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755: The Magic of GBA Soundtracks

Retronauts · March 16, 2026

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00:27:36 - 00:27:48

... - See, my perception of the GBA was skewed because the first thing I got for that system when I imported it at the Japanese launch was Castlevania Circle of the Moon, which cheated hardcore. ...

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... when that's not exactly how the GBA functions. - Right, okay, yeah. - You know, trying to use a one size fits all sort of solution when the GBA does have slightly more bespoke hardware than that, but I could be wrong. That's just me. - See, my perception of the GBA was skewed because the first thing I got for that system when I imported it at the Japanese launch was Castlevania Circle of the Moon, which cheated hardcore. They were like, we don't care about using the built-in Game Boy chip. We are just gonna stream all of this audio. We are gonna use 90% of the available ROM space to put the best of Castlevania music in here. ...

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