Banjo Guy Ollie VGM covers

BGOllie

Hi all,

Looks like I'm clear to post so I'll introduce myself and my channel
I'm Ollie, based in Galway and for a year now I've been doing video game music covers on a YT channel as well as reviews of MSX software and hardware and some speed painting lately .

Here's a few of covers I've done:

Zelda, Link to the Past

Sonic

Shovel Knight

I do a cover about once every 2/3 weeks at the moment
Here's the link to my channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-umfrfqPvDvWCYHJGYtpA

hope you like it
Ollie

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oh and here's the speed painting stuff :

BGOllie

here's my latest vid. RetrowareTV are now putting these on the site now
pretty chuffed about that

Myrddin

Loving those speed paintings dude, I'd love to be able to paint like that (or indeed, at all!)

kevovek

Really loving the channel Ollie your a god damn talented man! Keep it up!

BGOllie

I hurt two of my fingers recently so I couldnt' play. It's all back to normal now so I'll have a cover ready this week hopefully. In the meantime I've been painting like a lunatic

Myrddin

Class as per usual dude. Can I ask, what do you do with your paintings, do you display them or sell them on?

BGOllie

I put them up on my FB page and they're pretty much gone within the hour. Some were swapped, others sold, but I'd rather swap them for gaming stuff
Got 6 boxed megadrive games for one that Portal one and a full US gamecube and 6 games for the Shadow of the colossus one

Myrddin

Wow, nice way of building your collection man

BGOllie

yeah, I've always been into bartering. I got a lot of surfing and windsurfing equipment as trades for my paintings

finishing the video for this piece too


I'll have a new cover soon (hopefully this week) and working on the next MSX Mansion and should have it for next week hopefully

BGOllie

here is the vid

Next cover's done too now, I was able to record the last bit last night, I'll release it saturday (it's the super smash bros for wiiu trailer theme )

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back playing and here's the new cover This one took forever to put together due to an injury and having to separate so many tracks.

Myrddin, is it cool to post it in that thread on the retro forum as well or would you rather all content stays here ?

Myrddin

LongZ wrote: »

Myrddin, is it cool to post it in that thread on the retro forum as well or would you rather all content stays here ?

Should be no prob doing both

BGOllie

already posted it on the retro forum but here's another MSX Mansion video I finished for retrowareTV on the story of the MSX standard

Myrddin

I meant to say, that's fantastic stuff dude...well done.

BGOllie

I stepped away from the banjo for my first collaboration with another VGM youtuber and took the old girl off the wall

Myrddin

Wow, just wow :eek: Amazing stuff dude. So many questions! What's your recording setup for guitar? The sound you have there is lovely

BGOllie

thanks dude. I used a "retro" approach for this, ie: placed my recording mic right in front of the guitar amp and recorded like that, as opposed to plugging the guitar into the pc audio interface. I find it a lot easier to record like that and sounds less processesed and more "live" sounding

retro all the way

Myrddin

LongZ wrote: »

thanks dude. I used a "retro" approach for this, ie: placed my recording mic right in front of the guitar amp and recorded like that, as opposed to plugging the guitar into the pc audio interface. I find it a lot easier to record like that and sounds less processesed and more "live" sounding

retro all the way

I used to do similar, but had trouble with it because the amp had to be quite high to get the tone I wanted. Is that sound direct from the amp, or are you using an effects board...it's really nice

BGOllie

yeah I had to record when my wife wasn't home
it's straight from the amp, eq and overdrive done on the amp but no rever or delay though for better control. Reverb and delay are added after during mixing.

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Here's a quick and dirty review of the recent Knightmare remake

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Just split my channel in two recently. The BGO music will stay on the normal channel and everything else (Simon, MSX mansion, paintings and car boot sales stuff moves to the other) it'll make things easier to manage and means I can do some footage videos too on some MSX and Amiga games... and some PC too

Myrddin

LongZ wrote: »

Just split my channel in two recently. The BGO music will stay on the normal channel and everything else (Simon, MSX mansion, paintings and car boot sales stuff moves to the other) it'll make things easier to manage and means I can do some footage videos too on some MSX and Amiga games... and some PC too

Great stuff, keep up the great work

BGOllie

here's a new cover I just finished. The intro theme from dune on PC and Amiga -because there's more to retro-gaming than Nintendo or JRPGs (I should use that as my tag line

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just finished a gameplay video of Knightmare on the MSX . The goal is not really to do a playthrough (far from it) but just show live gameplay outside of the review format.

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did I mention I also document my game chasing weekend ? Very much using the LGR and PAT the NES Punk format for this. It's mostly CD finds like PC, xbox and PS1/2 games but I also find the odd cart

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latest cover is out. From Konami's Treasure of USAS on MSX 2

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The latest cover is from Undertale : Megalovania. Anyone tried the game yet ?

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my new cover is from castlevania 3. half way through a full album

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I forgot to post this here. it's been out almost a week now. The last cover is from Super Mario Land - Muda Kingdom
The next one will be out wednesday but i'm off to france tomorrow with VERY limited internet access so you'll have to check the channel for it (psss, it's from Zelda , Link's awakening )

BGOllie

another Undertale cover to start the year

kevovek

Awesome cover! Playing through undertale at the moment its class so far.

BGOllie

yeah it's really a different experience as far as games go.
New cover, this one was probably my toughest one to pull off

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New cover out. No instruments were harmed in the making of this video... or even used for that matter

Nabber

Keep up the good work BG some class stuff in this thread

BGOllie

thanks man.latest cover is from Outrun. It's the Passing Breeze theme. There's so many memories in the outrun tunes alone. Summer, sea, beach, heat ... arcade halls... oh man.

eddhorse

You will have to do more Outrun tunes please Splashwave for the win....

Probably be too difficult for you..... gauntlet thrown down

BGOllie

nobody...calls me... chicken!!
seriously though, I wanted to do all 3 main themes from the game at some point

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BOOM !!

d31b0y

Must be a serious amount of work goes into these videos to get all to come together so good.

BGOllie

yep it is there's no easy way to do this, it's always a lot of work and I like re-inventing the wheel every time I do them so they don't end up sounding all the same after a while .
here's a couple of other vids from my other channel , some speed painting and MSX game reviews :

Another World

Dune

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Couple of recent covers straight from my amiga days

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did a full month of Megaman 2 covers . totally forgot to post them here

Also got Flashman and Woodman on the channel

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Simon is back..
foul language to be found inside inside.

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Started making these "guitaraoke" videos a while back . I get asked a lot for guitar tabs of my covers (even though I play banjo ) so i figured I'd make these

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Game Atelier sent me a demo of the new Monsterboy game and allowed me to share a video of it so here it is

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and part 2

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Made another undertale cover : The ruins theme

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Latest cover, and probably my new personal favourite :

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been sent the owlboy demo a while back and did a small video of the gameplay :

KeRbDoG

Didn't know your also a painter of video game scenes? Linky