Basic Concept

Import 20 songs from FF Mystic Quest to give FFV a “Bonus OST” version

FF:MQ has 26 songs, so this represents 3/4 the soundtrack 😹

Overall Plan

1. learn how songs are encoded
   1. in
      1. SNES Hi-Rom and Lo-Rom file systems
      2. both games
   2. determine which instruments (if any) are shared in both games
      1. adapt the MQ tracks’ encoding to match FFV’s
   3. calculate how much memory this takes in the Hi-Rom unused space (Bank F??)
2. learn how to use event code to
   1. trigger pointers to new songs
   2. and play them
   3. (Cubear has experience in thanks to MSU-1 hacking)

Outline of Track Changes to FFV vanilla

• Dark Events - “Dungeon & Waterfall”
  • overnight before Faris joins (in the brig)
  • Lenna & Faris night scene at Tycoon
  • after Barrier Tower, waiting for Zeza
  • Ghido’s Cave dungeon
• Faris’s Theme - ”Fossil Labyrinth”
  • when Syldra appears, until landing at the Wind Shrine
  • Faris camp scene in Ship Graveyard
  • Faris rescue scene on North Mountain, before Magissa fight
  • Post Antlion, when Faris rejoins in World 3
• Worus - “City of Forest”
  • Worus Town, before Tower sinks
  • Worus Castle, before Tower sinks
• Cold Dungeon - “Dungeon of Ice”
  • Water Tower atop Worus Castle (Shiva’s Lair)
  • Tunnel to Catoblepas
  • Istory Falls (Fourth Tablet dungeon)
  • ???
• Karnak
  • before Explosion - “City of Fire (Faeria)”
  • escape from the Castle (post Steamship) - “Hill of Fate”
• Lost Crystal - “Windia City of Wind”
  • Worus Castle & City, post sunken Tower
  • Karnak, post escape
  • Gohn Ruins
• Cid’s Theme - “Rock n Roll”
  • Meet him in jail
  • He regains confidence, after Mid berates him
  • Explaining Sandworm scheme
  • First time flying the airship (before Crayclaw)
  • Asking for Adamantite
  • After charging each meteor
  • He remodels airship into sub
• • “Battle 1”
    • World 2 Battles
    • Half the battles in World 3
• “Mountainrange of Whirlwinds”
  • Barrier Tower
  • Fork Tower
• Second boss theme - “Battle 2”
  • World 2 Boss fights
  • Fleet attack, before Gilgamesh fight
  • World 3 Tablet boss fights
    • Melsuine, Stalker, Piggies, Leviathan
  • 7 Demons of the Rift boss fights
    • Calofisteri, Apanda, Azulmagia, Catastrophe, Halicarnaso, Twintania, Necrophobia
• Ancients’ Town - “Shrine of Light”
  • Jacole
  • Crescent
• Ghido’s Theme - ”Middle Tower”
  • meeting Ghido, long lecture about Exdeath
  • finding Ghido in World 3
  • World 3 when Ghido calls meeting in Ancient Library
• Mua - “Beautiful Forest”