I was genuinely disappointed when the version of the first game in Bubsy Two-Fur turned out to just be the SNES version and not the old Super Bubsy PC version.
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Digital Foundry Retro: Bubsy
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Could you share your result from those modules? I have the disc here if you just want me to send you the midi files now so you don't have to wait for it to come in. I'm genuinely curious.
I did appreciate the first song of the video, you undoubtedly forced John to play at a gunpoint.
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No need to, really, as the default MIDI player in Windows uses SC-55 soundfont.
Sure. Never recorded it before (normally just push everything from digital & modules through to a mixer and then out to my headphones/speakers), but I think I have everything I'd need to do that, _should_ just be a case of feeding the outputs back into my sound card's inputs. I can give it a shot.
Not all of the instruments sound right. For example:
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I knew I wasn't crazy for liking Bubsy as a kid.
The internet almost had me convinced it was a bad game but part of my really liked it despite how difficult it was.
Thanks John!
The internet almost had me convinced it was a bad game but part of my really liked it despite how difficult it was.
Thanks John!
I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend a fair amount of time playing the original game on Genesis.
I still remember that silly tune from the first area.
I still remember that silly tune from the first area.
I'm either crazy or you're using some weird slowed down version of the Nokia ringtone at the end of the video.
I did quite like the original Bubsy. The most obvious problem is it has Sonic's speed but not Sonic's ring system. One hit kills in a game where you've got about one tenth of a second to react don't work that well. The levels were fun to explore though, and very vertical (oh yes, and the bastard dies from falls, too).
I agree.
The fall damage & random sudden enemies are such a bummer though.
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This is most I've ever looked at any of the Bubsy games, only DF Retro could get me to do that. Bubsy 1 looks like something I could have enjoyed at the time at least. No Sonic by a long shot but still going into my play rotation.
James Pond: Robocod was my personal favourite of the short lived 90s mascot.
James Pond: Robocod was my personal favourite of the short lived 90s mascot.
My copy just came in, recorded a couple of tracks.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/929biday52hfgvm/bubsy.7z/file
Let me know if there was something specific you wanted
A friend at school let me borrow Bubsy from him, after reading on the game from magazines. It was sort of fun, but the speed, scroll and I guess backgrounds made me dizzy pretty fast. The only time I remember that happening to me before was CoolSpot's locomotive level.
Fun fact: Bubsy 2 was hyped af at least in Spain, yet I can't recall even seeing it on display at any mall.
Fun fact: Bubsy 2 was hyped af at least in Spain, yet I can't recall even seeing it on display at any mall.
I never played any of the Bubsy games growing up. Whenever I saw the game in print or saw the game boxes at the rental store, I was completely unattracted. I felt Bubsy's art style and design couldn't look more like a cheap man's version of Sonic if it tried. It's like I could smell the suckitude through its try-hard appearance. Everything about Bubsy's art is just so weird and offputting. It seems wildly inconsistent, proportions are off, looks like a mish-mash of whatevers. Then when I finally got around to playing it on an emulator many years later, I don't think I even bothered to finish the first level. What a waste of silicon chips that was. To think they thought they had a solid contender to Mario/Sonic is just... yeesh.
oh man nostalgia bomb. i rented the first game as a kid and remember really liking it, but that was more than 20 years ago so who knows if it was actually good.
that cartoon pilot is the most 90s thing i've ever seen.
that cartoon pilot is the most 90s thing i've ever seen.
You might want to see the thread I made regarding modern PC MIDI, because that is technically wrong.
Kinda curious now how Bubsy sounds played back in an SC-88Pro.
I never understood why people say Bubsy had a mediocre or generic soundtrack. The first game is full of very catchy melodies. My favorites are the River stage theme and the Tree Tops stage theme.
I posted a couple of files in a link above, recorded with an sc-55mk1 and an SC-8820 in SC-88 map mode. I can try the 88pro map mode if you want, though I suspect there wouldn't be much difference.
Hey, the more the merrier! Any chance you can record the other songs too?
Done:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/a2x0hy9dzrtp95m/bubsy88pro.7z/file
Took quite a bit of work as this is the first time I'm doing this. I'm using falcosoft's midiplayer to output the midifiles to my sc-8820, then pushing them back into my computer through lineout and recording the input using audacity. No idea if there's a better way to do it lol. Default settings on both programs apart from choosing flac.
Going through and recording them, I think my faves to listen to were the W5 (World 5?) tracks with the dodo-dodo's.
There's one track omitted here, "FARAWAY". I have no idea what this is supposed to be, it's like a low thrum that slowly rises and the thing last 22 minutes, most of those minutes being silence. Some kind of machine being used? Maybe Audi or Dark1x knows?
Ironically this is the track that shows the most how bad microsoft's GS wavetable is, it cannot handle it at all, so I did do 30 seconds of it on the 88pro map and through microsoft's wavetable just to show the difference, Knurek, you may be interested in this:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tbfl5tkj27dabj2/faraway.7z/file
Warning, the microsoft one may hurt your ears if your volume is up high, it is loud and awful. I had my headphones on too high doing the recording lol, it was painful
Didn't catch this a week ago either. Fun video.
The positivity surrounding the first Bubsy in that video is nice. It's not amazing and it is too hard, but it was a pretty alright game to play now and then (with passwords because I couldn't get past world 2 without those). The music is pretty good too, I rank it pretty high among SNES OSTs honestly.
The positivity surrounding the first Bubsy in that video is nice. It's not amazing and it is too hard, but it was a pretty alright game to play now and then (with passwords because I couldn't get past world 2 without those). The music is pretty good too, I rank it pretty high among SNES OSTs honestly.
It'll never not stop being funny to me that the Internet memed Sony into making a sequel.WHO'S THAT MASCOT?!
IT'S KNACK!
I know the guy you're talking about but I can't remember his name.
He's name dropped in the video it's ulililil-i can't spell it.
lol, this thread brings back memories. spent way too much time recording that roland synth output.
will watch the new vid after work.
will watch the new vid after work.
Yes you do, we do it for you guys. And thanks to Digital Foundry, I am now recognized, after 15 years in the industry, for the very best in gaming. That being Bubsy, Alfred Chicken and the Philips CD-i...