OSV YM2149

OSV = Original Sound Version

Here you will find OSV recordings from (mostly) games, but also other original/demo/remixes composed for and played on it's original soundhardware.

This does not mean it is Hi-Fi quality or sound better than let's say emulation, it's just original sound versions :-) Or at least as close as possible to it's original sound, if there is something worth say on how the recording was done then it will be in the "info" column.

Midi modules recordings may not get data from it's original system... for example X68000 gamemusic is played using a PC wich send the data to the module it's still the original soundhardware.
Not all gamesoundtracks are complete... as only those tunes avaible in soundtest may be recorded without getting soundeffects in the recordings and sometimes the soundtests don't have all music from the game... this mostly affects the arcade recordings, also the filenames are from the soundtests.

Team OSV:
Stefan Lindberg Contact
Koli Contact
Daniel Fasth Contact
Knurek Webpage

News

25 August 2013:

Added "Pyrotechnica" General MIDI soundtrack recorded using a Yamaha TG100.

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09 July 2013:

Added "Time Trax" From prototype released in july 2013.

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17 April 2013:

Added "Command Adventures: Starship" both OPL3 and General MIDI versions.

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02 April 2013:

Updated the "WarCraft: Orcs & Humans" (OPL3, Sound Blaster 16) archive recordings to have correct left and right stereo channels.

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01 April 2013:

Added "WarCraft: Orcs & Humans" (OPL3, Sound Blaster 16).

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07 October 2012:

Added "Street Fighter EX" (Arcade).

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19 August 2012:

Added "Extreme Assault" (General Midi).

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19 July 2012:

Added "The Elder Scrolls: Arena" (General Midi).

22 April 2012:

Finally an update :-)
Not much here yet, i am trying to have higher standard now with my OSV's with proper track names and all in FLAC format.
There will still be some recordings in OGG/MP3 format but it is not something i spend too much to create :-) Not many of the old recordings will be uploaded as they were in OGG format and many without proper tracknames... but i still have them so just contact me if you want anything seen in the "historical text" file.
When the "year" field is red instead of blue so is the recordings in compressed format.

13 November 2010:

Sorry nothing can be downloaded ATM since my server i had the files on is broken :-(
Email me if there is something you desperatly want.

Historical text

OPL3, Sound Blaster 16

Music	Author	Year	Info
Command Adventures: Starship (14 music files, 190 MB)	Hamilton Altstatt (The Thin Man)	1993	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Using Sound Blaster 16 (CT2290).
WarCraft: Orcs & Humans (15 music files, 394 MB)	Glenn Stafford Gregory Alper Rick Jackson Chris Palmer	1994	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Using Sound Blaster 16 (CT2290).

General MIDI

Music	Author	Year	Info
Command Advenures: Starship (14 music files, 190 MB)	Hamilton Altstatt (The Thin Man)	1993	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Using Kawai GMega.
Extreme Assault (19 music files, 263 MB)	Fabian Del Priore Chris Hülsbeck	1997	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Using Ensoniq MR-Rack. Recorded using HOOT to play the music files.
Mission Critical (38 music files, 831 MB)	Eric Heberling Mark Nemcoff	1995	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Using Yamaha TG300. Most was recorded using HOOT and some using Dosbox. The Game has 38 music files but only seems to use 19 of them in the game, or at least i only heard 19 of them while playing thru the game.
Pyrotechnica (20 music files, 269 MB)	PC Music Ltd	1995	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Using Yamaha TG100. Most was recorded using Dosbox except BGM 3 and 4 wich was recorded using Hoot because the game crashes when playing these songs. I don't know exactly who "PC Music Ltd" is?
The Elder Scrolls: Arena (33 music files, 334 MB)	Eric Heberling	1994	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Using Yamaha MU100. Recorded using HOOT. Some songs seem to be unused in the game but can be found in the game files, i am not 100% sure they really are unused but have marked those i think are?

ARCADE

Music	Author	Year	Info
Raycrisis (23 music files, 500 MB)	Tamayo Kawamoto	1998	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Arcade platform: Taito G-Net Soundchip: ZOOM "ZSG-2" and DSP "TMS57002" Recorded using an S/PDIF modification on the PCB. Real samplerate of this system is "32.552khz" although my recordings are converted to 44.1khz for some compatibility problems i had, if it bothers you you can change the samplerate easily yourself :-)
Raystorm (19 music files, 294 MB)	Tamayo Kawamoto	1996	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Arcade platform: Taito FX-1 Soundchip: ZOOM "ZSG-2" and DSP "TMS57002" Recorded using an S/PDIF modification on the PCB. Samplerate... see "Raycrisis" info. I did actually record this from an G-Net system with modified Bios that plays FX-1 games, the sound hardware of G-Net and FX-1 is identical Special notice about the clicks heard in the recordings... it really sound like that on the real arcade PCB, i can only guess it is because of lazy sound conversion to by the programmers, the music is also many times too loud to be only 16bit so it is clipping (and no volume control)
Street Fighter EX (22 music files, 276 MB)	Takayuki Aihara Ayako Saso Shinji Hosoe	1996	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Arcade platform: ZN-1 Soundchip: Qsound

Sega Megadrive

Music	Author	Year	Info
Time Trax (prototype) (6 music files, 161 MB)	Tim Follin	1994/2013	Recorded by Stefan Lindberg. Using a "Megadrive 1" with YM2612 soundchip. From the prototype that was released in July 2013, the music was probably made in 1994 though I recorded them at 50hz (PAL) speed as thats what Tim Follins own recording of the title music play at (recording can be found at his website).