Feedback / フィードバック - 3D shooter for MSX2 John Hassink 2026-09-19 | Feedback / フィードバック - 3D shooter for MSX2
30 Days - Tower of Dingus (inactive) - beta John Hassink 2024-01-19 | A side-quest in the game.A brilliant scientist once built a tower full of mechanics.He couldn't complete his work, so the tower is dangerous.The granddaughter must solve the puzzles to reach the top.
30 Days - Greenheart Plains (beta) John Hassink 2024-01-12 | Try-out for an MSX2 action RPG in development.Still needs a lot of work, but I hope you'll like it.
30 Days - Village, Field and Heaven music (very beta) John Hassink 2023-09-18 | "30 Days" is an action RPG for MSX2 in development.These three songs are (very) beta try-outs for the general sound on OPLL + PSG.A "village", "field" and "heaven" theme, at least during daytime in the game (at some locations, the music will change according to the time of day/night).Please tell me what you think.Final version will also use SCC enhancement on top of the OPLL + PSG, if those soundchips are available.
Mouryou Senki Madara / 魍魎戦記MADARA (NES) music on MSX Konami SCC John Hassink 2023-07-03 | Konami, 1990Composed by Konami Kukeiha ClubArranged by John HassinkDedicated to ren, for all of the support and useful suggestionsOriginal version:youtube.com/watch?v=u_uwN9zewsw&ab_channel=VGMHallofFame
Dark Earth, Seed of Vengeance / I Am Arklight (OPLL version) John Hassink 2023-06-21 | Composed by John Hassink
Ys / イース - Music on Roland XP-30 (MIDI) John Hassink 2023-05-21 | I have more of these from the same soundtrack. I could upload them all if you like this sound.I did not create these MIDI files. Found them online, I think they are official.
Aleste 2 & Aleste Gaiden / アレスタ２ & ALESTE外伝 (MSX2) - Music on Roland XP-30 (MIDI) John Hassink 2023-05-21 | Composed by Toshiaki SakodaArranged by John HassinkIf you like this, I have more re-arranged Aleste music which I could run through this set-up.In case you would like to have the MIDI files, just let me know.
Moon Over Arba Minch - Forest theme on Roland XP-30 John Hassink 2023-05-20 | Thought I could share.Sorry, but no, I don't have any information on if this game will ever be released.Composed and arranged by John Hassink
Concept for a space game - 8-bit MSX MB-Stereo John Hassink 2023-02-01 | Composed and arranged by John Hassink.Just for testing. Sound is a combination of MSX-Music and MSX-Audio. The timpani are actually not samples. The only samples used are a cymbal and a hi-hat.I can do far from everything I'd like to do with this specific music program, but at least it has quite complete MSX-Audio support, which is sometimes nice.
Elemental Master (Sega MD) - music on 8-bit MSX FM (OPLL) John Hassink 2023-01-16 | Tecno Soft, 1990Title: "Dance of Flames"Composed by Toshiharu YamanishiArranged by John HassinkInitially, I considered arranging this song in the 'style' of the usual 1988/1989 MSX OPLL music.Meaning, only using 3 melodic FM channels in lieu of this 6 FM channels + 2 PSG channels version.In order words, like this song would have been on the soundtrack of "Feedback" or "Undeadline" or "Aleste 2". You probably catch the drift.After all, I decided against it and went for the 'all out' approach that you see and hear here. I hope that you like it.If there is interest, I could still try to do a version that's more in line with early MSX OPLL soundtracks.A few days ago, ToughkidCST uploaded a video of an MSX machine playing this soundtrack using OPN2 (YM2612), with Grauw's VGMPlay:youtube.com/watch?v=GzVVUmgjVh4&ab_channel=ToughkidCSTKimThis is no coincidence, as that video directly inspired me to create this cover.Thanks for your attention and see you later!
Contra Force (NES) - Music on 8-bit MSX Konami SCC (beta) John Hassink 2022-12-30 | Composers: Kenichi Matsubara, Tomoya Tomita, Yasuhiko MannoArranged by John HassinkI don't consider this version as finished. First I have to figure out how to 'fake' a believable orchestra hit on SCC, and fix some other issues. I hope you will enjoy this anyway.
Castlevania III / 悪魔城伝説 - Beginning on 8-bit MSX Konami SCC John Hassink 2022-11-23 | Konami, 1989Composed by Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi and Yukie MorimotoArranged by John HassinkThis will be part of a mini medley. I'm going to do more songs from the game. I hope that you will enjoy this little preview.Slight improvement:youtu.be/rgcXsDTjlqw
Chrono Cross / クロノ・クロス - Intro Music on 8-bit MSX FM John Hassink 2022-11-09 | Square/Enix, 1999Composed by Yasunori Mitsuda (光田 康典)Arranged by John HassinkBig thanks go to Huey, Wyrdwad, Inverse Phase and Wolf.
