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Hey everyone,

Recently I've been working on Ray1Map a lot, where RayCarrot and I have reverse-engineered most 2D Rayman games. As a bonus I've looked into their sequenced music formats. For those who don't know, MIDI is a type of sequenced music, though most of these games' audio engines have features that MIDI doesn't support.

I'm posting these in a separate topic here in the RayTunes forum as I don't think I'll upload these to RayTunes itself anytime soon.

https://app.box.com/s/okvta8detzwfanwkwri9me9c9x4pbsg8
This archive includes the following:

• Rayman (Jaguar) - *.midi music, with filenames taken from leaked source files
• Rayman Advance (GBA) - *.midi music + *.wav samples and sound effects
• Rayman 3 (Digiblast) - *.xm music + *.aif sound effects, original filenames
• Rayman 3 (N-Gage) - *.xm music + *.wav sound effects, filenames taken from Digiblast version
• Rayman Hoodlums' Revenge (GBA) - *.midi + *.wav samples and sound effects
• Rayman Raving Rabbids (GBA) - *.xm + *.wav samples and sound effects, sadly still some issues in "jail.xm"

I think I went a bit too far with some of these, I even reverse engineered 2 relatively common GBA audio engines that no one had looked into before... ^^'
For those interested, links to my tools for these here, including a list of games that they work on:

• GAX (RRR GBA, other games using this engine): https://github.com/byvar/gaxm
• MusyX (Rayman Advance, Hoodlums' Revenge, other games using this engine): https://github.com/byvar/musyxboy

Now, why have I worked on this so much?
Listen to these RRR GBA tracks. Their mixing rate is much higher, no longer limited by the GBA or the sound engine. As a result, the tracks sound much cleaner than the ones on RayTunes. I will probably attempt to create a soundfont for Rayman Advance and Hoodlums' Revenge as well, so that the MIDI files can be played with the correct samples, resulting in an accurate and higher quality version of all of the GBA soundtracks.

Additionally, being able to access the original sequences provides a cool look "behind the scenes" for the composition of these tracks. If you ever wanted to hear how Hoodlums' Revenge's music sounds with the original general midi instruments assigned by the composer, look no further: And finally, these sequences can be used for remaster/remix projects where samples are replaced with higher quality ones. Here is a low effort attempt of mine that I did in 30 minutes earlier to demonstrate what can be done by just assigning instruments in FL Studio without modifying (or adding, or removing) any notes: I made it myself, but I think it's pretty okay for a low effort attempt!

So I thought I would share all this so people can have some fun with it.

Anyway, Happy New Year RPC!
Droolie.

Marvelous work Droolie! I'll sure use all these music tracks for my levels in Rayman ReDesigner, thank you so much for reverse engineering.

Wow, well done on all that Trojan work! It's interesting to know there's still widely-used technology out there from twenty years ago waiting to be reverse engineered!

That Mountain Spring remix sounds great, I might make it my ringtone for the new year!

I like the boss music. Soundfont is a new concept for me.

Thanks for the contributions Droolie (even if I don't fully understand all the details about it ).

This is really nice, thanks Droolie for all the hard work! I think it's gonna prove especially useful for new compositions and remixes.

The clean tunes sound really good. This is amazing work!

This is really awesome, I love the remix.

Wow, that’s awesome! Really great work!
And that Mountain Spring remix sounded amazing! It goes really well with the RPC’s Christmas snow effect.

Rayman Saturn wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:41 pm And that Mountain Spring remix sounded amazing! It goes really well with the RPC’s Christmas snow effect.

Maybe I'll force it on everyone next year.

Hunchman801 wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:06 am

Rayman Saturn wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:41 pm And that Mountain Spring remix sounded amazing! It goes really well with the RPC’s Christmas snow effect.

Maybe I'll force it on everyone next year.

Good idea.

Hunchman801 wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:06 am

Rayman Saturn wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:41 pm And that Mountain Spring remix sounded amazing! It goes really well with the RPC’s Christmas snow effect.

Maybe I'll force it on everyone next year.

I mean, while you’re at it, just use the original GBA version and edit it to make the sound quality somehow even more unbearable.
But at that point, that would be more of an April Fool’s thing.

I'm very attached to the GBA musics (probably because I've played to the corresponding games and listened their soundtrack way too much ), but these clear versions for RRR and RHR awesome!

Mountain Spring reminds me more Rayman Redemption since I've never played myself to Rayman Advance, but it's a pretty good remix. Good job!

Rayman Saturn wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:04 pm But at that point, that would be more of an April Fool’s thing.

Don't give me too many bad ideas, because I'm very receptive to those.

boomboleros7 wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:18 am Mountain Spring reminds me more Rayman Redemption since I've never played myself to Rayman Advance, but it's a pretty good remix. Good job!

It’s better that you didn’t play it, honestly, the graphics combined to the music will give you a headache in less than five minutes.
And yes. It’s interesting to see how remixing it like that makes it sound closer to the Redemption version (which I really liked, but I slightly prefer this remix). I wonder if a good combination of both could be made...

Hunchman801 wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:35 am

Rayman Saturn wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:04 pm But at that point, that would be more of an April Fool’s thing.

Don't give me too many bad ideas, because I'm very receptive to those.

I know since me and RaymanRedemption accidentally inspired you to make your majestic signature.

But since I love bad ideas like these, here's something even better/worse...
-Combine it with one music from the GBC soundtrack... preferably Rocky Peaks, and make it start at exactly 12 seconds.
-Edit it to make it sound more like earrape.
-Make it play on loop for everyone who log into the RPC.
-Congratulations, you have created the Rayman Pain-Community.
I'll make sure to mute my sound everytime I come here from now on. :'3

I remember Adsolution did a really nice version of Mountain Spring well over a decade ago, but I can't remember where to find it – I'm not sure if it was actually part of the RoTD OST…

EDIT: I did find it, and apparently it still exists! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?izfjjynhman (found at https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tehrune ... l#p4323348)
(I hope you don't mind my digging it up Ad, I still enjoy it )

Rayman Saturn wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:05 pm Rayman Pain-Community

I'm surprised no one ever called us that in our almost two decades of existence.

PluMGMK wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:39 pm I did find it, and apparently it still exists! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?izfjjynhman

Nice stuff, I never heard it before.

Hunchman801 wrote: Sat Jan 08, 2022 2:57 pm

Rayman Saturn wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:05 pm Rayman Pain-Community

I'm surprised no one ever called us that in our almost two decades of existence.

Ssshhh, you'll jinx it…

PluMGMK wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:39 pm I remember Adsolution did a really nice version of Mountain Spring well over a decade ago, but I can't remember where to find it – I'm not sure if it was actually part of the RoTD OST…

EDIT: I did find it, and apparently it still exists! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?izfjjynhman (found at https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tehrune ... l#p4323348)
(I hope you don't mind my digging it up Ad, I still enjoy it )

Man, that's so cool, I downloaded more of the beatifull ost. Question, can I use the music by Adsolution for my Rayman ReDisigner levels A.K.A is her music free use?

You'll have to ask her that directly…