I loved Zeliard as a kid, I've never heard the music on a Roland like this. Way cool. I wish I still had my original copy of this game because it seems to have become pretty rare, I've seen copies selling for 250-500$ on eBay these days.
I've always been torn on this game. The mt-32 songs sound interesting enough but oddly I find the adlib renditions better capture the spirit of the songs and the original game itself. There's a few levels where they just sound funky on the Roland and likewise, towns like Satono don't capture that spooky feeling.
Agreed; in fact, I half suspect that the music was composited on an Adlib or some sound device with the same sound chip; if you hear the music on the original PC-88; it doesn't flow as well; I don't just mean the sounds themselves the whole composition. While on the adlib mode, everything fits perfectly. It seems like they could just put the original composition straight into MS-DOS version. The Roland MT-32 mode seems to be something Sierra tacked on, as they had a deal with the Roland and they had to put a Roland soundtrack in every game they released at the time; just taking the composition, turning some sounds into midi-instriuments and done; ship it out.
biffrapper Not impossible for the MT-32 to faithfully recreate the original songs. It's just that the versions featured within this version of the game... wasn't properly thought through. In other words, they didn't put as much thought into faithfully recreating the original message, for that's what's most important. The only audible difference between the Adlib and the MT-32 is the sounds they're able to produce. They're not that much different, otherwise. In fact, both instruments can proclaim the exact same song and still capture the exact same message, but this can only be the case if both versions of the songs happen to be composed correctly.
It reminds me childhood's memories.. I miss it so much..
No DLC, no contracts, no renewing subscription, just a good game, good story and good ending.
Thanks about MIDI soundtrack. When I went through Zeliard circa 1993, had only PC speaker available :)
I loved Zeliard as a kid, I've never heard the music on a Roland like this. Way cool. I wish I still had my original copy of this game because it seems to have become pretty rare, I've seen copies selling for 250-500$ on eBay these days.
Yeah. I like this game music. :)
I've always been torn on this game. The mt-32 songs sound interesting enough but oddly I find the adlib renditions better capture the spirit of the songs and the original game itself. There's a few levels where they just sound funky on the Roland and likewise, towns like Satono don't capture that spooky feeling.
Agreed; in fact, I half suspect that the music was composited on an Adlib or some sound device with the same sound chip; if you hear the music on the original PC-88; it doesn't flow as well; I don't just mean the sounds themselves the whole composition. While on the adlib mode, everything fits perfectly. It seems like they could just put the original composition straight into MS-DOS version.
The Roland MT-32 mode seems to be something Sierra tacked on, as they had a deal with the Roland and they had to put a Roland soundtrack in every game they released at the time; just taking the composition, turning some sounds into midi-instriuments and done; ship it out.
biffrapper
Not impossible for the MT-32 to faithfully recreate the original songs. It's just that the versions featured within this version of the game... wasn't properly thought through. In other words, they didn't put as much thought into faithfully recreating the original message, for that's what's most important.
The only audible difference between the Adlib and the MT-32 is the sounds they're able to produce. They're not that much different, otherwise. In fact, both instruments can proclaim the exact same song and still capture the exact same message, but this can only be the case if both versions of the songs happen to be composed correctly.
exactly, MT-32 samples sounds off. I think it is obvious that the compositions were originally made for FM synthesizers and only then adapted to MT32
@@Korn1holio right on. They were composed for the YM2608 (PC-88 FM sound chip), than later adapted to MT-32 and other hardware
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i began working on a remake of tilemaps for this game
Am I remembering it wrong or is the music really different? That was my favourite part :(
It can sound very differrent depending on the hardware.
Yes, have the same issue. Doesn't sound like I remembered it.
@@tomverleysen5639 this version is softer, and several typical sounds which we remember, sound less pronounced than they were
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TThola como grabo y cargo las partidas,save y load????
how did you manage to get mt32 working? are you running Win9x?
look up MUNT or a dosbox variant with it included.