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A little bonus for those who own Monkey Madness

WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
edited October 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
This is something I discovered a couple of months ago when playing though MI2 again for the first time in over ten years. For those who own the original Monkey Madness CD with both SoMI and MI2 on it the CD also doubles as an album of twenty-one classic songs composed my Michael Land and three tracks of ambient background sounds all from the original Monkey Island game. You can load the album into iTunes or even play it on a CD player*. Dig up your old CD and try it.


*Warning: on CD players the first song will just play angry static, but the rest of the twenty-three tracks should work fine.

Comments

  • BaggeBagge
    edited October 2009
    Yes, that goes for all CD-versions of Monkey Island 1, including the 1992 CD-release, the White Label and Red Label compilations, Monkey Madness, and so on.

    It was pretty common for CD audio in games to simply be CD audio tracks on the game disc back in the day.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited October 2009
    I remember finding out they did this on game CD-ROMs back in the day and going through all my CD-ROMs to find out which ones had music.
  • KevinSigKevinSig
    edited October 2009
    The Loom talkie version of the game is the same way. I think some of Sierra's Goblin's games do the same thing.

    Kevin
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited October 2009
    Woodsyblue wrote: »
    This is something I discovered a couple of months ago when playing though MI2 again for the first time in over ten years. For those who own the original Monkey Madness CD with both SoMI and MI2 on it the CD also doubles as an album of twenty-one classic songs composed my Michael Land and three tracks of ambient background sounds all from the original Monkey Island game. You can load the album into iTunes or even play it on a CD player*. Dig up your old CD and try it.

    Thanks for this. My PC had refused to admit the existence of the CD Audio files, but iTunes spotted it OK. However, the tracks don't appear to be in any obvious order. Is there an ideal way they should be resorted?
  • glenfxglenfx
    edited October 2009
    That was very common with most games from the early CD era, pop a game cd in your cd player and most of the time you will hear the music play, the first "track" is always the game data.

    I could bet that also the cds from maniac mansion 2, sam and max (hit the road), etc. can be played in a cd player (i don’t have them at hand to tell you for sure, but i bet they do play).
  • Jerec84Jerec84
    edited October 2009
    Yeah, I do remember putting this into a CD player and listening to the music.
  • bobdevisbobdevis
    edited October 2009
    A quick way to find out for a bunch of old games if they have cd-audio (mixed-mode cd's) is to check the ScummVM datafiles list.
    http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles
    If the game is listed with ** it means there are cd-audio tracks that need to be ripped to mp3/flac to work with ScummVM.

    You can for example see that glenfx is incorrect.
    DoTT and Hit the Road do not have any cd-audio. It's all MIDI music.
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited October 2009
    FitzoliverJ wrote: »
    Thanks for this. My PC had refused to admit the existence of the CD Audio files, but iTunes spotted it OK. However, the tracks don't appear to be in any obvious order. Is there an ideal way they should be resorted?

    2*) Inside The Big Monkey
    3) Mêleé Path
    4) Mêleé Path 2
    5) The Wedding
    6) Mêleé Island
    7) Parts
    8) Guybrush & Elaine
    9) Scumm Bar
    10) Lechuck Crew
    11) Lechuck Theme Song
    12) The Circus
    13) Lechuck Theme Song 2
    14) Lechuck Theme Song 3
    15) Monkey Island
    16) Mêleé Island
    17) The End Song
    18) Intro Song
    19) Stan's
    20) Lechuck
    21) Lechuck
    22) Canibals
    23) Sound Fx1
    24) Sound Fx2
    25) Sound Fx3

    *Note: there is no track 1. Track 1 is just the angry static.

    There, I just posed the entire track listing from Monkey Madness and that was the highlight of my day. I really need a girlfriend. *Brakes down into uncontrollable, inconsolable crying*
  • BaggeBagge
    edited October 2009
    bobdevis wrote: »
    DoTT and Hit the Road do not have any cd-audio. It's all MIDI music.

    Actually, my old Sam & Max HtR-CD has four audio tracks on it: Theme song, Mole man theme, King of the Creatures and Bigfoot Shuffle.
  • thehardmenpaththehardmenpath
    edited October 2009
    Moleman theme was really cool.
  • BrainiacBrainiac
    edited October 2009
    Woodsyblue wrote: »
    *Note: there is no track 1. Track 1 is just the angry static.

    Actually, in most Mixed Mode CDs, the first track is the data track. In other words, trying to play the first track is trying to play the game in an audio CD player. There are some incomplete lists of playable CDs on Wikipedia. Sam & Max and Loom are on the list; the Monkey Island CDs are not.
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited October 2009
    I heard if you play it backwards it says "LeChuck is Dead"
  • BrainiacBrainiac
    edited October 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    I heard if you play it backwards it says "LeChuck is Dead"

    You need a CD playing backwards to tell you that?! :p
  • techie775techie775
    edited October 2009
    It's just too bad they never did this for Monkey Island 2. Although I think the music is some where online to download (maybe mixinmojo?) You can always use ScummVM if the music doesn't work when you play regularly.
  • BaggeBagge
    edited October 2009
    techie775 wrote: »
    It's just too bad they never did this for Monkey Island 2. Although I think the music is some where online to download (maybe mixinmojo?) You can always use ScummVM if the music doesn't work when you play regularly.

    MI2 uses iMuse, which (at least at the time) only worked with MIDI music.
  • techie775techie775
    edited October 2009
    I'm talking about this link;
    http://soundtracks.mixnmojo.com/mi2.htm

    There actually the mp3 versions. I know they weren't made for MI2 to be played in the game but they are neat to hear if you've played it. They have made mp3s for other lucasarts games as well.
  • nitsujsedohrnitsujsedohr
    edited October 2009
    Yeah, I am using some of the Music for my Halloween Music this year. Some of those old MIDI's from MI2 were Simple and spooky!
  • PirateguybrushPirateguybrush
    edited October 2009
    Irishmile wrote: »
    I remember finding out they did this on game CD-ROMs back in the day and going through all my CD-ROMs to find out which ones had music.

    I did the exact same thing, discovered it by one day putting a game cd in my cd player to see what would happen. That game? Monkey Madness.
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