12 August 2011, 21:29 | #1 |
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Vector graphics games (ok, other games too...) with great INGAME(!) music?
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I recently played a few Amiga games from Hired Guns to Alien Breed to Stryx and I recognized how many of those games actually have a -complete- lack of ingame music due to too many fx being played or all channels used by other stuff. And I couldn't find even one vector graphics game with music Zeewolf? Killing Cloud? Frontier? (Edit: yeah I forgot I always turned those off to listen to real classical music in that case, thanks Leffmann ) All these have great title tunes but no ingame music. Do you know of any vector graphics that have some ingame music? Also: What are your favourite games with continuous ingame tunes? Of course CD32 counts as well - Heimdall 2 with ingame music on the CD32 is for example far more interesting than the AGA disk version without (the title tune is a great mod, though, Martin Iveson I believe) Thanks! What I've got so far: Frontier Castle Master Aquaventura Subwar 2050 Eco Guardian (CD32) Last edited by dex; 20 August 2011 at 13:02. |
12 August 2011, 21:36 | #2 |
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IIRC Frontier does have in-game music. I remember there's a large menu with lots of music to chose from.
The CD32 versions of Oscar and Fire & Ice both have great in-game music. |
12 August 2011, 21:45 | #3 |
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I always quite liked the music in Castle Master.
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12 August 2011, 22:07 | #4 |
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Wow the Castle Master tune is amazing, nice
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12 August 2011, 22:11 | #5 |
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12 August 2011, 22:12 | #6 |
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Nice!! Please some more, anxious to read about all and every game you throw at me heh!
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20 August 2011, 11:21 | #7 |
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20 August 2011, 11:40 | #8 |
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Hehe cool Well, as you can see, a lot (if not most) of the vector graphics games don't have ingame music. Damocles forever is just too big, I guess the coders must have thought the music would bore people to death after a while. Other games simply have too much sound effects going on or the engine weighs too heavy on performance etc. So it's interesting to see which games actually added music
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20 August 2011, 12:23 | #9 |
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Guardian CD32 had cd audio
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20 August 2011, 13:02 | #10 |
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Great - yeah CD Audio counts as well of course
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22 August 2011, 01:21 | #11 |
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Castle Master has the best music I have ever seen in a vector game.
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22 August 2011, 18:37 | #12 |
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Robocop 3, at least during the driving sections...
[ Show youtube player ] The Sentinel (video has low quality audio, as is played with psp uae...) [ Show youtube player ] Archipielagos (vectors mixed with sprites) [ Show youtube player ] ...And also Star Blaze (sorry no video, but believe in me, the music is awesome) http://hol.abime.net/2103 |
22 August 2011, 23:44 | #13 |
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Yeah Castle Master actually rocks
Hmmm, Robocop yes! Archipelagos looks and sounds really interesting, too! |
23 August 2011, 14:29 | #14 |
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Resolution 101 has a lively in-game tune which does get a bit repetitive after a while.
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23 August 2011, 19:34 | #17 |
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Yeah FOFT is a great game, too. But the music is not playing ingame, or is it? I can't actually remember 0o
Resolution 101 looks interesting, can anyone recommend it? |
23 August 2011, 20:06 | #18 |
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Yeh the music plays ingame, and if you press help you can select different tunes as well.
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23 August 2011, 20:14 | #19 |
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WHAT!! Amazing! Wah, hey do you think that would work in K240, too? Some secret key to play the title tune ingame? I know SubWar 2050 had just that hidden option in the menu - just playing the theme during the game (PC Version didn't have that!). Nah, right. Won't work. Silly idea.
Mh... Or maybe Breed 96? That game is my favourite SimCitySpaceExplorationRealTimeStrategyTurnBased game but it has NO MUSIC during the game. Damn. And there is that great title tune... I would even hack that thing to have some tune played during gameplay that doesn't come off an external player... Yeah, yeah... probably also silly... |
24 August 2011, 11:32 | #20 |
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K240 has a code to play sound files in game, but the title theme isn't among them. I decompiled the code to see if there were other codes, but couldn't find any. K240's intro sequence was one disk all to itself, and you can actually ignore the disk entirely and boot from disk 2, so the intro music probably isn't even in memory by the time the game loads.
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