Gley Lancer - Intro Music Bugs
A few bugs I found with the music from this game's intro, both the original Japanese Mega Drive version, and the fanmade English rom patch (that was used on every official English release to this day with a major possibly of not crediting them).
I tried searching around to see if anyone else has mentioned this anywhere, but I didn't find anything. TCRF's last update at the time of this video's post lastly mentions the WiiWare releases and nothing about the latest reissues. There's also a lack of WiiWare vids here. The ones I did find, none of them include any footage of the intro.
0:00 Intro
1:07 1st bug - Present on every version
2:46 2nd bug - Present only on English versions
3:34 Final bug - only English versions
4:21 4th mention - *not really a bug
4:52 Bonus content
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You can find still the original IPS patch online made by M.I.J.E.T. (as well as the many others they made), but I'm not linking it here just in case. Instead, I'll post highlights and then a snippet of their readme:
• Dual Language patch: Can swap between JP & Eng on the same file (emulator)
• English translation was designed for NTSC Genesis.
• May not perform accurately on Euro PAL Mega Drives.
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"This was only intended to be a little side project
Remixed music in the opening was a necessity because the story is divided
into five distinct sections and the music is synchronized to each of them.
While this is a great feature, it has the unfortunate consequence of forcing
all the text in each scene to be printed within a certain period of time.
It was impossible to fit the English translation into the allotted time
periods, and even the original Japanese script seems a bit rushed in places.
I changed the timings to make the English text readable and then remixed
the music to provide a few more precious seconds of time with which to
display the text.
Even with the extra time, it took lots of tinkering to make sure everything
was properly synchronized and could still be read comfortably. The intro
still goes at a pretty fast pace in places, but hopefully most people will
be able to read it. Unfortunately, there are limits to what I could do with
the music; it could not be extended indefinitely.
The "remix" should be indistinguishable from the original, unless you are
very familiar with the tune or are systematically comparing them. It mostly
involved repeating a few musical phrases here and there. Very little
creativity was involved, although I did consider expanding the PSG tracks
at one point.
The whole remix process took an entire three-day weekend as I had to reverse
engineer the music subsystem and write some special tools. Analyzing the
music data also took up a lot of time. On the plus side, however, I was able
to discover and fix an error in the original score. The mistake was evident
based on the timing analysis and by comparing the notes with those played on
another track. The mistiming wasn't too obvious in the original anyway, but
it was fixed in my version."
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