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Every tune for all three original games for all platforms

Posted: Mon May 02, 2022 5:58 pm
by justin
Thought you all might be interested in exploring this channel dedicated to the Bard's Tale music. NES is excluded as are songs 7 and 8 from Bard's Tale 3, but all else is there. Close to 40 tunes, across 8 platforms. Songs across platforms do not always sound the same, thus the word "tune" is used to organize by music first and song name second. Text descriptions and timestamps for all songs are in descriptions and comments. Enjoy!:

Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UChzx-fpCtCf0LOQibgaEDgA

Longest video is just over an hour with all songs across all platforms. Per platform videos exist as well as one with 1 of every tune with only one selected example of that tune.

Re: Every tune for all three original games for all platforms

Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 12:07 am
by Darendor
Why did you exclude the 2 songs from BT III?

Re: Every tune for all three original games for all platforms

Posted: Tue May 03, 2022 2:51 am
by justin
Because the effort was so time consuming already that I did not want to play through 5 different editions of BT III just to arrive at the dimensions to get the songs. Alternatively I could have attempted to edit characters, but that effort times 5 differing platforms all with potentially significant differences seemed a bit much.

I'd love to collect and insert them and upload new versions at some point in the future.

Your question forced me to notice something I overlooked. I did not include any Apple II Bards Tale III songs! Only c64 pc pc98 and Amiga.i made the recordings of Apple II, I just didn't inventory.

If you would like to continue this for songs 7 and 8 for those 5 platforms, be my guest. Here is the inventory read only in Numbers:

https://www.icloud.com/numbers/0pt9ZXUT ... wg#BTMusic

You may copy and paste or provide me an email to send the file.

Re: Every tune for all three original games for all platforms

Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 12:58 am
by Darendor
I suppose I could fire up Bard's Tale III and try to get VICE to record the 2 missing bard songs.

Re: Every tune for all three original games for all platforms

Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 1:56 am
by justin
All Bard Songs by Tune C64 v2
https://youtu.be/zhiNwlmDlwA

Contains all 21 songs and plenty of information including track listings in the description!

The channel has many more videos. I will likely not pick up this project again, but will be happy to make any and all source material available if anyone else would like to do so. It’s 95% complete:
- All 45 tunes (assuming BT3 songs 7 and 8 sound the same on Amiga and PC98 which I do not have)
- close to complete on songs: 123 of 133 (actually have 129. Forgot to include bt3 Apple II in vids)
- 1 video per platform (+v2 for c64 and PC and +additional to account for BT1 PC98 differences)
- 1 video with an example of every tune
- 1 video with 119 songs / all 45 tunes.

The idea was to include all music for all nine legacy platforms, not including spectrum, which had no music and NES, which was much different. Also, to cross reference all tunes to songs. Some tunes were reused. If you’ve only played one platform, then you haven’t heard all the music.

There’s more to do to make it a complete high-quality record of all Bard’s Tale music. But here is where I stop. Enjoy!