Dungeon Keeper OST - 02 - Soft Flute

[soopakoopavids]

Evil is good?...man, I accidentaly boarded the plane to Soviet Russia again.

[Tait011]

I used to sit and look at the level chooser/campaign map, as a kid, for ages imagining what it would look like on foot adventuring the land. Why don they make games like this anymore?

[LrdVnm]

I have the original Dungeon Keeper Gold and played it since I was a wee tyke. Never heard this song, though. None of 'em, for that matter, only the one accompanying the intro sequence.

[ThingOfDoom]

@LrdVnm Some copies of Gold had no music, a great loss, the was one of the most atmospheric parts

[JAGUARDRUIDA]

never heard this in the game and i finish that hardasbone xhit twice

[killerbee2k]

@JAGUARDRUIDA Its the music when you are in the airship or tower or whatever looking down on the realm :P

If you run the game by ISO or crack you only have the birds singing and the Church bells in the background.

It is a very nice and beautiful ambitient song, perfect for reading :)

[JAGUARDRUIDA]

never heard this in the game and i finish that hardasbone shit twice

[Sweage92]

some one seed this game on piratebay!!!! come on its like 100000 people want this game!

[killerbee2k]

@Sweage92 Buy this game on GOG.com ;) only $5.99 and you will support a great store.

[Sweage92]

@killerbee2k does it work on new computers? :)

[killerbee2k]

@Sweage92 yes, it works on windows 7 and generally with all new graphic cards and drivers, but some of their old fps games dont work on new computers.

[HeliosCore]

I liked the first Dungeon Keeper more than the second one. Not because of gameplay mechanics or anything like that, but because the first game had a more serious attitude, a darker humor.

As much as I like games such as Evil Genius, Overlord and so on, they are a bit too humorous to give you the feeling of being a malicious tyrant. Dungeon Keeper 1 had humor, but didn't become "wacky" as the others. This is one of the many reasons why it was superior.

[Tzilandi]

@HeliosCore "Waterdream Warm: A region of pointless frolicking and endless pleasure. No one here understands the true meaning of suffering and RANDOM SHOCKING VIOLENCE METED OUT ARBITRARILY.

[loonytin]

this is very beautiful, calming and sad at the same time. brilliant

[hungryghost1975]

Thank you so much for this! Been looking for it for ages

[warling666]

@hungryghost1975

same here, good days :(

[KonstantinosXIII]

I bought it at 1997, and still now, it's one of the games I play more. I really love this game, it's nice to be bad... :p

[faab007]

Thanks (A LOT) for uploading this

[Emad369]

miss it so... best game ever made

[unlyckystrike]

@Emad369 install and run it with dosbox and there you go. press alt+r during the game to play in high-resolution

[Toshfunk]

@Emad369 i know this is a while later but did you ever consider downloading it if you miss it?

[rexilia]

awesome

[rexilia]

amazing

[ExaggeratedDread]

where did you get all the sounds from?

[ouweopah]

evil

[esmod89]

how do you open these redbook files?

[koletha]

Redbook? I don't know what you're on about, sorry.

[MonChrMe]

Redbook's the name of the CD music standard, poster probably didn't realise that either.

[MonChrMe]

I know it's a bit late - but Redbook just means that the music is a standard music CD. You should be able to use any regular CD-ripping tool. Try EAC (Exact Audio Copy) if wmp won't do it for you.

[Alignn]

@MonChrMe

It's really kind of cool how it can play in any old CD player. Played it in a car once.

[Stonezorz]

@Alignn

Heh, DK isn't the only game that featured neat hidden stuff like that. If you have a large library of old PC and PSX games you should try stuffing some of them in a CD player.

Note that if a CD only has one track on it it does not have any songs. The first track is ALWAYS the game data itself and thus unplayable.

Your speakers can go produce some weird shit if you decide to play the over 40 minutes long track anyways. :D

[MonChrMe]

Don't play the data - it can damage your speakers (very loud sounds at frequencies outside their response range).

But yeah, a lot of old games that did that. Screamer and Quarantine were the first two I remember seeing it on - mind you, for these older games the game data itself was tiny and machines didn't have the power to handle MP3 decompression at the same time, so this was the easiest way of doing it. (tbc)

[MonChrMe]

(continued...)

The trick is that the CD-ROM drive was actually playing the music itself, so didn't need any CPU power to do it. This was passed to the sound card via a direct link (4 pin Molex), which merged it into the normal audio stream.

Sadly, Modern retail PC's dont tend to have the link, and most apps nowadays use the PATA/SATA bus instead, which means the CPU gets involved anyway. Result : Modern games don't bother and just use compression instead, there's no longer a performance hit.

[Stonezorz]

@MonChrMe

Nice, never heard the full theory behind it. Always cool to learn more. :D

[jordsoo1]

i mean Russell Shaw my bad :P

[jordsoo1]

Russel Shaw is awesome :D