Really cool, Wicked Child and Out of Time have no right to sound several orders of magnitude better than their NES counterparts but here we are but yeah if you could do uhhhhhh Castlevania 3 I think most people would nut into oblivion
Sounds very clean! The Adlib/YM3812/Operator type L is way much more powerfull than people think. Love the 'metallic' digital Yamaha synthesized sound. Very suitable for certain instruments because of its bright tone palette. Love these old compositions to death, very Scooby Doo :-D
Thanks for loving Scrappy because I am a Scrappy-Lover. Fred Jones Daphne Blake Velma Dinkley Shaggy Rogers Scooby Doo Scrappy Doo Yamaha FM Synth and motorcycles!
"The reason behind it was to prove that the AdLib or compatibles are not as bad as they seem to be" Thank you, exactly! :] They're my favorite chips lately. So much fun!
Hey there, i just wanna say thanks again for letting me use this soundtrack, i already posted the video were i added the soundtrack while giving you credit for the music.
Go watch it for yourself, like i said i already posted it in my channel. but if you already watched it then it's just a recreation of how the game would be in better hardware, or in a more advanced DOS computer.
ah i see; i was asking because i noticed a few things (namely some sfx being slightly different, and the crash at the end). the sfx led me to believe it's from the ground up, while the crash led me to believe it was a HDNES pack for the CV rom file, so i wasn't sure which one was it. for a recreation though it's stupidly close to the NES game mechanically, so great job there
Ah yes, some SFX are different because they were taken from Akumajou Densetsu/Castlevania 3. the crash at the end happens if you leave an armoured knight alive while you try to go forward to the boss. either way thanks for letting me use this Adlib soundtrack, the Adlib music from the official DOS version to me is ok but it's just not well composed in some places.
These are absolutely stellar arrangements. And while I know it wasn't your goal here, I figured I'd let you know that there's one more track associated with Castlevania 1 that you missed: the MSX-version ending theme. Though it's labeled as "Unused" (as the ripper clearly didn't know where it was played), video XpY_htd2rU0 is the track in question. I mention this because one of the natively supported sound chips in MSX hardware produces Yamaha OPLL audio, which is more or less compatible with OPL2, so if you were to cover the MSX-version ending theme in a future video as a supplement to this one, I imagine the MSX fan community could very easily patch your music directly into the game with minimal effort and very few changes. Which would be amazing, and which I would personally be super-psyched for, as the MSX version of Castlevania 1 is one of my favorite games in the whole Castlevania series (it's VERY different from the NES version!), and I also absolutely adore OPLL music. And while the PSG music in MSX Castlevania is quite good, your OPL2 renditions would be an absolutely AWESOME change of pace! Just figured I'd throw that out there. Regardless of what you do with this information, great job with these tracks! I've subscribed to your channel, as I've enjoyed many of your other tracks as well.
Thanks! I've known about that unused MSX track for a while now, and I actually wanted to include it in some fashion, but I thought an arrangement of Can't Wait Until The Night would just fit better (considering the Haunted Castle board ALSO uses an OPL2) You mentioned OPLL, and it will not be a 1:1 port if someone takes that on. The OPLL, unlike the OPL2, has a limited patch set (part of cost-cutting measures), and the music likely won't sound as good with it. However, you could definitely do a 1:1 port of the music on the Moonsound, which has an OPL4 chip on board (and that is directly backwards compatible with the OPL2 used here)
@@MelonadeM I've been told by a homebrew MSX composer friend of mine that the OPLL used in the MSX is more capable than its name would imply, with specs that are largely on par with OPL2. But "largely on par" certainly doesn't mean "the same as," so yeah, changes would be inevitable. Using OPL4 would be an option for sure, but that would require the end user have an OPL4 cartridge inserted in his/her system (or be using emulation, which is more likely), whereas OPLL is natively supported by a good chunk of MSX2 systems, as well as all (or all-ish?) MSX2+ and MSX turboR systems. So for compatibility's sake, converting it to OPLL would be better, and would probably sound pretty darn close to your OPL2 compositions in the right hands. Of course, there's no reason a good homebrew developer couldn't implement both -- plenty of MSX homebrew titles offer the end-user a choice between MSX-music (OPLL) or Moonsound (OPL4) on startup, or even auto-detect OPL4. So yeah, there are options here for sure! And I'm just brainstorming, anyway. I appreciate you responding so quickly, however! Found your channel through your Fire Hawk in the style of Mega Man video, which was also super-cool (Fire Hawk is my favorite MSX game). So regardless of what you come up with next, I just like your style in general, and am looking forward to your future compositions. Good lookin' out, yo! ;)
Can i use this? i have an idea to do a video to make a recreation of a 16-Bit port of Castlevania for the NES, and i would gladly give you credit for the soundtrack.
