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Game name:           Salamander /
                     Life Force (JU)
System:              Arcade Machine
Music hardware:      YM2151

Music author:        Miki Higashino
 Sound Programmer:   Yoshiaki Hatano
Game developer:      Konami
Game publisher:      Konami
Game release date:   1986 (Salamander,
                     Life Force U) /
                     1987 (Life Force J)

Package created by:  Sonic of 8!, Dario011
Package version:     1.00

Song list, in approximate game order:
Song name                           Length:
                                    Total  Loop
01 Credit                           0:02   -
02 Power of Anger (Stage 1 BGM)     0:34   0:25
03 Fly High (Stage 2 BGM)           0:32   0:25
04 Planet Ratis (Stage 3 BGM)       1:01   0:48
05 Starfield (Stage 4 BGM)          0:36   0:29
06 Burn the Wind (Stage 5 BGM)      0:57   0:27
07 Destroy Them All (Stage 6 BGM)   0:51   0:33
08 Aircraft Carrier (Gradius Boss
   BGM)                             0:17   0:15
09 Destroy Them All (Stage 6 BGM
   Type-B)                          0:33   0:33
10 Poison of Snake (Boss BGM)       0:39   0:39
11 Peace Again (All Pattern Clear)  0:37   -
12 Crystal Forever (Game Over)      0:40   -
13 Thunderbolt (Stage 2 BGM)        0:36   0:36
14 Slash Fighter (Stage 4 BGM)      0:51   0:40
15 Combat (Stage 5 BGM)             0:30   0:22
16 Unused BGM 1                     0:08   -
17 Unused BGM 2 (Ver. 1)            0:25   0:25
18 Unused BGM 2 (Ver. 2)            0:25   0:25
19 Unused BGM 3                     0:15   0:12
20 Thunderbolt (Unused BGM 4)       0:36   0:36
21 Unused BGM 5                     0:21   0:21
22 Combat (Unused BGM 6)            0:30   0:22
23 Unused BGM 7                     0:51   0:51
24 Unused BGM 8                     0:25   0:25
25 Unused BGM 9                     0:15   0:15
26 Unused BGM 10                    0:25   0:25
27 Unused BGM 11                    0:23   0:23
28 Unused BGM 12                    0:14   0:14
29 Unused BGM 13                    0:09   0:09
30 Unused BGM 14                    0:07   -
31 Unused BGM 15                    0:07   -
32 Unused BGM 16                    0:12   0:12
33 Unused BGM 17                    0:15   0:11
34 Unused BGM 18                    0:34   0:34
35 Slash Fighter (Unused BGM 19)    1:17   0:39
36 Unused BGM 20                    0:19   0:18
37 Unused BGM 21                    0:14   0:13
38 Unused BGM 22                    0:22   0:22
39 Unused BGM 23                    0:19   0:19

Total Length (All Tracks)          18:26  32:27
Total Length (Salamander / LF U)   14:50  25:36
Total Length (Life Force J)        13:33  23:55


Notes:
Original Notes from Sonic of 8! from
separate packs:

-- original Salamander / L.F. (U) comments --
Track names are used in Salamander -Again- OST,
by Konami Kukeiha Club.

Thunderbolt, Slash Fighter and Combat are
unused tracks on Salamander, but used in
japanese version of Life Force (and one
music in Salamander for MSX).

There are a lot of unused musics and
jingles here.
Without M1 VGM, I never discovered these
hidden tracks!

1.00 2011-03-06 Sonic of 8!: Initial release.
2.00 2011-04-05 Sonic of 8!: A lot of Unused
 Tracks.
-Salamander Old Rip

-- original Life Force (J) comments --
Life Force (JP) is a just a graphical hack of
Salamander. Since the name is "Lifeforce", I
prefer "Life Force", because in Japan, there
is a 1985's movie called Lifeforce (but
nothing related to the game).

Don't confuse this pack with the US version
of Life Force! If you want Life Force (US),
you need to download Salamander VGM Pack.

The VGM Pack includes only the original sounds,
and exclusively Unused four musics, that don't
appear in Salamander. Planet Ratis and Unused
Remixes was don't present here. And at all, is
most work for me, and I became in fatigue.

1.00 2011-06-29 Sonic of 8!: Initial release.
-Life Force (J) Old Rip


This pack was a DISASTER, with capital letters,
I had a thousand and one problems,
from songs that vgmlpfnd gave me a correct loop
(the *famous?* "!"), and sounded bad, VERY BAD,
desynchronized songs after a loop
*but sounds good with this loop*,
and then came the unused songs in both,
some are variations, others appeared in both
games, and see what order followed,
etc., etc., etc...

At the end for the unused songs I apply
the rule of apply from the first game, and
later the second game (Salamander -> Life
Force (J)).

I almost forgot to mention, before you tell me
"Dario, these packs already had a 2.00 version,
why did you put 1.00 again?", it's simple, to
combine the two version in one single vgm pack.

And I was thinking about doing them separately,
but I didn't feel it was worth it
(in fact when it came to put the Sound IDs in
the notes of each .vgm, I was already lost).

I also added other playlists covering each of
the versions of the games, Salamander,
Life Force JP (although the tag names are
super messed up).
-Dario011

Tracks names are sourced from
"MUSIC from KONAMI ARCADE SHOOTING"
(GFCA-501~10) and Salamander Music Gallery

This pack is re-ripped using
MAME 0.256 VGM Mod.

Size reduction:
1. vgm_cmp: 8.59 MB -> 5.81 MB (67.7 %)
Total: 8.59 MB -> 5.81 MB (67.7 %)


Package history:
1.00 2023-07-23 Dario011: Initial release.
