8 MB -> 1.71 MB (11.5 %)
Total: 21.2 MB -> 1.71 MB (8.05 %)

Links:
Ryuichi Nitta Interview:
 https://web.archive.org/web/20201204080328/http://www.vgmonline.net/ryuichinittainterview/
VGMDB Links:
 https://vgmdb.net/album/3907
 https://vgmdb.net/album/63151


Package history:
1.00 2012-07-21 Sonic of 8!: Initial release.
1.10 2021-10-05 Paul999: I had to turn up the
 volume at all. I inverted the correct from
 Track 5 and Track 6.
2.00 2022-12-22 Dario011: Full Re-Rip with
 MAME 0.244, Added v1.70 Header, Updated
 Composer and All Title Tags and Added
 Custom Playlists for each version.
2.01 2025-04-02 Valley Bell: Fixed v1.70 header
 that I broke during last packaging process.
