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Castlevania (OPL2 Redone)

Original compositions, as well as ports and remixes of existing songs, can be posted in this forum, as long as they are in VGM format of course.

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Castlevania (OPL2 Redone)

Post by MelonadeM »

It's really no secret that the official DOS port of Castlevania has a pretty godawful OPL2 soundtrack. Well 3 years ago, I thought "what if it actually sounded decent?", so I went ahead and did just that.

I tried to keep a game in mind, like as if this were to be used in an actual conversion - limiting myself to 7 channels for most of the songs, leaving 2 for sound effects. Some songs do use all 9 but it's mostly jingles, where there wouldn't be SFX playing anyway.

Even 3 years later I'm still decently happy with these, certainly I'd do things differently now that there's more tools that support the OPL2 and OPL3 (namely OpenMPT Tracker - I used AdlibTracker for these conversions here) but yeah. I honestly didn't really think to post it here at all, but I've just noticed there's a new OPL3 emulation core, NukedOPL3, and all of these sound significantly different to me (compared to the default emulation core, which I think is AdLibEmu). Well, I certainly hope you enjoy these. Maybe I'll do another project like this, who knows.

Sidenote: the VGMs claim they're YMF262 OPL3, however I limited myself to OPL2 features only. I couldn't find a way to convert the VGMs to OPL2, or to force AdlibTracker in an OPL2 mode...
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Post by RandomName »

Nicely done. These renditions are much better than the originals.
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Post by MelonadeM »

Thank you, RandomName - I really appreciate that!
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