Who hasn't enjoyed Konami's MSX2 game Vampire Killer, it's a classic. The 1986 game, has an amazing soundtrack with tunes worthy of whistling throughout the day. Published before Konami gave us SCC music, Vampire Killer had to do with PSG. While it rocks on 3 channels, everyone was curious how it would sound if it came with SCC. Over 30 years later, the soundtrack has been re-written to fit the answer. Vampire Killer on SCC steroids.
Jan van Valburg, known for The Great Gianna Sisters among others, has picked up the trade again. He has secretly been working on making Vampire Killer with SCC music. All the songs have been re-arranged with additional chords and melodies to take advantage of the extra SCC channels.
The new SCC music has been written in an MML-style language and then compiled into the Konami music format and written into the ROM. He had to reverse-engineer the Konami SCC music player to get this working. The source code has been made available through a mercurial repository on Bitbucket, and he hopes to release more information about the reverse engineering process and his custom tools in the future.
This Vampire Killer upgrade has been released as an IPS patch to the ROM version, or you can manually patch it using the Python patching script in the source repository. To play this on a real MSX you will need either 256K RAM, or a flash cartridge. Now, go nod your head while shouting "this rocks!!" \m/
Relevant link: Vampire Killer SCC IPS patch
Relevant link: Gameplay video 1 of "Vampire Killer SCC version" in action
Relevant link: Gameplay video 2 of "Vampire Killer SCC version" in action
Relevant link: Entire "Vampire Killer SCC version" soundtrack on YouTube
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