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The First Samurai PC Speaker Intro

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Uploaded by on May 12, 2009

The best use of the PC speaker I've ever heard. This is from the DOS version. It supported soundblaster, but at the time I didn't have one, and I was amazed to hear this music coming from my PC speaker.

Composer: Nicholas A. Jones / Martin Walker
Developer: Vivid Image
Year: 1992

Video made with DosBox.

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  • If you think this is the best the PC speaker can produce then check out my vids about Crazy Cars, Space Racer and Mach 3 - these use real digitized sound samples on the PC speaker.

  • @fronzel99 I am very interested in hearing this, but I'm sorry, the sound is too quiet in your videos and I can't actually hear the music you are talking about. Let me know if you ever repost them with better sound.

  • ...!!!

    At first I was skeptical, I thought it couldn't get any better than Monkey Island on the PC Speaker. But this has FAR surpassed it in technical ability. I wonder if the buzzer ever broke or skipped a beat trying to play this back!

  • It played just fine on my PC in the early 90s. The game itself didn't run so great, but the title music was flawless.

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  • The low arpeggios... After a while it makes me start to breath funny.

  • Mega Man X and Super Street Fighter 2 both by Capcom and Rozner Labs used the PC Speaker for Music instead of SFX and it's really bad and annoying on both games. They do support other Sound Cards but my Laptop is from recent years and DOS doesn't support the sound card so PC Speaker is my only option.

  • holy shit

  • This is very good PC speaker music here for a game not using any advanced tricks to play samples. Just pure arpeggios here, done very well.

    Other games managed to get neat effects like polyphonic sound, or forcing samples out the PC speaker.

    But the undisputed king of PC Speaker music is Pinball Fantasies, which played 4-channel MOD files out that thing!

  • Incredible music!!!

  • haha the music reminds me of ... Lotus.. racing game lol

  • I prefer this over the amiga version. Thanks for posting.

  • Ah this sound, it brings back memories, thank You for that :)

  • Amstrad Music?

  • @Sakanakao My other camera records the sound at a higher volume but its picture quality is too low. For me it works through youtube though when i just turn up the volume. The Highscreen handy Organizer has a quite weak PC speaker anyways so it's naturally not as loud as your normal PC speaker from a desktop machine. I suggest you try downloading some of the mentioned games and try on your own machine. Ghostbusters 2 (Currently upping video) even got digitized speech in a cutscene.

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