Wonko 4224 Great observation!!Knowing developers, this HAD to have been a deliberate inside joke when the game was being made. I would love to know one way or the other! Sadly, the truth is surely forever lost to time...
Oh, Captain... The eyes of the Shofixti... their bright and valiant eyes as we moved away! When the Ur-Quan came, the Shofixti fought as immortal heroes, darting in and out of the Dreadnaught formations then suddenly blazing like dying stars. But in only a few hours the Shofixti fleet... was gone.
@@megaman133 Unfortunately, the only ones left at that point were the Yehat, who surrendered without a fight, meaning that this only really mattered during the Ur-Quan Doctrinal Conflict.
Indeed. That scene, especially with the surprise reveal along with it (assuming you did the proper side-stuff, of course) made what was already looking to be a fantastic climax, even more energizing! Hope shining from darkness. Man, as a teenager, there was just so much about this game that made it so much more than "just a game" - a story that even modern games have a hard time living up to in my eyes. And the music combined with that story? Well, there's a reason I still love this game 30+ years later!
In Star Control 2 it gave me chills when I learned that the Yehat alone repelled the Ur-Quan fleet. Then learning the reason they were in the Ur Quan Hierarchy in the first place.
@@shieldphaser We, the Zeep-Zeep, are the only Clan who remember the TRUE MEANING of honor! We shall TEAR THE QUEEN FROM HER THRONE! The two-thousand year reign of the Veep-Neep Queens IS OVER! THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!
This is one of the best songs in the game. Perfectly symbolising the sadness of the Yehat, but also being a great song. Shame the remixes didn’t include anything at all from this masterpiece.
This one rocks..! Its the best of all the themes! Dang! I so remeber when i first encountered the Yehats.. It was so awesome thx to the theme music and their wonderful voices! Man i need to get this game again!
I played SC2 back when it first came out. Man, I love that game. Epic story, epic fun gameplay...and the Yehat, coolest race ever. Love how they were given Scottish voices in the 3DO version, and thus in Ur-Quan masters too lol.
I remember playing SC2 when it was released for free many years after. It didn't have any of the voices, I don't think. I still enjoyed the game, but replaying it now with the HD graphics, full voices, and remixed songs, it was just amazing. With a few UI improvements, the game would be considered an incredible indie game if it were released in 2023. I especially liked the Yehat voiceover and music in the game. Just had so much complexity and depth. You really could feel their pain.
Ah, music composed, probably, on the glorious Scream Tracker. At the time, that was the format in which demo scene wizards squeezed their pieces into their awesome combos.
1992. Scream Tracker was still 2.x and PC-based trackers were still rather obscure in general. I'm pretty sure that most SC2 musicians used Amiga trackers such as ProTracker.
The guys who made this have got to be some of the best comedic SCI FI writers, seriously! Scottish dinosaurs and mushrooms that obsess over jesus, few things can get more absurd yet practical.
Ye dont know what ye be uploadin! This is culture! This is us! Ye cannot be going on spreading me great theme! No! ~A yehat who just hacked into this account to say this
God I love this game, so ahead of its time, and they put so much quality into the game considering the technology. Thanks for posting these themes!!!!!
But eventually everything went alright for them! They survived. Unlike the Burvixese, Gg, Taalo, Yuli, Drall, Faz and Yuptar and who knows how many other races who were exterminated.
@@ben8929 Let's hope. The other option is that they were *pulled* by the Orz. I could see the Taalo, desperate to stop the Dnyarri-guided assaults by the ex-Milieu members, resorting to experimenting with IDF and messing up like the Androsynth.
Note how the themes seem to take on different modes, like the clans are interrupting one another for superiority, but one constant baseline / theme sticks through most of the entire song.
@justinh125 This theme in particular blew me away. The Supox and Mycon had pretty cool ones, and I love the Hyperspace and Quasispace music, but the Yehat take the cake.
The Yehat. My favorite race in Star Control. The Yehat terminator was also my favorite ship for melee until they came out with the Chmmr avatar for SC2.
