Topic: Descent 1 & 2 on a AWE32 music card (pre-rendered)

[trasher258]

I have played both Descent 1 & 2 with the default midi music played by Windows built-in Software MIDI Synthesizer and recently found vidoes on Youtube by goomer24 showcasing how AWE32 reigns superior over it. It is quite a big difference to me. Now I wished that I could play Descent 1 & 2 using that soundcard... or use the pre-rendered version that goomer24 provided.

After some tinkering, I managed to get the files. Just leaving them floating around on Youtube doesn't seem to do much justice now, does it?  Good thing D2X-XL supports custom music tracks. Now the only thing left to do is to share these files so all of you can experience the difference... but I can't find any upload button. I suppose they are added manually by the forum admin.

Here are the links to the files instead.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6GSGGTHA (Descent 1)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PP08RLDH (Descent 2)

P.S. I'm new here and I lack a joystick and gamepad input. Almost never a good thing for a Descent player.

[NUMBERZero]

Welcome!

These sound amazing! I wish I had a music card like that.

But what's with the first part of the Descent 2 Game 1 music? It fades in. I had to do some editing to make it have the sudden great intro that it has. Even now, it still is not exact.

[-<WillyP>-]

Thanks to the persistent activities of spammers, uploading files requires that you have a post count, IIRC it is set at 5 posts.


Also the maximum file size is 20mb.

[trasher258]

Quite understandable. I get spam in my E-mail almost daily.

NUMBERZero, that's how it was when I got the files. There's nothing I can do. I did wish goomer24 also done Descent 1 Main Theme. It's the only one missing.

[Matthew]

Does this include the D2 menu music? That music ROCKS.

[Kaiaatzl]

NICE!

I've been looking everywhere for the D2 mixes (found the D1 ones a while ago).

I have the D1 menu theme too, but it's a bit quieter than these.  I may be able to make it louder, but don't count on it.  I downloaded these D1 mixes anyway.

Have you posted this on the XL forums?

FYI, Rebirth supports ogg soundtracks too (though the method is a bit more obscure).

[Goomer]

Descent 2 soundtrack will be re-recorded and uploaded shortly.
Also, take a look at the D1 soundtrack again. Most of the videos have been reuploaded in higher quality (includes the D1 theme as well).

I might just upload the raw MP3s somewhere as well.