FMSRB2 - The Sega Genesis Cover Soundtrack [Work In Progress] 0.4

[Gambit]

Gambit submitted a new resource:

FMSRB2 - The Sega Genesis Cover Soundtrack [v0.4] (Work In Progress) - Custom Nostalgic Music Mod with a funky twist!

This is a project that I have been working on on-and-off ever since last summer. It's effectively a "cover album" in the form of a music replacement mod for the vanilla game, with the aim of remaking all songs in the game using a wide range of Sega Genesis/Megadrive-styled instrumentation, mostly geared at classic sonic style music.

These covers were created by me in FL Studio using a mixture of Genny, VOPM, and rom samples. The original MIDIs were used...

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[El Chappo-]

So how is it coming along?

 

[Gambit]

So how is it coming along?

admittedly progress to the next update has been kinda slow, but i'm workin on it little by little, wherever i remember to

 

[Cosmic]

Why are there 2 files?

 

[CaioGamesBLOXXER]

Why are there 2 files?

the audio only one doesn't mark the game as modified and the full one contains some lua stuff like different act clear themes and a console variable with an easter egg

 

[Cosmic]

Yeah, I understand now.

 

[Dynamic3]

Is this project continuing?

 

[Baba_theBooey]

This would go great with Classic Physics, S1 Starpost, Motobug model, etc. when it's finished! I especially love that you seem to pull from Ristar for the Special Stage theme, though I'd prefer you just go all the way with that, as the "Let's go!" seems out of place in my opinion. It might just be because it doesn't sound as bit-crushed as it likely should, but I still think I'd enjoy it being a straight pull from Ristar's style regardless.

One thing I'd love to see done is using specific instruments or sequences to pay homage to similar levels in Sonic's Genesis/CD history; i.e. Greenflower = Green Hill, Techno Hill = Chemical Plant, etc. Even the boss theme sounding similar in structure to S2's Robotnik theme! This is absolutely not a necessity, as this is still really cool for what it is, but I think it'd be a missed opportunity to not do so.

 

[DenverMoon]

Is this still in development? I recently found this and I love it so far, currently at Deep Sea 1, and I think the music is great

 

[Maverick]

dude I think this project died

 

[Maverick Finn]

Don't know if this is already what happens, cuz I have not downloaded it yet. But could you ( @Gambit ) make the cover replace the MIDI soundtrack? So you can easily switch between both the originals and the cover in-game.

 

[FloofDeIdiot]

is this mod dead

 

[Gambit]

HELLOOOOO from beyond the grave, sorry for no updates for the past 4~5 years. Life priorities got shifted around a bit and so I kinda just fell out of this community some. Not completely though, as I would still pop my head in from time to time. Thanks to everyone who's still shown interest in this cover mod over the years!

The project is not dead. I've actually still been chipping away every now and then at music-related stuff over the years, I just stopped uploading anything cuz of general waning interest. However, coming back to this now, I do think I want to give a second pass to everything i've composed thus far. There're a lot of tracks I want to redo, make some stylistic changes to. When I do, the old tracks will still be there; they won't be going away, they'll just be buried under a console variable. The MusicChange hook has made my life so much easier in this regard heh.

Additionally, i'd like to reclassify this project as a Genesis-32X cover mod. Seeing the work that AJ Freda and John Tay have since done with the 32X port of SRB2 and its music has had me feeling like this cover project would become alte-moded long before it would ever be finished. So i've decided that i'll redo the soundtrack thus far by incorporating the 32X's PWM chip into the mix. This ultimately means that you'll hear more simultaneous instruments with each new track as I go to rework the percussion sequences for the tracks i've done thus far.