Been a while since I've posted something on here, so have another SMPS competition mashup, this time of Sonic Heroes' Special Stage mixed into Sonic 3K's own Special Stage.

Another fun one to make, as always. This one actually gave me quite a lot of pain getting right; I had the middle done before the beginning, and then I couldn't get it to blend well, and had to redo bits and fit things in other places-- you get the idea.

Either way, it all came together in the end, and even though I didn't win the competition round I'm still proud of this one. :>

Sonic Heroes Special Stage - Sonic 3 & Knuckles Mix

Wow, it's been a long time since I did one of these, huh?

So discussion a few days ago went to old tracks from the fangame idea of yesteryear Sonic 2 Gold Edition, and @dmashura's wonderful Radix Run Zone music specifically. Well, with the idea firmly planted back in my head, and an itch to give it a go, we end up with what you're listening to right now.

A fun thing with this track, it's one of the first I ever did Mega Drive music importing for, back when disassemblies weren't a thing and we had to use the lovely Sonic QX to import music (badly) into Sonic 2 Beta only. From there I redid it a number of times as my music modification skills of the original games got more proficient and as we learned more about how its sound engines worked. However, I only ever did one rendition of it like this in FruityLoops (wow that ages it), and thought I'd give another a go.

As always, enjoy.

(Also enjoy the thumbnail, that's the original Radix Run Zone mockup from the original S2GE website.)

Radix Run

So a friend mentioned this tune on Discord the other day and got it stuck in everyone's head.

In order to get it back out of mine I decided to work out how to play it and get it stuck in all of yours instead.

Cool Spot - Rave Dance Tune

So, I put up the original of this mashup.. 5 or so years ago at this point? Anywho, after all this time, I finally came across a decent instrumental of Infinite's Theme, and decided to go back to it.

The mashup is of Infinite's Theme from Sonic Forces, and Bōsō Suru Akui (Enemy Strike) from My Hero Academia's first season OST. I still really enjoy these two tracks both separately and together like this to this day.

As always, please enjoy.

Infinite Academia (Instrumental)

I fixed the boss music. Now it goes the way it obviously should've in the first place.

.. I used an AI to split the original because I was too lazy to recreate and should've been working at the time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sonic Superstars - Boss (Fixed)

So for MegaGWolf's Dragon Block C series, he wanted to do a duet of Dragon Soul with Shini, for the intro or opening of the series itself. This is the "TV Size" version, if you wish to hear the full 4+ minutes version, please go to my profile and it should be right next to this one.

After finding a decent instrumental and being given sung lyrics by both, I began to put this together. One thing we found missing, however, was the backing singers, and after much, *much* hunting, I found a decent karaoke version I could use alongside the instrumental to get them out on their own (which was not an easy process, but it worked out decently eventually). 

The only thing left after this, for the full version anyhow, was to get a second recording from them for the end where the pitch goes up a semitone. Just changing this manually made the singing sound uncanny, but after a couple of retries at this (singing to the same level of enthusiasm and such being a necessity here) we have the finished products you can hear now.

While unfortunately these won't be used for Dragon Block C anymore, they are now here for you to listen to all you wish. As always, please enjoy.

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MegaGWolf https://twitter.com/supergwolf
Shinikami: https://twitter.com/shinikami_vr

Dragon Block C OP - Dragon Soul Cover (TV Size)

So for MegaGWolf's Dragon Block C series, he wanted to do a duet of Dragon Soul with Shini, for the intro or opening of the series itself. This is the "Full Size" version, if you wish to hear the shorter 1 and a half minute version, please go to my profile and it should be right next to this one.

After finding a decent instrumental and being given sung lyrics by both, I began to put this together. One thing we found missing, however, was the backing singers, and after much, *much* hunting, I found a decent karaoke version I could use alongside the instrumental to get them out on their own (which was not an easy process, but it worked out decently eventually). 

The only thing left after this, for the full version anyhow, was to get a second recording from them for the end where the pitch goes up a semitone. Just changing this manually made the singing sound uncanny, but after a couple of retries at this (singing to the same level of enthusiasm and such being a necessity here) we have the finished products you can hear now.

