I see Frontal Attack remains the ever elusive musical track it is. I hope the track surfaces at least one of these days, but thank goodness we have something else that has been elusive surface, the C60 trial version images are really neat, so thank you so much for sharing them! Kind of a pivotal piece of Seihou's history for sure. ＾＾
I wonder what the ending text says exactly, or if the artwork could be ripped from the game's files to show the most minor differences between the trial and final game exactly without the interface/text boxes obstructing it, but eh, passing thought really that I myself am not too concerned about since I'm very thankful to ronronmilk for their help in not only sharing the vital information on the C60 trial version, but bringing these images our way as a neat referecne, it's awesome to be one of the first few people to see something never before seen like this. Truly, this makes me wonder how long until people make fan art of Vivit's exclusive ending picture here, but sadly Seihou fan art is as scarce as it comes, so probably not for a while unless someone really cares about being the first to draw it. ＾＾;
Just a little heads up to everyone, I talked to Mangekyou (one of the people who had recorded the Seihou 1 soundtrack with the Windows MIDI synthesizer), and while they refused to take their videos down, they did agree to temporarily make their videos private to give my recordings a chance to have their YouTube search rankings improved.
Taking a look back, I see that Mangekyou has unprivated his Seihou music uploads, but as I said before, it's to a fault with the Windows 7 default Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth. As someone who has heard Seihou 1's MIDI soundtrack with the GS Wavetable Synth on Windows XP, it's frankly unbearable to listen to his videos because it's missing bloody instruments everywhere, bleh.
What I will ask is this: Have you asked Mangekyou, besides at one point getting him to take down/private his videos, encouraged him to link the SC-88Pro videos you uploaded, as well as the thread? It's probably ideal to do on his part as apposed to others freaking uploading music from this thread without crediting, 'tis a jerk move to be sure. I think the efforts of this thread should never go unnoticed, which is why I am aiming to promote this project as much as I can, so could you ask him about this since his videos are back up?
Believe it or not, back in the day had plans to do exactly what this thread attempted to do and bring this MIDI music to the rest of the Touhou community myself, only one thing, I was using the GS Synth to do it since I had no idea about the SC-88Pro. I did start my plan though, which was cut short when my laptop with Windows XP died, stopping any hopes I had of doing this myself, and this was somewhere back in 2012 or so; however, I had at least recorded a few tracks, but was never completed before my laptop gave out, and the reality is I was using Stereo Mix and recording with Audacity in .mp3 at not the best quality settings, so kinda wasted effort in a way even if I know better now.
There are others who have done what I did; however, the user
Clockorkzone has uploaded a lot of the arranged Seihou 1 arranged versions on his channel as well as a few of the in-game tracks using default Windows MIDI synthesizer from XP, so there's that; however, he's never finished uploading all of them so it's incomplete as well (the channel seems completely inactive too). I'd honestly would have preferred back in the day to see a full series of uploads like I tried to set out and do, so that's why I'm very thankful for this thread.
Personal opinion wise? I don't think the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth version sounds too bad at all, but you could argue that it wouldn't be that different to use something like
SoMiRe or even
VirtualMIDISynth to listen to the music, but honestly the matter with alternate soundfonts can be such a can of worms that it's not really something I'd think worth sharing on YouTube because then you'd have probably
hundreds of different versions of the MIDI songs in that case, I'm only showcasing the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth here because I find it unlikely that people who bought Seihou 1 back in the day would have their own personal SC-88Pro when they listened to the music, t'was probably with the the default GS Wavetable Synth, if that makes any sense.
I suppose the point of me posting this is to ask this: Is it an issue at this point for those who uploaded/will upload the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth versions to YouTube> Even if it's on the grounds that it's what you hear by default? Ultimately I'm not going to go out of my way to get another Windows XP and do what I originally set out to do, so I wouldn't really expect me to do this since I favor this project, but you never know if someone else might get the same original idea as I and didn't know about this thread in advance.
If you ask me, it's not completely unwelcome as long as it's not the more limited version of the default GS Wavetable like in Mangekyou's Seihou music uploads where it's missing instruments everywhere, but also, I'm a firm believer that the ideal situation for these uploaders to link the SC-88Pro version in the description given it
is "the way they were intended to be heard."
