Zandres

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Salutations everyone!! I was under the impression that the Summer Event in PSO didn't happen until July - so I kinda wasn't in a hurry to get this Summer Music Pack finished.... but then my friend messaged me last thursday "Z, it's summer event - come play" and I was like "oh shit..... I NEED to finish this music pack STAT!!" So for the last 2 days I've been cutting all the rest of the music I needed for this pack and recording a video demonstration of it just like I did with the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth pack I made a couple months ago. This time around - I used the Music of Kingdom Hearts III for this Summer of Fun Music Pack!! I think you're really going to like it, especially if you're a Kingdom Hearts fan! For this music pack, unlike the last music pack I made, I wanted this one to be completely focused on FUN!! Summer is such a fun season, there are soooo many fun activities you can do in summer, hiking, swimming, cycling, playing Frisbee with your dog, etc. etc. etc. So, I wanted this summer music pack to be ALL ABOUT FUN - so that's what I did. This pack has such fun music in it, and there are places where it may even feel like a retro 80s arcade from your childhood (that is, if you're as old as I am lol) I had recorded a showcase of the music pack but the sound was all wonky.... so, I had to re-record it - and today has been fraught with such peril and issues, but I finally got all the footage I needed for the showcase, and the sound is now at an acceptable level. Here's a video demonstration of this new music pack for your enjoyment! For this music pack, I used the following music in the different areas: Menus TITLE: Title “Rise of the Union” ADVR: Character Select “Dearly Beloved” CHARA: Character Creation “Hero’s Fanfare” LOBBY: The Game Lobby “Guardians of Light” Pioneer 2 CITY: Pioneer 2 “Shipmeister’s Shanty” MEDICAL: Hospital “Winnie the Pooh – KH3 Version” SHOP: Stores “First Flight” GUILD: Hunter’s Guild “Star Explorer” SOUTOKU: Principal’s Office “Sky of Wonder” LABO: Lab “The Star Fortress” Areas Slbgm_forest: Forest 1 & 2 “Happy Hair Day” Slbgm_cave: Caves 1, 2, & 3 “Mount Olympus” Slbgm_machine: Mines 1 & 2 “Flash Tracer” Slbgm_ancient: Ruins 1, 2, & 3 “Graveyard Labyrinth” Slbgm_ruin: Temple Alpha / Beta “A Pirate’s Freedom” Slbgm_space: Spaceship Alpha / Beta “Zero Hour – The Rescue” Slbgm_seabed: Seabed 1 & 2 “Augmented Reality – Augmented Rhythm” Bosses DRAGON: Dragon “Rowdy Rumble – The Crazy Carriage” DELO: De Rol Le “The Corrupted – Monstrous Monsters” VOL_OPT1: Vol Opt phase 1 “Tension Rising – Reaper’s Revenge” VOL_OPT2: Vol Opt phase 2 “The Encounter – Metal Charge” Slbgm_dark: Meadow before Falz “Critical Crossroad” DARK1: Dark Falz phase 1 & 2 “Forze Del Male – Dark Riku” DARK2: Dark Falz phase 3 “L'Oscurità dell'Ignoto – Xemnas” DELO2: Barba Ray “Eye of the Storm” DRAGON2: Gol Dragon “Shrouding Dark Cloud – Gigas Blast” GRYPHON: Gal Gryphon “Tension Rising – Angelic Amber” PROTO1: Olga phase 1 “Monster Smash – Code 72-16” HALL: Room before fighting Olga 2nd time “Destati – Third Revival” PROTO2: Olga phase 2 “Dark Domination” Slbgm_boss9: St. Million “Forza Finale” Slbgm_boss9b: Shambertin / Kondrieu “Forza Finale” Special Events T1: Rico Tyrel Encounter “The Afternoon Streets” T2: Heathcliff Flowen Encounter “Working Together” DUEL1 Battle Mode Spaceship “Toy Box Jam” DUEL2 Battle Mode Temple “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” clear: Quest Completion “Crossing the Finish Line” EPI1: Happy Quest Clear “Hand in Hand” EPI2: Sad Quest Clear “Scala ad Caelum” ENDING_LOOP: After you kill Dark Falz “Light – Kingdom Orchestra Version” CUBE_ENDING_LOOP: After you kill Olga Flow “Don’t Think Twice” EP4_ENDING_LOOP: After you kill Episode 4 final boss “Rhapsody in Tres” **DISCLAIMER - As much as I would have liked to make music for the Jungle, Mountain, Seaside, CCA, Towers, Crater, Crater Interior, and the Subterranean Desert, the way the game is coded screws up the custom music for those areas at best, CRASHES IN A GIANT FIRE at worst, and the custom music just won't work for those areas. ** If you would like my music pack - here's how you install it to change the music of PSO Open your UltimaPSOBB folder on your hard drive .... the default location for install is: C:/ProgramFiles(x86)/UltimaPSOBB. In your PSOBB folder you'll find a DATA folder, and in that DATA folder you'll find a folder called OGG. *****MAKE A COPY OF THAT OGG FOLDER******* Rename the copy of the folder to something like Music Backup so if you ever want to go back to original PSO music, the files are there and untouched. Then, click this link for the music pack: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dih9fzrmtgzaymq/KH3_Music_PSO.zip/file Download the Zipped folder of the KH3 Music PSO (there are 42 .ogg files plus one .pdf of the track listing) After you download the Zipped file, right-click it and say "EXTRACT HERE” This will uncompress the folder and give you access to all the .ogg files inside. Now, select all the .ogg files and copy them over into the OGG folder in the UltimaPSOBB/data directory. When your computer asks if you would like to REPLACE all the files SAY YES! this will change the music of your game to the music listed above! If you would like me to make special music for you - just let me know - I'm always happy to help. I hope you can find enjoyment with this Summer of Fun Music pack featuring the music of Kingdom Hearts III Cheers! -Z

