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Metroid

1986 · Nintendo · NES · music by Hirokazu Tanaka

  1. 01 RollsOut now▶ Play

    All twelve tunes as notes falling onto a keyboard per voice — mute one, slow it down.

    Metroid as piano rolls
  2. 02 SheetsOut now▶ Read

    The same twelve tunes as scores, read bar by bar — every note out of the cartridge.

    The score of IntroThe score of Enter: SamusThe score of BrinstarThe score of ChozosThe score of Power UpThe score of NorfairThe score of Kraid's LairThe score of Ridley's LairThe score of TourianThe score of Mother BrainThe score of Quick EscapeThe score of Mission Completed Successfully

Samus Aran explores the caverns of planet Zebes for power-ups to reach Mother Brain and the stolen Metroids — the game the Metroidvania grew from, and twelve tunes.

Nothing here was transcribed by ear: every note was read out of the cartridge and is played by an emulated NES sound chip — two pulse waves, a triangle and the noise channel, each on a keyboard of its own.

The music and the game belong to their composers and publishers; this site only shows how the cartridge plays it, for learning.