Thanks. i'll make sure to have it ready for october, it won't be a longplay video though since YT doesn't allow me to upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes but anyways.
honestly, the music is far from the only problem with the port, but hey if anyone wants to do it i'm fairly sure the source files are in the description and all
@@infinitecanadian OH you mean the games themselves and not songs from the first game. maybe itll happen one day in the future but i wouldnt hold my breath
@@MelonadeM yeah, the percussion in it is very rudimentary, and the lead patches are all kinda disgusting sounding, but it's kinda funky in a way, and it's a lot easier to listen to through dos speakers.
Sounds better than the ADLIB music we got in the Castlevania DOS port
It's actually more like the Nes Music than the MS Dos port.
This is what the official OPL2 version on DOS should have sounded like!😄
Proof that the fault wasn't the hardware of the time, but rather the people using it.
Technically yeah, but I still prefer he actual Adlib OST lol
Really cool, Wicked Child and Out of Time have no right to sound several orders of magnitude better than their NES counterparts but here we are
but yeah if you could do uhhhhhh Castlevania 3 I think most people would nut into oblivion
yeah he should do it
Now it sounds like an old arcade game!
Sounds very clean! The Adlib/YM3812/Operator type L is way much more powerfull than people think. Love the 'metallic' digital Yamaha synthesized sound. Very suitable for certain instruments because of its bright tone palette. Love these old compositions to death, very Scooby Doo :-D
What about Scrappy Doo?
@@Seven71987 Him too oo oo! ;-)
Thanks for loving Scrappy because I am a Scrappy-Lover.
Fred Jones
Daphne Blake
Velma Dinkley
Shaggy Rogers
Scooby Doo
Scrappy Doo
Yamaha FM Synth and motorcycles!
"The reason behind it was to prove that the AdLib or compatibles are not as bad as they seem to be"
Thank you, exactly! :]
They're my favorite chips lately. So much fun!
Thanks for the great arrangement and vgz files. I do really love FM Synth OPL series and you made me soooo happy to hear them
Been looking forward to this! Nice one!
In 1986, Adlib was born. And many MS-DOS games were moving out of the PC Speakers.
Amazing work, M!!!
Really good! ❤️😍
Awesome!
Sounds excellent.
Nice!!
Ok, this really reminds me of Mega Man: The Wily Wars and it makes me wish there had been an NES Castlevania Collection for the Genesis.
Hey there, i just wanna say thanks again for letting me use this soundtrack, i already posted the video were i added the soundtrack while giving you credit for the music.
this is really cool, is it a proper fangame or some sort of hdnes thing with the music disabled?
Go watch it for yourself, like i said i already posted it in my channel. but if you already watched it then it's just a recreation of how the game would be in better hardware, or in a more advanced DOS computer.
ah i see; i was asking because i noticed a few things (namely some sfx being slightly different, and the crash at the end). the sfx led me to believe it's from the ground up, while the crash led me to believe it was a HDNES pack for the CV rom file, so i wasn't sure which one was it.
for a recreation though it's stupidly close to the NES game mechanically, so great job there
Ah yes, some SFX are different because they were taken from Akumajou Densetsu/Castlevania 3. the crash at the end happens if you leave an armoured knight alive while you try to go forward to the boss. either way thanks for letting me use this Adlib soundtrack, the Adlib music from the official DOS version to me is ok but it's just not well composed in some places.
This is what the official OPL2 version on DOS should have sounded like!😄🤩😎👌
*Castlevania Wolfenstein 3D*
That was the most enticing notification I've ever gotten
These are absolutely stellar arrangements. And while I know it wasn't your goal here, I figured I'd let you know that there's one more track associated with Castlevania 1 that you missed: the MSX-version ending theme. Though it's labeled as "Unused" (as the ripper clearly didn't know where it was played), video XpY_htd2rU0 is the track in question.