@MBogdanovic94 what do you think of it? Also, I'm currently working on a brand new music pack for Summer Event - it should be ready in a day or so.

I'm aware, those are part of the base game for blue burst....I'm asking for additional colors

I recently evolved a turquoise Rati, and when it looked cyan (because turquoise and cyan are very similar colors) I went looking online for what it should look like. As I was looking I found that over on Ephinea they have additional mag colors that we don't have here....like chartreuse, azure, and goldenrod ..... Could we get new mag colors too??

Yes absolutely!!!! Maybe have the lights that are on brightness circle be different colors for neutron skin or if they could change colors while they rotated around you would be amazing!! But no effect at all is sadness galore 😢

you're very welcome!! I'm glad you like the time and effort I put into making these music packs for us in the community. I'm glad you like it! Also, it's finished and posted to this very forum, I mentioned you in the comment of the post. Hope you like it!

@MBogdanovic94 This one is for you!! and to properly thank you for your compliments, THANK YOU!!! I'm glad to make beautiful content for us all to enjoy!

Hello my friends!!! It's finished!! I got the FFVII Rebirth Album just a few days ago, listened to it, fell in love with it - and made this music pack with that music. I love making music packs for all of us to enjoy, I really do! As I stated in my previous post where I gave you a snippet of my creative process, I was faced with a rather difficult conundrum this time around as the vast majority of the music I used in this music pack DID NOT repeat... like at all..... what do you do when the music doesn't repeat thus making your job a LOT more difficult? Well, it came down to a lot of trial and error and testing on the title screen .... I will admit - there are 2 tracks that I couldn't loop like normal so I kept the beat, counted it out correctly and just looped it with similar elements. For Weapon's Cry it worked out just grand, for the Materia Guardian music on Gol Dragon - the cut is a little bit.... ummm the first time you hear it, it may be a bit jarring, but that track for Gol Dragon is nearly 8 mins of music - and while it may sound jarring when the cut happens, it's actually really cool... it's battle music right, and the beat stays pretty constant throughout the whole track, all I did was mess with the chord progression just a bit - but once you hear it a 2nd time, it won't sound bad - it'll sound really cool. There are just not enough good things I can say about the music of FFVII-Rebirth - it's just INCREDIBLE!!! It truly is the evolution of CLASSICAL MUSIC at it's FINEST!!! Classical music is very structured, and when it's done correctly, it tells stories as you play it. As I was listening to the album for the first time, I was hearing the stories that the music was conveying, and because of that, I crafted a most beautiful story with the music and put it into PSO. Let me elaborate, yeah? One thing I noticed with this album, is that Sephiroth's taint just runs through almost every single piece of music - which makes for some really cool combinations - like Aerith's Theme and Sephiroth's Theme combined into one. The game opens with Hero music, but this is Hero Sephiroth music and while it sounds grand and works really well for the title screen, it just has that bit of One-Winged Angel in it in places, all while being heroic and majestic is Sephiroth's twisted way - but the story - anyway - in the ruins, a place of monsters, aliens, and just overwhelming evil, the music reflects that - and just expels gobs and gobs of soul-crushing darkness and then in the midst of all that darkness, it goes into heroic battle music like it's telling you, "You're the warriors of light - you're going to send all these monsters straight to hell." It's just soooooo good. I have to be honest - as I was nearing the end of the creation process, I was stuck on what to put for the Principal's Office area on Pioneer 2.... please don't freak out - but I put a beautifully haunting piece written in Phrygian that does this QnA bit between flutes and oboes over and over again - almost like an argument in parliament, or congress, or a senate - back and forth across the aisle, back and forth - but because it's written in Phrygian, it just has this off-kilter quality to it, almost like it's asking the question - "can you really trust anything the government does?" I know, I know - that like asking "meaning of life" stuff - but I just