8-bit Simutrans music

[Lmallet]

For something a bit less serious, I was reading an article about a chinese DJ who used 8-bit music (think NES or Sega), and had this strange idea of looking for a conversion tool to convert from MIDI to 8-bit music.   Since Simutrans uses MIDI music, I threw a few files at the converter, and here are the results!

http://drop.io/simumusic/

This made me feel a bit nostalgic.   

I figured a few people here might enjoy this.

[VS]

Oh, so that's how these tunes are supposed to sound!

[mobo]

Yup, nice! 

Though the music in game should be slower imho. The game is rather laid back, but the music makes you feel like you need to do something quick.

[vilvoh]

Money never sleeps, you know mobo.. 

[skreyola]

I get a 502 bad gateway for your link.

[MoTw]

 Sounds good

I don't think the sounds are too slow, especially "Stucked Convoi" not. It's just right

I get a 502 bad gateway for your link.

Works fine for me.

[prissi]

However, as uncompressed 8 bit sample they were probably smaller than the resulting OGG file ... But imho those are too distorted. They sound rather like the crappy PC speaker.

[Lmallet]

I get a 502 bad gateway for your link.

I noticed drop.io was a bit slow, maybe try a bit later.

However, as uncompressed 8 bit sample they were probably smaller than the resulting OGG file ... But imho those are too distorted. They sound rather like the crappy PC speaker.

I agree on the size, especially since the whole original 8-bit game would probably have been much smaller than one of these OGG files.  The tool I've used actually saves the files in WAV format (yeah, 25 MB files of 8-bit music is simply wrong).  I saved them as 128k OGG files so that I could upload them a bit easier, but that would introduce distortion.

[prissi]

Maybe also the rectangular shapes of the old synthesizer chips are not kind to OGG.