Heretic is the very game that introduced me to the FPP shooters genre back in 1995. This soundtrack, specifically in OPL form, is forever engraved in my memories.
it's so majestic to hear this in OPL3, but Heretic and Hexen both sounded amazing with AWE32 too. I aspire to play these on my Pentium MMX 200 again just like I did in 1997 someday.
I'm one of those weirdos who had SB32 and AWE64, and despite that set sound in games such as Heretic or Duke 3D to FM synthesis. It's one of those strange moments when despite being technically worse it feels much better ;)
@@spavatch I had like an AWE64 update for the AWE32 that made all the music sound crazy good (to my teenage ears). I don't know if I still have that anymore on a Zip disk or something, I'll have to look around. I don't remember what it was, I grabbed it off some FTP I went to back in like 1998.
@@mecha2001 - yeah, it sounded great, it was something to brag about back in the day when most people had just a SB16, but I'd still pick OPL3 over Wavetable today in these selected titles for no explainable reason. It's a personal thing of course, one of those things I tend to call 'it's not as good... but it's better' ;)
these clowns that do longplays with the Microsoft MIDI mapper make me want to cast a hellstorm on them. Kevin Schilder ftw though, Hexen had epic music too.
@@St0rmT0rnad0 I had seriously gotten into Brutal Doom back in 2014 and played through so many wads with the MIDI Mapper. when I discovered there was an OPL3 option at all in there it blew my mind. it's not accurate though, but hey, it's close enough. I have one OPL3 SB16 in my Pentium 166, the MMX 200 has a Vibra16 on-board which will be CQM... I like it both ways. whatever gets me the closest to 1995 works.
>>Whenever I play this or Doom in a port, I always turn OPL emulation on. It's just >>not the same otherwise! and if port doesn't have correct OPL emulation, you always can create mp3/flac versions of OPL and connect them to the port (i used this method for gzdoom and doomsday for example)
What sound card do you use for this? I tryed here to listen this with GZDOOM but the music has some strange sound, it looks like the sound of the bass sounds more high thatn the melody. I don't know if the problem is my hardware or the GZDOOM, I'll try to use DOSBox instead... (I set up the OPL emulation on settings)
I've played all 5 episodes 1000 damn times! The game of my childhood.
The original Heretic music!!! :)
Heretic is the very game that introduced me to the FPP shooters genre back in 1995. This soundtrack, specifically in OPL form, is forever engraved in my memories.
One of the best old pc game soundtracks in my opinion. Thanks!
the best if you ask me!
Love it, one of the best game soundtracks in my opinion.
OPL will be the best ever!!
totally agree
This is so good 😍 Ahh, memories.
it's so majestic to hear this in OPL3, but Heretic and Hexen both sounded amazing with AWE32 too. I aspire to play these on my Pentium MMX 200 again just like I did in 1997 someday.
I think this video is OPL2, because E1M2 in OPL3 sounds different (less creepy)
I'm one of those weirdos who had SB32 and AWE64, and despite that set sound in games such as Heretic or Duke 3D to FM synthesis. It's one of those strange moments when despite being technically worse it feels much better ;)
@@spavatch I had like an AWE64 update for the AWE32 that made all the music sound crazy good (to my teenage ears). I don't know if I still have that anymore on a Zip disk or something, I'll have to look around. I don't remember what it was, I grabbed it off some FTP I went to back in like 1998.
@@mecha2001 - yeah, it sounded great, it was something to brag about back in the day when most people had just a SB16, but I'd still pick OPL3 over Wavetable today in these selected titles for no explainable reason. It's a personal thing of course, one of those things I tend to call 'it's not as good... but it's better' ;)
I played on a Pentium 75Mhz but a few years later my dad bought the family a MMX 200. Played it through again!
I once pistol-started all E1 levels.
Whenever I play this or Doom in a port, I always turn OPL emulation on. It's just not the same otherwise!
these clowns that do longplays with the Microsoft MIDI mapper make me want to cast a hellstorm on them. Kevin Schilder ftw though, Hexen had epic music too.
I even found myself emulating just the one OPL chip on ZDoom because I was hearing too many channels at once compared to DOS Heretic! Default is two
@@St0rmT0rnad0 I had seriously gotten into Brutal Doom back in 2014 and played through so many wads with the MIDI Mapper. when I discovered there was an OPL3 option at all in there it blew my mind. it's not accurate though, but hey, it's close enough. I have one OPL3 SB16 in my Pentium 166, the MMX 200 has a Vibra16 on-board which will be CQM... I like it both ways. whatever gets me the closest to 1995 works.
>>Whenever I play this or Doom in a port, I always turn OPL emulation on. It's just >>not the same otherwise!
and if port doesn't have correct OPL emulation, you always can create mp3/flac versions of OPL and connect them to the port (i used this method for gzdoom and doomsday for example)
What sound card do you use for this? I tryed here to listen this with GZDOOM but the music has some strange sound, it looks like the sound of the bass sounds more high thatn the melody. I don't know if the problem is my hardware or the GZDOOM, I'll try to use DOSBox instead... (I set up the OPL emulation on settings)
1) Which hardware used to record this?
2) As I see you have Doom/Heretic/Hexen OPL in you channel. What about Strife OPL?
Had a AWE32 sound card growing up as a kid... so this sound somewhat wrong 😂 Still good thou
Love hearing it as I first did in the 90's, more or less!
Also.... "EeeeEEEEEeeeeeei!" @michael Waters avatar / Phoelus refrence