Difference between revisions of "Music library"
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Outside the official distributions, a few other tracks have achieved some recognition for their frequent or memorable use. | Outside the official distributions, a few other tracks have achieved some recognition for their frequent or memorable use. | ||
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| + | ===AMADEUS.CMF=== | ||
| + | [[File:Amadeus.mp3]]<br /> | ||
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| + | TBA | ||
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| + | ====Known uses==== | ||
| + | * ''[[Friction]]'' (?) | ||
| + | * ''[[Ninja Tuck]]'' (?) | ||
| + | * ''[[Sign of the Hedgehog]]'' (?) | ||
| + | * ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'' (?) [as '''AMADAUS.CMF'''] | ||
===FIRSCOOL.CMF=== | ===FIRSCOOL.CMF=== | ||
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* ''[[Hurdles]]'' (?) [as '''GMTITLE.CMF'''] | * ''[[Hurdles]]'' (?) [as '''GMTITLE.CMF'''] | ||
* ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'' (?) [as '''DRDOOM1.CMF'''] | * ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'' (?) [as '''DRDOOM1.CMF'''] | ||
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| + | DRDOOM / GMDOOM1 | ||
* ''CLOUD.CMF'' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Hurdles]]'') | * ''CLOUD.CMF'' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Hurdles]]'') | ||
* ''GMWIN.CMF'' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Hurdles]]'') | * ''GMWIN.CMF'' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Hurdles]]'') | ||
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* '''CROWLEY.CMF''' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'') | * '''CROWLEY.CMF''' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'') | ||
* '''ROLLING.CMF''' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'') | * '''ROLLING.CMF''' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'') | ||
* ''DRDOOM3.CMF' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'') | * ''DRDOOM3.CMF' (Copy of ?, from ''[[Invasion of the Blobs II]]'') | ||
| − | * INTRO2, MOOD, and MOODMAJ are variations on something else... | + | * INTRO2, MOOD, and MOODMAJ (blobs 2) are variations on something else... |
| + | * GMCARAME (TAT, Reptilia, Blobs2) is a copy of... | ||
| + | * GMBASERH (Guts) is a copy of... | ||
| + | * GMELECRO (Guts) is a copy of... | ||
| + | * GMCLASSY (TAT) is a copy of... | ||
-->==Original composers== | -->==Original composers== | ||
Revision as of 12:30, 28 September 2010
Whereas Game-Maker provided powerful, well-designed utilities for drawing, defining, and organizing graphical elements — tiles, sprites, maps — the sound side of things was always kind of a shrug. Although there's a decent editor for PC speaker-based squawks, Sound Blaster support only came around with the software's 2.0 release, and the formats it supported were... curious. Any digital samples had to be in .VOC format, and any music in the very peculiar .CMF. Whereas even now it is possible to find audio applications that support .VOC, there never really were any popular sequencers or conversion utilities for .CMF.
So what you’ll often find is Game-Maker games with original, brilliant visuals and subversive design that borrow most of their sounds and all of their music from the demo libraries, or even from other Game-Maker games. If the original author complained, the derivative author would issue an update and give him a credit. It was a different era.
Game-Maker came with a limited set of stock pieces, which tend to populate most games. Designers also got clever, tracking down .CMF files on bulletin boards and hacking existing commercial or shareware games -- especially early Epic Megagames releases -- for their music. Most users built up a small personal library to plug in the way a film editor uses temp tracks. If Game-Maker were ever to support a better format, or come with a custom music editor, then those temp tracks would get swapped out. Except none of that ever happened.
Stock tracks
These are the tracks included in the Game-Maker sample library, and used to track all of RSD's demo games. They are, therefore, the most commonly reused pieces.
- See: Stock tracks
Common tracks
In later versions, Game-Maker came with many more demo games by a variety of authors. The following tracks were included in those games, and so may also be considered in regular distribution.
- See: Common tracks
