Glad you liked it! Unfortunately I had to record that with an emulator, but it is indeed the "say" command from the workbench 1.3 that you hear!

Thank you for watching, share it to your nerd friends ;)

Thank you!!! That video was a nightmare to produce for a rookie videomaker like me but it was definitely a labour of love

Haha good catch! There's also a shadow of the Beast one but it's not visible with my current setup, it's behind my desk

Yes definitely! Thank you!

Thanks, glad you liked it :)

A friend of mine only knew the PC version with beeps... His mind was blown away when I showed him the game on Amiga ;)

Even the PC version was great...for a PC soundtrack. It stinks in comparison not for lack of trying on Bitmap Brothers' part, but because PCs were still considered office machines back then, and nobody had cared to improve their sound capabilities, except for high-end users who could afford spending 1000s. And even high-end users preferred the Apple computers. As can be seen in the comparison near the end, the PC version was still the worst. Things would have turned out differently if X2 had been released a year or two later; there would have been at least AdLib support, if not Sound Blaster, and the latter would have competed with Atari ST for 2nd place. But then, it's probable that a competing game would have beaten X2 to the punch, and we'd be talking about _that_ game as the first with a full-length high-quality soundtrack. In the end, it's all about timing, usage of the resources available at the time, and a game good enough to become popular. For example, _Inferno_ had an excellent CD soundtrack, but hardly anybody remembers that game, because it was clunky and generally not really fun to play. Similarly, _System Shock_ was somewhat popular and had excellent sound, but was a slideshow in comparison to Doom's fluid 3D graphics. X2 hit the sweet spot music-wise AND game-wise.

Thanks! Indeed he has, I actually mentioned it in the previous episode on Xenon 1

Mathieu B. The problem is not the lack of inspiration, but the amount of time it takes to make these... And the disappointment in the number of views ;) but thanks a lot!

Shared it on eab. Hopefully you will get some more views!

Thanks for watching :)

Merci !! :)

Thank you! I want to do more videos like this but it's so time consuming 😭

@@GamePlayMetal I can totally understand that!

Merci ! Bonjour de France aussi alors :p

@@GamePlayMetal Super chaîne et gros boulot, continue comme ça c'est un vrai plaisir ;-)

Thanks a lot! 😁

Thanks a lot, glad you like it :)

Thanks a lot!

Merci !! :)

Thank you! That video took dozens and dozens of hours to make!

Merci ! J'avoue qu'après ces deux épisodes qui m'ont demandé un travail énorme, j'ai été un peu déçu du nombre de vues et j'ai un peu peur de me relancer dans un nouvel épisode, je pense qu'il faudrait que j'améliore un peu ma méthode de travail qui était extrêmement chaotique et m'a fait perdre énormément de temps...

En effet, au vu du travail (que j'imagine conséquent) et du résultat (799 vues, 81 pouces) au moment où j'écris ces lignes, cela peut faire mal à la motivation ! Il faut partager ces vidéos en masse ! Amiga, Videogames Covers en sont, mais cela ne suffit pas, et c'est bien dommage, la vidéo est riche et intéressante !

Thank you! This episode was indeed a ton of work so that's really appreciated! And sorry to disappoint, but all background music (except stated otherwise, like the Captain Blood track or the Hall of the Mountain King) are written and recorded by myself ;)

I remember this one, Travolta made the music ;) but I'm not sure what I could say and it's probably too underground. It's all about finding the right angle and what's interesting about it!

I understand your feelings, it sure is a completely weird soundtrack for such a game but for me it's why it's so remarkable ;) Yeah I'll try to finish Sector 2, I hadn't time to do it because this episode was waaaaay more work than I thought!

