Stage Clear - Contra

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Boss
Composer Kazuki Muraoka
Released 1987-??-??
Title Origin Game Location
Loops No
This page is for the Contra song, for more titles see Stage Clear.

The Stage Clear fanfare plays upon beating certain bosses in the Contra games. The tune was composed by Kazuki Muraoka. The title is unofficial.

Games

Contra (ARC)

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Contra (ARC)
Contra - ARC - Stage Clear.png
Arranger Unknown
Released 1987-??-??
Format UNK

In the arcade game, Stage Clear is only played after defeating the first base boss. When you defeat the final boss, you hear a special version of the song, Red Falcon's Destroyed.

Contra (NES)

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Contra (NES)
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Contra - NES - Stage Clear.png
Arranger Hidenori Maezawa, Kyouhei Sada
Released 1988-02-09
Length 0:03.88
Format NSF
Loops No

In the NES port, Stage Clear is played in every stage after you defeat the boss.

The Japanese version matches the arcade game by playing the special stage clear variant Red Falcon's Destroyed after defeating the final boss, but the North American, European, and PlayChoice-10 versions all play the usual Stage Clear song.

Operation C (GB)

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Operation C (GB)
Arranger Hidehiro Funauchi
Released 1991-01-08
Format GBS


Contra: Hard Corps (GEN)

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Contra: Hard Corps (GEN)
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Output - OPN2.svg
Contra Hard Corps - GEN - Stage Clear.png
Arranger Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, Hirofumi Taniguchi, Aki Huta
Released 1994-08-08
Length 0:03, 0:07
Format VGM
Loops No

There are two versions of the song; one that plays whenever a stage has been completed, and one that plays if the whole game has been completed.

The song is titled Stage Clear and All Stage Clear in the sound test.


Contra Spirits (NES)

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Contra Spirits (NES)
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Arranger Wang Yueli
Released 1995-??-??
Format NSF

The song plays when a level has been successfully completed.


Toy Story (NES)

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Toy Story (NES)
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Arranger Wang Yueli
Released 1997-??-??
Format NSF

The song plays when a level has been successfully completed.

The song was originally used in Contra Spirits (NES), released just two years earlier. It was most likely reused, as both games share the same sound composers.


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