Salamander - Planet Latis / 沙羅曼蛇 - 第3ステージBGM - MSX Konami SCC John Hassink 2022-10-19 | This piece is present in the original arcade version, but not in the MSX one.I tried to re-arrange it in the style of MSX Salamander, as if it were really a song in the MSX soundtrack, taking into account restrictions such as maximum channel use and no SCC+ perks.この作品は元のアーケード版にはありますが、MSX版にはありません。チャネルの最大使用数や SCC+ の特典なしなどの制限を考慮して、実際に MSX サウンドトラックの曲であるかのように、MSX サラマンダーのスタイルで再編成しようとしました。
Terras Theme / ティナのテーマ - 8-bit MSX OPLL John Hassink 2022-06-08 | Composed by Nobuo UematsuArranged by John HassinkDedicated to Maaike
Honoring The Sensei #2 - Hans Cnossen John Hassink 2022-05-01 | Kept you waiting, huh?This is the second edition of a series in which I will showcase a selection of favorite songs from my old mentors.Starting with tracking as an aspiring 15-year old chiptune composer, sometime in 1995, knowing only MML before, some music veterans of the MSX scene took me under their wings and taught me a lot of what I know today.This series is meant to express my gratitude for this and to show everyone how awesome their music actually was.There is no special reason behind the order of the songs, they're just aligned in a way that I thought sounds nice. Even if it's a difficult task, I will try to keep it at five songs per "sensei".Also, to convey the timeframe and -spirit as accurately as possible, I will keep it to their MB-Stereo (8-bit) work.This second episode is dedicated to Hans Cnossen, also known as "Kid Cnoz", as was the 'stage name' jokingly endowed upon him.After mister Meits, my first sensei, had taught me the basics of tracking, along with some chiptuning tricks, I came into contact with Hans.As we exchanged songs, yes, still using 'snail mail', but also in person, he taught me some important composition techniques along the way.The most important of those being, that the melody is the most important component of a song, and that it should always be on the foreground to shine.I used to make a big deal of the accompaniment, because of my inherent fear that the music would otherwise be 'boring' to the listener.While I'm still far from where I want to be after all these years, Cnossen showed me the right path back then.It was an extremely tough job to select only 5 songs from sensei Cnossen, in order to showcase his wide range of music styles and overall versatility.The picture in this video is a tribute to the Moonblaster 1.4 instrument preset which he seemed to have an obsession with - the "Laser Harp".Thanks for everything, Hans!I hope you will enjoy this second issue of "Honoring the Sensei" and thay you'd maybe look forward to the next one. Who'll be next? I already know, but you'll just have to find that out...Link to the previous edition:youtube.com/watch?v=oDCaZthRwx4
Ninja Gaiden Shadow / 忍者龍剣伝GB 摩天楼決戦 - music on MSX OPLL (beta) John Hassink 2022-02-20 | Tecmo & Natsume, 1991Composed by Hiroyuki Itwatsuki (岩月 博之)Arranged by John Hassink
Out Zone / アウトゾーン music on 8-bit MSX FM (OPLL) - beta John Hassink 2021-11-05 | Toaplan / Tecmo 1990Composed by Tatsuya UemuraArranged by John Hassink
Core Crisis - Arctic Drill Station John Hassink 2021-07-30 | For a shooting game in development.Composed by John Hassink, 2010Arranged by John Hassink, 2021
Music for Core Crisis - OPLL+PSG 8-bit version John Hassink 2021-06-22 | Composed by John Hassink, 2009Arranged by John Hassink, 2021
Music for Core Crisis, 3-channel MSX PSG version John Hassink 2021-06-11 | Composed and arranged by John HassinkI tried to make a good PSG version, but I wonder if anyone still plays MSX games with no FM support.
