Album: Earthbound Halloween Hack
Directory Suffix: ebhh
Date: October 31, 2009
Date Added: October 25, 2023
URLs:
- https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvH6GyaZjWLY6QxI16NRhM_R_Uzim5d_K
Artists:
- Toby Fox
Groups:
- Toby Fox
- Beyond
Color: '#d02000'
Cover Artists:
- Unknown Artist
- Jebb (edits for wiki)
Cover Art File Extension: png
Wallpaper Artists:
- Toby Fox
- Jebb (edits for wiki)
Wallpaper Style: |-
    opacity: 0.65;
    background-position: top;
    image-rendering: pixelated;
    image-rendering: crisp-edges;
Wallpaper File Extension: png
Banner Artists:
- Unknown Artist
- Jebb (edits for wiki)
Banner Dimensions: 792x100
Banner File Extension: png
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    Honestly, I did very little music hacking in this hack. It just feels like a lot because I did more than anyone else has ever done... ever. I had never music hacked (note-wise) before this hack, so it took me a while to get used to the system and get good at it, which is why the last boss song sounds the best and the early songs sound kind of crappy.

    Just to help you understand why it took me a while to make GOOD music, here's a picture of the music editor:

    <img src="media/misc/music-ebhh.png" width="356" length="267">
    
    If you have no idea what the hell is going on, you're pretty much on the same boat I was. Music is pretty much coded through a bunch of different numbers telling the game how long notes are, what pitch they are, etc. Pretty much you need to be able to look at numbers and hear music like it's the Matrix or something. It was ridiculous.

    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, 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.
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Track: File select
Duration: 1:11
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/IDfZrmEiKp0
Referenced Tracks:
- Choose a File
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    Pretty much when you hear this, you should think: "Hey! Zombies on my title screen!" Simple yet effective.
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Track: Twoson Love Theme
Duration: 2:06
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/oIwIZQATrAE
Referenced Tracks:
- Boy Meets Girl
- Mother 3 Love Theme
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    I wanted to do this because it would make Twoson fun to walk around in again. It's a little boring to walk around in a place whose music you're already sick of even if you love it. I think even changing the notes a little revitalized the whole spirit of adventure. Along with the new color of Twoson it really reminds me of a very happy, brisk fall day. Even if I only changed a little, I love this song a lottttt. Totally and utterly symbolizes the happy originality of the beginning of the game.
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Track: Synchronicity
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Duration: 3:18
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/0mSxIiIXh8Q
Referenced Tracks:
- track:synchrony-brandish-the-planet-buster
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    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.
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Track: Dark Onett/Unused Intro
Duration: 0:36
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/TL-gjXhhJTE
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    Originally I had a cool intro going. If you go into Onett at the beginning of the game in Twoson, you can hear it. It's really out of place considering the rest of the game, so I never had the chance to use it, but I think it's a cool little ditty, if a tad repetitive after the repeat. Hey, I never meant for you to hear it that long... actually it's kinda fitting with all the super-death-enemies in there, I think.
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Track: Game Over
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Duration: 1:13
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/8tOcpB95Vlw
Referenced Tracks:
- A Bad Dream
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    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.
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Track: File select 2
Duration: 1:11
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/_HJYuK0M9nU
Sampled Tracks:
- File select 
Commentary: |-
    <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 10/24/2023)

    This track has no official title.
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Track: Sewers
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Duration: 1:11
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/sjCZt9JkCqc
Referenced Tracks:
- Cave Theme 1
Commentary: |-
    <i>Jebb:</i> (wiki editor, 10/24/2023)

    This track has no official title.
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Track: Winters
Suffix Directory: true
Always Reference By Directory: true
Duration: 0:45
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/i7OlUrFjTZU
Sampled Tracks:
- Giygas's Lair
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    I took [[track:giygass-lair|Giygas's lair]] and just added a creepy sound to it. So easy, so effective.
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Track: Andonuts Magicant
Duration: 2:53
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/ARyA6o4O1zo
Referenced Tracks:
- Welcome, Me
Sampled Tracks:
- Welcome, Me
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Track: Dream Maze (Edit)
Duration: 1:26
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/B3Qn2M-TQ9A
Referenced Tracks:
- Dream Maze
Commentary: |-
    <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.
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Track: Dead Onett
Duration: 2:53
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/q-Mnu3mnx9Q
Referenced Tracks:
- Onett
Sampled Tracks:
- Onett
Commentary: |-
     <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

     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.
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Track: Bad Morning to You (Edit)
Duration: 0:22
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/Bt-z1UDcIGw
Sampled Tracks:
- Bad Morning to You
Commentary: |-
    <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.
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Track: Power (Edit)
Duration: 0:49
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/OD94KFAddBs
Sampled Tracks:
- track:power-mother
Commentary: |-
    <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.
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Track: Techno Boss Battle
Duration: 1:46
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/pux-5y-5Puw
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    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.
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Track: The Id
Duration: 1:05
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/Qm8_sTV6hQo
Referenced Tracks:
- Holding Back Tears
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    This song is [[track:holding-back-tears|from Final Fantasy Legend III]], right before when you fight the final boss when you're fighting this guy that doesn't want to fight you and you have to kill him. I only copied the first two parts, actually, but there's only like four measures so that's pretty much all of it. I put Buzz-Buzz in the background and it turned out really loud but I don't care. It's supposed to sort of be like... this is sad, and my heart is quaking. Maybe you get it.
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Track: Megalovania
Suffix Directory: true
Duration: 1:51
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/iIowwZThIXM
Referenced Tracks:
- GADOBADORRER
Commentary: |-
    <i>Toby Fox:</i> ("THE MAKING OF RADIATION'S HALLOWEEN HACK")

    This is it, the final boss theme. I wanted to put Live A Live's [[track:megalomania|Megalomania]] in here but I didn't get to so I made my own last boss song. I pretty much just yelled whatever I felt like into a mike and copied it down. Yep. Took forever, but it was superkickass-worth-it. Total embodiment of final bossitude.

    <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".
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Track: Game Over (Andonuts)
Duration: 0:05
URLs:
- https://youtu.be/KIA0mtKIvkU
Referenced Tracks:
- track:game-over-ebhh
Sampled Tracks:
- track:game-over-ebhh
Commentary: |-
    <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.
