As we can return out, it's speedy delivery.

Hi everyone, welcome to a mystery episode of RetroNots.

It's a mailbag. I don't know how this is going to be used, maybe as a micro,

maybe as a backup segment. Maybe we'll just throw it at you when you least expect it.

But in any case, you're listening to it now, so that's what really matters.

And I am Jeremy Parish also on this episode because he's always on the episodes.

Hey, it's Bob Mackie. And not always on the episode, but on this one, it is on the Skype line.

Nadiya Oxford, I am here. Hi, nice to be here. Hi, thanks for coming back to our show.

It's been so long. Actually, I don't know when this is coming.

When this is posting after the Dragon Quest episode, but anyway, Nadiya was here for Dragon Quest 2

discussion. And now she's here to read or respond to your letters, listener mail,

about Dragon Quest and other things. So we should just jump right in and read these letters.

So since Nadiya's here and we just talked about Dragon Quest 2, we are going to read letters about

Dragon Quest 1 and 2 from you listeners who have fond or maybe not so fond memories of Dragon Quest 1 and 2.

So starting with an email from Lewis Untunez. I know Dragon Quest 2 isn't

remembered as fondly as other entries, particularly if your memories of the games dim

primarily from the NES or Famicom versions. But to me, even those versions,

Holocins of nostalgia, particularly the music. The arrangements for the NES and Famicom versions

of Dragon Quest, modern music, were quite basic. Like many other games, early games for the system,

one Paul Swave channel plus the Trangle channel, blah, blah, blah, technical stuff. Dragon Quest 2 not

only uses both Paul Swave channels, the Trangle channel, and even very occasionally the noise channel

for music. But it also manages to use tricks like Paul Swave tone switching, octave switching,

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