I love this theme. Its like something out of Mega Man X. Seriously, play this theme over Mega Man X and you'll see what I mean. I also always found it cute how the Yehat adored the little furry race guys.
Back in DOS times there was an extractor that ripped all the songs from a larger game file. A couple of the tunes were corrupted after the extraction. I think they all were in .MOD format but I really don't remember what file it was. Probably some .PAK file.
I'd say in terms of sheer power and performance the only two ships that were better would be the Utwing Jugger and the Chmmr Avatar. Of course, you have the Thraddash Torch, Spathi Eluder, and Arilou Skiff that had some really nice uses. In many games, I don't look for resources. I just fly to Mycon space and farm their ships for RUs. Using the eluder, torch, or skiff and save scumming to ensure I never lose the ship. :) Then when I get the jugger I use that instead. And of course, the Pkunk Fury which is almost a must have at the last battle.
Guys, I just heard the following song: New Order - The Perfect Kiss, in the CD "Low Life" [Collector's Edition]. It is remarkably reminiscent of Yehat theme! Inspiration, influence or Plagiarism? What do you think??
Where did he get these songs? I downloaded Ur-Quan Masters many times, unpacked all of the content files I could find, found many songs along with audio of the conversations, but NOT THE THEMES! I somehow really liked this song and the hyperspace theme best, but only found the hyperspace theme. Where are these songs stored? How did he get them? Did he just record the gameplay?
The 2 Yehats in the animation are obviously the galaxy's finest DJs - Daft Pkunk.
Best comment on all of RUclips
You deserve more likes for that one friend, have one on me mate! ^.^
A decade on and still the single smoothest funpost on the entire site.
Based.
Yep, this is the still the best comment.
I have to say. Still the best comment on the site
Yehat on the left is a touch-typist while the one on the right clearly employs hunt-and-peck
Wonko 4224 Great observation!!Knowing developers, this HAD to have been a deliberate inside joke when the game was being made. I would love to know one way or the other! Sadly, the truth is surely forever lost to time...
I'd think all Yehat would favor hunt-and-peck.😁
good god i never noticed
..
ill ask who was who straight away
Left uses Topre, Right on Kailh Box Navy
@@f123raptor It's not like they're dead..
30 years and still a banger
The moment when they explained about the Shofixti's last battle against the Ur-Quan gave me chills
Oh, Captain... The eyes of the Shofixti... their bright and valiant eyes as we moved away!
When the Ur-Quan came, the Shofixti fought as immortal heroes, darting in and out of the Dreadnaught formations then suddenly blazing like dying stars.
But in only a few hours the Shofixti fleet... was gone.
So sad. Truly an epic sci fi moment
How were the Shofixti defeated?
@@spongeintheshoe 4 words: Sun Glory Device Supernova
They destroyed 30% of the Ur-Quan fleet with that blast so it was a tremendous blow against the hierarchy.
@@megaman133 Unfortunately, the only ones left at that point were the Yehat, who surrendered without a fight, meaning that this only really mattered during the Ur-Quan Doctrinal Conflict.
When Yehat came to help in the last battle along with this music I was surprised and I felt very emotional. I still remember that day.
Indeed. That scene, especially with the surprise reveal along with it (assuming you did the proper side-stuff, of course) made what was already looking to be a fantastic climax, even more energizing! Hope shining from darkness. Man, as a teenager, there was just so much about this game that made it so much more than "just a game" - a story that even modern games have a hard time living up to in my eyes. And the music combined with that story? Well, there's a reason I still love this game 30+ years later!
@sigmazero13 same here 😊
I love the Yehat. Lorewise, lookwise, soundwise, shipwise. Love the Yehat.
Shipwise unless you're playing Star Control 1 and fighting against the computer using them...
yehat terminator was solid ship. second most powerful allied ship.
space faring birds speaking in a scottish accent,
has sci-fi come up with anything better?
I say no
Definitively no
Vasudev Chakravarti **space faring pterodactyls.
