Sound Blaster Hour of Power - Great 90s PC/DOS Music - NintendoComplete
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- A full hour of classic Sound Blaster PC tunes. Not a "Best of" nor a "Top 10" list, but rather a sampling of memorable, classic game themes. Hope you all enjoy it!
All of the music was recorded directly from a 90s PC equipped with a Sound Blaster AWE32 card - one of the original ones stamped 1993 (it's a 14inch long 16-bit ISA card, it barely fits in the desktop case!) that provided its Sound Blaster 16 FM compatibility through the addition of the same Yamaha OPL3 chip - this means that this model of the AWE32 was essentially the best SB16 model enhanced with wavetable and (flaky) midi capabilities. The model card used is CT2760, if you want to use it as a comparison for other models of the AWE32 - they do differ pretty greatly in sound quality across the several hardware revisions. The 2760 is by far the best in my opinion.
The video is mostly recordings of games playing through the SB16 Extended driver, allowing full use of the effects and stereo effects available on the OPL3. The last ten minutes or so are tunes recorded using "Advanced Wavetable Effects" processor, and are marked with an AWE32 logo in the corner.
Songs included in the following order - all run in pure Dos 6.22:
SB16 OPL3:
Police Quest 3 The Kindred
The Secret of Monkey Island
Double Dragon 3 The Rosetta Stone
Blue Force
AD&D Eye of the Beholder
Metal & Lace The Battle of the Robo Babes
Duke Nukem 3D
Raiden
Tunnels of Armageddon
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
HMI Sound Setup Utility
Tyrian
Rise of the Triad Dark War
Princess Maker 2
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
First Samurai
Knights of Xentar
Mig-29 Fulcrum
Doom II
Theme Park
Mega Man X
Daggerfall
Descent
Canyon (Win95)
Party Time / Prtytime.mid (Win98)
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out
AWE32:
Tyrian
Dance AWE32 Demo
Descent
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00:00 Sound test
00:05 Police Quest 3
1:16 Monkey Island
2:47 Double Dragon 3
5:21 Blue Force
6:48 Eye of the beholder
8:45 Metal & Lace
9:32 Duke Nukem 3d
11:34 Raiden
13:08 GK
16:39 Tyrian
17:57 Rise of the Triad
20:02 Princess Maker
22:17 King Quest VI
27:44 First Samurai
31:14 First Samurai
31:49 Knights Xentar
32:24 Mig-29
37:26 Doom II
39:32 Theme Park
42:18 Mega Man X
43:59 The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall
45:28 Descent
49:04 Canyon.mid
51:05 Prtytime.mid
52:26 Freddy Pharkas
53:09 Leisure Suit Larry
55:48 Dance.mid
54:29 Tyrian (Awe 32)
57:19 Descent (Awe 32)
A shame you're missing a few
@@ardentdrops Now it should be fixed. ^_^
Fix this Man 😅
really hope you make a few more of these old pc/dos mixes. it takes me back to a simpler time. i play these during my kids jiu jitsu classes and they really dig them too. they're always asking me, "what game is this one from?" and sometimes i can see a big smile on their parents face and they'll be like "i used to play this when i was your age." really awesome stuff man.
+lamasu Haha really? That's awesome :) I do plan on doing more. I have to wipe the hard drive though and reinstall everything first. Remember how insanely temperamental Windows drivers were? I swear, try to install the wrong certain of QuickTime and it totally melts down lol, and of course I wasn't smart enough to make a backup image at any point. So yes, absolutely. Just not sure when.
Well, I felt motivated :) ua-cam.com/video/pjWY52W_4JA/v-deo.html
That's a pretty nice story. Glad to see the otherwise forgotten frontier of software and electronic entertainment lives on.
Wait what? You played video games while teaching your students karate?
@@ManFromTheFizz You never watched Surf Ninjas?
A new video featuring another hour of SB music is now up! Hit up the card link to check it out!
All the Tyrian music was brilliant
That game. I was so little
I like Sound Blaster Music a lot more than 8 or 16-bit. Thank you for making this!
