Thank you very much, Negative Charge! The loading screen for 1983 tunes looks fantastic!
After reading your post, I was expecting a bad quality with Android 2 and the others, but Android 2 sounded very good! The sound/instruments are wrong, "drums" can´t be heard well, but it sounds good otherwise.
The worse happens with Cosmic Convoy, as there is a pause for a fraction of a second after each note, but the sound quality is good otherwise, for me, at least.
M.U.L.E. is an example of a tune what sounds wrong when compared to the original, but the result is really interesting, it´s like the new different arrangement!
It sounds like what BBC arrangement could have been in 1983, with a musician who wanted to give the tune a different touch!
I really like this M.U.L.E. conversion!
Here are some things what I found out. I noticed that Dig Dug, Archon and Blue Max are playing in NTSC speed. I have used to PAL speed, NTSC speed plays the tunes way too fast. Could you please convert them to PAL, when you have time?
No hurry, when you can, if it´s possible.
All tunes in my year lists are (should be!) in PAL speed.
Could it be possible to put in a key to make "Loop the current tune" ON/OFF? As currently when the tune ends, BBC SID TUNE program will load the next tune and so on. In example, Dig Dug is a short looping tune, at least it loops on Windows Sidplay player and during playing the real game, it would be nice to continue to listen it and then press ESCAPE by myself when I have listened enough.
Humphrey seems to loop five times, Necromances does about the same, does their SID file have "looping bit" ON?
Punchy is a looping tune from the same author, David Whittaker, but for some reason it does not loop on Beeb-Player.
Frantic Freddy´s first subtunes will play just once, but the cover of Walter Murphy´s 70´s version of 5th of Beethoven, loops around five times before the next subtune starts.
Necromancer seem to miss the other tunes.
Five seconds is missing from the beginning of Hover Bovver. I forgot to check it´s SID file, as there was just one song in the game, and after checking it now, it appeared that there are two tunes there, even it is just one same song! First tune plays just five seconds and is the beginning and the second tune is the rest of the tune. Could you please put them together,
when you have time, thank you.
Lazy Jones is an example of the game with lots of nice but very short tunes, each minigame has it´s own tune what plays again and again until that minigame´s ends to "Game Over". As those tunes are so short, it will not sound good, if all Lazy Jones tunes are played just once and the next one will instantly play when the previous one have ended. I still suggest to use one disk just for Lazy Jones jukebox,
menu showing all the minitunes. Each Lazy Jones tune is originally a real hit record, so it´s possible to put in tunes´ real names. Lazy Jones tunes will really need that option, when a key, spacebar in example, is pressed on the menu screen tune looping is then ON, and each Lazy Jones tune will continue playing again and again, until ESCAPE is pressed.
Another idea is to program two keys more to Beeb-Player, to be able to select sub-tunes when the game has more han one tune, like Frantic Freddy. As LEFT/RIGHT arrows are used already, UP/DOWN arrows could choose subtunes then?
Or to change game choosing keys to UP/DOWN, as the SID TUNE menu uses UP/DOWN and then change LEFT/RIGHT arrows for subtune selection keys.
Just an idea. It would be nice to be able to listen Frantic Freddy´s Queen arrangement A Crazy Thing Called Love, without having to listen all the other subtunes first.
Another wish, when one presses ESCAPE and the menu gets loaded back, it would be nice to have the blue selection bar to stay on the current song. Now it jumps always back to the first tune.
One on One did not play till the end, the next tune just starts to load before the end. Protector II seems to do the same.
About all of these, when you have time or if you have time, to fix them.
If you don´t have time to fix them, just forget it.
About that 22 games limit per disk, I think it´s not a problem at all, rest of the tunes from that year can be put to another disk, like BBC 1984 SID TUNES, BBC 1984 SID TUNES 2.
Overall I like all the tunes a lot! Thank you for all your hard work, Negative Charge!
Please, when converting more tunes from my lists, if you think the quality of some conversions is not good enough in your opinion, I would be glad to hear them anyway!