Front Page Sports General MIDI Roland SC-55mkII Soundtracks
5Here are the musical cues of all early "Front Page Sports" games from Sierra/Dynamix that use MIDI rather than sampled audio for music. Four games are represented in this video.
Even as all of these games originally had their music composed for General MIDI, going by the instrument choices in the game's MIDI files, some of these titles do not officially support General MIDI. Front Page Sports: Football plays no music at all when General MIDI is selected due to the same Dynamix sound system bug that also plagued "The Incredible Machine" and "Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science". "Front Page Sports: Football Pro '95" and "Front Page Sports: Baseball '94" had General MIDI support disabled because the Human Machine Interface sound system annoyingly would have played PCM drums, intended for use only together with FM music, on top of the General MIDI music, a result that can still be achieved by manually editing the configuration file appropriately.
The Dynamix Logo is an exception. Being originally composed for Roland MT-32, it sounds very disappointing in its General MIDI conversion, which is why we present the original MT-32 version instead to better represent the composer's intent.
Recorded from 2x Roland SC-55mkII.
Front Page Sports: Football (1992). Music by Jan Paul Moorhead. (Song names are based on original filenames)
00:00 - Dynamix Logo (Original Roland MT-32 Version)
00:12 - Football Theme
02:26 - Walkin'
06:36 - Injns
10:30 - Teppin'
14:25 - WH Boy Funk
18:08 - Football Groove
Front Page Sports: Football Pro (1993). Music by Christopher Stevens.
22:25 - NFL Logo
22:31 - Intro Animation
22:39 - Football 1993 Theme
Front Page Sports: Football Pro '95 (1994). Music by Timothy Steven Clarke.
23:40 - Title Theme
23:58 - Opening Credits
Front Page Sports: Baseball '94 (1994). Music by Timothy Steven Clarke. The short in-stadium "charge songs" are not included, as they are more like sound effects than actual music.
25:19 - Sierra Logo
25:28 - Title Theme
26:55 - The Star-Spangled Banner
28:08 - Take Me Out to the Ball Game