Space Quest III - Reorchestrated (FULL SOUNDTRACK ALBUM) 

Thank you so much!

This is probably the best rendition of the soundtrack out there!

Thank you! There was a 3D remake of the first bit of the garbage freighter a while back. It looked pretty amazing. There's footage of it on RU-vid.

Thank you! Glad you like it :)

Thank you 😁 Seeing this on vinyl will be the true award/reward for me.

That makes me so happy to hear, thank you!

We did a remastered version of it, along with some new tracks, for the Space Quest III 3D fan game: error47.bandcamp.com/album/space-quest-iii-3d-remastered-and-expanded-soundtrack

The upscaling is a bit wonky sometimes because the engine sometimes has to make some not-so-educated guesses as to which bits go where. Also, turns out all the grit and dust (single-pixel textures) were in fact drawn with a CIRCLE TOOL, so it ends up drawing a little spherical dot! Free tip, if you play the game through ScummVM, there's an option in the menu to bypass the dithering. It's a controversial choice but it can be done. ;)

@@spacequesthistorian Oh, I didn't know about that option in ScummVM. Yeah, I'm not sure I like it that much, in fact, I think in some areas, it LOSES detail, and of course it doesn't touch the bit-mapped dithering. Anyway, I kinda got the capture to work (after completely reinstalling Win98SE and learning the onboard secondary IDE channel on that machine is completely bunked. Oh, and after arguing with Windows for like 3 hours that yes, that driver IS for the video card I have you using), and I uploaded footage of the SQ3 intro on my channel if you want to look at it for comparison. I think the robot's room showcases it best (but Roger's close-up looks pretty shnazzy, too).

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Thank you! 😁

@@spacequesthistorian Anytime =)

What do you mean, SQ3 isn't perfect the way it is? :P (Seriously, thank you!)

@@spacequesthistorian the art is fine the way it is. It's eye catching.

Thank you! My buddy Jon and I have actually since remastered this and written over an hour of new music for an upcoming 3D remake of SQ3. Very excited for people to hear that!

Yep, that's what PickledDog talks about with sprites vs backgrounds. The tractor beam is actually a sprite so when it comes down, it's all lovely chunky pixels.

@@spacequesthistorian I've never approved of undithering, and upscaling like this is perhaps even more problematic. But that's just my opinion.

@@Kawa-oneechan This is also the conclusion I came to in the "SQ with upscaled graphics" video. These games are fine the way they are, and trying to upscale their artwork is doing them a bit of a disservice. At the same time, though, it is endlessly fascinating. And the primary reason we did this was to give the SQ3 vinyl some cool artwork that few people had seen before, kinda like what we did with SQ4. (Although SQ4 was a bit easier.)

@@spacequesthistorian The worst part is people who insist on using undither because our modern LCD screens don't blur the image the way old CRTs did. Considering even the old IBM monitors that came with the IBM PC AT could handle 80 column text mode with pretty crisp edges, half that amount should be at least as crisp. You may have seen me tweet about it.

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@@spacequesthistorian 🤘 Absolutley! 😁

Thank you! Cheers!

@@spacequesthistorian Too bad I don't own a vinyl player :D. Cheers to you ! Although I have to ask : why did you chose the weird graphics filter over the pixelated awesomeness of SQIII ?

Yeah, there are really very few music cues in there. But, interestingly, TWO death cues, not just one.

We couldn't quite fit the Astro Chicken music onto the vinyl. 😅 BUT... I did actually recently do a remastered version of the soundtrack for an upcoming 3D remake of Space Quest III, and it includes TWO versions of the Astro Chicken theme!

@@spacequesthistorian the remake from Kjell Emanuelsson which was only done for the first part of the game? or another one?? Kjell's section looked and felt really great i thought!

That's pretty dumb of me, actually, you're right. I'm on my phone right now but I'll add one later. In the meantime, here's the album on Bandcamp. It's a free download if you want it. spacequesthistorian.bandcamp.com/album/space-quest-iii-reorchestrated-remixed

The vinyls are long gone, I'm afraid. But there's a digital version here: spacequesthistorian.bandcamp.com/album/space-quest-iii-reorchestrated-remixed - and an expanded, remastered version here: error47.bandcamp.com/album/space-quest-iii-3d-remastered-and-expanded-soundtrack

Should be shipping out mid November. You should have gotten an email from Qrates about it.

Do you mean the graphics? Those aren't filters. What you see is what happens if you tell the game's vector graphics to render at a higher resolution. It's recorded through something called FreeSCI that tries to interpolate the vector instructions for high resolution displays. Sometimes it's a little wonky, but that's because it essentially has to guess where some lines intersect or are meant to stop.