Soundtracks for KQ 7 and 8

[peterrus]

Are there plans for complete soundtracks for King's Quest 7 and 8 in the works?

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Peter

[Alistair]

Not on my part.. still waiting to play KQ7/8 in the next few weeks (exams finish Monday).

I'm sure Mr Lewandowski will be here in a minute to explain his reason.  

I'll see in the future, though.

Regards,
- Alistair
Sierra Music Central http://smc.sq7.org

[Tom]

The only songs for KQ:MOE I'm planning on dealing with are those linked (on the main Index page) to SierraPlanet.com.  There's quite a selection there, though not the whole soundtrack.

I've been working on the KQ7 soundtrack for years, but as you can see....haven't made a lot of progress on it.

[Alistair]

I'm currently halfway through playing the game King's Quest VII, and thoroughly enjoying it (and the music on the SC-55).

I fully intend to do a soundtrack CD for this game. Maybe MT-32 mixes, but at this stage SC-55 enhanced GM tracks only, plus some digital. I totally sympathise with Tom, the MIDI music will be hard to record, with the saving-style of the game and a couple of other issues unique to KQ7. Still, I'll see what I can do. I'd love to hear a soundtrack myself, and if you want to get a job done, you gotta do it yourself, and all that.

By the way, what do you think of the score for KQ7 Tom? I don't believe I've heard your thoughts on it.  

Regards,
- Alistair

[Tom]

I've never played the game, and have only heard a few songs from it...and it's been quite a while since I've heard them.  I have a lot of the MIDI files for the game, but they're somewhat corrupted.  Missing controllers and such.  I abandoned the project of posting the KQ7 soundtrack because of the poor condition of the MIDI files; it was way too much work to fix them.  I'd have to play the game and record them myself if I wanted to post them, but my lack of interest in the game killed my motivation to do so.

[Bevil]

I gave a short on recording the kq7 soundtrack and have recorded about 12 midi tracks from, mainly screen based sequences.

The event based sequences are a little tricky to record , for the game only lets you resume from the point you last played and does not let you restore to an earlier scene.But I might work on them later when I have chance.

[Alistair]

I was going to reply in a shocked tone, but I suppose I agree again Tom, the game was hard to swallow, as it were, at the beginning. But since the awkward frist 5-10 mins of gameplay I've been thoroughly enjoying it, finding the game (and music) SQ6-ish, and quite good. Probably because Grandstaff/Kehler worked on it.

Besides, I love Sierra music. And this game's score is amazing so far.

Recorded 7 MIDI's from Ch. 1 today, more tomorrow.

Regards,
- Alistair

P.S. Bevil, unfortunately we both have version 1.0 of the game, it seems. The version 2.0 CD lets you have multiple 'bookmarks'.

While playing through the game myself, I will quit at certin times and copy the current save and catalogue file to a new folder. That way at least, I can have saves throughout the game.

[This message has been edited by Alistair (edited December 19, 2003).]

[Bevil]

In addition to the lack of a good save feature, the first version had alot of nasty bugs and lockups and I remember it lagging pretty badly during certain sequences, back in 94 when I was still using a 486.It seemed Sierra spent very little time beta testing this game in order to meet an early release date.

[Tom]

Plus, version 2 has DOS support (a DOS version), which I prefer over Windows anyday.

[Zemus]

I remember a bug that made it impossible to continue in the third chapter...never got past it. I got the newer version with the Roberta Williams Anthology, but haven't had the time to check it out yet..the DOS-version looks good though.

[Fancia]

I own the second revision of King's Quest VII, if it's the only one to include a DOS version; if it's wanted, I'd be willing to upload a BIN/CUE to an FTP server, for the benefit of those who only own revision 1.

[Alistair]

My CD has a DOS version. I might have version 2 already. If so, then I'd hate to see saving options for v1.

Seriously, I'm half-way through Chapter 3. Music's wonderful, and seriously guys, Chapter 2 was very classic-Sierraish, and very enjoyable.

So far it definitely seems worth playing.

Regards,
- Alistair

P.S. I'm having surgery on Tuesday, and playing things by ear. QFG4CD's my main priority, KQ7CD I intend to do sometime. Depends how long I'm 'out of action' for. But it will be done in the next month or so! Cheers.

[This message has been edited by Alistair (edited December 21, 2003).]

[Bevil]

I wish I had version 2. A multiple save feature(makes the music a whole lot easier to record) and a dos version is definately welcome.

[Fancia]

quote:Originally posted by Bevil:
I wish I had version 2. A multiple save feature(makes the music a whole lot easier to record) and a dos version is definately welcome.

Do you by any chance have an FTP I could upload it to, then? I've not yet quite dealt with router issues that make most uploads difficult, but FTPs are fine.

[Bevil]

Thanks , but I can't think of any ftp sites, that lets you upload 650 meg . Maybe, I can try setting up my own ftp server on my comp, to where you can upload. I don't think DCCing via icq or mirc will work unless you open up some ports in your router settings.

[Fancia]

Mm... I've not done that yet, and to be honest I have no idea how. ^.^;; Setting up your own server would work. It would be less than 650MB with compression, of course. ^.~

[Bevil]

Okay i'll set up the server then
218.186.36.99 port 21
login/password: upload
I'm not sure if it'll work, cause i'm also using a router, but I have made the necessary changes in the settings. Anyway i'll be at the queststudios irc channel, should you encounter any problems. Thanks again


[This message has been edited by Bevil (edited December 21, 2003).]

[Fancia]

It seems to be working! The CUEsheet is uncompressed, by the way, but the image itself iz BZIP2ed to bring it from ~600MB to ~400MB. ^.~

[Bevil]

I have the file, but i think its not complete. Its 302 meg in size and cannot be extracted. Would it be possible for you to resume upload? I believe my ftp software supports resume.

[Fancia]

Unfortunately, someone closed the terminal session I was using to send it. >.< My apologies. I've tried to resume the upload, but it appears I don't have permission to append or overwrite files on your server. Could you change that, please? I'll finish the upload once you do.