OMG it took soo long for me to finish this! In fact, for years I have been trying to do higher quality version of MMZ past, but I was never completly satisfect DX one of the things I most like in the original is how the piano mixes up with the rhytm and fantasia, it gives a "spinning movement" that I really love! I'm satisfect with the result I got with this one, so the time I spent was worth ^^
I'm also considering in future releasing a new version, using samples for the piano chords instead of a chord sequence, and increasing a little the pitch so it will sounds more like the game version. Anyway, I hope you will enjoy, until now it was the most hard to do restoration!
If you're interested in knowing where the sounds comes from, here's the list:

Acoustic piano - Roland D70

Electric piano - Roland JD 800

Orchestra hit at start - Korg M1

Orchestra hit at end - X-Static goldmine

Choir - X-Static Goldmine

Bass drum, cymbal, hat and snare at start - Roland TR-909 (I used samples from X-Static Goldmine)

Snare that plays at the end - I don't remember, this is the same snare from Stardust Speedway past and the boss/final boss remix from Sonic The Hedgehog Remix (1994). I have this snare, and what aparents to be some variations of it, but i can't remember where i get it from, some akai libraries I believe.

Fantasia - Roland JD 800 (I've recreated with JD 800 waveforms since I don't have a JD 800)

Organ: Korg Wavestation (but my recreation isn't perfect, is extremely hard to identify the notes used in the organ sample, since are too much and very fast, so I can be wrong, the organ can be from other synthesizer too, but it sounds very similar, i think there's a very considerable chance of being correct)

Bass drum at end - to be honest I could not find the exact same sample, so I replaced for a similar.

Bass - I could not find it :( So i remastered. I removed the noise and tried to recreate the higher frequencies that are losted.

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