Super Metroid: Sound in Action

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Super Metroid: Sound in Action front cover.

Super Metroid: Sound in Action is a music CD released only in Japan. It was released on June 22, 1994 and features music from Metroid and Super Metroid. The Metroid music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka and Super Metroid music was composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano, giving the CD a total runtime of 58:49.

The first four tracks of the CD are arranged versions of Super Metroid themes, followed by a fifth track that is an arranged version of Ending (Metroid). Remixed by Yoshiyuki Ito and Masumi Ito, these arrangements use higher-quality instruments than what the SNES was capable of producing.

The Metroid music appears to have been ripped from recordings of the Family Computer Disk System game and not from development files. Many of them contain in-game sound effects and do not contain the complete music track. The Super Metroid soundtrack is comparatively higher-quality.

Tracklist

Warning: Fan Translation(s) Ahead

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1. Theme of Super Metroid (Arranged Version)
2. Crateria - The Space Pirates Appear (Arranged Version)
3. Theme of Samus Aran, Space Warrior (Arranged Version)
4. Super Metroid Ending (Arranged Version)
5. Metroid Ending (Arranged Version)
6. Title
7. Appearance Fanfare~Brinstar
8. Norfair Area
9. Ridley's Chamber
10. Kraid's Chamber
11. Tourian
12. Zebetite
13. Escape
14. Ending
15. Opening (Destroyed Science Academy Research Station)
16. Theme of Super Metroid
17. Planet Zebes - Arrival on Crateria
18. Crateria - The Space Pirates Appear
19. Brinstar Overgrown With Vegetation Area
20. Brinstar Red Soil Swampy Area
21. Norfair Hot Lava Area
22. Theme of Samus Aran, Space Warrior
23. Wrecked Ship
24. Maridia Rocky Underwater Area
25. Maridia Drifting Sand Underwater Area
26. Norfair Ancient Ruins Area
27. Mini Boss Confrontation BGM (Spore Spawn, Botwoon)
28. Big Boss Confrontation BGM (Ridley, Draygon)
29. Big Boss Confrontation BGM (Kraid, Crocomire, Phantoon)
30. Samus Aran's Appearance Fanfare
31. Item Acquisition Fanfare
32. Samus Aran's Final Cry
33. Mysterious Statue Chamber
34. Tourian
35. Mother Brain
36. Escape
37. Planet Zebes Explodes
38. Ending

Missing tracks

Not all of the music in Metroid or Super Metroid is present on this CD. Below is a list of themes in the games that are not included:

1. The Elevator theme from either game.
2. The Item Acquisition Fanfare from Metroid.
3. The "ambient silence" theme from Super Metroid. This is a variant of that game's aforementioned Elevator theme, with everything removed except the low drone.
4. The short Movie Ship Landing theme heard when flying back to Ceres Space Colony and then to Zebes in Super Metroid.
5. The Ceres Space Colony theme in Super Metroid, before the encounter with Ridley.
6. The "Torizo awakening" theme in Super Metroid.
7. The foreboding theme heard when Samus is approaching a boss in the same game.

Trivia

• The render of Samus on the cover is also present on the Super Metroid Super Famicom cartridge.

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