Hearing The Secret of Monkey Island (1) for the first time on Soundblaster. Mind blowing.
Oh wow, really? The whole thing sounds awesome in FM :)
You young'ins. I remember hearing it in 1992!
Thank you for recording straight from hardware with an OPL3. I hate videos showing emulated crap.
Thank you for making this. This sound makes me incredibly happy. Now I have the urge to do some Borland C/Assembly DOS programming again. :)
As a kid I played with qbasic which was free with dos… good times
@@hanzocloud Me too. I'm now learning QuickBasic, which is a more complete version prior to QBasic. Feels gooooood
Yes i have entered the midi zone
Other cool PC Adlib/OPL2/YM3812 soundtracks to check out:
Wacky Wheels
Fury of the Furries
MegaRace
Genpei War
The Legend of Sword and Fairy
CyberSphere
Cobi Comi
Empire of the Angel 2
Eol's Adventure
Olmang Jolmang Paradise
Ys II Special
Zeliard
Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf
Dig it!
Hired Guns
TFX
Dune
System Shock
Laser Squad
Zone 66 (Especially the samples+FM ver.)
Lollypop
The Incredible Machine 1-2
Wolf
Eye of the Beholder 2
Theme Hospital
Pre teen memories.
I go into life everyday and then come back here time and time again to keep seeing great stuff. Thanks mate!
+nohara kun Thanks, I'm glad you like it, and totally appreciate the support! :)
I had a SB AWE32 card and it was special love that
nice taste ! thanks for your work
Great compilation with great criterion. Representative of those times.
+Decompiler Thanks, I appreciate that!
Love this. Would be awesome if you segmented this into "chapters".
Thanks for this, great quality just like I remember it... Also, thank you for not just doing the same games everyone does, I've been struggling to remember the name of Tunnels of Armageddon for about 15 years now and hearing the music reminded me!
Love jamming this in my car or while I'm working out.. my favorite genre of music by far
These are awesome. Loved the last one you did for the Megadrive, this one is great too. Hope you do more in the future.
Thanks! I do plan on doing some more, just haven't decided which platform is next yet :) I have made them for the NES, SNES, and TG16 as well if you'd be interested in any of those!
I've seen those other ones too. They're great for throwing on in the background while working.
Sweet, thanks again!
I'm so glad I had an Amiga, only Doom had me feeling like I was missing out in those days. Great upload regardless!
1 hour of MIDIs
Woohoo now you got this thing to work lets do this.
a fine selection it is.
Great sound, I bought one of the first and I still have it. It was great music like Sierra Games, Gods, Altered Destiny and other great games. Thank you for the video :-)
NP. Funny that you mention Gods, I almost put it in!
Oh my sound blaster 16 on my 486 Dx
thanks for making this, great mix of songs.
Thanks!
First Samurai :-) Loved that back then...
Sweet will start listening now ;)
1300l Lemme know what you think! :)
NintendoComplete
Just finish it from start to end. Amazing selection, real hardware just make the difference ;)
+1300l I always thought that it did. Thanks much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the picks :D
OMG! metal and lace!
Thank you very much.Nice and relaxing
This was great! Thank you.
The guy who made the Monkey Island soundtrack is a freaken genius :)
Michael Land
but the one who made Descent?
Great List!! I want a part 2 with "F29 Retaliator" and "Lotus III - The Ultimate Challenge".
For some weird reason, the AWE32 version of Tyrian is so lame (sounds like a SNES game IMO), the FM synth engine made by Andreas Molnar (Loudness) are so awesome, Thanks Alexander Brandon for made and absolute timeless OST!
Getting my Soundblaster was like upgrading my life.
The soundblaster sounds like a fried version of the Mega Drive's sound chip, but some composers really put in time and effort no make it NOT sound like a fried YM2612.
See, anyone could slap together samples on an Amiga and make a decent song with it, but it took real talent to take the humble chip in the Adlib and Soundblaster and make something good.
Mic drop on The Secret of Monkey Island intro though... Shit got real, real fast.