thought that was too juicy not to put in the Principal's Office. I honestly cannot believe how amazing and beautiful and gorgeous and fucking cool this music is! As something new for this music project for PSO - I recorded a video showcasing 98% of the music pack - only because there are 4 tracks I can't show off because of randomness or needing 2 people to do it - but everything except battle mode and the two special encounters I show off in this video - and yes, this is the first time I've cut music for Battle Mode - there were just so so so very many tracks that were beyond incredible that I wanted to include in this music pack. So, for your viewing pleasure, here's the music pack demonstration! For this music pack, I used the following pieces from the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - Special Edit Version Album to make this project Menus TITLE: Title “The War Hero Sephiroth” ADVR: Character Select "Chadley's Theme CHARA: Character Creation “The Grasslands – A New Journey" Pioneer 2 CITY: Pioneer 2 “Costa del Sol – Fun in the Sun” MEDICAL: Hospital “Lifestream – Fonts of Knowledge” SHOP: Stores “On Our Way – Sense of Kalm” GUILD: Hunter’s Guild “Sanctuary” SOUTOKU: Principal’s Office “Follow the Black Robes – Mythril Mines” LABO: Lab “Another Buster Sword” Areas slbgm_forest: Forest 1 & 2 “Toward Mount Nibel” slbgm_cave: Caves 1, 2, & 3 “Weapon’s Cry” slbgm_machine: Mines 1 & 2 “Prison Break” slbgm_ancient: Ruins 1, 2, & 3 “Mako Overdose” slbgm_ruin: Temple Alpha / Beta “Let’s Go, Mount Corel!” slbgm_space: Spaceship Alpha / Beta “Assassination Attempt – Fugitive at Large” slbgm_seabed: Seabed 1 & 2 “Revival of the Black Materia” Bosses DRAGON: Dragon “Main Theme of FFVII – Battle Edit” DELO: De Rol Le “Midgardsormr" VOL_OPT1: Vol Opt phase 1 “Anuran Suppressor” VOL_OPT2: Vol Opt phase 2 “Crimson Mare Mk. II" slbgm_dark: Meadow before Falz “Sephiroth Reborn – Second Advent” DARK1: Dark Falz phase 1 & 2 “J-E-N-O-V-A – Emergence” DARK2: Dark Falz phase 3 “One-Winged Angel – Reborn” DELO2: Barba Ray “Hurry Up!” DRAGON2: Gol Dragon “Materia Guardian!” GRYPHON: Gal Gryphon “Battle on the Big Bridge – Rebirth” PROTO1: Olga phase 1 “Hurry! – Necrotic Entity Mix” HALL: Room before fighting Olga 2nd time “Listen to the Cries of the Planet” PROTO2: Olga phase 2 “J-E-N-O-V-A – Tenacity” slbgm_boss9: St. Million “Rumble with Rufus” slbgm_boss9b: Shambertin / Kondrieu “Rumble with Rufus” Special Events TI: Rico Tyrel Encounter “Queen’s Blood Tournament – Round 1” T2: Heathcliff Flowen Encounter “Queen’s Blood Tournament – Round 2 Afterparty” DUEL1 Battle Mode Spaceship “Duel with the Divine” DUEL2 Battle Mode Temple “Temple of the Ancients – Battle Edit” clear: Quest Completion “Queen’s Blood – Victory” ENDING_LOOP: After you kill Dark Falz “Adventure’s End” CUBE_ENDING_LOOP: After you kill Olga Flow “Aerith’s Theme – Return to the Planet” EP4_ENDING_LOOP: After you kill Episode 4 final boss “Distant Skies” LOBBY: The game lobby “Aerith’s Theme – The White Materia” **DISCLAIMER - As much as I would have liked to make music for the Jungle, Mountain, Seaside, CCA, Towers, Crater, Crater Interior, and the Subterranean Desert, the way the game is coded screws up the custom music for those areas at best, CRASHES IN A GIANT FIRE at worst, and the custom music just won't work for those areas. ** If you would like my music pack - here's how you install it to change the music of PSO Open your Ultima-PSOBB folder on your hard drive .... the default location for install is: C:/ProgramFiles(x86)/Ultima-PSOBB. In your PSOBB folder you'll find a DATA folder, and in that DATA folder you'll find a folder called OGG. *****MAKE A COPY OF THAT OGG FOLDER******* Rename the copy of the folder to something like Music Backup so if you ever want to go back to original PSO music, the files are there and untouched. Then, click this link for the music pack: https://www.mediafire.com/file/15jlg6ebblnxrpi/FF7Rebirth_PSO.zip/file Download the Zipped folder of the FFVII Rebirth Music (there are 40 .ogg files plus one .pdf of the track listing) After you download the Zipped file, right-click it and say "EXTRACT HERE” This will uncompress the folder and give you access to all the .ogg files inside. Now, select all the .ogg files and copy them over into the OGG folder in the Ultima-PSOBB/data directory. When your computer asks if you would like to REPLACE all the files SAY YES! this will change the music of your game to the music listed above! If you would like me to make special music for you - just let me know - I'm always happy to help. Cheers! -Z

