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King of Fighters 96 music

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MLX:
But KOF'98 was released in July 1998? If they did use it as a base for some tracks, that can't sum up.
Also, J.Y. could have ordered both games at nearly the same time but decided to cancel KoF'96 due to the release of Rex Soft The King of Fighters '97. It's hard to say how long it took Hummer to make Final Fight 3 as they may have had the beat'em all engine ready (due to the cancelled Battle of the Red Cliff port) but I don't think it took them much longer than King of Fighters '96. There were a lot of graphics to get done for KoF96 however. The final game was supposed to be larger than 768KiB (probably 1MiB?) but was cut down for Ka Sheng.
What I can see happening is that they started to port it before KoF'98, working with KoF'96 as a base. They would then have done some quick changes (music & gfx) to make it a fair '98 port. But it likely got delayed or cancelled before they could do it properly. The ending clearly states King of Fighters '98. I don't think Hummer Cheng could get the tracks done in a few days either, at least a good week of work for two tracks, done in a rush.

Calypso76:
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am still working on identifying the songs.  :)

Goenitz' theme is, as far as I'm concerned, a cover of Croce's "It Doesn't Have To Be That Way." It could also be "Alabama Rain," but when playing them side by side, It Doesn't Have To Be That Way sounds more similar.

From 27:28 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw21RjyvbvA
Compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxvd8NEd_C8

If you play it at 0.75 speed (or Croce's song at 1.75x) it sounds very similar.

Thinking of taking this to r/tipofmytongue. It's really too interesting of a case to be left alone.

Calypso76:
Okay, I know I've been coming back to this a lot, but just wanted to let everyone know that I definitely worked out another song from the game.

Track 8 in the link at the top is a cover of 'Ne!' This song was originally used as the Woman Team theme in KoF '94, but returned in '98:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeookeicQ1s

And another interesting thing I noticed: KOF '96 was rereleased in Japan for PS1 on July 23, 1998 - the exact same day that '98 came out and around the exact same time Hummer's port was released. Plus, judging by the "character stance" versus screen in Hummer's version, which only appears in the 32 bit versions, it seems extremely likely that they used this occasion - and version! - to port the game!

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