Canyon.mid!! thank you :)
+Retro Island Gaming :D np!
Wow! That was a wild ride to hear that again after probably 24 years. Cheers!
How did Mega Man X wind up with a PC conversion?
With the rework of the MIDI files on a Roland SC-55. The results are actually really good now. Check it out:
www.retrorgb.com/mega-man-x-pc-dos-music-overhaul.html
42:18 Mega Man's theme sounds like a game about jazzy tribes in jungles.
when CANYON started my heart felt so warm
Cover Girl Strip Poker intro is pretty cool btw ;)
I'm sorta sad you didn't use the Winter theme for Daggerfall. That's one of the best themes in the entire game.
so was most of this recorded using Amiga Soundtrackers or were other things involved? Any good places to find DOS music sample packs? The only one I know of was the stuff Fornax Void put out a while back.
this would flow so much better as a mix (& def less spastic) if each audio clip were a bit longer.
At what tempo is the Tyrian Stage theme meant to be heard? I commonly hear it at around the same tempo on various youtube videos, but on my Pentium 133mhz laptop, it's slower on "Normal" game speed, and way too fast on the next highest game speed.
Hmm that's odd. The one in this video is correct. This was recorded from a P200MMX, but I remember it sounding exactly the same on the P75 that I used to play it on back when it was new
+NintendoComplete I know for certain that the speed setting shouldn't change the music. Does the laptop have any power throttle settings that you can disable from the bios?
NintendoComplete I have disabled the power throttle. Before I did that, the game would have bursts of slowdown when a lot was on the screen. Disabling that did fix the slowdown, but it seems to me that the music is tied with the game's speed in Tyrian 2000.
I don't think this should matter, but the laptop was imported from Latvia. I say it shouldn't matter though, because the power supply and monitor is fully compatible with the US power standards and refresh rates.
+Zuon94 Hmm I really have no idea then, sorry. I can't think of any other reason why that might be happening :/
NintendoComplete Ah, it's all good. I really enjoyed the video though. Fantastic, memorable music all around.
Thanks for uploading! These bring back memories. Can you tell which songs from Gabriel Knight did you use?
The GK song is from the game's intro sequence. Sorry for the super late reply!
Do you have the MT-32 Soundtrack of Raiden for DOS?
thank you, analog is only way
Grew up on the Sound Blaster. Nothing else sounds right to me. I prefer it over the Roland 32.
I do too.
Ok... so the first time i ever hear the word Sound blaster, was when i was installing warcraft 2 on my beige box, and it was like please install Sound Blaster Sound card.. yeahhh I Had to buy a new sound card to play it.... funny huh.
How did you do the recording? Does the sound card have a line out? Where did you record the out to?
No DooM 1 E1M1 !!! How dare You !!!! :)
Did the AWE32 actually have the OPL3? Thought it was emulated, since by looking at the awe32 boards there is no opl3 chip
Some did, some didn't.
AFAIK - this particular model of AWE32 - CT2760 - has a real OPL3, either in the form of standalone OPL chip or integrated in CT1747, depends on the "submodel".
I am pretty sure CT3900, 3910, 3980 all have Yamaha YMF 278 OPL3 chips. I have a CT 3980 AWE32 so I know for sure it does at least.
@@vp-retro Yeah, only certain models did for sure. This one is the one I had way back. It took a lot of time, effort (and a surprising bit of money) to get another one with the real Yamaha chips on it
@@High-voltageCz That's exactly right, that's why's l why I was so careful to specify the model I was recording from. I love this card!
SantaClaus
17:57 ROTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT modafacas
duke nukem yeah
Subtlety, that's what's missing from modern game music.
How does any of this sound subtle?
I think the better word would be simplicity, vgm OST were a lot simpler back then.
@@farhanatashiga3721 I'd go with that, VGM back then was generally the opposite of what could be described as subtle.
can someone PLEASE rip the ost to lotr vol 1 on here
Nostalgy...
What song from KQ6 is that?
The intro when Alexander is being all emo and Valanice is all like get over it
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