American game music remix album

[D--]

http://mazedude.com/aa/themusic.htm

Don't know if anyone else heard of this one, but Mazedude, formerly of OC Remix, has released an album of remixed American game music. It's nice to see someone recall countries besides Japan have made video games.

His best tracks, in my opinion, are:

Slick Rippin Keen (Commander Keen 4)
Keyz to New Junk City (from Earthworm Jim)
Myst Shrooms (Myst)
K-Pax for Evermore (Secret of Evermore)

Now I'm left waiting for a CD of soviet-made game music titled, The Iron Album.

[HazardousHalf]

Awesome.  I just downloaded some of the songs, and so far it's great.  I realy like "Jackrabbit Transformer."

Thanks for the link, it's good to know that there are some people out there that still care about the American side of video gaming.

[KaioShin]

My favourite remix album is Unchosen Paths by Goat, although its not finished yet. It is a complete remix of the Castlevania 3 Soundtrack in complete Heavy Metal Glory. Really, I don't give a damn about American Games if I can have this awesome C3 Soundtrack to listen to. I don't recall a single piece of Music from american designers which's melody I still remember today whilest I have a huge amount of japanese RPG Soundtracks rotating everyday in my cd-player.


Edit: WAIT! Actually there is ONE american made song in my mind. The Great Mighty Poo's Song from Conker's Bad Fur Day I love this one

[D--]

I still remember the music from Quest for Glory, King's Quest VI, Ultima V, Ultima VI, Jazz Jackrabbit, Pirates!, Prince of Persia II, Castle Excellent (I hate this music), some Might and Magic games, The Bard's Tale, and Crystal Caliburn Pinball.

[byuu]

It's nice to see someone recall countries besides Japan have made video games.

What are you talking about? The US has made: Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Halo, Max Payne, Postal, Grant Theft Auto...

Seriously though, the VGA remake of Quest for Glory kicked ass.

[D--]

The USA has made a shitload of RPGs, they just tend to be first person crawlers akin to Shining in the Darkness (I'm only citing this because you know it, otherwise I'd say Might & Magic) rather than Japanese console style ones (which all boil down to a million abstractions of the Dragon Quest engine).

[wraith]

I still remember the music from Quest for Glory, King's Quest VI, Ultima V, Ultima VI, Jazz Jackrabbit, Pirates!, Prince of Persia II, Castle Excellent (I hate this music), some Might and Magic games, The Bard's Tale, and Crystal Caliburn Pinball.

My Kingdom for PC emulator that can properly emulate a sound card King's Quest VI was compatible with...

My all-time favorite PC game.

If I had somewhere to put it, I would just buy a 486.

[D--]

KQVI had sound card issues? My brother and I had it running on his old P2 266MHz earlier this year without any problems, and I think he had a generic SB16.

Back in the day, we played it on a flawed P90 that had the most ghetto-ass Aztec sound card ever. Packard Bell slapped its own sticker over all the chips that said Aztec, but when I peeled them off, the truth was revealed. It was one of those old, ghetto cards pre-digital audio days where the CD-ROM itself plugged into a fake IDE port on the sound card instead of into the motherboard.

[Nightcrawler]

I was able to get all the King's Quest games running earlier this year on my PC.(Athlon T-bird 1.3Ghz w/ SBLive)

I used DOSBox for the DOS versions and I think I was able to get the windows versions of V, VI, and VII working if I booted Win98 and took some hints from some message boards i read about trying to get those games to work.

When I installed my sound card, I made sure the BIOS specifically set it on Address 220 IRQ5 DMA1 etc.. while allowing everything else to be standard PnP specifically for running my legacy games here and there.  It worked fine.

Gotta be able to run the old Sierra classics! They don't make games like that anymore.  They were truely great games.  Music was top notch as well.  Too bad I didn't have Roland MT-32? to hear the soundtrack the way it was intended. I only ever had Adlib/FM MIDI when I had them.

If I run them today though I can use a Roland soundfont on my SBLive and get something similar though.

[Draken]

Vdmsound is your friend

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

[Nightcrawler]

Vdmsound is your friend

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

VDMSound can only do so much for those old games.  I don't think many of the Sierra classics(windows versions) will run on XP period.  They have a stupid 256 color requirement and won't work in any other video mode without some trickery. I forget if I actually tried and what my results were.  I got them to run one or another though.

[Draken]

Yeah, that's true.  I had quite a few problems when I tried to play some of those old classics about a year ago. I found myself spending hours scouring message boards for tips on how to 'maybe' get the game to run correctly.  

I tried to go back and play Gabriel Knight again, but it had a huge crash bug under WinXP, so I just gave up.  Apparently now, there is a fix available, but I'm just too lazy to give it another go

[Great Red Spirit]

DOSBox can play GK1 correctly, I played it without any fixes although it took a while to properly configure Dosbox to do it, and I had to copy the entire CD into the same folder as the game to do it.

And on the note of King's Quest 1 and 2, there was a VGA remake of it quite some time ago that also included several changes (especially for KQ2, it was vastly improved from the original IMO) although they don't have the nostalgic feel and they're point and click if you liked typing everything in

[Nightcrawler]

Those remakes, while done exceptionally well, were not made by Sierra.  They were made by Tierra/ADG InteractiveHowever, they did get the creators permission and the voice actor for King Graham from KQ5.  So, I'd say that makes it pretty close to authentic.

They were very good remakes in my opinion.  I played through both of them and are looking forward to their Quest for Glory II VGA remake.

[Draken]

While on the subject of old adventure games.... Am I the only one really excited about the new Sam & Max games by Telltale?