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Ninja Gaiden 3: The Ancient Ship of Doom (NES) Soundtrack - 8BitStereo

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Tracklist:
0:00 Introduction I (Espionage)
0:22 Introduction II (Pursuit)
0:57 SFX: Irene Falls Off Cliff
0:59 Introduction III (Vengeance)
2:11 SFX: Title Screen ~ Start
2:16 Twist of Fate III (Act Intro)
2:19 Stages 1-1 & 5-1
4:13 Batlefield III (Boss Battle)
5:31 SFX: Boss Destroyed
5:36 Cinema Display I (Clancy's Theme)
6:38 Stages 2-1 & 7-2
8:35 Stages 2-2 & 5-2
10:31 Cinema Display II (Foster Returns)
12:01 Cinema Display III (Defiance)
12:05 Stages 3-1 & 6-2
14:02 Stages 3-2 & 6-1
15:56 Cinema Display IV (Duel with a Double) ~ SFX: Clash
16:22 Cinema Display V (Ryu's Defeat)
18:07 Stages 4-1 & 7-1
21:00 Stages 4-2 & 7-3
23:09 Cinema Display VI (Seeking Truth)
24:06 Cinema Display VII (Castle Rock)
24:32 Cinema Display VIII (Surprised!)
24:36 Cinema Display IX (Metamorphosis)
25:48 SFX: Machine Gun Fire
25:50 SFX: Clancy Escapes
25:54 Cinema Display X (Into Subspace)
26:53 Cinema Display XI (Dimensional Rift)
27:21 SFX: Inside the Warship
27:30 SFX: Warship Rises
27:39 SFX: Warship Fires
27:51 Cinema Display XII (Dimensional Warship)
28:09 Cinema Display XIII (The True Form)
28:22 Stages 7-5 & 7-6 (The Final Battle)
29:21 SFX: Castle Rock Collapses
29:37 Epilogue (A New Day Dawns)
31:17 Credits (Staff Roll)
33:10 Life Lost / Game Over
3:14 Ninja Pause

The OST to Ninja Gaiden 3: The Ancient Ship of Doom for the Nintendo Entertainment System, updated into a new "8BS Mixed" format with less echo/reverb and to sound more clear and crisp than ever before, while also providing on screen information to respective composers, arrangers, sound programmers, sound drivers and developers. These mixes also do not represent the original versions, these tracks are based from original NSF rips, and are not recordings from an actual NES/Famicom, check below for the original OST in NSFe format! So, welcome to Niko's 8BitStereo! Enjoy the music and share!

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MP3 (320kbps) DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://mega.nz/file/cts2GIyb#P9pqlYj...

Original NSFe Version:
https://mega.nz/file/dsknmYra#1lstfYp...

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20 Comments

@Nikos8BitStereo Creator 2 years ago Pinned

We've finally made it to the third entry of this tough as nails series, welcome to the revamp for Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom! Keeping up the tradition of thrilling and fantastic tunes, though often overshadowed by the original and Dark Sword of Chaos, this soundtrack still keeps up the energetic and cinematic feeling the NInja Gaiden series was becoming known for, with this entry being handled by composers Kaori Nakabai & Rika Shigeno, with Keiji Yamagishi returning as a Sound Director and contributing his well known "Twist of Fate", "Battlefield" and "Life Lost / Game Over" variations. Nakabai and Shigeno doing a superb job giving us more exciting tunes for this series, while unfortunately Stage themes are given the generic numbered titling (even in the official releases), they still kick ass with the sharper Drum samples used, and personally tunes like "Stages 4-1 & 7-1" & "Stages 4-2 & 7-3" being my favorite of the whole trilogy. This is a nice hefty OST, with Hiroshi Miyazaki returning as the provider of Sound Effects, and even giving us a nice VFX sample every time Ryu slashes, and all done under Keiji Yamagishi's brilliant Tecmo Sound Driver.

As most probably know, the USA version was made purposefully harder by giving us limited continues and having us take higher damage compared to the Famicom version, already making the "Hard to Beat" Ninja Gaiden series even tougher than ever, but it is fitting and a worthy challenge for those already hardened by the previous two games, I would say play the Famicom version to experience and have fun, and play the US version for the difficulty challenge! Graphics are of course top notch with even more cutscenes from the deeper story, Tecmo really pushing the NES as much as they can with this entry, and despite the USA difficulty, this is still a worthy entry and the soundtrack is still to be highly praised as one of the best on the system!

Thanks to all my Patrons for their continued support even though upload droughts, life just keeps getting in the way, but I will still be here uploading these OST's for y'all, check out the Patreon if you want to give thanks or my Ko-Fi in the description! :) https://www.patreon.com/nikotengoku

@LordArithon 2 years ago

Every Ninja Gaiden game had a great Soundtrack

@VahanNisanian 2 years ago

Will always be one of my favorite NES trilogies ever.

@Flalaskimusic 2 years ago

One of the Classics

@Steelflight773 2 years ago

I remember watching my older brother beat 1 and 2. This game beat him though. Think the limited continues kept him from finishing this one. Awesome upload!

@Manerick 2 years ago

My childhood

@A_Face_Tempered 2 years ago

Love how cinematic this soundtrack is. Fantastic work as always, Niko!

@Chadius 2 years ago

NG3 has some real bangers, especially the underground cave (2-2 at 8:35) with it's percussion!

@Jordan3DS 2 years ago

Hell yeah, Niko is da man!

@Metalwario64 1 year ago

Honestly... I think NG3 has my favorite soundtrack for the most part... but they all have such amazing music that... I can't really pick! 4-1 is just.... intense and beautiful at the same time!

@VGPreserve 2 years ago

2-2 Banger!

@CarlosMedina-vf8fu 2 years ago

Niko!!! Glad to see you’re uploading, man! Hope you’re doing well!!

I’ve been a fan for a like a decade! Your videos just keep me going, man! 😁😁.

Greetings from Texas!

@Chuck_Tarnish 2 years ago

Instant classic. Even though the game was hard as hell, it was awesome listening to the soundtracks as a kid

@OneHotBun 2 years ago

You gotta give Tecmo credit, they had some badass music to match their badass games.

@watcher805 2 years ago

Whatever you've done to this sountrack, I LIKE it.

@fredsonfernandes6504 2 years ago

Eu gosto muito de som de games antigos.

@ChiefCoralcola 2 years ago

Thanks Niko! 4-1 and 4-2 are two of my faves too. 4-2 lives rent-free in my head and on my stream… one of my highlight clips is beating NA NG3, and about 15 hours into the stream/ game, at 4am, I’m losing my mind enough to start making my own lyrics to it on 7-2………. Then proceed to beat the game that next attempt and almost faint.🤣

@ShuriBear 2 years ago

I have heard about this game before.

@rootbrian4815 1 year ago (edited)

31:17 The Peppermint Rainbow ~ And I'll Be There (Stereo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVoSSVmb_tU (this is the original which was covered)
Turn it into Love - Wink (1980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcvnmwrsJn8 (the more direct cover of Turn it into love by Kylie Minogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq1QcBPe64g without crediting the original artist).