Woooo, that's a lot of words. And yeah, doing JJ1 stuff requires spending a lot of time in DOSBox.

Look... I really don't understand music files. Even if I took the time to learn, which isn't practical in this timeframe, I have barely any ear for music, so I wouldn't even know if I was doing the right things or not. If you think you can produce better results than automatically converting those .mid files to s3m and then to psm, and do so in a timely manner, and are willing to do so, I'd definitely be grateful and rep up your posts! But it sounds like a lot of fine-tuning and bother, and I don't want to force this on you (or anyone) unless you're sure. If you are, the six main zone songs (GHZ, MZ, SYZ, LZ, SLZ, SBZ) are the obvious contenders for where to start, and if those work out, we can talk about which other songs would be good to have too.