Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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So for those who don't know, I worked on a ROMhack recently. Specifically, it was an improvement hack for the utterly terrible NES version of Lemmings. Among its MANY problems was the sound. The bass notes were so short you could barely make them out, the instruments were almost all really basic and unfitting, there were some EXTREMELY obnoxious arpeggios, and the percussion was literally broken.

I took it upon myself to dig deep into the music driver, understand how it works, and alter all sorts of music data (and the driver itself) until I got the music to sound good. I edited instruments, fixed some wrong note data, and bodged in a fix for the percussion (my code is truly awful lmao). I didn't have the space to add too many new sequences, so I couldn't change the tracks too awful much, but it's still a massive improvement, and I'm pretty proud of what I was able to accomplish just by messing around in MESEN for a few weeks.

If you're interested in the hack itself, you can find it here:
romhacking.net/hacks/7748

Oh, and here's the NSF of the hack's soundtrack. You're welcome :P
dropbox.com/s/fhc7zhudjdzm587/lemsimprovement.nsf?dl=1

Main channel: @TheTomatoWatcher

Tracks:
00:00 March of the Mods
00:19 Can-can
01:21 Tim 2
02:22 Tim 3
03:43 Dance of the Reed Flutes
04:59 Rondo Alla Turca
06:08 London Bridge
06:59 Forest Green
08:20 Tim 5
09:51 BONUS: Tim 5 (Ending Variant)