Team Sonic Racing - Haunted Castle (Sega Genesis Remix)

16-bit chiptune demake cover of "Haunted Castle" from Team Sonic Racing, compatible with the Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive console.

DOWNLOAD (MP3, VGZ & DMF):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QkrB...
Feel free to use it for your videos or fangames.
NOTE: You need a VGM player to open the VGZ file, and the DMF is only for DefleMask.

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Technical info
·Program: DefleMask Tracker v0.12.0
·System: Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive (YM2612 [FM], SN76496 [PSG], Sega DAC [PCM])
·FM instruments loaded: 6
·PSG volume macros loaded: 3
·PCM samples loaded: 5
·Max. FM channels active: 5
·Max. PSG channels active: 3
·FM channel 6: set to DAC (samples only)
·PSG channel 4: Free range white noise
·Tempo: 200 BPM (NTSC, speed 05/04)
·Time in development: 1 week
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About the song:
It was pretty easy to do, all things considered, the only problem was that I started running out of space the closer it got to the end of the song, I had to replace FM instruments with square waves and that's not ideal.

I started using placeholder instruments that I typically use for certain kinds of instruments, "Dis. Guitar '94", the Wing Fortress bass and the Decap Attack organ (lol). They weren't perfect, so I tried editing them to see if with some tweaks they could be improved, and they did. I'd say the stereo guitar is one of the most important instruments here, it's the one that needed the most precise adjustments, followed by the organ. The thing I randomly picked as the violin didn't sound like one at all (still doesn't), but I thought it fit nicely, so I tried editing to see if it could worked, and it did. The main electric guitar is reused from my Green Light Ride remix with some tweaks to make it fit this better, I changed the DT, attack and release values to sound nicer. The harpsichord thing is from Earthworm Jim, I was looking for something like a piano I remember the game had, couldn't find something good, but picked the closest thing and edited it to sound the way I wanted, worked fine.

There might be a few mistakes in some of the notes, the bass was almost inaudible and the stereo guitars weren't particularly clear at some points. Shoutout to Audacity for letting me hear the guitar solo arpeggios once again.

It sucks that I ran out of space towards end of the song. Having just guitars and bass makes it feel more like rock, and that's fine, but I'd rather have more FM and not just square waves, especially since the instruments were there before. To have more FM I would've had to remove or turn into PSG some of the guitars, and I think things sound better this way, I'd rather have square waves replacing the other instruments instead, the others are more flexible.