Remember when I said I would never attempt to embed N64 sequenced music on a webpage again? I lied. I just had to give it another try! I wanted to see what kind of results I would get by using a midi extracted via N64 Soundbank Tool. There were some errors I had to fix, but it sounds pretty good! Not perfect, of course, but it's recognizable.
Fixes
I had to change the sustain level of the bass instrument in the soundfont, so the sound wouldn't go quiet immediately. Fixed soundfont (use 7zip to extract). I also added reverb.
The most difficult part was recreating the reverb heard in game. I tried a bunch of weird module things, but all I really needed was to play a convolverNode reverb output alongside the unmodified output.
DLS files are really tough to work with. The only thing that can convert them is Viena. I've been extracting soundbanks from N64 games, but N64SoundbankTool only extracts them as DLS; so when I convert the DLS to SF2 and play it with the N64-music-converted-to-midi, I can't tell how many of the flaws are from the DLS conversion, and how many are from the N64 extraction... (They're probably the fault of the N64 extraction) and I don't think I'll be...
This post contains spoilers for Kirby Star Allies.
When my professor spoke of what he wanted in this blog post, he talked at length about Red Dead Redemption; about how it creates an immersive experience of the Wild West that bridges the gap between fiction and reality.
Kirby is nothing like Red Dead Redemption.
There are very few Kirby games that could be described as immersive. Forgotten Land comes the closest, due to having a world modeled after Earth, and how minimalist the...