It should be done sometime tomorrow - been cutting music all day today, and I'm pooped...

Allo! and if you ask if I said hello, I'm going to quote Labyrinth and say, "No, I said 'allo' but that's close enough" in a British accent... 😃 lol I'm currently cutting music from FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH that's right - the 2nd game in the Remake Trilogy. Let met just give you a snippit of this process. When I first learned how to cut music from the game, @Fyrewolf5 told me that it's best to use music that repeats - that's the easiest - doesn't matter what the track sounds like, if it repeats, it's super easy to cut into the game. That has served me well for all the music packs I have made thus far..... However, a new question has popped up during this process...... what happens if the music is just beyond anything you can imagine for beauty, awesomeness, and sooooo damn cool BUT it doesn't repeat....... like AT ALL...... what do you do then?? I've thought a lot about that as I've been cutting music... do i just fade out and back in and just play whole tracks over again with a teeny pause in the music....... I tried that.... HATED IT.... For those of you who have enjoyed my music packs over the years... I can't believe that it's 2024 already, and almost 1/3 over... gad - May 1 is next Wednesday..... crazy And I made my first Music Pack in 2022... so, for the last two years that you've been enjoying my music, would you say that the reason it sounds so good is because 1: I use high quality music to start the process of cutting into the game, and 2: I always, and I mean ALWAYS make my cuts sound seamless, perfect, so when you're in game, the music just goes on and on and on and on and on and you never can tell where the music repeats because the cuts are basically invisible? Wouldn't you say that's why you guys love my music packs? Well, what do you do when the music is beyond amazing, you want it in the game in this very specific spot BUT CRIPES, IT DOESN'T REPEAT!!!!! What do you do when you want to deliver that super high quality that people expect from you??? That's the question I've been dealing with during this process... Let me just say this.... It's going to take me a couple maybe 3-4 days to finish this pack - could be longer. But, I promise you this: This music pack is going to be so fricken amazing with music from VII REBIRTH, it's going to have wonderful seamless cuts, and it's going to sound so good, you won't be able to tell where I put my cuts in - even in music that doesn't repeat.... I solemnly swear that to you now. I'll post the pack once it's finished, and @MBogdanovic94 I know how much you love Final Fantasy VII... I think you're going to love this new music pack with music from Rebirth. Also, for everyone else..... What would you guys think - once the Remake Trilogy is complete, and I have the soundtrack from the 3rd game in the remake project - What would you think if I made a Music Pack using music from all three games, and kind of a "The Best of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Trilogy?" Would you guys like that, for me to use music from the WHOLE TRILOGY of FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE? Lemme know in the comments, or message me here on the forums. Cheers! -Z

