Wolf's latest rearrange is a game from the early Konami years: the vertical MSX1 shooter Twinbee. Rather than his usual near-1:1 rearranges, and rather than a created atmosphere not far away from the original game, this remake is totally different. Partly inspired by music from The Neverending Story, this version is fast, uplifting and loud.

If you have free material for our downloads section which you wish to share with MSX fans around the world, please send it to downloads@msx.org and we will consider your submission. Each addition to the downloads section will be announced in a newspost, and if your entry does well enough: the download will be mentioned in the monthly downloads top 10.

Relevant link: Twinbee - by Wolf

There are four new songs available for listening and downloading in the donkeyrol jukebox, being:

• Andalussian Dragon (by [DK]). Flamenco remix of some Dragon Slayer IV tunes
  
• Demon Horde (by Jorito). Rock remake of the Maze of Galious monsters' theme
  
• MoG Shrine (by Jorito). Ambiental arrangement of the Maze of Galious shrine song
  
• MoG Story (by Wolf). Classical arrangement of the Maze of Galious intro tune

Relevant link: Donkeyrol jukebox (English)
Relevant link: Donkeyrol jukebox (Spanish)

Valken let us know that he updated his KSS player for MacOS X, KSS-X. This release fixes some compilation errors on Mac OS-X 10.5 and adds support for the Apple remote, so you can zap through your KSS collection from your comfortable chair.

Relevant link: KSS-X

Our ever-growing downloads section has just been updated with Wolf's latest remix: X-Tazy Intro & Title. This near-seven-minutes piece was originally made by Danilo Danisi for the unfinished Graphics9000 shooter X-Tazy, of which a video can be seen here, on Google Video or on YouTube. This release is foremost a thankyou towards Danilo for his efforts regarding judging the Scene Music Remake challenge, which was closed some weeks ago.

On a more serious note: it's of course a pity that this promising game is still unfinished. If any developers out there feel they can finalize this production: do step forward! Until then: enjoy this fresh musical remake!

Relevant link: X-Tazy Intro & Title remix

The japanese chiptune composer Hackurl has released a PSG remake of the song Lonely Soldier from the game Fantasm Soldier Valis. You can listen to this and many other chiptunes on Hackurl's website.

Relevant link: Lonely Soldier by Hackurl

Chiptune encyclopedia poke-1,170 has released episode 26 of his Airwaves radio show, which is dedicated to chip music and electronic music. All kinds of chip music are included in this episode, including one MSX entry: Ball Quest, the first entry of the MRC MEGA-challenge. Furthermore, the first 15 minutes contain PSG music made on the ZX Spectrum, always worth listening for sake of inspiration. The Ball Quest music starts at 14:57.

Relevant link: Airwaves 26 (mp3)
Relevant link: Airwaves 26 (m3u)

Since recently, our ever growing free downloads database keeps expanding with content from Bart Roijmans. Earlier this month we've added a massive amount of tracks from Bart to our database, and as of today we have added his latest game rearrangement: Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake intro 2008. This game needs no further introduction of course, being one of Konami's most popular MSX games. The music of the intro of this game seems to have a strong attraction to composers, there is this earlier version from Bart, while wolf_ has also released two versions of this song so far. This new version - which is in fact a remake of his earlier version from Arranger Gold - was made with Renoise 1.9 and mostly softsynths. The only hardware synthesizer that was used for this remake was the Roland JV1080.

If you have free material for our downloads section which you wish to share with numerous MSX fans around the world, please send it to downloads@msx.org and we will consider your submission. Each addition to the downloads section will be announced with a newspost, and if your entry does well enough: the download will be mentioned in the monthly downloads top 10.

Relevant link: Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake intro 2008

The website dedicated to MSX music has been updated again, and currently features a whopping 2063 songs from 116 games and 54 composers. For this update, the music from Teambomba's Bombaman has been added.

Relevant link: bgMSX

Some time ago, our forum user grit posted some MML examples for MuSiCa in our forums. He allowed for the files to be available through the downloads database. It took a while, but finally they're there! Closely examine the example files, and MuSiCa will ring a whole lot more bells for you!

Relevant link: MuSiCa MML examples

Once again the Donkeyrol jukebox has been updated. Let's throw in some statistics:

• More than 250 new songs from the SNES, N64 and MSX
  
• The playlist window has been sensibly increased (+300%) to optimize the user interface
  
• Minor credits/language bugs have been fixed

There are now more than 1100 songs (2GB+) of games music in the playlist (approximately 65% MSX). There are also 34 modern remakes available, which will no doubt grow in number thanks to new songs created and uploaded by the various MSX composers. External contributions will be the new basis of updates in the future. For suggestions you can use the Donkeyrol forum!

Relevant link: Donkeyrol (English)
Relevant link: Donkeyrol (Spanish)