Can you name the games he's written music for? I'm not educated on it, but would love to discover more of this awesome music. Also, I love your music too! :)
@@SSJ4Lunchbox Isn't that one multiplatform? And did they write the music for Meg version as well? As often different teams ported music composed for one lead platform. But outside of the last point, that would be a third game for Meg that they've done :) .
Which is something that's very hard to achieve using 4-OP FM. Often times you'll just end up with a distorted mess when you try to emulate that electric guitar crunch using feedback. It's funny how the Genesis is often thought of as being more suitable for hard metal sounds, as opposed to more "soft" sounds for the SNES. When in fact it's very easy to create good sounding "soft" patches on the Genesis (bells, pads etc), and rather hard to create any sort of decent distortion guitar.
This channel is the gift that keeps on giving. This OST has every reason to be beloved. We don’t deserve Tim Follin, and its tragic all his work went to games that either never saw the light of day, like this one, or just couldn’t live up to their hype af soundtrack. Also, wtf Tim it was just Pictionary.
Dustin, my man, you're killing with these uploads!! All my reverence to you! On a more serious note, this is great historical documentation. So much stuff gets lost, games included, and the rarer stuff may never reach someone seeking inspiration. And without that inspiration, said person wouldn't do a great big thing themselves. So thank you kindly, Dustin, for your work.
A fantastic OST! It's a shame that we didn't get more Follin on the Genesis, though I'm definitely glad this particular soundtrack reached the light of day.
Tim Folin did his one and only ost for the Mega Drive and it’s a banger and Tim himself has said he regrets not getting to work with the Mega Drive hardware more, I’m glad you did this in 50 Hz as it sounds better and was meant to be at this speed.
Neither 50hz nor 60hz are the correct speeds, Follin said it's somewhere in between although I do like to listen to the music in this game at 50hz over 60hz. He only used 5 channels for music, which would have been if Follin ever had to make music on a YM2151 that has 8 FM 4-op channels or on the YM2608 that has ADPCM samples, we won't know but if he liked the FM, as mentioned in the interviews, I would have liked him to experience FM more.
@@alexisynthfm1988 He is actually credited on other smd games but they are quick conversions or arrangements from existing compositions I think. Because they kind of suck.
@@iwanttocomplainArranged by Tony Williams, this was the only time Tim Follin composed an FM synthesizer. Software Creations on Super Nintendo had the Follin brothers and on Mega Drive Tony Williams either for music for exclusive Mega Drive games or Super Nintendo ports, but it was obvious that Tony Williams didn't know what he was doing with the FM and produced Pretty bad FM patches and music, since this game is not from Software Creations but from Malibu, I suppose they hired Follin and had another sound programmer for this game.
@@alexisynthfm1988 Follin had a long term collaborator who wrote the software (his brother, Geoffe?). The driver used here was only used for this unused soundtrack.
@@iwanttocomplainTim Follin's brother did not participate in this soundtrack, the sound was programmed by Dean Belfield and it was the only time he collaborated with Follin.
This sound track will seriously never get old, its just amazing and has great tunes. Too bad the game got canceled and that it was Tim Follin's only Megadrive composision
It's so interesting that you would upload this; there was a time when I didn't really care for the Genesis's sound, aside from stuff that almost everyone like, such as Sonic, but this was what really opened my mind to it, and that eventually led me to this channel.
The guitars sound so different in this recording. I remember years ago there was another recording on RU-vid from a real Genesis but the guitars sounded different. Really nice work from Tim Follin.
This has to be one of my favorite video game OST's of all time. Glad Tim made it so that the music can work in either 60 or 50 hz for NTSC and PAL because either way it slams. Its a shame that no one in the 90s got to experience this when it was supposed to come out
I think it's the only game, before the Dreamcast, that Tim Follin did on SEGA hardware. And WHAT A PIECE! :). I mean did he do any other before the Dreamcast?
I may be weird for saying that I prefer the 60hz version, lol. Maybe because that's simply the version I'm used to hearing, as opposed to the 50hz version, which is the first version that most other people heard.
That's right! Not only that, but being the wizard that he is Tim didn't use the 6th channel at all (the only one capable of playing samples, but also perfectly capable of regular FM as well)
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