That seems like an inordinate amount of work....I think I'll just stick to making music packs and if I need monos to raise a mag, I'll hunt them in the wild.

Why did you have to lock the doors to the lab and to the planet? Just standing around waiting to feed my mags is boring....why can't we visit the planet and kill stuff in this quest??? It would make it loads better....but you'd also need to have the shop keepers and the tekker back in his little kiosk area

Glad you like it! I had a lot of fun making this one!

Hello again my friends! With Halloween quickly approaching, I figured it was time that I make a music pack for this spooky holiday. The spookiest music I have is from my Castlevania albums of Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness. To be quite honest, I've not listened to these albums in 20 years, but I found tracks to replace the music in the game for all the tracks I can replace. Making this music pack was very interesting as the loops this time around were so complex that it took a lot of time to find the perfect places where to loop the music so it's seamless. But, I was able to do it, and this music pack is of the highest quality that you've come to expect from me. The reason I chose to use the Castlevania music is because it's medieval horror, while still being fun and engaging. Also, for Halloween, the most iconic instrument for the holiday is the pipe organ - my most favorite instrument because I play the organ. The most famous Halloween music for the organ is "Toccata and Feuge in d minor" by Johan Sebastian Bach - you know the one, it sounds like this: Anyway, the music of Castlevania has a lot of organ in the various pieces, and the toccatas for the boss fights, especially Falz has a LOT of Pipe Organ in it. There are also some tracks that have distant church bells ringing while this ghostly, spooky melody is playing. There are also tracks where there is a counter melody playing at the same time as the foreground melody making a very dissonant but hauntingly beautiful harmony. I hope you enjoy this creepy, spooky music pack, and that it helps you celebrate Halloween in the best way possible! For the music tracks, you'll see initials at the end of each of the track titles. LoI is Lament of Innocence, CoD is Curse of Darkness, and KH is Kingdom Hearts. There is only one track I used from Kingdom Hearts, and that's "This is Halloween." I had several people ask me if I would use that track in my Halloween pack, and I told them I would try. It didn't fit in the game with the other Castlevania music as the vibe of "This is Halloween" is very different from Castlevania's genosequa. But for lobby music, it works. As I've done in my other music packs, here's a video demonstration of this Halloween Music Pack for PSO. Enjoy! The music I used for this Halloween Pack is as follows: TITLE: Title “Prologue – LoI” ADVR: Character Select “Prologue to the Black Abyss – LoI” CHARA: Character Creation “Prologue – CoD” CITY: Pioneer 2 “Ghostly Theater – LoI” MEDICAL: Hospital “Garibaldi Courtyard – CoD” SHOP: Stores “Rinaldo’s Cabin – LoI” GUILD: Hunter’s Guild “Cordova Town – CoD” SOUTOKU: Principal’s Office “Fog-Enshrouded Nightscape – LoI” LABO: Lab “Despair – LoI” Areas Slbgm_forest: Forest 1 & 2 “The Forest of Jigramunt – CoD” Slbgm_cave: Caves 1, 2, & 