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Look what I made! / Re: Any fans of Outrun about?

« on: July 13, 2017, 02:51:10 »

These are all good except for the last one.

Heh - Splash Wave is at a much earlier stage than the others - v0.63 versus v0.79 and v0.94.  They're all still technically in beta though.

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Look what I made! / Re: Any fans of Outrun about?

« on: July 11, 2017, 20:08:34 »

As the 4-channel versions are in various stages of beta, I've set this up if anyone would like to hear how they're getting along (click 'load song' ):

http://psychodelicacy.net/modplayer.php

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Look what I made! / Re: Any fans of Outrun about?

« on: June 15, 2017, 02:33:01 »

By the way, when making a module, channel mixing is just that. Mixing the notes for several different channels into 1 channel.

I figured that's what you meant, but wanted to check.

As I said above, I went to 8ch XM because working the tune out by ear was difficult enough without having to worry about channel count!

To get MSS into 4 channels I'm going to have to pre-mix some drum samples and create chord samples where currently I'm playing chords manually.  This part will probably make it sound a fair bit different from the original, but I'll get as close as I can.

If you have a look, I am doing a little bit of "channel mixing" on the current 8-ch version.  Check out Channel 3 in patterns 1,2 and 15 - you'll see that the floor tom played on the accent is on the same channel as the bass.



TRM/AIS

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Look what I made! / Re: Any fans of Outrun about?

« on: June 14, 2017, 12:17:06 »

@Saga_Musix :
Cheers for the info - that's interesting...

Of course, the 8ch versions are mainly a precursor to trying to make 4ch versions which will hopefully be close enough (with a bit of lateral thinking) to the originals.

TRM/AIS.

(It feels really weird going by this handle as I haven't used it since I was about 18! )

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Look what I made! / Re: Any fans of Outrun about?

« on: June 14, 2017, 04:11:54 »

This remix sounds great. I was blown away by the accuracy and the nice conversion to PCM. This module could've been an 8 channel MOD(and yes, those do exist), but still pretty awesome.

If you wish this could've been more faithful to the Amiga, than I recommend practicing channel mixing.

Many thanks for giving it a listen and even more thanks for the encouragement!

Couple of questions :

• Was there an actual 8ch MOD format?  I know there was Oktalyzer and OctaMED, but they required halving the samples to work...
• What do you mean by "channel mixing?"

As it happens, this is the first step in a mad dream I've long held of trying to do a decent version of the game for the classic Amiga - I've been teaching myself Amiga 68k in the spare time I have,but it's going to take me a while.

I do intend to convert the other tunes and eventually rework them as 4ch MOD for the project - though there's going to be some lateral thinking required.

For shits and giggles (via YT's Cannonball utilities at reassembler.blogspot.com) :




I'll keep this thread posted with updates when I can - and thanks again for listening!

TRM/AIS.

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Look what I made! / Any fans of Outrun about?

« on: June 13, 2017, 05:32:42 »

Hey all,

I'm a newbie to this forum, but wondering if there are any other fans of Sega's 1986 arcade game Outrun on here.  The game was also notorious for having a particularly poor Amiga conversion, and I was always certain that sound-wise the Amiga was capable of doing better.  So, in 1996 I fired up ProTracker on my A1200 and tried to rebuild what the arcade version of "Magical Sound Shower" sounded like from memory.  I didn't get particularly far, especially as I had no way of getting hold of the original tune to listen to. 

I switched to 8ch FastTracker2 XM early on after reluctantly building my first Wintel box, mainly because I figured it'd be easier to do without having to worry about channel count.  Over the years I'd come back to it occasionally - little knowing that I'd be doing it in fits and starts for the next 20 years!   So now it's about 99% done, I'd love to know what folks think!

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=180248