Haha yeah but having access to audio CD music is unfair compared to the modest capabilities of the systems I'm focusing on in this video ;)

Haha!! :D

It actually depends on the system, there are only a few machines like the Amiga which used samples, which was very flexible since that means you could have any kind of sound you wanted, unlike for example the Genesis, which used FM Synthesis, which has a very limited range in terms of the sounds it can produce. I think I should probably do an episode clarifying that kind of stuff, or make "system spotlights" explaining in detail what were the sonic capabilities of a particular old system ;)

You also need to take into account that you need enough space for the code and graphics. Xenon 2's music was approx 300 kB and that is considered relatively big for an amiga module, so there's that ;) but yeah RAM is also an issue. I think the data comparison between cds, dvds etc was maybe more obvious for a general audience

spooling the music off floppy would also be a problem, the Amiga's disk drive wasn't the fastest. I'm a big fan off John foxx/ultravox, didn't the bitmaps use one of his tracks for Gods? That would be a good contender.

Also, switching between disks was such a pain in the ass that even with unlimited RAM it wouldn't change much but maybe I should have mentioned that ;) Yeah the music of Gods is "Into the Wonderful", under the name of Nation 12, but I thought the process behind the re-creation of Megablast on Xenon 2 was more interesting

yes, the main problem was the limitation in the magnetic support capacity (880k for Amiga and 720k for Atari ST) , and his low speed-disk-access . For example, take a look at this modified Atari-ST version: It runs in a standard Atari STe 1040. but.. the game is now 25mb.long! and needs hard drive for run obviously.! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pcpzqZBjtNOWpo0.html atari.8bitchip.info/SCRSH/xen2s.html

Yeah, people also forget that you could have a hard drive on these machines, but unfortunately it was limited to a handful people investing in it and very, very few games took advantage of it.

I've made 3 covers of it on this channel, that should tell you how much I love it ;)

Thanks a lot! I only considered adaptations of song that sound close to the original though, and with all due respect to the C64 Sid chip, apart from the notes, it doesn't sound even remotely like the original. To a random person who doesn't like retro games, it would just sound like bleeps & bloops, unlike Xenon 2 ;)

To be fair to the C64, it could also play samples and could have made the same songs using a tracker on the 64. The Turbo Outrun songs are a good example, or Outrun Europa. But take a listen to this: csdb.dk/release/?id=55112. It works in VICE - just press SPACE when you think its Loading (this is just a title screen). I've also seen MOD 2 SID projects, like Vicious SID, which plays 4 channel Amiga Mods on the C64 (not really compatible with VICE). Really it was the memory which was the limitation. On the Amiga, the limit wasnt a 880k disk but the remainder of the disk after the game and graphics was added, so maybe 100KB to play with. I notice the Megablast MOD is 358KB, so the game itself must have taken up around 522 kb on the disk. With most games there was no space left for the music.

Yes I know the C64 could use samples and I address the space limitation, which is why soundtracks were extensively used in games on the Playstation 1, which often were simply regular audio cd tracks (if you replaced the Wipeout game cdrom while playing with any audio cd, the game would play the audio cd tracks instead). This video mainly addresses how Whittaker used tricks to cram that many samples in one mod ;) Its also worth noting, that Xenon 2 on Amiga came with two disks, and the ingame mod had way fewer samples from the Bomb the Bass original track than the title screen version, leaving more space for ingame level graphics.

Ahhh, the game came on TWO disks!, ha ha, I knew there had to be a way around it. ;) When I hacked the Star Wars game, and inserted my own sampled into it, I had to convert 24bit 48khz audio samples down to 8 bit and around 8 khz, which brought the samples size down to 8-13 KB each. By todays standards, thats just insane. Keep up the great work!

Thanks a lot! Yeah, today we pretty much have zero limitations when making a game, which is awesome, and also sad in a certain way

Thanks a lot! I fully admit that the track can be repetitive especially since it's the only one in the game, but it was a milestone in terms of video games soundtracks so I had to talk about it ;)

Yes, I is reasonable mate.

"surpasse" pas vraiment, il s'agit littéralement de 2 échantillons du morceau de Bomb the Bass de dix secondes qui passent en boucle, donc c'est certes très fidèle puisque c'est juste un minuscule bout de la musique du cd (avec une qualité d'échantillonnage inférieure à la plupart des samples du mod Amiga ceci dit), là où la version Amiga recrée quasi 3 minutes du morceau d'origine.