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Post by scroogemcclunk on Oct 19, 2015 8:49:07 GMT -5
Since the first time I heard the amazing rendition of Final Fight's music in the Sega CD version in 1993, I've had a dream. What if we could play the real arcade Final Fight with that music? I got sick of dreaming, sat down, and hacked around MAME's CPS1 driver, figured out the commands for the sound hardware, and created a modified version of MAME that plays FLAC versions of Final Fight CD's music instead of the arcade samples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMSpS8FZMykIt's pretty fantastic. I've always felt that the people who did Final Fight CD's music deserved more exposure. It's really one of the best game OSTs that I can think of. |
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Post by r0ck3rz on Oct 19, 2015 10:09:19 GMT -5
Is it possible to improve the volume? The music tends to get overtaken by the sound effects.
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 19, 2015 12:18:14 GMT -5
Post this on romhacking.net too, I'm sure they'll appreciate it.
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Post by alphex on Oct 19, 2015 15:18:38 GMT -5
That is pretty awesome!
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Post by Bobinator on Oct 19, 2015 16:24:42 GMT -5
Wow, this is honestly really impressive. I've never listened to much of FF's Sega CD soundtrack, but this might get me to do it.
You know what else would be cool? Hacking the arcade version of SSFT2 to use the 3DO soundtrack. Or maybe even the PC CD/Amiga CD32 soundtrack. Both of those have a few good tracks in them.
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Post by derboo on Oct 19, 2015 16:57:14 GMT -5
Well then, now to build in prisoner Cody from Final Fight One to create the TRUE ultimate version.  |
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Post by scroogemcclunk on Oct 20, 2015 9:44:39 GMT -5
Is it possible to improve the volume? The music tends to get overtaken by the sound effects. Yes, I've already fixed that. The volume levels are a lot better now. |
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Post by scroogemcclunk on Oct 20, 2015 9:46:33 GMT -5
You know what else would be cool? Hacking the arcade version of SSFT2 to use the 3DO soundtrack. Or maybe even the PC CD/Amiga CD32 soundtrack. Both of those have a few good tracks in them. The other thing that might be interesting is hacking SF2: WW through SF2: HF to use the higher quality sound effects that are in Hyper SF2 for CPS2. Hyper SF2 has both the old and new style sound effects. |
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Post by vetus on Oct 20, 2015 11:15:26 GMT -5
That is awesome! I didn't knew the Mega CD version's soundtrack was that good. Now I want to play it too. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by llj on Oct 20, 2015 11:44:32 GMT -5
Wow...so you could get real creative with these and simply add totally different soundtracks to games? Imagine playing Final Fight with the Streets of Rage soundtracks...
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Post by scroogemcclunk on Oct 20, 2015 20:47:20 GMT -5
Wow...so you could get real creative with these and simply add totally different soundtracks to games? Imagine playing Final Fight with the Streets of Rage soundtracks... Yes, you could play arbitrary audio files. You could even replace the sound effects if you wanted to. So far, I've been able to successfully hack: * Neo Geo games * Final Fight * CPS1 Street Fighter 2 games |
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Oct 21, 2015 2:17:37 GMT -5
So you could play some Neo Geo games with their NGCD versions' soundtracks but without the long loading times and removed details that usually came with them? The possibilities for funny/awesome soundtrack swaps or good fan remixes are also endless. Great job, hopefully it'll be an example for other programmers.
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Post by scroogemcclunk on Oct 21, 2015 2:50:52 GMT -5
So you could play some Neo Geo games with their NGCD versions' soundtracks but without the long loading times and removed details that usually came with them? The possibilities for funny/awesome soundtrack swaps or good fan remixes are also endless. Great job, hopefully it'll be an example for other programmers. Funny you mention that, because I just figured out the sound commands for Samurai Shodown II for this very reason.  |
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Post by scroogemcclunk on Oct 22, 2015 23:09:46 GMT -5
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