Breath of Fire 2 - A Crisis (MnP132)
Outline
Congratulations to HoboKa for winning the last round! As a result, he get's to choose this month's MnP source! Here's what he had to say about his pick:
"The theme of Barubari if I recall correctly. He's the second to last boss of BoF2 and can be harder than Deathevan if you choose to fight him solo. Damn did he ever terrify me as a kid lol." - HoboKa
GAME: Breath of Fire 2 (SNES)
SOURCE: A Crisis
Deadline: 26th April @ 1PM
Closing Date: 28h April @ 1PM
Vote Ends: 5th May @ 1PM
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MISSION STATEMENT
The goal of Compo: MnP is to promote that "meat and potatoes" conservative approach to remixing: this includes the mood and composition of source tunes. It is up to the remixer to create their own personalization, or to simply give it a sound upgrade. Moreover, the compo is a great opportunity to hone your remixing skills and give video game music the respect that is due. SOME reinterpretation is recommended, but not required.
MnP Instructions/Guidelines
Rules for Picking a Source:
- All video game sources are limited to the 6th generation of video game consoles and earlier. This was due to community consensus, where people preferred to remix more retro games, than newer games. 6th generation includes: GameCube, Xbox, PS2 and Dreamcast.
- I'm now restricting big name franchises (Such as Zelda and Mega-Man) to one source per year. This is to encourage more obscure games, that not many people will know about to be picked.
- Make sure you provide me both a video and a MIDI of the source in question.
Guidelines:
- Modifying the Source is fine, so long as it doesn't sound completely separate from its original intent.
- If you're gonna do a genre change, at least make sure the original aspect of the source is not lost.
- Tempo changes are fine, as long as it's not a big change. I'm talking like, going from 80bpm to 140bpm.
- Submissions must be at a maximum of 20mb (keeping in step with ThaSauce's file size max), and submitted as a MP3 file.
- Only 1 entry per participant. Previous winner cannot participate but can submit a BONUS entry.
- Try to avoid making quality-based comments on submissions until after the Round is concluded. It is to avoid a Bias in Votes.
MISC/TIPS
- When picking a source tune, make sure it has a MIDI to make people's lives easier.
- In-game sound FX are permitted, so long as they don't comprise the whole track (i.e. replacing entire MIDI tracks with just sfx)
Entries (6)
I really wanted to expand this song, and added several new parts to extend it. I aimed to continue its original vibe to stay faithful. But man, the original sounds like someone had a great five minutes of composing and then got told the deadline was in an hour! I tried an orchestral approach with some backing guitars and drumkit. Really wanted to capture the feeling of fighting a nightmarish fiend that almost killed you as a kid.
*Edit* fixed a couple of errors I left in the composition.
*Edit Edit* fixed even more errors in the composition! Maybe I should give more time to stew over an entry before submitting it.
Did this over the course of two evenings. Spent the first evening sketching out my ideas, and then the next evening recording, adding synths, and mixing.
Warning: loud metal shit
edit: small fixes
Barubary is an impressive SNES era villian, a demon with honor whom lets the main character choose to fight him with his allies or alone. This is named partially as a pun, and to signify that I would so totally try to solo this boss.
More importantly. I used Mega Man X soundfonts, which I've been experimenting with for a while. Elongated most ideas in the song, expounded on the bass and screaming synths, variated the melody with plenty of longer notes in there, and some pitch bending fun. The source feels more complete now, methinks.
Double-Pedal Kick ! Heavy METAL 4EVER ! ... and a little bit of horns for second part ;D
Man a source this short is not easy to expand into 3 minutes without looping, and that's kind of what i did. I did a drum only intro, then the main source in question, then a bassline breakdown, it was just not easy expanding something so short. It's also not the best mix, because i was struggling to figure out how to make it longer, so in the end this is the best i could do. It's more in the rave style sure, but it's in the realm of MnP and fits the guidelines. Not the best, but i hope you have fun with this anyways!
**BONUS**
Do not vote!!
A mashup of Boss 2 and Barubary (A Crisis), since this is a BONUS, I have more freedom to fart around.
Also, I decided to unsub from my E/W Composer Cloud stuff, as I was met with even more artifacts and latency issues. Might troubleshoot it later. But eh, I'll make do with what I have for now. (luckily, i still have Angry Brass, which is actually better than most of East West's brass imo). I also used BoF2 string and e-guitar samples for the Barubary segment, just to make it fun.