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Night Striker S OST replacement

zetastrike - Aug 31, 2023

		zetastrike		Aug 31, 2023
			I'm not a hacker, but I've always wanted to play Night Striker on the Saturn with the arranged soundtrack from the Mega CD version. I own both games and found redump images for both. I'm not sure if I'm over-thinking this or under-thinking it. The Saturn game has 18 audio tracks (the arcade music) and the Mega CD game has 38 audio tracks (the arcade + arranged music). That means there aren't 1:1 replacements and some cursory playing through the tracks suggests that at least the intro song is split up into more than 1 track in the Mega CD game. I was thinking that it would be as simple as placing the Saturn track 1 in a folder with the arranged audio files from the Mega CD disc and use the PSX cue maker to create a new cue sheet for it, but I think the uneven number of tracks would make that impossible. I've never seen this subject brought up and if anyone has some advice for me I'd be very grateful.

		zetastrike		Aug 31, 2023
			Update: I compared the two games' disc layouts track by track and put all the Mega CD Arranged tracks in a folder with the Saturn Game track 1 and ordered them appropriately so that it's identical to the track order/number of tracks on the normal Saturn game. I tested it in Kronos. The game booted up and the intro FMV played. Once I pressed start the intro animation played without music. Stage 1 began and it was playing the Mega CD arranged track. I reached the end of the stage and the Mega CD Boss 1 track played as well. Once I defeated the boss, there was no more music. The stage clear section and the factory stage had no music playing.

		zetastrike		Sep 1, 2023
			Final update: It appears that Kronos was the issue. I decided to give Beetle Saturn a try and everything worked perfectly. Once I completed a playthrough I put it in the Satiator and again everything was perfect. The most tedious part of the process was what track needed to go where in the order.