Hello again. Here to share another ORG I made.
TL;DR Here it is if you want to listen to it right away. But I recommend that you read on to find out how I brought myself to remaking into an ORG.
I seem to have been liking to listening to that song. I heard this in a rom hack of SMW which appeared to be a custom song.
It's called "Dead End" ported by Sinc-X.
Recently, in early July 2024, when I looked at the comments section, a user pointed out that "Dead End" is
not a custom SMW song, rather a port from a Japanese PC-98 computer game called
Rusty from 1993 (that I really never knew about). So, I first looked it up on YouTube and... There it is. These show the official cover art of that game. Listening to that song and looking at the cover art few more days got me to learn more about that game and wanting to play it. Watched some gameplay and partially a review
without going into any spoilers as I planned on getting the Neko Project II emulator (np21 from np2fmgen pack) and downloading the game. It's near-impossible to obtain the game physically. It's a Castlevania clone, even though I never really played any Castlevania...
46Okumen ( consisting of hollowaytape, kuoushi &
@SkyeWelse ) made an English translation of that game in 2017. Gotta thank them for that, really like to play it in English.
Then on July 15, 2024, I started playing
Rusty and enjoyed it, through trial and error (getting game overs and continuing, first time experience) until fully finished it on July 17, 2024. That, the story and cutscenes, the voices, and even the "anime eyecatches" were very amazing.
I decided to play the game again on August 2, 2024 to go for the highest score without losing all lives. After having learned secret areas and getting extra things, played it through to the end. My score is 2092300. (The second castle level provides extra 1up farming from a certain checkpoint, so it is possible to max out the score through repeated deaths.)
Now I wanted to remake "Dead End" into an ORG using OrgMaker 3 and did it through listening the SPC dump of the custom SMW music at a lower tempo, and constructed it note by note and drum beat by drum beat.
Minus the custom intro of the song, the original PC-98 piece did not have that. Also, due to track limitations in OrgMaker, I couldn't incorporate another instrument heard from PC-98 and used exactly from the SPC dump. Remember, I did it all by hearing and hand-input into OrgMaker.
And here it is. Updated 10/22/2024. (Per01 adjusted and echoed as it was modified on OrgMaker 3.0.9 by Strultz. Also corrected certain note volumes. When using it into a mod, certain drum tracks may need to be adjusted, mainly on Per01 track and adjusting the pitch.)
And here's the one with that custom intro, if interested.
HALLOWEEN UPDATE! I was motivated to recreate "Red Sunset" into an ORG with aid of the 98fmplayer and did it note by note. From
Rusty.
Here it is! Updated 11/1/2024: Added missing HiClose track.
"Dead End" & "Red Sunset" originally composed by Masahiro Kajihara. Rusty game created by Naoto Niida/C-Lab.