July 1st, 2008 niki
So I could get my hands on this hard to find 1993 CD-ROM version. I was pleasantly surprised to notice it indeed had redbood (CDDA) tracks, and here they are.
They were arranged from Charles Deenen’s compositions by Eric Heberling. The main theme sounds more like the early PC version while the shire theme surprisingly sounds exactly like the SNES version. I’m sad the arrangements aren’t that great too, as they lose much of the atmosphere of the originals by using an almost constant “blaring trumpet” synth style. Well, it’s still pretty cool to have new versions. :3
Most ingame tracks are very long and loop a bunch of times. Track 5 sadly skips a lot, which I’ll try to fix if I can find another ISO. Tracks 6 to 16 contain dialogues.
Enjoy ~
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June 16th, 2008 niki
And here’s another MMORPG soundtrack composed by the talented SoundTeMP team. While, in my opinion, they never achieve such greatness as they do in Ragnarok Online, all their works have their particular touch.
Enjoy ~
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June 6th, 2008 niki
Listening again to Stronghold music made me rip that one. Quite similar to the Stronghold rip, except longer and contains actual medieval/renaissance compositions as well as some more synthy stuff.
Special tracks and medleys anciently accessible online on the game’s official site were added to the tracklist.
Expect something different next time, and enjoy ~
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June 6th, 2008 niki
Excellent music to an excellent game. Stronghold is a medieval castle battle simulation, and it looks as gorgeous as it sounds. Very medieval sounds here too.
What’s in this archive are 22khz ogg files converted from the game’s weird raw format. You can also find mp3s of a slightly enhanced version that was edited by Robert Euvino himself at Stronghold Heaven.
Enjoy ~
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June 5th, 2008 niki
Listening to the Sega Saturn History first volume, I noticed a pretty good track from Gotha 1. I managed to find an ISO and simply ripped the redbook tracks, which is what you’ll find in this archive.
The music here is pretty classic for an early Saturn game, and only a couple melodies do stand out, including the very nice main theme.
I also found quite amusing that track 10 features excerpt melodies from Camel’s The Snow Goose album, which I happen to like a lot. Only the fans will notice, though ~
Enjoy !
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June 3rd, 2008 niki
As avid fans of the book, me and my brother bought the SNES version of this in the early 90ies. Offended by both the image it gave of Tolkien’s work and the horrible gameplay, it was one of the few games we actually resold. If one positive thing we remembered though, it was the music …
Years later, internet is here and I’m in my early web scouring moments. I discover the wonderful SPC format, and naturally searches, among tons of others, for Interplay’s Lord of the Rings music. In vain, since it turns out some weird drivers make the game music undumpable.
After a while, armed with a SNES emulator, action replay codes and a wave recorder, I decide to record the game music myself. I’ll go through the game in a couple hours to discover it contains a grand total of 4 tunes, all of which accessible in the first 20 minutes of the game … unless of course the last Moria level featured something new or the game actually had an ending theme, which I doubt. I’ll probably never know since the game froze while entering the Moria. A common bug happening even on true SNES hardware, I read … ~_~
Anyway, the music, while short, is still great especially the main theme. It was composed by good old Charles Deenen, whom I actually discovered at that time by the way.
Searching around, I noticed other versions of the game existed, and recorded the C64 and Amiga versions as well. They sound very much alike without being completely similar. They’re also completely ripped off Basil Poledouris’s Flesh + Blood score, unless it’s actually a traditional medieval composition, which I also doubt. Nonetheless pretty awesome too, and included in this archive.
What’s now missing is the PC DOS recording, which could be full of Adlib greatness. And of course the one and only sequel of that intended trilogy: the Volume 2 also on PC DOS.
In the meantime, enjoy ~
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June 2nd, 2008 niki
Among Falcom’ successful series, Brandish is one of those that gets the less attention. Perhaps the fact it’s actually not a part of the Dragonslayer timeline is to blame ? Who knows …
Anyway, Brandish music, while still having that particular Falcom sound, is a lot more melancholic and dark than it’s fellow trademarks. I personally love the resulting atmosphere and melodies, especially in Brandish 1 which got some of my favourite Falcom tunes (oh Mieko Ishikawa <3).
Those 2 recordings were given to me by a Japanese guy I met on Last.fm. They sound different from the original soundtracks (different hardware I guess) and are actually looped twice.
Enjoy ~
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(ps: cover above is actually the Renewal edition, but I think it rawks so heh ~ )
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May 29th, 2008 niki
Those are recordings of the DOS versions of Might & Magic 3, 4 & 5. Very atmospheric, melodic, medievalish chiptunes which are perfect to listen to late at night. Personally spent countless hours doing so, at least. 4 and 5 are specially remarkable, and were both composed by Tim Tully.
Those recordings were done by Lord Skylark. Many thanks to him ~
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May 26th, 2008 niki
Yeah, we play Ragnarok Online. This is basically a chronological selection of the places we (MPTeam) spent time on. There again, the aim is to recreate the atmosphere of a gaming experience.
Music is by the most excellent SoundTeMP Korean composer team. Should be releasing more stuff by them in the future.
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May 25th, 2008 niki
Aaaand here is the Amiga collection. Two of my favorite versions are on this, namely Ghouls and Ghosts and Gauntlet 3. Some of the atmospheres on that last are truly reminiscing of one of his (in my opinion) best work ever: the Equinox soundtrack.
Enjoy ~
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So I could get my hands on this hard to find 1993 CD-ROM version. I was pleasantly surprised to notice it indeed had redbood (CDDA) tracks, and here they are.
