Divine Bloodlines [Castlevania: Rondo of Blood] ~ Mega Man Zero Style 

A note on the "crustyness" of GBA Sound. The GBA lacks any sort of sound hardware beyond the legacy sound generator for GB/C backwards compatibility. All audio is multiplexed in software, so available bitrate and depth for the samples are determined by the amount of free cycles on the CPU and how the sound driver choses to implement it. The raw sample data combined with the original sequenced tracks would result on higher quality sounding tracks. However that is usually not possible with the mini2sf file format as it outright holds the sound driver and sequence data. Of course, crunchier samples could be found on ultra-optimized games where the developers would know exactly what rate and depth would they need their samples at, and save precious kilobytes of space on ROM as a result. Perhaps this might be common knowledge by now, but it's still interesting to note

I'm curious if it would've made a difference for the sound quality to source the samples from the individual GBA titles vs the Zero Collection on DS. My initial thought is no since they're likely copies of the same files from Capcom's sound library when extracted from the respective game's data, but considering how much the Zero games tended to shortcut with pre-sampled audio so they could work on that hardware, part of me wonders if they also had to compress some files to fit the GBA's storage limits. Aside from that, I really like how there's those intentional bits of brief silence in the early sections (0:08 - 0:20) that make the short decays of the samples and channel limitations stand out without sounding forced.

@@grimms-vi1874 Same samples across both games, but the DS has a lot more grunt to it to synthesize them

Imagine if this was a special crossover

Finally the two things I love most

​@@WegraXLike Bloodstained Curse of the Moon and Gunvolt Chronicles.

Zero would feel right at home in Castlevania tbh

Good god this would be SUCH AN EPIC CROSSOVER

*Vampire Hunter

Making Alucard an easy match to Zero

@@brainfreeze91I feel Maria is a better Zero than Alucard.

​@@brainfreeze91even more fitting when Zero and Alucard are both voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu

Nah, Super Castlevania aka Simon is.

​@@brainfreeze91yes he is a badass, he's got a sword, he has a cool personality... perfect fit

Me: Hey, Sigma! Sigma: Huh? X: Huh? Me: Take THIS! VAMPIRE BUSTER!! (KA-BANG!!)

X: HYDRO STORM Sigma: HAH! That doesn't work on me! X: **wears Ultimate Armor* Sigma: No... THIS CANNOT BE... AAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

(Ka-BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!) Me: Thanks...

And now comes true Rondo of Blood style for dialog. Sigma: Once again X-blood has defeated me. Perhaps, it is too part of my fate. X: Death to you! World is not yours to exist in! Sigma: It's not by my power that I've reassembled. It is greed of reploids, that brings me back. And thus by MIGHT I rule. The Might become the only justice in this world. X: For self-serving clap-trap. The same basic fate drives reploids to seek, to come together, to move forward. That surely can't be an evil thing. Sigma: And yet here I am. Do you not have any desires? X: Well... Sigma: It is by your desires you, reploids, prosper and that is your faith that ruled you. Considering that, can you really call me evil? X: The reploids can't be ruled by power alone! The sacred, the hourable, the loved - those things can rule reploids. Something evil will eventually fall to ruin! Sigma: I see. Perhaps you are right. We shall meet again, the X-blood! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

Hey there, I used Open MPT, which used to be called Modplug Tracker. It's a free, open-source music tracker program similar to Impulse Tracker.

Weil: It was not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was called here by *reploids* who wished to pay me tribute.

Zero: Tribute? You steal reploids souls, and make them tour slaves.

@@ioriyasakani55*your

I used Open MPT / Modplug Tracker