3 “Anti-Soul Mysteries Lab – LoI” Slbgm_machine: Mines 1 & 2 “Eneomaos Machine Tower – CoD” Slbgm_ancient: Ruins 1, 2, & 3 “House of Sacred Remains – LoI” Slbgm_ruin: Temple Alpha / Beta “Abandoned Castle – CoD” Slbgm_space: Spaceship Alpha / Beta “Lament of Innocence – Leon’s Theme – LoI” Slbgm_seabed: Seabed 1 & 2 “Aiolon Ruins – CoD” Bosses DRAGON: Dragon “Followers of Darkness – The Second – CoD” DELO: De Rol Le “Elemental Tactician – LoI” VOL_OPT1: Vol Opt phase 1 “Followers of Darkness – The Third – CoD” VOL_OPT2: Vol Opt phase 2 “Legendary Belmont – CoD” Slbgm_dark: Meadow before Falz “Statue Enchanted by the Darkness – LoI” DARK1: Dark Falz phase 1 & 2 “Dark Night Toccata – LoI” DARK2: Dark Falz phase 3 “A Toccata Into Blood Soaked Darkness – CoD” DELO2: Barba Ray “Followers of Darkness – The First – CoD” DRAGON2: Gol Dragon “Stone King Golem – LoI” GRYPHON: Gal Gryphon “Melancholy Joachim – LoI” PROTO1: Olga phase 1 “Prison of Eternal Torture – LoI” HALL: Room before fighting Olga 2nd time “Dracula Appears – LoI” PROTO2: Olga phase 2 “Snake Head Medusa – LoI” Slbgm_boss9: St. Million “Bizarre Room – LoI” Slbgm_boss9b: Shambertin / Kondrieu “Bizarre Room – LoI” Special Events T1: Rico Tyrel “Devil Forging – CoD” T2: Heathcliff Flowen “Water Prison – LoI” clear: Quest Completion “Bloodstained Demise – LoI” ENDING_LOOP: After you kill Dark Falz “True to Your Dreams – CoD” CUBE_ENDING_LOOP: After you kill Olga Flow “Endless Sorrow – CoD” EP4_ENDING_LOOP: After you kill ep4 final boss “Joachim of the Clear Blue Riverside – LoI” LOBBY: The game lobby “This is Halloween - KH” **DISCLAIMER - As much as I would have liked to make music for the Jungle, Mountain, Seaside, CCA, Towers, Crater, Crater Interior, and the Subterranean Desert, the way the game is coded screws up the custom music for those areas at best, CRASHES IN A GIANT FIRE at worst, and the custom music just won't work for those areas. ** If you would like my music pack - here's how you install it to change the music of PSO Open your Ultima-PSOBB folder on your hard drive .... the default location for install is: C:/ProgramFiles(x86)/UltimaPSOBB. In your PSOBB folder you'll find a DATA folder, and in that DATA folder you'll find a folder called OGG. *****MAKE A COPY OF THAT OGG FOLDER******* Rename the copy of the folder to something like Music Backup so if you ever want to go back to original PSO music, the files are there and untouched. Then, click this link for the music pack: https://www.mediafire.com/file/sot79nvilln5xgr/Halloween_Music_PSO.zip/file Download the Zipped folder of the Halloween Music PSO (there are 38 .ogg files plus one .pdf of the track listing) After you download the Zipped file, right-click it and say "EXTRACT HERE” This will decompress the folder and give you access to all the .ogg files inside. Now, select all the .ogg files and copy them over into the OGG folder in the PSOBB directory. When your computer asks if you would like to REPLACE all the files SAY YES! this will change the music of your game to the music listed above! If you would like me to make special music for you - just let me know - I'm always happy to help. Cheers! -Z PS: I really hope you have your subwoofers hooked up, because there is A LOT and I mean A LOT OF BASS in this music pack, especially in the organ tracks! ENJOY!