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Another 8-bit custom Sparta base by me. Done entirely in MML (Music Macro Language) and compiled to M.Kajihara's P.M.D. FM-music format on a DOS emulator with Kajihara's MC.EXE music compiler.

You can call it either "Sparta SSG Mix" or "Sparta PC-88 Remix", because I can't think of a more-fitting title, in spite of the circumstances to be given later below.

This is how the Sparta Remix would've sounded like if it were composed twenty-five years earlier on a Japanese 8-bit NEC PC-8801 home computer with a Yamaha YM2149 SSG soundchip. Sure, the very first sound-enabled PC-88s launched in the early 1980's had only the aforementioned SSG chip (technically a licensed clone of the General Instruments AY-3-8910 PSG), but some PC-88s later sported either the YM2203/OPN or the YM2608/OPNA soundchip, the same Yamaha FM-synthesizer chips found on the more-expensive 16-bit PC-9801 (PC-98) computers. Still, the name "PC-88 Remix" is the best-fitting choice in my opinion because of the "8"s in "PC-88".

720p HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzwU18THjkw&fmt=22
480p SD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzwU18THjkw&fmt=35

Base downloads:

Original PMD98/PMD88 base (.M - playable only with FMPMD2000 or Winamp plugin inFMPMD): http://www.mediafire.com/?hjoldqmjzmy
iTunes-compatible MPEG-4 AAC (.M4A): http://www.mediafire.com/?mfj0zqkwzy1
Uncompressed PCM (.WAV): http://www.mediafire.com/?m2mdizedtnd