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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- This was one of my favorite childhood flight simulators. And as I grew up, I realized just how intricate the interaction between the game and the music was. The composer of the electronic soundtrack, Alan Koshiyama, created a bunch of short audio snippets that, when strung together, sound like a full track. But certain in-game events trigger different audio files, usually within 4 seconds. This way, the music reflects the status of the game. For example, if a missile is fired at you, the game music switches from its regular "cruising" track to a more ominous "inbound missile" track, and then switches to a new track based on what happens after the missile reaches you.
To acquire this soundtrack, I mostly just recorded the in-game audio and made a few audio tweaks before rendering. Novalogic used a special .SBF zip file to store the audio snippets, and only select software can unpack this. I managed to do so - that's why I included the names of each audio snippet in the video. I used Cool Edit Pro to import these audio snippets (about 120 of them). However, the music had to be imported mono 8-bit. And, because Cool Edit Pro was basically reading a ASCII text file (that's how the files were exported), there was a lot of clutter in the audio. So even after noise removal and other modifications, it still sounded gross. You'll hear the ".SBF" version during a part of the video, and you will definitely hear the difference. For this section, I didn't know how to trigger the music in-game, so the ".SBF" version had to do.
You can learn a lot about a video game's production history by analyzing the music files. I can see exactly (to the minute) when the files were originally uploaded and saved; I can see titles/subtitles/remarks about the soundtracks that, presumably, the composer created with during production; I can see how the game accesses and reads the music files and how in-game events trigger certain responses.
10:22 Why do I hear flares? :O
i remenber being 6 year old , could not speak a single world of english , filling the airplane with fuel tanks because they where "the biggest bomb"
Thank you for this! It was the first "flight sim" I ever played and it sparked my love for aviation back in 2004 if I remember it right, when I was about 7 years old. Amazing to see the difference between this game and the new Flight Simulator 2020, considering they're exactly 20 years apart!
Gosh I can relate with you so much. I must have also been 6 or 7, this was my first "fight sim" and perhaps even my first game alone with Need for speed High Steaks... Now I just play DCS. Its amazing how childhood can impact you so much
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I didn't know the music was based on a dynamic loop system. Incredible programming work is behind that.
PULL UP!! PULL UP!!
Was I the only one who only used B-61 hydrogen bombs to obliterate ground targets? Ohh, fun times.
I loved the buildup from 4:29 and the strings at 8:19 The way the music fitted with the action was really well done - 'planefall' and 'bail' tracks from 12:15 for example.
Thank you a lot for doing all this great work unpacking and compiling the tracks of this childhood classic. I was just listening to some ace combat ost and remembered of this old game and how dynamic the soundtrack was and how it set the tone for anything happening on screen. I don't think I've seen a game do a better job in it than F22 L3 because of how seamless the ost sounds.
THAT MISSI N DEEP FREEZE had huge impact and now only nostalgia
Мне в детстве 1996 и 1997 года когда было 5 и 6 лет очень нравилось ходить кругами под эту музыку пока отец и старший брат играют в нее и чего то обсуждают под нее. Мог реально часами под нее ходить отплясывать долгое время)) самолеты миг и ф22, проходили разные кампании как я понимал из игры. А для меня игра была слишком сложна и я не понимал многого хотя очень любил смотреть как в ней летают другие)
Interesting
seems that finally someone found the way to unpack sbf files
I've been looking for DFBHD music for a long while
And you just gave the key
Yeah I need the method as well.
Thanks for this! Has this melody in my head all day and couldn't remember where it was from. Finally twigged and your video confirmed it!
My childhood sountrack :)
This game meant so much to me. Absolutely love the Raptor.
Thank you for doing this!!!!
Thank you for this! So much nostalgia
THANK YOU DUDE!!!!
Thanks for this. Can you do an in depth analysis of the files? The stuff you mentioned in the description.
Thank you so much ❤️
Good times! Got my first joystick and throttle to ply this game
The most impressive sound effects are at 5:34 and 5:41
"Dire" and "dog". Never heard those before.
Judging by the names, I believe that "dog201" to "dog216" are Dogfight themes.
But that "dire01" to "dire03" are unknown.
Dire 1 and 3 i think is sounds when a enemy jet is following you too close
It comes out 1999 not 1997😅
I lost my produce key.can u help.
there's no such a thing.
Need cd password key
Come on koma
Wole, czego
Wow dude, it really doesn't sound all that great, but I see you went through a lot of trouble to mine all this. Great work