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King of Fighters 96 music

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GermanOffspringDude:
Okay, I recognized something new again. Sorry for the poster clutter.

Track 5 in my link is another cover of a KOF '98 song, though, again, very corrupted. "In Spite of One's Age," the Father's Team theme. This is very odd, considering that the father's team was not in the original 96.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbEB_dKS2_4

Hummer Team always seemed to port games that were regarded as smash hits when they were released, or game entries that differed from previous games in the series. KOF '98 did so in that it had no storyline and was just a reunion of sorts of all the best characters. Makes me think that they were indecisive whether to port 96 or 98, and decided to go with 96 as it was the older one. However, they seem to have liked 98 so much, and still wanted to port it over, that they wrote 'King of Fighters 98' in the ending and added a few tracks from the game in. They may have chosen to use the AoF '98 theme in the game due to the fact that AoF characters were to appear in the game (though only Yuri made it to the final game) and the Father Team theme went unused as the team wasn't in '96.

Calypso76:
Okay, it's me again and I have some updates after two years.

Track 8 (I just noticed this!) appears to be "Rhythmic Hallucination" from KOF '98, though it's been corrupted almost beyond recognition. Once the instruments kick in one can hear a very slight resemblance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqPznTznp8c

Track 11 is a cover of "These Dreams" also by Jim Croce:
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaCE-1BVQPg

Track 12 is very hard, and I'm still not sure. I think it might be a cover of "Fanatic Waltz" from KOF '98:
At about 1:06 it starts to sound kind of similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2km0abdZdj4

Still need to identify tracks 6, 8 and 12. They don't sound like any Jim Croce or 98 songs, but maybe I'm overlooking something? Also, since one of these tracks is actually from Shisen Mahjong 2, I'm most probably searching for one of them in vain.

MLX:
Fascinating. The fact some songs are based on KOF'98 which was released in mid 1998 makes the Hummer port way more recent than one would think. Final Fight 3 was seemingly manufactured around September 1998. KoF'96 containing the unused string LET'S HIT THE STREETS in its code suggests it was build atop (partly) Final Fight 3, or at least a work in progress version. It's also the closing title of the NT-6xxx line which contains more than a hundread of different entries. All from 1997 and 1998. Thus it was likely released at the very end of 1998.

guyzis:
Wasn't KOF96 built off Hummer Team's Street Fighter Alpha port? Like, the similar AI patterns, and the music. I recall both using the same VS screen and also using lots of repeats. At least that's what i think.

Calypso76:

--- Quote from: MLX on January 13, 2020, 05:03:16 PM ---Fascinating. The fact some songs are based on KOF'98 which was released in mid 1998 makes the Hummer port way more recent than one would think. Final Fight 3 was seemingly manufactured around September 1998. KoF'96 containing the unused string LET'S HIT THE STREETS in its code suggests it was build atop (partly) Final Fight 3, or at least a work in progress version. It's also the closing title of the NT-6xxx line which contains more than a hundread of different entries. All from 1997 and 1998. Thus it was likely released at the very end of 1998.

--- End quote ---

It should be released before Final Fight 3, as FF3 was their last game released by JY. Due to the release of ‘98 it was released sometime late July or (more likely) August 1998. Maybe you used an early reprint for reference?

I don't know how to explain this, but I have some sort of synasthaesia for music and time, and it's definitely telling me this was released in the summer of 1998.

So to sum it up in one post:

Boss Team stage - These Dreams by Jim Croce
Fatal Fury Team stage - New York's Not My Home by Jim Croce
Japan Team stage - Unknown
Iori Team stage - KOF '98 Art of Fighting team theme
(which itself is Todoh's theme from AoF 2, but it's obvious where they got it from)
Goenitz stage - Still unknown, but now that I think of it it sounds very strongly like the bridge from Fairy, which was Chizuru's theme in 96. Compare from 1:20: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lseEsjtm1Ms

Unused tracks:

Esaka (possibly the 98 version?)
KoF ‘98 - In Spite of One’s Age
Unknown, possibly Rhythmic Hallucination.
Street Fighter Zero 2 ending theme (left over from SFZ297)

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