SMS Sonic 1 "bridge" music on MD

[TmEE]

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/21/1876835/BRIDGE.OGG

I really love SMS Sonic 1 (more than MD version), and I thought why not re-do some songs on MD (since I can, and I really love the songs).
The file is a real hardware recording, straight from my audio modded MD2.

Any comments welcome.

[playgen]

very nice, now do the Jungle level music too!

[TmEE]

I will do all songs eventually. I'll start with Jungle this night/evening. I've done title screen and Green Hill too... I'm not too happy with Green Hill yet.

[playgen]

Awesome I look forward to hearing them all

[Joe Redifer]

Awesome, thanks for making this! Yuzo Koshiro did a great job on the SMS music for Sonic. Sounds a bit slower than what I am used to since this is probably based on the wimpier 50Hz version. ;)

[TmEE]

SMS Sonic 1 plays a bit choppily in 60Hz and I did the 60Hz mod only recently... I've heard it in 50Hz for most of my life (well, as long as I've had a SMS which is... wow, 9 years...)

[Mr Smith]

Just downloaded this. Really awesome. :)

[Elusive]

Nice work. I love this theme - it's a shame it's so short.

[ThePirateMike]

Very nice! I've always preferred the 8-bit Sonic 1 as well (though I grew up with the Game Gear version.) The song's a little slower than I'm used to (since the GG played the game at 60Hz) but it's just as great as I pictured a Genesis/Mega Drive rendition to be. Now if only there was a 16-bit remake of Sonic 1 SMS/GG to use the song in... Well, I can always dream.

Just out of curiousity, did you use a VGM rip from the SMS version as a base, or did you track/compose this version by hand note-for-note?

[Arjak]

Whoa! This is really straight from a Genesis/MegaDrive? You did an excellent job. Can't wait to hear more!

[TmEE]

Just out of curiousity, did you use a VGM rip from the SMS version as a base, or did you track/compose this version by hand note-for-note?

I used a music driver hacked to work on MD (HUGE thank you to Michael Stamper for doing it), which I also hacked to run 2 or more times slower so I could see everything that's written to the PSG chip. The debug stuff in Gens Kmod played a vital part, it displays the frequency played so converting to notes was not too difficult. I don't quite yet know what notes am I hearing so its the only way for me to get note accurate stuff.

[Smii]

Downloaded Foobar to listen to it, as for some stupid reason (a runtime error of some sort) Winamp won't run on my computer anymore! Anyway, nice job - 8-bit Sonic's so catchy. Look forward to hearing more :)

[Christuserloeser]

Fantastic work, and yes, Sonic 1 on SMS is better than Sonic 1 on MD/G.


PS: Would it be a lot of work to provide 50 and 60Hz versions ?

[TmEE]

it would be as difficult as writing the file name, and doing 3 clicks... then wait until the ROM flashes and recording and some mastering. At some point, I'll release a ROM with file selector.