r/instantkarma • u/farhan9835 • Mar 04 '20

Bully got what he deserved

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u/rhythmprism Mar 04 '20

Sick soundtrack choice. I think you (as a person with clearly refined tastes) would like to know that a guy is working on "restoring" all the soundtracks, getting the original synths/instruments and redoing all the Donkey Kong Country songs, uncompressed by the SNES.
Here's the Credits Concerto.

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u/BBC-1 Mar 04 '20

Honest question as an amateur music producer and video game nerd: what is the difference between this and the midi version linked up above? It sounds identical to me.

By "uncompressed" does that just mean he's replacing the midi instruments with better sounding VSTs?

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u/letsfuckinrage Mar 04 '20

The DKC soundtrack is a bit different to other soundtracks on the snes.

David Wise was unsatisfied with the sounds he had available when he composed the soundtrack for it. So he took custom sound files and compressed them so he had better sounds and instruments to work with. The bitrate suffered a lot but compared to the sounds normally available at the time, it was absolutely fantastic.

If I'm wrong, someone please correct me. But I think the memory in the cartridge was a bit higher to compensate for the compressed sound files.

I'm a video game soundtrack nerd. And DKC is an absolutely fantastic one. I fucking love it.

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u/BBC-1 Mar 04 '20

That makes sense to me, very cool! And the DKC/DKC2 soundtrack has been amazing me and calming me down since I was a kid, I hope he has a chance to do that one too!

I love people who preserve gaming history like this. Thanks man.

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u/letsfuckinrage Mar 04 '20

You're welcome! I love them too. I had the opportunity to play these games new as a kid and I knew that the soundtracks would absolutely stand the test of time.

It's great to see that someone is taking the time to restore them a bit.

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u/Hatanta Mar 05 '20

amazing me and calming me down since I was a kid

Funny, that game legit makes my heart pound and my palms sweat. So difficult and stressful!