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Random question but did simcity 2000 use MIDI files for its music?

Argh now I have the SC2K theme song stuck in my head. Thanks a lot.

If it is midi, I would be interested in trying it out again for kicks since I found the best soundfont bank ever last year (which makes MoM and X-com sound particularly awesome).
 
lol see i wonder because i just learned that midi dosent store music like mp3 etc and it might explain how i heard the same tune but well... better when i played simcity 2000 on a newer comp, it was originally on a 486, moved up to a PII system and it sounded better. I was sure i didn't just imagine it!
 
Yes, SimCity 2000 used MIDI. Using MP3s wouldn't been an option back when it was released. A '486 didn't really have enough horsepower to properly decode an MP3 in real time.
 
Ross Ridge said:
Yes, SimCity 2000 used MIDI. Using MP3s wouldn't been an option back when it was released. A '486 didn't really have enough horsepower to properly decode an MP3 in real time.
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I had a 486dx2 66 and a 486 dx4 100 and they both did mp3 just fine. I distinctly remember ViperGTS educating me that my .wav files were taking up too much space so I went about converting all of the CD's I'd already ripped to mp3.
 
Nik said:
I had a 486dx2 66 and a 486 dx4 100 and they both did mp3 just fine.
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You can just get a proper accurate decoder to work in real-time on an Intel '486 DX4-100 with most MP3 files, but anything slower than that you needed a pretty compromized decoder.

In any case, SimCity 2000 had the '386 at its minimum requirement, which was far below what you needed to decode MP3s. It could've used WAVs or CD audio but that would've required a CD-ROM, and the original MS-DOS release was on floppies. That leaves either MIDIs or MODs or something similar as the only practical option for music.
 
Maximilian said:
lol see i wonder because i just learned that midi dosent store music like mp3 etc and it might explain how i heard the same tune but well... better when i played simcity 2000 on a newer comp, it was originally on a 486, moved up to a PII system and it sounded better. I was sure i didn't just imagine it!
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Same thing happened to me going from a Pentium 90mhz to a Sempron 1700+ with a SoundBlaster card.

I thought I was crazy.
 
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