While unfortunately these won't be used for Dragon Block C anymore, they are now here for you to listen to all you wish. As always, please enjoy.

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MegaGWolf https://twitter.com/supergwolf
Shinikami: https://twitter.com/shinikami_vr

Dragon Block C OP - Dragon Soul Cover (Full Size)

Well, here's a fun one. :U I love doing these occasionally, when I'm not thinking of tune mashups; taking a track and trying to get it working under different conditions and restrictions. This one was actually fun to do, and done over about a week's time in total. This was also one of my favourite tracks and levels from Sonic Colours, so that helped motivate to make, ha ha.

As always, this is actually playing through Mega Drive hardware, *not* just through VOPM and soundfonts. I do WIPs in that, sure, but not the final upload.

And, as always, enjoy. :D

Aquarium Park (Mega Drive Mix)

Another SRB2 zone, this time Egg Rock. I've been sitting on this one a while and haven't done much with it, I never got the guitar sounding good unfortunately (synth guitar is always arse, and I can't play to save my life). But eh, I thought I'd release it anyway as I was happy with the rest.

As always, enjoy!

SRB2 - Egg Rock Zone

Ahh, Wood Zone. One of those levels from the beta version of Sonic 2 that is sometimes overlooked for the more popular Hidden Palace or very early Dust Hill. It never had its own music, instead using an early rendition of Metropolis's music, leading to the whole time-travel theories where Wood Zone was the past version of it, etc. Good times.

This music, however, originates from a fangame idea of the yesteryear, Sonic 2 Gold Edition. Originating as just a website and some hoax images, at some point a team was formed to work on this, with the amazing https://soundcloud.com/dmashura working on the tracks and myself on the zone art at the time. The music you're hearing is actually for a zone that was labelled Frigid Forest, but back when Sonic ROM hack music editing first started (with Sonic 2 Beta being the ROM to work on, somehow) I decided the old track fit Wood Zone nicely. From then on, I always preferred it as such. I've made several SMPS renditions of it over the years, as well as mixes more like this. I should work on another SMPS one soon, I think.

This rendition of the track has actually gone through several iterations, with changes made to the lead, the drums, the filtering, etc. over the years. I was never completely happy with it, though, and actually completely forgot about it until I came across a cache of old project files at the beginning of the week. So, I decided to work on it yet again, and this is the result. I'm actually 99% happy with it now, the 1% reserved for if I decide to change it further later on. :U

As always, enjoy.

Wood Zone

P̴ra͠ise͡ ̴Him.

So, a while ago now I made a little ROM hack titled "An Ordinary Sonic ROM Hack", that had absolutely nothing new in it whatsoever. Pfft. It was based on that creepypasta Sonic.exe which, while fun in itself, the actual game that was made was just a little bit.. lacking. So, I endeavoured to create a challenging ROM hack out of the idea, and An Ordinary Sonic ROM Hack was born.

One of the more fun parts of making it was Hill Zone's music. Only the sheet music existed at the time as a point of reference, and converting that over was.. interesting. It took a good evening to get everything into FL Studio, and then another to get it sounding similar to what it was meant to (finding the main FM voice was a pain, but the other was just a ring).

The main fun, though, was converting to SMPS. I had to wipe out any release or volume change on the FM voice itself, control the whole lot through volume control calls, and then reverse the whole thing for the full effect. It was successful, though, and sounded just like it was meant to.

So, here's an arranged version, just because. I haven't heard any of these myself yet, although I'm sure they exist. I tried to get the backing creepy but not overbearing, and the lead not too overpowering but not smothered. Hopefully I was successful.

As always, e͝n̷͡j̨ò͝ý͠.͢

H͟il͡l̸ Z҉on̶e̶

This is what happens when someone in the middle of a Skype conversation notices similarities on something you're playing around with. Just a silly little thing.

Spookbotnik Tune

So someone in one of MegaGWolf's twitch streams jokingly put "TAAAAKE OOOON MEEEE" in the chat while he was playing Sonic BTS Titanic Tower Act 2.

The idea stuck. Whoops.

(There is one note in this that I am so very unhappy with. It should be obvious. But the only fix is so wildly different as to make it sound worse than this? Oh well...)

