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Music Downsizing Project!

  • Xenomic
  • 11/17/2013 09:50 AM
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Ok, so here's what I'm thinking of doing with some music:


*Removing all fanmade character boss themes, which includes the following:

**Cherry Flavored Justice ~ Descending Red (Rin Satsuki's Theme)
**Dead Buddist's Dream ~ Legitimite Partner (Myouren Hijiri's Theme)
**Fake History of Black and Shadow ~ The Fake (Sasha Sashiromiya's Theme)
**Gods Become Many Rivers ~ Toryanse (Sasaki Rinbokusans Theme)
**Phantasia of Fantasy (Rin Satsuki's Theme #2)
**Utopia in Fantastic Orbit ~ The Flower of Starry Nirvana (Karen Yawata's Theme)


The only ones that are "fanmade" that may stay are:


**Touhou Pocket Wars 2nd Ibaraki Kasen 's Theme
**Person of Mystery ~ Oni or Hermit (Kasen's field theme)
**The Kappa Way as Said ~ One Way Accelerator (Mitori's Theme) 2
**Momiji Inubashiris Theme ~ Awakening Wolfs Instinct


Both of Rin's themes MIGHT survive as well, depending.


Other songs that may be removed are:

**Child of Are (Akyuu's field theme)
**Defiant of Shrine Maiden boss theme
**Dream Machine ~ Innocent Power, Illusory Science ~ Doll's Phantom (Two boss themes for VIVIT. May just use Girl's Divinity and Velvet Maiden Battle instead)
**Dream of Eternity (Mima field theme)
**Faint Dream ~ Inanimate Dream (both versions, which may be replaced by TimeLimit's version)
**Flower of Past Days ~ Fairy of Flower (Lily White's boss theme. Reason being: ZUN's original track)
**In Regards to Fairy Brilliance (Star Sapphire's theme)
**My Maid, Sweet Maid (Erich's theme)
**One of the Riverside Views will probably go away
**Sunny Rutile Flection (Sunny Milk's theme)
**The Strongest Foe (Ys Boss theme)
**Youkai Back Shrine Road (Myouren Temple Theme #2)


Whether or not you guys agree with this, feel free to let me know! If you would like to know what arranges I have of these in the game thus far, or want to hear the songs (assuming I can find links to them at all) to decide, let me know as well! I am trying my darndest to cut down the music filesizes (despite that the ones that need cut the most are in the vanilla pack, and most of these aren't in the vanilla pack anyways). In fact, the Vanilla Pack may lose all of the unique boss themes save for a couple, in order to make the music filesize smaller for that, meaning if you want the unique boss themes, you'd have to get the Extended Packs for sure...

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Hah hah hah hah. It's like sizing down a Magic the Gathering deck; You feel partial to a good amount of cards, but some do slow your deck down.

It might be best to have at least 1 song per Touhou boss (That would be appreciated, with maybe 1-3 exceptions, but that's it) but for the others, use the same song. For the worlds, some songs can be reused.

If your entire game can fit in the website with enough room for future content, I would call that passable.
That's the problem lol. If I were to give at least 1 song per Touhou boss, that'd be 100 some songs since there's about that many Touhou characters. Unless you mean just one song in general (which I'm already doing for the Vanilla Pack for the most part. I just need to cut out more songs in favor of just the default boss theme). For instance, G Free ~ Final Dream (Concealed the Conclusion version) is what'll be used for MOST of the bosses in the game (sans some such as Tenshi, whom will use her own boss theme due to how recurring she is), while Super Robot War's Chaos will be used for the Guardians (there may be a 2nd song for them later on), and Devil of Decline's OUT!! may be used for the Fragments. So there's all of the normal boss themes right there for the Vanilla Pack.


Meaning any leftover songs that would normally be for each individual character/boss would go to the Extended Pack, which I can assure you won't even fit on the site. But hey! Would cut down how many songs are in the Vanilla pack! As for areas, that one is tricky since I want to give each area an unique feel. For instance, Forest of Magic and Forest of Bamboo you go to for different reasons, therefore the mood I want to feel differently. Forest of Magic's theme is meant to build up tension as to what lies ahead of you, while Forest of Bamboo is meant to give that "maze-like" feel to it (can't think of a proper way to describe it). Tis a problem all in itself for areas...


Character-specific battle themes are something I don't want to get rid of at all, as that's something I feel makes the game a bit more unique (having Reimu's battle theme for when Reimu's the party leader, having Marisa's battle theme for when Marisa's the party leader, etc.), so that's something that'll probably not go away anytime soon. Meaning there'll still be about 28-35 battle themes just for characters alone but...
Maybe you should try to find MIDI versions of some tracks. That would save a lot more memory than MP3 tracks.

Are the character specific themes the same for the boss themes when that same character is a boss? (EX: When you fight Hong Meiling as a boss, will her song be the same as her party leader song?)
Would, but good luck finding any MIDI versions of any of these tracks. x_x;;


No, their character specific themes are more suited to normal battles than boss battles, so their boss themes are different from their battle themes (which in the Vanilla Pack, they don't get their exclusive boss themes at all and use the generic boss theme, so their boss themes are Extended Pack only. Do keep in mind that the Extended Pack is completely optional and therefore not required to get, but for those that want more varied music in their game).
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