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diff --git a/album/earthbound-halloween-hack.yaml b/album/earthbound-halloween-hack.yaml index a3a75994..ca7be3f0 100644 --- a/album/earthbound-halloween-hack.yaml +++ b/album/earthbound-halloween-hack.yaml @@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ Commentary: |- Even as I got better, songs took a hell of a long time to make. I know that the last boss song took me an entire Sunday to do, just because I had to code every single slide, every single fade-in, every single instrument change, every single NOTE... seriously. When you play my hack, just appreciate every single note and pixel I had to make. It took forever, okay!? - <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor) + <i>Quasar Nebula:</i> (wiki editor, 5/15/2024) Commentary throughout this album is taken from the HTML document <code>The Making Of.html</code>, including various commentary and images to do with the hack in general (in addition to music commentary), and packaged in a zip <code>THEMAKINGOF.zip</code> with the download for the hack. --- Track: File select -Duration: '1:11' +Duration: 1:11 URLs: - https://youtu.be/IDfZrmEiKp0 Referenced Tracks: @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Commentary: |- Pretty much when you hear this, you should think: "Hey! Zombies on my title screen!" Simple yet effective. --- Track: Twoson Love Theme -Duration: '2:06' +Duration: 2:06 URLs: - https://youtu.be/oIwIZQATrAE Referenced Tracks: @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Commentary: |- Track: Synchronicity Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true -Duration: '3:18' +Duration: 3:18 URLs: - https://youtu.be/0mSxIiIXh8Q Referenced Tracks: @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Commentary: |- The song it plays at the beginning and when you go into the sewers. Although you would never know it, this song is a direct rip of [[track:synchrony-brandish-the-planet-buster|"Synchronicity"]] from Brandish 2, which is a fantastic song. It took forever to get just perfect, I think it's the longest song it took me to compose because it had a lot of bugs when played in the actual game and plus if you didn't realize it's actually a minute and thirty seconds long... hahaha! I don't like my own arrangement too much (it's okay, good for EB I guess) but I love the game it comes from and its music so it's fine. Sort of another themesong for the game for me. --- Track: Dark Onett/Unused Intro -Duration: '0:36' +Duration: 0:36 URLs: - https://youtu.be/TL-gjXhhJTE Commentary: |- @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Commentary: |- Track: Game Over Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true -Duration: '1:13' +Duration: 1:13 URLs: - https://youtu.be/8tOcpB95Vlw Referenced Tracks: @@ -104,33 +104,33 @@ Commentary: |- When I made this, I wanted a song that made it painful and embarassing to die. I think the obnoxious phones, out-of-place bird tweets and dissonant chords that I altered really hit home with this one. It makes you laugh with how stupid it is. I love it. --- Track: File select 2 -Duration: '1:11' +Duration: 1:11 URLs: - https://youtu.be/_HJYuK0M9nU Sampled Tracks: - File select Commentary: |- - <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor) + <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 10/24/2023) This track has no official title. --- Track: Sewers Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true -Duration: '1:11' +Duration: 1:11 URLs: - https://youtu.be/sjCZt9JkCqc Referenced Tracks: - Cave Theme 1 Commentary: |- - <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor) + <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 10/24/2023) This track has no official title. --- Track: Winters Suffix Directory: true Always Reference By Directory: true -Duration: '0:45' +Duration: 0:45 URLs: - https://youtu.be/i7OlUrFjTZU Sampled Tracks: @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Commentary: |- I took [[track:giygass-lair|Giygas's lair]] and just added a creepy sound to it. So easy, so effective. --- Track: Andonuts Magicant -Duration: '2:53' +Duration: 2:53 URLs: - https://youtu.be/ARyA6o4O1zo Referenced Tracks: @@ -150,18 +150,18 @@ Sampled Tracks: - Welcome, Me --- Track: Dream Maze (Edit) -Duration: '1:26' +Duration: 1:26 URLs: - https://youtu.be/B3Qn2M-TQ9A Referenced Tracks: - Dream Maze Commentary: |- - <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor) + <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 9/23/2023) This track is a slowed down [[Dream Maze]] with a different instrument. It has no official title. --- Track: Dead Onett -Duration: '2:53' +Duration: 