Mega Man 9 NSF cover - Tornado Man, title

Tornado Man and title music from the upcoming Megaman 9, reproduced on the NES using my own sound engine!

It's not 100% accurate, but I'd say it's close enough ... this was done by recording the trailer, listening to it many times, etc., so a few things had to be guessed.

And yes, the whole graphical part shown here is custom too (except for the ripped Megaman graphics).

* 09-30-08: Updated with some fixes, complete title screen and part of the intro!


You can get the NSF here:
http://acmlm.rustedlogic.net/etc/mm9/mm9.nsf

or the full thing (shown here):
http://acmlm.rustedlogic.net/etc/mm9/mm9nsf.nes

Category:

Music

Tags:

• mega
• man
• megaman
• rock
• rockman
• tornado
• tornadoman
• title
• music
• capcom
• nintendo
• nes
• nsf
• cover

[david02129]

OH, also to help you out a bit, in the title music, in the original the beginning notes are spaced, where as you have it sound like one continuous note. check it out.

[Acmlm1]

I've tried before, but even 1 frame (16.6ms) between notes seemed to be too much (sounded worse). The original seems to use half frame pauses, which my sound engine can't do ... (not even sure it's possible)

[mattsum41]

By the way, I loaded this on my NES dev. cart and the music works fine but there are some major graphical errors, never the less the music is what matters and as far as the music goes, it works 100%.

[Acmlm1]

After testing again in different emulators (no devcart here to test on the actual NES), I saw it glitched in Nintendulator too ... I've fixed it now (just had to move some code outside of VBlank) and updated the files.

[mattsum41]

What sound engine did you use because this is just amazing and you can't get the same results from Famitracker... trust me I've seen attempts and they come close but not as close as yours.

[Acmlm1]

I coded it from scratch in 2003, with some minor updates since then. I've also done Super Mario World with it (full soundtrack!), and a few tracks from other games.

But it's probably easier (for most) to use a tracker than to type hex data and assemble ...

[shalpp]

The only thing that isnt truly 8 bit about the game graphically is some of the scrolling and the fading. WAY too smoth

[danooct1]

Amazing work. And as I watched, I began to imagine...

Megaman: "Hmm...do I shoot it or not?"

[PrimalLight2323]

@LarryLynx No they aren't.

[CC8BitSongs]

AWESOME

[LarryLynx]

nice work. The drums are a bit off n rhytm though^^ Keep rockin

[viewtifulkye]

Very nice cover. Sounds very much like the original. Kudos!

[deadplanet92]

Woah!!

Cool equalizer and a funky radio

[polarity345]

i like the box in the middle that had the bars going up and down. It made me kinda understand the song a little more

[DeeperBlueX16]

Could you put this NSF into other MegaMan games?

[GuilhermeEin]

Amazing.