Take On The Titanic Tower

Oh boy, is this remix a doozy. A 10-minute monster of a doozy.

I started this last week, after listening to a BGM track from Lucky Star on the way home from work, thinking I recognised the bass synth, and attempting to emulate it that night myself in FL Studio. After that, I got to thinking about doing a new Sonic 2 boss remix. Now, those who know me will know I used to remix that tune a lot, and by a lot I mean it used to be the only thing I did music-wise for a good while. I hadn't for a long time, so I dropped that well known to me tune in and it just.. worked.

However, I was never really happy with it just as that, as it never sounded complete enough to me. So, I thought, I'd throw in another boss tune, originally just the Sonic 3K boss, but then I pitched the whole thing up by 3 semitones and I knew I wanted the Sonic 1 Final Boss in there next instead. So, in that went.

The key change from C back to A came after I decided to make it one big remix of boss tunes, and I put in the Sonic 3K Boss and then Miniboss at this point. Fun fact from remixes past; the Sonic 2 Boss theme, the Sonic 3K Miniboss theme, and the Sonic 3K Boss theme can all share the same chords and work almost perfectly.

The final tune added to this was one I'd never touched before, but always liked, the second boss music from the Mega Drive Sonic 3D. Those chords were tricky getting right, but they did in the end.

And, after tying everything together, out popped this mega 10 minute remix of Mega Drive Sonic boss themes. I am extremely happy with it, all of it, for a change. (Yes, even the drums!)

Serving suggestions include turning up both the volume and the bass. I've already blown out one good set of headphones working on this(!)

Enjoy!

Mega Drive Mega Boss Mega Mix

Well, here's something a bit different. Two remixes from Sonic 3 & Knuckles used for a 20th Anniversary animation, based on the wonderful written works of Nigel Kitching and artwork of Richard Elson, the beginning of Sonic the Comic's Running Wild arc, where Super Sonic really begins to take on a life of his own.

Yuski about a month ago messaged me that he was preparing an animation for Sonic's 20th anniversary to be shown at Summer of Sonic 2011, and wondered if I wanted to help with the backing music. Of course, I said yes. Thus, this remix of Hidden Palace was born.

This one goes on longer than the one shown in the animation, as we got the timing down to fit one single loop of the song perfectly (gotta love it when things come together perfectly like that), so there's multiple loops of the track before it finishes here. This track actually took a number of restarts before getting it right, something that tends to happen to me. I'll work on a remix for an hour, listen to it, not be happy with it and scrap it, and then restart the next day on it from scratch until I get it right. After.. 4 tries, I think, with this one, did I finally get it sounding like this. (No, I don't have any versions of the scrapped mixes left, so there's no point in asking!)

If you were at Summer of Sonic yesterday, you got to experience the animation on a large screen projector along with myself and Tom (who did Sonic's voice), which was an amazing experience. (Especially everyone's reaction, really great seeing that(!)) If you didn't get to see it or just want to watch it again and hear it in more detail, and I suggest you do because Yuski's animation work on it is amazing, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJOzTiw0aE

There is going to be more animated for it, but probably at a little bit of a slower rate as we don't have a month deadline to work to this time(!)

Enjoy!

Hidden Palace Zone ~ STC Mix

Well, here's something a bit different. Two remixes from Sonic 3 & Knuckles used for a 20th Anniversary animation, based on the wonderful written works of Nigel Kitching and artwork of Richard Elson, the beginning of Sonic the Comic's Running Wild arc, where Super Sonic really begins to take on a life of his own.

Yuski about a month ago messaged me that he was preparing an animation for Sonic's 20th anniversary to be shown at Summer of Sonic 2011, and wondered if I wanted to help with the backing music. Of course, I said yes. Thus, this remix of Doomsday was born.

This one was actually made first, and made the intro to match the timing shown on the very first animation run that Yuski showed me. While that did lock down certain things within the animation and probably made the job a lot harder (sorry Yuski!) it certainly made the build-up that much more dramatic, especially at the part with the appearance of Super Sonic. Like the Hidden Palace track, this one goes on longer than the one in the video, as we had to end it where it did, so the whole build-up to the next loop you hear here, along with the additional loop of the song had to be stripped down for the credits sequence which just looped the little quieter bit. It worked well for the animation, definitely, with the timing, but I personally prefer the build-up to the next loop better. Much more dramatic(!)

