Why didn't FUNimation do this for the BT games?

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:13 am

I was recently playing BT 3 on my Wii, when it occured to me that the Japanese release of the game had the music from the show for the game.

It dawned on me that Atari could have made a little bit more money if FUNimation had used Falcouner's music for the game. As we all know, the BT/Sparking games are the closest you will get to being in the show.
If the Japanese could get the game with music from the show, why couldn't we? The people who don't like the dub could get the Japanese version, like Mike, and the American/Dubbie fans could've gotten this. What gives?

B · Post by B » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:15 am

Has the English version of any DBZ fighter ever gotten Faulconer's tracks? Don't they always come with some instrumentals made by Atari themselves?

SSJ2bardock · Post by **SSJ2bardock** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:15 am

Licensing issues possibly?

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:33 am

SSJ2bardock wrote:Licensing issues possibly?

I don't see how, since they use for the show, just like Japan does.

MajinVejitaXV · Post by **MajinVejitaXV** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:24 pm

VenomSymbiote wrote:
SSJ2bardock wrote:Licensing issues possibly?
I don't see how, since they use for the show, just like Japan does.

Toei probably owns carte blanche rights to the score, whereas FUNi might only have the right to use their score for televised and home releases. Afterall, I'm pretty sure Falconer composed the score as a "gun for hire." He must have maintained some say in how the music was used.

-Corey

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:09 pm

I'd say Taiketsu and the Legacy series had Faulconer music, but they were all created by Atari, so, it may well be a liscencing issue.

Taku128 · Post by **Taku128** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:37 pm

VenomSymbiote wrote:I was recently playing BT 3 on my Wii, when it occured to me that the Japanese release of the game had the music from the show for the game.

It dawned on me that Atari could have made a little bit more money if FUNimation had used Falcouner's music for the game. As we all know, the BT/Sparking games are the closest you will get to being in the show.
If the Japanese could get the game with music from the show, why couldn't we? The people who don't like the dub could get the Japanese version, like Mike, and the American/Dubbie fans could've gotten this. What gives?

But I would have no way of playing a Japanese copy of Sparking! METEOR on Wii. Plus without the in game tutorial I would have had no idea what to do.

NeptuneKai · Post by **NeptuneKai** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:43 pm

Wouldn't having Bruce's music be sort of weird? A lot of the time it seems like he composed his music around the according scene. (For instance his music would do a cartoony falling noise whenever Goku was sent slamming into the ground.)

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:21 pm

NeptuneKai wrote:Wouldn't having Bruce's music be sort of weird? A lot of the time it seems like he composed his music around the according scene. (For instance his music would do a cartoony falling noise whenever Goku was sent slamming into the ground.)

Yeah. Although I'd rather the Japanese music. It would be good one day to have both scores on a future game title.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:14 pm

If Faulconer's score was included, I would probably turn it off even quicker than I turned off the rejected Sonic the hedgehog music, which was within a couple of hours of playing.

Onikage725 · Post by **Onikage725** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:44 pm

Agreed with NeptuneKai. Without even going into my personal taste on the matter, the dub score iss very much paced directly to the action on-screen. A character rushes, the music picks up. Action stops, there's either a mellow period or a comical cartoony sound. Just listen to Perfect Cell's theme. Andd, honestly, outside of the "themes," is the random battle music any more memorable than the Atari score? I mean, maybe his Super Buu theme would be kickass for a fighter, but does anyone sit around humming whatever the dub played when Goku fought Jheese and Butta?

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:44 am

Rory wrote:I'd say Taiketsu and the Legacy series had Faulconer music, but they were all created by Atari, so, it may well be a liscencing issue.

The Gameboy Advance Collectible Card Game even had a couple of Faulconer's songs directly ripped, albeit looped into infinity.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:36 pm

I always enjoyed the Falcouner Music in Legacy of Goku 2, it really made me feel like I was "in the show". Even though I don't love everything Falcouner composed, they did a good job with that game.

Majin Buu · Post by **Majin Buu** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:09 pm

Since I'm not a fan of Falconer's music (or the dub music in general) I'm glad they didn't put any of it in. It sucks that they took out the Japanese music, but my stance on that was: "As long as they don't put in any music from the dub, I can live with it".

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:24 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqspLzfJObA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St2qj17VLHw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdYrqVaC ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WtI-D0eH08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKHW_ZPI ... re=related

Those are some of the songs that could fit in the game.

Super Ghost Kamikaze · Post by **Super Ghost Kamikaze** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:12 pm

Conan the SSJ wrote:
Rory wrote:I'd say Taiketsu and the Legacy series had Faulconer music, but they were all created by Atari, so, it may well be a liscencing issue.
The Gameboy Advance Collectible Card Game even had a couple of Faulconer's songs directly ripped, albeit looped into infinity.

So...just like an episode of dubbed DBZ?

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:51 pm

Super Ghost Kamikaze wrote:
Conan the SSJ wrote:
Rory wrote:I'd say Taiketsu and the Legacy series had Faulconer music, but they were all created by Atari, so, it may well be a liscencing issue.
The Gameboy Advance Collectible Card Game even had a couple of Faulconer's songs directly ripped, albeit looped into infinity.
So...just like an episode of dubbed DBZ?

I see what you did there.

Kanzenshuu

Why didn't FUNimation do this for the BT games?

Why didn't FUNimation do this for the BT games?

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