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After almost a full year, I've reached a point where I'm happy to put it out there. This involved a lot of microsecond to second conversions, and about six times as many hex to decimal conversions for ADSR and root notes.
Thank you to TTGD for indirectly setting me on this path, thank you to Polyphone 1.9 for being the means of creating it, and thank you to N64SoundListTool for existing so I could export the samples.

MARIO PARTY 2 SOUNDFONT

Thought I'd try one of the OPLL variants, so I made something for the OPLL-X, or the YM2423. Whatever tickles your brain! :)
Made in Furnace.

News At 5

HOW TO BE SUPER SMART

I know nothing about this game but the battle theme was cool.

Deltarune - Rude Buster (1988 Synth Funk Remix)

don't stop til' you get enough

Song name: Deltarune - Castle Funk (renoise)
Written by Toby Fox;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with renoise

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Castle Funk [renoise]

Paradise Paradise SNES Underwater Mix

Such lush dreamy songs
I had to have a go at covering them

Deltarune - Second+Third Sanctuary [Guitar Arrange]

either you're helplessly swept away by it,
or let it take you places you've never imagined before

Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

disclaimer: this specific song uses puNES emulation for the fds' wavetable synth, so it doesn't sound muffled (and thus not hardware accurate)

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then came the wind [2a03 + fds]

Deltarune - “Now’s Your Chance To Be A” (1992 New Jack Swing/R&B mix)

this will be my last public release in a while. i have been very addicted to work and have been sleeping very late the past few weeks. burnout is also getting to me from having no sense of direction, so i will not be posting in a month.

anyways,

if you haven't caught on already, i have been dipping my toes into umamusume pretty derby. that gacha game/ anime series with anthropomorphized horse girls. i found out about it around a month ago when the global release of the gacha game released. it gained traction very quickly upon release and was picked up by big gaming streamers.

personally i found out through my friends playing the game (one who doesn't typically even enjoy anime, let alone gacha games, which surprised me). i passively played the game and thought it was pretty neat. i liked the characters; i knew of the "communal daughter" haru urara, redeemed tokai teio with my ssr voucher for her title [peak joy], i got lucky and pulled a 3-star oguri cap who is my favorite uma to date! ^_^ with super creek and silence suzuka close behind.

what i didn't think i would get into was the irl history of the horses themselves. though only passively gaining information from yt shorts (with all kinds of misinformation, but i managed to figure out which was real and which wasn't), i started having genuine interest in the actual horses, their jockeys, their groomers... and how much their lives, their achievements, and their failures have impacted japanese peoples' lives. the supplementary media engages the viewer so well with its drama and character-focused-stories, which not only kept me guessing, but got me more invested into the series as well. i've only watched season 1 of the anime but i hope that season 2 blows me away (aside from the admittedly lifeless mixed cgi animation). s2 ep1 seems to be setting up amazing things for future arcs.

i was upset knowing about grass wonder, who was an american-born stallion that passed away from old age and organ failure (on the 8th of aug 2025, at 30 y/o). a lot of people (incl. uma fans) were mourning his passing. i didn't know much about the horse but i understood his impact in his 4-year-long racing career, and figured i could write a piano piece as a tribute. grass wonder in the umamusume anime is known to be a soft-spoken, yet aggressively competitive runner of team sirius, and notably one of special week's rivals (which afaik is true irl as well). she notably sings chatsumi in a yt short - a japanese folk song from 1912 (with an unknown composer), so i used it towards the end of the song and reharmonized it with a pop progression. i haven't fully verified if it is actually playable or not and only written initially impossible hand movements and key presses, so please do inform me if there are any weird movements that will be removed in rearranging this song for an 88-key piano.

it's certainly not my best song up to date, but i think it's a good enough sendoff to the legendary grass wonder. a goodbye to an era. forever living in horse racing lovers' hearts, and immortalized with umamusume.

as much as both things are designed to make our money (and as much as i don't like the typical anime culture surrounding umamusume)... i think even in the most unexpected pieces of media or recreational activities are we able to find meaning and fundamental values that we all can potentially live by.

soar high, grass wonder.
soar high.

Song name: grass wonder
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Chatsumi (Tea-picking song, 1912) borrowed from the Japanese Ministry of Education
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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grass wonder [s-smp]

Made for the Halloween Sample Pack Contest "mini" event on Discord last year, where you had to make a song using only the samples provided

Jig of the Phantoms

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Tell ya what, Charlie,,

Six Robots (Mario Party 2.sf2)

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Hollow Bastion (Mario Party 2.sf2)

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I like how the segments' vibes turned out. Very different from the original, but still similar - loosely connected, in the way that distant family members are.

Fun fact: the sine melody in Section 3 is completely original, and if I recall right it was supposed to leitmotif Play a Mini-Game.

Drifting Away (Mario Party 2.sf2)

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Legitimately one of my favorite tunes, as MarioSpore caused me to realize. It's only fitting that it should be one of the first to get the MP2 treatment, and yeehaw it sounds freakin' fab.

Dust in the W(estern La)nd - Mario Party 2

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This one I decided to do because it really taps into that same spirit. Like, if there were a 1v3 minigame themed after Wario. I can't remember which instrument I replaced with the Accordion, but it fits so well in (whatever)'s place that it doesn't bother me.

Rowdy Rumble (Mario Party 2.sf2)

"Massive Fähigkeit"

(If you enjoy my tracks, be sure to h'whack that like, repost, and share it too.)
You've reached the home of the so-called "epic Wario" thing. I've a massive catalogue of waamixes and waarangements for yon nigras to peruse with hearty contentment, as they eat whole garlic loaves and shoulder bash their computer.

Sorry if uhhh the volume for tracks varies, or is just relatively all-over-the-place. Even though I usually keep my system vol. at 52, there have been times where I've changed it and forgot that I did, then started working on a project.

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Q: Why do I use the Wario Land 4 soundfont to some capacity for so many tracks?
A: Because I love the way it sounds, obviously. Half the reason why I'll start making a MIDI in the first place is that I want to hear what it'd sound like with the Wario Land 4 soundfont.
Q: Wo, Tahutoa, youre music sure is good! :))
A: DON'T CAPITALIZE MY NAAAAAME AaRRGHKKhH IT LOOKS SO HEINOUS I CAN'T STAND ITTITTI hawhawtitits?? Thank you, though

One wonders how much of their fanbase thinks of ol' typhoidoa as "epic Wario man, *and ig some other stuff*" - the same sort of typecasting that has felled a number of UT Remix artists over the years.

Dust in the W(estern La)nd - Mario Party 2

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