Remix Rising Sun - Sword / Children / Adventures Of Mana
8As someone who played "Sword Of Mana" (a remake of "Final Fantasy Adventure") in her childhood / teenage-years on good old GBA, guess how happy I was to randomly stumble a few weeks ago over the newest remake called "Adventures Of Mana" while browsing through Google's Playstore.
I'm not yet decided wether I should buy AOM or not, because there won't be the nice story-additions from SOM / a playable heroine next to the hero Sumo / Duke, but the soundtrack is already chilling in my music-folder - which should be obvious after my random reddit-post. x'3 ( https://www.reddit.com/user/MelodyCrystel/comments/kpiy1j/random_thought_i_adore_the_adventures_of_mana/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share )
Listening to these updated melodies caused me to get my lazy butt up, as you can see, though it was more like a final drop making the barrel bubble over. Actually, the idea to remix some songs from the Mana-games I played comes up every now and then. Hooowever...
'Of course' my favorite title a ka the GBA-exemplar doesn't rely on the Sappy-engine. (And for all who do not know: Extracting Midis from every other engine seems nearly impossible because people haven't figured out how to do so. "The Minish Cap" is the only troublesome game of which I know a work-around-method exists - tried it myself with gba2midi.exe - and even the according program cannot do something with "Sword Of Mana".)
Welp, you people who read my comments know the drill: If I cannot rip an original Midi, I search for alternatives because starting from zero is something amateur-me dislikes. U.U
Thanks to Japanese keywords I found a solid base, then grabbed an arrangement from vgmusic (to spice things up with additional sounds the composer had added) and finally took the background-tones both versions were missing from the DS-game "Children Of Mana". I tinkered with these three files the remix you can now listen to - and in case you want to have my Midi-edit, the download's in the usual information-section.
My cover-picture, by the way, has the (for the series mandatory) Mana Tree included, though the real headache here was caused by choosing which girl I wanted to depict. Being a SOM-fan, I have a weakness for its adventurous heroine (who seems to be called Elena by some fans), though I also find AOM's Fuju very pretty (notwithstanding the damsel-in-distress-vibe this female maincharacter has to me; in slightly similar manner to Tess from "Children Of Mana").
Unable to decide, my solution for the obstacle was mixing these two characters as good as possible--- Not sure if that's visible enough when especially the hair-color distracts a lot from -shape, to be honest... The brunette playable character dominates at least in my head which kind of heroine comes to mind when thinking of the story. :shrug:
At last a little funfact. The .mp3-file of mine has the following name thanks to “/” being excluded from allowed symbols while the Japanese “：” functions:
Sword ： Children ： Adventures Of Mana - Rising Sun
Details:
-Midi based on the following "Rising Sun"-Midis:
-from misano414.web.fc2.com
-Rip of the DS-game "Children Of Mana" Midi-Files
-Section "Final Fantasy Adventure" on vgmusic.com, made by Alex Hall
-Download for my Midi-Edit: https://www.mediafire.com/file/n4zv0j8auonqo5a/Sword_Of_Mana_-_Rising_Sun_%2528Midi_Edit_by_MelodyCrystel%2529.MID/file
-VST:
-Soundfont by Bauerklos (Flute ; Contrabass ; Harp ; Celesta ; Piano 2 ; Clarinet ; Strings ; French Horns ; Brass 1 ; Tubular Bells ; Harpsichord ; Pan Flute)
-CompiFont (Flute TB ; Cadensa Double Bass ; Harp ; Celesta ; Honkey Tonkeys ; Clarinet ; STR Strings ; French Horns ; Brass Section ; Tubular Bells GM ; Main Harpsi Full ; Ocarina)
-Edirol Orchestral (Flute ; ContraBass Section ; Harp 2 ; Celesta ; Concert Piano ; Clarinet 1 ; Full Strings ; French Horn Section ; Orchestral Ensemble ; Tubular-bell2 : Harpsichord ; Bass Flute)