Metal Dragon - Two songs (MSX MB-Stereo) John Hassink 2021-04-25 | Two in-game songs for Kai Magazine's upcoming game "Metal Dragon".Left - OPLLRight - OPL1Composed by John Hassink
Super Castlevania IV (悪魔城ドラキュラ) - Theme of Simon on 8-bit MSX SCC (beta) John Hassink 2020-04-05 | Composed by Masanori Adachi, Taro KudouArranged by John HassinkOne of the hardest arrangements I ever did.Ofcourse, this is totally cheating, as I'm using all 5 SCC channels and all 3 PSG channels, whereas Konami, had this game been on MSX, would have used only 4 SCC channels and 2 PSG channels in-game.Maybe, I'll make a version someday that will use those limitations, so we can get the experience as if this was really an official Konami MSX game at some point.Special thanks for putting up with me - I mean, listening to work-in-progress stages of the song and suggestions go to:Wolf, Inverse Phase, Wyrdwad, Kai Magazine, Meits, Imanok, Richard Cornelisse, Konamito, Omar Fadhil and Ilse van Hoorn
Tower of Gazzel / ガゼルの塔 - music on Konami MSX SCC (beta) John Hassink 2020-03-16 | Microcabin, 1991Arranged by John Hassink
Zero Wing / ゼロウィング (MD) - intro music on 8-bit MSX FM (beta) John Hassink 2020-03-15 | Believe the meme
The Minds Eye - arranged by Robert Vroemisse John Hassink 2020-03-13 | Composed by John HassinkArranged by Robert Vroemisse
Music for Crystalline on 8-bit MSX FM (beta) John Hassink 2019-11-20 | This song, I originally wrote around 1994, when I was 14 years old, on MSX-BASIC MML.It's for a game that I always wanted to make.Since then, it has seen many incarnations on several chips and trackers; SCC, OPL4, Moonblaster 1.425 years later, this is the beginning of the definitive version for MSX with 8-bit OPLL (FM).I hope you like it.
Alisia Dragoon / アリシアドラグーン - music on 8-bit MSX OPLL (FM) beta beta beta John Hassink 2019-10-01 | Still a lot of work to do
LEDA Stage 2 - MSX OPLL John Hassink 2019-09-18 | Made this composition 11 years ago in Moonblaster 1.4I manually re-arranged it to TriloTracker for FM because I thought it could sound better, and also to test the nearly final form of the OPLL version of the tracker.
Cyber Block Metal Orange / メタルオレンジ - Stage 4 music on 8-bit MSX OPLL John Hassink 2019-06-16 | Composed by either Masaharu Iwata / 岩田 匡治 or Hitoshi Sakimoto / 崎元 仁 (who knows)Arranged by John Hassink
Youma Kourin / 妖魔降臨 (MSX2) music arrangement on OPLL John Hassink 2019-04-26 | Falcon, Nippon Dexter 1989Dedicated to RicBit
Metal Gear (メタルギア) - Theme of Tara on piano (not so good) John Hassink 2019-04-17 | Nijmegen MSX Fair 2019
Ys III / ワンダラーズフロムイース - Sealed Time on 8-bit MSX OPLL John Hassink 2019-01-28 | Composed by Mieko Ishikawa / 石川三恵子Arranged by John HassinkDedicated to Wyrdwad
La-Mulana - Fearless Challenger on Konami MSX SCC (beta) John Hassink 2018-12-23 | A great piece by Houryu Samejima
Contra / 魂斗羅 (MSX2) - Soundtrack John Hassink 2018-12-14 | Konami, 1989As oldskoolgamertje's channel was deleted, soundtracks such as these are not on YouTube anymore.Did this video to fill the gap, because it's supposed to be up here.
Sorrow of Gadhlan Thur - Overworld Theme (SCC version, beta) John Hassink 2018-12-11 | SCC version of music for a new MSX2 action RPG by Kai Magazine
Snakes Revenge (NES) - Music on MSX Konami SCC John Hassink 2018-12-01 | You know where you are? You're down in the jungle, baby!You're gonna dieieieieie Could be working for three years on this one and still not be satisfied.But there's a time when you have to let things go. So here you have it.
Deva (MSX2) - Soundtrack (excerpt) John Hassink 2018-08-30 | An MSX2 project that's in the fridge.I made a bunch of music especially for it. It was so specific and tailor-made for the game itself that I can't re-use it in any other project, so I decided to just share it with you, and anyone who would like to hear it.Please don't ask me about the development of this game, I don't know anything.Also, these songs are pretty much the ones that are done. I'm not looking for suggestions.I hope you will enjoy the music.Tracklisting (courtesy of ren):01 ❘ 00:05 Angelic Warrior Deva02 ❘ 00:24 Samsara03 ❘ 01:10 VR Training Facility04 ❘ 02:55 Geyser Plains05 ❘ 04:59 Stop Dancing Aranyani06 ❘ 07:41 The Mind's Eye07 ❘ 10:33 Maya and Moksha08 ❘ 13:36 Lost Space Station09 ❘ 16:36 Temple of Subramanya
Burn Us EXP - Music on MSX Konami SCC John Hassink 2018-08-26 | Made this for fun. Actual game only supports PSG.
Dragon Scroll / ドラゴンスクロール 甦りし魔竜 (NES) - Music on MSX Konami SCC (beta) John Hassink 2018-08-23 | Sorry, no fancy fades this time - after the last forced updates, Windows and/or Movie Maker opted for being an asshole again