U HAVE TO UNDERSTAND NOW "NICE AND ELEQUENT IS, U KNOW ENGLISH AND WHAT EVER
Maybe the Orks. That’s a great Cockney accent
It has not
In Star Control 2 it gave me chills when I learned that the Yehat alone repelled the Ur-Quan fleet. Then learning the reason they were in the Ur Quan Hierarchy in the first place.
THE QUEEN LIED, THE SHOFIXI LIVE, REVOLT REVOLT!
If our queen makes the dishonorable command, then it is the queen who has no honor, and a dishonorable queen is no queen at all.
@@shieldphaser We, the Zeep-Zeep, are the only Clan who remember the TRUE MEANING of honor! We shall TEAR THE QUEEN FROM HER THRONE! The two-thousand year reign of the Veep-Neep Queens IS OVER! THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!
@@quisqueyanguy120One of the most epic sentence in the game. :)
This game is the reason why I became a game programmer / game designer today.
Same
Good for you.
@@spongeintheshoe 😘
Emotional, truly tear jerking. One of my favorite themes.
Especially combined with the Yehat's voice acting.
I always felt this song as a tad melancholic, along with the birds reactions when you talk about the past alliance it made them my fav race
This is one of the best songs in the game. Perfectly symbolising the sadness of the Yehat, but also being a great song. Shame the remixes didn’t include anything at all from this masterpiece.
The sadness of a pride lost and honor squandered... but with hope of rising to greatness again.
This one rocks..! Its the best of all the themes! Dang! I so remeber when i first encountered the Yehats.. It was so awesome thx to the theme music and their wonderful voices! Man i need to get this game again!
I use an mp3 of this song as my alarm clock, every morning is epic
I use this song as an alarm attached to my boss's door to alert me of when boss is in route to my work area.
+CheatyTycoon 2 Ah, I meant the druuge theme music. I accidentally posted this on the wrong page.
Haha do you still have it, now three years later? :D
What a god.
I love how they seemingly just don’t have legs at all. That’s kinda funny
I played SC2 back when it first came out. Man, I love that game. Epic story, epic fun gameplay...and the Yehat, coolest race ever.
Love how they were given Scottish voices in the 3DO version, and thus in Ur-Quan masters too lol.
what if
you wanted to go to heaven
but god said.
We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
I remember playing SC2 when it was released for free many years after. It didn't have any of the voices, I don't think. I still enjoyed the game, but replaying it now with the HD graphics, full voices, and remixed songs, it was just amazing. With a few UI improvements, the game would be considered an incredible indie game if it were released in 2023.
I especially liked the Yehat voiceover and music in the game. Just had so much complexity and depth. You really could feel their pain.
SCOTTISH! THEY ARE SCOTTISH SPACE PTERODACTYLS!
Ah, music composed, probably, on the glorious Scream Tracker. At the time, that was the format in which demo scene wizards squeezed their pieces into their awesome combos.
1992. Scream Tracker was still 2.x and PC-based trackers were still rather obscure in general. I'm pretty sure that most SC2 musicians used Amiga trackers such as ProTracker.
The guys who made this have got to be some of the best comedic SCI FI writers, seriously! Scottish dinosaurs and mushrooms that obsess over jesus, few things can get more absurd yet practical.
Over Jesus? No. Over Juffo-Wup.
Juffo-Wup fills my fibers and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues.
this music sounds like something tragic happened. and it did.
Ye dont know what ye be uploadin! This is culture! This is us! Ye cannot be going on spreading me great theme! No!
~A yehat who just hacked into this account to say this
Assuming they have access to Internet waves and have gone spacefaring at about 1999
Hyperwaves are quite common.
I suppose it makes sense the bird-like aliens would hunt and peck to type...
This comment was eight months ago so you've probably forgotten how genius this comment was. Come back and marvel in your own glory!
Marvel once more, 3 months later!
hey! this is the greatest interval of time so far! 10 months!
Happy February 20th, 2017.
It has been a long time indeed.
TIME FOR THE REVOLUTION
You're a few years early i'm afraid
Too early actually.
