Mega Man 9 Soundtrack COMPLETELY Remade in NSF

tssf · Post by **tssf** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:45 pm

So I got bored a few weekends ago and started remaking some Mega Man 9 music in IT (Impulse Tracker). I was then made aware of an S3M to NSF converter, so I decided to adapt them to the format to make it work. And, for the most part they do, aside from some S3M2NSF bugs.

Here they are if interested:

http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/Remakes/GIBStu ... _oct19.zip

I also included the S3Ms just in case anyone is interested in my tracking style, or wish to see how I achieved some of the effects I did.

The Endless Attack remake was probably one of the most pain in the ass songs to do..but still fun!

As far as I know, I'm the only one to have done this remake so far.

I still haven't decided if I was going to remake the entire MM9 soundtrack.

UPDATE:

I have completed the entire soundtrack in NSF format. Should you be interested in obtaining it, it can be downloaded here.

Enjoy

Mathew Valente [TSSF]

strangenesfreak · Post by **strangenesfreak** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:29 pm

Actually, at least 2 other people had also remade part of the MM9 soundtrack into NSFs. In this forum, Sivak made a thread about his own MM9-to-NES remixes. He posted a bunch of Youtube videos of his remixes; you can see them here. A guy named Acmlm also made an NES homebrew demo of his remix of 4 songs from the game; the Youtube video of it has the download links for the NES file and the NSF.

As for my opinion on your remixes, I think they sound pretty cool. But assuming you want to be as accurate as possible, I think your remixes are in general more accurate than Sivak's, but not as accurate as Acmlm's. But as of now Sivak's has the most songs remixed and Acmlm's has the least.

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:13 pm

Hey! Pretty cool stuff. It's sound quite near the original, excellent work dude! I really loved some "retouches", specially the MM2 password theme, great!

tssf · Post by **tssf** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:19 pm

strangenesfreak: Thanks for your comments. Actually, I'm aware of the other people who've done MM9 remakes..I was actually claiming that I was the only one who's attempted a remake of "Endless Attack". Sivak's remakes are good, so are Acmlm's (aside from some vibrato bug that causes the square wave to distort when it modulates). All that being said, my NSF's can only be as accurate as S3M2NSF's sound system will allow unfortunately. In terms of S3M accuracy, they're pretty as close as I could ever make them.

Should there ever be an S3M2NSF released that fixes the timing bugs, I think it would be pretty accurate.

Fx3: Thank you! I've been trying my darndest to make these as accurate possible.

I was thinking of doing the Wily fight.. it's majorly effect-heavy, though. Could be a pain in the butt. I'm up for the challenge. Heheh.

Since last I've posted, I've made 2 more remakes. Title theme and the Stage Select. Again these two songs suffer from S3M2NSF bugs. I wish these were fixed. I'll try to contact the original author.

UPDATE:

I finished Wily Machine:
http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/Remakes/GIBStuff/wilyboss.nsf
http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/Remakes/GIBStuff/wilyboss.s3m

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:39 pm

Go try Splash Woman's theme. ^_^;; Or better, Wily's stage 2 is awesome.

tssf · Post by **tssf** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:55 pm

Heh

Eventually I'll do both. I'm going to try the task of remaking the entire soundtrack via NSF. Or at least do as much as I can. I've already got at least half of it done.

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:22 pm

I'm waiting for more tracks, man. ^_^;;

tssf · Post by **tssf** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:12 pm

Galaxy man, so far:
http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/temp/galaxy.nsf

I'm taking a break for now though.

RushJet1 · Post by **RushJet1** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:26 pm

taking a break? aww, these are really good

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:50 pm

This track is missing the noise channel... and looks incomplete.

BMF54123 · Post by **BMF54123** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:05 pm

Fx3 wrote:This track is missing the noise channel... and looks incomplete.

Hence the "so far." He's not done yet.

tssf · Post by **tssf** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:16 pm

Alright, it's completed..though I think I messed up the noise channel a bit. Once again, this song suffers from S3M2NSF timing bugs :/ It also suffered from S3M note limitations (the high notes in the end for instance) but I worked around it.

http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/Remakes/GIBStuff/galaxy.nsf
http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/Remakes/GIBStuff/galaxy.s3m

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:51 pm

Thanks for your effort. The song looks fine.

tssf · Post by **tssf** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:19 pm

Sneak peak of Concrete Man:

http://tssf.gamemusic.ca/temp/concrete.nsf

Unfortunately this song is one of the only songs that actually surpass the NES capabilities by using notes far below the NES oscillator threshold. What that means is that the notes went too low..so I compensated by throwing the really REALLY low notes into an octave higher.. not very noticeable, which is good.

I just have to finish up a few noise patterns then this is done. Was thinking of tackling Plug Man next.

Then maybe Tornado Man's theme. After I'm done those two, I'll take another few days break and see if I can finish up the last few songs I haven't remade yet. I'm more than half-way done the entire sound track that's for sure.

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:47 pm

Great. You should try Wily's Castle stage 2 song.