Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story: Moon Healing Orchestration

An orchestral MSU-1 mod for Sailor Moon: Another Story. Most tracks sourced from official arranged OSTs for the SNES Sailor Moon titles; others from the 90's anime season 1 soundtrack. Features four original arrangements by Spooniest and Dio Arranger.

For legal purposes, only these original arrangements will be supplied. Users must seek the other tracks themselves. Please see the readme for a detailed installation guide as well as a relevant tracklist.

https://mziab.grajpopolsku.pl/files/MHO_Original_Tracks.zip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiqL3A3aREQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q_HjvbiCFU

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Another Story
Moon Healing Orchestration
v1.01 (Jul 1 2022)

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- Sailor Moon (c) Naoko Takeuchi/PNP, Toei Animation Co., Ltd., Kodansha Ltd., Bandai Co., Ltd.
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story (c) Angel, in addition to the previous holders.
All rights reserved.

- No ownership is claimed by FlamePurge or mziab over Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story or
the franchise from which it originates. Commercial use of this patch, including but not limited
to reproduction, sale, etc. is strictly prohibited.

- This unofficial, fan-made patch is provided "as-is" on a voluntary (i.e. non-profit) basis.
FlamePurge and mziab are not liable for damage incurred to the end-user, their OS, or their
hardware while using this patch.


- Apply this patch only to an unheadered "Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon - Another Story.sfc".
The MSU-1 mod should be compatible with all available language translations and hacks, but these
are the hashes we tested the mod against.
CRC32 - 02A442B8
MD5 - 5F776488E366B6D6B44F6E8A01D9953D
SHA1 - 137F84BA5D0736B887213E0C0CABD0649BBBAFC7

- Send error reports to FlamePurge or mziab either by posting in the project thread on
ROMhacking.net, or via the site's PM feature.


Table of Contents

To reach a given section, Ctrl+F the text fragments in brackets.


Preface ............ [RM01]
Installation ....... [RM02]
Changelog .......... [RM03]
Credits ............ [RM04]

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[RM01] Preface

As much as I enjoy this game, its soundfont isn't great, which is strange, given that the music was
helmed by series composer Takanori Arisawa. His work on the Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R beat-'em-
ups are much better, comparatively.

mziab actually brought up the idea to make an MSU-1 mod for Another Story back in 2019, but we
needed to find or make a few songs that didn't exist in any Sailor Moon soundtrack. Eventually, he
and I bit the bullet and commissioned Spooniest, an excellent musician, to arrange the missing
tracks. The game is a lot nicer to listen to now, and more immersive to boot.

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[RM02] Installation

MSU-1 mods can be more likened to PC modding than ROM hacking. As such, it's a bit more of an
involved process to get it working.


1. In addition to this readme, within this archive is 4 files.
- MoonHealingOrchestration_v100.ips
- SailorMoonRPG.msu
- SailorMoonRPG.json
- msupcm.exe
All of them are needed to install the mod.


2. Locate and download a Sailor Moon: Another Story ROM and apply any patches you want to it:
your preferred language and version, Grind-Be-Gone, Swiss Manicure, etc. Just ensure it's
named "SailorMoonRPG" with either a .SMC or .SFC extension.


3. Apply MoonHealingOrchestration_v100.ips to your SM:AS ROM.


4. Locate and download songs from the following OSTs in FLAC format.

Game Music Sailor Moon Super Famicom
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NO. | TITLE
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4 | Juuban Shoutengai
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5 | Jikuu Ijigen
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8 | Himitsu Kouba
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9 | Silver Millennium
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11 | Dark Kingdom
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12 | Stage Boss
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15 | Kyodai Queen Beryl
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16 | Queen Serenity
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Game Music Sailor Moon R Super Famicom
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NO. | TITLE
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1 | Prologue
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5 | T·A Jogakuin Bunkasai
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8 | Fantasy Attraction
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12 | Crystal Palace
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17 | Ending Theme
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Game Music Sailor Moon: Another Story Music Collection
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NO. | TITLE
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3 | Hikawa Jinja
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4 | Mugen Gakuen
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5 | Ishi wo Sagashite
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6 | Hell Destiny
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7 | Shitennou
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8 | Oppositio Senshi
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9 | Shaman Apsu
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10 | Suspense & Illusion
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12 | Battle
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Game Music Sailor Moon SuperS PlayStation
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NO. | TITLE
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16 | Tsuzuku
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Sailor Moon ~Music Collection~
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NO. | TITLE
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4 | Hoshizora wa Mysterious
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10 | Moon Prism Power Make Up!
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Sailor Moon 25th Anniversary Classic Concert
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NO. | TITLE
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2 | Moonlight Densetsu
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Moon Healing Orchestration
LINK: https://mziab.grajpopolsku.pl/files/MHO_Original_Tracks.zip
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NO. | TITLE
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9 | The Silver Age of Peace (Dio Arranger)
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28 | Here Comes the Enemy! (Spooniest)
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32 | We Did It!! (Spooniest)
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34 | Good Night (Spooniest)
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5. Place all of the tracks in the same folder as the json and exe files.


6. Drag and drop SailorMoonRPG.json over msupcm.exe. This will generate the PCM files containing the
orchestral music.


7. Ensure your SailorMoonRPG ROM, SailorMoonRPG.msu, and all of the SailorMoonRPG PCM tracks are
kept in the same folder.


8. Launch the game in your emulator of choice.

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[RM03] Changelog

v1.01 (Jul 1, 2022)

- Fixed compatibility for SD2SNES and FXPak Pro.

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v1.00 (Jun 10, 2022)

- Proof-of-concept phase tested.

- Commissioned Spooniest to arrange tracks not on any Sailor Moon soundtrack.

- Reached out to Dio Arranger for his better arrangement of the Crystal Tokyo theme.

- Proof-of-concept fixed; game fully plays MSU-1 soundtrack, with all sound effects and voices
intact.

- Prepared JSON for necessary FLACs.

- Increased tempo of Stage Boss from arranged soundtrack of the first Sailor Moon beat-'em-up.

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[RM04] Credits

- qwertymodo: msupcm++

- Spooniest: Arranging covers of Here Comes the Enemy!, We Did It!!, and Good Night; guidance on
audio editing

- Dio Arranger: Arranging a much better and more faithful cover of The Silver Age of Peace

- mziab: Reprogramming, testing

- FlamePurge: Trimming, perfect looping, normalization, testing

Special thanks to FuSoYa, Fantasy Anime, and all you Moonies out there!

Name: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon - Another Story (Japan).sfc
Header: NO
Size: 3 MB (3,145,728 bytes)
CRC32: 02A442B8
MD5: 5F776488E366B6D6B44F6E8A01D9953D
SHA1: 137F84BA5D0736B887213E0C0CABD0649BBBAFC7

(Note: While the patch was tested against a ROM with the above hashes, it should work on any language version of the game.)