Lemmings SEGA Mega Drive Complete Soundtrack CD (Gens Emulator Edition)
9Gens Emulator
Europe 50Hz
''What's this? Lemmings again? Why is this guy uploading the same thing over and over?'' Well yeah, it's uploaded for a third time but once again it's in a different mix. I only made this video as my video camera has stopped working and I originally wanted to film something else with it but couldn't so in a fit of rage and despair, I gave you this.
This third time I decided to record the soundtrack from an emulator and I chose the old Gens Plus Emulator as that emulator does a pretty good mix of this soundtrack compared to some of the other emulators on offer. For example, Kega Fusion sounds dreadful emulating this game's music, it produces the PSG square waves at a really loud volume which I don't like and the PSG periodic hi-hat cymbals are at times too quiet.
Gens Emulator (as heard here) sounds quite different to both the model 2 ASIC-YM3438 and model 1 discrete YM2612 recordings that I have already uploaded to Youtube. Gens has a much louder PSG Periodic noise hi-hat cymbal, the drums are also nice and thin with no lisp, the PSG square waves are at a quieter volume which makes some tracks like ''Miners And Climbers'' have a stronger stereo reverb effect and the music in general is very clean and tidy. The bad thing is that in some tracks there is a little squeaky sound which seems to come from the FM channel that plays the snare drum as the guitar echo effects share that same channel and play in between the snares causing that weird squeak. You can hear the squeak on ''The Ascending Pillar'' and ''As Long As You Try Your Best''.
Sunsoft Special was the only track I recorded from a different emulator (Regen) as it sounded terrible in Gens, the trumpets kept making a weird noise drowning out the rest of the instruments so I chose to record it with Regen carefully matching Gens's FM and PSG levels myself.
PROS:
1. Nice and loud PSG periodic hi-hat cymbals
2. Drums are thin and trimmed with no lisp
3. PSG square waves are quieter than normal which makes some tracks sound better
CONS:
1. Some tracks have a weird squeak coming from the echo effects of the FM lead guitar
2. Sunsoft Special sounds really dreadful on Gens so it is replaced by a Regen version of it
NOTES: Have you ever wondered why this particular port of the game has an option to play music and FM/PSG sound effects together or only DAC samples on their own? It's because this Sunsoft sound driver was literally programmed that way to only allow FM and PSG together or only PCM/DAC samples on their own. Yes, you still hear the Lemmings say ''Let's Go'' at the start of every level but that's before any music starts playing. Because of this, every Sunsoft in-house game uses FM drums and never uses samples or samples separately.
MUSIC COMPOSERS: Tim Wright, Brian Johnston, David Whittaker, Bob Merrill, Tony Carr, Ziggy Newman, Phillips Brooks, Lewis Redner, Larry Groce, Ennio Morricone, Naoki Kodaka, Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya, Richard Wagner, Frédéric Chopin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Pachelbel, Jacques Offenbach.
MD MUSIC ARRANGED BY: Hirohiko Takayama 1992.
SOUND PROGRAM: Tsukamoto 1992.
SOUND DRIVER: Sunsoft Custom V2 Z80.
SOUND QUALITY: 384 Kbps
TRACKS: ♫
1. Miners And Climbers Disco (00:20) Brian Johnston
2. The Ascending Pillar Disco (04:16) Tim Wright
3. What An Awesome Music Track! (08:35) Tim Wright
4. A Beast Of A Dance Part 2 (12:23) Tim Wright
5. Not As Complicated As It Sounds (15:45) Tim Wright
6. As Long As You Try Your Best (18:38) Tim Wright
7. Sunsoft Special/Ufouria/Hebereke (22:15) Naoki Kodaka
8. March Of The Mods (25:10) Tony Carr/Hirohiko Takayama
9. Pachelbel's Canon Tailor Made (27:35) Brian Johnston
10. Enjoy The Show (31:10) Tim Wright
11. Dance Of The Reed Flutes (36:04) Tim Wright
12. The Galop Infernal/Can-Can (39:38) Brian Johnston
13. London Bridge Is Falling Down (43:14) Tim Wright
14. 5 Miles If You Love Puggsy/Puggs In Space (46:55) Tim Wright
15. Forest Green/O'Little Town Of Bethlehem Suite (51:01) Tim Wright
16. Rondo Alla Turca (54:57) Tim Wright
17. How Much Is That Doggie In The Window? (58:06) Brian Johnston
18. She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain (01:00:40) Brian Johnston
19. Under Construction Disco (01:04:03) Brian Johnston
20. Menacing! (01:07:50) Tim Wright
21. A Beast Of A Dance Part 1 (01:11:05) Tim Wright
22. Dance Of The Four Little Swans (01:14:21) Tim Wright
23. Ten Green Bottles Suite (01:16:36) Brian Johnston
24. Intro (01:19:34)
This CD was made in 2016 and recorded from the old Gens Plus emulator, so it's playing an emulated soundtrack on real hardware if that makes sense as I used my Mega-CD II attachment to play it back.
Can you dig it?