I mention this because one of the natively supported sound chips in MSX hardware produces Yamaha OPLL audio, which is more or less compatible with OPL2, so if you were to cover the MSX-version ending theme in a future video as a supplement to this one, I imagine the MSX fan community could very easily patch your music directly into the game with minimal effort and very few changes. Which would be amazing, and which I would personally be super-psyched for, as the MSX version of Castlevania 1 is one of my favorite games in the whole Castlevania series (it's VERY different from the NES version!), and I also absolutely adore OPLL music. And while the PSG music in MSX Castlevania is quite good, your OPL2 renditions would be an absolutely AWESOME change of pace!
Just figured I'd throw that out there. Regardless of what you do with this information, great job with these tracks! I've subscribed to your channel, as I've enjoyed many of your other tracks as well.
Thanks! I've known about that unused MSX track for a while now, and I actually wanted to include it in some fashion, but I thought an arrangement of Can't Wait Until The Night would just fit better (considering the Haunted Castle board ALSO uses an OPL2)
You mentioned OPLL, and it will not be a 1:1 port if someone takes that on. The OPLL, unlike the OPL2, has a limited patch set (part of cost-cutting measures), and the music likely won't sound as good with it.
However, you could definitely do a 1:1 port of the music on the Moonsound, which has an OPL4 chip on board (and that is directly backwards compatible with the OPL2 used here)
@@MelonadeM I've been told by a homebrew MSX composer friend of mine that the OPLL used in the MSX is more capable than its name would imply, with specs that are largely on par with OPL2. But "largely on par" certainly doesn't mean "the same as," so yeah, changes would be inevitable. Using OPL4 would be an option for sure, but that would require the end user have an OPL4 cartridge inserted in his/her system (or be using emulation, which is more likely), whereas OPLL is natively supported by a good chunk of MSX2 systems, as well as all (or all-ish?) MSX2+ and MSX turboR systems. So for compatibility's sake, converting it to OPLL would be better, and would probably sound pretty darn close to your OPL2 compositions in the right hands.
Of course, there's no reason a good homebrew developer couldn't implement both -- plenty of MSX homebrew titles offer the end-user a choice between MSX-music (OPLL) or Moonsound (OPL4) on startup, or even auto-detect OPL4. So yeah, there are options here for sure!
And I'm just brainstorming, anyway. I appreciate you responding so quickly, however! Found your channel through your Fire Hawk in the style of Mega Man video, which was also super-cool (Fire Hawk is my favorite MSX game). So regardless of what you come up with next, I just like your style in general, and am looking forward to your future compositions. Good lookin' out, yo! ;)
i fucking love wicked child
now that is a kick ass revision better than a pc speaker bleeps.
Spooky
It`s Castlevania, baby.
super chill arrange, well done amigo. also you should teach me how to do adlib kappa?1
oof i havent listened to castlevania's ost but im sure this is pretty great
Castlevania: the Dracula Wars
Catacombania 3D
The main background music : Vampire Killer
gives me wily wars vibes
Can i use this? i have an idea to do a video to make a recreation of a 16-Bit port of Castlevania for the NES, and i would gladly give you credit for the soundtrack.
sure, go ahead
Thanks. i'll make sure to have it ready for october, it won't be a longplay video though since YT doesn't allow me to upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes but anyways.
Stalker sounds like something from Noir detective story.
Do you have castlevania 2 and 3 versions?
not currently. I don't plan to cover these soundtracks either
I would love to see someone hack this into DOS Castlevania. Should be possible.
honestly, the music is far from the only problem with the port, but hey if anyone wants to do it i'm fairly sure the source files are in the description and all
I want to hear the Japanese versions of the 2nd and 3rd titles on Adlib.
unsure what you mean by japanese versions..?
@@MelonadeM Dracula 2: Noroi no fuuin, and Akumajoh Densetsu, both of which had enhanced sound.
@@infinitecanadian OH you mean the games themselves and not songs from the first game. maybe itll happen one day in the future but i wouldnt hold my breath
@@MelonadeM Why not? It would be great to hear.
@@infinitecanadian i dont have the free time to make it happen anymore
the link is dead. could you please renew it?
done, recheck the description for the download links
I might sound absolutely deluded here, but, the original adlib versions were cooler.
honestly when i think "ms dos twang" i probably end up thinking castlevania on adlib so i respect that
@@MelonadeM yeah, the percussion in it is very rudimentary, and the lead patches are all kinda disgusting sounding, but it's kinda funky in a way, and it's a lot easier to listen to through dos speakers.