♫Theme from BAD CAT, NES & SNES Arrangement - NintendoComplete

This video shows two versions of the title theme from Rainbow Arts’ 1988 Dos PC game Bad Cat (also known as Street Cat). The first is a recreation of the original track playing on an NES. The second, starting at 3:18, is an arrangement I created of the song for the SNES. The audio for both was recorded from the original consoles using flashcarts. What is there really to say about Bad Cat? The game was absolutely terrible, but it was worth owning just for the music! It didn’t support any external sound cards (not that many existed yet in 1988), but it did pull off some amazing voodoo in how it pumped full digital audio through the internal PC beeper by blasting the CPU with a raw PCM stream - a technique similar to what I used for the NES version! Behold the power of the Intel 8088 with 256K of RAM! So old school! The NES version of the track was intended to faithfully reproduce the sound of the PC game. I did manage to filter out a lot of the nasty hissing and dis