Heroes of Might and Magic "state of the union" mod pack

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I uploaded all mod files that i did so far for the Soundtrack of Heroes of Might and Magic II and that due to other tasks/soundtracks/sheer lack of willpower so far i did not complete despite working on it from 2014 to last year in spare time.

Heroes_of_might_and_magic_II_mods_pack_20210308.zip

Those are separated in folders such as: complete, loop complete, incomplete and draft, depending on the state of the song.

Some mod files will result incomplete/detuned or simply stopping halfway, especially in the incomplete and draft folders.

Want to remind that porting all HOMM II songs is something akin to a gargantuan task, and quality requirements were high;

so far the zip file contains:
- 10 "complete" songs
- 4 "loop complete" songs
- 4 "incomplete" songs
- 6 "drafted" songs

for a total of 24 mod files with size from 150 to 600(!) kilobytes and the zip file so far has a size of 5.7 megabytes.

And i still miss several Cities songs.

However the ones available should suffice for whomever is porting the code to stub it in the game or as base to make the missing mod files.

Will find a way to complete current song and add the missing ones in the future: so will finish this project, that is something i regret of not being able to do to so far, and was even one of the first i took since i restarted to do music.

UPDATE

Download the temporary Music Pack for Amiga HOMM II here:

Test Music Pack

There is a readme.txt that will say where to unpack the music and how to configure the game to use it

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So i did start to work again on the musics hoping to leave this part behind, and Man, this is going to be NOT THAT funny: solutions that i thought were good some year ago now feel bad, instruments sometimes off tune, others that cannot find right sample for (in example pianos are mostly neutral but there are more way to play a piano, soft, hard, etc. and mostly i find the middle kind), good but memory hungry samples, chords or joint play to be made, pack an opera style soundtrack in four voices!!!

Challenge Accepted!

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Preparing a new archive soon; Tsak provided me with piano samples at different intensities that should indeed help...

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Made a playlist on youtube for the songs made so far:
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I did a long session in my channel with all the songs in the state they are so far
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Here is a video of me working on City of Warlock; the music pack will be available soon!

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And this is a video of me working at City of the Sorceress

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a test music pack has been released and is available here:
Test Music Pack

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Working at Castle of the Knight mod (the Succession Wars version):

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