Music Under Pressure (December 17, 2008)

[Bandit LOAF]

Karakkaze has gone and done something unexpected with Wing Commander music -- remade classic pieces using the limitations which were applied to Wing Commander SNES! Here's his explanation:

After ripping the raw instruments and sound effects from Wing Commander's SNES port, I decided to reconstruct them using loop points and see how other Wing Commander games' music might have sounded with the SNES' instrumentation. These songs may not follow the SNES sound capabilities' perfectly, it's more of a best guess instrumentation-wise. I was always a fan of the instruments used in this particular version.

Download them here:

• Wing Commander III - Strike Mission BGM (2.29 MB)
• Wing Commander III - Bridge BGM (904 kb)

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Original update published on December 17, 2008

 

[ChrisReid]

These are really cool. The SNES WC1 music is very memorable to me, so these sound odd and familiar at the same time.

 

[Mace]

While I clearly find the first tune sounding alike WC1 played back through a sounblaster equippeld with an OPL3-chip.

I find the briefing room sound an amazing lot like the game "centurion", a strategy like-game, that i could describe a lot like civilisation with some RTS elements into it.