Blandia

It's been a long time since I haven't rip
VGM, due to time constraints and eventually
ready for college next month (lies, I stopped
college). So in an effort to keep my account
alive, is to upload some VGM packs, hoping
that I'll somehow retain my VGM ripping
skills after a long time.

An 1992 arcade fighting game that was released
by Allumer. It is basically a sequel to a 1986
Taito game called "Gladiators". Instead of
using a 6-button layout, it only uses 3-button
layout, similar to the Sega Genesis controller,
only used for high, low, and straight weapon
attacks. The score mechanics for this game are
kinda low. Instead of a hundred-thousand, or
even a million score would received. It only
uses like a thousand, or ten-thousand as a
score mechanics. It might be strange to me
on how this games' score mechanic works.

I also discovered some differences between the
full released version and the prototype
version of this game, is that "Stage BGM 1"
and "Stage BGM 2" have their full version of
that track in the prototype version, while
on the released version, it was cutted down
due to I think memory shortage of the X1-010
chip. On the other hand, "Stage 3" and
"Ending, G.O" are different between the
prototype and the released version of the game.

Prototype versions of the game's music uses
custom bankswitching on where the sample
command plays at a specific PCM address.
Honestly, X1-010's command is much harder to
understand than the M6295 one

It is also my first X1-010 (PCM) rip.

This was later ported to PC-98, and FM Towns
by Ving later titled "Blandia 98" for the
PC-98, and "Blandia Plus" for the FM Towns.

2024-06-27, I discontinued this VGM pack due
to other coding stuff making on...

2025-05-13, After implementing the K007232 for
the VGM format, I've decided to finish this
pack, once and for all. And how many months
I didn't finished this pack? 11 freaking
months?!! wow, I didn't expect that for a
long time.

Note: This pack uses ADPCM streams and seeking
doesn't work properly.


Generated by MAME 0.264 VGM mod
(mame0264-1-g99548ed6bb6)

Size reduction:
1. vgm_sro: 28.0 MB -> 1.51 MB (5.38 %)
Total: 28.0 MB -> 1.51 MB (5.38 %)

External links:
MobyGames:
 https://www.mobygames.com/game/54872/blandia/
Wikipedia:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandia
IGDB:
 https://www.igdb.com/games/blandia
HardcoreGaming101:
 https://www.hardcoregaming101.net/blandia/
Arcade Database:
 http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=blandia&lang=en

— RN22

Source: VGMRips