SNES MIDI Remaster Project (New Release September 13 2026)

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Jason

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I have been working on a project for the last several years remastering my favorite soundtracks from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) as high quality GS MIDI Files, and uploading the completed soundtrack videos to YouTube, as well as having the MIDI files available for download.

New Release - September 13, 2026

Super Ghouls ‘N Ghosts https://youtu.be/h9P_PLq-1RQ

This soundtrack has notes that “interfere” with each other at the note off/on transition in nearly every song and every channel. Pitch bends and expression changes meant for the new note affect the previous note, causing all sorts of auditory anomalies. In an attempt to compensate, I tried to add a new feature in to MIDI-MIS, and at this point, I realized that I needed to completely rewrite the core of my editor if I wanted to continue adding features. The old code became too convoluted to follow, and MIDI data was split in to too many data containers that needed constant synchronization.

So instead of finishing the soundtrack in a few months’ time, I rebuilt MIDI-MIS from the ground up, making it tremendously more efficient, and so much easier to upgrade as needed.

The major new feature added for this soundtrack is that it can now take a MIDI channel and split the notes and corresponding commands to a new empty channel. Odd-numbered notes are left on one channel, and even-numbered are moved to the new channel. This gives notes that have an extended decay room to breathe without being unintentionally modified by the next note’s commands.

The other major change for this release is that it is officially the first soundtrack I have completed using the new spc2midi-tsuu that is being written by aikiriao. spc2midi-tsuu picks up where classic spc2midi left off, fixing a lot of things that classic doesn’t do well and adding a lot of things that the original lacks. I “finished” the soundtrack using the classic version several weeks ago, but I was not happy with the results. There were assorted discordant pitch issues that I just couldn’t iron out. So I gave spc2midi-tsuu a shot, and I’m happy to say it worked out fantastic.

NOTE: If you have previously downloaded any of my finished MIDI files, I will hopefully be updating them in the next few months. While testing out spc2midi-tsuu, I realized that most of my GS Percussion SYSEX commands were stored with invalid checksums. Most software seems to ignore this, but I plan on fixing and cleaning up the previously completed files as time allows.

The full SNES MIDI Remaster Project playlist can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzNFPVjo8upworyQq0DXDTiCZzPP29Frw

The most recent WIP version of my editor MIDI-MIS can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/114K2TuMGXu7w_vX-iBWI0Kf9RCb9wi6K?usp=drive_link

Soundtracks currently remastered:

Axelay (re-release) https://youtu.be/YJC4pmL1hGU

Battletoads and Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team https://youtu.be/bt8FIzJuIu8

Battletoads in Battlemaniacs https://youtu.be/lLnt43QQxcQ

Gradius III https://youtu.be/XXcfmE7TOho

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past https://youtu.be/IknXcaQYxaY

Prince Of Persia https://youtu.be/cFp1Dos_ltM

Super Castlevania IV https://youtu.be/r0-P66UJDzY

Super Castlevania IV (Prototype) https://youtu.be/PPQJMg3UVng