Laserschwert

I think it was in Daniel's interview with Clint Bajakian, where he mentioned that the Adlib versions were (always?) some kind of manual down-convert from the Roland tracks.

Just contact damn support! Do I need to get any clearer than that? *wink wink*

Here's a suggestion regarding the (missing) contents of the USB drive: contact LRG support about that. Can't say more than that, I guess.

Bought! Mine was missing, and everything was just crashing around inside the box.

I did NOT know that Clint paid the live orchestra recordings for his Emperor's Tomb soundtrack out of his own pockets. That's dedication!

You're right, I didn't include the English Book of Patterns since it was already planned to be included in the LRG release in printed form. I guess it would make sense for me to add it eventually. And yes, the German BoP did in fact ship with an English cover. I've translated it to German for the black-and-white version of the book, since I made those covers myself anyway.

So, here are my restorations I've originally made for the inclusion in the LOOM LRG release: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lW-KGbfLVHoctL9LS_Tvr6PGvryTEqKv?usp=sharing Granted, it was never guaranteed that these could be included, and I worked on these purely out of passion for it, thinking that IF these could be included, they should at least have the highest possible quality (that I could achieve). I've worked on these over the course of a few weeks, finishing up a few remaining ones in the last couple of days, and I'm pretty sure these represent the best preservations of these documents available. These are sourced mostly from brand-new 600dpi scans provided by several collectors (which I will credit once I've figured out who wants to get a mention and who prefers to stay anonymous), with meticulous manual clean-up done to remove dirt and damage, straightening the scans, while re-coloring some of the documents (like the color-coded hint books) and re-building some of the others (especially the Book of Patterns). The Books of Patterns (in German, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Japanese) are, for the most part, provided as 600dpi black & white version, suitable for printing, and 300dpi versions that included the original paper color/texture. The hint books (in English, Spanish and Japanese, at 600dpi) are available as both decoded versions (with the red overlay removed) as well as the original red-coded versions (except for the French hint book, which came as a simple B&W print out without any color-coding). The manuals (in English, German, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Japanese) are provided as 600dpi black & white PDFs, with some of them including the game's reference cards (sometimes for multiple systems). And yeah, that's it. Aside from the different game versions and the audio drama in all four languages, these were the files I was hoping could be included on the LRG release's USB drive. Sadly, it didn't turn out that way.

Haven't gotten mine yet. By the way, am I the only one who can't send private messages on this forum anymore? Always throws a 403 error.

Well, that's a real shame, then. I helped out collecting pretty much every version available (including all foreign language versions), all foreign versions of the audio drama, and cleaned up tons of brand-new scans of the "Book of Patterns", the game's manual and the hint book (each one in several different languages - my guess would be, all the ones that were released). Looks like I'll just dump all those documents (minus the game, obviously) on archive.org, or something. If Mojo wants to host them, I'll happily provide them.

And it's done. "Sophia's Atlantis Presentation": Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land

Works great, thanks again! What seems to be missing in a lot of the files are tempo changes (or even an initial tempo), so I guess those were originally SYSEX commands interpreted by iMUSE? Also, here's a little preview of what's coming next: WIP and Stuff by Laserschwert

Well, that works like a charm. Thanks a lot! However, I forgot another feature that might would be a handy addition to the tool, since iMUSE files often contain multiple pieces of music in the same file, and that would be basically outputting one file per track (not to be confused with channels). For now, I've used the tool MIDIplex for that, but it's a bit cumbersome, as it only allows deleting tracks, not save them individually.

To be fair, I don't need to replicate all the interactivity anyway. I just pick and choose whatever sounds the best (and usually I just want to have the most complete track possible, so muting channels isn't even desired).

Wow, this is coming along nicely, and fast! Thanks a lot for this. I didn't realize iMUSE would send instrument change commands as well. It would be great to have those properly converted to GM patch changes as well.

Anyway, I finalized "The Coldest Year of My Life", which is such a beautiful track! Hard to believe, something like this to show up in a 90s point-and-click adventure. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land And yeah, the Adlib and MT-32 versions of the track use different endings as Indy leaves for New York.

A command line tool would be great! It would be enough to just use the next best General MIDI instrument, just to get a quick overview of the track. Does the attached file help? (this one seems to leave out the ones that are identical) mt2gm.txt

Also, since DMs aren't working for me anymore, @Serge, is there a tool to quickly convert the instrument mappings of MT-32 MIDIs to General MIDI? I only found MT2GM.exe, which won't run under modern 64-bit Windows.

Since getting side-tracked is my thing, I took a look at the latter part of the "National Archaeology" track, which is the "The Coldest Year of My Life" cue, playing as Indy talks about Sophia. And doing that, I noticed something odd: If I'm not mistaken, the AdLib soundtrack seems to play a different theme at the end of the track than the MT-32 version. Anybody know more about this? I like them both, so I'll see if I can combine them. Laserschwert · National Archaeology Ending MT32 Laserschwert · National Archaeology Ending AdLib

The problem is that soundbanks are different per track. And since those instrument mappings are hardcoded, there doesn't seem to be a way to extract them along with each track.

I don't know why I never realized that the N64 version of "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine" had a MIDI-based soundtrack. I mean, d'uh, how else would 40 minutes of music fit on a cartridge? But hold on, it's not as easy as it sounds, as the music files in N64 games don't usually follow the General MIDI format, or regular MIDI format in general. Stuff like instruments mapping (which are usually different and hardcoded for each track) and performance definitions (pitchbend, etc.) are using their own commands, and instrument samples are included with the game as soundbanks. While there are tools that make extracting the raw music files as MIDI rather straightforward, I haven't managed to assign proper instruments to the tracks. Anybody smarter than me could probably give this a try? Obviously, you'll need a ROM of the game, and I can't help you with that.

Here's a compilation of most of the logos and typography I've recreated in high-res over the years. It's always fun re-building these things or researching which fonts were used for taglines or subtitles.

Oh right, haven't posted it here yet. I've added this to the project: For this I've used scans of both the FM Towns box and CD cover. With a bit of machine learning magic I've trained the smaller (but textless) image against the larger one, thus upscaling the smaller one to a similar level-of-detail. That and some manual touch-up and clean-up.

Wait, why did I never realize that there are two versions of this painting?? And the first one looks final enough to be used. Did they just realize they needed a narrower aspect ratio? Why repaint it, though, instead of cropping it?

As a huge Uncharted fan, my first thought (and most likely the one of many, many others) playing those games was "imagine an Indiana Jones game like this". But then again, for Indy you would at least have to get rid of all the shooting, because that's not Indiana Jones. He's more like the guy with an empty revolver. And when losing long-range combat like that, it only makes sense to lose the long-range perspective as well. Close combat warrants a close-up perspective, so the first-person view is indeed a better fit. Granted, I wouldn't have minded a third-person game at all, but then again, Uncharted did it so well (the controls, the procedural animations, character detail), it would have been disappointing to see a franchise that's so dear to my heart (Indy, in this case) not reaching the same heights.