Replacement Music Tracks For Space Fantasy Zone

[chany60126]

I think we can all agree that Space Fantasy Zone is a cool looking game. In case you may or may not know, a lot of the songs in the game are recycled and used in other levels as well. I just saw this as an opportunity for us to offer up suggestions as viable replacement tracks in case this game were to win the game boot poll and/or just for fun. Here is a video of the game so you can get an idea of how the game sounds: It is ultimately Necro's decision about what to do with the game, but I am sure he'd be willing to read suggestions. Worst case scenario, we can pick and choose which songs we like and recreate the ISO for our own enjoyment.

Anyway, I'll start it off with Ope's suggestion of the warship theme in the NES game, Solar Jetman:

[vestcoat]

Are there any requirements to swap tracks?  Do they have to be the same length as the originals?

That Solar Jetman track is pretty sweet.  I was listening to tunes on the three Fantasy Zone SMS games today and thought that throwing one of them in the middle of the SFZ red book tracks would create a bit of a train wreck. 

Using tracks from similar-sounding PCE CD games would give a sense of continuity and help even out the dynamics.  I'd hesitate to use songs from very popular games (like Cotton) or quirky games with a signature sound (like Splash Lake), but sleepers would work well.  I heard some great candidates skipping through to L-Dis and Rainbow Islands today. 

Anyway, if people want to do this, I'd be happy to help with the technical work.  I could do lossless rips, good recordings, editing, time compression/expansion, and volume equalizing as necessary, if someone gives me a list of track sources and required lengths.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Who did the music for this game, was it T's Music?  If so, I saw first narrowing it down to the various games that T's Music did, & then looking for similar styles.  They seem to be at times, creatures of habit when it comes to instrumentation.  I'd say Dungeon Explorer2 & Cotton are built from the same mold.  Lords of Thunder, Sapphire, & Hyper Wars are built from there own mold.  So there may be a game or two that has a similar sound as SFZ.

[Tatsujin]

How about some music talented peeps in here make some kewl tracks to add?

[Necromancer]

I'm all for doing this if we can find something fitting, but there's only one duplicate track that can be easily replaced.  Additional tracks would require recoding of the game, which is far beyond my abilities.

How about some music talented peeps in here make some kewl tracks to add?

That'd be much better than taking something from an unrelated game.  Failing that, perhaps something from one of the many releases of Fantasy Zone or Fantasy Zone II would fit.

[KingDrool]

I'd say that in an attempt to keep it as authentic as possible, take one of the tracks from a different Fantasy Zone release.

[Black Tiger]

If music from another game is going to be used, I think that it should be the original Fantasy Zone tracks from Super Fantasy Zone.

[ParanoiaDragon]

I've been thinking, there's gotta be some Fantasy Zone arranged tracks lying around the internet.  I thought about the Sega Classics version, but it may just be the old FM, there is a Saturn version of Fantasy Zone, does anybody know if that had redbook tracks, & if they're arranged?  I'll try looking into the music for the Sega Classics Space Harrier, but, I doubt there is anything light enough for Space Fantasy Zone.

I do have a buddy at the Ancient Land of Ys boards, whose name is Gamemusicfreak, I'm gonna give him a PM & see if he has anything, or knows of anything that would fit.

[Black Tiger]

I've been thinking, there's gotta be some Fantasy Zone arranged tracks lying around the internet.  I thought about the Sega Classics version, but it may just be the old FM, there is a Saturn version of Fantasy Zone, does anybody know if that had redbook tracks, & if they're arranged?  I'll try looking into the music for the Sega Classics Space Harrier, but, I doubt there is anything light enough for Space Fantasy Zone.

I do have a buddy at the Ancient Land of Ys boards, whose name is Gamemusicfreak, I'm gonna give him a PM & see if he has anything, or knows of anything that would fit.

I have an album of arranged Sega songs and I believe that one of them is from Fantasy Zone. Maybe that track is from a full FZ album? Does the PS2 Sega AGES version have arranged music? I still doubt that an arranged FZ soundtrack would top Super Fantasy Zone's tunes.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Isn't Super Fantasy Zone also just FM though?  Or am I thinking of something else...?  BTW, you have some unanswered PM's on the Frozen Utopia site    Oh, & as for the PS2 one, I'm pretty sure it's just the original music from the arcade, though I haven't checked just yet, been busy & super tired.

[SignOfZeta]

Best f*cking Space Harrier related track ever:

[ParanoiaDragon]

Flew threw the Saturn FZ, & I think atleast track 22 could be used for SFZ.

[Tatsujin]

HAHAHA at that guy

That geezer @ 2:09 is thinking...... Did I leave the gas on.... Oh God..... The gas........ what shall I do... I left the gas on...... Shall I run home? then @ 2:49 he remembers that his cooker is electric. And @3:36 his mate next to him Falls in love with that Girl and tries to impress her by falling asleep

[chany60126]

Flew threw the Saturn FZ, & I think atleast track 22 could be used for SFZ.

Do you know of any web links that have this song available to listen without having to download an entire Sega Saturn rom?

[Necromancer]

Are there any requirements to swap tracks?  Do they have to be the same length as the originals?

It looks like they have to be the same length.  The result of shortening track 8 was that it started playing track 9 at its end instead of looping back to the beginning.