The Hotdog Laserhouse

Rusty Ruin Zone (original MIDI by King Meteor)
Jun Senoue

Had this one sitting around for a while, just never felt like taking the time to render it. I’ve always had an attachment to this version of the song, so here we are.

I probably did the most “tweaking” to this song than I have in quite a while. The tempo’s a bit slower (110bpm down to 105), I changed a couple of drum fills, etc.

Casino Night Zone 2P (Original MIDI version)
Masato Nakamura

For those who are curious, this is what yesterday’s MP3 sounded like in its original MIDI form before I overlaid effects and better instruments. At least, this is what it sounds like on my hardware, anyway - I know King Meteor composes for Yamaha XG Synths specifically, so it probably sounds a little better to him.

I always feel kind of lame for just rendering out somebody else’s MIDIs to MP3, because it never feels like I do a ton to the songs to make them sound nicer, but I think the comparison here speaks for itself.

Casino Night Zone (2P)
Masato Nakamura

Decided I needed to take a break from game creation today. I just finished Orbit Revolved yesterday, and I need some “me time” before diving in to the final game. This is what came out of that.

Original MIDI by King Meteor.

Planet Wisp (Arrangement)
Original MIDI by Aivi Tran and Dave Harris

So as if my productivity wasn’t already shot today, I was given some hand-me-down electronics and spent most of the day fooling around with them - filling up an 8gb MicroSD card with higher quality versions of my music library, and playing with a tablet of questionable quality (it can barely even play MP4s I grab off Youtube).

The side effect of revisiting my music library is going back to old songs I’ve rendered in FL Studio. Such as this one. One day I will learn how to do drums and not embarrass myself - but at least the drums are a little better than my original attempt.

And now, off to bed while these files convert.

Ocean Base: Act 1
Original MIDI: King Meteor

I told myself yesterday that today was going to be a “no internet, all work” day but then I ended up sleeping in super late and now I’m in one of those “I can’t focus on anything” kind of moods. Despite this, I managed to focus long enough to churn this out on a whim.

Still have no idea how to do guitar.

Now to try and do real work, I guess.

Forest Frenzy
Dave Wise

Wait, is Tumblr seriously going to let me post two MP3s in one day?

Here’s something I just rendered out of FL Studio - another Donkey Kong Country song, this time for Forest Frenzy. I think it’s got a ways to go before I’ll be satisfied with it, but it’s a strong start.

Budweiser Frogs Technojam
Ryan Bloom

And here we are at the end of this musical journey through why I never create original songs - the “Budweiser Frogs Technojam”. Oh yes.

When I was in high school, the Budweiser Frogs were a “thing” - three frogs on a lily pad that when they all croaked in the correct order, said “Bud.” “Weis.” “Er.” This eventually blossomed out in to multiple other commercials featuring other animals and other locations.

In what could’ve been the first use of Flash I ever saw on the web, there was a website you could visit with clickable frogs allowing you to make them speak the phrase in any order. Well, I took it upon myself to rip those sound files and slot them in to that Mixman trial I was talking about yesterday, and this was the sad,  awful end result.