> > Looks like a cheap rip-off of Street Fighter 2 > > More like Samurai Shodown (based on the scaling effects, but that's really the only > neogeo fighting game I've ever played). > > > Or, a Samurai Shodown and Blandia bastard love-child.
The game certainly looks Bland...
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For those of You who wanna try this rare game on Your PCs, there is on the web: DOSBOX emu with Eye of the Typhoon built in If that's OK with the rules of this forum, I will give You a link ?! (I think that this game is old enough/abandonware)
> I found this game by accident and wanted to share with all of You ! > So, here it is : > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmI7SunNgI > > The original Neo Geo version of The Eye of Typhoon was never released for some reason > but the game was ported to 3DO and PC in South Korea.* > > * info from YouTube uploader.
Wow, the music is horrible. It's like they gave a kid a Casio keyboard and let him push random keys until it spat out something.
> > Wow, the music is horrible. It's like they gave a kid a Casio keyboard and let him > > push random keys until it spat out something. > > ??? > The music is typical "kung fu fighting" and is pretty standard for its time.
IT'S FREAKIN' MIDI.
It probably sounded awesome in the original cart, but the transition to midi made it suck.
It's poor composing that makes it suck, but the midi bank isn't helping. Midi can sound great if you know what you are doing have have interesting banks.
I was saying about melody, not tech. side of music. What is wrong with MIDI ? (Every musical instrument has MIDI interface back in the days - remember people buying Atari ST just for that infamous MIDI built-in)
> It's poor composing that makes it suck, but the midi bank isn't helping. Midi can > sound great if you know what you are doing have have interesting banks.
Pet peeve: MIDI doesn't sound like anything. I can play a MIDI file through a rack of Roland V-Synths or Korg Kronoses and most people won't be able to tell the difference from live instruments. What a lot of early 90s gamers call "sounds like MIDI" really means "sounds like shitty FM". And the Neo Geo certainly has shitty FM (which is why most games bypass it in favor of the ADPCM samples).
It's freaking MS Midi which is the bane of me. SOunds real bad and I bypassed it for my audigy cards, but damn, making a midi whch sounds good in my PC and sending to other people always sounds worse...
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> I was saying about melody, not tech. side of music. > What is wrong with MIDI ? (Every musical instrument has MIDI interface back in the > days - remember people buying Atari ST just for that infamous MIDI built-in)
The instruments chosen to play the music notes suck. Not the interface. Sorry about that.
> It's freaking MS Midi which is the bane of me. SOunds real bad and I bypassed it for > my audigy cards, but damn, making a midi whch sounds good in my PC and sending to > other people always sounds worse...
This, pretty much. A lot of consumer-grade sound cards were not designed with good midi output in mind.
Any sound card nower days relies on software synthesizing, a.k.a MS MIDI, and since most people have laptops with no natural synth card, well, you get the point. I can't blame manufacturers, midi fell out of fasion years ago
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> Any sound card nower days relies on software synthesizing, a.k.a MS MIDI, and since > most people have laptops with no natural synth card, well, you get the point. I can't > blame manufacturers, midi fell out of fasion years ago
Softsynths as a tech generally sound fantastic nowadays. Professional synthesizers since the late 90s just have fast CPUs/DSPs running softsynth algorithms rather than dedicated hardware, and typically 4+ GB of samples (we're talking individual samples for every key on a piano recorded at at least 3 different key pressures, among other things). MS would be burned at the Internet stake if they shipped Windows on one DVD for the OS and one+ for the softsynth, so they ship much smaller, crappier samples
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