Street Fighter 2 SNES Retuned - Ryu vs Bison with Critical Theme Added 

Glad people are liking these. They're fun to make, but a lot more work than the retunings, which I need to finish anyway.

@@hambone1138 I hope to see Ryu vs Ken on Ken’s stage soon

@@mario_nerd_6446 Just granted your wish today!

That's a great question, probably above my pay grade. But I'd say it's at least partially possible. The bells and pitch should be easy to correct. For the drums, I just bumped the levels and adjusted the pitch by a few steps. I think the cymbal could be worked into the percussion channel, like it is on a number of other characters' tracks. As for the music still going thru the end of the round, I'm not sure about that one. I remember the SNES version of vanilla SF2 didn't have the announcer or crowd applauding at the end, so the music lasted longer. I will say I don't love how it just dies away so abruptly in the Turbo version. But thanks for the kind words. This project is my attempt to give the SNES version the sound I'd wished it had, and feel like it's capable of.

In the arcade the music plays when speaking you win/lose then fades away. In the SNES Turbo the game pauses for a split second after the defeated player is on the ground, the music stops when the defeated player is falling, and it speaks you win/lose after the pause. SNES Turbo added crowd sound effects to some stages at the end of fights, after the you win/lose. And the SNES stage music simply speeds up when a player's health bar is near KO rather than a separate speed up track that gets higher pitched then repeats like the arcade.

@@robkrasinski6217 Good ear! I didn't like how the music just died away as soon as you KO'ed the opponent. It just felt kind of awkward, like when you're at a bar and there's too long of a pause between songs. So I let it keep going, and fade out while the announcer is speaking, like in the arcade. I didn't really care for the crowd noises, so I left 'em out.

Thanks. That means a lot!

Not exactly. For this project, I keep the SNES instruments, but adjust the pitch, volume and reverb levels to bring the theme closer to the arcade version, while still keeping the SNES flavor. I experimented once using the arcade drum track on Ryu’s theme, but it just sounded a little “off” with the SNES instruments.