Avatar checks out.
Like two centuries early...
nice icon
God I love this game, so ahead of its time, and they put so much quality into the game considering the technology. Thanks for posting these themes!!!!!
I loooooooove this music! and I've played and replayed Star Control so many times!!
SC II has amazing replayability! It's an excellently crafted masterpiece imo
I agree 100% I love it and have played it at least trice.
Listening to this always makes me feel sorry for them. That civil war...
But eventually everything went alright for them! They survived. Unlike the Burvixese, Gg, Taalo, Yuli, Drall, Faz and Yuptar and who knows how many other races who were exterminated.
@@megaman133 Some of the Taalo managed to escape in another dimension when the Ur-quan attacked them, you can discover this by talking to the Orz.
@@ben8929 ah yes, you're right
@@ben8929 Let's hope. The other option is that they were *pulled* by the Orz. I could see the Taalo, desperate to stop the Dnyarri-guided assaults by the ex-Milieu members, resorting to experimenting with IDF and messing up like the Androsynth.
@@ivorbiggun3873 Not by the orz, that's for sure. Orz are from *below*. Taalo are in *Pretty Space*.
Those Pterodactyls sure like their computers....
+Jonathan D (Swordsman) They are the Yehat, simmelton...
it really looks like the Yehat in the panel is playing the music.It is a perfect timing on the movements and the rhythm of the music.
This is one of the best songs in the game o_o The first time i met them in the game, i stayed talking with them for a long time because of the song :D
This is my favorite son gin the game, by a considerable amount. I just love every aspect of it.
best theme in the entire game HANDS DOWN.
Probably one of the greatest songs in video game soundtrack history.
ITs been a loooong time...
But it still a best game and best music in the world
I like the one in the background "I'M A PTERODACTYL AND WHAT IS THIS?"
Love it. Transmits very well the nobility of the Yehat.
Goodbye brave rebels. Viva La Revolution!.
The nobility and pride, but also the sadness, the melancholy of their fate as Ur-Quan Battle Thralls
@@soramikami4383 More than that: *the melancholy of their failed duty towards the Shofixti.* _And how that memory haunts them still..._
I just love this music
agreed
Note how the themes seem to take on different modes, like the clans are interrupting one another for superiority, but one constant baseline / theme sticks through most of the entire song.
Yehat live performances are great.
My favourite from the whole game
david gahan's and martin gore's pterodactyl costumes are ON POINT
I thought one of them was Alan.
This is best video as it looks like they are playing this song
Cannot unsee! XD
So, Yehat, how's that screenplay 'o yours goin'?
Ya compliment yourself unneccessairly, captain
The Yehat are the best. Their story is tragic. They love humans. They're dinosaurs! Their music is the fucking best. I love the Yehat.
RIDLEYS!!!
Insane tune for a 1992 game! I think it's one of my favorites of the game.
I try to act like a hard ass, but remembering this part of the game makes my eyes water.
@justinh125 This theme in particular blew me away. The Supox and Mycon had pretty cool ones, and I love the Hyperspace and Quasispace music, but the Yehat take the cake.
The Yehat. My favorite race in Star Control. The Yehat terminator was also my favorite ship for melee until they came out with the Chmmr avatar for SC2.
lovable and epic!
omfg i could listen this from 2155->2160!
And uh....
There is a very good reason for that time frame.
The Yehat probably have to be my favorite race in this game.
Toys for Bob have announced the sequel to SC2, named Ghosts of the Precursors.
Holy crap, thanks. Missed that piece of news. Hope we see it in the next 25 years.
Well... We have a problem.
Boi.
The best song in the game and that's saying a lot! Star control is amazing!
I love this theme. Its like something out of Mega Man X. Seriously, play this theme over Mega Man X and you'll see what I mean.
I also always found it cute how the Yehat adored the little furry race guys.
The shofixti were kind of their adopted children who eventually had more honor than their adopters ^^
@@megaman133The Yehat bowed down to the Ur-Quan, the Shofixti caused a supernova.
