Music covers by Banjo Guy Ollie

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Hi,

A while back I discovered the work of Smooth McGroove and decided to start something similar, ie:covering retro game tunes using my own instrument ...

I've a few done, castlevania, Zelda, Secret of mana, megaman x , some arcade titles, some ffvii, Turrican ..
Here's a few
Zelda, Link to the Past : Darkworld

Megaman x:

Castlevania 2 - Bloody Tears -

Secret of Mana -

Hope you like it
Ollie

 

[Superfakerbros]

That's awesome, man! I'll be listening to these when I'm just relaxing or doing some homework

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

What better to start the week than a good fight, FF style ?
This one took me a while to finish. 14 video tracks for 18 audio layers.
This is the hardest cover I've worked on to date. Final Fantasy VII - Battle Theme . I know it's not a nintendo track as such but there's fans of the series on all platforms

BGO

 

[Juegos]

Awesome stuff, I love VGM covers even though I haven't kept up with them for a while. Calling @Menashe, who also loves this stuff.

By the way, I like everything that I've listened to so far, but...

Secret of Mana -

MY MAN!

It's awesome to see Secret of Mana get the love it deserves, and your version was great, too! Great fit for the banjo and mandolin. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I swear that for every 50 Final Fantasy covers I see, there is only 1 Secret of Mana cover, even though it has such amazing music.

EDIT: my bad, there's no mandolin in that Secret of Mana version. I saw it in the other videos and assumed it was in that one as well.

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

yeah I'd have to agree.
SoM (and Chrono Trigger) just hasn't been covered enough I think. Got a few tracks in my, ever expending, list of songs to cover

 

[Juegos]

I see you were hiding a cover of Chrono Trigger in there, as well! Can't have that, it needs to be here with the rest.

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

haha. I've about 19 covers so far. didn't want to put everything here in one post. Especially when I'm still not sure how people are gonna like 'em

 

[Menashe]

We're going to be featuring you in an upcoming article on the site.

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

oh wow. that'd be awesome. don't hesitate to ask if you need any info or do a small interview type thing

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Latest Cover out. Going full Irish session with this one

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Latest cover out

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Latest cover isn't nintendo related but I thought I'd post it here allt he same. hope that's cool

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Hi everyone. Going back to the SNES with this one.
Took me a while to get right but i think i finaly got it

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Well after a 3 week break here's my new cover.
It's Crystal Castle from Casltevania 2 - Belmont's Revenge on Gameboy.
Hope ye like it!

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

latest cover, and first official contribution as a new member of RetrowareTV

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Thanks
any megaman fans out here ?

 

[mattavelle1]

Thanks
any megaman fans out here ?

@CitizenOfVerona

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Hiya,

Here's my latest cover for 2014 :Bad Apple!! from TOUHOU
happy new year and xmas !!

Ollie

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

hiya,

Happy new 2015. Hope it'll be even better for you than last year!

Here's my latest and first cover for 2015 : The silence of Daylight from Castlevania II :

BGO

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

hi everyone, here's my latest cover

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Here's my latest cover . It's a personal favourite -I'm sure with other people too . Duck Tales - The Moon theme

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Here's this week's cover: Guile Theme from Street Fighter II

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Just finished this one : Shovel Knight - Strike The Earth

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

happy monday!

 

[Robknoxious1]

Great work. Love it!

Subbed

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

thanks a lot!

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

ok, this one's not nintendo but it's a fantastic tune regardless and worth of interest really, from Wonderboy 3 : Side Crawler'ss Dance

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Latest cover is from Castlevania, Heart of fire and this is my first guitar only cover (for a change)

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Latest cover it's a good time to calm things down with a slow and less busy cover. Reflective melancoly is not really the banjo's most confortable teritory but I'd like to think it worked here

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Well, after a bit of a break involving ... a broken finger I'm back playing and recording.
HEre's the Super Smash Bros for WiiU trailer theme

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

So I hung up my banjo for one cover and dusted off the ol' girl and gave Megaman X - Spark Mandrill a rocking go.
Thanks to DonutDrums for the drums too !
Let me know what you think

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Here's the latest, it's a cover of Suikoden - Beautify Golden City theme

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

New Cover. It's Pokemon RBY - Route 1 theme & I try to train my buddy Simon as a Pokemon

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Hi,,
Here's a cover I just finished .
Between mario maker and the NES birthday, I thought I'd go back to the early days of nintendo gaming with the next cover smile emoticon
Ollie

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Here's my new cover, it's not nintendo but it's a great game nonetheless. It's the Megalovania theme from Undertale. Play this game if you haven't yet, it's beautiful.

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

hey guys.

For the newest cover I'm going back to nintendo, and the gameboy with a cover of Super Mario Land - Muda Kingdom.
The next one will be another gameboy title from Zelda, Link's Awakening - Mabe Village theme, I won't have access to a computer then (it's scheduled) so you'll have to check the channel
Happpy xmas!

 

[Superfakerbros]

BTW, your Bloody Tears cover is great. Easily one of my favorite pieces of soundtrack from Castlevania

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Thanks. The latest cover was so tough to pull of. I'd done a Shovel Knight cover before but this one was really tricky. Think it worked though

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Going back to doing sega covers for a while
So many memories in this tune alone

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Two cover this week ( I forgot to post the previous one the last time )
First one is the Sword Search theme from Zelda, Link's Awakening on Gameboy.
The second one is the Xenon 2 megablast theme : Bomb the Bass !

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Here's another classic from the Amiga era. Turrican - Shoot or Die

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Let's get back to more mainstream territory.
i'm starting a Mega Man 2 month of cover. 1 week one cover & kicked things off with Metal Man

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

I'm a bit behind posting these
Next cover was Air Man

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

new cover is the Asgore Theme from Undertale

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

A couple of covers I recently done:
Another undertale one , the Ruins theme

...and a simple arrangement of the Kokiri Forest from Zelda oot on Ukulele

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

The Monkey Island main theme . This is now my new favourite thing i did

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

Here's my latest one : Ninja Gaiden love (stage 4-2) Unbreakable Determination

 

[BanjoGuyOllie]

hey. it's been a while since I was last here
there's been tons of new covers but here's the latest one to date