2:53 URLs: - https://youtu.be/q-Mnu3mnx9Q Referenced Tracks: @@ -174,29 +174,29 @@ Commentary: |- I was thinking about an ultra-slow version of [[track:onett|the Onett song]] with a pink Onett and it made me really sad and made my throat get all lumpy thinking about it for some reason so I wanted to capture that. I don't think I did it perfectly but EB doesn't have enough channels for that. It's still pretty good. That's really just it, I hope it makes your throat lumpy too. It reminds me of everyone I don't talk to anymore. --- Track: Bad Morning to You (Edit) -Duration: '0:22' +Duration: 0:22 URLs: - https://youtu.be/Bt-z1UDcIGw Sampled Tracks: - Bad Morning to You Commentary: |- - <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor) + <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 10/24/2023) This is a slightly altered version of [[track:bad-morning-to-you|"Bad Morning to You"]] with an additional instrument added. It has no official title. --- Track: Power (Edit) -Duration: '0:49' +Duration: 0:49 URLs: - https://youtu.be/OD94KFAddBs Sampled Tracks: - track:power-mother Commentary: |- - <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor) + <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 9/23/2023) This track is a rip of the original version of [[track:power-mother|"Power"]] from Earthbound, but unlike the original, it doesn't have the bass fade-in intro. It has no official title. --- Track: Techno Boss Battle -Duration: '1:46' +Duration: 1:46 URLs: - https://youtu.be/pux-5y-5Puw Commentary: |- @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Commentary: |- First battle song I made from scratch. It's an okay song, it's admittedly kind of crappy but still kind of cool. After I made it I was like "oh crap, this won't fit the boss battles at all!" But I actually used it for two of them anyway. Whatever. --- Track: The Id -Duration: '1:05' +Duration: 1:05 URLs: - https://youtu.be/Qm8_sTV6hQo Referenced Tracks: @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Commentary: |- --- Track: Megalovania Suffix Directory: true -Duration: '1:51' +Duration: 1:51 URLs: - https://youtu.be/iIowwZThIXM Referenced Tracks: @@ -230,9 +230,25 @@ Commentary: |- <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK", excerpt) also, the last boss music was a little inspired by [[track:gadobadorrer|brandish 2's]], see if you can catch the similarities + + <i>Toby Fox:</i> (["LIVE A LIVE: a conversation between Yoko Shimomura and Toby Fox"](https://www.square-enix-games.com/en_US/news/live-a-live-yoko-shimomura-toby-fox-pt-1), excerpts, 5/12/2023) + + So, let me explain… First of all, I was 15 years old, okay? I was working on a project, and I actually just wanted to use [[MEGALOMANIA]] in it... + + However, In order to do that, I would have to remake it. And so after a few minutes of trying to transcribe it, I thought "this is too hard, wouldn't it be easier to just make a new track?" So I tried to do so, inspired by MEGALOMANIA and [[track:gadobadorrer|another song]]. + + As for why it's called "MEGALOVANIA", the theme of the project was Halloween, so I thought adding "VANIA" so the end made sense… Transylvania = Vampire = Halloween... was my chain of thoughts. + + If I can talk about what makes MEGALOMANIA great for a second… Obviously the song itself is really cool, but the "secret sauce" that makes it really stand out isn't just the composition, it's the context within which it's used in the game. Because it always played at the end of the chapter, the player starts to get an almost Pavlovian-style response to it. No matter whether you're in a prehistoric world, the future, or ancient China, as soon as that track plays, your brain fully activates with "This is it... this is... the end...". + + Anyway, 15-year-old me wanted a track that also gave that feeling for my own project. Hence, the similar name... Or something. [...] + + [When] I had to listen to it again to remake it for UNDERTALE, it was a bit… Actually, I didn't really feel embarrassed at all. My younger self was trying his best! [...] + + Supposing I ever had to write a piece that would go "even further beyond"... Personally, I do not think I would use the name "GIGALOVANIA". --- Track: Game Over (Andonuts) -Duration: '0:05' +Duration: 0:05 URLs: - https://youtu.be/KIA0mtKIvkU Referenced Tracks: @@ -240,6 +256,6 @@ Referenced Tracks: Sampled Tracks: - track:game-over-ebhh Commentary: |- - <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor) + <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 10/24/2023) This track is a sped up version of [[track:game-over-ebhh|the original]] game over theme of the hack. It has no official title. |