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Old Aug 1, 2020, 06:05 AM
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Overlooked this one cause of the first two discs being (mostly) drama. Now I realize disc 3 has Revival Xanadu and that alone is gonna make me hunt this one down. A classic re-arranged and heavily expanded upon by the golden era of Sound Team JDK that gave us Brandish 2/3, Legend of Xanadu 1 & 2, and Ys IV? Hell yes, please.
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Old Aug 16, 2020, 01:44 AM
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Hooray for more bad translations that no one has looked at in like a decade. 宿無しジョニー is Homeless Johnny, not Journey Without Rest.

EDIT: We also had the wrong kanji for disc 3 track 14. Should be 遙向, not 遥向.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUO8SNYNW3I

Just learned that they actually made a Legend of Heroes III Renewal (around 19:20 in the video), as a slight follow-up to the original on the PC-98. Two questions:

1. Should that be represented as an individual source/game? The reviewer admits the differences are minor, but clearly shows it was a separate release.

2. How many of the disc 3 tracks come from this version? (were they new or were they cut from the original Legend of Heroes III OST due to CD space concerns?)

Edit: And off-topic, but he mentions that Ryo Yonemitsu arranged some of the music on the Saturn version/remake (!). I guess that'll be my contribution to the various lists of "Games that don't have soundtracks, but should".

2nd Edit: Vid creator responded in the YT comments. "Actually only the first one of those tracks on Special Box '96 is the credits song from Renewal. The other 11 tracks are in fact completely unused music that aren't in any version of the game."

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3-27~36 are unused songs composed in the early stages of development of The Legend of Heroes III and recorded off from a PC-9801-86. That music was originally published on this this album, but the recording quality is better in Special Box '96. Still, some songs sound different between both releases. ("Boss Battle" is missing harmonic parts and overall sounds more incomplete in Special Box '96, and they didn't record the second half that is present in the 1994 album.)

3-02~03 are WIP versions and sound slightly different from what's in the final game. Them publishing the composer codes is really funny, though.

According to page 25 of the booklet, 3-25 was originally written for the Opening of Brandish 3, and 3-26 was originally a candidate Opening theme for the non-Renewal release of The Legend of Heroes III. Both songs got repurposed into the Renewal versions of each respective game. (The rest of the soundtrack for Legend of Heroes III Renewal sounds the same as the original, but Brandish Renewal got an OPN to OPNA upgrade.)

3-37 is an special MIDI arrangement by Sound Team jdk of an unused The Legend of Heroes III theme. Kaneda originally composed it, but it wasn't used because it didn't match the Opening footage. When Shirakawa created his own Opening theme (D1-2 in KICA-1146~7), he wanted to use the motif of Kaneda's rejected theme into his composition.

Ryo Yonemitsu did indeed work on the Saturn version of The Legend of Heroes III, along with his Compozilla pal Yoshio Tsuru. It does have some nice music, in particular for the anime cutscenes, but they are all drowned out by voices and sound effects, and the audio quality for these is further downgraded by Saturn's Cinepak codec. Such a huge waste.
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