+Kuhntee Nyctiproc IMO F-Zero is one of the best sounding SNES games. Game took a long time to be developed, more than 15 months, and sounds better than many others SNES games which usually have weaker drums (snares in particular) and more muffled sound.

while it sounds not bad, I don't think it sounds half as good as the original. All those remixes lack the eerie feel of the original.

It couldn't really exist like this in the real game though, not with all the other sound FX

@@SuperMikeFender Well, it now can exist because there are software techniques to play more samples at once, so you can have this tune complete and with sound effects without a problem. Even if doesn't you can sacrifice 1 channel for the sound effects.

@@yohkom.7988 F-Zero's soundtrack is pretty damn good. One of the best sounding on the SNES? Kind of a stretch. I mean... have a listen to the soundtracks for Separation Anxiety, Maximum Carnage, Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, or (I shit ye not) Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcadia's Revenge.

Fuk u IGN!!

@@crumbly8255 And what makes you think you have the right to tell him to not share his knowledge?

Landstalker's soundtrack is amazing too

I believe the same can be argued for the SPC700, or any sound chip ever. There are a few remixes out there that literally sound like PSX soundtracks on SNES. Regardless FM synth does have that metalic sound and charm that the snes doesn't have.

@@yoru7852 except having just 64 KB of ram for store the midi note data and the sample that come with the tracker is seriously difficult to manage, i have huge respect for people like David Wise that was able to mimic the tone of a Korg Wavestation, to make the ambiant soundtrack of DKC with just 64 kb for everything, all the composer of the SNES era was limited by that factor, on megadrive you only have to program the synth and add few kilobite of sample for the drums sample that make the thing more bearable, to use, and you are not limited with tracker to make your music, GEMS soundkit work with midi support.

I can't guarantee I will mimic any particular composer style, but I will at least try to cover a track or two from LttP at some point.

The problem with the SNES is that it had 64k of ARAM that it had to share with the rest of the hardware. You could NEVER get above a certain quality with it, unfortunately. It's sad, because the chip they used is capable of way more if it had the RAM. It's a classic Nintendo thing to use the right parts but attach them together horribly.

Not at the moment. I get some people asking me about that every once in awhile, but I'm not really sure about that sort of thing. Maybe one day I'll set something up. Thanks for the good words.

Yes, it can be played on hardware no problem.

ChiptunedRaijin OUTSTANDING... There is a thread on Sega-16 where they have made Mode7 work on a Sega Genesis, not oly work but in fact superior to that of a SNES!!! www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?29069-Mode-7-demo-for-Genesis-MD There now must be a port of FZERO on the Genesis and I nominate you as the Composer

umiami80 I have seen that thread, and actually it is what made me feel like covering this track. I didn't feel like bugging gasega68k to try and port F-Zero just because I covered this though. I would certainly not mind doing some music for an F-Zero demo on the Genesis, however, the conversion process has proved to fail in the past. You might know of the Bad Apple demo for the Genesis which Stef made. I actually covered it for the Genesis to be used in that demo, but it ended up not being included. The conversion process was very unreliable, mostly because I use a VGM format tracker, which isn't really optimized for games, more for hardware accuracy in general. Now, if someone made an F-Zero demo, I would provide this track for them to use. If it would work out, it would be good news, so we would just have to see what happens. Hopefully conversion is more reliable.

link to that game please?

I dont know how to use that stuff.

+IronCurtaiNYC KZfaq to mp3 converter. :)

+Eduardo Briseno Finally, KZfaq is letting me respond to you. To answer that, no, at the moment, I am not too interested in making music for the SNES. I prefer using Trackers dedicated to the sound hardware, and there aren't any fully completed SNES Trackers yet. In addition to that, I am more a fan of FM. It's more fun to program the sound, and work around the limitations of the Genesis. I feel like The Genesis has way more potential to discover, and it's fun trying to reach closer and closer to that potential. Still, whenever an SNES Tracker does finally become available, I will be sure to try it.

Yeah

This song is present in the latest demo of G-Zero (a homebrew port of F-Zero for Genesis) and it sounds 100% the same like in this video. you should find a video of the demo easily :)

Back Vocals: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhh

Everyone talks about his covers, so of course I know of him. Unfortunately, he goes well beyond the Genesis limitations. My covers though are capable of playing back on hardware. If you think his might sound better, that's fine.

+ChiptunedRaijin your remix are better

I like both of your remixes, you guys both rock. I'm subscribed to both you guys.

+Daniel Madeira As far as I have seen, mine is the only one that would actually run on Hardware. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i86KqMKmx6vRqH0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKyPndyZv5-9e30.html

+ChiptunedRaijin, if so, very great job! Keep going! There are a lot of fantastic Snes songs that you can convert it (Castlevania, Prince of Persia, King of dragon, etc)!

All of my videos are 100% hardware compatible, meaning it can be played on a real Genesis.

Hey, nice analysis. :) There is some things I did on purpose though. I made it more rock oriented to be more like F-Zero X rather than the original, because I always thought rock suited the series more. I do admit I could've done a better job with it, but I was trying new things at the time and wanted to experiment with a couple of new instruments I had programmed for the Genesis. Thanks for your honest thoughts.

I think it's fucking great.

The drums are clearer in this arrangement though...

Wat

You didn't listen to the percussion at all, did you? All models of the Genesis had stereo sound.