If you were at Summer of Sonic yesterday, you got to experience the animation on a large screen projector along with myself and Tom (who did Sonic's voice), which was an amazing experience. (Especially everyone's reaction, really great seeing that(!)) If you didn't get to see it or just want to watch it again and hear it in more detail, and I suggest you do because Yuski's animation work on it is amazing, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLJOzTiw0aE

There is going to be more animated for it, but probably at a little bit of a slower rate as we don't have a month deadline to work to this time(!)

Enjoy!

Doomsday Zone ~ STC Mix

Evening Finesse

I did an entire set of these when I should've been working.

Time well spent.

Lancer but it's every other beat

Why do battle themes work so well with this type of thing?

The World Revolving but it's every other beat

Been a while since I did one of these mashups, so I thought I'd stay simple and go with a small tune than something a bit longer.

This is actually for a thing I'm working on. Something that, hopefully, will see an actual release for once.

Hopefully.

Space Harrier & Knuckles

I saw the original of this gaining more likes and shares, so I thought I'd come back to it.

Fun thing, I actually uploaded the wrong version when I did the full vocal mashup, as I'd gone back and cleaned it up significantly in terms of what parts of Evening Star and which channels went where. By the time I realised, however, it had likes and shares and comments and it was too late.

So, here's an instrumental version that has the updated YM2612 and PSG channels set out as I actually wanted them, and without vocals. I like how well these two tracks work like this without them, and listen to it on the regular when working.

As always, enjoy.

Evening Finesse (Instrumental)

So I got a little bored this weekend and decided to do a small thing. That small thing turned into making an S3&K mix of the Sonic Mania invincibility music.

I've done something similar before with Sonic 4's invincibility music, a veeeery long time ago now, but I never put that on here. Did a Sonic 3D mix of that one too, maybe I'll do the same with this at some point.

This is also playing off of an emulator, not through VSTs in something like FL Studio. While I mock up a track in there (and I did for this one) this is playing in-game, in-engine.

Enjoy~

Sonic Mania Invincibility (Sonic 3 & Knuckles Mix)

What, another one of these so soon? Guess who got bored at work this time. :U

While I could put up a Sonic 1 mix as well, there's no real point seeing as the only difference is the drum track so.. yeah, that's out of the picture for now, although I do have a version with Sonic 1 drums. Maybe I'll do a Sonic 3D one next...

Again, this is playing off of an emulator, not through VSTs in something like FL Studio.

Enjoy~

Sonic Mania Invincibility (Sonic 2 Mix)

Oops, I did it again. More boredom at work on a slow Friday.

This was a fun one to do, as it's a little more involved than the others with the pitch change, the sweep up, the lead accompaniment, etc.

Yet again, this is playing off of an emulator, not through VSTs in something like FL Studio.

Enjoy~

Sonic Mania Invincibility (Sonic 3D Blast Mix)

This one was requested by someone in the comments of one of the others. It was a change for sure, as I'm more used to working with FM-based tracks than tracked samples, but it was far easier to rip and handle as, luckily, there's an extractor that not only converts tracks to MIDI but packs the sample set used up into a handy soundfont too.

Amusingly, this was actually one of the easier ones to convert to Sonic Mania's invincibility theme. The main lead uses a variation of the same thing, for the most part, already. Copout? Maybe, but it works well, so I'm happy.

I did this while on a plane flying to the US. Good use of the time.

As always, enjoy~

Sonic Mania Invincibility (Sonic Advance Mix)

So when I heard this track in the movie I knew immediately I wanted to do a mashup, and I did this while flying back to the UK last night.

Enjoy~

Trainwreck Of A Friendship

I love the trolling intro to this. :> Is it Emerald Hill? NOPE, it's Sonic 4.

Well, this is something a little different. I made this a while ago, but I'm putting it up here as the next file I'll be putting up matches the "style", of making one song sound like another.

