![]() ![]() Instead, it only furthered it as I became enthralled with the strange world of his music and soon found that Emperor X did, in fact, have the same spirit as the metal band that I had conjured in my head, with music that was uncompromising, strange, and boisterous. However, This revelation did not sway my interest. However, to my shock, I soon found that my guess could not be further from the truth as Emperor X was instead a nerdy ex-science teacher suffering from subpar vision. ![]() Too many questions, I know - but I had to ask.Whenever I first heard the name, Emperor X, my mind conjured up images of an obscure technical death metal band that only the most hardcore of metalheads were aware of. Were these important in anyway you might remember? It looked as if there were to be a THM?.XMI file for each level? When the original floppy release game shipped in mid-September 1994 the music files were THM0.XMI thru THM7.XMI and THM10.XMI, skipping the leaked BETA THM8.XMI and THM9.XMI files. They were the THM8.XMI and THM9.XMI files. Give that you went to the trouble to create 14 custom SYSTEM SHOCK Ultrasound patches (which were shipped with but never used on the CD-ROM release), did you like the way your MIDI compositions sounded on the Ultrasound - say better than a Sound Blaster but not as good as a Roland Sound canvas? Heck, I cannot even figure out if the MIDI numbers for SSKICK2.PAT should be 35 and SSKICK1.PAT should be 36 (or vice-versa).Ĥ.) In the leaked BETA of the floppy version of SYSTEM SHOCK in August 1994 there were two music files for both General MIDI and Sound Blaster that never made it into the commercial release. At the risk of being a real bother, I just have to ask about your music in SYSTEM SHOCK.įeel free to ignore me if this is too much, or you don't remember.ġ.) Did you use the Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 or SC-55mkII for composing your General MIDI music?Ģ.) Was any work ever done using a (pre-General MIDI) Roland MT-32 during your music portion of the game development?ģ.) The Gravis Ultrasound 'Classic' sound-card was supported in the floppy version, but Ultrasound support was dropped in the enhanced CD-ROM version shipped in late-December 1994 because the MILES Gravis Ultrasound drivers were not finished before the game shipped. ![]()
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