Shadow Warriors / Ninja Gaiden / Ninja Ryukenden

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Title	Shadow Warriors / Ninja Gaiden / Ninja Ryukenden
Composer	Mikio Saito, Ryuichi Nitta
System	Ninja Gaiden
Sound Chips	2xYM2203, OKIM6295
Tracks	27
Playing time	56:00
Pack author	Dario011
Pack version	2.01
Last Update	2025-04-04

Download Arcade/Shadow_Warriors_(Ninja_Gaiden).zip (676 134 bytes)

[RichterEX2]

Is it just me, or does the OKIM6295 sound rather loud in most of these songs?

[Sonic of 8!]

Yes. OKI chip plays more loud than the 2xOPN chips (plus the SSG part if the song uses). I think that is common with these games that use the OKI chip (look at SF2 and Raiden for example).

[RichterEX2]

The SSG channels are almost inaudibly quiet since the least rerip. Any way to balance them out so they can be heard again?

[Dario011]

The SSG channels are almost inaudibly quiet since the least rerip. Any way to balance them out so they can be heard again?

My pack that I have in Dropbox (more as a backup than anything else), you get to hear the SSG channels, but that here someone or something ended up changing the volume of those channels.

[ValleyBell]

Oh, sorry. It looks like I accidentally broke the chip volume information during the last packaging.
I will do an update with the fixed file header (restored from a backup of the pack's submission) with the next update.

[yoshi200213]

Hello the ssg volume is still too quietly low in the last update of the pack

[Dario011]

Hello the ssg volume is still too quietly low in the last update of the pack

I literally used the Chip Volume Header from Raiga Strato Fighter (because of using the SAME chips configuration as this game), plus there are 2 proofs that I have to prove that I am being as accurate to the real hardware (as it should always be), plus for your information, this pack was already broken before (the initial pack have ALL the files with a silence of one second proof that it was ripped with M1, and someone “fixed” it by turning up the overall volume, and NOT putting the header).

I took the time (at that time) to make it from scratch in the latest version of MAME (version 0.244) and with the sound trigger it haves in the wiki.

And here are the proofs:
The song I use is the track 14: Chasing Him Until the Very End (Transcontinental Railroad Stage BGM) [my personal favorite]

1CC in REAL HARDWARE by Janet, with the timestamp
The song in the album Ninja Gaiden The Definitive Soundtrack Vol. 1

A side note, normally a modern album of a soundtrack of an old game, usually is recorded from the arcade board, in the old ones like Ninja Ryukenden -G.S.M. TECMO 1-, if they are the same, but they put echo effects and other things that do not make it a clean recording, if I'm wrong in this information, someone else let me know.

And as a side note, it seems that you want to look for the fifth leg of the cat to make excuses with same-to-nothing arguments (using very inaccurate emulation instead of Real Hardware footage), if you have so many problems and you complain a lot, then do the work yourself.

Take it or leave it, I'll leave it there.