New music conversion - Castlevania III
- SarahWalker
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New music conversion - Castlevania III
It's been a couple of years or so, must be time for a new music conversion. Today's ABUG release is Castlevania III : Dracula's Curse, or to be more precise Akumajō Densetsu, as this is the Famicom version that's been converted. This has an additional sound chip in the cartridge, adding an extra 3 voices in addition to the standard 5 voices on the NES/Famicom. This conversion implements 7 of these (as CV3/AD doesn't use the triangle wave), implementing 4 pulse waves, 1 sawtooth, 1 noise and 1 sample playback.
This conversion needs a Master 128, the dreaded ADFS, and banks 4 and 5 of SWRAM to be available. It mixes 7 voices at 10 kHz on the standard sound chip. Real hardware is recommended, with some kind of external amplification as the internal speaker isn't massively loud.
Enjoy!
This conversion needs a Master 128, the dreaded ADFS, and banks 4 and 5 of SWRAM to be available. It mixes 7 voices at 10 kHz on the standard sound chip. Real hardware is recommended, with some kind of external amplification as the internal speaker isn't massively loud.
Enjoy!
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Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
This is unbelievably good. Never heard anything like it before - amazing stuff! And so many tunes on one disc!
Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Great work Sarah! It was lovely to hear this on real hw at ABUG. Sounds amazing, like a real arcade machine and nothing like a Beeb!
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Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Wow cant wait to try this on real hardware
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Dig out an old Master and managed to get through the first three tracks before the caps went pop
But what I heard was stunning, amazing work Sarah - does this open the door to a whole library of NES music conversions? Or is there a fair degree of work involved to convert each track?
But what I heard was stunning, amazing work Sarah - does this open the door to a whole library of NES music conversions? Or is there a fair degree of work involved to convert each track?
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Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
This sounds like a valid excuse for me to go and buy a Master from eBay.
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Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Nice one Sarah, looks interesting, good to see you're keeping busy
Hopefully can have a listen at the January get together, don't have a Master set up (yet)
Hopefully can have a listen at the January get together, don't have a Master set up (yet)
Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Oooh, this is very impressive! I had no idea the Master could sound so good.
Gary
Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Is there a chance that someone could post a Youtube Video showcasing these songs on the Beeb?
I don't have a Beeb, but would love to hear the tunes.
I don't have a Beeb, but would love to hear the tunes.
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Sounds good! But.... should BeebEm or BEm in M128 mode load this? I get a disc error 18.
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- SarahWalker
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Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
It's an ADFS disc so you need to do a SHIFT-A-BREAK.
Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Thanks and I'm very impressed!
Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Struggling to run this on a Master.
I’ve copied the file across to the cf card on my data centre;
I have swram banks free, but *castlevani results in nothing happening, and ch.”castlevani” brings up this garbled screen:
Any ideas?
I’ve copied the file across to the cf card on my data centre;
I have swram banks free, but *castlevani results in nothing happening, and ch.”castlevani” brings up this garbled screen:
Any ideas?
- billcarr2005
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Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
The directory should look like this
It's then *EXEC !BOOT, which *RUNs VRC6PLY
It's then *EXEC !BOOT, which *RUNs VRC6PLY
Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Well. Stupid me didn’t realise it was a directory! Thanks
Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
Got it now!! Thanks Sarah - no idea about the shift-a-break in BeebEm!
And... brilliant work! Sounds fantastic!!
And... brilliant work! Sounds fantastic!!
Re: New music conversion - Castlevania III
sounds amazing