YM2612 Remake of the Theme of Simon Belmont

In case you're not aware, the YM2612 is the name of the Genesis' FM-synth sound chip, which is made by Yamaha (hence "YM").

This is a re-creation of the Theme of Simon from Castlevania IV for the 2612 meant to recreate the original as accurately as possible. Fortunately this was a fairly simple task, thanks to the people of TFM tracker (Shiru) and Devster Noise Machine, who created most of these samples.

This was made with TFM tracker and exported as a VGM file, which can be downloaded here: http://www.box.net/shared/sx2ovmeqsg
Since Youtube videos are monaural, this is worth a download since the file has stereo effects that don't come through here.
I won't offer an mp3 download since this is smaller and sounds better. For playing VGM files, I recommend Winamp and the In_Vgm plugin.

The background is taken from Castlevania: Bloodlines' JP release, which was known as Vampire Killer (the MSX "Castlevania" was released in Europe with that title, oddly enough, way back when -- and Bloodlines is the name of the final stage for Rondo of Blood).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• theme
• of
• simon
• belmont
• genesis
• super
• castlevania
• IV
• vampire
• killer
• ym2612
• fm
• synth
• remake
• remix
• rearrangement

[Alianger]

mind if I take a look at the TFM file for this and/or other tracks? Would be cool to study them.

[THEmuteKi]

Might upload the whole batch of them after I'm mostly done, but there are still a few songs here and there I'd like to do before ending this project.

[Alianger]

@THEmuteKi Can you please tell me what effects you use on the bass at 1:04-1:35 and 1:45? been pulling my hair trying to replicate those :P

[THEmuteKi]

I just used two tracks, one panned left and one panned right, and detuned one a single unit high and detuned the other a single bit low (that is, the "201" and "101" control is put on every note).

[Alianger]

ah simple as that huh... but this lone one at the 1:04 is something different right? genskmod and vgmplay didn't make me any wiser. anyway, keep up the good work :)

[THEmuteKi]

I'm not quite sure why the effect isn't very pronounced. The stereo depth should be greater than this.

Of course, you can always just do the effect without the panning if you'd like :P

[JGevaryahu]

btw you CAN hear stereo on youtube! add &fmt=18 after the video url. Try it!

[coolgeorge423]

Listening to this kinda makes me wish that Super Castlevania IV should have been ported to the Sega Genesis...

Indeed the YM2612 kicks ass. I really wish that I could compose this kind of music, but TFM Music Maker is a pain in the ass to figure out.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Curse you for making me wish current Nintendo was more like old SEGA.

[kreeddem]

@sonicfan966 Cause the drums are using FM and not DAC like allot of megadrive did, OPL2/3 based zgames used the fm for drums, I no where ya coming from here man.

[kreeddem]

@douro20 Dead wrong, there was only one ym2612 in the megadrive, I no cause am staring at my project am developing right now.

[douro20]

There were two YM2612s in the Sega Genesis, one for each stereo channel- this allowed for four voices of FM synthesis per stereo channel.

[HamsterPants522]

Anybody else start dancing once the song picked up?

[reagandammit]

DAMN these beats are PHRESH

[kibjohn]

I love it!

-kidThunder

[manuelink64]

fucking awesome!!!

i really love the sound of the YM2612

SEGA RULZ!!!

[sonicfan966]

@ShadeCS Well, I knew that it was valid, I was just making a comparison.

[ShadeCS]

@sonicfan966

It was made in TFM music maker, TFM can export a genesis rom, this is 100% YM2612 valid.