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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991)

Duration: 2:09

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I have been messing around with SCUMMVM this past week, and in doing so I was inspired to find an awful and poorly made General MIDI soundfont. Surprisingly, finding a soundfont that was purposefully bad was difficult, but I discovered game-specific soundfonts created (or I guess compiled?) by iTeachVader and others. Sometimes they sounded quaint, or a bit off when used in SCUMMVM games. iTeachVader's Ace Attorney Investigations soundfont worked well with this intro, this other Pokemon RSE soundfont sounded good for a lot of games too.

But this... This is the Ghost Trick soundfont from iTeachVader. It sounds fine when used for the Day of the Tentacle Opening. But this... it created the perfect cacophony I was longing for! If you don't know what this opening is suppose to sound like, the MT-32 versions is what I'd consider definitive: https://youtu.be/zbtXOIs0_ho Obviously, this is a fine soundfont, but when used in ways it shouldn't be, it created the perfect result.

There are voices because I felt it made it funnier. You can't typically get voices when playing this game with SCUMMVM. But creating an "unofficial talkie version" using the Special Edition version is possible thanks to a tool some nice guy made.

Thanks to iTeachVader, Capcom, and LucasArts!

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