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I never thought a donkey kong game could sound that epic...

 

EDIT: Also, silly me for not checking the wiki, but sifting through the entire readme of that wad... :/

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That's where I thought it would be too. It's incredibly amazing the readme has no basic info on the midis used when it includes stuff like this. :D
 

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True when written in Winter 2008, some stuff about me:

Activities        : School, Skiing, Snowboarding, Singing

Interests         : Family, friends, kendo, architecture, chess, computers,
(outside of Doom)   mathematics, drawing, music, engineering, physics,
                    the humanities, meteorology, astronomy, anthropology,
                    biology, neuroscience, genetics, snowboarding, skiing,
                    volunteering...

Favorite Music    : If the song is good, I'll listen! ... Actually, I'll
                    listen anyways! ... No wait, as long as it doesn't hurt
                    my ears!

                    Bocelli, Brightman, Groban... classical music!

Favorite TV Shows : I don't watch TV anymore, lame huh?

                    ... But I do like South Park, The Chappelle Show, Jon
                    Stewart, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel,
                    PBS, and the Science Channel

Favorite Movies   : A Beautiful Mind, Austin Powers, Crash, Gladiator, 
                    Goldeneye 007, Idiocracy, My Big Fat Greek Wedding,
                    Starship Troopers, Surf Ninjas, Y Tu Mama Tambien,
                    Adam Sandler movies, and those awesome Star Wars and 
                    Lord of the Rings trilogies

Favorite Books    : CARD - Ender's Game
                    FISCHER - Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
                    GOLEMAN - Social Intelligence
                    KIDDER - Mountains Beyond Mountains
                    KRISHNAMURTI - Think on these Things
                    LAO-TZU - Tao Te Ching
                    LEE - Tao of Jeet Kune Do
                    MUSASHI - The Book of Five Rings
                    ROBBINS - The Overachievers
                    SEIRAWAN - Winning Chess Brilliances
                    SEIRAWAN - Winning Chess Endings
                    SEIRAWAN - Winning Chess Tactics
                    TOLKIEN - The Lord of the Rings
                    TOLKIEN - The Silmarillion

Favorite Quotes   : "Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of 
                     fear." - Mark Twain

                    "Intelligence is sexier than a miniskirt." - Josh Oakley

                    "Don't anticipate. Be cool." - Rod Nobuto Omoto

                    "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines 
                     a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare

                    "Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream
                     things that never were and say why not?" - RFK

                    "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious
                     triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to 
                     rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor 
                     suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that
                     knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

                    "Every act of conscious learning requires the 
                     willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. 
                     That is why young children, before they are aware of 
                     their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why 
                     older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot
                     learn at all." - Thomas Szasz

                    "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of
                     you if you could know how seldom they do." 
                     - Olin Miller

                    "Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but 
                     always plainly; for the end of speech is not 
                     ostentation, but to be understood." - William Penn

                    "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." 
                     - Leonardo Da Vinci

WORK INFO         

Employer          : WebbSki
Position          : Snowboarding Instructor
Time Period       : February 2007 - Present

Employer          : Amgen
Position          : Amgen Scholar, Pharmaceutical Chemist Jr.
Time Period       : June 2007 - August 2007
Description       : Multi-Drug Resistance (MDR), Cellular Efflux, 
                    Blood-Brain Barrier, Genetics, Enaminone 
                    Anticonvulsants...

Employer          : Tukwila Elementary / Cascade View Elementary
Position          : Chess, 3rd Grade, & Math Tutor
Time Period       : February 2002 - June 2003

Employer          : King County Parks Recreation
Position          : Lifeguard
Time Period       : June 2001 - January 2003

- UW-Seattle student to apply for Neurobiology in Autumn '08
- Pre-Medical academic track
- Amgen Biotechnology Scholar, Summer 2007
- Snowboarding Instructor
- Inactive Chess Player [USCF provisional = 1860]
- Blood Donor
- Choir Tenor

As of Winter '08, I live on the UW campus, attend classes during weekday,
work during the weekend up in Snoqualmie Pass teaching 'lil kids
snowboarding.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (BASED ON HACKER ETHIC)
IN THE CONTEXT OF DOOM

I believe that access to anything (i.e. tools and information) that furthers 
the intellectual development of the individual should be completely 
unrestricted. Furthermore, I believe that unlimited access to such things can
free the individual's intellectual abilities from many socio-economic 
constraints; a talented programmer in India can explore his/her potential
just as well as any programmer in the Western world, provided the resources
that Freedom of Information brings.

