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Zerowing Ringtone demo freebie

Posted: 01/10/2004 - 19:34
by Chris Abbott
Does anyone know this game? Some Nintendo thingy? Anyway, to demonstrate why free MIDI files are a lot crapper than ones specifically tailored to mobile phones by me, wap or browser off to:

http://c64audio.valuehost.co.uk/freebies/zerowing.mid (original version)
http://c64audio.valuehost.co.uk/freebie ... ing_ca.mid (pepped version)

Chris

Posted: 01/10/2004 - 21:37
by Subzero
Pepped definetely sounds better, but they are both pretty poo as ringtones.

Personally I cant wait to download sanxion :)

Posted: 01/10/2004 - 22:16
by Chris Abbott
Well, yeah, I'd be the first (in this case, the second) to admit that musically it's a pretty poo three-chord tune... :)

Hoping to be able to start offering stuff early next week.

Chris

Posted: 01/10/2004 - 23:44
by Jim Power
The music was taken from a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis game called "Zero Wings", this horizontal shooter became most famous for the "all your base are belong to us" quote from the intro... :D - check it out at http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/

Posted: 02/10/2004 - 8:46
by tas
mmmm,

I tired playing both midi files on the the pc before WAPing them, they were both god damn aweful!

However... When WAPing the Chris's version to my mobile, it sounded GREAT!

Posted: 02/10/2004 - 14:44
by Chris Abbott
> they were both god damn aweful
Well, probably a crap wavetable. Creative labs cards ship with god awful square and sawtooth lead sounds in their sets now, for instance.

> When WAPing the Chris's version to my mobile, it sounded GREAT!
Aha! Trade secret y'see :)

Seriously, I think with those sounds, the less wavetable memory the phone has, the better. Odd, really.

Chris

Posted: 02/10/2004 - 17:55
by Subzero
Guess I should try WAPing it then :)

Posted: 02/10/2004 - 18:59
by Vosla
Very nice soundquality here with a SBClone ES1371,ES1373 and a Yamaha SXG MIDI driver (pure luck as several other MIDI files sound pretty crappy with it).

Posted: 02/10/2004 - 21:23
by Subzero
WAP'ed it to my fone - definetely sounds better!!!

Posted: 02/10/2004 - 22:00
by Chris Abbott
Not a great time to launch the service:
Whoever does these things needs... well, it's not pretty.

Chris

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