This is Splash Hill Zone Act 1, from Sonic 4 Episode 1, made to sound like Emerald Hill Zone from Sonic 2. Uses the same instruments and song structure, just because I thought it'd work well with the tune.

While this is using VOPM and such to basically "emulate" the YM2612 and SN76496 chip feel to the song, it does conform to the limitation of music using them, and uses instruments designed for them (from the original Emerald Hill Zone track).

Sonic 4 Episode 1 - Splash Hill Zone Act 1 - Sonic 2 Emerald Hill Remix

Another troll intro. :>

Ha ha, yet another one of these.. but not Sonic 4 this time. No, this time it's something.. completely different. The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina, the fake anime intro episode to The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi (it was the first episode aired), and this was the "battle" music. The original sounds like it was done on the Microsoft Softsynth, and when I recreated it years ago in MIDI format playing it on said Microsoft Softsynth made it sound exactly the same. 

The reason for making this? Well, there's an SMPS competition (basically, Mega Drive music competition) that runs on the SSRG Message Board and I won the last round, meaning I could choose the next round's music. I chose this. :> This is my entry for this round.

Now, again, it's using VOPM and stuff right now, but eventually it'll be using the SMPS engine properly, so I made sure it'd work all fully using it with correct voices, etc. etc.

The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00 Battle Theme - Sonic 3 & Knuckles Boss Remix

Two days ago I found an old zip file full of old SRB2 midis (SRB2 is a 3D Sonic fan game that’s been worked on for at least a century now, made using an off-shoot of the Doom engine). I decided I’d piss around with the boss music, as I always liked it at the time. Those of you who know SRB2 know this is not that boss music. :P But hey, it’s a somewhat-introduction.

During my 2-hour lunch break at work yesterday (yay last Friday of the month~), I thought I’d give creating a remix of another level’s music I really enjoy a go; Techno Hill Zone. The only difference is I wanted to do it from scratch; no midi for help. This is the result.

For just over an hour and a half of work on it, I’m really happy with it. :> Enjoy.


SRB2 - Techno Hill Zone

Well, here's a fun mash up. For an SMPS Competition over at the SSRG forums, we had to make a version of the 8-Bit Sonic Spinball's Final Showdown music into a Mega Drive version. I heard it for the first time there, really liked it, and instantly heard this as a possibility.

Of course I had to do it. :> 

A mash up of that tune and Sonic 3's final boss, this was both good fun and a pain in the arse to make. It won the round, though, so enjoy! Take a listen to the others in that round too by registering at the SSRG forums and seeing the SMPS Competition sub-board, as they were all good entries this time.

Sonic Spinball Final Showdown - Sonic 3 Final Boss Mix

Another one from those SRB2 MIDIs I found and decided to play with, and another worked with from scratch after listening to it the once again. Went down a different route with it this time, more like some of my older stuff (which I really must upload) where I put background sound effects into it.

I'm quite pleased with how this one has turned out in the end, actually. Originally it was a little bit longer, but it felt to me like it was going on too long.. so I made it this length, and all was good. :>

As always, enjoy!

SRB2 - Deep Sea Zone

So I've been working on this for a little bit during spare time here and there, now I have a viable FL setup again, and.. I have no idea what I want to do with it. I'm happy with this part, but the problem with Sky Base is it's so short. 

I've tried tying in some other tracks here, like Sonic 2 GG's boss music, but.. I dunno. I want something that's not going to take it over either(!)

So here's this for now, as I never post anything. I may delete it at some point, such as when I work out just what I want to do here.

Sky Base... Something

Because https://clips.twitch.tv/WrongResourcefulWrenHassaanChop-4IQLuUb_tELABmOG happened and this had to be done.

Also everyone should go to https://www.twitch.tv/nerdynanny because nerdy is amazing.

E1M1

So I made this a good while ago over the top of the official track, and then I found a good instrumental, and sat on it for a while. Then I recently fixed it up nicely,

I don't know if the original Twitch clip still exists (thank you DMCA scare that caused mass deletion of near everyone's Twitch video history) but G was singing along to the song used in a ROM hack, and.. well, as usual, I had to.

Go to https://www.twitch.tv/megagwolf. Because G is also awesome.

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