Scottish Teridactals in space. This is my friends favorite ship.
I had a dream of a swarm sized gang of motorcycle riding yehats riding into a white picket fence neighbourhood on a a sunny day.
I know this is an OLD comment but have you seen any Shofixti in that dream?
@@typhusthenewbie1561 No.
@@Duke_Blitzein *Tragic.* 😢
Peak 16 bit music
Can't ye see that ye're killin me human?
Oh you choose the Mycon podship. Time to pick the Yehat terminator!
Thanks for posting all of these
Back in DOS times there was an extractor that ripped all the songs from a larger game file. A couple of the tunes were corrupted after the extraction. I think they all were in .MOD format but I really don't remember what file it was. Probably some .PAK file.
As a kid i would go talk to the yehat randomly just to hear the music.
@MazzaTheFirst
I jut couldn't hate them. In fact I was looking for them just to listen to this amazing song.
At first, I always thought the left one had sideburns, but actually his head was lowered
Ah, the loyal Yehats.
left is lead synth, right is producer
THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!!! WE WILL TAKE TE VEEP-NEEP QUEEN OFF THE ROYAL PERCH!
mazza u rock i dont know how u only have 183 subscribers
RALLY THE CLANS, THE QUEEN MUST FALL!
EPIC. Long live the Queen
Getting a bit of a Megaman X vibe from this.
This music reminds me a bit of the main theme from One Must Fall, somehow
the coolest Scottish-Irish-Yellow Pterodactyls you'll ever see.
Ships weren’t the absolute strongest, but I ALWAYS kept one in tow. Those things could give AND take punishment!
I'd say in terms of sheer power and performance the only two ships that were better would be the Utwing Jugger and the Chmmr Avatar.
Of course, you have the Thraddash Torch, Spathi Eluder, and Arilou Skiff that had some really nice uses. In many games, I don't look for resources. I just fly to Mycon space and farm their ships for RUs. Using the eluder, torch, or skiff and save scumming to ensure I never lose the ship. :)
Then when I get the jugger I use that instead.
And of course, the Pkunk Fury which is almost a must have at the last battle.
....Lemmings?
I swear to god, that what it sounds like....
+Bloodlyshiva Same era. Same sound chips.
They uplifted lemmings in exchange for a nice theme song
in skilled hands the yehat terminator is deadly.
SHOFIXTI Rules!
:)
WHY DOES IT FEEL LIKE THEY PUT A LOT INTO THE THEME MUSIC OF THE YEHAT?
lovable!
Best close range weapon in the game.
Best game EVER
For a while I thought they were floating, looks like they just have thin black underbellies
Guys, I just heard the following song: New Order - The Perfect Kiss, in the CD "Low Life" [Collector's Edition]. It is remarkably reminiscent of Yehat theme! Inspiration, influence or Plagiarism? What do you think??
a big coincidence
:) Still one of the best games
Getting some serious Mega Man X vibes here, and I like it.
I'll just chuckle and pat your head "Good one, son. No."
Toys for Bob
I have underestimated you
Riku Nuottajärvi ftw.
thanks maza
@Tatuzka I saw their ships - meh, I've seen cooler
I heard their music - Wow, that's cool
Hear them speak- these are gods among the living
Fucking love the Yehat.
DJ Yehat representing
B I R D
dont play the game but i like this!
Why does this music sounds better in Mono?
(the way to have it in mono... Listen to it from an Ipod (headphones still put it in Mono), from RUclips)
*Is dishonored in Scotish* wE MuST oBEy oUR qUEen!
Where did he get these songs? I downloaded Ur-Quan Masters many times, unpacked all of the content files I could find, found many songs along with audio of the conversations, but NOT THE THEMES! I somehow really liked this song and the hyperspace theme best, but only found the hyperspace theme.
Where are these songs stored? How did he get them? Did he just record the gameplay?
Ye'll never abduct me Lucky Crews!
I can hear the poor 3DO trying so hard to recreate those classic D50 synth hits.