Apoplexy (Tanks) - Mario Forever [Remake/Arranged]

~~~~~~~ Open me ~~~~~~~

I played Mario Forever when I was a child & I loved it. I knew it because a friend of mine had it on his computer. My favorite tracks are YKYrococ, Sirens & this one. For many years, the source of its custom music was a mystery for me.

A few years ago I knew about modules, music files that are a kind of mix between a MIDI & sets of instruments samples. I was impressed by how tiny some of them are. I started listening to them using WinSCP, Winamp & 'ftp.modland.com'. Thanks to that, later I understood that Softendo/Buziol took some of them for his game, as well as that some of my childhood games (Typer Shark Deluxe, Zuma Deluxe & Insaniquarium Deluxe) used modules as well.

Recently I found a way to convert a module to a MIDI & I felt inspired to try to arrange this track.
"Apoplexy" is a module in "MOD" format, from the Amiga computer. This format only lets you play 4 instruments at the same time (check this out to see it by yourself    • Видео  ). One of the techniques that the composer applied was to use some "special samples" that are recordings of an instrument playing two notes at the same time (chord).
Some steps of the arrangement process were:
● Transpose the MIDI notes of each instrument, to sound like the MOD. The MOD has the wrong note info, so the original notes sound OK if you play them using the MOD samples, but sound awful if you play them using standard MIDI instruments.
● Spot the instruments that use "special samples", listen to them and figure out how their chords are composed.
● Write the MIDI notes of the drums, because the MOD uses drum loop samples (except for the crash cymbal and the clap).
For doing these tasks, my hearing was essential (I'm not a musician).

However, the organ of the last section may sound a little off. There are 4 organ samples in the MOD; the 1st one is just a short regular sample, but the other 3 are different "special samples" (chords). I tried several combinations of chords and the one that you hear in the video most resembles the original. 😕

Did you know that if you convert this module to "MO3" format (https://www.un4seen.com/mo3.html), it only takes 34.4 kilobytes? That's very little!

To arrange a module was really a challenge, I hope you like the result. My final project had 26 channels. 😝

Bye for now. 👍🏽

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🔸 𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏:
𝐺𝑎𝑚𝑒: Mario Forever
𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟: 2003
𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠: PC
𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟: Softendo / Buziol Games

𝐺𝑎𝑚𝑒: Rocks'n'Diamonds
𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟: 1995
𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑠: PC (Windows, MS-DOS & Linux), Mac, Android.
𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟: Artsoft Entertainment

Composer:
● 𝑁𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒: Bee Hunter
● 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒: Tomasz Krajewski

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Made with virtual instruments.
Visuals created using Plane9. (www.plane9.com)
Background video by ‪@Beachfrontbroll‬: http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/2014/1...

⏬ 𝑫𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒅 𝑴𝑷𝟑 (no loop):
https://mega.nz/file/oVI3HY6J#_xBlQwg...

⏬ 𝑫𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒅 𝑳𝑶𝑷𝑼𝑺 (infinite loops):
https://mega.nz/file/QMRnWAbb#UCj2RuA...
In order to play this file on PC/Linux you'll need Vgmstream (https://vgmstream.org/).
In order to play this file on Android you'll need this app: https://github.com/droidmjt/Droidsoun...

⏬ 𝑫𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒆 (no loop):
https://modarchive.org/index.php?requ...

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