Describing the game's soundtrack as a "compilation of game music", Kageyama said that making it

was a test in trying to "take what people generally considered to be the sound of the Famicom, and
kick it up a notch."[6] Naohisa Morota handled the sound programming, and Kageyama described his
contributions as "profound"[5] and helpful in one of his goals in making the tracks sound more like a
live performance than just compositions.[8] The Famicom version used a variation of Sunsoft's FME-
7 memory management controller known as "SUNSOFT 5B", which, in addition to the functionality
provided by the stock FME-7, features a Yamaha YM2149 PSG audio chip to provide three additional
channels for music and sound. Since the NES only uses five sound channels, the extra sound
channels were excluded from the European release.[1]

In 2020, iam8bit officially released the soundtrack on CD.[9]