Listen to the Gemini Sector as It Was Meant to Be Heard (October 11, 2022)

[ChrisReid]

Pekka Leppaluoto has put together a wonderful treat for Wing Commander Privateer fans. He's recorded the Priv soundtrack with his SCC-1 card and posted the results to YouTube in a convenient chaptered format. The SCC-1 is a variant of the Roland SC-55, which was one of the fanciest sound cards of the early '90s. The first few Wing Commander games sound just wonderful on the Roland hardware of the era. The YouTube clip below makes for easy convenient listening, but you can also download the tracks from our archives here.

Wing Commander: Privateer (the original floppy disk version) Complete Soundtrack on a Roland SCC-1 sound card. All files played back using AIL Sound System's XPLAY.EXE with static content extracted from the game. As I was preparing another Origin Systems game soundtrack, I discovered that the same extraction tools work with Privateer so I was able to easily produce this one.

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Original update published on October 11, 2022

 

[DecafToaster]

This is why I got myself a SC-55 Mk II. Goes great with Doom, too.

 

[yleon]

Wow, it's truly a delight for the ears!! Thanks a bunch for sharing

 

[ChrisReid]

Yeah, that agricultural base background track hits me every time and takes me way back...

 

[Bob McDob]

It really is quite good. I wasn't expecting much but this is way beyond the entry-level Sound Blaster or DOSBox midi emulation I'm used to. It feels much more modern than the graphics and other sound effects.

Yeah, that agricultural base background track hits me every time and takes me way back...

I got into Privateer late during the period where it wouldn't run on any modern machine, so my first exposure to the soundtrack was through MIDI tracks and I always assumed that the agricultural soundtrack was for open space.