Heart of the Alien was a half-official "sequel" (a parallel story, actually) released by Interplay and based on many concept ideas provided by Eric Chahi, but not implemented by him. According to Eric, the results were less than satisfying.

Je suis nulle part, je suis partout ;)

Glad I could help!

Blame it on Creative :)

Fatman's ego is slightly mythomaniac.

He might have planned the music ages ago, but certainly not for a standard that only appeared in September 1991. Strictly speaking, T7G was far from being the first GM soundtrack ever.

Likewise, George would like you to believe that Loom's MT-32 soundtrack was a breakthrough. Sure... if one considers it was the first time a LucasArts game featured an MT-32 soundtrack. On a purely technical point of view, his transcriptions were really poor.

I still don't understand why this guy is considered a reference. Back in the good US Gold days, he was one of the worst composers on the Amiga. Does anyone remember his crappy SSI tunes? What a laugh!

The only time I found his work appealing, and I give him credits for that, was the GM score he wrote for Shannara.

Sure.

It's probably not going to last long, since my provider tends to wipe out everything on my webspace once in a while.

I find people very harsh against the VSC-88. True, the reverb is a bit soft and some sounds have been changed for obscure reasons (the Applause patch sounds like stadium cheers, wtf!), but overall it's a satisfying rendition of the hardware synth -- at least the SC-55 part. Comparing the VSC-88 to my CM-500, the VSC is really not too shabby.

Unfortunately, it is. The EAX configuration is a master effect.

The AoTuV build is optimised for low bitrates (64 kbps and below). Chances are you don't need them, unless you're setting up a 56 kbps-friendly online radio. The standard build is perfectly fine for everybody's needs.

It's been a while since I extracted the files, but I think they were plain MIDs. I'll check it again.

Here you go:

Pryan Forest [MT-32]
Pryan Forest [GM]
Merchant's House in Skurvash [MT-32]
Merchant's House in Skurvash [GM]
Pryan [MT-32]
Pryan [GM]



Not quite. Some tunes of the DGCO rip sound almost the same, but many don't use the same instruments. There are three sets of MIDI files in Death Gate: GM, LA and what I assume is OPL or maybe AWE. My guess is that the DGCO files are coming from the latter. Either that or I chose the wrong MIDI driver in the game setup, which is unlikely.

PS: this thread should probably be moved to the Non-Sierra forum :)

Ah, I was under the impression you wanted the MT-32 files. Of course they won't sound correct at all on anything but an MT-32 :)



Odd. I just ran Death Gate in DOSBox and the GM soundtrack sounds the same as my GM rip, so your own experience leaves me puzzled. As for the files, I'm not sure what you mean by "couldn't open any". Do you get an error message? I can play them in many different MIDI players, and my friends don't have any problem either.

No need to convert them since Death Gate is the last Legend game with native MT-32 support -- although certainly converted from the GM version. (For info, the GM soundtracks of Shannara and Mission Critical are played on the MT-32 via the generic Miles driver.)

Death Gate MIDI (contains both GM and MT-32 tracks).

Note: the GM package available at DGCO doesn't sound like my rip from the game. Not sure which one is wrong.

Just to inform you all that the X68000 MIDI soundtrack (both MT-32 and SC-55) is available at the Hoot Archive.

Hoot is a Japanese player pretty much similar to M1 -- it uses a collection of patches and playlists in order to read the music directly from the game EXEs/ROMs (which you normally have to get by yourself, but the Hoot Archive takes care of that). The interface is kind of confusing, but you get access to hundreds of great PSG/FM/MIDI soundtracks.

Some quick MT-32 recordings...

Black Mass
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Although not the best emulator in the world, M88 is the de facto reference for Windows. Except by browsing through the TOSEC, PC-88 games are hard to come by. On the other hand, soundtracks are very popular and easy to get -- Personal Soundlog Place and the Hoot Archive are great sites to visit.

Well, wasn't it the whole point of your post? I was just suggesting a better, user-friendly alternative for people who aren't necessarily too hot for running a full fledged emulator just to listen to game music.

And as a matter of fact, I know what BlueMSX is. A couple years ago, I was one of his first supporters when everyone else kept bashing it on MSX.org for being "yet another useless emulator that tries to compete with fMSX". Now they know better.

Anyway. SCC tunes are cool indeed, and I strongly recommend them to any chiptune lover. Space Manbow, Solid Snake and Snatcher's soundtracks are must-have, although for the latter I prefer the original PC-88 (YM2608) version.

Or you could simply get MSXplug and grab the chippies at MSX KSS Download :)

Btw, the built-in soundchip of the MSX was an AY-3-8910. Konami's SCC was a custom chip not related to the YM2413 (OPLL, or OPL1 Light) which equipped the FM-PAK.

From a total outsider (not even mentioning a French) point of view, this is all very interesting.

Here's an anecdote: I read once on a US forum that Muslim countries were evil because they were ruled by religious leaders. To which I responded that the US looked very much like a theocracy to me -- a comment that got me bashed up. So it's OK for the US government to swear by God, but it's not right for a Middle-Eastern country to do the same.

(Note that I'm making a clear distinction between democratic theocracies and outright dictatorships.)

Hilarious :)

"Jesus Loves You and He's Going to Kill You!"

F0 41 10 16 12 52 00 0A 10 10 10 10 10 10 44 F7
F0 41 10 16 12 52 00 0A 16 16 16 16 16 16 20 F7

Not sure which one's the best, but both work perfectly for me.

I send the SysEx to my CM-500 (Mode B) prior to launching DOSBox, and the CM-32P parts are properly disabled. I'm using SendSX if that makes a difference (very convenient to create SysEx files out of text files btw).

Exactly.

The same holds true for "GS" files which have been composed on a 50XG in TG300B mode. I've met a couple of them which, although GS compliant, sound much better on a Yamaha synth precisely because those files were designed with the Yamaha sounds in mind.

According to my experience, TG300B is only compatible with standard GS (SC-55).