Sonic and the Secret Rings: How It Started (16-bit SNES Arrangement)
14And here's the second one, this time relating to whether or not it would be possible to get a fully sung song into the SNES hardware with the vocals barely intact... and it turns out, that is successful, but just barely lol
Anyways, if you're wondering how exactly I made this work, I first tried to use this website that separates the vocals and instrumentals for pretty much any track you put in with surprising efficiency thanks to AI algorithms (which is funny considering how much people dog on AI stuff in general thanks to people forgetting that generative AI isn't the only kind of thing that uses it lmao), which I then proceeded to splice the vocal track it generated into smaller chunks and tried to take advantage of the repetitiveness of the lyrics in this particular track to pull it off, but even that still required quite a bit of sample optimization, like for example how I took advantage of the fact most of the words used here are things like "could", "would" and "should" by just making a sample of the "ould" part and then spliced the C, W, S and H sounds so I could play them together in quick session so that it still sounded right, but this also makes it so that I wouldn't have to make different samples for each word and could even use those separate sounds for other parts in the cover as well... and despite that, this was still barely possible thanks to the fact that the ARAM was pretty much nearing it's limit by that point thanks to the vocal samples plus every other sample being around 47 KB, hell, I even had to optimize the other samples slightly more just to make this able to be inserted into SMW, but regardless it doesn't change the fact I was successful, but yeah, if this song had just a couple more verses this would not have worked lmao
SPC Link: https://dl.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rl7e7u2...