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Resources => Audio => Topic started by: D-Pad on May 06, 2009, 03:32:46 am

Title: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: D-Pad on May 06, 2009, 03:32:46 am: For this next piece, I blame Platinum and the Gold and Silver remake rumors. Yeah I'm back into Pokemon, and while browsing youtube for some of my favorite music from Gold and Silver, I decided to try my hand at recomposing them for the Gameboy Advance. The tinny-saw wave (and rocking) music from FireRed and LeafGreen is what I was going for here. Also below is an edited midi version but it sounds totally different without soundfonts... :\

Battle! Team Rocket - MP3
http://www.badongo.com/audio/14805988

Version 2
http://www.badongo.com/audio/14848176

Battle! Team Rocket - Midi
http://www.badongo.com/audio/14805990

Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhQs-I2p9P0

Other great Gold and Silver songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0m-PJozWo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-VyHIx_SY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaNP4mWg7Vo&feature=related (<- YES )
Title: Re: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: DJvenom on May 06, 2009, 04:14:40 am: This is quite amazing! This was one of my favorite tracks from G/S/C along with the Goldenrod theme :D!
Title: Re: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: Wasabi on May 06, 2009, 06:31:37 am: Haha when I went to download it the captcha image said "GZFC", coincidence?

I like it, it sounds much more GBAish. the addition of drums helps drive it along rather nicely as well :)
The strings are a bit too clean though IMO, I always remembered the string samples from most games were a bit noisier or something.
Title: Re: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: D-Pad on May 06, 2009, 05:34:41 pm: Thanks for the comments. : )

Quote from: Darklight on May 06, 2009, 06:31:37 am
Haha when I went to download it the captcha image said "GZFC", coincidence?

I like it, it sounds much more GBAish. the addition of drums helps drive it along rather nicely as well :)
The strings are a bit too clean though IMO, I always remembered the string samples from most games were a bit noisier or something.

Yeah, I made the soundfont using samples from other soundfonts and compressing them into a super small font trying to replicate GBA sounds. Obviously, too much time went working on the strings. lol Guess it's time to crank 'em down a notch. Also, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to replicate that awesome snare from Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, which has the most satisfying popclang-like sound sound I have ever heard.
Title: Re: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: D-Pad on May 08, 2009, 09:40:21 pm: Version 2 - Fixed up the samples a bit, changed a couple of notes, better drums. Please listen! I decided to do some more, now that the remakes have been officially confirmed. XD

Battle! Team Rocket - Advance Arrangement:
http://www.badongo.com/audio/14848176
Title: Re: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: DJvenom on May 08, 2009, 11:36:40 pm: Oh sweet Jesus... Hard to believe how much influence the drums had on the overall feel of the GBA games... As soon as it started and the new drums kicked in I got shivers!

Do you by chance have a pkmn fr/lg r/s/e soundfont, or were those samples made by hand? I always wanted to take a stab at remixing GSC music to GBA style. Namely newbark :P
Title: Re: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: D-Pad on May 09, 2009, 12:07:45 am: Nope, made the font from existing soundfonts, combining sounds, converting the stereo wave into a mono 8-bit wave -- I was trying to make a small soundfont I could use with Game Maker. It turned out to sound like something from the GBA. lol

The snare drum is indeed from Pokemon. I visited one of the Sevii Islands and a drum solo played, and I snagged it. I wasn't planning on it, but I can get together a quick soundfont that can replicate that of the real Pokemon RSEFRLG soundfont... Give me a minute or two and I'll see what I can do. : P
Title: Re: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: Wasabi on May 09, 2009, 02:51:39 am: Quote from: D-Pad on May 09, 2009, 12:07:45 am
Nope, made the font from existing soundfonts, combining sounds, converting the stereo wave into a mono 8-bit wave -- I was trying to make a small soundfont I could use with Game Maker. It turned out to sound like something from the GBA. lol

The snare drum is indeed from Pokemon. I visited one of the Sevii Islands and a drum solo played, and I snagged it. I wasn't planning on it, but I can get together a quick soundfont that can replicate that of the real Pokemon RSEFRLG soundfont... Give me a minute or two and I'll see what I can do. : P
If I had a rom I could try to get the samples from it like I did to minish cap. I'll give it a go.
Title: Re: Battle! Team Rocket GBA Arrangement
Post by: Wasabi on May 09, 2009, 03:20:44 am: Success!
http://www.box.net/shared/dcblolifoi
btw the samples from the sounds are at the start and end of that, it's just got all of the pokemon's cries in between... <3 audacity :D
also, you're right about them being 8 bit, 8 bit signed PCM actually, no endianess, and a smaple rate of 13400.