Monthly MIDI Contest #8 - April 2012 - RESULTS RELEASED

[Charybdizs]

And me? I'm still trying to think of an SNES game with boss music I liked.

I want to make a Mother 3 boss theme, damnit!

[EnergeticEssence]

I want to make a Mother 3 boss theme, damnit!

You gotta be kidding me!

I wanted to do the same thing too

Let's both write one ^^

[Charybdizs]

You gotta be kidding me!

I wanted to do the same thing too

Let's both write one ^^

But... BUT...

music from a SNES game

Mother 3 is a role-playing video game developed by Nintendo, Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory. It was published for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console in 2006.

[EnergeticEssence]

You gotta be kidding me!

I wanted to do the same thing too

Let's both write one ^^

But... BUT...

music from a SNES game

Mother 3 is a role-playing video game developed by Nintendo, Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory. It was published for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console in 2006.

Ah, I've confused that with Mother 2 >-<

[KungFuFurby]

Mother 2 isn't such a bad idea, actually. That is a SNES game. ^_^

Well, I'm lucky to have MidRadioPlayer (someone else showed me this MIDI player), but that's about as good as it gets...

Now you got me thinking of Starseed. What happened to that game? I haven't heard from it in at least six months...

[EnergeticEssence]

Mother 2 isn't such a bad idea, actually. That is a SNES game. ^_^

Yeah, I had that in mind. But I find it quite difficult to write boss music in the style of Mother 2. It has a very special style of music which I haven't heard in any other game.

Now you got me thinking of Starseed. What happened to that game? I haven't heard from it in at least six months...

Ah, Starseed ^^

I've canceled the project. That doesn't mean, I'm not gonna continue working on it, but I'm lacking ideas. I've actually learned how to program RPG's with Flash, so it would look something like the Zelda Flash game "Seeds of Darkness", which isn't even too bad. Programming a game using assembler (meaning a SNES game) is extremely difficult. There are a lot of things to consider.

Anyway, it would be more interesting for me, to write a game with a whole team. It's kinda boring and hard to write an RPG alone.

In terms of the MIDI Contest:

I'd suggest you to download some boss theme MIDI files from SNES games, to get an idea of how the track looks like and what instruments could be used etc. I've done the same thing too, because I had absolutely no idea, what instruments I could use. I've written my first theme using real SNES samples, and then I transcribed it into MIDI format.

[Zenkusa]

Oh man, I miss general midi. ;_;

Think I'm gonna give this a shot.

[KungFuFurby]

Hey, I've got just the source to find the originals!

SNESMusic.org has lots of boss themes in SPC file from many different games! And I've been adding more through my contributions! ^_^

http://snesmusic.org/v2/

And I'll even let out a boss theme in SPC format that is quite obscure and is not found on SNESMusic.org (and no, this doesn't have an MIDI either to my knowledge)... there's actually a somewhat more pleasant sounding boss theme from Pachi Slot Land that I have (it has bosses in the form of... a pachi-slot mini-game. I did play the game, though I hacked my cash. No, I don't have all of them identified... I have twenty six tracks, and I don't really have the pachi-slot jingles identified.)!

Pachi-Slot Land Boss Theme!

The person that composed this is... er... Studio HAL. Yeah, that's what the staff roll said. And yes, that means I did beat the game. ^_^ The SPC is completely untagged, as I don't do that until I'm actually ready to do so.

[EnergeticEssence]

Oh man, I miss general midi. ;_;

Think I'm gonna give this a shot.

Great!

Nice to see you participating in this contest!

[Dentelle]

I will enter in !
The SNES wasn't my first console system, but I'm interested in trying something after all !

I'm happy to see the MMC is back anyway !

[EnergeticEssence]

I will enter in !
The SNES wasn't my first console system, but I'm interested in trying something after all !

I'm happy to see the MMC is back anyway !

Alright, counted you in!

[Charybdizs]

Yeah, I'm definitely staying out this time. There's just no SNES games that I played that had any awesome boss music I care to emulate.

Also, Dentelle, you still haven't explained your score of my SPC song to me like I asked. :/

[EnergeticEssence]

Guys, today is the 17th of April and there are only a few days left until deadline. Some people have already told me, they don't wanna participate. I want to know, if any one is working on their entries, or if I should cancel it. If it's too hard or if you have no ideas, we could of course cancel it and release the stuff we've done.

[AnthonyMorgan]

You'll have my entry before April 30, no problem.

[EnergeticEssence]

You'll have my entry before April 30, no problem.

Alright, that's good news! =)