♫ATTACK (Princess Maker 2) SNES Arrangement - NintendoComplete
105This is an arrangement of "Attack," Masahiro Kajiwara's battle theme from Gainax's 1993 simulation game Princess Maker 2. I have arranged the song for native playback on SNES hardware, and the audio was recorded directly from a launch-model SNES deck.
You'd never expect it from a game called Princess Maker, but this series knows how to go hard on a soundtrack. Kajiwara is a miracle worker - I don't think I've ever heard anyone else who could make an FM chip scream the way he did in his games.
When I was doing this, I was looking to see how far I could get using a pair of distorted square waves to simulate a guitar-like sound in order to save memory. (The "guitar" sample is only 370 bytes before being compressed to .brr!) By gradually detuning them at certain times, I was also able to mimic a PWM-like effect to create a sustained warble that works nicely with the SNES's surround sound effect that I used just for the guitars. I thought that was pretty neat.
The video was taken from my playthrough of the IBM-PC version of Princess Maker 2. If you'd like to see it, you can find it at https://youtu.be/ZQxQonETN-4
I also did the battle theme from Princess Maker 3: https://youtu.be/HXf8rQzk6VE
If you'd like to check out any of my other arrangements, you can find the playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3gSj_kh1fHueSujqQR8xQQ84DWIjrU4F
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