Freedom of information in the context of Doom Modification, it is a virtue 
to be generous with your work and their resources. If you created something 
like a texture or map, allow it to be used in future projects. Try not to go
around and limit others from using what you've made, after your work is done,
leave it be, move on, don't clutch onto your work and render it dead with
copyrights and self-important permission to do this and that, don't make it 
hard on others because of ego; let it grow by giving it away so others can 
develop it... after all, John Carmack was generous enough to give away 
Doom's source code, from which we are able to evolve Doom as a nonprofit 
community through many sourceports and projects that kept Doom fresh through 
the test of time and made it all the more beautiful in the end.

 

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Finally have some songs to share with the thread. I culled all these midis from Doom 2 X-Treme and its sequel Doom 2 X-Treme Gold, however some of these I have heard in at least one other place. There's no metadata with these so that's a no go, unfortunately. Almost all of the other music from these two wads I was able to identify, even very recently, but these last few's sources are eluding me.

 

Zip file here

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Map25 music also appears in slayer.wad in the intermission, no idea where it really comes from though.

 

Gold Map20 is Floghorn from Duke 3D Atomic Edition.

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3 hours ago, Memfis said:

Gold Map20 is Floghorn from Duke 3D Atomic Edition.

Gaaah, of course it'd be the most nondescript, forgettable song in the game. I don't even like that level much either.

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does anyone know what song this is a MIDI of? i think it's a really nice song, but i don't have a clue where it could've come from.

 

 

actually, there's a bunch of songs from the megawad i find interesting, but don't know where they come from. i'll link a few more videos here, but i'm mostly interested in the first one i showed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ah, a pretty excellent resource there. i got filled in on pretty much all the music i wanted to know about, so thanks a lot for redirecting me to there!

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I'm particularly interested in the JokeWAD called It Only Gets Worse.
What I know:
- MAP03 and MAP11 use modified OST, MAP14 uses an intact one, and MAP04's track is one of the reject compositions for the original game.
- MAPs 07, 08, 10/16 and 17 have Grant Kirkhope's compositions for the Rare games Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie. (This doesn't include the "boss battle" theme, which is played on MAPs 08, 10 and 12 when an overpowered and partially invisible Baron of Hell/Hellknight is fought.)
- Everything else that is not included above would be a pleasure to me if you could tell. ^^

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MAP18 is "In the Grip of Madness" from PSX Doom (Hell Keep, The Factory, The Mansion), compressed to buggery.

 

Also MAP07 of that WAD was actually one of the first videos I saw when discovering Doom existed for PC and people made mods for it, this must have been back around 2008 and I haven't seen it since then until now..thanks I think? xD

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Any clue of Mr Smiley head safari E1M1, E1M4 and E1M6 songs? I've been looking for them since 1997

 

(E1M4)

 

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On 4/24/2015 at 2:00 PM, Gez said:

BATTLE-F


New Music               : Yes I FORGOT WHERE I GOT IT, BUT IT RULES.
                          I GOT IT OFF OF THE SUPERPAC CD-ROM I THINK.
                          FROM COMPUTER LIFE MAGAZINE

They're all MIDI, but none of them have useful information.

Sorry for the bump but I found the source to these songs. Heres the disc the text file mentions https://archive.org/details/ComputerLife_SuperPac_Ziff-s_Publishing_1995

 

You can find them in demos > blueribn > psstyles > basemidi

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Hi,it's me again.I need your help to identify this song i found long ago in a midi compilation file.I discovered that this midi was used here,but the author didn't insert any info about the songs just "New music for DOOM, DOOM 2, and HERETIC by Green Day, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica and more!".

The song:d_inter.zip

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17:37 - Anyone have any ideas where this music is from? Been curious for like 5 years now, hopefully someone can help.

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D_BETWEE is supposed to be Even Flow by Pearl Jam. heh, I've heard legendary tales of evenflow.mid, but this was my first time hearing it. Don't know what D_STALKS is, sorry.

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I did some sleuthing in an attempt to identify one of the midis I brought up in a previous post, as I heard the midi again in another wad, and apparently it's supposed to be a song from Donkey Kong Country 3, but I couldn't tell you which one, because the midi doesn't resemble any song from the game. I found the midi listed as "dkc3undr" on a page, which gave it away as a Donkey Kong Country 3 midi, though sometimes it was also listed as "Alien" or "Aliens", which it certainly isn't from. The midi itself used to be on VGMusic once upon a time, but is no longer there, only accessible nowadays through the use of archive.org.

 

So yeah, I guess it's a DKC3 midi but not a very good one.

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Other way round - I accidently discovered this song on Soundcloud and it really resembles a well known Doom song:

 

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The Scythe intermission music is the Warp Zone theme from Goonies II for NES. I randomly came across the midi while trying to source other ones, so that worked out great. Consider the mystery solved!

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