To be honest the regular Super Turrican soundtrack is stunning as is, with Chris Huelsbeck using the Super Nintendo's Sony SPC700 sound chip to deliver a unique take on his iconic synthpop compositions and even managing to make it one of the very few SNES games to use Dolby Surround in the process.
However, add the digital audio streaming capabilities of byuu's MSU1 custom chip and Chris Hueslbeck's very own 2013 Turrican Soundtrack Anthology and the result is utter aural bliss.
The person responsible for this feat is known as Slamy, who not only managed to release patches for both the European and American versions of the game but also sought out the blessing of Chris Huelsbeck to bundle the required pcm files along with the patch. Head on over to Slamy's Electronic Labs for all the necessary files - except the game itself, of course.
This is certainly a huge treat for Turrican fans out there. Could you have ever believed it was possible for a Super Nintendo to sound like this? Drop your opinion in the comments below. Meanwhile, we here at Nintendo Life are keeping our fingers crossed for that proper Super Turrican version to be released in the future. Shoot or Die!
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It will take a while, but Slamy is already working on "Super Turrrican II" as well.
It sounds good, but I'd like the original music a lot more to play the game. There, it just doesn't fit.
@Simbabbad The anthology is the exact same music produced without limitations of the 1990 hardware. Think of this as Super Turrican if it was released for the SNES Playstation, with a red book audio soundtrack instead of SPC music.
@Pahvi I too favour chiptunes and do realize that limitations often bring out the best out of programmers, epecially in the 8 and 16 bit hardware. But "Turrican" was always very special, it had the finest soundtrack ever made on the Commodore Amiga and it brought that along to consoles.The "Turrican Soundtrack Anthology" was meant to be the definitive version of that soundtrack. So this is like the ultimate "Super Turrican" experience if you will.
@Pahvi Perfectly understandable.
@Shiryu "The anthology is the exact same music produced without limitations of the 1990 hardware."
Meaning it's not the same music at all.
@Simbabbad It is the music as Chris meant to compose it. He actually first wrote it on his synthesizers, then sampled the synths and mashed it up all inside the TMFX sound format that he himself help to create. So... it is the same melodies but they sound differently if you will.
offtopic: Today's Nintendo Life advertisement frame makes me want to go out and shout "FOR THE EMPEROR!" while hunting for heretics.
Wow... this might finally be what makes me pick up a SDtoSNES.
Sorry to say this,but no even this MSU-1 patch will beat Mega Turrican's OST.
@KGRAMR Ah, but I must object for I prefer Mega Turrican's OST in its native Amiga version ( "Turrican 3" which actually came out first but the Megadrive was completed before and released later due to publishing delays). I uses samples instead of the Megadrives synthesis.
There is one thing we can certainly all agree on: Chris Hueslbeck is a musical genius.
I was lucky enough to play the amiga games when I was younger, I am going to need to invest in a way to play this on my snes
@ReigningSemtex The loose cart is quite common. Or at least it was a few years ago. Mind you "Super Turrican 2" is incredibly rare.
@Shiryu I would need a everdrive/sd2snes to be able to apply the new music though right?
I haven't got a retron or retrofreak or anything like that (well apart from a gpd xd) but I would much rather play it on the actual system if I can
@Shiryu :
Super Turrican on SNES is the one I like the least. The soundtrack, directly from Mega Turrican / Turrican 3 is great but I never liked the strange reverb effect of that soundtrack.
So, thanks for this MSU1 version, it kicks ass.
And yes, Mega Turrican is way better than Turrican 3 (GFX, controls -finally a button for the grapple-, animation) but the Amiga soundtrack of Turrican 3 absolutly obliterate the Genesis Mega Turrican soundtrack, even if Chris Huëlsbeck did a great work with the Genesis chip.
@Lutherian I did need some time when it came out to adapt to this whole non-amiga Turrican, but eventually I got to enjoy it as much as the Amiga ones.
@ReigningSemtex To these working on real hardware, you would need a SNES (obviously) and SD2SNES cart with MSU1 chip installed.
@Shiryu i respect your opinion but i like Mega Turrican OST on the Genesis more than the amiga version.
@KGRAMR and I respect your opinion as well, good sir. It is obvious we both have excellent taste in video game soundtracks.
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