Dutch MoonSound Veterans released! (update)

wtf! Yay! Congratulations on this wonderful release!

Great, really looking forward to hearing this.

Same here! I just got my FM Blaster from Eric too... Thanks a lot guys for your brilliant work!

I can tell you, some hours went into this.. I hope you all like this production

Great going meits, will downloads it as soon as I return from my vacation.

Nice! Time to crank op the volume!

Well, Moonsound emulation on Open MSX (and Blue MSX) isn't 100%. A few instruments sound a tad different and some "tricks" with MBwave don't work.

Whaooo ! O_o !
So good memories with all these tunes !
Very cute intro and a very good replayer ! I love it !!
I've played it on real MSX & DalSoRi all day.

Thank you so MUCH !
Grtx.

Is that so ? :) I use the real machine more then the emulator :-)

Overall a great songdisk/collection that gives a nice show of the OPL4's abilities!

I had a good time listening to the songs (although this is really just a quick first impression) and I appreciate the effort that was put into getting this thing together. I want to especially thank the artists that aren't active in the MSX scene anymore, for donating their work and I hope this release may inspire them to do more things for MSX (again).

Some songs I thought were pretty good, some I didn't like at all, obviously due to personal taste. Although I do have to say while some songs sound great from "arrangement" point of view, others I felt were lacking in some departments. For example, I felt a few songs could have sounded better with different drumsamples, and in other cases I didn't really liked the instruments used. I listened to this one in bluemsx and I assume the same emulator bugs like in openmsx occur here as well, so perhaps some of my gripes are just caused by this.

In the manual there is a mention of new songs written especially for this project. Since I am not too familiar with the MSX demo scene, I can't really find out which songs are new and which ones are old. Will this be revealed later or is there some secret menu in the song disks that lists them?

im too lazy to hook up my msx again

Awesome release. Big thumbs up!!!

I'd also appreciate a full track listing (like on a CD album) with info on whether it's new/unreleased and the author of course. And for instance where it was released before.

Just after the, as it turned out to be, premature release of one day earlier there was this one quote on IRC:

Two tracks on #1 turned out to have a wrong samplekit, on #FT there was a samplekit that had a hard time with emulators and FM-Blaster and #FT turned out to have an outdated MBWAVE basic replayer.
All that info reached me within one hour after release... Murphy knows his way...
Please redownload to enjoy it the way the guys intended it to be.

lol totally forgot abou tit

Really fantastic, thanks a lot

That was an epic live stream and chat to celebrate this epic release. Well done chaps, very enjoyable!

Listening to it now and just 1 simple word: Fantastic!!!!!

Thank you guys!

Awesome awesomeness!!!! I have no words to express how much I love this release and appreciate all of your work!

I will test it his weekend.
A lot of time sice I've used the moonsound.
Thanks for your work

Fired up my Turbo-R and started the Nowind app on my pc.
Inserted the DMVFT image and had a great time listening to al those great moosound tunes.
Works like a charm!
Thank you guys for al the hard work!

I'm very happy to read the appreciation for the work all those guys did...

does anyone know why in CocoaMSX I get "No OPL4 compatible cartridge found"? Moonsound looks supported.

rvanzon : use one of the generic MSX2/2+/turboR boosted machines, MoonSound rom is included in all these machines, with exception for the MSX2 - Only PSG machine.

@mars2000you is that Floor Jansen as your avatar pic? Great!

mars : I've seen her live on some occasions, doing grunts in Revamp and all, such a talented singer Planning to go to Nightwish concert in Amsterdam this fall. I can also recommend dutch bands like Delain and Stream of Passion you'll probably know as well.

I'm less an Epica fan because the (mostly) more classic opera style of singing there. I like there riffs though, good to drive car on that There's also Autumn but only the older albums (witches style) i dont like the new ones.

But hey we're getting a bit off topic here

That's 18 years ago

Funny that you mention Asrai. I used to see those guys (/girls) practically every week, as they used the rehearsal rooms at the same days as we did.

Hi, can't wait to test this!

I'm having a slight technical problem here. I'm trrying to mount the HD-disk image in Linux to move the files onto an SDcard for my MegaFlashRomSCCSD+. If I mount the disk image in Linux, it will write something on it (md5sum changes, haven't done a diff yet) and can not display the files in the subdirectories (dmv1, dmv2, dmv3). Maybe I'm trying to move this to test on my real MSX some convoluted way =D

I think I have mounted some MSX HD images previously, but it seems that a modern Linux kernel FAT drivers have some issues with this FAT16 image . That or there's something funny (non-standard) with the image. It does work in OpenMSX however!

Has anyone else mounted this image in Linux without issues?

EDIT: OpenMSX discmanipulator to the rescue, I'm listening full steam right now on my NMS8255!

Hi Omega!

The whole point was, I want to use the files on a real MSX instead of an emulator (also to test my new FM Blaster cart, which seems to be working btw), I just needed to transfer the files somehow! This I managed with the help of the said OpenMSX discmanipulator command . So problem solved. I could always have used the 3 disk images, but I also wanted to try the full steam section on my new cart...

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Linux is quite powerfull, it has support for all kinds of file systems! Think of Linux as having a kind of Daemon Tools integrated into it, except that this tool is about ten times more powerfull as Daemon Tools . Disk image or a real device, it makes no difference in the end on Linux (well, handling full disk images with partition table as opposed to a single partition image is a little bit more complicated, but still doable ... oh and for example CD images with audio tracks (CUE/BIN/WAV) need some additiolan FOSS).

I think here we have a 32MB fat16 image? Curiously Linux (file command) reports it as FAT12, but I think you can not have >16MB fat12 partitions? I tried to force mount it as fat16, but that made no difference in accessing the sub dirs. Also, fsck.msdos reports: Filesystem has 4093 clusters but only space for 3070 FAT entries.This is the first FAT file system image I've come across I've had trouble mounting in Linux. I have even created a HD images in OpenMSX, and have moved files back and forth by mounting in Linux without any issues, for example (but not while openMSX is running, just to be on the safe side).
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Always nice to see this product being "trending" again, but as Grauw said, there's a ZIP for this exact purpose. The HD image is just there because of the use in emulators. And just because there seem to be quite some of them. The music is best played on a real MSX as some of the tunes go bad in emulators.